Talks for the conference.

Modern Cosmology: Early Universe, CMB and LSS

2010, Aug 01 -- Aug 20

Organizers:
J. García-Bellido (U. Autónoma Madrid)
E. Gaztañaga (ICE-CSIC)
J. Frieman (Fermilab, Chicago)

Monday, August 02

	Topic of the day: "Laws of physics in cosmology" / Chair: R.Miquel

09:00h	Testing gravity with galaxy surveys
	J.Peacock
09:50h	Searching for cosmic superstrings in the CMB
	E.Copeland
11:00h	Searching for Non-Gaussianity in the CMB
	M.Bucher
18:00h	Discussion on the Integrated Sachs-Wolfe effect
	R.Crittenden (Chair), T.Giannantonio, J.Peacock

Tuesday, August 03

	Topic of the day: "Cosmic Yards" / Chair: N.Kaiser

17:00h	"Testing Cosmic Gravity Now and Then"
	E.Linder
17:40h	"Early results from the WiggleZ dark energy survey"
	T.Davis
19:00h	"Primordial Non-Gaussianity and Large-Scale Structure"
	D.Huterer
19:40h	"An inhomogeneous world view"
	T.Haugboelle

Wednesday, August 04

	Topic of the day: "Large scale structure" / Chair: J.Peacock

09:00h	"Redshift-space distortions for galaxies with wide angular separations"
	W.Percival
09:50h	"The Coyote Universe"
	K.Heitmann
11:00h	"Scale-dependence of halo bias"
	V.Desjacques
11:40h	"Halo biasing: peaks, scale dependence and primordial non-Gaussianity"
	C.Porciani
18:00h	Discussion on Redshift Space Distortions
	P.Norberg (Chair)

Thursday, August 05

	Topic of the day: "Early Universe & CMB" / Chair: A.Blanchard

17:00h	"An improved excursion set theory approach to halo mass function, non-Gaussianities and bias"
	M.Maggiore
17:50h	"Toward a model for the galaxy bispectrum with generic initial conditions"
	E.Sefusatti
19:00h	"Fingerprinting Dark Energy"
	M.Kunz

Friday, August 06

	Topic of the day: "Discussion/debate" / Chair: A.Lewis

09:00h	"Galaxies, voids and the large-scale structure of the Universe"
	D.Croton
09:50h	"Cosmology from Pan-STARRS Wide Field Surveys"
	N.Kaiser
11:00h	"Evidence for the Fifth Element"
	A.Blanchard
17:00h	Discussion on Primordial non-Gaussianities in the LSS
	C.Porciani (Chair)

Saturday, August 07

Monday, August 09

	Topic of the day: "Laws of physics in cosmology" / Chair: D.Huterer

09:00h	"Bias, Primordial non-Gaussianity and the Bispectrum"
	R.Scoccimarro
09:50h	"Precision Cosmology with Gaussian Processes"
	S.Habib
11:00h	"Primordial Non-Gaussianities and Bispectrum in N-body Simulations"
	M.Manera
11:40h	"On the evidence for axion-like particles from AGN"
	R.Crittenden
17:00h	Discussion on Dark Energy parametrization
	M.Kunz (Chair), L. Hollenstein, T. Giannantonio, C. Shapiro, D. Blas

Tuesday, August 10

	Topic of day: "Cosmic Yards" / Chair: J.Mohr

10:00h	Discussion on Voids, Inhomogeneities and Backreaction
	W. Valkenburg (Chair), R. Durrer, A. Romano, T. Haugboelle
17:00h	"What can we learn from DES?"
	J.Frieman
17:45h	"The DES Cluster Cosmology Program"
	J.Annis
18:50h	"Measuring BAO using photometric redshift surveys"
	A.Carnero
19:30h	"Joint analysis of cluster surveys: modelling uncertainties in dark energy constraints using clusters of galaxies"
	C.Cunha

Wednesday, August 11

	Topic of the day: "Large scale structure" / Chair: R.Scoccimarro

09:00h	"Probing the Growth of Non-Linear Structure in the Dark Universe with the Galaxy And Mass Assembly Survey (GAMA)"
	P.Norberg
09:50h	"Massive galaxies in massive datasets"
	M.Bernardi
11:00h	"Some new results concerning the impact of primordial non-Gaussianities on large-scale structure observables"
	R.Smith

Thursday, August 12

	Topic of the day: "Early Universe & CMB" / Chair: E.Linder

17:00h	"Limits on primordial magnetic fields"
	R.Durrer
17:40h	"Principal Components and Paradigm Falsification"
	W.Hu
19:00h	"The shape of the CMB lensing bispectrum"
	A.Lewis

Friday, August 13

	Topic of the day: "Discussion/debate" / Chair: W.Hu

09:00h	"Mark correlations and optimal reconstruction of the dark matter distribution"
	R.Sheth
09:50h	"Preparing for Euclid, a space mission to map the universe"
	F.Castander
11:00h	"Pushing the Void to the limits: a good fit to CMB, BAO, SN and HST"
	W.Valkenburg
17:00h	Astro2010 Decadal Survey Release (online transmission from Washington)
	J. Frieman (Chair)

Monday, August 16

	Topic of the day: "Laws of physics in cosmology" / Chair: C.Baugh

09:00h	"Challenges in Galaxy Formation"
	J.Silk
10:00h	"Effects of modified gravity models on the growth of gravitational instabilities"
	F.Bernardeau
11:00h	"Scale dependent non-Gaussianity"
	C.Byrnes
17:00h	Discussion on Primordial Magnetic Fields
	R.Durrer (Chair), J.Garcia-Bellido, L.Hollenstein, R.Jain

Tuesday, August 17

	Topic of the day: "Cosmic Yards" / Chair: R.Durrer

17:00h	"Simulating quintessence cosmologies: growth of structure and redshift-space distortions"
	C.Baugh
17:45h	"Primordial Gravitational Waves from preheating after inflation"
	D.Figueroa
19:00h	"Abundances of Rare Objects and primordial non-Gaussianity"
	T.Y.Lam

Wednesday, August 18

	Topic of the day: "Large scale structure" / Chair: A.Albrecht

09:00h	"Some thoughts on equivalence principle and bubble collisions on cosmic scales"
	L.Hui
09:50h	"Status Report on the South Pole Telescope: What we have learned about SZE selected samples and initial constraints on cosmology"
	J.Mohr
11:00h	"Non-local bias from primordial non-Gaussianity"
	T.Giannantonio

Thursday, August 19

	Topic of the day: "Discussion/debate" / Chair: E.Copeland

09:00h	"Supernova Cosmology: where is the systematic floor?"
	R.Pain
09:50h	"Weak gravitational lensing: magnitudes or shapes?"
	E.Gaztanaga
11:00h	"Disentangling inflation from defects with the CMB local B-modes"
	J.Garcia-Bellido