Fundamental Physics With Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation
March 23-25, 2006
   A workshop organized and hosted by The Center for Cosmology, University of California, Irvine
        Location:  Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center of the National Academies

DAY 1 March 23rd ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................		DOWNLOAD LIVE BROADCAST
7:30	BREAKFAST BEGINS
8:30 - 8:45	UCI welcome (Dean Ron Stern/Asantha Cooray)	stern.rm
8:45 - 9:15	Virginia Trimble (UC Irvine) Early Photons from the Early Universe	trimble.rm
9:15 - 9:45	Marc Kamionkowski (Caltech) Theory summary	kamionkowski.rm
9:45 - 10:10	Max Tegmark (MIT) Cosmological Parameters	tegmark.rm
10:10 - 10:35	Gary Hinshaw (Goddard) WMAP 0	hinshaw.rm
10:35 - 11:00	BREAK
11:00 - 11:25	Bill Jones (Caltech) Observations of the temperature and polarization anisotropies with Boomerang 2003	jones.rm
11:25 - 11:50	Peter Timbie (Wisconsin) Future CMB Observations with Interferometers	timbie.rm
11:50 - 12:15	Jamie Bock (JPL) EPIC	bock.rm
12:15 - 12:40	Kent Irwin (NIST) Superconducting transition-edge sensor bolometers and SQUID multiplexers for large-format arrays of CMB detector	irwin.rm
12:40 - 2:00	LUNCH
2:00 - 2:30	Rai Weiss (MIT) Task Force Report	weiss.rm
2:00 - 4:10	Discussion Lead Bruce Winstein (Panel: Lloyd Knox, Andrew Lange, Lyman Page, Angelica de Oliveira-Costa)	panel_discussion.rm
4:00 - 4:30	COFFEE
4:30 - 4:55	Rachel Bean (Cornell) WMAP I	bean.rm
4:55 - 5:20	Eiichiro Komatsu (Texas) WMAP II	komatsu.rm
5:20 - 5:55	Olivier Dore (CITA) WMAP III	dore.rm
5:55 - 6:20	Hiranya Peiris (Chicago) Inflation	peiris.rm
DAY 2 March 24th ...........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
7:30	BREAKFAST BEGINS
8:30 - 8:55	Istvan Szapudi (Hawaii) 3 point correlations	szapudi.rm
8:55 - 9:20	Ben Wandelt  (U Illinois) The Largest Scale Perturbations: a Window on the Physics of the Beginning	wandelt.rm
9:20 - 9:45	Dragan Huterer (Chicago) Mysteries at Universe's Largest Observable Scales	huterer.rm
9:45 - 10:10	Tarun Souradeep (IUCAA) Measuring Statistical isotropy of CMB anisotropy	souradeep.rm
10:10 - 10:30	Scott Dodelson  (Fermilab) CMB-Cluster Lensing	dodelson.rm
10:30 - 11:00	COFFEE
11:00 - 11:20	Suzanne Staggs (Princeton) Capmap	staggs.rm
11:20 - 11:40	Clem Pryke (Chicago) QUAD	pryke.rm
11:40 - 12:00	John Kovac  (Caltech) BICEP	kovac.rm
12:00 - 12:20	Shaul Hanany (Minnesota) EBEX	hanany.rm
12:20 - 12:40	Al Kogut(GSFC) PAPPA/Arcade	kogut.rm pappa.rm
12:40 - 2:00	LUNCH
2:00 - 2:25	Martin White (Berkeley) Science from Planck I	white.rm
2:25 - 2:50	Lloyd Knox  (Davis) Science from Planck II	knox.rm
2:50 - 3:15	Steven Myers (NRAO) Methodology of CMB Interferometric Polarimetry	myers.rm
3:15 - 3:40	Tim Pearson (Caltech) CBI Science and Observations	pearson.rm
3:40 - 4:10	Coffee
4:10 - 4:35	Amber Miller (Columbia) SZA	miller.rm
4:35 - 4:55	Adrian Lee (Berkeley) APEX	lee.rm
4:55 - 5:35	Bill Holzapfel (Berkeley) ACBAR/SPT	holzapfel.rm
5:35 - 5:55	Arthur Kosowsky (Pittsburgh) ACT Science	kosowsky.rm
5:55 - 6:15	Mark Devlin (UPenn) ACT Instrument	devlin.rm
DAY 3 March 25th ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
7:30 am	BREAKFAST
8:30 - 8:50	Joshua  Gundersen (U. of Miami) Ku-band Polarization Identifier Status Report	gundersen.rm
8:50 - 9:10	Philip  Lubin (UCSB) COFE: A Polarization Foreground Explorer	lubin.rm
9:10 - 9:30	Angela  Taylor (U of Oxford) CLOVER	taylor.rm
9:30 - 9:50	Barth Netterfield (Toronto) SPIDER	netterfield.rm
9:50 - 10:10	Bruce Winstein (Chicago) QUIET	winstein.rm
10:10 - 10:30	Huan Tran (UC Berkeley) POLARBEAR: Ultra-high energy physics with Measurements of CMB Polarization	tran.rm
10:30 - 11:00	COFFEE
11:00 - 11:20	Gregory Tucker (Brown University) The Millimeter-wave Bolometric Interferometer	Tucker.rm
11:20 - 11:40	Albert Stebbins (FNAL) Different Ways of Detecting Large Scale Flows with the CMB and Large Scale Structure	stebbins.rm
11:40 - 12:00	Hans Eriksen (U Oslo) Bayesian foreground analysis with CMB data	eriksen.rm
12:00 - 12:20	Patricio Vielva (Instituto de Fisica de Cantabria) Universe anisotropy probed by the alignment of structures in the CMB	vielva.rm
12:20 - 12:35	Enrique Martinez-Gonzalez (Instituto de Fisica de Cantabria) On the non-Gaussian Cold Spot in WMAP	martinez.rm
12:35 - 2:00	LUNCH
2:00 - 2:25	Ilian Iliev (CITA) KSZ from patchy reionization: predictions from the first large-scale radiative transfer reionization simulations	Iliev.rm
2:25 - 2:50	Levon Pogosian  (Syracuse) ISW measurements	pogosian.rm
2:50 - 3:10	Niayesh Ashfordi (Harvard) Intracluster Medium through three years of WMAP data	afshordi.rm
3:10 - 3:30	Elena Pierpoali (Caltech) SZ Clusters in Planck	pierpaoli.rm
3:30 - 4:00	COFFEE
4:00 - 4:25	Alessandro Melchiorri (Rome) New constraints on Neutrino Physics from CMB	melchiorri.rm
4:25 - 4:45	Jeffrey Jewell (JPL) Monte Carlo Algorithms for a Bayesian Analysis of the Cosmic Microwave Background	jewell.rm
4:45 - 5:00	Kendrick Smith (University of Chicago) Pseudo-$C_\ell$ estimators which do not mix E and B modes	smith.rm
5:15 - 6:00	Summary -  Bruce Partridge	partridge.rm

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Support from the following sources is gratefully acknowledged:

:: National Science Foundation
:: University of California, Irvine

                                   

 

For updates/corrections, please contact Alison Lara
laraa@uci.edu