COSMIC MICROWAVE RADIATION CONFERENCE
Organizers: Krzysztof M. Gorski and Marc Kamionkowski
ASPEN CENTER FOR PHYSICS
January 27 - February 2, 2008
Monday, January 28, 2008
	AM Chair: Kris Gorski
08:00	K. Gorski and M. Kamionkowski	Opening Remarks
08:05	Joseph Silk	New Challenges for the CMB
08:25	Ned Wright	Recent WMAP Results
08:45	Daniel Babich	Detecting the Gravitational Lensing Signal with ACBAR
09:05	Jeffrey Jewell	Hybrid Gibbs Sampling and MCMC for CMB Analysis at Small Angular Scales
09:20	Coffee Break
09:40	Clive Dickinson	Application of a Gibbs Sampling Technique to CMB and ForeGrounds in WMAP and Planck Data
10:00	Jean-Christophe Hamilton	BRAIN: A Bolometric Interfereometer for the B-mode Detection
10:20	Kevin Huffenberger	Point Source Contamination in WMAP
10:40	Carlo Baccigalupi	Foreground Cleaning in CMB Experiments
11:00	Break
	PM Chair: Joe Silk
04:30	Elichiro Komatsu	Hunting for Primordial Non-Gaussianity: Current Status and Future Prospects
04:50	Joseph Fowler	Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Initial Observations
05:10	Nicolaas Ervik Groeneboom	Observing Transplanckian Effects in the CMB
05:30	Chao-Lin Kuo	ACBAR Final Results: Temperature Power Spectrum, SZ Clusters, and More
05:50	Coffee Break
06:10	James Bartlett	The Planck SZ Cluster Catalog
06:30	Charles Lawrence	What Planck will Measure
06:50	Niayesh Afshordi	Fundamental Physics with the ISW Effect
07:10	Marc Kamionkowski	Blackboard Talk on Direction-dependent Primordial Power Spectrum
08:00	Dinner at Aspen Meadows
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
	AM Chair: Marc Kamionkowski
08:00	Bradley Johnson	Measuring the Polarization of the CMB with CLOVER
08:20	Katrin Heitmann	Fast Temperature Anisotropy Predictions at High ℓ
08:40	Ghazal Geshnizjani	Investigating Reconstructing of a General, Slow-roll, Inflationary Action from CMB Observations
09:00	Richard Holman	CMB Non-gaussianities from Excited Initial States
09:20	Coffee Break
09:40	Marc Davis	Determination of the Cosmological Growth Rate at z=1
10:00	James Hinderks	QUaD: A Millimeter Wave Polarimeter for Observations of the CMB
10:40	Raul Jimenez	Topology from Cosmology
11:00	Break
	PM Chair: Eiichiro Komatsu
04:30	Reno Mandolesi	Planck Low Frequency Instrument
04:50	Carrie MacTavish	Spider Optimization: Probing the Systematics of a Large Scale B-mode Experiment
05:10	Nils Halverson	SPT or APEX-SZ Status
05:30	Lloyd Knox	Monte Carlo Methods
05:50	Coffee Break
06:10	Francois Bouchet	What to Expect from Planck HFI DPC
06:30	Anze Slosar	Lucky ACBAR: Detection of CMB Lensing Through CMB Power Spectrum
06:50	Ben Wandelt	Non-gaussianity
07:10	Shirley Ho	What Can You do with CMB as a Backlight
08:00	Dinner at Aspen Meadows
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
	AM Chair: Graca Rocha
08:00	Britt Reichborn-Kjennerud	EBEX: A CMB Polarization Experiment
08:20	Carlo Burigana	Galactic Diffuse Synchrotron Emission and CMB Anisotropies
08:40	Steven Muchovej	The Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Array Cluster Survey
09:00	Jon Urrestilla	CMB Constraints on Cosmic Strings
09:20	Coffee Break
09:40	Istvan Szapudi	Bispectrum in WMAP3
10:00	John Kovac	Measurement of CMB Polarization and the Inflationary Gravitational-wave Background
10:20	Joaquin Vieira	The South Pole Telescope
10:40	Oliver Zahn	Gravitational Lensing in the CMB: Theory, Detection, and Future
11:00	Break
04:30	Physics Café, Wheeler Opera House	Charles Lawrence and Gil Holder
05:30	Public Lecture by George Smoot	CSI Aspen: Cosmic Scene Investigation
08:00	Dinner at Aspen Meadows
Thursday, January 31, 2008
	AM Chair: Dan Babich
08:00	Fabio Finelli	Constraints on Inflation from WMAP3 and LSS
08:20	Gil Holder	Remote Quadrupole Measurements from Reionization
08:40	Hiranya Peiris	Cosmological Constraints on Brane Inflation
09:00	Brian Mason	Measurements of the Contribution of Point Sources to the High-ℓ Excess at 30 GHz
09:20	Coffee Break
09:40	Has Kristian Eriksen	WMAP Polarization Foreground Analysis
10:00	Sabino Matarrese	Searching for Primordial Non-gaussianity with the CMB and LSS
10:20	Tarun Souradeep	Blind Foreground Removal and Power Spectrum Estiamtion of CMB Anisotropy and Polarization
10:40	Michael Turner	Status and Challenges for the New Cosmology: Dark Energy
11:00	Break
	PM Chair: Francois Bouchet
04:30	Clem Pryke	Results from QUaD
04:50	Yougmin Cho	Dilaton, Dark Matter, and Equivalence Principle
05:10	Amir Hajian	Power Spectrum Estimation on Small Skies
05:30	Matthew Sharp	CMB Observations with the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Array
05:50	Coffee Break
06:10	Andrew Lange	Prospects for Detecting Primordial B-modes from Sub-orbital Experiemnts
06:30	Sudeep Das	Gravitational Lensing of the CMB: Large Sky Simulation and Possible Applications
06:50	Shaul Hanany	NASA's Primordial Polarization Program
07:10	Discussion
08:00	Banquet at Aspen Meadows
Friday, February 01, 2008
	AM Chair: Ben Wandelt
08:00	Licia Verde	Minimally Parametric Reconstruction of the Primordial Power Spectrum
08:15	Akito Kusaka	The QUIET Experiment: Status and Prospects
08:30	Elena Pierpaoli	Planck Parameter Estimation with General Reionization
08:45	Oeystein Rudjord	Hemispherical Asymmetry in Local Curvature?
09:00	Jonathan Sievers	The CMB Power Spectrum from 4.5 Years of Cosmic Background Imager Data
09:20	Coffee Break
09:40	Salman Habib	Cosmic Calibration
10:05	Christoph Raeth	Constrained Randomization: Towards Model-independent Tests for Non-gaussianity in the CMB
10:10	Craca Rocha	What Can we Learn from the Lensed CMB B-mode Polarization Power Spectrum?
10:25	Jack Sayers	A Measurement of the CMB Anisotropies on Arcminute Scales with Bolocam
10:40	Tristan Smith	The Inflationary Gravitational-wave Background with WMAP3: From the CMB to Direct Detection
11:00	Break
	PM Chair: Hiranya Peiris
04:30	Lucia Popa	Probing Some Fundamental Physics Aspects with Planck
04:45	Meir Shimon	CMB Polarization Systematics Due to Beam Asymmetry
05:00	Olivier Dore	Primaries from Secondaries: Measureing f_NL with Large-scale Structures
05:15	Kendrick Smith	Secondary Anisotropies in the Microwave Background: Results from WMAP and Prospects for Planck
05:30	Kaiki Inoue	What is the Origin of the Large-angle Anomalies?
05:40	Sarah Shandera	Scale Dependent Non-gaussianity
05:50	Coffee Break
06:00	Phil Lubin	The Cosmic Foreground Explorer (COFE)
06:10	Carlo Contaldi	Relic Anisotropy in the CMB
06:25	Naoshi Sugiyama	Primordial Magnetic Fields and Structure Formation
06:40	George Smoot	Conference Summary
06:55	K. Gorski and M. Kamionkowski	Closing Remarks
07:00	Dinner on your own