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4th Neighborhood Workshop on Astrophysics and Cosmology
March 31 - April 1, 2016
114 McAllister Building
Workshop Program
| Thursday, March 31 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Speaker | Title | Institution | ||
| 8:30 - 9:00 | Coffee, light refreshments | |||
| SESSION I: 9:00 - 10:30 | ||||
| 9:00 - 9:10 | Don Schneider | Welcome | PSU | |
| 9:10 - 9:20 | Brajesh Gupt | Initial Conditions in Cosmology: Theory and Observations | PSU | |
| 9:20 - 9:30 | Lucas Hackl | Entanglement Production during Inflation | PSU | |
| 9:30 - 9:40 | Alejandro Satz | Correlation of Quantum Fields in Cosmology | PSU | |
| 9:40 - 9:50 | Anne-Sylvie Deutsch | Inflation with Two Light Scalars and Cosmic Variance | PSU | |
| 9:50 - 10:00 | Bekir Baytas | Space of Bispectra from Single-Clock Inflation | PSU | |
| 10:00 - 10:10 | Beatrice Bonga | CMB for a Closed Universe | PSU | |
| 10:10 - 10:20 | Saurabh Kumar | Cosmology from Quasi-Dilaton Massive Gravity | CWRU | |
| 10:20 - 10:30 | Julian Munoz | Compensated Isocurvature Perturbations and the Lensing Anomaly | JHU | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee Break | |||
| SESSION II: 11:00 - 12:10 | ||||
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Guangtun Ben Zhu | Probing the Cosmic Baryon Cycle with Dark Energy Surveys | JHU | |
| 11:30 - 11:40 | Foteini Oikonomou | A Multi-Messenger Quest for the Source of UHE Cosmic Rays | PSU | |
| 11:40 - 11:50 | Alex Geringer-Sameth | A Search for Dark Matter Annihilation in Newly Discovered Dwarf Galaxies | CMU | |
| 11:50 - 12:00 | Ilias Cholis | A Predictive Analytic Model for the Solar Modulation of Cosmic Rays | JHU | |
| 12:00 - 12:10 | Ely Kovetz | Flaring Tidally Compressed Dark Matter Clumps | JHU | |
| 12:10 - 1:45 | Lunch (Downtown) | |||
| SESSION III: 1:45 - 3:00 | ||||
| 1:45 - 2:15 | Anthony Pullen | Constraining Gravity with CMB Lensing and Galaxy Velocities | CMU | |
| 2:15 - 2:25 | Ruifeng Dong | Gravity Waves from Primordial Rotating Black Holes | Buffalo | |
| 2:25 - 2:35 | Simeon Bird | Did LIGO Detect Dark Matter | JHU | |
| 2:35 - 2:45 | Julian Georg | Non-thermal Wimps and Primordial Black Holes | Syracuse | |
| 2.45 - 2:55 | James Mertens | Computing Cosmological Observables with Numerical Relativity | CWRU | |
| 3:00 - 3:30 | Coffee Break - 321 Whitmore Lab | |||
| 3:30 - 5:30 | Discussion Groups | |||
| 6:30 - 7:15 | Reception - Atherton Hotel | |||
| 7:15 PM | Dinner - Atherton Hotel | |||
| Friday, April 1 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Speaker | Title | Institution | ||
| 8:30 - 9:00 | Coffee, light refreshments | |||
| SESSION IV: 9:00 - 10:30 | ||||
| 9:00 - 9:30 | Dominika Wylezalek | Feedback Signatures in Luminous Quasars | JHU | |
| 9:30 - 9:40 | Kirsten Hall | Evidence of Quasar Feedback through Infrared and Sub-mm Eyes | JHU | |
| 9:40 - 9:50 | Mallory Malina | Three LINERs under the Hubble Spectral Microscope | PSU | |
| 9:50 - 10:00 | Christopher Culliton | Probing Quasar Winds Using Intrinsic Narrow Absorption Lines | PSU | |
| 10:00 - 10:10 | Katie Auchettl | G346.6-0.2: The Rare Example of Non-Thermal X-ray Emission from a Mixed Morphology Supernova Remnant | OSU | |
| 10:10 - 10:20 | Lea Hagen | The UV Dust Extinction Curve in the SMC and Implications for Star Formation at High Redshift | PSU | |
| 10:20 - 10:30 | Dritan Kodra | Photo-z's with CANDELS | UPitt | |
| 10:30 - 10:40 | Rongpu Zhou | Developing Photo-z Testbed Data for LSST | UPitt | |
| 10:40 - 11:00 | Coffee Break | |||
| SESSION V: 11:00 - 1:00 | ||||
| 11:00 - 11:10 | Ethan Vishniac | The Origin of Galactic Magnetic Fields | JHU | |
| 11:10 - 11:20 | Alex Hagen | What Makes a Lyman-Emitter? | PSU | |
| 11:20 - 11:30 | Henry Gebhardt | Contamination by Low-Redshift Interlopers in HETDEX | PSU | |
| 11:30 - 11:40 | Nishant Agarwal | Predictability in the Effective Field Theory of Large Scale Structure | PSU | |
| 11:40 - 11:50 | Saroj Adhikari | Position-Dependent Bispectrum in the Equilateral Configuration | PSU | |
| 11:50 - 12:00 | Hongyu Zhu | Gravitational Redshifts in Simulations | CMU | |
| 12:00 - 12:10 | Patrick Breysse | Intensity Mapping and One-Point Statistics | JHU | |
| 12:10 - 12:20 | Michelle Ntampaka | The Velocity Distribution Function of Galaxy Clusters as a Cosmological State | CMU | |
| 12:20 - 12:30 | Mike Eracleous | The Reaction of Astronomers to a Fashionable New Idea | PSU | |
| 12:30 - 1:00 | Summary and Wrap-up | |||
| 1:00 | Lunch (provided) - 321 Whitmore Lounge |
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