University of Minnesota
School of Physics & Astronomy

Cosmology Lunchtime Seminar

Fall Semester

Monday, September 13th 2010
12:15 pm:
Speaker: Chaoyun Bao, University of Minnesota
Subject: The Impact of the Spectral Response of an Achromatic Half Wave Plate on Measurements of the Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization
Monday, September 20th 2010
12:15 pm:
Speaker: Liliya Williams, University of Minnesota
Subject: Dark matter halos from first principles
Monday, September 27th 2010
12:15 pm:
Speaker: Ben Gold, University of Minnesota
Subject: New Challenges in CMB Polarization
Monday, October 4th 2010
12:15 pm:
Speaker: Dan Stern, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Subject: Cosmic Clocks: Constraining the Equation of State of Dark Energy
Monday, October 11th 2010
12:15 pm:
Speaker: Kristy McQuinn
Subject: The Duration of Starbursts
Monday, October 18th 2010
12:15 pm:
Speaker: Tom Essinger-Hileman, Princeton University
Subject: The Atacama B-Mode Search: Instrument Design and Science Prospects
Monday, October 25th 2010
12:15 pm:
Speaker: Ken Chen, University of Minnesota
Subject: Multi-Dimensional Simulations of Pair-Instability Supernovae
Monday, November 1st 2010
12:15 pm:
Speaker: Neil Barnaby, University of Minnesota
Subject: Probing Inflaton Interactions with the CMB
Monday, November 8th 2010
12:15 pm:
Speaker: Shivaraj Kandhasamy, University of Minnesota
Subject: Search for long gravitational-wave transients using LIGO data
Monday, November 15th 2010
12:15 pm:
Speaker: Ilan Sagiv, University of Minnesota
Subject: Results from Arcade
Monday, November 22nd 2010
12:15 pm:
Speaker: Ilan Sagiv, University of Minnesota
Subject: Results from Arcade
Note: Seminar is rescheduled from last week
Monday, November 29th 2010
12:15 pm:
Speaker: Kate Raach, University of Minnesota
Subject: To be announced
Monday, December 6th 2010
12:15 pm:
Speaker: Mark SubbaRao, University of Chicago
Subject: To be announced.
Monday, December 13th 2010
12:15 pm:
Speaker: Asad Aboobaker, University of Minnesota
Subject: Cosmological constraints from the SNLS 3-year data
Monday, December 20th 2010
12:15 pm:
No seminar. Finals week.

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