Wed, Dec 12 - Fri, Dec 14
ATT Conference Center
Room 101

Cosmological Radiative Transfer Comparison Project Workshop IV

3-day Cosmology Workshop: click link, above, for details

host: Paul Shapiro, University of Texas at Austin

Mon, May 14 - Tues, May 15
ATT Conference Center
Room 301

TCC NIRB Workshop

Near Infrared Background and the Epoch of Reionization [abstract]

host: Eiichiro Komatsu, University of Texas at Austin

Mon, May 7 - Tues, May 8
ATT Conference Center
Room 203

TCC Gamma-Ray Workshop

Dark Matter Signatures in the Gamma-Ray Sky [abstract]

hosts: Eiichiro Komatsu & Can Kilic, University of Texas at Austin

Tue, May 1
3:30 P.M.
RLM 15.216B

TCC / Colloquium

Constraining Cosmology through the Growth of Structure: New Results from the South Pole Telescope [abstract]

John E. Carlstrom, University at Chicago

Mon, Apr 23
3:30 P.M.
RLM 15.216B

TCC / Astro Theory Seminar

New Probes of Weak Lensing [abstract]

Fabian Schmidt, California Institute of Technology

Wed, Apr 18
3:00 P.M.
RLM 15.216B

TCC / Cosmos Seminar

Constraining Dark Matter [abstract]

Astrophysical and cosmological observations provide compelling evidence for the existence of dark matter in the universe, but its particle physics nature remains mysterious. In this talk, I will discuss how hardron colliders and neutron stars can help us understand dark matter properties. Using an effective field theory approach, we show that mono-jet+missing energy searches at the Tevatron and LHC can provide a probe of dark matter, which is complementary to direct detection experiments, and in some cases the colliders provide an even stronger constraint. Stellar systems are natural laboratories for exploring dark matter. We show dark matter particles accumulated in old neutron stars can form mini black holes and lead to the destruction of host stars. The observation of old neutron stars actually excludes a class of dark matter models. In this talk, I will also talk about self-interacting dark matter.

Hai-Bo Yu, University of Michigan

Wed, Mar 28
3:00 P.M.
RLM 15.216B

TCC / Cosmos Seminar

Cosmic Infrared Background and New Cosmological Populations [abstract]

Alexander "Sasha" Kashlinsky, NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center

Mon, Mar 26
3:30 P.M.
RLM 15.216B

TCC / Cosmos Seminar

Measuring the Large-Scale Flow of X-ray Luminous Clusters from WMAP Data [abstract]

Alexander "Sasha" Kashlinsky, NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center