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 |
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