This program aims to develop the baryon oscillation method further, testing it in a variety of more realistic survey scenarios and particularly the potential for space based observations to contribute. Visitors will come for one to two weeks, to work with their colleagues in an open, congenial atmosphere (overlooking the Bay and the Golden Gate!). We anticipate mostly unstructured interactions following the Aspen philosophy, with one or two technical talks in the morning and a daily afternoon tea.
Visitors include:
The local organizers are Joanne Cohn, Eric Linder, and Martin
White.
Other LBL and UC Berkeley people will participate as well. See for example
Berkeley Cosmology Group and
SNAP.
Discussion Topics and Summary (revised 6/20/04)
Proposed Agenda & Speakers (revised 6/18/04)
Day 1 Thoughts (revised 6/14/04)
Logistics:
When you arrive on Monday 6/14, please come by my (Eric's) office in
building 50, room 6059 to say hi and get oriented.
Morning meetings, including technical talks and discussions, will take
place from 10am-12noon in room 70-191. Just follow the crosswalk
outside from the building 50 auditorium. Wireless is available there,
as will be LCD and overhead projectors. [Note: Wednesday 6/16 we meet
instead in room 50-5026 and Thursday 6/17 in 70A-3377; all are close
by building 50.]
Afternoons are for informal discussion and interaction with each other and local LBL and Berkeley people. A good place for conversation is in 50-5026 when available, and an afternoon tea is held there every day at 3:30.
Office space is as listed above. Eric's office is 50-6059 (tel. 510 486 5568) and the adminstrative assistant (MarQuee) office is 50-6062 (tel. 510 486 5698). The library, with terminals, is on the 4th floor. For a map of the lab, the area, and transportation, see Lab Info. For transport from the airports I recommend the metro BART or the Bayporter Express shuttle. From BART, campus, or hotels near campus the most convenient way to the lab are lab shuttles (you want the off-site Hearst one; go to a stop and wave it down when it approaches; show your faxed site access form when you board), or walking is quite possible in the mild, rainless Berkeley summer (20 minutes uphill, 10-15 minutes downhill). Contact MarQuee for further information.
Sponsored by the Physics Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
Other links:
LBL Cosmology Summer Visitor Program 2004, session 2:
Weak Lensing
LBL Cosmology Summer Visitor Program 2003
Baryon Oscillations Working Group telecon 9/22/04