CINC '06 Cosmology Workshop

9:15-10:30

• Alexia Schulz (Berkeley) - Baryon Acoustic Oscillations
• Eric Huff (Berkeley) - Modeling Systematic Errors in Baryon Acoustic Oscillation Surveys
• Hu Zhan (Davis) - Baryon Oscillations from Imaging Surveys
• Xiaosheng Huang (Berkeley) - Photometric Redshifts of Luminous Red Galaxies at z~1
• Jason Dick (Davis) - Optimal Method for Detecting Deviation from Constant Dark Energy

11:00-12:00

• Michael Schneider (Davis) - Determining the Catastrophic Photometric Redshift Error Distribution with Galaxy Two-point Functions
• Jeff Newman (Berkeley) - Cross-Correlation Redshift Distributions
• Julie Comerford (Berkeley) - Density Profiles of Observed Galaxy Clusters from Strong Lensing Arcs
• Marina Shmakova (SLAC) - Non-linear Gravitational Lensing in UDF

1:00-2:00

• Josh Bloom (Berkeley) - Gamma-ray Bursts at High Redshift
• Kyle Barbary (Berkeley) - Galaxy Cluster Supernova Rate at z~1
• Natalia Kuznetsova (LBL) - Some Highlights from SNAP Simulations
• Lorenzo Facciolo (LBL) - Calibration Errors in Supernova Surveys

2:00-3:00
Topical Discussions - all welcome to participate. If you want to show any graphics (limit 5 minutes), send evlinder@lbl.gov the PDF file before noon (on-the-fly emails can be attempted, but not guaranteed).

3:20-4:35

• Andrew Wetzel (Berkeley) - Clustering of Recently Merged Massive Halos
• Darren Croton (Berkeley) - AGN, Galaxy Evolution and other Stuff
• Marusa Bradac (KIPAC) - Hot, Massive, and Awfully Complicated: Measuring the Mass Distribution of the Merging Cluster 1E0657-56
• Ruediger Kneissl (Berkeley) - APEX-SZ
• David Rapetti (SLAC) - New Constraints on the Cosmic Acceleration using X-ray Galaxy Clusters and Supernovae

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