What's New 2009

What's New 2009

January 5-7

AAS 213th meeting at Long Beach, CA

1/5: NRT(5:05pm)-LAX(9:45am)
1/6: Talk at the CMB special session.
1/7: LAX(1:15pm)-AUS(6:05pm)

January 23

Baylor Colledge, Waco, TX

February 6-7

BoV Meeting, Austin, TX

2/7: Great Lecture, "Frontiers in Cosmology"

February 8-19

Japan.

2/8-9: AUS(9:50am)-DFW-NRT(4:35pm)
2/10-12: The 3rd Asian School of Particles, "Strings and Cosmology," Kusatsu, Gunma, Japan.
2/13-15: Takarazuka
2/16-18: GCOE S ymposium, Kyoto University
2/19: NRT(7:00pm)-DFW-AUS(6:35pm)

February 11

WMAP 5-year papers have appeared on ApJS!

February 25-27

University of California, Berkeley.

2/25: AUS(6:35am)-SFO(8:34am)
2/26: Co lloquium
2/27: SFO(11:44am)-AUS(5:14pm)

March 6

The official website for the Texas Cosmology Cen ter (TCC) is now open!

March 11-23

"The Big Bang and Beyond," The Princeton Center for Theoretical Sciences (PCTS), Princeton, NJ.

3/11: AUS(6:25am)-EWR(11:01am)
3/12: Talk at Brookhaven National Lab.
3/23: EWR(2:35pm)-AUS(5:53pm)

April 6-10

Japan.

4/4-5: AUS(8:50am)-DFW-NRT(3:05pm)
4/6-10: Focus week on non-Gaussianities in CMB at IPMU
4/11: NRT(5:35pm)-ORD-AUS(7:50pm)

April 13-16

Tufts University.

4/13: AUS(12:55pm)-BOS(5:57pm)
4/14: Seminar at Tufts Univ.
4/15: Tufts Univ. (or MIT or Harvard?)
4/16: BOS(8:50am)-AUS(12:20pm)

April 17

A presentation for the Advisory Board to the College of Natural Science.

April 26 - May 2

Sunyaev-Zeldovich Universe and the Future of Cluster Cosmology, Perimeter Institute For Theoretical Physics

4/26: AUS(5:10pm)-YYZ(9:22pm)
4/27-5/1: Sunyaev-Zeldovich Universe and the Future of Cluster Cosmology. Video o f my talk is available here.
5/2: YYZ(10:04am)-IAD-AUS(3:16pm)

May 6

University of Delaware.

5/6: AUS(10:35am)-DFW-PHL(5:05pm)
5/7: Colloquium
5/8: PHL(8:55am)-DFW-AUS(1:55pm)

May 10-18

Brussels, Belgium.

5/10-11: AUS(12:10pm)-ORD-BRU(8:00am)
5/12: Solvay Colloquium
5/13-16: Solvay Workshop, "Cosmological Frontiers in Fundamental Physics," Brussels, Belg ium.
5/18: BRU(11:05am)-ORD-AUS(7:50pm)

May 14

Journey to the origin of the universe, 2nd stage - Planck satellite, launched successfully. Congratulations to the Planck team! May Planck be a very successful experiment, and may the B-modes and f_NL ( two biggest things expected from Planck in my opinion) be there!

May 21 - July 16

The Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Univer se (IPMU), Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan.

5/21-22: AUS(8:05am)-DFW-NRT(1:10pm)
5/25-5/31: IPMU
6/1-6/5: Tohoku University
- 6/1: Colloquium (on CMB B-mode polarization) at the Department of Astronomy
- 6/4: Talk on Primordial Non-Gaussianity at the Department of Physics
6/6-7/15: IPMU
- 6/12: Mini-workshop on "Horava-Lifshitz Gravity" at IPMU
- 6/16: Univ. of Tokyo
- 6/17: Lecture at IPMU, "Lecture on B-mode polarization and Primordial non-Gaussia nity: Two big things to expect from the Planck data." The lecture note is available f rom here.
- 6/22-26: IPMU International Conference, Dark Energy: Lighting Up the Darkness
- 7/3: Colloquium on cosmology at the University of Tokyo
- 7/8: KEK Physics Seminar
7/16: NRT(6:00pm)-DFW-AUS(6:35pm)

July 3

According to the Planck website, the HFI has cooled down to 0.1K, and both LFI and HFI are no w taking the science data. Planck is only a few days before reaching L2. Congratulati ons!

July 21-27

Paris, France.

7/21-22: AUS(2:50pm)-DFW-CDG(9:40am)
7/23-25: The 13th Paris Cosmology Colloquium 2009, "The Standard Model of the Universe: From Inflation to Today Dark Energy," Paris.
7/27: CDG(11:40am)-DFW-AUS(5:35pm)

August 8

According to the Planck website, the Fight Light Survey is starting today. At the Paris Cosmo logy conference above, Reno Mandolesi, a PI of the Planck LFI, gave a nice talk on th e status update on LFI, and showed a preliminary map of a strip of the sky observed b y Planck as of July 24. He then compared Planck's data of a region on the Galactic pl ane to WMAP's, showing great sensitivty that Planck has achieved for the first few ho urs (? - I forgot exactly how many hours they have spent on the first strip they obse rved) of observations. Nice!

August 15-22

Vacation in Borneo! (I won't read any emails!)

8/15-17: AUS-LAX-INC-BKI (so far away...)
8/22: BKI-INC-NRT-LAX-AUS

August 30

The WMAP 5-year paper is featured among the Hot Papers in physics in September/October 2009.

September 13-16

Maryland.

September 17

Images from the Planck First Light Survey. Impressive.

October 1

The WMAP 5-year paper is featured among the Fast Breaking Papers in October 2009.

October 3-8

Japan.

10/3-4: AUS-DFW-NRT-ITM
10/5: Takarazuka
10/6-7: Tokyo
10/8: NRT-DFW-AUS

October 29-30

Texas Cosmology Network Meeting 2009 .

November 10-12

Caltech.

11/10: AUS(11am)-LAX(12:10pm)
11/12: LAX(6:45pm)-AUS(11:35pm)

November 30-December 5

Texas A&M University.

December 25-January 7

Japan.

12/25-26: AUS-IAH-NRT
12/27-1/1: Fukushima
1/2-6: Takarazuka
1/7: NRT-IAH-AUS

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