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Schedule

Wednesday, April 28

 TimeSpeaker or EventTopicLocation
 8:30am - 9:30amRegistration  Atrium
 Session Chair: Sarah Shandera
 9:30 - 10:15am Gil Holder, McGill UniversityFingerprints of structure formation in the microwave background  Bob Room (#405)
 10:15 - 11:00amJeffrey Newman,
University of Pittsburgh		Optical Surveys of Large-Scale Structure  Bob Room (#405)
 11:00 - 11:45amCoffee Break  Black Hole Bistro
 11:45am - 12:30pm Pengjie Zhang, Shanghai Astronomical ObservatoryTesting gravity at cosmological scales: from linear to nonlinear regimes  Bob Room (#405)
 12:30 - 2:00pm
Lunch  Black Hole Bistro
 2:00 - 3:30pm Colloquium: Wayne Hu, University of Chicago
Cosmic Acceleration: Dark Energy vs Modified Gravity  Bob Room (#405)
 3:30 - 4:00pm
Coffee Break  Black Hole Bistro
 Session Chair: Mark Wyman
 4:00 - 4:45pmRoman Scoccimarro, New York University
 TBA  Bob Room (#405)
 4:45 - 5:30pmAnze Slosar, Brookhaven National LabTBA  Bob Room (#405)
 5:30 - 6:30pm Break
  
 6:30pm
Banquet Dinner
  Black Hole Bistro

Thursday, April 29

 TimeSpeaker or EventTopicLocation
 Session Chair: Neal Dalal
 9:00 - 9:45am Alexey Vikhlinin, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Recent advances and future challenges for using galaxy clusters in cosmology Bob Room (#405)
 9:45 - 10:30amHy Trac,  Harvard-Smithsonian Center for AstrophysicsTemplates for the SZ Angular Power Spectrum Bob Room (#405)
 10:30 - 11:00amCoffee Break
  Black Hole Bistro
 11:00 - 11:45am Eiichiro Komatsu, University of Texas
Bullet Cluster: A Challenge to Lambda-CDM Cosmology  Bob Room (#405)
 11:45am - 12:30pmDragan Huterer, University of Michigan
 Falsifying Paradigms for Cosmic Acceleration  Bob Room (#405)
 12:30 - 2:00pm Lunch  Black Hole Bistro
Session Chair: TBA
 2:00 - 2:45pm
Alberto Nicolis, Columbia University
 The Galileon as a local modification of gravity  Bob Room (#405)
 2:45 - 3:30pm
Paolo Creminelli, ICTP Trieste Galilean Genesis: an alternative to inflation Black Hole Bistro
 3:30 - 4:00pm
Coffee Break
   Black Hole Bistro
 4:00 - 4:45pmUe-Li Pen, CITA
 TBA  Bob Room (#405)
 4:45 - 5:30pmFabian Schmidt, California Institute of Technology
 Non-linear structure formation in modified gravity   Bob Room (#405)

Friday, April 30

 TimeSpeaker or Event
TopicLocation 
 Session Chair: TBA
 9:00 - 9:45am
Chris Hirata, California Institute of Technology
 Tidal Alignments & Large Scale Structure  Bob Room (#405)
 9:45 - 10:30am Bhuvnesh Jain, University of Pennsylvania
 Magnification of high-redshift galaxies
 Bob Room (#405)
 10:30 - 11:00am
Coffee Break
  Black Hole Bistro
 11:00 - 11:45am
Lam Hui, Columbia University
Robustness and Violations of a Scalar Equivalence Principle  Bob Room (#405)
 11:45am - 12:30pm
Suzanne Staggs, Princeton University TBA  Bob Room (#405)
 12:30 - 2:00pm
Lunch
  Black Hole Bistro
 Session Chair: TBA
 2:00 - 2:45pm
Michael Gladders, University of Chicago
 Strong Lensing on Galaxy Cluster Scales  Bob Room (#405)
 2:45 - 3:30pm James Taylor, University of Waterloo
  TBA Black Hole Bistro
 
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