APRIL 17-19, 2013
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
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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?)
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-09:45-10:15 Bispectrum of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect -- Suman Bhattacharya (arxiv:1203.6368)
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-10:15-10:45SPT measurements of the bispectrum of the small-angular-scale mm-wave sky -- Tom Crawford
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-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)
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-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
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-14:40-14:55Bispectrum in Single-Field Inflation Beyond Slow-Roll -- Vinicius Miranda
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-15:40-16:00 COFFEE AND SNACKS
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-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)
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-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