Fall Quarter 2010

December 9, 2010

• • Concentric CMB Circles and Conformal Cyclic Cosmology: Gurzadyan & Penrose 1011.3706, 1012.1486; Wehus & Eriksen 1012.1268; Moss, Scott, & Zibin 1012.1305; Hajian 1012.1656

  • Khoury, http://arxiv.org/abs/1011.5909, "Theories of Dark Energy with Screening Mechanisms"

  • Steffen, http://arxiv.org/abs/1011.3802, "The CHASE laboratory search for chameleon dark energy"

  • Smidt et al, http://arxiv.org/abs/1012.1600, "A Constraint On the Integrated Mass Power Spectrum out to z=1100 from Lensing of the Cosmic Microwave Background"

December 2, 2010

• • Jennings, Baugh, & Pascoli, http://arxiv.org/abs/1011.2842, "Testing gravity using the growth of large scale structure in the Universe"

  • Gallerani, Kitaura, & Ferrara, http://arxiv.org/abs/1011.6228, "Cosmic density field reconstruction from Ly-alpha forest data"

  • Stacy, Bromm, & Loeb, http://arxiv.org/abs/1011.4512, "Effect of Streaming Motion of Baryons Relative to Dark Matter on the Formation of the First Stars"

  • Sato, Ichiki, & Takeuchi, http://arxiv.org/abs/1011.4996, "Precise Estimation of Cosmological Parameters Using a More Accurate Likelihood Function"

  • Colin et al, http://arxiv.org/abs/1011.6292, "Probing the anisotropic local universe and beyond with SNe Ia data"

  • Kitaura, Gallerani, & Ferrara, http://arxiv.org/abs/1011.6233, "Multiscale Inference of Matter Fields and Baryon Acoustic Oscillations from the Ly-alpha Forest"

November 18, 2010 - talk at 1:00 pm in PRB 4138

• • seminar by visitor Yong-Yeon Keum: "Neutrino Mass Bounds from Neutrinoless Double Beta Decays and Cosmological Probes"

November 11, 2010

• • Overview on Euclid mission (see assesment studies by EADS ASTRIUM and Thales)

  • Kiessling et al http://arxiv.org/abs/1011.1476  SUNGLASS: A new weak lensing simulation pipeline

  • Becker & Kravtsov, http://arxiv.org/abs/1011.1681, "On the Accuracy of Weak Lensing Cluster Mass Reconstructions"

  • Hoekstra et al, http://arxiv.org/abs/1011.1084, "Effects of large-scale structure on the accuracy of weak lensing mass measurements"

  • Olive et al, http://arxiv.org/abs/1011.1504, "The Wall of Fundamental Constants"

  • Song et al, http://arxiv.org/abs/1011.2106, "Complementarity of Weak Lensing and Peculiar Velocity Measurements in Testing General Relativity"

  • Tian et al, http://arxiv.org/abs/1011.2481, "Redshift-Space Enhancement of Line-of-Sight BAO in the SDSS Main Galaxy Sample"

November 4, 2010

• • Tseliakhovich & Hirata, http://arxiv.org/abs/1005.2416 -- Relative velocity of Dark Matter and baryonic fluids and the formation of the first structures

  • McQuinn et al, http://arxiv.org/abs/1010.5250, "The Signatures of Large-scale Temperature Fluctuations in the Lyman-alpha Forest"

  • Marian et al, http://arxiv.org/abs/1010.5242, "Measuring primordial non-Gaussianity through weak lensing peak counts"

October 28, 2010 - meeting in McPherson, 4th floor large conference room (astro coffee room)

• • talk by Martin Kilbinger

October 21, 2010

• • http://arxiv.org/abs/1009.5085 -- Smith et al. "Nonlinear clustering in models with primordial non-gaussianity: the halo model approach"

  • http://arxiv.org/abs/1010.3035 -- Wang, Chen, & Park "Topology of large scale structure as test of modified gravity"

  • http://arxiv.org/abs/1010.3489 -- Jeong et all "General relativistic effects on non-linear matter power spectrum"

October 14, 2010

• • summary of the Observational Pursuit of Dark Energy after Astro2010 meeting

  • Oguri & Takada, arXiv:1010.0744, "Combining cluster observables and stacked weak lensing to probe dark energy"

  • Sehgal et al, arXiv:1010.1025, "The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Cosmology from Galaxy Clusters Detected via the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect"

  • Bird et al, arXiv:1010.1519, "Minimally Parametric Power Spectrum Reconstruction from the Lyman-alpha Forest"

  • Dalal et al, arXiv:1010.2539, "The Origin of Dark Matter Halo Profiles"