May 11, 2007, UC Davis

9:30
 

 
11:15
 
Cosmic Shear with the Deep Lens Survey (PDF)
David Wittman (Davis)
Photometric Redshifts and Signal-to-Noise
Vera Margoniner (Davis)
Cosmology with DEEP2 Groups and Clusters (PDF)
Brian Gerke (Berkeley)
Deployment and First Light for the South Pole Telescope
Bradford Benson (Berkeley)
Update on QUaD, a CMB polarimeter at the South Pole: First Year Results
Ed Wu (KIPAC, Stanford)
Cosmological Constraints from the Intermediate-Redshift MAssive Cluster Survey (MACS)
Adam Mantz (KIPAC, Stanford)
Cosmology with a Combined Chandra/XMM Archival Survey of X-ray Selected Clusters (PDF)
Garrett Jernigan (SSL, Berkeley)
11:15 11:30 Break
11:30
 

 
12:15
 
Constraing Quintessence Models with DETF Data Models
Brandon Bozek (Davis)
Constraining PNGB Quintessence with DETF Data Models
Augusta Abrahamse (Davis)
Constraining Albrecht-Skordis Quintessence with DETF Data Models (PDF)
Michael Barnard (Davis)
12:15 1:15 Lunch
1:15
 
 

 
 
3:00
 
 
Forecasting dark energy constraints using X-ray galaxy clusters and the cosmic microwave background
David Rapetti (KIPAC, Stanford)
Cosmological parameter constraints from weak lensing
Michael Schneider (Davis)
The Observed Concentration-Mass Relation for Galaxy Clusters (PPT)
Julie Comerford (Berkeley)
Galaxy Cluster Merging via Close Pairs (PDF)
Andrew Wetzel (Berkeley)
The Origin of the Local Group's Peculiar Velocity
Dale Kocevski (Davis)
A Linear Perturbation Theory of Inhomogeneous Reionization (PPT)
Jun Zhang (Berkeley)
Steepened inner density profiles of group lensing galaxies (PDF)
Benjamin Dobke (Cambridge, UK)
3:00 3:15 Break
3:15
 

 
4:15
 
New techniques to model galaxy formation (PDF)
Darren Croton (Berkeley)
Dwarf Ellipticals & Galaxy Formation: Unraveling the Interaction between Andromeda and NGC205 (PDF)
Kirsten Howley (UCSC)
Host Galaxy Morphologies of X-ray and Optical Spectra-Selected AGNs (PDF)
Christy Pierce (UCSC)
Abundances of Resolved Stars in the Dwarf Satellites of M31 (PDF)
Evan Kirby (UCSC)
4:15 5:00Open Discussions (overlapping with CAVES)
4:30 6:00Visit to the Keck CAVES (3D visualization, to be led by Dale Kocevski)
6:00
 

 
 
 
Dinner at Bistro 33 (3rd & F St., downtown Davis).
Contact: Cara Henson (cnhphysics.ucdavis.edu)
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Contact: Hu Zhan (zhanphysics.ucdavis.edu)