Modern Cosmology: Early Universe, CMB and LSS
2012, Aug 05 -- Aug 25
Organizers:
D. Figueroa (Helsinki HU/HIP)
J. Frieman (Fermilab, Chicago)
J. García-Bellido (U. Autónoma Madrid)
E. Gaztañaga ICE, IEEC/CSIC
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Monday, August 06
Tuesday, August 07
Wednesday, August 08
Thursday, August 09
Friday, August 10
Monday, August 13
Tuesday, August 14
Wednesday, August 15
Thursday, August 16
Friday, August 17
Monday, August 20
Tuesday, August 21
Wednesday, August 22
Thursday, August 23
Friday, August 24
| From the Horndeski Lagrangian to observations | |
| Luca Amendola | |
| Examining the evidence for dynamical dark energy | |
| Robert Crittenden | |
| Discussion Session | |
| Luca Amendola, Tomi Koivisto, Guille Ballesteros, Enrique Gaztañaga and Jounghun Lee |
Tuesday, August 07
| The Euclid Mission: some how's and why's | |
| Roberto Scaramella | |
| The Quest for Primordial non-Gaussianity | |
| Dragan Huterer |
Wednesday, August 08
| Constraining galaxy bias and cosmic growth function with 3-point correlation functions of WiggleZ galaxies | |
| Felipe Marin | |
| Embracing Nonlinearities | |
| Martin Crocce | |
| Large scale structure and galaxy formation studies with GAMA | |
| Peder Norberg | |
| Discussion Session | |
| Antony Lewis, Eyal Kazin, Tamara Davis, Felipe Marin, Martin Crocce |
Thursday, August 09
| Primordial and secondary non-Gaussianity | |
| Enrique Martinez-Gonzalez | |
| Primordial squeezed non-Gaussianity and observables in the CMB | |
| Antony Lewis | |
| Discussion Session | |
| Luca Amendola, Marisa March | |
| How to use SNe Ia data (SALT II) to do cosmological model selection within the Bayesian framework | |
| Marisa Cristina March |
Friday, August 10
| Galaxy surveys: from controlling systematics to new Physics (Discussion/Debate Session) | |
| Ofer Lahav | |
| Discussion/Debate Session | |
| Alain Blanchard | |
| Modelling DE with Genetic Algorithms (Discussion/Debate Session) | |
| Juan Garcia-Bellido | |
| Using galaxy pairs for cosmology (Young Researchers Session) | |
| Alicia Bueno Belloso | |
| H(z), d_A(z) from clustering wedges (Young Researchers Session) | |
| Eyal Kazin | |
| 3-form & magnetogenesis (Young Researchers Session) | |
| Fede Urban | |
| Clustering: 2D vs 3D (Young Researchers Session) | |
| Jacobo Asorey | |
| Linear Perturbation Theory in LTB (Young Researchers Session) | |
| Sean February | |
| HaloFit II | |
| Alex Mead |
Monday, August 13
| Latest update on Cosmic Strings | |
| Martin Kunz | |
| Features of heavy physics in the spectrum of primordial perturbations | |
| Ana Achucarro | |
| Discussion Session (3-form & magnetogenesis) | |
| Tomi Koivisto, Nelson Nunes, Federico Urban | |
| Cosmic Defects (Discussion Session) | |
| David Daverio, Martin Kunz, ... |
Tuesday, August 14
| Weak lensing with KiDS | |
| Konrad Kuijken | |
| From small scales to the horizon: a nonlinear post-Friedmann framework for structure formation in LCDM | |
| Marco Bruni | |
| WiggleZ: Results and some gory details | |
| Tamara Davis |
Wednesday, August 15
| Building galaxy mock catalogues with MICE | |
| Francisco Castander | |
| A Multi-wavelength View of Galaxy Cluster Scaling Relations | |
| August Evrard | |
| Galaxy Clustering in the SDSS-III BOSS and the construction of mock catalogues | |
| Marc Manera | |
| Discussion Session | |
| Wessel Valkenburg, Tamara Davis, ... | |
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Measuring the Copernican Principle | |
| W. Valkenburg |
Thursday, August 16
| New results and insights into the dynamics of Gravitational Instabilities | |
| Francis Bernadeau | |
| Testing gravity using pulsars, black holes and the CMB. | |
| Lam Hui | |
| Discussion Session (Statistical Anisotropy vs Non-Gaussianity) | |
| Robert Crittenden, Antony Lewis, ... |
Friday, August 17
| Discussion/Debate Session | |
| Ruth Durrer | |
| The measured galaxy correlation function | |
| Ruth Durrer | |
| Discussion/Debate Session: Neutrino abundance and mass impact on CMB and P(k) | |
| Julien Lesgourgues | |
| Non-Gaussian Universe or non-linear evolution? (Young Researchers Session) | |
| Guido Pettinari | |
| Gravitational Waves from Fermions (Young Researchers Session) | |
| Tuukka Meriniemi | |
| Accelerated expansion from ghost-free, massive bigravity: a statistical analysis with improved generality (Young Researchers Session) | |
| Yashar Akrami | |
| TBD (Young Researchers Session) | |
| Daniel B. Thomas | |
| Type Ia SNe standardization accounting for the enviroment (Young Researchers Session) | |
| Lluis Galbany | |
| Halos and LTB (Young Researchers Session) | |
| David Alonso | |
| Tension in the Void (Young Researchers Session) | |
| Miguel Zumalacarregui |
Monday, August 20
| IR problem connection to the consistency relation and the initial condition of the universe | |
| Takahiro Tanaka | |
| Cosmological constraints on f(R) gravity | |
| Lucas Lombriser | |
| Gaussian Processes (Discussion Session) | |
| Robert Crittenden |
Tuesday, August 21
| The PAU Survey at the William Herschel Telescope | |
| Ramon Miquel | |
| A gradient expansion: non-linear approximation for perturbations in LCDM | |
| Wessel Valkerburg |
Wednesday, August 22
| Galileons: consistent w<-1 at the price of an imperfect fluid | |
| Ignacy Sawicki | |
| (Primordial) non-Gaussianity and N-body Simulations | |
| Donough Regan | |
| Discussion Session | |
| Jordi Miralda Escude |
Thursday, August 23
| Squeezing the CMB bispectrum | |
| Filippo Vernizzi | |
| Cosmic Defects, a non-inflationary source of GW and NG | |
| Dani G. Figueroa | |
| Discussion Session (The CC problem in the Standard Model) | |
| Yashar Akrami |
Friday, August 24
| Discussion Session | |
| Josh Frieman | |
| Cross-correlations of spectroscopic and photometric galaxy surveys | |
| Martin Eriksen |
This session has received financial support from the following institutions:
