| 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 |
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| 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 | ||||