Thursday, October 29
AT&T Conference Center, Classroom 105 [map]
9:10-9:20
Welcome & Texas Cosmology Center
Eiichiro Komatsu ~ UT Austin
pdf
9:20-9:30
Welcome
Mary Ann Rankin ~ Dean of the College of Natural Sciences
DARK ENERGY
9:30-9:50
Supernovae and the Accelerating Universe
Nick Suntzeff ~ Texas A&M
pdf ~ abstract
9:50-10:10
Cosmology with the SDSS II Supernova Survey
Craig Wheeler ~ UT Austin
10:10-10:30
Type Ia Supernovae
Kevin Krisciunas ~ Texas A&M
10:30-11:00
Break
11:00-11:20
Hobby-Eberly Dark Energy Experiment
Karl Gebhardt or Gary Hill ~ UT Austin
11:20-11:40
The Dark Energy Survey
Darren DePoy ~ Texas A&M
11:40-12:00
Constraining dark energy with an improved measurement of the Hubble constant
Lucas Macri ~ Texas A&M
pdf [13MB] ~ abstract
12:00-1:30
LunchTejas Dining Room
1:30-2:00
SPECIAL TALKCarbon Monoxide Line Emission as a CMB Foreground: Tomography of the Star Forming Universe
Rashid Sunyaev ~ MPI
2:00-3:00
Poster Session
3:00-3:20
The growth rate index of large scale structure as a probe of cosmic acceleration
Mustapha Ishak-Boushaki ~ UT Dallas
3:20-3:40
A transparent instance of how Lambda contributes to the bending of light
Wolfgang Rindler ~ UT Dallas
STRUCTURE FORMATION
3:40-4:00
Why does environment matter?
Kim-Vy Tran ~ Texas A&M
4:00-4:30
4:30-4:50
Searching for the First Galaxies
Steve Finkelstein ~ Texas A&M
4:50-5:10
Cosmic Reionization
Paul Shapiro ~ UT Austin
pdf [7MB] ~ abstract
5:10-5:30
Simulating cosmological reionization with Enzo
Daniel Reynolds ~ SMU
5:30-7:00
ReceptionM3 Pre-function
7:00-9:00
DinnerSalon DE
Friday, October 30
AT&T Conference Center, Amphitheatre 204 [map]
DARK ENERGY, INFLATION, AND STRINGS
F-ast Proton Decay
Dimitri Nanopoulos ~ Texas A&M
The Horava-Lifshitz and its Applications to Cosmology and Astrophysics
Anzhong Wang ~ Baylor
Investigations of the String Landscape
Gerald Cleaver ~ Baylor
abstract
Asymptotically Safe Inflation
Steven Weinberg ~ UT Austin
String Theory and Inflation
Melanie Becker ~ Texas A&M
DARK MATTER
Dark Matter at the LHC
Bhaskar Dutta ~ Texas A&M
SPECIAL TALKBose-Einstein Condensation of Dark Matter Axions
Pierre Sikivie ~ Univ. of Florida
2:00-2:20
The Texas Dark Matter Project: Constraints on Dark Matter Axion Models from White Dwarf Evolution
Don Winget ~ UT Austin
2:20
Adjourn