Scientific Calendar Event



Description
This Conference will bring together an international group of experts to review the current state of the art in the study of dark energy and dark matter and discuss how best to use giant telescopes to learn about their fundamental nature.  It is the third of a series of three conferences: more information can be found at https://conferences.pa.ucla.edu/dark-universe/index.html


Invited Speakers include:

Mariangela Bernardi (UPenn)
Rebecca A. Bernstein (Carnegie Observatories)
Simon Birrer (UCLA)
Stefano Borgani (Trieste Observatory)
Marusa Bradac (UCDavis)
Tirthankar Roy Choudhury (TIFR)
Michele Cirasuolo (European Southern Observatory)
Stefano Cristiani (Trieste Observatory)
Arianna di Cintio (IAC - Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias)
Christophe J. Dumas (TMT International Observatory)
Isobel Hook (Lancaster U.)
Lucas Macri (Texas A&M U.)
John McKean (ASTRON/Kapteyn Astronomical Institute)
Stefano Profumo (UCSC)
Piero Rosati (UNIFE)
Robyn Sanderson (Caltech)
Anze Slosar (Brookhaven)
Tommaso Treu (UCLA)
Simona Vegetti (MPA, Garching)
Matteo Viel (SISSA)
Mark Vogelsberger (MIT)
John K. Webb (U. of New South Wales)


NOTE: The Conference will be preceded by the Summer School on Cosmology 2018 (smr3213, 18 - 29 June).

There is no registration fee for this activity.

 
Go to day
  • Monday, 2 July 2018
    • 08:30 - 14:15 Introduction and ELTs overview
      Convener: Paolo Creminelli (ICTP)
      Location: Leonardo Building - Budinich Lecture Hall
      • 08:30 Registration & Administative Formalities 30' ( Leonardo Building - Lobby )
      • 09:00 Welcome 15'
        Speaker: Paolo Creminelli (ICTP)
      • 09:15 The Dark Universe from UCLA 40'
        Speaker: Tommaso Treu (UCLA)
        Material: Slides
      • 09:55 The Extremely Large Telescope: the future of European ground-based astronomy. 40'
        Speaker: Michele Cirasuolo (European Southern Observatory)
      • 10:35 Coffee Break 45' ( Leonardo Building - Terrace )
      • 11:20 TMT Status and Promise for Dark Universe Investigations 40'
        Speaker: Christophe J. Dumas (TMT International Observatory)
      • 12:00 GMT's Science Capabilities 40'
        Speaker: Rebecca A. Bernstein (Carnegie Observatories)
      • 12:40 Lunch Break 1h35' ( Leonardo Building - Cafeteria )
    • 14:15 - 17:00 Dark Matter I
      Convener: Tommaso Treu (UCLA)
      Location: Leonardo Building - Budinich Lecture Hall
      • 14:15 Past, Present and Future of milli-lensing 40'
        Speaker: Simona Vegetti (MPA, Garching)
        Material: Slides
      • 14:55 Dark Matter Lost and Found 20'
        Speaker: Adriano Agnello (European Southern Observatory)
        Material: Slides
      • 15:15 The bimodal formation time distribution of infall dark matter halos and its effect on galaxies 20'
        Speaker: Jingjing Shi (KIAA, Peking University)
        Material: Slides
      • 15:35 Coffee Break 45' ( Leonardo Building - Terrace )
      • 16:20 Constraints on the Dark Matter mass function with strong gravitational lensing 20'
        Speaker: Elisa Ritondale (Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics)
      • 16:40 Constraining the nature of dark matter with substructure lensing: predictions from theory and simulations 20'
        Speaker: Giulia Despali (Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics)
        Material: Slides
    • 18:30 - 19:30 Get Together
  • Tuesday, 3 July 2018
    • 09:15 - 14:15 Dark Energy I
      Convener: Simona Vegetti (MPA, Garching)
      Location: Leonardo Building - Budinich Lecture Hall
      • 09:15 Constraining Dark Energy with Distant Supernovae in the ELT Era 40'
        Speaker: Isobel Hook (Lancaster University)
      • 09:55 Status and prospects for the Extragalactic Distance Scale with ELTs 40'
        Speaker: Lucas Macri (Texas A&M University)
        Material: Slides
      • 10:35 Rapid poster session (1 minute 1 slide) 20'
        Material: Details
      • 10:55 Coffee Break & Poster Session 45' ( Leonardo Building - Terrace )
      • 11:40 Measuring the Hubble constant with time-delay cosmography: The present and the future 40'
        Speaker: Simon Birrer (UCLA)
        Material: Slides
      • 12:20 Constraining cosmic curvature by using age of galaxies and gravitational Lenses 20'
        Speaker: Deepak Jain (University of Delhi)
        Material: Slides
      • 12:40 Lunch Break 1h35' ( Leonardo Building - Cafeteria )
    • 14:15 - 17:00 Lyman Alpha and Fundamental Constants
      Convener: Isobel Hook (Lancaster University)
      Location: Leonardo Building - Budinich Lecture Hall
      • 14:15 Fundamental physics with intergalactic medium 40'
        Speaker: Matteo Viel (SISSA)
        Material: Slides
      • 14:55 Brave New World: Cosmology with a Small Field of View 40'
        Speaker: Anze Slosar (Brookhaven)
      • 15:35 Illuminating the Cosmic Web 20'
        Speaker: Michael Rauch (Carnegie Observatories)
      • 15:55 Galactic Rotation Curves vs. Ultra-Light Dark Matter 20'
        Speaker: Kfir Blum (CERN/Wiezman Institute)
        Material: Slides
      • 16:15 Coffee Break & Poster Session 45' ( Leonardo Building - Terrace )
    • 20:00 - 22:00 Outside Dinner
      Location: Restaurant "LE TERRAZZE" c/o Hotel Riviera
      • 20:00 Restaurant "LE TERRAZZE" c/o Hotel Riviera (Confirmation is mandatory - email: smr3218@ictp.it) 2h0' ( Restaurant "LE TERRAZZE" c/o Hotel Riviera )
        Material: Map
  • Wednesday, 4 July 2018
    • 09:15 - 14:15 Theory
      Convener: John McKean (ASTRON/Kapteyn Astronomical Institute)
      Location: Leonardo Building - Budinich Lecture Hall
      • 09:15 Opportunities for dark matter searches with extremely large telescopes 40'
        Speaker: Stefano Profumo (UCSC)
        Material: Slides
      • 09:55 Theoretical challenges to the LCDM paradigm 40'
        Speaker: Arianna di Cintio (IAC - Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias)
        Material: Slides
      • 10:35 Coffee Break 45' ( Leonardo Building - Terrace )
      • 11:20 Simulating Galaxy Formation: Illustris, IllustrisTNG and beyond 40'
        Speaker: Mark Vogelsberger (MIT)
        Material: Slides
      • 12:00 Constraining galaxy evolution scenarios from strong lens simulations with EAGLE 20'
        Speaker: Sampath Mukherjee (University of Groningen)
        Material: Slides
      • 12:20 The past of the Local Group in MOND 20'
        Speaker: Michal Bilek (Czech Academy of Sciences)
      • 12:40 Lunch Break 1h35' ( Leonardo Building - Cafeteria )
    • 14:15 - 17:40 Synergies
      Convener: Matteo Viel (SISSA)
      Location: Leonardo Building - Budinich Lecture Hall
      • 14:15 The dark universe and synergies with the SKA 40'
        Speaker: John McKean (ASTRON/Kapteyn Astronomical Institute)
      • 14:55 Bounds on Graviton mass using weak lensing and SZ effect in Galaxy Clusters 20'
        Speaker: Akshay Rana (University of Delhi)
        Material: Slides
      • 15:15 Imprints of relativistic effects on the asymmetry of the halo cross-correlation function: from linear to non-linear scales 20'
        Speaker: Yann Rasera (LUTH, Paris Observatory)
        Material: Slides
      • 15:35 Coffee Break 45' ( Leonardo Building - Terrace )
      • 16:20 Probing the First Stars with Upcoming Facilities 40'
        Speaker: Tirthankar Roy Choudhury (TIFR)
        Material: Slides
      • 17:00 Towards measuring the expansion history of the Universe 20'
        Speaker: Dinko Milakovic (European Southern Observatory)
        Material: Slides
      • 17:20 Measuring the Small-Scale Matter Power Spectrum with Ultra-High-Resolution CMB Lensing 20'
        Speaker: Neelima Sehgal (Stony Brook University)
        Material: Slides
  • Thursday, 5 July 2018
    • 09:15 - 14:15 Dark Matter II
      Convener: Arianna di Cintio (IAC - Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias)
      Location: Leonardo Building - Budinich Lecture Hall
      • 09:15 Towards high-precision lensing models: illuminating dark matter and dark ages 40'
        Speaker: Piero Rosati (UNIFE)
        Material: Slides
      • 09:55 Insights into dark matter from the stellar halos of galaxies 40'
        Speaker: Robyn Sanderson (Caltech)
      • 10:35 Coffee Break 45' ( Leonardo Building - Terrace )
      • 11:20 Searching for New Physics using Quasar Spectroscopy 40'
        Speaker: John K. Webb (University of New South Wales)
        Material: Slides
      • 12:00 Dark Matter from Lyman-alpha forest 20'
        Speaker: Vid Irsic (University of Washington)
        Material: Slides
      • 12:20 Determining dark matter content of Milky Way satellite galaxies with current and future facilities 20'
        Speaker: Mei-Yu Wang (Carnegie Mellon University)
        Material: Slides
      • 12:40 Lunch Break 1h35' ( Leonardo Building - Cafeteria )
    • 14:15 - 17:00 Synergies and Instrumentation
      Convener: Marusa Bradac (UCDavis)
      Location: Leonardo Building - Budinich Lecture Hall
      • 14:15 Prospects for lensed supernovae behind galaxy clusters with the James Webb Space Telescope 20'
        Speaker: Tanja Petrushevska (University of Nova Gorica)
        Material: Slides
      • 14:35 Detection of z~2.3 voids from 3D Lyman-alpha forest tomography in the COSMOS field 20'
        Speaker: Alexander Krolewski (UC Berkeley)
        Material: Slides
      • 14:55 Coffee Break 45' ( Leonardo Building - Terrace )
      • 15:40 From CASPEC @ La Silla to the ELT, trends and future directions of high-resolution spectroscopy for cosmological studies of the IGM 40'
        Speaker: Stefano Cristiani (Trieste Observatory)
      • 16:20 The high resolution spectrograph for the ESO ELT: scientific and technological challenges 20'
        Speaker: Valentina D'Odorico (Trieste Observatory)
      • 16:40 Towards the ELT era: a data treatment outlook 20'
        Speaker: Guido Cupani (Trieste Observatory)
        Material: Slides
  • Friday, 6 July 2018
    • 09:15 - 13:00 Dark Matter III
      Convener: Piero Rosati (UNIFE)
      Location: Leonardo Building - Budinich Lecture Hall
      • 09:15 Extremely Large Clusters in the Era of Extremely Large Telescopes 40'
        Speaker: Marusa Bradac (UCDavis)
        Material: Slides
      • 09:55 Stellar and Dark Masses: IMF gradients in the era of big telescopes 40'
        Speaker: Mariangela Bernardi (UPenn)
        Material: Slides
      • 10:35 Coffee Break 45' ( Leonardo Building - Terrace )
      • 11:20 What Giant Telescopes can do for Lensing Studies of Galaxy Clusters 20'
        Speaker: Ian Dell'Antonio (Brown University)
      • 11:40 Cluster mass profiles as powerful tests of cosmological models and struture formation scenarios 20'
        Speaker: Barbara Sartoris (University of Trieste)
      • 12:00 Summary 1h0'
        Speaker: Stefano Borgani (Trieste Observatory)