Program: Plenary and Parallel Sessions
- Day 1: Gamma Ray Bursts / High Energy Cosmic Rays / CMB Polarization / SZ surveys
- Day 2: Black Hole mergers / Electromagnetic signature of Gravity Waves / Gravitational Lensing / Supernovae
- Day 2 evening: Public talk by Rocky Kolb at the Freddy Wood theater on the UBC campus
- Day 3: Plenary session only. Afternoon free.
- Day 4: Inflation / Galaxy Clusters / High-magnetic field Pulsar / Pulsar timing
- Day 4 evening: Conference dinner at the Sheraton Wall center
- Day 5: Dark Matter / Dark Energy / Horizons / Black Holes in AGNs
PDF version of the program HERE
Plenary Session: Monday, December 8, Morning
| Time | Speaker: Topic | Room |
|---|---|---|
| 8:45 | Welcome | Pavilion Ballroom |
| 9:00 | Virginia Trimble (UCIrvine): A remarkable achievement ... Texas at 45 | Pavilion Ballroom |
| 9:45 | Shri Kulkarni (Caltech): Gamma Ray Bursts | Pavilion Ballroom |
| 10:20 | Morning Break | -- |
| 10:50 | Peter Michelson (Stanford): GLAST/Fermi | Pavilion Ballroom |
| 11:25 | Paul Sommers (Penn State): Pierre Auger Observatory | Pavilion Ballroom |
| 12:00 | Lunch | -- |
Parallel Session 1: Monday, December 8, Afternoon
Topics: Gamma Ray Bursts / High Energy Cosmic Rays
Session organizers: Fruchter, Soderberg / Blasi, Mostafa
| Time | Speaker: Topic | Room |
|---|---|---|
| 13:30 | Andrew MacFadyen (NYU): Advances in GRB Simulations: Magnetic Field Amplification by 3D Relativistic Shear Instabilities | Pavilion Ballroom |
| 13:50 | Hsiao-Wen Chen (U Chicago): Probing Galaxy Evolution with GRBs | Pavilion Ballroom |
| 14:10 | Joshua Bloom (UC Berkeley): Observational Puzzles on Short-Hard GRBs | Pavilion Ballroom |
| 14:30 | Isabel Leonor (U Oregon): Search for a gravitational-wave counterpart to GRBs using the LIGO and Virgo detectors | Pavilion Ballroom |
| 14:50 | William Lee (UNAM): Formation and evolution of neutrino cooled disks following compact object mergers | Pavilion Ballroom |
| 15:10 | Aurelien Bouvier (Stanford): Recent Results from Fermi/LAT GRB detections | Pavilion Ballroom |
| 15:30 | Afternoon Break | -- |
| 16:00 | Roberto Aloisio (INFN): On the theory of UHECRs | Pavilion Ballroom |
| 16:20 | James Matthews (Louisiana State University): The experimental perspective of UHECRs | Pavilion Ballroom |
| 16:40 | Norbert Schartel (ESA): XMM-Newton contributions to Relativistic Astrophysics | Pavilion Ballroom |
| 16:55 | Rezo Shanidze (ECAP, University of Erlangen): The ANTARES neutrino telescope and its first data | Pavilion Ballroom |
| 17:10 | Ingyin Zaw (NYU): Testing the AGN-UHECR Connection | Pavilion Ballroom |
| 17:25 | Daniel Patnaude (CfA, Harvard): The Role of Diffusive Shock Acceleration on Non-Equilibrium Ionization in Supernova Remnants | Pavilion Ballroom |
| 17:40 | Peter Michelson (Stanford): The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope: The First Six Months | Pavilion Ballroom |
| 17:55 | P. Sokolsky (University of Utah): Observation of a Cut-off in the Ultra-high Energy Cosmic Ray Spectrum by the HiRes Collaboration | Pavilion Ballroom |
| 18:10 | Adjourn | -- |
Parallel Session 2: Monday, December 8, Afternoon
Topics: CMB polarization / SZ surveys
Session organizers: Hinshaw, Sievers / Dobbs, Halpern
| Time | Speaker: Topic | Room |
|---|---|---|
| 13:30 | Dick Bond (CITA): CMB polarization review | Junior Ballroom |
| 14:00 | Paolo Serra (UC Irvine): Clustered Point Sources and the CMB | Junior Ballroom |
| 14:20 | Graziano Rossi (KIAS) : Hunting for non-Gaussianity: Clustering Statistics in the WMAP5 Sky | Junior Ballroom |
| 14:40 | Jonathan Sievers (CITA): B-mode interferometry | Junior Ballroom |
| 15:00 | Edward Wu (Stanford): QUaD | Junior Ballroom |
| 15:30 | Afternoon Break | -- |
| 16:00 | Rashid Sunyaev (MPA, Garching): Introduction and Overview | Junior Ballroom |
| 16:30 | Thomas Crawford (University of Chicago/KICP): South Pole Telescope | Junior Ballroom |
| 16:50 | Joseph Fowler (Princeton) : ACT | Junior Ballroom |
| 17:10 | Nils Halverson (University of Colorado): First Science Results from the APEX-SZ Instrument | Junior Ballroom |
| 17:25 | Richard Saunders (Cambridge): Observing Galaxy Clusters with AMI | Junior Ballroom |
| 17:40 | Jack Sayers (JPL): Millimeter-wave Mapping of Massive Galaxy Clusters using the Thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich Effect with Bolocam | Junior Ballroom |
| 17:55 | Adjourn | -- |
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Plenary Session: Tuesday, December 9, Morning
| Time | Speaker: Topic | Room |
|---|---|---|
| 9:00 | Manuela Campanelli (RIT): Black Hole collisions | Pavilion Ballroom |
| 9:45 | Sterl Phinney (Caltech): Relativistic Astrophysics with Gravitational Waves | Pavilion Ballroom |
| 10:20 | Morning Break | -- |
| 10:50 | Henk Hoekstra (Leiden/UVic): Gravitational Lensing | Pavilion Ballroom |
| 11:25 | Wendy Freedman (Carnegie): The cosmological distance scale | Pavilion Ballroom |
| 12:00 | Lunch | -- |
Parallel Session 1: Tuesday, December 9, Afternoon
Topics: Black Hole mergers / Electromagnetic signature of Gravity Waves
Session organizers: Shoemaker, Sperhake / Hughes, Schnittmann
| Time | Speaker: Topic | Room |
|---|---|---|
| 13:30 | Tomasz Bulik (University of Warsaw): IC10 X-1 as the indication of the black hole binary colaescence rate | Pavilion Ballroom |
| 13:45 | Curt Cutler (Caltech): Non-Gaussianity of LISA's Confusion Background | Pavilion Ballroom |
| 14:00 | Sam Waldmann (MIT): Gravitational Waves with LIGO: Analsysis overview and detector prospects | Pavilion Ballroom |
| 14:15 | Kipp Cannon (Caltech): Searches for Gravitational Waves from Compact Binary Coalescences with LIGO | Pavilion Ballroom |
| 14:30 | Marc Favata (KITP): Gravitational wave memory from the merger and recoil of binary black holes | Pavilion Ballroom |
| 14:45 | Pedro Marronetti (Florida Atlantic University): Calculating the Final Masses and Spins of Black Hole Mergers | Pavilion Ballroom |
| 15:00 | Janna Levin (Columbia): A Periodic Table for Black Hole Orbits | Pavilion Ballroom |
| 15:15 | Dirk Puetzfeld (MPI for Gravitational Physics): The problem of motion and the use of multipolar approximation schemes in gravity | Pavilion Ballroom |
| 15:30 | Afternoon Break | -- |
| 16:00 | Bence Kocsis (IAS): On mechanisms by which an electromagnetic counterpart may accompany the merger of black holes | Pavilion Ballroom |
| 16:20 | Jeremy Schnittman(JHU): Long-lived Electromagnetic Signatures of Black Hole Mergers | Pavilion Ballroom |
| 16:40 | Ryan Lang (MIT): Localization of black hole binaries with gravitational waves | Pavilion Ballroom |
| 17:00 | Stefanie Komossa (MPE, Garching): Observational signatures of, and future searches for massive binary black holes and recoiling black holes | Pavilion Ballroom |
| 17:20 | Samaya Nissanke (CITA): Standard "sirens" for ground-based gravitational-wave detector networks | Pavilion Ballroom |
| 17:40 | Mark Bennett (University of Melbourne): Gravitational waves from pulsar glitches | Pavilion Ballroom |
| 18:00 | Adjourn | -- |
Parallel Session 2: Tuesday, December 9, Afternoon
Topics: Gravitational Lensing / Supernovae
Session organisers: Hoekstra, Van Waerbeke / Garnavich, Pritchet
| Time | Speaker: Topic | Room |
|---|---|---|
| 13:30 | Matthias Bartelmann (Heidelberg): Gravitational lensing by galaxy clusters and dark-matter halos | Junior Ballroom |
| 14:00 | Brice Menard (CITA): Detection of magnification and dust reddening by galaxies and large-scale structures | Junior Ballroom |
| 14:20 | Marusa Bradac (Stanford): Dark Matter in the "Bullet Cluster" 1E0657-56 and MACSJ0025-1222: Revealing the Invisible with 2 Cosmic Supercolliders | Junior Ballroom |
| 14:35 | Premana Premadi (Bandung Institute of Technology): Gravitational Lensing Signature of a Giant Void in the Direction of the Cold Spot | Junior Ballroom |
| 14:50 | Amitai Bin-Nun (UPenn) : Relativistic Images in RS Gravity as Probe of Quantum Gravity | Junior Ballroom |
| 15:00 | James Jee (UC Davis): Weak-lensing study of the galaxy cluster XMMU J2235.3-2557 at Z~1.4: a surprisingly massive galaxy cluster when the universe is at one- third of its current age | Junior Ballroom |
| 15:10 | Mei-Yu Wang (University of Pittsburgh): Utilizing forthcoming weak lensing surveys to constrain dark matter | Junior Ballroom |
| 15:20 | Jounghun Lee (Seoul National University): Information Content in the Galaxy Angular Power Spectrum from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and its Implication on Weak Lensing Analysis | Junior Ballroom |
| 15:30 | Afternoon Break | -- |
| 16:00 | Daniel Kasen (UC Santa Cruz): Multi-Dimensional Models and the Diversity of Type Ia Supernovae | Junior Ballroom |
| 16:30 | Julien Guy (University of Paris): SNLS 3rd year dataset : cosmological constraints | Junior Ballroom |
| 17:00 | Alex Conley (University of Toronto) : Cosmological constraints from the 3rd year SNLS Dataset - II | Junior Ballroom |
| 17:15 | Dragan Huterer (University of Michigan): Falsifying Paradigms for Cosmic Acceleration | Junior Ballroom |
| 17:45 | Eric Hsiao (UVic): Spectral templates of Type Ia supernova in the near infrared | Junior Ballroom |
| 18:00 | Adjourn | -- |
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Plenary Session: Wednesday, December 10, Morning
| Time | Speaker: Topic | Room |
|---|---|---|
| 9:00 | Eiichiro Komatsu (Univ of Austin, Texas): IUPAP Prize Talk: Non-Gaussianity | Pavilion Ballroom |
| 9:45 | Chris Pfrommer (CITA): High-energy astrophysics in galaxy clusters | Pavilion Ballroom |
| 10:20 | Morning Break | -- |
| 10:50 | Reinhard Genzel (MPE, Garching): The black hole at the Galactic Centre | Pavilion Ballroom |
| 11:25 | Craig Hogan (Fermilab and University of Chicago): What's Wrong with Concordance Cosmology? | Pavilion Ballroom |
| 12:00 | Lunch | -- |
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Plenary Session: Thursday, December 11, Morning
| Time | Speaker: Topic | Room |
|---|---|---|
| 9:00 | Clifford Will (Washington U): Testing general relativity: A 30-year retrospective and a view of the future | Pavilion Ballroom |
| 9:45 | Ingrid Stairs (UBC): The Double Pulsar | Pavilion Ballroom |
| 10:20 | Morning Break | -- |
| 10:50 | Andrew Liddle (U Sussex): Progress in Inflation | Pavilion Ballroom |
| 11:25 | Tom Abel (Stanford): Reionization | Pavilion Ballroom |
| 12:00 | Lunch | -- |
Parallel Session 1: Thursday, December 11, Afternoon
Topics: Inflation / Galaxy Clusters
Session organizers: Easther, Zibin / Ellingson, Evrard
| Time | Speaker: Topic | Room |
|---|---|---|
| 13:30 | Richard Easther(Yale): The Concordance Cosmology and The Inflationary Sector | Pavilion Ballroom |
| 13:50 | John Giblin (Bates College): Gravitational radiation from the decay of Gravitational Black Holes | Pavilion Ballroom |
| 14:10 | Marco Peloso (U of Minnesota): Relics anisotropies from inflation | Pavilion Ballroom |
| 14:30 | Masahide Yamaguchi (Aoyama Gakuin University): Slow-Roll Conditions and Rapid-Roll Conditions for a Non-minimally Coupled Scalar Field | Pavilion Ballroom |
| 14:50 | Zhiqi Huang (CITA): NonGaussianity from preheating | Pavilion Ballroom |
| 15:10 | Hiranya Peiris (Cambridge): Primordial Black Holes, Eternal Inflation, and the Inflationary Parameter Space after WMAP5 | Pavilion Ballroom |
| 15:30 | Afternoon Break | -- |
| 16:00 | Alexey Vikhlinin (Harvard): Dark energy constraints from growth of structure: results from the 400^2 X-ray survey | Pavilion Ballroom |
| 16:20 | Peter Eisenhardt (JPL/Caltech): Clusters of Galaxies in the First Half of the Universe from the IRAC Shallow Survey | Pavilion Ballroom |
| 16:40 | Daisuke Nagai (Yale): Cosmological Simulations of Galaxy Clusters | Pavilion Ballroom |
| 17:00 | Risa Wechsler (Stanford): The Role of the Galaxy-Halo Connection in Cosmological Constraints from Optically-Selected Clusters | Pavilion Ballroom |
| 17:20 | Jonathan Dursi (CITA): Bubble Wrap for Bullets: The Draping of Cluster Magnetic Fields over Bubbles and Merging Cores | Pavilion Ballroom |
| 17:30 | Dmitry Pogosyan (University of Alberta): The Skeleton of the Cosmic Web | Pavilion Ballroom |
| 17:40 | Adam Mantz (Stanford/SLAC): Improved Cosmological Constraints from the Galaxy Cluster X-ray Luminosity Function | Pavilion Ballroom |
| 17:50 | Brian Gerke (KIPAC/SLAC): Cosmological constraints from the abundance of DEEP2 galaxy groups | Pavilion Ballroom |
| 18:00 | Adjourn | -- |
Parallel Session 2: Thursday, December 11, Afternoon
Topics: High-magnetic field Pulsar / Pulsar timing
Session organizers: Heyl, van Kerkwijk / Kaspi, Nice
| Time | Speaker: Topic | Room |
|---|---|---|
| 13:30 | David Kaplan (UCSB): Observational review | Junior Ballroom |
| 14:00 | Jeremy Heyl (UBC): Theoretical review | Junior Ballroom |
| 14:30 | Vicky Kaspi (McGill): High Drama in AXPs: Glitches, Outbursts and Flares and their Relationships | Junior Ballroom |
| 14:50 | Scott Ransom (NRAO): Radio Magnetars | Junior Ballroom |
| 15:10 | Ramandeep Gill (UBC): The Birthrate of Magnetars | Junior Ballroom |
| 15:30 | Afternoon Break | -- |
| 16:00 | Dick Manchester (CSIRO/ATNF) : Detecting Gravitational Waves with Pulsar Timing | Junior Ballroom |
| 16:20 | Joel Weisberg (Carleton College) : Relativistic Timing and Profile Analyses of the First Binary Pulsar B1913+16 | Junior Ballroom |
| 16:40 | Scott Ransom (NRAO) : Millisecond Pulsars in Crowded Places | Junior Ballroom |
| 16:55 | Anne Archibald (McGill) : A New Millisecond Pulsar | Junior Ballroom |
| 17:05 | Paulo Freire (NAIC/WVU) : Measuring the mass of the millisecond pulsar PSR J1903+0327 | Junior Ballroom |
| 17:20 | Sharon Morsink (Univ. Alberta) : Neutron Star Equation of State Constraints from Accreting Millisecond X-ray Pulsars | Junior Ballroom |
| 17:35 | Aous Abdo (NRL) : Observations of the Supernova Remnant CTA1 Using the LAT on the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope | Junior Ballroom |
| 17:50 | Kent Wood (NRL) : Early Fermi-LAT Results on Galactic Sources | Junior Ballroom |
| 18:05 | Adjourn | -- |
Conference Dinner at Sheraton Wall Center
| The conference dinner is Thursday, December 11 at 7:30pm in the Pavilion Ballroom of the Sheraton Wall Centre. All participants will receive an invitation in their registration package and will be asked to select their menu choice at the time of registration. |
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Plenary Session: Friday, December 12, Morning
| Time | Speaker: Topic | Room |
|---|---|---|
| 9:00 | Sean Carroll (Caltech): Dark Energy | Pavilion Ballroom |
| 9:45 | Jonathan Feng (UCIrvine): Dark Matter Candidates and Signals | Pavilion Ballroom |
| 10:20 | Morning Break | -- |
| 10:50 | Philip Hopkins (Harvard, CfA): Galaxy formation, black holes and AGN | Pavilion Ballroom |
| 11:25 | Lawrence Krauss (ASU): The Future of the Universe and the future of Cosmology | Pavilion Ballroom |
| 12:00 | Lunch | -- |
Parallel Session 1: Friday, December 12, Afternoon
Topics: Dark Matter / Dark Energy
Session organizers: Schnee, Sigurdson / Moss, Pogosian
| Time | Speaker: Topic | Room |
|---|---|---|
| 13:30 | Dan McKinsey (Yale): Direct Dark Matter Detection with Noble Liquids | Pavilion Ballroom |
| 13:50 | Sunil Golwala (Caltech): Direct Dark Matter Detection with Cryogenic, Directional, and Threshold Detectors | Pavilion Ballroom |
| 14:15 | Per Carlson (KTH, Stockholm): PAMELA - an experiment searching for dark matter with cosmic antiparticles | Pavilion Ballroom |
| 14:35 | Doug Finkbeiner (Harvard): A Theory of Dark Matter: PAMELA positrons and a new force in the dark sector | Pavilion Ballroom |
| 14:55 | Stefano Profumo: Dark Matter Searches in the Fermi Era | Pavilion Ballroom |
| 15:15 | Elliott Bloom (KIPAC-SLAC, Stanford): Update on Dark Matter Searches with Fermi LAT | Pavilion Ballroom |
| 15:30 | Afternoon Break | -- |
| 16:00 | Rocky Kolb (UChicago): The w(z) figure of merit and JDEM | Pavilion Ballroom |
| 16:20 | Devdeep Sarkar (UC Irvine): Theoretical Uncertainties in Dark Energy Measurements | Pavilion Ballroom |
| 16:35 | Scott Daniel(Dartmouth College): Large Scale Structure as Probe of Gravitational Slip | Pavilion Ballroom |
| 16:50 | Fabian Schmidt (University of Chicago): N-body simulation of structure formation in f(R) models | Pavilion Ballroom |
| 17:10 | Andrei Frolov (SFU): A Singularity problem with f(R) Dark Energy | Pavilion Ballroom |
| 17:30 | Jim Zibin (UBC): Can we avoid Dark Energy? | Pavilion Ballroom |
| 17:45 | Hongbao Zhang (Perimeter Institute): Test of the Copernican principle by cosmic neutrino background | Pavilion Ballroom |
| 18:00 | Adjourn | -- |
Parallel Session 2: Friday, December 12, Afternoon
Topics: Horizons / Black Holes in AGNs
Session organizers: Unruh, Weinfurtner / Dunlop, Nandra
| Time | Speaker: Topic | Room |
|---|---|---|
| 13:30 | Bill Unruh (UBC): Introduction to the session and general remarks on the physics of horizons | Junior Ballroom |
| 13:50 | Patrick Hayden : Black holes as mirrors | Junior Ballroom |
| 14:10 | Alejandro Corichi: Black holes and entropy in loop quantum gravity | Junior Ballroom |
| 14:30 | Piyush Jain: The quantum de Laval Nozzle: sonic horizons from emergent spacetimes | Junior Ballroom |
| 14:50 | Federico Urban (UBC): The cosmological constant as a manifestation of the conformal anomaly | Junior Ballroom |
| 15:10 | Sarp Akcay (University of Texas): Doing physics in Kerr-de Sitter Universe | Junior Ballroom |
| 15:30 | Afternoon Break | -- |
| 16:00 | Marta Volonteri (Michigan): The formation and evolution of massive black holes | Junior Ballroom |
| 16:20 | Darren Croton (Swinburne): Quasars as probes of high-redshift galaxy formation | Junior Ballroom |
| 16:40 | Jong-Hak Woo (UCLA): Environmental dependence of AGN activity in the present-day universe | Junior Ballroom |
| 16:55 | Andreas Eckart (Cologne): Variable Emission from SgrA*: Multi frequency observations and modeling results | Junior Ballroom |
| 17:10 | Laura Brenneman (ORAU; NASA/GSFC): Constraining Black Hole Spin in Seyfert 1 AGN with Suzaku | Junior Ballroom |
| 17:30 | Scott Noble (Johns Hopkins): The Radiative Efficiency of Thin Accretion Disks | Junior Ballroom |
| 17:45 | Luigi Gallo (St. Mary's): The X-ray properties of narrow-line Seyfert 1s | Junior Ballroom |
| 18:00 | Adjourn | -- |
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