Astrophysics, Cosmology and Gravity

Presentations

• Searching for the Epoch of Reionization with the MWA

  COFFEE_KLATCH · Invited

  May 15, 2009, 10:00 AM – May 15, 2009, 10:36 AM

  Authors

  • Miguel Morales

    • University of Washington, Seattle

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• Cosmological tests of GR -- a look at the principals

  ORAL

  May 15, 2009, 10:36 AM – May 15, 2009, 10:48 AM

  Authors

  • Levon Pogosian

    • Department of Physics, Simon Fraser University
    • Simon Fraser University

  • Gong-Bo Zhao

    • Simon Fraser University

  • Alessandra Silverstri

    • MIT

  • Joel Zylberberg

    • UC Berkley

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• Can we avoid dark energy?

  ORAL

  May 15, 2009, 10:48 AM – May 15, 2009, 11:00 AM

  Authors

  • Jim Zibin

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• BLAST resolves origins of Cosmic Infrared Background

  ORAL

  May 15, 2009, 11:00 AM – May 15, 2009, 11:12 AM

  Authors

  • Henry Ngo

    • UBC

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• The Galactic Magnetic Field as Viewed from the VLA

  ORAL

  May 15, 2009, 11:12 AM – May 15, 2009, 11:24 AM

  Authors

  • Cameron Van Eck

    • University of Calgary

  • Jo-Anne Brown

    • University of Calgary

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• Protohalo Constraints to the Resonant Annihilation of Dark Matter

  ORAL

  May 15, 2009, 11:24 AM – May 15, 2009, 11:36 AM

  Authors

  • Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine

    • UBC

  • Stefano Profumo

    • UC Santa Cruz

  • Kris Sigurdson

    • UBC

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• BREAK

  COFFEE_KLATCH

  May 15, 2009, 11:36 AM – May 15, 2009, 11:50 AM

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• Black Body Detector Temperature from Gall and Planck Perspectives

  ORAL

  May 15, 2009, 11:50 AM – May 15, 2009, 12:02 PM

  Authors

  • Clarence A. Gall

    • Postgrado de Ingenieria, Universidad del Zulia, Maracaibo, Venezuela

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• Implementing wavelet technique for reconstructing the equation of state of Dark Energy

  ORAL

  May 15, 2009, 12:02 PM – May 15, 2009, 12:14 PM

  Authors

  • Alireza Hojjati

    • Department of Physics, Simon Fraser University

  • Gong-Bo Zhao

    • Department of Physics, Simon Fraser University

  • Levon Pogosian

    • Department of Physics, Simon Fraser University
    • Simon Fraser University

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• Numerical modeling of pulse shapes of the millisecond X-ray pulsar SAX J1808-3658

  ORAL

  May 15, 2009, 12:14 PM – May 15, 2009, 12:26 PM

  Authors

  • Denis Leahy

    • University of Calgary

  • Sharon Morsink

    • University of Alberta

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• A null experiment shows that superluminal group velocity of tunneling photons is not superluminal energy flow because it is not sensitive to Earth's absolute motion

  ORAL

  May 15, 2009, 12:26 PM – May 15, 2009, 12:38 PM

  Authors

  • George Soli

    • Integrated Detector Systems

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• Looking toward the Horizon, a revisit of Gaussian Curves

  ORAL

  May 15, 2009, 12:38 PM – May 15, 2009, 12:50 PM

  Authors

  • Richard Kriske

    • University of Minnesota

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• NASA's LCROSS Mission and the Search for Water Ice on the Moon

  ORAL

  May 15, 2009, 12:50 PM – May 15, 2009, 1:02 PM

  Authors

  • Gwendolyn Bart

    • Univ. of Idaho

  • Anthony Colaprete

    • NASA Ames Research Center

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• Vibrational Spectroscopy of Aerosols in Titan's Atmosphere

  ORAL

  May 15, 2009, 1:02 PM – May 15, 2009, 1:14 PM

  Authors

  • Chia Wang

    • University of British Columbia

  • Ruth Signorell

    • University of British Columbia

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