Parallel 10 - Dark Energy & Dark Matter

Thursday Aug 28, 2008, 2:00 PM → 9:15 PM America/Chicago

Hall of Ideas I

Cristian Armendariz-Picon (Syracuse University)

2:00 PM → 2:18 PM Probing the Dark Sector

Speaker: Istvan Laszlo (Cornell University)

Slides Cosmo08-fin.ppt

2:20 PM → 2:38 PM Is living in a void compatible with observational cosmology?

Speaker: Troels Haugbølle (University of Aarhus)

Slides Troels_Haugboelle.pdf

2:40 PM → 2:58 PM Effective field theory energy-momentum tensor and cosmological constant problem

Speaker: Prof. Vincenzo Branchina (University of Catania)

Slides madison_bra.pdf

3:00 PM → 3:18 PM Redshift Galaxy Surveys and the origin of cosmic acceleration

Speaker: Viviana Acquaviva (Princeton University)

Slides acquaviva_cosmo08.pdf.pdf

3:20 PM → 3:38 PM Sterile neutrino dark matter in warped extra dimensions

Speaker: Dr Kenji Kadota (University of Michigan)

3:40 PM → 4:00 PM Break

4:00 PM → 4:18 PM Dark Matter Caustics

Speaker: Leanne Duffy (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

4:20 PM → 4:38 PM Axions from the misalignment mechanism

Speaker: Olivier Wantz (University of Cambridge)

4:40 PM → 4:58 PM Spin Dependence of Dark Matter Scattering

Speaker: Wai-Yee Keung (University of Illinois at Chicago)

5:00 PM → 5:18 PM Phenomenology of relic-density-consistent models with thermal neutralino dark matter

Speaker: Prof. Xerxes R Tata (University of Hawaii)

Slides cosmo08.pdf

5:20 PM → 5:38 PM On a generally-covariant approach to the averaging problem in cosmology

Speaker: Juliane Behrend (Universitaet Ulm)

Slides vortrag.pdf

5:40 PM → 5:58 PM DAMA and light dark matter

Speaker: Kathryn Zurek (University of Wisconsin)

Slides COSMO2008.pdf

7:00 PM → 9:15 PM Banuqet - Lawrence Krauss, Speaker