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APRIL 17-19, 2013

  COSMOLOGY
  BEYOND 
     THE POWER 
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WEDNESDAY, April 17 2013, Building 15, room 253, LBNL


- 13:00-13:15 Welcome by organizers

- 13:15-13:40 Review talk: Statistical anisotropy and its connection to NG -- Duncan Hanson

- 13:40-14:00 Review talk: CMB lensing -- Alexander van Engelen

- 14:00-14:30 Detecting CMB lensing and its correlation with large scale structure -- Chang Feng

- 14:30-14:50The Planck Lensing Potential -- Duncan Hanson

- 14:50-15:10 South Pole Telescope lensing reconstruction-- Oliver Zahn


- 15:10:15:40 COFFEE AND SNACKS


- 15:40-15:55    SPTpol -- Nicholas Harrington

- 15:55-16:15    PolarBear and the Simons Array -- Brian Keating or Yuji Chinone

- 16:15-16:30 Cosmology from cross correlations of CMB lensing and galaxy surveys -- Ruth Pearson

- 16:30-16:45 Some applications of upcoming CMB polarization lensing measurements -- Blake Sherwin

- 16:45-17:15 1. Joint analysis of CMB lensing reconstruction and the temperature power spectrum; 2. Dark matter bispectra in general non-Gaussian N-body simulations -- Marcel Schmittfull.


- 17:15-17:45   DISCUSSION


ADJOURN


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THURSDAY, April 18 2013, room 375 Le Conte Hall UC campus


CMB SECONDARY ANISOTROPY


- 09:00-09:30Review talk: Primordial non-Gaussianity in the CMB and LSS -- Kendrick Smith

- 09:30-09:45 Cosmology (and the ICM) from Compton-y -- Colin Hill (arxiv:1303.4726?)

  1. -09:45-10:15 Bispectrum of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect -- Suman Bhattacharya (arxiv:1203.6368)

  2. -10:15-10:45SPT measurements of the bispectrum of the small-angular-scale mm-wave sky -- Tom Crawford

  3. -10:45-11:00Covariances for LSS bispectrum analyses Elisabeth Krause -- (arxiv:1302.2401)


- 11:00-11:15 COFFEE AND SNACKS


EARLY UNIVERSE (GALAXIES, CMB, 21 CM)



- 11:15-11:45 Galileon Inflation: Trispectrum et al -- Matteo Fasiello (arxiv:1303.5015)

  1. -11:45-12:05 Chromo-natural inflation -- Dmastrogiovanni, Emanuela (arxiv:1212.5184, arxiv:1211.1396)


- 12:05-13:30 LUNCH (CATERED)


- 13:30-14:00 The renormalization group in the separate universe picture -- Raquel H Ribeiro

- 14:00-14:15Perturbed recombination from Dark Matter Annihilation -- Cora Dvorkin (arxiv:1302.4753)

- 14:15-14:40Electron density perturbations and the recombination bispectrum -- Kfir Blum

  1. -14:40-14:55Bispectrum in Single-Field Inflation Beyond Slow-Roll -- Vinicius Miranda


  1. -15:40-16:00 COFFEE AND SNACKS


  1. -16:00-16:30 Digging inflation fossils from the cosmic microwave background -- Liang Dai (arxiv:1302.1868)

- 16:30-16:45Probing cosmic structures using weak lensing of 21-cm fluctuations -- Ely Kovetz

- 16:45-17:00DISCUSSION


- 18:00-22:00CONFERENCE DINNER -- Taste of Himalayas, 1700 Shattuck Ave (near Virginia)


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FRIDAY, April 19, 2013 room 375 Le Conte Hall UC campus


EARLY UNIVERSE (GALAXIES, CMB, 21 cm) CNTD.


- 9:30-9:45 Halo Clustering beyond the Local Bias Model -- Tobias Baldauf

-9:45-10:00Understanding non-local halo bias combining power spectrum and bispectrum of halo clustering -- Shun Saito

- 10:00-10:20   Wide Angle Effect in Galaxy Surveys -- Jaiyul Yoo (arxiv:1301.4501 and others)

  1. -10:20-10:35 Large scales, large problems -- Carlos Cunha (arxiv:1211.1015)


- 10:35-11:00 COFFEE, PASTRIES, FRUIT


- 11:00-11:15 Non-Gaussian Shape Recognition -- Joyce Byun (arxiv:1303.3050, mode expansion for generic bispectra)

- 11:15-11:30 Position-dependent Power Spectrum -- Chi-Ting Chiang

- 11:30-12:00 Constraining the primordial magnetic fields with the off-diagonal elements of CMB covariance matrix -- Jaiseung Kim

- 12:00-12:30 Alberto Vallinotto -- TBA


- 12:30-13:30 LUNCH (CATERED)


- 13:30-13:45 Constraining the initial conditions of the Universe using large scale structure -- Nishant Agarwal

- 13:45-14:00 Stochastic bias from non-Gaussian initial conditions -- Simone Ferraro (arxiv:1209.2173)

- 14:00-14:15 The impact of primordial non-gaussianity on the intrinsic alignments of galaxies -- Elisa Chisari

- 14:15-14:30 Signatures of first stars in galaxy power spectrum and bispectrum -- Uros Seljak



- 14:30-15:00 DISCUSSION