Conference Agenda

Wednesday, March 17

6:00 - 8:00pm Evening Reception

Thursday, March 18

AM Session: Introduction - Dave De Young, Chair

8:30 Jeremy Mould

Introduction

8:45 Rocky Kolb

Theorizing Dark Energy

9:30 Sean Carroll

What is w Allowed To Be?

10:00 Break

10:30 Georgi Dvali

Dark Energy or Large-Distance Modification of Gravity?

11:00 Discussion, Panel, Open Mike

11:30 Lunch (Provided)

PM Session: Supernovae - Daniel Eisenstein, Chair

1:30 Saul Perlmutter

Supernovae, Dark Energy, and SNAP

2:00 Nick Suntzeff

Dark Energy Measurements from the High-Z Supernova Survey and ESSENCE

2:30 Chris Pritchet

SNLS - the Supernova Legacy Survey at CFHT

3:00 Break

3:30 Adam G. Riess

Supernovae at z>1: Kinematics and Dark Energy

4:00 Tod Lauer

DESTINY - The Dark Energy Space Telescope

4:20 Wendy Freedman

The Carnegie Supernova Project

4:45 Discussion, Panel, Open Mike

Friday, March 19

AM Session: Gravitational Lensing - Tereasa Brainerd, Chair

8:30 Gary Bernstein

Realistic Forecasts for Dark Energy Constraints from Planned Weak Lensing Surveys.

9:00 Tony Tyson

Constraining the Physics of Dark Energy and Dark Matter via Gravitational Lensing

9:30 Bhuvnesh Jain

Probing Dark Energy with Weak Lensing Surveys

10:00 Break

10:30 Lloyd Knox

Weak Lensing and Supernovae as Complementary Probes of Dark Energy

11:00 Roger Blandford

Strong Lensing and Cosmography

11:30 Discussion, Panel, Open Mike

12:00 Conference Photograph

12:15 Lunch (Provided)

PM Session: Galaxy Clusters - Bob Nichol, Chair

2:00 Ruth Daly

A Direct Measurement of the Pressure and Energy Density of the Dark Energy as a Function of Redshift

2:30 Marc Davis

Constraining Dark Energy Using The DEEP2 abundance of distant Clusters

3:00 Joe Mohr

Studies of Cosmology and Structure Formation with Galaxy Cluster Surveys

3:30 Break

4:00 Martin White

Clusters and Dark Energy

4:30 Sarah Church

Recent Results from the SuZIE Experiment

5:00 Discussion, Panel, Open Mike

Saturday, March 20

AM Session: Acoustic Oscillations, ISW - Andy Connolly, Chair

9:00 Daniel Eisenstein

Dark Energy and Cosmic Sound

9:30 Lam Hui

Geometrical Constraints on Dark Energy from Lensing and the Lyman-alpha Forest

10:00 Ryan Scranton

Looking for Dark Energy with SDSS and WMAP

10:30 Discussion, Panel, Open Mike

11:00 Break, Posters

12:00 Lunch

PM Session: CMB - Chair TBD

1:30 Rachel Bean

Can We Hope to Detect Dark Energy Perturbations?

2:00 Wayne Hu

Dark Energy Probes in Light of the CMB

2:30 Break

3:00 Licia Verde

Probing dark energy with the CMB

3:30 Discussion, Panel, Open Mike

4:00 Michael Turner

Cosmic Acceleration: The Most Profound Question in Science