2016

Past Seminars in 2016


DATE

NAME TITLE ABSTRACT
December 2 Sebastiano Cantalupo Multi-Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) Abstract
November 29 Wai Ling Kimmy Wu (Stanford) Constraining Inflation with BICEP/Keck and SPT Abstract
November 18 Daniele Sorini (MPIA) 3D-IMS: Accurately Modeling the Lyman-alpha Forest in Collisionless Simulations Abstract
November 4 Colin Hill (Columbia) New Information in Ancient Photons: Novel Approaches to CMB Secondary Anisotropies

Abstract
October 31 Lukas Hehn (KIT) The EDELWEISS-III search for low-mass WIMPs Abstract
October 28 Samuel Flender (ANL) The kinematic Sunyaev-Zel’dovich effect as a cosmology probe? Abstract
October 21 Enea Di Dio Relativistic effects on LSS: power spectrum and bispectrum Abstract
September 30 Barak Zackay Advances in astronomical image processing – Solving the problems of image coaddition and image subtraction Abstract
September 19 Patrick Tsang
(LBNL)
Solving the Neutrino Puzzle – A Piece from Daya Bay Abstract
September 16 Nick Kaiser
(Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii)
The Effect of Gravitational Lensing on Cosmological Parameter
Estimation
Abstract
September 9 Michael Willers
(TUM)
Search for low-mass Dark Matter with the CRESST experiment Abstract
August 31 Daniel Whalen
(Portsmouth)
How Supermassive Black Holes Form by z ~ 7 Abstract
August 5 Viraj Sanghai (Queen Mary University of London) Relativistic cosmological modelling for non-linear structures Abstract
July 29 Grayson Rich
(Duke)
The COHERENT effort to measure coherent, elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering:
status and enabling measurements
Abstract
July 22 Eddie Baron
(University of Oklahoma)
Using Nearby Supernova factory data to shed light on SNe Ia Physics Abstract
June 17 Susana Deustua
(Space Telescope Science Institute)
Calibrating WFC3 TBA
June 13 Jordan Myslik
(Victoria)
Muon antineutrino oscillations at T2K Abstract
June 10 Nguyen Phan
(UNM)
Extending the Sensitivity of Directional Dark Matter Searches Abstract
June 3 Spencer Klein
(LBNL)
Where do cosmic neutrinos come from? Abstract
May 23 Derek Barge
(UCSB)
A Search for New Physics in the Opposite-Sign Dilepton Channel with Data from the First Run of the Compact Muon Solenoid Experiment Abstract
May 20 Nico Hamaus
(USM/LMU Munich)
Void Dynamics – Constraints on Cosmology and Gravity Abstract
May 13 Marcelle Soares-Santos
(FNAL)
The Dark Energy Survey and Gravitational WavesK Abstract
May 6 Carl Pennypacker
(SSL)
E-FUEGO: Fire Urgency Estimator on Geosynchronous Orbit:
Developing New Paradigms for Fire Data Acquisition, Analysis, and Simulation
Abstract
May 2 Tianlu Yuan
(Boulder)
A Measurement of the ?? Charged-Current Cross Section on Water with Zero Pions in the Final State at T2K Abstract
April 29 Peter Behroozi
(LBL)
How cosmology has changed in 40 years: CfA1 and DEFW as examples of ancient redshift surveys and simulations Abstract
April 22 Peter Behroozi
(LBL)
Linking Halo Assembly with Galaxy Star Formation Rates Abstract
April 15 Irina Zhuravleva
(Stanford)
Microphysics of Galaxy Clusters: Turbulent Heating in Radio-mode AGN Feedback Abstract
April 8 Darcy Barron
(LBL)
CMB Polarization Measurements: Cutting the trail to CMB-S4 Abstract
April 1 Josh Dillon
(UC Berkeley)
It’s Always Darkest Before the Cosmic Dawn: Results from First Generation 21 cm Interferometers and Lessons for the Next Generation Abstract
March 18 Francisco Kitaura
(LSS)
Signatures of the primordial Universe from its emptiness Abstract
March 11 Rachel Bean
(Cornell)
Next Generation Cosmological Constraints on the Dark Sector and Gravity Abstract
March 4 Michelle Lochner
(UCL)
Photometric Supernova Classification With Machine Learning Abstract
February 19 Elisabeth Krause
(Stanford)
Activities in the LSST DESC Theory & Joint Probes Working Group Abstract
February 12 Dovi Poznanski
(TAU)
An Emerging Coherent Picture of Red Supergiant Supernova Explosions Abstract
February 5 Daniel Gruen
(SLAC)
The Dark Energy Survey: Status and new gravitational lensing results Abstract
January 29 Brandon Hensley
(JPL)
Dust Polarization in the Microwave: Challenges on the Quest for B-Modes Abstract
January 22 Florian Beutler
(LBL)
Cosmology with the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey Abstract
January 21 Junsong Lin
(University of Oxford)
Cryogenic phonon-scintillation detectors with PMT readout for rare event search experiments Abstract

January 15

Marius Lungu
(U. Penn)
PROSPECT: the Precision Reactor Oscillation and Spectrum Experiment Abstract

January 8

Bela Majorovits
(Max Planck Institute Munich)
The GERDA experiment for the search of neutrinoless double beta-decay: Phase I results and status of Phase II Abstract