Dark Energy

PAU Members have participated in many outreach activities in themes directly or indirectly related to PAU. These include presentations to the general public as well as presentations of the PAU project to other scientists. An incomplete list is the following:

2008

Scientific talks

Enrique Fernandez, “The PAU (BAO) Survey”, 43 Rencontres de Moriond,La Thuille, Italy, (March 2008).

Enrique Gaztañaga, “The PAU Survey ”, SACLAY, Paris, France (June 2008); “Clustering with LRG ”, talk given at Porthmouth, UK (Sep 2008) ; UCL, London, UK (Sep 2008); Durham, UK (Sep 2008); Columbia University, NY, USA (Nov 2008); U. Pitsburgh, USA (Nov 2008).

Ramon Miquel, “The PAU Survey, Ohio State University”, Michigan, USA (Nov 2008); The PAU Survey, Moderm Cosmology, Benasque, Spain (Aug 2008).

Licia Verde, Invited review talk at Space Telescope Science Institute 2008 spring symposium “A decade of dark energy”, Baltimore, MD, USA (May 2008); Invited review talk on “Dark energy”, at “Topical Workshop on Cosmology: Interplay Between Theory and Observations”, Center for Cosmology and Gravitation, Penn State University, State College, PA, USA (May 2008); “Non Gaussianity and Large scale structures”, invited talk by at workshop on NonGaussianity at Perimeter Institute (Canada) (March 2008); European Science Foundation exploratory workshop “Astrophysical Tests of Fundamental Physics”; ”Observational Cosmology and fundamental Physics”, Centro de Astrofisica, Universidade do Porto, PT (March 2008). 

Enrique Fernandez-Martinez, “Astrophysical tests of fundamental Physics” 27-29/3/2008, Porto, Portugal; XIV IFT Christmas Workshops, 17-19/12/2008, Madrid; “Essential Cosmology for the next generation”, 12-16/1/2008, Los Cabos, Mexico.

Raul Jimenez, Invited colloquium APC Paris March 2008; Invited talk at Edinburgh meeting "Decrypting the Universe" October 2007.

E. Sánchez,”Observational constraints on Dark Energy”, Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium, March 2008; Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain, May 2008.

Julia Campa et al.: "CCD Tharge Transfer Efficiency test with the new DES Clock Board", Poster Presentation, SPIE Astronomical Instrumentaction, Marseille, France, June 2008; Poster Presentation, PIXEL 2008, Fermilab (FNAL), Illinois, September, 2008.

H. Thomas Diehl, Robert Angstad, Julia Campa et al. "Characterization of DECam focal plane detectors". SPIE Astronomical Instrumentaction, Marseille, France, June 2008.

Francisco Javier Castander, VIII Reunión Científica de la SEA, Invited talk, “DUNE and SPACE missions”, July 2008

Francisco Javier Castander, Cosmology Meeting Benasque, Invited talk, “Comparison of BAO experiments”, August 2008

Francisco Javier Castander, Workshop on Extragalactic Surveys, Granada, Invited talk, “Comparison of BAO experiments”, October 2008

Francisco Javier Castander, Dark Energy Workshop, Orsay Paris, Invited talk, “BAO theory”, November 2008

Francisco Javier Castander, Euclid Stakeholders Meeting, Estec, Holland, Invited talk, “Spanish Involvemnet in Euclid”, December 2008

For the general public

Carlos Peña Garay: Dark Matter and Dark Energy, FNAC, Valencia Oct 2008.

Licia Verde: SETroutes Insight lecture (www.set-routes.org), Nov 2008, CERN   "the dark side of the Universe"; EuroScience Open Forum - ESOF 2008 “A crisis in Cosmology?”, Barcelona, July 2008; “A Decade of Dark Energy Science Writer’s Workshop”, “How can the CMB help constraining dark energy?”, May 2008, Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD, USA; “XI ciclo de conferencias presente y futuro del a ciencia y la tecnologia”, “La energia Oscura” by L.Verde, Malaga, April 2008; “Dark energy”, March 2008, Oporto.

2009

Plenary Session at Conference TAUP2009, DARK ENERGY PROBES, Rome, Italy, 2009.

Reunion ASTRID Madrid, UCM 23-25/09/2009.

Conference DETECTORS ESO, Garching, Munich 12-16/10/2009 Poster: The PAU camera.

Euclid Conference ESA, Noordwijk 17-18/11/2009.

ESO Workshop on Large Spectroscopic Surveys, Invited presentation on PAU, 9/3/2009.

DES collaboration meeting Stanford 2-4/12/2009.

Meeting CDTI Madrid 15/12/2009.

Direction of Modern Cosmology, Barcelona, 2/3/2009.

Aspen Workshop on Wide Field Surveys, May 2009.

ESA Presentation of Cosmic Vision Paris 01/12/2009.

Red Espanyola Supercomputacion (RES) MICE, Universidad de Cantabria, Sep 2009.

EGEE'09 conference, September 21-25,/ 2009/ in /Barcelona/, "VOMS Roles and Dark energy"; G. Berabeu, M. Delfino, E. Gaztañaga, F. Martinez, R. Muñoz, C. Neissner.?

Ramon Miquel, "Measuring Baryon Acoustic Oscillations along the line of sight with photo-zs: the PAU survey", Invisible Universe International Conference, Paris (France), June 2009.

L.Verde, colloquium “Polarization of the CMB: the next frontier” CERN, Geneva (May 2009),

L.Verde, talk at Cosmostats, Ascona (July 2009).

 

L.Verde, LSS and primordial nongaussianity, DAMTP, Cambridge (Nov 2009).

L.Verde, Future galaxy surveys, Weizmann Institute, Israel (Dec 2009).

J. Miralda-Escude, Strong and Weak gravitacional lensing,  Galileo Galilei Institute New Horizons in Cosmology, Florence, Italy, Feb 17, 2009.?

C. Pena-Garay, BAO: spectroscopy vs photometry,  Galileo Galilei Institute New Horizons in Cosmology, Florence, Italy, Feb 19, 2009.?

L. Verde, Primordial nongaussianities from LSS, Galileo Galilei Institute New Horizons in Cosmology, Florence, Italy, Feb 5, 2009.

L. Lopez-Honorez, Instabilities in dark coupled models, Invisible Universe International Conference, Paris (July 2009).

L. Lopez-Honorez, Non-adiabatic Instabilities in dark coupled models, Electroweak Interactions and Unified Theories, La Thuile , Italy (March 2009).

E.Gaztanaga, Organizers of Workshop: Dark Matter and Dark Energy, guests: S.White, J.Peacok, J.Frieman & J.Garcia-Bellido,  CosmoCaixa (Science Museum), Mar 2009.

Organizers of Outreach Conference Series: A COSMIC PUZZLE, J.Casares (29/10/2009), R.Scoccimarro (26/11/2009), A.Olinto (15/12/09), CosmoCaixa (Science Museum).

E. Fernandez, “El Proyecto Consolider PAU” , presented at Encuentros Consolider para la Innovación, San Sebastián, Spain, May 2009.

E. Fernandez, “The PAU Consolider Project”, presented at RENATA (Red Temática Astropartículas) Alcalá de Henares, Spain, June 2009.

Organizers of activities within the  International year of the Astronomy 2009. In particular, Amelia Ortiz is member of the board of activities. Refer to http://astronomia2009.es/ for further details.

Francisco Javier Castander: “The PAU survey”, Seminar at Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile, June 2009.

Francisco Javier Castander: “Galaxy Formation and Evolution”. Seminar at Universitat d’Estiu de l’Autonoma 2009, July 2009.

2010

A. Carnero and E. Sanchez: "The Sound Horizon Scale with Photometric Redshift Surveys", Modern Cosmology Workshop, Benasque, Spain, August 2010.

A. J. Garcia-Bellido, "Primordial gravitational waves and the local B-polarization of the CMB''. 45th Rencontres de Moriond, "Cosmology 2010", La Thuile, Italy, March 2010, published in Proceedings.

J. Garcia-Bellido, "Primordial Gravitational Waves from Inflation and Preheating'', Yukawa Institute Symposium 2010, "Cosmology: The next generation", Kyoto, Japan, June 2010, published in Proccedings.

Francisco Javier Castander: “PAU narrow-band cosmology survey”. Contributed talk at Science with the WHT workshop, RAS, London, March 2010.

Francisco Javier Castander: “Cosmology with Photometric Redshift Surveys”. Invited talk at Cosmology with redshift surveys meeting, Marseille, France, April 2010.

Francisco Javier Castander: “Preparing for Euclid a space misión to map the universe”. Contributed talk at Cosmology Meeting Benasque, August 2010.

Francisco Javier Castander, "Euclid", Contributed talk IX Reunión Científica de la SEA, Madrid, September 2010.

R. Casas et al.: Poster on PAUCam, at Science with the WHT workshop, RAS, London, March 2010.

For the general public

E.Gaztanaga: http://vimeo.com/13845971. Micro-charlas en la Fiesta de la Ciencia 2010: "Porque se expande el Universo".

E. Fernandez, “Neutrinos de origen cósmico”, E. Fernández, Associació Astronòmica Valldoreix-St. Cugat, C. Cultura St. Cugat, 17/05/2010.

E. Fernandez, “Hacia los Límites del Espacio y Tiempo”, E. Fernández, Ciclo conf. de Consejo de Salud, Villiaviciosa, Asturias, 12/08/2010.

Juan Garcia-Bellido, "El Universo en Expansion", 14/08/2010: Centro de Ciencias Pedro Pascual, Benasque.

Juan Garcia-Bellido, "Cuando el universo media un centimetro", 14/06/2010, Univ. Internacional Menéndez Pelayo, Santander.

Juan Garcia-Bellido,  "How the Universe became local flat and plentiful", Chapter in book for general public: "Beyond the Big Bang", Ed. Ruediger Vaas, Springer Verlag (2010). ISBN: 978-3-540-71422-4.