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CCAPP Seminars

 

 

Date Room & Time Speaker Title
Oct. 6, 2006 PRB 1080
3:30 p.m.
Eun-Joo Ahn
Host: Hasan Yuksel
Early Stages of Ultra High Energy Cosmic Ray Air Showers as a Diagnostic of
Exotic Primaries
Oct. 13, 2006 No Seminar    
Special Date
Oct. 17, 2006
PRB 1080
12:30 p.m.
Scott Dodelson
Host: Eduardo Rozo
Dark Matter vs. Modified Gravity
Oct. 20, 2006 No seminar Moved to Oct. 17.  
Oct. 27, 2006 PRB 4138
2:00 p.m.
Eric Linder Concepts and Challenges of the Accelerating Universe
Nov. 3, 2006 PRB 1080
3:30 p.m.
Dragan Huterer Exploring the Dark Energy Domain
Special Date
Nov. 7, 2006
PRB M2015
12:30 p.m.
Brian Gerke Galaxy groups in DEEP2: Implications for cosmic evolution
Nov. 10, 2006 No Seminar    
Nov. 17, 2006 PRB 1080
2:30 p.m.
Stefano Profumo Light and Shadows from Dark Matter
Special Date
Nov. 21, 2006
     
Nov. 24, 2006 Thanksgiving    
Dec. 1, 2006 PRB 1080
3:30 p.m.
Will Kinney From Outer Space to Inner Space: Particle Physics in the Age of Precision Cosmology
Dec. 12, 2006 PRB M2015
12:15 p.m.
Jacqueline Chen The Radial Distribution of Galactic Satellites
Winter break      
Jan. 12, 2007 PRB 4138
2:00 pm
Justin Albert
Host: Mandeep Gill
STARCaL: Precision Astrophysics & Cosmology Enabled by a Tunable
Laser in Space
Jan. 19, 2007 PRB 1080
3:30 p.m.
Erin Sheldon
Host: Eduardo Rozo
Mass Profiles and Mass-to-light Ratios of SDSS Clusters from Lensing in the SDSS
Jan. 23, 2007 PRB 1080
12:30 p.m.
Stelios Kazantzidis
Host: Eduardo Rozo
Infalling Satellites and Structure of Galactic Disks in CDM Models
Jan. 30, 2007   Job Candidate  
Feb. 6, 2007   Job Candidate  
Feb. 13, 2007 PRB 4138
12:30 pm
Leonid Chuzhoy Ultraviolet Pumping of the 21 cm Line in the High Redshift Universe
Feb. 20, 2007 PRB 4138
12:30 p.m.
Joe Hennawi Quasars Probing Quasars: Shedding (Quasar) Light on High Redshift Galaxies
March 6, 2007 PRB 4138
12:30 p.m.
Brian Baughman A New Look at the Galactic Diffuse GeV Excess
March 13, 2007 PRB 4138
12:30 p.m.
Ryan Scranton Cosmology in the Era of Large Surveys
March 20, 2007   SPRING BREAK  
Special Date
April 5, 2007
PRB 1080


12:30 pm
Doug Cowen Neutrino Astronomy and Particle Physics with the IceCube Detector
April 10, 2007 PRB 4138
12:30 p.m.
Beth Willman The Least Luminous Galaxies in the Universe
April 16, 2007 PRB 4138
12:30 p.m.
Amy Connolly Closing in on Ultra-High Energy Cosmogenic Neutrinos with the Radio Detection Technique
April 17, 2007 PRB 4138
12:30 p.m.
Adam Lidz Probing Hydrogen Reionization
April 24, 2007 PRB 4138
12:30 p.m.
Dennis Zaritsky A New Twist on Galaxy Scaling Relations
May 1, 2007 PRB 4138
12:30 p.m.
Igor Moskalenko Galactic Cosmic Rays and Diffuse Gamma-Ray Emission
May 8, 2007 PRB 1080
12:30 p.m.
Irit Maor Voids of Dark Energy
May 15, 2007 PRB 4138
12:30 p.m.
Andrew Benson The Growth of Massive Galaxies
May 22, 2007 PRB 4138
12:30 pm
Ravi Sheth Galaxy and halo evolution and environment
May 29, 2007 PRB 4138
12:30 p.m.
Pasquale Serpico Angular signatures of dark matter in the diffuse gamma ray background
June 27, 2007 PRB 4138
12:30 p.m.
Avishay Gal-Yam The nature of cosmic explosions
Sept. 7, 2007 4th PRB meeting room
1:00 p.m.
Kyler Kuehn The Search for Neutrinos from Gamma-Ray Bursts with AMANDA
Sept. 11, 2007 PRB 4138
12:30 p.m.
Jeremy Tinker Reverse Engineering Galaxy Formation
Special Date
Sept. 20, 2007
PRB 1080
12:30 p.m.
Anthony Gonzalez The Distribution of Baryons in Galaxy Clusters and Groups
Special Date
Sept. 26, 2007
PRB 4138
12:30 p.m.
Pawan Kumar Gamma-Ray Bursts: Recent Progress
Oct. 9, 2007 PRB 4138
12:15 p.m.
Joanne Cohn Two-filter Cluster Finding in the Millennium Simulation (...and beyond)
Oct. 23, 2007 PRB 4138
12:15 p.m.
Sarah Hansen Galaxy Content of Clusters and Groups in the Local Universe
Nov. 6, 2007 PRB 4138
12:15 p.m.
Tom Shutt The race to detect dark matter with noble liquids, XENON10 results, and
the LUX experiment
Nov. 20, 2007 PRB 4138
12:15 p.m.
Douglas Rudd On Scatter in Galaxy Cluster Mass-Observable Relations
Dec. 4, 2007 PRB 4138
12:15 p.m.
Joanna Dunkley Beyond WMAP: the CMB at large and small scales
Winter Break      
Jan. 22, 2008 PRB 4138
12:15 p.m.
David Morrissey
(U. of Michigan)
Cosmic Strings from Supersymmetric Flat Directions
Jan. 29, 2008 PRB 4138
12:15 p.m.
Gabrijela Zaharijas Prospects For Detecting Dark Matter In Light Of The WMAP Haze
Feb. 5, 2008 PRB 4138
12:15 p.m.
Steven Furlanetto
(UCLA)
Observing the First Galaxies and the Reionization Epoch
Feb. 8, 2008 PRB 1080
1:30 p.m.
Ben Dilday
(U of Chicago)
First Results from the SDSS-II Supernova Survey
Feb. 12, 2008 PRB 4138
12:30 p.m.
Frederick Kuehn GRB Science with GLAST: From Onboard Detection to the Search for Quantum Gravity
Feb. 13, 2008 PRB 4138
1:30 p.m.
Michael Stamatikos Exploring GRB Astrophysics via a Correlated Broad-Band and Multi-Messenger Paradigm
Feb. 19, 2008 PRB 4138
12:15 p.m.
Lloyd Knox
(UC Davis)
Why Measure the Mean Curvature Even Better and How to Do It
Feb. 26, 2008 PRB 4138

12:15 p.m.
Ozlem Celik Observations of the Crab Nebula and Pulsar with VERITAS
Mar. 3, 2008 PRB 4138
12:15 p.m.
Eric Grashorn Cosmic Rays and MINOS: Physics in the Background
Mar. 4, 2008 PRB 4138
12:15 p.m.
Priya Natarajan
(Yale)
High redshift black holes: formation and evolution
Spring Break
(Mar. 13-23)
     
Mar. 18, 2008 PRB 4138
12:15 p.m.
Charles Keeton
(Rutgers University)
A new channel for detecting dark matter substructure in galaxies
Mar. 25, 2008 PRB 4138
12:15 p.m.
Carsten Rott Searches for Neutrino Oscillations and Dark Matter with IceCube
Apr. 1, 2008 PRB 4138
12:15 p.m.
Lam Hui Standard Candle, Standard Yardstick and Non-standard Gravity
Apr. 8, 2008 PRB
12:15 p.m.
Haojing Yan Exploring the High-z Frontier --- Galaxies at z~6 and beyond
Apr. 15, 2008 PRB 4138
12:15 p.m.
Nikhil Padmanabhan From quasars to dark energy :
Adventures with the clustering of luminous red galaxies
Apr. 29, 2008 PRB 1080
12:15 p.m.
Arthur Congdon Probing Small-Scale Structure in Galaxies with Strong Gravitational Lensing
May 6, 2008 PRB 4138
12:15 p.m.
Daniel Holz Cosmology from gravitational-wave standard sirens
May 13, 2008 PRB 4138
12:15 p.m.
Andrew Zentner How Baryonic Physics Influences Efforts to Exploit Weak Lensing as a Dark Energy Probe
May 27, 2008 PRB 4138
12:15 p.m.
Aristotle Socrates
(Princeton)
The Eddington Limit in Cosmic Rays: An Explanation for the Observed Faintness of Starbursting Galaxies
Sept. 9, 2008 PRB 1080
12:15 p.m.
Mario Abadi
(Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, Argentina)
An Alternative Origin for Hypervelocity Stars
Sept. 25, 2008 PRB 4138
12:30 p.m.
Shunsaku Horiuchi
(University of Tokyo)
The Star Formation History and the Neutrino Background
Sep. 30, 2008 PRB 4138
12:15 p.m.
Brian Metzger
(U. of California, Berkeley)
The Evolution and Outflows of Hyper-Accreting Disks: Implications for Compact Object Mergers, Short Gamma-Ray Bursts, and Heavy Element Nucleosynthesis
Oct. 14, 2008 PRB 4138
12:15 p.m.
Kyle Stewart
(U. of California, Irvine)
Host: Eduardo Rozo
The Merger Histories of LCDM Galaxies: disk survivability and the deposition of cold baryons via mergers.
Oct. 28, 2008 PRB 4138
12:15 p.m.
Marusa Bradac
(U. of California, Santa Barbara)
Host: Carsten Rott
Dark Matter and the Highest Redshift Galaxies: Revealing the Invisible
with 2 Cosmic Supercolliders the "Bullet Cluster" 1E0657-56 and MACSJ0025-1222
Nov. 4, 2008 PRB 4138
12:15 p.m.
Basudeb Dasgupta
(Tata Institute)
Host: Eric Grashorn
Collective Oscillations of Supernova Neutrinos
Nov. 11, 2008 PRB 4138
12:15 p.m.
Risa Wechsler
(Stanford University)
Host: Eduardo Rozo
Connecting Galaxies, Halos, and Star Formation Rates Across Cosmic Time
Nov. 25, 2008 PRB 4138
12:15 p.m.
Scott Watson
(U. of Michigan)
Host: Mandeep Gill
The Challenge to Unveil the Microscopic Nature of Dark Matter
Dec. 9, 2008 PRB 4138
12:15 p.m.
Jennifer Siegal-Gaskins
(CCAPP)
Host: Kyler Kuehn
The angular power spectrum of the diffuse gamma-ray background as a probe of galactic dark matter substructure
Winter Break      
Jan. 6, 2009 PRB 4138
12:30 p.m.
Mario Juric
(Princeton)
Host: Eduardo Rozo
The Milky Way with SDSS: Decoding The Rosetta Stone of Galaxy Formation
Jan. 8, 2009 PRB 4138
12:30 p.m.
Chris Purcell
(U. of California, Irvine)
Host: Stelios Kazantzidis
The Destruction of Thin Stellar Disks Via Cosmologically Common Mergers
Jan. 13, 2009
Cancelled:
Reschedule date TBD
PRB 4138
12:30 p.m.
Jeff McMahon
(Univ. of Chicago)
Host: Brian Baughman
Cosmology with the South Pole Telescope
Jan. 15, 2009 PRB 4138
12:30 p.m.
Kristian Finlator
(Univ. of Arizona)
Host: Haojing Yan
The Early Reionization of Voids
Jan. 20, 2009 PRB 4138
12:30 p.m.
John Silverman
(ETH Zurich)
Host: Paul Martini
Co-evolving star formation and AGN activity within the zCOSMOS density field
Jan. 21, 2009 PRB 4138
9:00 a.m.
note: special time
Laurie Shaw
(McGill Univ.)
Cluster Detection in Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Surveys
Jan. 22, 2009 PRB 4138
12:30 p.m.
Michael Mortonson
(Univ. of Chicago)
Host: Carsten Rott
Falsifying Paradigms for Cosmic Acceleration
Jan. 29, 2009 PRB 4138
12:30 p.m.
Greg Dobler
(Harvard)
Host: Jennifer Siegal-Gaskins
Astrophysical Signatures of Dark Matter Annihilation
Feb. 4, 2009
PRB  4138
1:30 p.m.
note: special time
Hans Stabenau
(Univ. of Pennsylvania)
Host: Mandeep Gill
N-Body Simulations and Photometric Redshifts
Feb. 13, 2009 PRB M2015
2:30 p.m.
note: special time and location
Tim Eifler
(Univ. of Bonn)
Estimating cosmological parameters with cosmic shear
Feb. 17, 2009 PRB 1080
note: special location
12:30 p.m.
Tyce DeYoung
(Penn. State U.)
Host: Eric Grashorn
Surveying the TeV sky with Milagro and HAWC
Feb. 24, 2009 PRB 4138
12:30 p.m.
Loren Hoffman
(Northwestern U.)
Host: Stelios Kazantzidis
Signatures of Dissipation and Relaxation in the Stellar Orbit Structure of Merger Remnants (Galactic Archaeology)
Mar. 10, 2009
Cancelled:
Reschedule on Mar.31, 2009
PRB 4138
12:30 p.m.
Shirley Ho
(Berkeley National Lab)
Host: Haojing Yan
The Missing Baryons and Quasars Missing in Action
Monday, Mar. 16, 2009
note: special day
PRB 4138
12:30 p.m.
Gianfranco Bertone
(IAP, France)
Host: John Beacom
The Quest for Dark Matter: from hints to discovery
Spring Break
March 24, 2009
PRB 4138
12:30 p.m.
Jaroslaw Klimentowski
(Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center)
Evolution and modelling of dwarf spheroidal galaxies
Mar. 31, 2009 PRB 1080
note: special location
12:30 p.m.
Shirley Ho
(Berkeley National Lab)
Host: Carsten Rott
The Missing Baryons and Quasars Missing in Action
Apr. 7, 2009 PRB 4138
12:30 p.m.
Stefano Profumo
(UC Santa Cruz)
Host: Jennifer Siegal-Gaskins
Fundamental Physics from the Sky
Apr. 14, 2009 PRB 4138
12:30 p.m.
Monica Valluri
(U. of Michigan)
Host: Stelios Kazantzidis
The phase-space structure of dark matter halos
Apr. 28, 2009 PRB 4138
12:30 p.m.
Rok Roskar
(U. of Washington)
Host: Stelios Kazantzidis
Clues about Disk Evolution from the Outermost Reaches of Galaxies
May 5, 2009
PRICE PRIZE LECTURE
PRB 1080
note: special location
12:30 p.m.
Charlie Conroy
(Princeton)
Host: David Weinberg
the stellar population synthesis technique
May 19, 2009 PRB 4138
12:30 p.m.
Jeff McMahon
(Univ. of Chicago)
Host: Brian Baughman
An Update from the South Pole Telescope
May 26, 2009 PRB 4138
12:30 p.m.
Nicole Bell
(Melbourne University)
Host: John Beacom
Indirect Dark Matter Detection -- Robust Bounds on Annihilation to Electrons, Neutrinos and Gamma Rays
June 9, 2009 PRB 4138
12:00 p.m.
special time
Bob Armstrong
(Indiana University)
Dark Energy Calibrations for JDEM and Neutrino Oscillations with MINOS

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