9-10:40 Chair:M. Kamionkowski
Werner DŠppen Welcome
Shih-Hung Chen USC Duality between single inflaton theories and f( R ) modified gravity
Chad Kishimoto UCLA The Relic Neutrino Background
Samuel Lee Caltech Cosmology and Collider Phenomenology of Gravitino Dark Matter
Daniel G. Figueroa IFT/UAM Madrid, Visitor @ CALTECH Towards a realistic description of Reheating
Annika Peter Caltech Getting the most out of dark matter experiments and observations
John Cherry University of California San Diego Simulation of Neutrino Flavor Transformation in Supernovae
Jonas Mureika Loyola Marymount University Uncanny Ungravity: From the LHC to LISA
Vera Gluscevic California Institute of Technology Testing Parity-Violating Interactions with CMB Experiments
Joseph Smidt UC Irvine New Estimators For Probing non-Gaussianity
11-12:30 Chair:L. Bildsten
Hsiao-Hsuan Lin USC Emulating OPAL equation of state
Jonathan Whitmore UCSD Wavelength Calibration of the Keck HIRES Spectrograph and Measuring Changes in the Fine Structure Constant
Justin Steinfadt UCSB Pulsations on Helium Core White Dwarfs
Jeandrew Brink CalTECH Yes
David Tsang Caltech Corotational Instability of Discoseismic Modes in Non-Barotropic Disks.
Ken Henisey UCSB *Preliminary* / Disk Tilt and Variability in Black Hole X-Ray Binaries: a Phase Space Study
Tanja Hinderer Caltech Constraining neutron star tidal Love numbers with LIGO
Gregory Martinez University of California Dwarf Mass Modeling
Francois Hebert UCSB Diffusion of Iron in Helium White Dwarfs
14-15:30 Chair: S. Furlanetto
Orly Gnat Caltech Equilibrium Configurations of Synchronous Binaries
Chris Purcell University of California, Irvine Corollaries to Disk Heating: Dark Disks & Stellar Halo Contamination
Michael Kesden Caltech A Fundamental Limit to Black Hole Spins
Peter Kalmus Caltech Gravitational Waves from Soft Gamma Repeaters
Ken Shen UC Santa Barbara Hydrodynamic Helium
Shell Burning in AM CVn Systems: .Ia Supernovae
Keri Dixon UCLA The evolution of the helium-ionizing background at z ~ 2-3
Yacine Ali-Haimoud Caltech Radiative transfer issues in cosmological hydrogen recombination
Matthew van Adelsberg KITP Cosmic Rays and Collisionless Electron Heating in Balmer Dominated Shocks
Kevin Moore UCSB
15:50-17:10 Chair: O. Dore'
Silvia Ameglio University of Southern California Combining Sunyaev Zeldovich and Xray observations of galaxy clusters
Fang Peng Caltech Helium Sedimentation and the UV Upturn in the Brightest Cluster Galaxies
Brant Robertson Caltech COLLAPSE BARRIERS AND HALO ABUNDANCE: TESTING THE EXCURSION SET ANSATZ
Nicolo Macellari USC Galactic foreground contributions to the WMAP5 intensity and polarization maps.
Nathan Miller University of California - San Diego Beam Systematics and Their Effect on CMB Measurements
Suet Ying Mak USC Measuring Peculiar Bulk Motion of Galaxy Cluster using Kinetic SZ effect
Anthony Pullen California Institute of Technology Search for a statistically anisotropic power spectrum with large-scale structure
Shahab Joudaki University of California, Irvine Cosmology with Early Dark Energy
Loris Colombo USC Estimates of unresolved point sources contributions to WMAP 5 from external datasets
17:15 Student talk prize