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Event Schedule
Talk Titles with Abstracts
Sunday, May 4, 2008, 5-7pm
Reception at Cafe
Monday, May 5, 2008
Introduction/Motivation
Moderator: Priya Natarajan
9:00am
Welcome: Matt Mountain, STScI Director
9:05am
Dark Energy Dichotomies
R. Bean (Cornell University)
9:50am
Constraining Dark Energy
P. Steinhardt (Princeton University)
10:35am
Break
Latest Results
Moderator: Nick Suntzeff
11:00am
Piecing Together Current Supernova Constraints on Dark Energy
S. Perlmutter (Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory)
11:40am
Dark Energy and The Hubble Constant from HST, Version 2.0
A. Riess (STScI)
12:20pm
The Megamaser Cosmology Project
J. Braatz (NRAO)
12:35pm
Lunch
Physics
Moderator: Mike Fall
2:00pm
Models Of Dark Energy
E. Witten (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)
2:45pm
Dark Energy Constraints on Modified Gravities
I. Neupane (Canterbury University)
3:00pm
Cosmological Post-Newtonian Approximation with Dark Energy
J. Hwang (Kyungpook National University)
3:15pm
Neutrino Clustering in Interacting Dark Energy Cosmologies
V. Pettorino (Institute for Theoretical Physics, Heidelberg)
3:30pm
Break
Techniques & Systematics
Moderator: Ruth Daly
4:00pm
Supernovae
W. Freedman (Carnegie Observatories)
4:40pm
Baryon Acoustic Oscillations: A Robust and Precise
Route to the Cosmological Distance Scale
D. Eisenstein (Steward Observatory)
5:20pm
Magnification Distortion of the Galaxy Correlation
Function: Opportunities and Challenges
L. Hui (Columbia University)
5:40pm
Adjourn
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
Figures of Merit
Moderator: Michael Salamon
9:00am
Figures of Merit for Dark Energy Experiments
D. Huterer (University of Michigan)
9:30am
What Figure of Merit Should We Use to Evaluate Dark Energy Projects?
Y. Wang (Univ. of Oklahoma)
10:00am
What Can We Learn from Future Dark Energy Probes?
A. Albrecht (UC Davis)
10:30am
Break
Latest Results
Moderator: Rachel Somerville
11:00am
Recent Results from Weak Gravitational Lensing by Large Scale Structure
H. Hoekstra (University of Victoria)
11:45am
WMAP: Recent Results and Dark Energy
L. Page (Princeton University)
12:30pm
Lunch
Techniques & Systematics
Moderator: Mark Voit
2:00pm
Cosmological Constraints from X-ray Studies of Galaxy Clusters
S. Allen (KIPAC (KIPAC/SLAC; Stanford))
2:45pm
Cosmic Shear: Potential and Prospects
S. Bridle (University College London)
3:30pm
Break
Contributed Talks / Future Projects
Moderator: Peter Garnavich
4:00pm
First Results from the WiggleZ Galaxy Redshift Survey
C. Blake (Swinburne University of Technology)
4:15pm
The Dark Energy Indicator: A Measure of Deviations of w from -1
R. Daly (Penn State University)
4:30pm
Uncorrelated Estimates of Dark Energy Equation of State
A. Cooray (UC Irvine)
4:45pm
Overview of the Dark Energy Survey
B. Flaugher (Fermilab)
5:00pm
The SDSS Supernova Survey: Results and Prospects
S. Jha (Rutgers University)
5:15pm
Adjourn
Wednesday, May 7, 2008
Moderator: Massimo Robberto
9:00am
How Can CMB Help Constraining Dark Energy?
L. Verde (Institute of Space Sciences, Bellaterra)
9:45am
The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope
T. Tyson (UC Davis)
10:10am
Inflation and Dark Energy: Is There a Connection?
S. Watson (University of Michigan)
10:25am
Break
Latest Results
Moderator: Eric Linder
11:00am
Dark Energy Constraints from the Supernova Legacy Survey
M. Sullivan (University of Oxford)
11:40am
Latest Results from Large-Scale Structure and Baryon Acoustic Oscillation Observations
W. Percival (Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation, Portsmouth)
12:20pm
Improving the Low-Redshift Foundations: Results from
the Lick Observatory Supernova Search
A. Filippenko (UC Berkeley)
12:35pm
Lunch
Physics
Moderator: Kathy Turner
2:00pm
The Cosmology of f(R) Models for Acceleration
W. Hu (University of Chicago)
2:45pm
Testing Gravity with Lensing and Large-Scale Structure
B. Jain (Univ. of Pennsylvania)
3:30pm
Break
4:00pm
Panel Discussion: How Well Do We Need To Do?
Moderator: Jon Morse
Mike Turner (University of Chicago),
Lawrence Krauss (CWRU),
Gary Bernstein (Univ. of Pennsylvania),
Bob Kirshner (CfA)
5:30pm
Adjourn until Reception
6:00pm
Conference Dinner (Drinks at 6; Meal at 7)
Thursday, May 8, 2008
Contributed Talks / Future Projects
Moderator: Tony Tyson
9:00am
EUCLID: ESA's Proposed Dark Energy Mission
J. Peacock (University of Edinburgh)
9:25am
DESTINY, the Dark Energy Space Telescope
T. Lauer (NOAO)
9:50am
SNAP - An Overview of the Supernova Acceleration Probe (SNAP) Mission
G. Bernstein (Univ. of Pennsylvania)
10:15am
ADEPT - Advanced Dark Energy Physics Telescope
C. Bennett (JHU)
10:35am
Break
Physics / Summary
Moderator: Jon Bagger
11:00am
Dark Energy: Hopes and Expectations
M. Livio (STScI)
11:45am
Dark Conclusions
J. Peacock (University of Edinburgh)
12:30pm
Meeting Adjourns