Centro de Ciencias de Benasque Pedro Pascual

Centro de Ciencias de Benasque Pedro Pascual

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Modern Cosmology: Early Universe, CMB and LSS

2012, Aug 05 -- Aug 25

Organizers:
D. Figueroa (Helsinki HU/HIP)
J. Frieman (Fermilab, Chicago)
J. García-Bellido (U. Autónoma Madrid)
E. Gaztañaga ICE, IEEC/CSIC

Monday, August 06
  • 10:00h
  • From the Horndeski Lagrangian to observations
     Luca Amendola
  • 11:15h
  • Examining the evidence for dynamical dark energy
     Robert Crittenden
  • 17:00h
  • Discussion Session
     Luca Amendola, Tomi Koivisto, Guille Ballesteros, Enrique Gaztañaga and Jounghun Lee

    Tuesday, August 07
    • 17:00h
    • The Euclid Mission: some how's and why's
       Roberto Scaramella
    • 18:15h
    • The Quest for Primordial non-Gaussianity
       Dragan Huterer

      Wednesday, August 08
      • 09:30h
      • Constraining galaxy bias and cosmic growth function with 3-point correlation functions of WiggleZ galaxies
         Felipe Marin
      • 10:10h
      • Embracing Nonlinearities
         Martin Crocce
      • 11:20h
      • Large scale structure and galaxy formation studies with GAMA
         Peder Norberg
      • 17:00h
      • Discussion Session
         Antony Lewis, Eyal Kazin, Tamara Davis, Felipe Marin, Martin Crocce

        Thursday, August 09
        • 17:00h
        • Primordial and secondary non-Gaussianity
           Enrique Martinez-Gonzalez
        • 18:00h
        • Primordial squeezed non-Gaussianity and observables in the CMB
           Antony Lewis
        • 19:00h
        • Discussion Session
           Luca Amendola, Marisa March
        • 19:20h
        • How to use SNe Ia data (SALT II) to do cosmological model selection within the Bayesian framework
           Marisa Cristina March

          Friday, August 10
          • 10:00h
          • Galaxy surveys: from controlling systematics to new Physics (Discussion/Debate Session)
             Ofer Lahav
          • 11:00h
          • Discussion/Debate Session
             Alain Blanchard
          • 12:00h
          • Modelling DE with Genetic Algorithms (Discussion/Debate Session)
             Juan Garcia-Bellido
          • 15:00h
          • Using galaxy pairs for cosmology (Young Researchers Session)
             Alicia Bueno Belloso
          • 15:20h
          • H(z), d_A(z) from clustering wedges (Young Researchers Session)
             Eyal Kazin
          • 15:40h
          • 3-form & magnetogenesis (Young Researchers Session)
             Fede Urban
          • 16:00h
          • Clustering: 2D vs 3D (Young Researchers Session)
             Jacobo Asorey
          • 16:20h
          • Linear Perturbation Theory in LTB (Young Researchers Session)
             Sean February
          • 16:40h
          • HaloFit II
             Alex Mead

            Monday, August 13
            • 10:00h
            • Latest update on Cosmic Strings
               Martin Kunz
            • 11:15h
            • Features of heavy physics in the spectrum of primordial perturbations
               Ana Achucarro
            • 12:00h
            • Discussion Session (3-form & magnetogenesis)
               Tomi Koivisto, Nelson Nunes, Federico Urban
            • 17:00h
            • Cosmic Defects (Discussion Session)
               David Daverio, Martin Kunz, ...

              Tuesday, August 14
              • 17:00h
              • Weak lensing with KiDS
                 Konrad Kuijken
              • 18:00h
              • From small scales to the horizon: a nonlinear post-Friedmann framework for structure formation in LCDM
                 Marco Bruni
              • 19:00h
              • WiggleZ: Results and some gory details
                 Tamara Davis

                Wednesday, August 15
                • 09:30h
                • Building galaxy mock catalogues with MICE
                   Francisco Castander
                • 10:30h
                • A Multi-wavelength View of Galaxy Cluster Scaling Relations
                   August Evrard
                • 11:45h
                • Galaxy Clustering in the SDSS-III BOSS and the construction of mock catalogues
                   Marc Manera
                • 17:00h
                • Discussion Session
                   Wessel Valkenburg, Tamara Davis, ...

                • Measuring the Copernican Principle
                   W. Valkenburg

                  Thursday, August 16
                  • 17:00h
                  • New results and insights into the dynamics of Gravitational Instabilities
                     Francis Bernadeau
                  • 18:00h
                  • Testing gravity using pulsars, black holes and the CMB.
                     Lam Hui
                  • 19:00h
                  • Discussion Session (Statistical Anisotropy vs Non-Gaussianity)
                     Robert Crittenden, Antony Lewis, ...

                    Friday, August 17
                    • Discussion/Debate Session
                       Ruth Durrer
                    • 10:00h
                    • The measured galaxy correlation function
                       Ruth Durrer
                    • 11:15h
                    • Discussion/Debate Session: Neutrino abundance and mass impact on CMB and P(k)
                       Julien Lesgourgues
                    • 15:00h
                    • Non-Gaussian Universe or non-linear evolution? (Young Researchers Session)
                       Guido Pettinari
                    • 15:20h
                    • Gravitational Waves from Fermions (Young Researchers Session)
                       Tuukka Meriniemi
                    • 15:40h
                    • Accelerated expansion from ghost-free, massive bigravity: a statistical analysis with improved generality (Young Researchers Session)
                       Yashar Akrami
                    • 16:00h
                    • TBD (Young Researchers Session)
                       Daniel B. Thomas
                    • 16:30h
                    • Type Ia SNe standardization accounting for the enviroment (Young Researchers Session)
                       Lluis Galbany
                    • 16:50h
                    • Halos and LTB (Young Researchers Session)
                       David Alonso
                    • 17:10h
                    • Tension in the Void (Young Researchers Session)
                       Miguel Zumalacarregui

                      Monday, August 20
                      • 10:00h
                      • IR problem connection to the consistency relation and the initial condition of the universe
                         Takahiro Tanaka
                      • 11:15h
                      • Cosmological constraints on f(R) gravity
                         Lucas Lombriser
                      • 17:00h
                      • Gaussian Processes (Discussion Session)
                         Robert Crittenden

                        Tuesday, August 21
                        • 17:00h
                        • The PAU Survey at the William Herschel Telescope
                           Ramon Miquel
                        • 18:15h
                        • A gradient expansion: non-linear approximation for perturbations in LCDM
                           Wessel Valkerburg

                          Wednesday, August 22
                          • 10:00h
                          • Galileons: consistent w<-1 at the price of an imperfect fluid
                             Ignacy Sawicki
                          • 11:00h
                          • (Primordial) non-Gaussianity and N-body Simulations
                             Donough Regan
                          • 17:00h
                          • Discussion Session
                             Jordi Miralda Escude

                            Thursday, August 23
                            • 10:00h
                            • Squeezing the CMB bispectrum
                               Filippo Vernizzi
                            • 11:00h
                            • Cosmic Defects, a non-inflationary source of GW and NG
                               Dani G. Figueroa
                            • 12:00h
                            • Discussion Session (The CC problem in the Standard Model)
                               Yashar Akrami

                              Friday, August 24
                              • 10:00h
                              • Discussion Session
                                 Josh Frieman
                              • 11:00h
                              • Cross-correlations of spectroscopic and photometric galaxy surveys
                                 Martin Eriksen

                                This session has received financial support from the following institutions:

                                • logo CSIC
                                • Gobierno de Aragón
                                • Ministerio de educación y ciencia
                                • DPH
                                • Universidad de Zaragoza
                                • Ayuntamiento de Benasque

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