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  • Monday, 30 July 2012
    • 08:30 - 09:15 REGISTRATION
      PLEASE NOTE: Those who have already registered for the 'Summer School on Cosmology' do not need to register again.
      Location: Leonardo da Vinci Building, Lobby
      • 08:30 REGISTRATION 45'
    • 09:15 - 09:30 Welcome by the Organizers
      • 09:15 Welcome by the Organizers 15'
    • 09:30 - 10:00 Galaxy clustering and weak lensing: recent developments and future prospects
      • 09:30 Galaxy clustering and weak lensing: recent developments and future prospects 30'
        Speaker: U. Seljak (UC & LBNL Berkeley & Zürich U.)
    • 10:00 - 10:30 Large scale structure and galaxy formation studies with GAMA
      • 10:00 Large scale structure and galaxy formation studies with GAMA 30'
        Speaker: P. Norberg (Durham U.)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
      Location: Leonardo da Vinci Building Terrace
      • 10:30 Coffee Break 30'
    • 11:00 - 11:30 Cross-correlation of photometric and spectroscopic galaxy surveys
      • 11:00 Cross-correlation of photometric and spectroscopic galaxy surveys 30'
        Speaker: E. Gaztanaga (ICE (IEEC/CSIC))
    • 11:30 - 12:00 The Millennium-XXL project
      • 11:30 The Millennium-XXL project 30'
        Speaker: R. Angulo (Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 12:00 - 12:30 Galaxy Clusters and the Cosmic Web
      • 12:00 Galaxy Clusters and the Cosmic Web 30'
        Speaker: J. Cohn (U. of California at Berkeley)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break
      Location: Leonardo da Vinci Building Cafeteria
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 1h30'
    • 14:00 - 14:30 Non-linearities in the matter power spectrum: neutrinos and warm dark matter
      • 14:00 Non-linearities in the matter power spectrum: neutrinos and warm dark matter 30'
        Speaker: M. Viel (INAF - OA di Trieste)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 14:30 - 15:00 Massive Neutrinos Promote the Size Growth of Early-Type Galaxies
      • 14:30 Massive Neutrinos Promote the Size Growth of Early-Type Galaxies 30'
        Speaker: J. Lee (Seoul National U.)
    • 15:00 - 15:30 Lyman-Alpha in Three Dimensions: New developments
      • 15:00 Lyman-Alpha in Three Dimensions: New developments 30'
        Speaker: A. Slosar (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
    • 15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break
      Location: Leonardo da Vinci Building Terrace
      • 15:30 Coffee Break 30'
    • 16:00 - 16:30 The measured galaxy correlation function
      • 16:00 The measured galaxy correlation function 30'
        Speaker: R. Durrer (U. of Geneva)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 16:30 - 17:00 The Effective Field Theory of Cosmological Large Scale Structures
      • 16:30 The Effective Field Theory of Cosmological Large Scale Structures 30'
        Speaker: L. Senatore (Stanford U.)
  • Tuesday, 31 July 2012
    • 09:30 - 10:00 Redshift space distortions for biased tracers
      • 09:30 Redshift space distortions for biased tracers 30'
        Speaker: M. White (U. of California at Berkeley)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 10:00 - 10:30 Tracing the growth of structure with redshift-space distortions in current and future surveys
      • 10:00 Tracing the growth of structure with redshift-space distortions in current and future surveys 30'
        Speaker: L. Guzzo (INAF - OA di Brera)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
      Location: Leonardo da Vinci Building Terrace
      • 10:30 Coffee Break 30'
    • 11:00 - 11:30 Bias: peak-background split and counts-in-cells
      • 11:00 Bias: peak-background split and counts-in-cells 30'
        Speaker: V. Desjacques (U. of Geneva)
    • 11:30 - 12:00 Deriving the scale-dependent bias from the integrated perturbation theory
      • 11:30 Deriving the scale-dependent bias from the integrated perturbation theory 30'
        Speaker: T. Matsubara (KMI - Nagoya U.)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 12:00 - 12:30 Memory matters: random walks to galaxies
      • 12:00 Memory matters: random walks to galaxies 30'
        Speaker: M. Musso (U. Catholique de Louvain)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break
      Location: Leonardo da Vinci Building Cafeteria
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 1h30'
    • 14:00 - 14:30 X-ray Galaxy Clusters as Cosmological and Astrophysical Probes
      • 14:00 X-ray Galaxy Clusters as Cosmological and Astrophysical Probes 30'
        Speaker: H. Boehringer (Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 14:30 - 15:00 Energy Feedback and Entropy in Galaxy Clusters
      • 14:30 Energy Feedback and Entropy in Galaxy Clusters 30'
        Speaker: S. Majumdar (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research)
    • 15:00 - 15:30 Falsifying LambdaCDM with clusters
      • 15:00 Falsifying LambdaCDM with clusters 30'
        Speaker: D. Huterer (U. of Michigan)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break
      Location: Leonardo da Vinci Building Terrace
      • 15:30 Coffee Break 30'
    • 16:00 - 16:30 Relation Between Galaxy Cluster Optical Richness and SZ Effect
      • 16:00 Relation Between Galaxy Cluster Optical Richness and SZ Effect 30'
        Speaker: N. Sehgal (Princeton U.)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 16:30 - 17:00 The South Pole Telescope: The Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Cluster Survey and Future Plans
      • 16:30 The South Pole Telescope: The Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Cluster Survey and Future Plans 30'
        Speaker: B. Benson (U. of Chicago)
        Material: lecture notes
  • Wednesday, 1 August 2012
    • 09:30 - 10:00 The WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey - Final Results (almost!)
      • 09:30 The WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey - Final Results (almost!) 30'
        Speaker: T. Davis (U. of Queensland)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 10:00 - 10:30 Bayesian cosmological inference from Large Scale Structure data
      • 10:00 Bayesian cosmological inference from Large Scale Structure data 30'
        Speaker: B. Wandelt (IAP - U. Pierre et Marie Curie)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
      Location: Leonardo da Vinci Building Terrace
      • 10:30 Coffee Break 30'
    • 11:00 - 11:30 New results and insights into the dynamics of Gravitational Instabilities
      • 11:00 New results and insights into the dynamics of Gravitational Instabilities 30'
        Speaker: F. Bernardeau (CEA Saclay)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 11:30 - 12:00 MPTbreeze : fast computations of density and velocity spectra
      • 11:30 MPTbreeze : fast computations of density and velocity spectra 30'
        Speaker: M. Crocce (ICE (IEEC/CSIC))
    • 12:00 - 12:30 Resummed non-linear Power Spectrum: Beyond the BAO Scale
      • 12:00 Resummed non-linear Power Spectrum: Beyond the BAO Scale 30'
        Speaker: S. Anselmi (ICE (IEEC/CSIC))
    • 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break
      Location: Leonardo da Vinci Building Cafeteria
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 1h30'
    • 14:00 - 14:30 Clustering Wedges: An alternative approach to measuring H(z) and Da(z) with galaxy clustering
      • 14:00 Clustering Wedges: An alternative approach to measuring H(z) and Da(z) with galaxy clustering 30'
        Speaker: E.A. Kazin (Swinburne U. of Technology)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 14:30 - 15:00 Testing Gravity using Large-Scale Redshift-Space Distortions
      • 14:30 Testing Gravity using Large-Scale Redshift-Space Distortions 30'
        Speaker: A. Raccanelli (Caltech)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 15:00 - 15:30 Going beyond the Kaiser redshift-space distortion formula
      • 15:00 Going beyond the Kaiser redshift-space distortion formula 30'
        Speaker: J. Yoo (U. of Zurich)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break
      Location: Leonardo da Vinci Building Terrace
      • 15:30 Coffee Break 30'
    • 16:00 - 16:30 On the importance of feedback modelling for weak lensing precision cosmology
      • 16:00 On the importance of feedback modelling for weak lensing precision cosmology 30'
        Speaker: E. Semboloni (Leiden Observatory)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 16:30 - 17:00 Gravitational Lensing of the CMB
      • 16:30 Gravitational Lensing of the CMB 30'
        Speaker: G. Holder (McGill U.)
  • Thursday, 2 August 2012
    • 09:30 - 10:00 "TBA"
      • 09:30 "TBA" 30'
        Speaker: B. Bassett (AIMS, SAAO & UCT)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 10:00 - 10:30 Probing dark interactions
      • 10:00 Probing dark interactions 30'
        Speaker: V. Pettorino (U. of Geneva)
    • 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
      Location: Leonardo da Vinci Building Terrace
      • 10:30 Coffee Break 30'
    • 11:00 - 11:30 Prospects for constraining the shape of non-Gaussianity with the scale-dependent bias
      • 11:00 Prospects for constraining the shape of non-Gaussianity with the scale-dependent bias 30'
        Speaker: J.I. Norena Sanchez (U. de Barcelona)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 11:30 - 12:00 Primordial non-Gaussianity in the Large-Scale Structure beyond the power spectrum
      • 11:30 Primordial non-Gaussianity in the Large-Scale Structure beyond the power spectrum 30'
        Speaker: E. Sefusatti (ICTP)
    • 12:00 - 12:30 Halo Clustering Beyond the Local Bias Model
      • 12:00 Halo Clustering Beyond the Local Bias Model 30'
        Speaker: T. Baldauf (U. of Zurich)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break
      Location: Leonardo da Vinci Building Cafeteria
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 1h30'
    • 14:00 - 14:30 Towards understanding the stacked ISW signal
      • 14:00 Towards understanding the stacked ISW signal 30'
        Speaker: Y.C. Cai (Durham U.)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 14:30 - 15:00 The clustering of 3D galaxies in Boss, and the construction of mock galaxy catalogues
      • 14:30 The clustering of 3D galaxies in Boss, and the construction of mock galaxy catalogues 30'
        Speaker: M. Manera (U. of Portsmouth)
    • 15:00 - 15:30 Conclusions
      • 15:00 Conclusions 30'