APRIL 21-23, 2011

BERKELEY
  CMB LENSING
   WORKSHOP

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THURSDAY, APRIL 21, Helmholz Room, 375 LeConte


8:45: Welcome by Sudeep and Oliver


SESSION 1: Review and Past Detections


9-9:45: Kendrick Smith: Review of CMB lensing PDF


10-10:15: Joseph Smidt: WMAP-7 lensing reconstruction PDF


10:20-10:40: Coffee from Philz!  (voted the best coffee in SF by SF Weekly)


10:40-11:10: Blake Sherwin: CMB lensing reconstruction with ACT PDF


11:20-11:50: Alexander van Engelen: CMB lensing reconstruction with SPT  PDF


12-1:30: Lunch around campus


1:30-2:00: Ryan Keisler: Measuring the CMB Damping Tail with SPT PDF


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SESSION 2: Lensing reconstruction systematics and simulation techniques


2:10-2:50: Stephen Osborne: Unresolved Foreground Contamination to CMB Lens Reconstruction PDF

3:00-3:15: Aurelien Benoit-Levy / Typhaine Dechelette: Dealing with residuals galactic foreground and resolved point sources in full-sky CMB lensing reconstruction.PDF


3:20-3:35: Coffee from Philz!



3:35-4:05: Nathan Miller: Beam Systematics, Lensing, and Current/Future Experiments  PDF


4:15-4:30: Wei-Hsiang Teng: Cosmic Microwave Background Delensing Revisited: Residual Biases and a Simple Fix. PDF


4:35-4:50: Toshiya Namikawa: An algorithm for reconstructing gradient- and curl-type lensing fields from CMB maps   PDF


4:55- Extra discussion and Conclusion of day 1


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FRIDAY, APRIL 22, Perseverance Hall, LBL  Bldg 54 (Cafeteria)



SESSION 3: Future CMB lensing observations and external data sets


9-9:30: Kimmy Wu:  The POLAR Array  PDF


9:40-10:05: Jeff McMahon: CMB  lensing from arcminute polarization experiments PDF


10:10-10:25: Coffee


10:25-10:55: Myers: PolarBear PDF


SESSION 4: Science with CMB lensing reconstruction and Cross correlation.


11:05-11:20: Alexie Leauthaud: The CFHT Stripe 82 lensing survey

PDF


11:25-11:55: Eric Huff: Magnificent Magnification: Extracting the Other Half of the Lensing Signal.  PDF


12:00-1:30: Cheeseboard Pizza at the lab


1:30-2:00: Alberto Vallinotto:  CMB lensing cross correlations as cosmological and astrophysical tool. PDF


2:05-2:45: Marco Viero: Clustering of Infrared Point Sources from Herschel/SPIRE  PDF



2:45-3:00: Coffee


3:00-3:20 Duncan Hanson: The shape of the CMB lensing bispectrum. PDF


3:25-3:40: Giulio Fabbian: High precision pixel-based simulations of the CMB lensing. PDF


3:45-4:40 Hans Paar: Reconstruction of Gravitational Lensing PDF


4:45 - Extra discussion and conclusion of the day




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SATURDAY APRIL 23, Helmholz Room, 375 LeConte



SESSION 5: Remote participants and wrapping up as well as future plans.


9:30-10:00: Silvia Galli : Future CMB and lensing constraints on fundamental physics PS


10:10-10:40: Meng Su: Instrumental systematics on lensing reconstruction and primordial B-mode diagnostics from CMB polarization.  PDF


10:45-: Coffee followed by review and conclusion by the organizers and informal brainstorming about projects until 12-12:30. Then lunch and enjoy Berkeley.



Sudeep/ Oliver : SUMMARY PDF