Nth Theoretical Astrophysics in Southern California (TASC) Meeting

Program

Thursday, Nov 1, 2007


The time available for each talk is 8 minutes, followed by 2 minutes of questions.

First Session

Chair: Brad Hansen
Time
Speaker
Affiliation
Title
10:20
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  Welcome and Opening Remarks
10:30
Lotty Ackerman*
Caltech
Imprints of a Primordial Preferred Direction on the Microwave Background
10:40
Quinn Minor*
UCI
Effects of galaxy-halo alignment and adiabatic contraction on gravitational lens statistics
11:50
Adrienne Erickcek*
Caltech
The effects of Chern-Simons gravity on bodies orbiting the earth
11:00
Anthony Pullen*
Caltech
Cosmic Microwave Background Statistics for a Direction-Dependent Primordial Power Spectrum.
11:10
Greg Martinez*
UCI
Excess Mass Function constraints to Dark Matter Halo Formation
11:20
Matt Johnson
Caltech
Towards observable signatures of other bubble universes.
11:30
Hilke Schlichting*
Caltech
Formation of Kuiper Belt Binaries
11:40
Ken Henisey*
UCSB
Continuum Variability in Global GRMHD BH Accretion Simulations
11:50
Devdeep Sarkar*
UCI
Beyond Two Dark Energy parameters
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LUNCH
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*student

Second Session

Chair: Lars Bildsten
Time
Speaker
Affiliation
Title
2:00
Ali Vanderveld
JPL
Errors in the measured cosmological constant from local inhomogeneity.
2:10
Daniel Grin*
Caltech
Axion Constraints in non-standard thermal histories
2:20
Mihai Bondarescu
MPI
Future Technologies for Gravitational Wave Detection
2:30
Fulai Guo*
UCSB
AGN feedback heating in clusters of galaxies
2:40
Dave Tsang*
Cornell
Super Reflection in Fluid Discs: Corotation Amplifier, Corotation
2:50
Martin Stringer*
Caltech
Galaxy Mythology
3:00
Scott Daniel*
Dartmouth
Testing the equivalence of modified gravity to {\Lambda}CDM
3:10
Ted Tao*
UCSB
Radiation MHD Instabilities in Accretion Disks
3:20
Jose Ceja*
UCI
How robust is the Acoustic Peak of the Correlation Function?
3:30
Fumihiro Takayama
Cornell
Long-lived CHAMPs as A Probe for New Physics
3:40
Kyle Stewart*
UCI
Merger Histories of Milky Way-Sized Dark Matter Halos, and Implications for Disk Survival.
3:50
Tristan Smith*
Caltech
Gravitomagnetism and binary systems
4:00
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COFFEE BREAK
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*student

Third Session

Chair: Marc Kamionkowski
Time
Speaker
Affiliation
Title
4:30
Daniel Babich
Caltech
The Effect of Inhomogeneous Reionization on the Spectral Properties of Massive Galaxies
4:40
Ben Collins*
Caltech
The Orbital Evolution of Kuiper Belt Binaries
4:50
Daisuke Nagai
Caltech
The Impact of Galaxy Formation on X-ray Clusters
5:00
Ken Shen*
UCSB
Helium shell detonations in AM CVn systems
5:10
J.N. Bode*
Caltech
Variability in Circumbinary Disks Following Massive Black Hole Mergers
5:20
Nada Petrovic*
UCSB
Foreground Removal for 21cm Observations of the High Redshift Universe
5:30
Thad Szabo*
USC
Refinements to a Matched-Filter Galaxy Cluster Catalog
5:40
Loris Colombo
USC
Cosmological constraints on coupled dark energy
5:50
Justin Steinfadt*
UCSB
Discovery of a Partially Eclipsing White Dwarf
6:00
Marc Favata
Cornell
Recent progress in gravitational radiation recoil calculations
6:10
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BREAK
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Dinner


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