Program
Wednesday MAY 12
8 am: Registration
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830 am: Welcome Remarks (P. Drell, SLAC)
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840 am: Keynote address (Neil Tyson, Hayden Planetarium)
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920: The Beyond Einstein Program (Paul Hertz, NASA Hq.)
DAY I: THE BIG BANG
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950 am: Overview (Paul Steinhardt, Princeton)
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1030 am: Strings, gravity beyond Einstein (Shamit Kachru, Stanford)
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1110: coffee break
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1150 am: CMB Polarization and Cosmology (W. Hu, Chicago)
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1230 pm: WMAP (C. Bennett, Goddard)
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110 pm: Lunch break
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230 pm: Can We Observe Planck/string Scale Physics via the CMB? (R Easther, Yale)
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245 pm: Planck (J.-L. Puget, IAS)
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325 pm: Afternoon break
Big-Bang Einstein Probes
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4 pm: Einstein Polarization Interferometer for Cosmology (P. Timbie, Wisconsin)
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430 pm: Experimental Probe for Inflationary Cosmology (J. Bock, Caltech)
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5 pm : How can CMB Constrain Inflation Models? Particle Theorist's View (K. Kadota, UC Berkeley)
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530 pm: EIP (G. Hinshaw, NASA Goddard)
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6 pm: POLARBEAR: A Pathfinder for CMBPOL (A Lee, UC Berkeley/LBNL)
Reception: 630 pm
Thursday MAY 13
- 8 am: International Beyond Einstein: Japan (T Takahashi, ISAS)
DAY II: DARK ENERGY
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830 am : Particle dark matter (M. Kamionkowski, Caltech)
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910 am: The new physics of dark matter and dark energy (J. Lykken, FNAL)
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950 am : N-Body Simulations and Gravitational Lensing with Dark Energy (C Baccigalupi,SISSA/ISAS)
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1020 am: Coffee break
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11 am: Dark energy overview (R. Bean, Princeton)
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1140 am: Weak lensing and cluster counting (A. Refregier, CEA/Saclay)
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1220 pm: SZ (A. Miller, Columbia)
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1 pm : Lunch
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230 pm: Supernovae (W. Freedman, Carnegie)
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310 pm: Complementary Probes of Dark Energy (E Linder, LBNL)
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325 pm: Afternoon break
Dark Energy Einstein Probes
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4 pm: SNAP (S. Perlmutter, LBNL)
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430 pm: Destiny (T. Lauer, NOAO)
Other Space Opportunities
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5 pm: Searching for Strong Gravitational Lenses with SNAP (P Marshall, KIPAC/Stanford)
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515: DUO (R. Griffiths, Carnegie Mellon)
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530: The Swift MIDEX Mission (N Gehrels, NASA Goddard)
Dinner 6 30 pm
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Catered outdoor banquet (weather permitting), 6.30 pm
Friday MAY 14
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8 am: International Beyond Einstein: Europe (Alvaro Gimenez, ESA)
DAY III: BLACK HOLES
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830 am : Overview and innerview of black holes (K. Thorne, Caltech)
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910 am: Black hole astrophysics (C. Reynolds, University of Maryland)
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950 am: The saga of Sag A* (F. Melia, University of Arizona)
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1030 am: Gravitational Wave Astronomy from LIGO to LISA (S. Finn, Penn State University)
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1110 am: coffee break
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1150 am: LISA (T. Prince, Caltech)
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1230 pm: Lunch
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210 pm: GLAST (P. Michelson, Stanford)
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250 pm: Constellation X (N. White, NASA Goddard)
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330 pm : Afternoon break
Black Hole Einstein Probes
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4 pm: EXIST (J. Grindlay, CFA Harvard)
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430 pm: CASTER (M. McConnell, University of New Hampshire)
Other Space Opportunities
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5 pm: : NuSTAR (F. Harrison, Caltech)
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515 pm: AGN Evolution- the X-ray Revolution (R.Mushotzky, NASA Goddard)
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530 pm: MAXIM: The Black Hole Imager (W. Cash, University of Colorado)
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545 pm: Closing Remarks (Roger Blandford, KIPAC/Stanford)
Special Evening Lecture: Kip Thorne, 'Probing the Birth of the Universe and Black Holes with Gravitational Waves' . 8 pm, Braun Auditorium, Stanford University campus. Register here.
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Saturday MAY 15
Private mission team meetings at SLAC
