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Important Dates
Nov 16 - Dec 2, 2007: Conference Registration open
Regular registration fee $325
Student registration fee $250

Dec 3 - 6, 2007: Cosmic Cartography Conference

Dec 4, 2007: Banquet Dinner at the Private Dining Room of Spiaggia
Banquet tickets $75 per person

Dec 5, 2007: Public Panel: Cosmic Cartography Journey Through the Universe



Conference Materials


CONFERENCE PROGRAM


Invited talks are scheduled for 40 minutes including questions.

Contributed talks on the first 3 days are scheduled for 20 minutes including questions. Contributed talks on the last day, and in the last session of day 3, are scheduled for 25 minutes including questions.

Posters will be available, in the main meeting room, for two days:
Poster I (A, B, C, D): December 3 - 4, 2007
Poster II (A, B, C, D): December 5 - 6, 2007
There are thus two overall poster sessions. Each day has two structured opportunities for posters to be viewed, in addition to breakfast. Before each poster viewing, there will be time for a brief - 1 page only! - summary of a subset of the posters; poster presenters should come prepared with an electronic one page pdf summary of their poster, and be ready to give very brief synopsis of their material as scheduled.

 
December 3, 2007     Mapping the Largest Structures
December 4, 2007     Mapping Local Structures
December 5, 2007     Mapping the Largest Sources
December 6, 2007     Mapping the Future
 

December 3, 2007     Mapping the Largest Structures

 

08:00 - 08:40

Coffee and Pastries

08:40 - 08:50

Welcome and Announcements

08:50 - 09:30

Invited talk: Mapping the CMB with the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe   [Online Presentation]

G. Hinshaw

09:30 - 10:10

Invited talk: On standard rods when making maps   [Online Presentation]

R. Sheth

10:10 - 10:15

Poster Highlights I-A

10:15 - 10:50

Coffee and Posters

10:50 - 11:30

Invited talk: CMB and Galaxy Survey Cross-Correlation

R. Scranton

11:30 - 11:50

CMB Polarization Measurements with QUaD   [Online Presentation]

C. Pryke

11:50 - 12:10

CMB Polarization Systematics Due to Beam Asymmetry: Impact on Inflationary Science   [Online Presentation]

M. Shimon

12:10 - 12:30

Genus Topology of the Large Scale Structure   [Online Presentation]

D. Hambrick

12:30 - 14:00

Lunch

14:00 - 14:40

Invited talk: Mapping Dark Matter in 3d with Gravitational Lensing   [Online Presentation]

G. Bernstein

14:40 - 15:00

Measuring the Cosmic Shear in Fourier Space

J. Zhang

15:00 - 15:20

Anisotropic Magnification Distortion of the Galaxy Correlation Function

L. Hui

15:20 - 15:40

Mapping dark matter with cosmic magnification

P. Zhang

15:40 - 15:45

Poster Highlights I-B

15:45 - 16:30

Coffee and Posters

16:30 - 17:10

Invited talk: The Gaseous Cosmic Web - from the Intergalactic Medium to Galaxies, and Back   [Online Presentation]

M. Rauch

17:10 - 17:30

Percolation and the Large Scale Structure of the Universe   [Online Presentation]

S. Habib

17:30 - 17:50

Reliability of N-body Simulations at the Subpercent Level

T. Nishimichi

 

POSTERS

Poster I-A: Degree-scale anomalies in the CMB: localizing the first peak dip to a small patch of the north ecliptic sky   [Online Presentation]

F. Ferrer

Poster I-A: Utilizing combined CMB T and E-polarization data to constrain primordial non-Gaussianity   [Online Presentation]

A. Yadav

Poster I-B: Cosmic Calibration   [Online Presentation]

K. Heitmann

Poster I-B: Clustering of X-ray selected AGNs in the Chandra Lockman Hole NW region

Y. Yang

 
 

December 4, 2007     Mapping Local Structures

 

08:00 - 08:45

Coffee and Pastries

08:45 - 08:50

Announcments

08:50 - 09:30

Invited talk: Seeing the Forest Through the Trees: Cosmic Backgrounds   [Online Presentation]

E. Wright

09:30 - 10:10

Invited talk: The Observed Structure of the Milky Way Spheroid   [Online Presentation]

H. Newberg

10:10 - 10:15

Poster Highlights I-C

10:15 - 10:50

Coffee and Posters

10:50 - 11:30

Invited talk: Mapping the Local Group   [Online Presentation]

K. Johnston

11:30 - 11:50

Peculiar Velocities in the Local Supercluster

B. Tully

11:50 - 12:10

Bayesian Reconstruction of the Large-Scale Structure: Joint Density, Velocity and Power-Spectrum Reconstruction   [Online Presentation]

F. Kitaura

12:10 - 12:30

Evidence of dark matter substructure in tidal debris   [Online Presentation]

J. Siegal-Gaskins

12:30 - 14:00

Lunch

14:00 - 14:40

Invited talk: Mapping the Gaseous Local Universe   [Online Presentation]

M. Putman

14:40 - 15:00

Probing Dark Matter Substructure with Pulsar Timing   [Online Presentation]

J. Fry

15:00 - 15:20

Cold Dark Matter Substructure and Galactic Disks: Morphological and Dynamical Signatures of Hierarchical Satellite Accretion

S. Kazantzidis

15:20 - 15:40

The Morphology of Shell-type Supernova Remnants in Very-High-Energy Gamma Rays

S. Wissel

15:40 - 15:45

Poster Highlights I-D

15:45 - 16:30

Coffee and Posters

16:30 - 17:10

Invited talk: A High-Energy View of the Nearby Universe   [Online Presentation]

A. Harding

17:10 - 17:30

The Excited State of Galactic TeV Astronomy

B. Humensky

19:00 - 21:00

Banquet at Spiaggia, including the lecture "Ptolemy the Geographer" by Jim James R. Akerman (Director, The Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography, The Newberry Library)

 

POSTERS

Poster I-C: The impact of non-linear matter power spectrum on the measurement of neutrino masses

S. Saito

Poster I-D: Peaks in cosmological density field   [Online Presentation]

S. De

Poster I-D: Cosmology through galaxy cluster statistics

D. Raut

Poster I-D: The VERITAS Survey of the Galactic Plane

S. Wissel

 
 

December 5, 2007     Mapping the Largest Sources

 

08:00 - 08:45

Coffee and Pastries

08:45 - 08:50

Announcments

08:50 - 09:30

Invited talk: Observing the Sunyaev-Zeldovich Effect   [Online Presentation]

M. Dobbs

09:30 - 10:10

Invited talk: Tracing the Thermal and Metal Content in Clusters and the Effects of AGN Outbursts on the Hot Gas   [Online Presentation]

C. Jones

10:10 - 10:15

Poster Highlights II-A

10:15 - 10:50

Coffee and Posters

10:50 - 11:10

Radio Sources Toward Galaxy Clusters at 30 GHz   [Online Presentation]

K. Coble

11:10 - 11:30

Studying scaling relation and their scatter with 10000+1 galaxy clusters   [Online Presentation]

E. Rasia

11:30 - 11:50

Ensuring the Robustness of Dark Energy Constraints in Light of Galaxy Formation   [Online Presentation]

A. Zentner

11:50 - 12:30

Invited talk: X-ray Cluster Studies   [Online Presentation]

A. Vikhlinin

12:30 - 14:00

Lunch

14:00 - 14:40

Invited talk: Optical/IR Surveys for High-Redshift Galaxy Clusters   [Online Presentation]

H. Yee

14:40 - 15:00

Mapping the destruction of cluster cool cores during mergers   [Online Presentation]

M. Markevitch

15:00 - 15:20

Statistics of the Largest Structures from MaxBCG Galaxy Clusters   [Online Presentation]

B. Koester

15:20 - 15:40

Constraining Dark Energy by Combining Cluster Counts and Shear-Shear Correlations in a Weak Lensing Survey

W. Fang

15:40 - 15:45

Poster Highlights II-B

15:45 - 16:30

Coffee and Posters

16:30 - 16:55

Covariance in Galaxy Cluster Scaling Relations   [Online Presentation]

A. Evrard

16:55 - 17:20

Minimally Invasive CMB Mapmaking   [Online Presentation]

G. Holder

17:20 - 17:45

New Information From New Maps   [Online Presentation]

A. Stebbins

19:00 - 21:00

Public Event, "Cosmic Cartography Journey through the Universe" at the Art Institute's Rubloff Auditorium, host by Rocky Kolb and Mike Turner

 

POSTERS

Poster II-A: Observing the Distant Universe with Gravitational Lensing   [Online Presentation]

M. Bayliss

Poster II-A: Probing non-thermal emission from clusters with angular fluctuations in the gamma-ray background

S. Koushiappas

Poster II-A: Radio Sources in Galaxy Clusters

M. Roscioli

Poster II-A: Using Galaxies as Cosmic Tracers   [Online Presentation]

M. Swanson

Poster II-B: An Evolving Entropy Floor in the Intracluster Gas?

W. Fang

Poster II-B: Quasars and Galaxies in Large Quasar Groups at z$sim$1   [Online Presentation]

L. Haberzettl

Poster II-B: Selection and Covariance in Galaxy Cluster Scaling Relations: Deciphering Mixed Messages from X-ray Selected Clusters   [Online Presentation]

B. Nord

Poster II-B: The Effect of Baryonic Physics on the Halo Mass Function   [Online Presentation]

R. Stanek

 
 

December 6, 2007     Mapping the Future

 

08:00 - 08:55

Coffee and Pastries

08:55 - 09:00

Announcments

09:00 - 09:25

Planck

K. Gorski

09:25 - 09:50

The Radio Synoptic Survey Telescope (RSST): A SKA Concept

S. Myers

09:50 - 10:15

Mapping Star and Galaxy Formation with ALMA   [Online Presentation]

A. Baker

10:15 - 10:20

Poster Highlights II-C

10:20 - 11:00

Coffee and Posters

11:00 - 11:25

Standard sirens: Precision distance measurements using gravitational waves

S. Hughes

11:25 - 11:50

Mapping the TeV Gamma-Ray Sky with HAWC

J. Pretz

11:50 - 12:15

Mapping the Ultra-high--energy Cosmic-ray Sky with the Pierre Auger Observatory

V. Pavlidou

12:15 - 13:45

Lunch

13:45 - 14:10

The Dark Energy Survey   [Online Presentation]

T. McKay

14:10 - 14:35

Mapping the universe with Pan-STARRS PS1 System   [Online Presentation]

K. Chambers

14:35 - 15:00

The Wide-field Infrared Explorer (WISE)   [Online Presentation]

E. Wright

15:00 - 15:15

NIRSS - the Near Infrared Sky Surveyor   [Online Presentation]

D. Stern

15:15 - 15:30

NuSTAR: the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array   [Online Presentation]

D. Stern

15:30 - 15:55

BOSS : The Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey   [Online Presentation]

N. Padmanabhan

15:55 - 16:00

Poster Highlights II-D

16:00 - 16:35

Coffee and Posters

16:35 - 16:50

Conference Closing

 

POSTERS

Poster II-C: Perturbation theory and excursion set estimates of the probability distribution function of dark matter, and a method for reconstructing the initial fluctuation field   [Online Presentation]

T. Lam

Poster II-C: The Study of Extragalactic Gamma-ray Sources: An Ongoing Revolution   [Online Presentation]

L. Reyes

Poster II-C: Photometric redshift surveys: towards unbiased scaling relations   [Online Presentation]

G. Rossi

Poster II-D: Robust Machine Learning Applied to Terascale Astronomical Datasets   [Online Presentation]

N. Ball

Poster II-D: Dark Energy Survey

J. Estrada

Poster II-D: Group finding in high-dimensional data-sets: Method and application to the identification of substructures in the stellar halo   [Online Presentation]

S. Sharma

 
 

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