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Conference Program and Proceedings
overview talks: 35 mins incl discussion
topical talks: 20 mins incl. discussion
Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2008
14:00 Registration
15:30 Welcome adresses
Leopoldina President - Prof. Dr. Volker ter Meulen
LMU Vice President - Dr. Sigmund Stintzing
LMU Dean of Physics - Prof. Dr. Axel Schenzle
16:00 Key Note Talks
16:00 Brian Schmidt: Observational Evidence for Dark Energy
17:00 Christof Wetterich: Dark Energy, a cosmic mystery
18:00 Welcome Reception/Registration
Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2008
Morning Session: Dynamical Dark Energy
9:00 Ruth Durrer: Dynamical Dark Energy: theory and data
9:35 David Mota: cancelled
9:55 Filippo Vernizzi: The w<-1 side of quintessence
10:15 Jochen Weller: Complementarity of Future Dark Energy Probes
10:35 ---- coffee---
11:00 Luca Amendola: The dark side of gravity
11:35 David Wiltshire: Dark energy without dark energy
12:55 Psin Chen: Cosmological Constant as a Manifestation of the Hierarchy
12:15 ---- lunch ----
Afternoon Session: Supernovae
14:00 Adam Riess: SN constraints on Dark Energy
14:35 Pierre Astier: SNLS
14:55 Josh Frieman: Results from the SDSS-II Supernova Survey
15:15 Marek Kowalski: Studying Dark Energy with the Union Supernova data
15:35 ---- coffee and Poster viewing
16:15 Wolfgang Hillebrandt: Multidimensional Simulations of Type Ia Supernova Explosions
16:50 Robert Kirshner: New Results on Type ia Supernova as Standard Candles
17:10 Stephane Blondin: Time dilation in Type Ia Supernova Spectra at High Redshifts
17:30 Bruno Leibundgut: SNe and future Dark Energy measurements
Thursday, Oct. 9, 2008
Morning Session: Modified Gravity, Brane Worlds etc
9:00 Roy Maartens: Modified gravity from braneworlds
9:35 Georgi Dvali: Gravity in far infrared
10:10 Dieter Luest: An update on brane inflation
10:30 ---- coffee ----
11:00 Wayne Hu: Cosmic Acceleration from Modified Gravity: f(R) - A Worked Example
11:35 Syksy Rasanen: Backreaction
11:55 Kurt Hinterbichler: See-saw models of vacuum energy
12:15 ---- lunch ----
Afternoon Session: Microwave Background
14:00 Eiichiro Komatsu: WMAP 5-year results: Implication for Dark Energy and Inflation
14:35 Jean-Loup Puget: The Planck Survey and Dark Energy
15:10 Tony Mroczkowski: An improved moedl for fitting SZE + x-ray observations of galaxy clusters
15:30 ---- coffee ----
16:00 Suzanne Stags: Results from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope
16:20 Istvan Szapudi: Detecting Dark Energy from Supervoids and Superclusters
16:40 Tommaso Giannantonio: Combined analysis of the integrated Sachs-Wolfe effect and cosmological implications
17:00 Thorsten Ensslin: Information theory for cosmological perturbation reconstruction and signal analysis
17:20 John Carlstroem: First results from the South Pole Telescope (SPT)
17:40 Ruediger Kneissl: Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Cluster Observations with APEX
Friday, Oct. 10, 2008
Morning Session: Dark Energy-Dark Matter connection
9:00 Hans-Peter Nilles : Axions Forever
9:35 Marco Baldi: Structure formation in presence of dark interactions
9:55 Margherita Grossi: Impact of early dark energy on non-linear structure formation
10:15 coffee and Poster viewing
11:00 Shaun Cole: Cosmological simulations and forecasts for future surveys
11:35 Valeria Pettorino: Neutrino clustering in interacting dark energy cosmologies
11:55 Klaus Dolag: Cosmological hydrodynamical simulations in various dark energy scenarios
12:15 ---- lunch ----
Afternoon session: Large Scale Structure
14:00 Peacock: Dark Information in the Galaxy Distribution
14:35 Daniel Eisenstein: Baryonic Acoustic Oscillations: A Robust and Precise Route to the Cosmological Distance Scale
15:55 Bob Nichol: Combining Different Measurements of Dark Energy
15:15 Karl Gebhardt: HETDEX Update and Pilot Survey Results
15:35 ---- coffee ----
16:00 Roman Scoccimarro: Nonlinear growth of structure: challenges and opportunities
16:35 Uros Seljak: A new approach to redshift space distortions as a probe of dark energy
16:55 Luigi Guzzo: Testing dark energy with redshift-space distortion at high redshift
17:15 Yipeng Jing: Feasibility of detecting dark energy using bispectrum
17:35 Stefanie Phleps: LSS and BAOs with Pan-STARRS
Saturday, Oct. 11, 2008
Morning Session: Gravitational Lensing
9:00 Peter Schneider: Gravitational Lensing: Basic Theory
9:35 Yannick Mellier: Observational results: Results from the CFHLS
10:10 Thomas Kitching: icosmo: a suite of resources and tools for cosmology
10:30 ---- coffee ----
11:00 Andy Taylor: Prospects for future Weak Lensing Surveys
11:35 Stella Seitz: Constraining Dark Energy with the Shear Ratio Test
11:55 Rene Laureijs: EUCLID: a space mission to map the Dark Universe
12:15 ---- lunch ----
Afternoon Session: Galaxy Clusters
14:00 Joe Mohr: Galaxy Cluster Cosmology: Current Status and Future Prospects
14:35 Hans Boehringer: X-ray surveys
14:55 Alexey Vikhlinin: Dark energy constraints from growth of structure: results from the 400°2 X-ray
15:15 Gus Evrard: Signal Covariance for Clusters of Galaxies: Theory and Observation
15:35 Peter Predehl/Günter Hasinger: eROSITA
15:55 Ofer Lahav: The Dark Energy Survey
16:15 ---- Coffee ----
16:45 Conference Summary, Michael Turner
End: 17:45
Posters
- Abrashkin, Anatolii:
- The model of dark matter and gravitational waves
- Amati, Lorenzo:
- Measuring cosmological parameters with the Ep,i-Eiso correlation of Gamma-Ray Bursts
- Bertacca, Daniele:
- Unified Dark Matter Models
- Blomqvist, Michael:
- Probing Dark Energy Inhomogeneities with Supernovae
- Blondin, Stephane:
- Are distant and nearby Type Ia supernovae really the same?
- Cai, Yanchuan:
- Second order contribution to the ISW effect
- Castander, Francisco:
- The PAU survey
- Debono, Ivan:
- Weak lensing tomography with neutrinos and a running spectral index
- DeLaGuia, Cristina:
- Studying Dark Energy using the Alcock-Paczynski test on the Ly-α Forest
- Dokuchaev, Vyacheslav:
- Cosmic censorship for phantom energy
- Elizalde, Emilio:
- Cosmological imprint of vacuum energy fluctuations
- Er, Xinzhong:
- weak lensing flexion
- Fedeli, Cosimo:
- Can early-dark energy solve the arc statistics problem?
- Fernandez, Enrique:
- Prospects in Constraining the Dark Energy Potential with BAO surveys
- Francis, Matthew:
- Can Early Dark Energy be Detected in Non-Linear Structure?
- Frommert, Mona:
- Optimal ISW detection and joint likelihood for cosmological parameter estimation
- High, Fredrick:
- Optical Follow-up of Sunyaev-Zeldovich Clusters
- Hill, Gary:
- HETDEX: the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment
- Israel, Holger:
- The 400d X-ray Survey: Weak Lensing Mass Estimates For Distant X-Ray Clusters Of Galaxies
- Jasche, Jens:
- Sampling the power spectrum of 3d redshift surveys
- Jeong, Donghui:
- Perturbation theory reloaded : Toward The Precise Modeling Of The Galaxy Power Spectrum In The High-z Galaxy Survey
- Kilbinger, Martin:
- Constraints on dark energy from CFHTLS weak lensing, SNIa and CMB
- Kwan, Juliana:
- Dark Energy and Inhomogeneous Cosmologies
- Lampeitl, Hubert:
- Combining SDSS 1st year supernova results with various other cosmological constraints at low redshift
- Lam, Tsz Yan:
- The Probability Distribution Function of Dark Matter in redshift space and a reconstruction method for the initial distribution function
- Lustig, Sven:
- Cosmic topology and cosmic microwave background
- Miyazaki, Satoshi:
- Subaru Suprime-Cam Weak Lensing Cluster Survey Program
- Montesano, Francesco:
- BAO distortions in the Non Linear Power Spectrum
- Muehlegger, Martin:
- Prospects for detecting galaxy clusters with eROSITA
- Wagner, Christian, Mueller, Volker:
- How to constrain Dark Energy with Baryon Acoustic Oscillations
- Nishimichi, Takahiro:
- Accuracy of Cosmological N-body Simulations
- Nishizawa, Atsushi:
- Cross-correlation study of the Rees-Sciama effect with the weak lensing and implications for dark energy
- Noh, Hyerim:
- Weakly non-linear perturbation study in the universe with the cosmological constant
- Nouri-Zonoz, Mohammad:
- Cylindrical solutions in F(R) Gravity
- Paranjape, Aseem:
- Structure Formation, Backreaction and Weak Gravitational Fields
- Piechocki, Wlodzimierz:
- Quantum Big Bounce
- Pielorz, Jasmin:
- The non-Gaussian power spectrum covariance in the halo model approach
- Puchwein, Ewald:
- The impact of AGN feedback on cluster scaling relations
- Quartin, Miguel:
- Cosmic Parallax
- Refregier, Alexandre:
- weak lensing, weak lensing with Euclid
- Rowe, Barney:
- Shapelet weak lensing analysis of galaxies and stars in the CFHTLS
- Räth, Christoph:
- Model-independent tests for scale-dependent non-Gaussianities in the CMB
- Sanchez, Ariel:
- What is the best way to measure baryonic acoustic oscillations?
- Schlagenhaufer, Holger:
- Measuring wDE with the correlation function
- Schmidt, Fabian:
- Weak lensing and Large Scale Structure in Modified Gravity
- Sergijenko, Olga:
- Scalar Field as Dark Energy; Classical Field versus Tachyon
- Sheykhi, Ahmad:
- String inspired explanation for the superacceleration of our Universe
- Shoji, Masatoshi:
- Extracting Distance Scales from BAO in Galaxy Power Spectrum
- Simon, Patrick:
- 3D-mass reconstructions using cosmic shear tomography data
- Soares-Santos, Marcelle :
- Cosmography with Galaxy Clusters: shedding light on Dark Energy
- Vavylovava, Iryna:
- "Dark Matter in Poor Groups in Different Environment: Are these facts appeal on a dark matter component changing and flows during the evolution?"
- Vernov, Sergey:
- Nonlocal models in the Friedmann-Robertson-Walker metric
- Viana, Pedro:
- Cosmological constraints from the XCS: XMM Cluster Survey
- Wagner, Christian:
- Measuring Dark Energy with Galaxy Cluster Surveys
- How to constrain Dark Energy with Baryon Acoustic Oscillations
- Waizmann, Jean-Claude:
- Impact of Early Dark Energy on the Planck SZ cluster sample
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