Spring quarter 2010

Cosmology lunch #23

Thursday, April 1

12:30 pm

PRB M2035

Suggested papers or other topics for discussion:

• • Cunha, Huterer, & Dore, arXiv:1003.2416, "Primordial non-Gaussianity from the covariance of galaxy cluster counts"

  • Battaglia et al, arXiv:1003.4256, "Simulations of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Power Spectrum with AGN Feedback"

  • Joachimi & Bridle, arXiv:0911.2454, "Simultaneous measurement of cosmology and intrinsic alignments using joint cosmic shear and galaxy number density correlations"

  • Zhang, arXiv:1003.5219, "A proposal on the intrinsic alignment self-calibration"

  • Erben et al, arXiv:astro-ph/0007021, "How accurately can we measure weak gravitational shear"

Cosmology lunch #24

Thursday, April 8

12:00 pm (note earlier start time)

PRB M2035

Suggested papers or other topics for discussion:

• • Joachimi & Bridle, arXiv:0911.2454, "Simultaneous measurement of cosmology and intrinsic alignments using joint cosmic shear and galaxy number density correlations"

• White, arXiv:1004.0250, "Shot noise and reconstruction of the acoustic peak" (only 2 pages!)

• Alam, Lukic, & Bhattacharya, arXiv:1004.0437, "Galaxy clusters as a probe of early dark energy"

• Jain, Lima arXiv:1003.6127 "Magnification Effects on Source Counts and Fluxes" (MSSG)

Cosmology lunch #25

Thursday, April 15

12:00 pm

PRB M2035

Suggested papers or other topics for discussion:

• Jain & Lima, arXiv:1003.6127, "Magnification Effects on Source Counts and Fluxes" (MSSG)

• Amanullah et al, arXiv:1004.1711 - new Union2 supernova compilation for cosmology

  • Kazin et al, arXiv:1004.2244, line of sight BAO feature in SDSS luminous red galaxies

• Simpson, Jackson, & Peacock, arXiv:1004.1920, "Unmodified Gravity"

  • HuanYuan Shan et al. "Offset between dark matter and ordinary matter: evidence from a sample of 38 lensing clusters of galaxies"

Cosmology lunch #26

Thursday, April 22

12:00 pm

PRB M2035

Suggested papers or other topics for discussion:

• Jain & Lima, arXiv:1003.6127, "Magnification Effects on Source Counts and Fluxes" (MSSG)

• Simpson, Jackson, & Peacock, arXiv:1004.1920, "Unmodified Gravity"

• Avgoustidis et al, arXiv:1004.2053, "Constraints on cosmic opacity and beyond the standard model physics from cosmological distance measurements"

Cosmology lunch #27

Thursday, April 29

12:00 pm

PRB M2035

Suggested papers or other topics for discussion:

• Jain & Lima, arXiv:1003.6127, "Magnification Effects on Source Counts and Fluxes" (MSSG)

• Shapiro et al, arXiv:1004.4810, "Will Multiple Probes of Dark Energy Find Modified Gravity?"

• Crawford et al, arXiv:1004.2378, "Luminous Red Galaxies in Simulations: Cosmic Chronometers?"

• Shang & Haiman, arXiv:1004.3562, "Cosmology with Standard Sirens..."

Cosmology lunch #28

Thursday, May 13

12:00 pm

PRB M2035

Suggested papers or other topics for discussion:

• • news from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) meeting in Madrid

  • Introduction to the structure of DES (working groups, time-frame, tasks, related work at OSU)

  • Upcoming weak lensing workshop at CCAPP (see http://ccapp.osu.edu/workshops/ClusterSTEP/workshop.html)

Cosmology lunch #29

Thursday, May 20

12:00 pm

PRB M2035

Suggested papers or other topics for discussion:

• • Discussion with visitors for Cluster Shear Testing Program Workshop (Peter Melchior, Joerg Dietrich)

  • Holz & Perlmutter, arXiv:1004.5349, "The most massive objects in the Universe"

  • Baumann et al, arXiv:1004.2488, "Cosmological Non-linearities as an Effective Fluid"

  • White, Cohn, & Smit, arXiv:1005.3022, "Cluster Galaxy Dynamics and the Effects of Large Scale Environment"

Cosmology lunch #31

Thursday, June 10

12:00 pm

PRB M2035

Suggested papers or other topics for discussion:

• • Practice talks and poster presentations in preparation for next week's Great Lakes Cosmology Workshop in Chicago

Cosmology lunch #32

Thursday, June 24

12:30 pm

PRB M2005

Suggested papers or other topics for discussion:

• • GLCW talks/posters

  • Basilakos, Plionis, & Lima, arXiv:1006.3418, "Confronting Dark Energy Models using Galaxy Cluster Number Counts"

  • Cayon, Gordon, & Silk, arXiv:1006.1950, "Probability of the most massive cluster under non-Gaussian initial conditions"