CIFAR12 SCHEDULE and TALK PDFs

Wednesday April 4

Arrive. Dinner will be on your own.

Thursday April 5

Dick Bond 5m Welcome

CHAIR Bond, Netterfield

08:30 - 10:10 Talks 10:10 - 10:30 coffee 10:30 - 12:30 Talks cont'd

HEA, Neutron Stars and Black Holes 1

Marten van Kerkwijk pdf Sub-Chandrasekhar white-dwarf mergers as the progenitors of type Ia supernovae
Ingrid Stairs pdf Pulsar Timing Arrays and Gravitational Wave Detection
Vicky Kaspi pdf Radio Pulsar Surveys and a New System for Constraining Gravity
Scott Ransom pdf A Millisecond Pulsar in a Triple System and Fermi MSP update
Maura McLaughlin pdf The No Longer Double Pulsar: A Rare Laboratory for Emission Physics and Neutron Star Populations
Sterl Phinney pdf The Difficult, but Informative Lives of the Companions to Millisecond Pulsars
Roger Blandford pdf Black Hole MHD simulations
Frans Pretorius pdf Eccentric black hole - neutron star mergers

Lunch

Free

CHAIR Hinshaw, Kaspi

16:30 - 19:00 Talks

Particle Astrophysics 1

Mark Chen pdf Beta Decay and the Neutrino Mass Hierarchy

Early Universe 1

Eva Silverstein pdf Upgrading AdS/CFT to cosmology
Matias Zaldarriaga pdf IR effects in inflationary correlation functions and the consistency condition
Dick Bond pdf The Shock-in-Times of Post-inflation Preheating
Andrei Frolov pdf Spiked Nongaussian Curvature Fluctuations from Early Universe Preheating
Mark van Raamsdonk pdf Can we go beyond a semiclassical description of cosmology?
Adrienne Erickcek pdf The power of small scales to probe the early Universe

Dinner will be on your own. (CIFAR Advisory Board Meeting)

Friday April 6

CHAIR Chen, Navarro

08:30 - 10:10 Talks 10:10 - 10:30 coffee 10:30 - 12:30 Talks cont'd

CMB

CHIME

Keith Vanderlinde pdf CHIME Overview
Mark Halpern pdf CHIME Progress Report Fri AM or later
Kris Sigurdson pdf Efficient Analysis of 21-cm Cosmology Data
Ue-Li Pen pdf New Results from 21cm Intensity Mapping

CMB

Gary Hinshaw pdf The WMAP/FERMI Haze
Lyman Page pdf ACT, ACTpol, ++
Matt Dobbs pdf SPT, SPTpol, ++
Barth Netterfield pdf Status report on Spider, BLASTpol, and BIT
Gil Holder pdf Lensing of the CMB
Kendrick Smith pdf Nongaussianity from the CMB

Lunch

Free

CHAIR Pen, Unruh

16:30 - 19:00 Talks

CMB

Chris Hirata pdf How to detect gravitational waves through the cross-correlation of the galaxy distribution with the CMB polarization

LSS and Galaxy Formation and Dynamics 1

Annika Peter pdf Self-Interacting Dark Matter 2.0: Back and Better Than Ever
Carlos Frenk pdf The Milky Way and the nature of the dark matter
Ludo van Waerbeke pdf Cosmological constraints from CFHTLenS
Henk Hoekstra pdf Cosmology and more with Euclid
Nick Kaiser pdf Status of and Early Science Results from the Pan-STARRS PS1 Survey
Richard Ellis pdf Cosmology with the Subaru Prime Focus Spectrograph; Obesity in the Universe: The Rapid Growth of Early Spheroidal Galaxies
Chris Pritchet pdf The Delay Time Distribution of Type Ia Supernovae

Dinner will be on your own

Saturday April 7

CHAIR Holder, van Waerbeke

08:30 - 10:10 Talks 10:10 - 10:30 coffee 10:30 - 12:30 Talks cont'd

LSS and Galaxy Formation and Dynamics 2

Simon White pdf The Millennium-XXL simulation: resolving the discrepant SZ stacking results from Planck
Ray Carlberg pdf Counting Dark Matter Sub-halos with Stellar Streams
Else Starkenburg pdf Galactic archaeology in and around the Milky Way
Norm Murray pdf Feedback and Galaxy Formation
Julio Navarro pdf Dwarf Galaxy Formation: a Challenge to LambdaCDM?
James Wadsley pdf Galaxy Formation: Feedback in Dwarf Galaxies

Gravity 1

Rob Myers pdf quantum quenches in n=2* plasmas
Matt Choptuik pdf Decay of the n=1 Bartnik-McKinnon Soliton
David Garfinkle pdf asymptotically AdS gravitational collapse
Bob Wald pdf Stability of Black Holes and Black Branes

Lunch

CHAIR Choptuik, Myers

16:30 - 18:30 Talks

Gravity 2

Harald Pfeiffer pdf Binary black holes and their gravitational waves \
Bill Unruh pdf Decoherence and Energy Conservation and black hole information
Latham Boyle pdf Platonic orbits, and fully democratic satellite constellation

HEA, Neutron Stars and Black Holes 2

Andrew Cumming pdf What can we learn from neutron star cooling
Lars Bildsten pdf Acoustic Signatures of the Helium Core Flash

18:20 - 19:15 CIFAR C&G 2012-17 Session for Fellows, Scholars, Associates, Advisory Board, Denis Therien, Aimee Park; CIFAR guests invited

19:30 - 21:00 Dinner Banquet

Sunday April 8 no talks, informal discussions

Meeting Ends