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Neighborhood Workshop on Astrophysics and Cosmology - Part III
March 26 - 27, 2015
S-5 Osmond Lab
Workshop Program
| Thursday, March 26 | ||||
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| Speaker | Title | Institution | ||
| 8:30 - 9:00 | Coffee, light refreshments | |||
| SESSION I: Donghui Jeong (chair) 9:00 - 10:30 |
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| 9:00 - 9:10 | Don Schneider | Welcome | PSU | |
| 9:10 - 9:20 | Yacine Ali-Haimoud | Perturbative Interaction Approach to Cosmological Structure Formation | JHU | |
| 9:20 - 9:30 | Shadab Alam | Redshift Space Distortion Measurement | CMU | |
| 9:30 - 9:40 | Marcello Musso | Statistics of Large-Scale Structure | UPenn | |
| 9:40 - 9:50 | Alvise Raccanelli | Testing Cosmological Models with Future Galaxy Surveys | JHU | |
| 9:50 - 10:00 | Eva-Maria Mueller | Constraining Massive Neutrinos with Future Surveys | Cornell | |
| 10:00 - 10:10 | Juliana Kwan | Fast, Non-Linear Prediction Schemes for Galaxy-Galaxy Lensing in DES | UPenn | |
| 10:10 - 10:20 | Federico Lelli | The Intimate Dark Link between Baryons and Dark Matter in Galaxies | Case Western | |
| 10:20 - 10:30 | Michelle Ntampaka | A Machine Learning Approach for Dynamical Mass Measurements of Galaxy Clusters | CMU | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee Break | |||
| SESSION II: Scott Watson (chair) 11:00 - 12:20 |
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| 11:00 - 11:10 | Elliot Nelson | Generating Non-Gaussian Initial Conditions from Inflation | PSU | |
| 11:10 - 11:20 | Tereza Vardanyan | A Cosmological Slavnov-Taylor Identity | CMU | |
| 11:20 - 11:30 | Liang Dai | Conformal Fermi Coordinates and Long-Short Mode Couplings | JHU | |
| 11:30 - 11:40 | Anne-Sylvie Deutsch | Long Wavelength Modes and non-Gaussianities during Inflation | PSU | |
| 11:40 - 11:50 | Suddhasattwa Brahma | Non-Gaussianities from Super-Horizon Coupling 2 | PSU | |
| 11:50 - 12:00 | Saroj Adhikari | Power Asymmetry | PSU | |
| 12:00 - 12:10 | Ogan Ozsoy | How Well Can We Really Determine the Scale of Inflation | Syracuse | |
| 12:10 - 12:20 | Gizem Sengor | Black Hole Constraints on Moduli Cosmology | Syracuse | |
| 12:20 - 2:00 | Lunch (Downtown) | |||
| SESSION III: Juliana Kwan (chair) 2:00 - 3:10 |
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| 2:00 - 2:10 | Moupiya Maji | Dwarf Galaxies around Milky Way - Formation and Evolution of the Disk of Satellites | PSU | |
| 2:10 - 2:20 | Matthew Schell | Constraining the Progenitors and Explosion Mechanisms of Young Type Ia Supernovae with Remnants | UPitt | |
| 2:20 - 2:30 | Marcel Pawlowski | LCDM's Most Severe Small-Scale Problem: The Ubiquity of Thin Planes of Co-orbiting Satellite Galaxies | Case Western | |
| 2:30 - 2:40 | Jessie Runnoe | The Ongoing Hunt for Supermassive Black Hole Binaries | PSU | |
| 2.40 - 2:50 | Sukhdeep Singh | Intrinsic Alignments of Galaxies | CMU | |
| 2:50 - 3:00 | Ananth Tenneti | Comparison of Intrinsic Alignment of Galaxies in the Massive Black-II Hydrodynamic and Dark Matter Only Simulations | CMU | |
| 3:00 - 3:10 | Arun Kannawadi Jayaraman | Impact of Cosmic Variance in Realistic Weak Lensing Simulations | CMU | |
| 3:10 - 3:30 | Coffee Break | |||
| 3:30 - 5:30 | Discussion Groups | |||
| 6:30 - 7:15 | Reception - Atherton Hotel | |||
| 7:15 PM | Dinner - Atherton Hotel | |||
| Friday, March 27 | ||||
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| Speaker | Title | Institution | ||
| 8:30 - 9:00 | Coffee, light refreshments | |||
| SESSION IV: Federico Lelli (chair) 9:00 - 10:50 |
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| 9:00 - 9:10 | Patrick Breysse | Line Foregrounds in Intensity Mapping Surveys | JHU | |
| 9:10 - 9:20 | Julian Munoz | Bispectrum with 21-cm Line | JHU | |
| 9:20 - 9:30 | Paul LaPlante | Helium Reionization: Source Characterization and Initial Results | CMU | |
| 9:30 - 9:40 | Joanna Bridge | What Can Spatially-Resolved Emission Line Gradients Tell Us about High Redshift Galaxies? | PSU | |
| 9:40 - 9:50 | Alex Hagen | What Makes a Lyman-Alpha Emitter | PSU | |
| 9:50 - 10:00 | Greg Zeimann | The Dust Attenuation Relation at z=2 | PSU | |
| 10:00 - 10:10 | Dritan Kodra | Improving Photometric Redshifts with CANDELS | UPitt | |
| 10:10 - 10:20 | Mallory Molina | Unraveling the LINER Conspiracy with HST | PSU | |
| 10:20 - 10:50 | Coffee Break | |||
| SESSION V: Dejan Stojkovic (chair) 10:50 - 1:00 |
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| 10:50 - 11:00 | Ruifeng Dong | Greybody Factors of Black Holes | Buffalo | |
| 11:00 - 11:10 | Anshul Saini | Radiation from a Collapsing Object | Buffalo | |
| 11:10 - 11:20 | Beatrice Bonga | Asymptotics with a Positive Cosmological Constant: Implications for our Universe | PSU | |
| 11:20 - 11:30 | Aruna Kesavan | Asymptotics with a Positive Cosmological Constant | PSU | |
| 11:30 - 11:40 | Lucas Hackl | Quantum Fields in Elliptic de Sitter | PSU | |
| 11:40 - 11:50 | Sina Bahrami | Sensitivity of Inflationary Predictions to Pre-Inflationary Phases | Cornell | |
| 11:50 - 12:00 | Joyce Byun | Constraining Inflation from General Excited Initial States | Cornell | |
| 12:00 - 12:10 | Brajesh Gupt | Observational Consequences from Loop Quantum Cosmology | PSU | |
| 12:10 - 12:20 | Zhou Shuangyong | Charge-swapping Q-balls | Case Western | |
| 12:20 - 12:30 | Xu Zhilei | Detecting Primordial B-mode CMB Polarization: The Cosmology Large Angular Surveyor (CLASS) | JHU | |
| 12:30 - 1:00 | Summary and Wrap-up | |||
| 1:00 | Lunch (provided) - 321 Whitmore Lounge |
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