Calendar
2010
September-December
Wed, Nov 24 |
TCC / Cosmos Seminar The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: The Present and the Future [abstract] Arcminute resolution observations of the mm-wave sky are changing our view of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) in a fundamental way. Together with mapping out the acoustic features on the Silk damping tail of CMB, data from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) are providing new insights into secondary CMB anisotropies and extragalactic point source populations that dominate the scene at small angular scales. A set of recent and upcoming papers showcases the broad spectrum of science coming out of the ACT project: ranging from power spectra, to new constraints on cosmological parameters, to a successful survey of galaxy clusters using the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect. In the first part of the talk, I will review these recent developments and give a status report on ACT. Then, I will describe future projects involving the gravitational lensing of the CMB, and the cross-correlation with external datasets. Finally, I will touch upon the prospects for ACTPOL, the version of ACT with polarization capabilities, which is scheduled to see first light in 2012. |
Mon, Nov 22 |
TCC / Astro Theory Seminar Self-regulated Evolution of Galaxies and Supermassive Black Holes [abstract] |
Thurs, Nov 18 |
TCC / Exgal Seminar Exploring the Dark Universe with Gravitational Lensing [abstract] |
Thu, Nov 11 |
Special TCC Seminar A Weak Lensing Study of the Coma Cluster, and a Higher-Order Moment Approach to Weak Lensing [abstract] |
Mon, Nov 8 |
TCC / Astro Theory Seminar Measuring the Universe: Recent Developments in Baryon Acoustic Oscillations [abstract] |
Mon, Oct 18 |
TCC / Astro Theory Seminar Looking for WIMPs with the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (CDMS) [abstract] |
Wed, Oct 6 |
TCC / Stellar Seminar The Square Kilometre Array [abstract] |
Tue, Oct 5 |
TCC / Colloquium Equivalence Principle and Cosmic Acceleration [abstract] |
Mon, Oct 4 |
TCC / Astro Theory Seminar Dynamics of Bubble Collisions: A New Mechanism for Creating Bubbles in the Early Universe [abstract] |
Wed, Sep 8 |
TCC / Cosmos Seminar Optimizing a ground-based CMB polarization experiment [abstract] |
Wed, Sep 1 |
TCC / Cosmos Seminar Cosmic Rays and the Quest for New Physics [abstract] |
March-August
Fri, Mar 12 |
TCC / Special Seminar The Formation of the First Stars: Simulations on a Moving Mesh [abstract] Thomas Greif, Max Planck Institut for Astrophysics, Garching, Germany |
Mon, Mar 1 |
TCC / Special Supernova Seminar Diversities of the Type Ia Supernova Light Curves from the Ejecta Velocity: Evidence for Systematics in SN Ia distances [abstract] Xiaofeng Wang, Texas A&M University |
January-February
Mon, Feb 22 |
TCC / Theoretical Astrophysics Seminar The 7-year WMAP Observations: Cosmological Interpretation [abstract] |
Sat, Feb 6 |
Eighteenth Annual Great Lecture in Astronomy Walk Softly When Exploring the Dark Side of the Universe: Black Holes, Dark Matter and Dark Energy [abstract] |
Mon, Feb 1 |
TCC / Theoretical Astrophysics Seminar Cosmic Voids as a Cosmological Probe [abstract] |