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Thursday, October 29
AT&T Conference Center, Classroom 105
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9:10-9:20
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Welcome & Texas Cosmology Center
Eiichiro Komatsu ~ UT Austin
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9:20-9:30
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Welcome
Mary Ann Rankin ~ Dean of the College of Natural Sciences
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DARK ENERGY
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9:30-9:50
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Supernovae and the Accelerating
Universe
Nick Suntzeff ~ Texas A&M
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9:50-10:10
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Cosmology with the SDSS II Supernova Survey
Craig Wheeler ~ UT Austin
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10:10-10:30
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Type Ia Supernovae
Kevin Krisciunas ~ Texas A&M
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10:30-11:00
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Break
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11:00-11:20
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Hobby-Eberly Dark
Energy Experiment
Karl Gebhardt or Gary Hill ~ UT Austin
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11:20-11:40
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The Dark Energy Survey
Darren DePoy ~ Texas A&M
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11:40-12:00
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Constraining dark energy with an improved measurement
of the Hubble constant
Lucas Macri ~ Texas A&M
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12:00-1:30
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Lunch
Tejas Dining Room
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1:30-2:00
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SPECIAL TALK
Carbon Monoxide Line Emission as a CMB
Foreground: Tomography of the Star Forming Universe
Rashid Sunyaev ~ MPI
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2:00-3:00
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Poster Session
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3:00-3:20
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The growth rate index of large scale structure
as a probe of cosmic acceleration
Mustapha Ishak-Boushaki ~ UT Dallas
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3:20-3:40
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A transparent instance of how Lambda contributes to the bending of light
Wolfgang Rindler ~ UT Dallas
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STRUCTURE FORMATION
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3:40-4:00
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Why does environment matter?
Kim-Vy Tran ~ Texas A&M
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How galaxies evolve depends on environment. Observational evidence of
this elemental link can be traced back to Zwicky's early studies of
galaxies in clusters with milestones since then including the
morphology-density relation, the Butcher-Oemler effect, and HI
deficiencies. In parallel on the theoretical front, insightful leaps
include hierarchical formation, galaxy interactions, and
gas-stripping. Considering the wide array of recent observational
results spanning wavelength, redshift, and environment, we should be
able to constrain theoretical models well, but our understanding of
why environment matters remains incomplete. I will briefly review the
importance of physical processes such as galaxy interactions, tidal
fields, gas-stripping, etc. as a function of environment, as well as
some of the outstanding problems.
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4:00-4:30
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Break
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4:30-4:50
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Searching for the First Galaxies
Steve Finkelstein ~ Texas A&M
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4:50-5:10
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Cosmic Reionization
Paul Shapiro ~ UT Austin
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5:10-5:30
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Simulating cosmological reionization
with Enzo
Daniel Reynolds ~ SMU
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5:30-7:00
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Reception
M3 Pre-function
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7:00-9:00
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Dinner
Salon DE
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Friday, October 30
AT&T Conference Center, Amphitheatre 204
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DARK ENERGY, INFLATION, AND STRINGS
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9:30-9:50
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F-ast Proton Decay
Dimitri Nanopoulos ~ Texas A&M
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9:50-10:10
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The Horava-Lifshitz and its Applications to Cosmology and Astrophysics
Anzhong Wang ~ Baylor
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10:10-10:30
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Investigations of the String Landscape
Gerald Cleaver ~ Baylor
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10:30-11:00
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Break
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11:00-11:20
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Asymptotically Safe Inflation
Steven Weinberg ~ UT Austin
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11:20-11:40
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String Theory and Inflation
Melanie Becker ~ Texas A&M
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DARK MATTER
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11:40-12:00
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Dark Matter at the LHC
Bhaskar Dutta ~ Texas A&M
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12:00-1:30
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Lunch
Tejas Dining Room
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1:30-2:00
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SPECIAL TALK
Bose-Einstein
Condensation of Dark Matter Axions
Pierre Sikivie ~ Univ. of Florida
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2:00-2:20
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The Texas Dark Matter Project:
Constraints on Dark Matter Axion Models from White Dwarf Evolution
Don Winget ~ UT Austin
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2:20
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Adjourn
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