Santa Cruz

Cosmology in Northern California Meeting

University of California, Santa Cruz

May 15, 2009



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May 11th, 2009.
All talks are 10' + 5' questions

Time
Name
Title



8.30am              
Breakfast
9.15am
Welcome





Session 1: Cosmology
9.30am
Eric Morganson (Stanford) Searching for Cosmic Strings in HAGGLeS
9.45am
Marina Cortes (LBL)
First Order Inflation after WMAP5
10.00am
Joel Zylberberg (UCB) Modified gravity 'a la mode'
10.15am
Neelima Sehgal (Stanford) Gamma-rays from Dark Matter Annihilation in Dwarf Galaxies
10.30am
Ping Wang (Stanford) Preliminary Fermi Results on Searches for Gamma Signals from Dwarf Satellites



10.45am
Coffee Break





Session 2: Dark Matter and Galaxies
11.05am
Razieh Behkam (ASU) Constraining LCDM and Brane-based Cosmologies using Gamma Ray Burst
11.20am Jim Bosch (UCD) Linearized Bayesian Galaxy Modeling for Weak Lensing
11.35am Ami Choi (UCD) Galaxy-Galaxy Weak Lensing in the DLS
11.50am David Lagattuta (UCD) Probing the Evolution of the Dark and Luminous Components of Massive Galaxies through Gravitational Lensing
12.05am Norbert Werner (Stanford) Constraints on turbulent pressure in the X-ray halos of giant elliptical galaxies from resonant scattering



12.20pm
Lunch Break





Session 3: Cosmology and Galaxies
2.00pm Adam Mantz (Stanford)
Improved Cosmological Constraints from the Galaxy Cluster X-ray Luminosity Function
2.15pm Lorenzo Faccioli (LBL) Analysis of zero point systematics in Dark Energy Supernova surveys
2.30pm Nao Suzuki (LBL) Spectral Diversity of Supernova Type Ia and Cosmology
2.45pm Russell Ryan (UCD) The Galaxy Pair Fraction at High-Redshift
3.00pm Ji-Hoon Kim (Stanford) Galaxy Mergers and Evolution with Adaptive Mesh Refinement
3.15pm Kamson Lai (UCSC) The Nature and Evolution of Lyman-alpha Emitting Galaxies at High Redshift



3.30pm Coffee Break





Session 4: High Redshift Universe
3.50pm Kevin Schlaufman (UCSC) Insight Into the Formation of the Milky Way Through Cold Inner Halo Substructure
4.05pm Matthew Turk (Stanford) The Formation of Primordial Protostars
4.20pm Valentino Gonzalez (UCSC) The Stellar Mass Density of the Universe at z~7
4.35pm Shirley Ho (LBL) The Missing Baryons and the Quasars Missing In Action
4.50pm Gabor Worseck (UCSC) Probing helium reionization with GALEX-selected quasar sightlines
5.05pm Nick Mostek (LBL) The BigBOSS Survey: The Ground-based Stage-IV BAO Experiment



5.20pm End of program




6.30pm
Dinner