TASC 2006 Meeting Program
   
Time Speaker Affiliation Title
9:00 Opening remarks
Session Chair: Peng Oh
9:10 Jonathan Pritchard*  Caltech  Probing the first luminous sources using the redshifted 21 cm line
9:20 Nada Petrovic*  UCSB  Black Hole Feeding Rates in Triaxial Potentials
9:30 Fulai Guo*  UCSB  Cosmic Rays and Cooling Flows in Galaxy Clusters
9:40 Martin Stringer*  Caltech/Oxford  Modelling the formation and evolution of galactic disks
9:50 Sherry Suyu*  Caltech/KITP  Pixellated Potential Reconstruction in Gravitational Lensing
10:00 Kirsten Howley*  UC Santa Cruz/KITP  Unraveling NGC 205's Interaction with Andromeda (M31)
10:10 Ken Henisey*  UCSB  QPOs in Local Simulations of Magnetorotational Turbulence
10:20 Orly Gnat*  Caltech/Tel Aviv Univ.  Time-Dependent Ionization in Radiatively Cooling Gas
10:30-10:50 BREAK
Session Chair: Steve Cowley
10:50 Tristan Smith*  Caltech  A new cosmic microwave background constraint to primordial gravitational waves
11:00 Shin'ichiro Ando  Caltech  Anisotropy of gamma-ray point sources for GLAST
11:10 Anthony Pullen*  Caltech  Search with EGRET for a Gamma Ray Line from the Galactic Center
11:20 Daniel Grin*  Caltech  A Telescope Search for Decaying Relic Axions
11:30 Chao Li*  Caltech  Reconstructing dark energy from SN observation
11:40 Adrienne Erickcek*  Caltech  Solar System tests do rule out 1/R gravity
11:50 Hilke Schlichting*  Caltech  The effect of semi-collisional accretion on planetary spins
12:00 Benjamin Collins*  Caltech  Self-Similarity in Planetary Dynamics
12:10-1:30 LUNCH
Session Chair: James Bullock
1:30 Geoffrey Lovelace*  Caltech  Junk radiation in binary black hole initial data
1:40 Florian Dubath KITP Scattering of cosmic strings by black holes: loop formation
1:50 Ilya Mandel*  Caltech  Gravitational waves from intermediate-mass-ratio inspirals in LIGO
2:00 Anthony Piro  UCSB  Fragmentation and Gravitational Waves from Collapsar Disks
2:10 Etienne Racine  Caltech  Hydrodynamical tidal synchronization in binary white dwarfs
2:20 Ken Shen*  UCSB  Nova Triggers: A Tale of Two Metallicities
2:30 Fang Peng  Caltech  Weak H Flashes on Accreting Neutron Stars
2:40 Kevin Chiou*  UCSB  Trapped accoustic modes in neutron stars and other stellar objects
2:50-3:10 BREAK
Session Chair: Marc Kamionkowski
3:10 Cedric Pahud*  Sussex University (UK)  Model selection forecasts for the spectral index from the Planck satellite
3:20 Coral Wheeler*  UC Irvine  On the Morphology of Low Mass Galaxies
3:30 Devdeep Sarkar*  UC Irvine  Lensing modifications and corrections to Type Ia SNe Flux
3:40 Brett Friedman*  UC Irvine  WMAP-normalized Predictions and the Search for Gravitational Waves from Inflation
3:50 Joel Berrier*  UC Irvine  Close Galaxy Counts as a Probe of Hierarchical Structure Formation
4:00 Gregory Martinez*  UC Irvine  Dark Matter Property Constraints from Galaxy Q Profiles
4:10 Quinn Minor*  UC Irvine  Bound-State Effects of Long-Lived Charged Particles in Big Bang Nucleosynthesis
4:20 Eugene Chen*  UCLA  The Problem of White Dwarf Spectral Evolution
4:30-4:45 BREAK
4:45 STUDENT PRIZE
Session Chair: Asantha Cooray
4:50 Tobias Kaufmann  UC Irvine  The Magellanic Stream as a witness of disk galaxy formation
5:00 Alexandre Amblard  UC Irvine  Search for Gravitational Waves in the CMB after WMAP3
5:10 Louie Strigari  UC Irvine  Measuring Dark Matter Properties with Astrometry
5:20 Daniel Babich  Caltech  Constraints on the Outer Solar System from CMB Spectral Distortions
5:30 Stefano Profumo  Caltech  The Shadow of Dark Matter
   

*=student speaker

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