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CINC08's AGENDA

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A collection of all talks given at CINC08 is available here.

9:15-9:45 Arrival, with coffee and light refreshments
9:45-9:50 Welcoming and Organizational remarks
9:50-10:50 Session I: Galaxy formation and evolution (Chair: Dale Kocevski)
Roger Griffith (UCB) Galaxy Morphologies In The Extended Groth Strip from 0.2 < z < 1.2
Julie Comerford (UCB) A New Way of Identifying Galaxy Mergers: Offset AGN in Galaxy Merger Remnants
Evan Kirby (UCSC) Discovery of Extremely Metal-Poor Stars in the Ultra-Faint Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies
Rudy Gilmore (UCSC) The Extragalactic Background Light and Absorption in Gamma Ray Spectra
10:50-11:10 Coffee break
11:10-12:25 Session II: Galaxy clusters and groups (Chair: Darren Croton)
Tesla Jeltema (UCSC) The Hot Gas Halos of Galaxies in Groups
Anja von der Linden (Stanford/KIPAC) From Blue to Red (via Green?) - Galaxy Population Gradients in Galaxy Clusters
Hao-Yi Wu (Stanford/KIPAC) Self Calibration: Systematics and Efficacy
James Jee (UCD) Dark Matter in the Galaxy Cluster CL1226+3332 at z=0.89
Stefano Profumo (UCSC) Non-thermal X-rays from galaxy clusters and dark matter annihilation
12:25-1:40 Lunch break - SLAC Cafeteria
1:40-2:55 Session III Dark matter / LSS studies (Chair: Eric Linder)
Marcleo Alvarez (SLAC/KIPAC) Large Scale Structure of Reionization
Douglas Spolyar (UCSC) The effect of dark matter on the first stars: a new phase of stellar evolution
Andrew Wetzel (UCB) Galaxy Merger Counts & Clustering at z~2.5
Matt Auger (UCD) Strong Lensing: A Neglected Tool for Cosmology?
Marcel Zemp (UCSC) Via Lactea II: Clumps and streams in the dark matter dsitribution
2:55-3:15 Coffee break
3:15-4:30 Session IV: Dark energy / Modified Gravity (Chair: David Rapetti)
Jesse Leaman (UCB) Supernova Rates in the Local Universe
David Rubin (UCB) Cosmological Constraints from the Union Supernova Compilation
Roland de Putter (UCB) To Bin or Not To Bin: Parametrizing the Dark Energy Equation of State
Michael Barnard (UCD) What can we learn from future dark energy probes?
Martin Perl (SLAC/KIPAC) Can Dark Energy Be Directly Detected?
4:30-4:50 Coffee break
4:50-5:50 Session V: CMB studies (Chair: Hu Zhan)
Christian Reichardt (UCB) Recent Results from ACBAR
Aparna Venkatesan (USF) Microwave Background constraints on the efficiency of high-redshift star formation
Dan Schwan (UCB) APEX-SZ: Project Status
Martin Lueker (UCB) The SPT Sunyaev-Zeldovich Survey
5:50 End of meeting
Form groups for dinner in downtown Palo Alto