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
A short overview of different inflationary models in string theory will be presented with emphasis on their predictions and comparisons to astronomical data
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