Cosmic Microwave Background Session

Wednesday, 18 December 1996, 2-6 pm

Preliminary Program

Chairs: J. R. Bond (CITA), G. Smoot(LBNL)

If you have any queries or comments on the program please email: bond@cita.utoronto.ca or smoot@cosmos.lbl.gov

Speakers

The numbers indicate: speaking time (including discussion time)

Session I (2-4 pm)

Current and Future Experiments

2:00 Shaul Hanany (Berkeley): "Overview and MAXIMA/BOOMERANG" 15
2:15 Peter Timbie (Wisconsin): "MSAM/TOPHAT" 10
2:25 Mark Dragovan (Chicago): "VCA plans" 10
2:35 John Carlstrom (Chicago): "SZ Effect: Interferometry Results" 15
2:50 Francois Bouchet (IAP): "COBRAS/SAMBA and foreground removals from the CMB" 15

Phenomenology/Theory

3:05 Dick Bond (CITA): "Overview and Parameter Estimation from the CMB" 10
3:15 Kris Gorski (TAC, Copenhagen): "TBA" 10
3:25 Max Tegmark (IAS, Princeton): "TBA" 10
3:35 Andrew Jaffe (Berkeley): "S/N Eignemode Analysis" 10
3:45 Charley Lineweaver (Strasbourg): "Constraining cosmological parameters with CMB" 7 + poster
4:00 BREAK

Session II (4:15-6:00 pm)

4:15 Martin White (Chicago) "Acoustic Signatures" 10
4:25 Lloyd Knox (CITA) "Power Spectrum Estimation" 10
4:35 Eric Gawiser (Berkeley) "TBA" 7 + poster
4:42 Andy Albrecht (Imperial) "Coherence, non-gaussianity, ionization histories" 10
4:52 R R Caldwell "CMB anisotropy induced by cosmic strings" 7 + poster
4:59 Pedro Ferreira (Berkeley) "Non-Gaussianity in the Microwave Background" 7 + poster
5:06 Angelica de Olivera Costa (Princeton) "TBA" 7 + poster
5:13 Glenn Starkman "Compact Hyperbolic Cosmologies and the CMB" 7 + poster
5:20 Dmitry Pogosyan "CMB Constraints on Compact Hyperbolic Cosmologies" 7 + poster
5:27 Rob Crittenden/Steve Boughn (Cambridge) "TBA" 7 + poster
5:34 Richard Battye (Cambridge) "The Physics of Silk Damping for Active Sources" 7 + poster
5:41 Marc Kamionkowski (Columbia) "Polarization of CMB" 7 + poster
5:48 V.G. Gurzadyan "CMB properties in negatively curved Universe" 7 + poster