Tuesday, October 03, 2006
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Morning Session Chair: Magda Arnaboldi
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Opening Session
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8:45am |
David Gross
(UCSB, KITP Director)
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Welcome [Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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9:00am |
Paul Schechter
(MIT)
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Galaxies: What do we know and how do we know it?[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
The Outer Regions of DM Haloes
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10:00am |
Julio Navarro
(Univ. Victoria)
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Galaxy Dark-Matter Halos: Their Formation, Structure and Evolution[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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10:40am |
MORNING BREAK |
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11:10am |
James Bullock
(UC Irvine)
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The Outer Haloes and Their Tracers (X-ray/satellites)[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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11:35am |
Priya Natarajan
(Yale Univ.)
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Galaxy-Galaxy Lensing Constraints on Mass Profiles[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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12:00pm |
POSTER SESSION/DISCUSSION |
[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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12:30pm |
LUNCH BREAK |
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Afternoon Session Chair: Konrad Kuijken
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The Inner Cusps of DM Haloes
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1:55pm |
Jürg Diemand
(UC Sta Cruz)
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Convergence and Scatter of DM Density Profiles[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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2:20pm |
Oleg Gnedin
(Univ. of Michigan)
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Inner Regions of Galaxies and the Effects of Baryons[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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2:45pm |
Robert Swaters
(Univ. Maryland)
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DM Cusps in Galaxies from Rotation Curves[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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3:10pm |
David Rusin
(Univ. of Penn)
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Constraints on the Inner Region of Galaxies from Strong Lensing[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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3:35pm |
AFTERNOON BREAK |
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4:05pm |
Dennis Zaritsky
(Univ. of Arizona)
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Constraints on Clusters & Cluster-Galaxies from their Baryonic Content[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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4:30pm |
David Sand
(Univ. of Arizona)
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Constraints on the Inner Region of Clusters from Strong Lensing[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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5:00pm |
POSTER SESSION/DISCUSSION |
[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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5:45pm |
SHUTTLE TO BWSCI |
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6:00pm |
WINE AND CHEESE RECEPTION |
At the Best Western South Coast Inn (no return shuttle to KITP) |
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Wednesday, October 04, 2006
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Morning Session Chair: Steve Myers
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CDM Substructure
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9:00am |
Ben Moore
(Univ. of Zurich)
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The Formation of CDM Substructure[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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9:40am |
Andrey Kravtsov
(Univ. of Chicago)
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The Evolution & Destruction of CDM Substructure[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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10:05am |
Douglas Clowe
(Univ. Arizona)
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A Direct Empirical Proof of the Existence of Dark Matter[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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10:30am |
MORNING BREAK |
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11:00am |
Christopher Kochanek
(Ohio State)
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CDM Substructure and its Evidence from Strong Lensing[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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11:40am |
Maruša Bradač
(Stanford)
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Comparing Simulations with Observations[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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12:05pm |
Raja Guhathakurta
(UC Sta Cruz)
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Substructure in the Local Group[Slides][Podcast][Vid][Aud][Cam] |
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12:30pm |
LUNCH BREAK |
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Afternoon Session Chair: Crystal Martin
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Relating Supermassive Black Holes, Stars and DM Halos
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2:00pm |
Chung-Pei Ma
(UC Berkeley)
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Stars, Dark Matter, and SMBHs in Elliptical Galaxies[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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2:40pm |
Darren Croton
(UC Berkeley)
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Interplay between Stars, Dark matter and SMBHs[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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3:05pm |
Tommaso Treu
(UCSB)
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Galaxy Scaling Laws under the Gravitational Microscope[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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3:30pm |
AFTERNOON BREAK |
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4:00pm |
Joachim Wambsganss
(Heidelberg Univ.)
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Microlensing and Compact objects in Galaxies[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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4:40pm |
Milos Milosavljevic
(Caltech)
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SMBH in the Centers of Galaxies[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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5:15pm |
WINE AND BEER |
KITP Courtyard |
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6:00pm |
SPECIAL EVENTS DINNER |
KITP Courtyard |
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8:00pm |
SHUTTLE TO BWSCI |
*time is flexible |
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Thursday, October 05, 2006
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Morning Session Chair: Ortwin Gerhard
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Synergy: Gravitational Lensing and Other Methods to Measure Mass
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9:00am |
Giuseppe Bertin
(Univ. Milano)
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Constraints from Stellar Dynamics & X-rays on Galaxies[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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9:40am |
Leon Koopmans
(Kapteyn Institute)
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Joint Lensing and Stellar Dynamics of Galaxies[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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10:05am |
Stacy McGaugh
(Univ. Maryland)
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Balance of Dark and Luminous Mass in Rotating Galaxies[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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10:30am |
MORNING BREAK |
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11:00am |
Jean-Paul Kneib
(OAMP France)
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Lensing, Dynamics and X-rays of Clusters of Galaxies[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
Gravitational Telescopes: High-z & Faint Sources
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11:25am |
Roser Pello
(Obs. Midi-Pyrenees)
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Galaxies Surveys at the EoR with Gravitational Telescopes[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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12:05pm |
Siang Peng Oh
(UCSB)
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What we want to find out about the sources of reionization.[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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12:45pm |
LUNCH BREAK |
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Afternoon Session Chair: Genevieve Soucail
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2:15pm |
Massimo Stiavelli
(STScI, MD)
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Detecting first light: ultra-deep surveys with gravitational telescopes and the JWST.[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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2:40pm |
Michael Rauch
(Carnegie Obs.)
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Galaxy Formation and the High-z IGM[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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3:05pm |
Andrew Blain
(Caltech)
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Multi-wavelength Properties & Kinematics of Lensed Galaxies[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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3:30pm |
AFTERNOON BREAK |
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Lensing, LSS and Cosmology
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4:00pm |
Charles Keeton
(Rutgers)
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Cosmology with Strong Lensing[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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4:25pm |
Bhuvnesh Jain
(Univ. of Penn)
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Cosmology with Weak Lensing[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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5:00pm |
RECEPTION |
KITP Courtyard |
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6:30pm |
SHUTTLE TO BWSCI |
*time is flexible |
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Friday, October 06, 2006
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Morning Session Chair: Lori Lubin
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9:00am |
Neal Jackson
(Univ. Manchester)
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Hubble Constant from Lensing and Other Methods[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
Strong Lens Surveys
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9:25am |
Ann Zabludoff
(Univ. of Arizona)
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Galaxy Groups and Lensing[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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9:50am |
Christopher Fassnacht
(UC Davis)
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Lens Galaxies and their Enviroment[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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10:15am |
MORNING BREAK |
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10:45am |
Dan Maoz
(Tel Aviv Univ.)
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Lens Surveys & Statistics[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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11:10am |
Adam Bolton
(Harvard, CfA)
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Spectroscopically Selected Lenses[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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11:35am |
Philip Marshall
(Stanford/UCSB)
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Future Searches for Lenses[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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12:00pm |
LUNCH BREAK |
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Afternoon Session Chair: Matthias Steinmetz
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Future Outlook
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1:30pm |
Richard Ellis
(Caltech)
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Observational Studies of Galaxies[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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2:00pm |
Rosemary Wyse
(John Hopkins)
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Galaxy Structure[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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2:30pm |
AFTERNOON BREAK |
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3:00pm |
Piero Madau
(UC Sta Cruz)
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Reionization and Substructure[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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3:30pm |
Tony Tyson
(UC Davis)
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Instrumentation[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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4:00pm |
Peter Schneider
(Univ. of Bonn)
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Conference Summary and Future Outlook [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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5:00pm |
SHUTTLE TO BWSCI |
Shuttle available to SB Airport and SB Airbus also. *time is flexible |
ABSTRACTS/POSTER PRESENTATIONS
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Eric Agol
(Univ. Washington)
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Death of a Cosmic String Lens Candidate |
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Matt Auger
(UC Davis)
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The Gravitational Lens -- Galaxy Group Connection |
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Edward Boyce
(Univ. of Manchester)
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The Extragalactic Lens VLBI Imaging Survey (ELVIS): Searching for Central
Images |
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Virginie Chantry
(Univ. de Liège)
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Deconvolution of HST images of the Cloverleaf gravitational lens: Detection of the lensing galaxy and an incomplete Einstein ring. |
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Jaqueline Chen
(Univ. of Chicago)
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Astrometric Perturbations in Strong Lenses from CDM Substructure |
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Julie Comerford
(UC Berkeley)
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Density Profiles and Concentrations of Strong Lensing Clusters |
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Barun Dhar
(Univ. of Minn.)
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Non-Parametric Mass Reconstruction of the Lens SDSS1004 |
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Sudeep Das
(Princeton)
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A New Analytic Model for Lensing Convergence |
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Benjamin Dobke
(Univ. of Cambridge)
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Halo Density Profiles from Lensing Time Delays and Tidal Interactions of Lens Galaxies |
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Alex Eigenbrod & Frédéric Courbin
(EPFL SB IPEP LASTRO )
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Integral Field Spectroscopy of the Lensing Galaxy in the Einstein Cross |
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Árdís Elíasdóttir
(Niels Bohr Inst.)
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Extinction Curves of Lensing Galaxies |
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Aleksi Halkola
(Ludwig Max. Univ.)
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Extensions of Galaxy Haloes in Abell 1689 using Strong Galaxy-Galaxy Lensing |
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Stefan Hilbert
(MPI für Astrophysik)
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Ray Tracing through the Millennium Simulation |
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Eric Jullo
(ESO, Chile)
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Lenstool and Cosmological Parameters |
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Alina Kiessling
(Swinburne Univ.)
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Shapes of Dark Matter Halos from Weak Lensing |
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Marie Lemoine-Busserolle
(Univ. of Oxford)
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3D Kinematics of High-Z Galaxies as seen through the Gravitational Telescope |
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Eran Ofek
(Caltech)
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SDSS1004 and beyond |
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Masamune Oguri
(Stanford)
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The SDSS Quasar Lens Search |
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Johan Richard
(Caltech)
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Strong Lensing by massive clusters at z~0.2 - 0.5 |
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Eduardo Rozo
(Ohio State Univ.)
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The Impact of Baryonic Cooling on Giant Arc Abundances |
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Marina Shmakova
(Stanford, SLAC)
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2-nd Order Gravitational Lensing in UDF |
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Christel Vuissoz
(EPFL)
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New Results of the COSMOGRAIL Project |
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Olaf Wucknitz
(JIVE, NL)
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How can B0218+357 be isothermal? |
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HongSheng Zhao
(SUPA)
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Bullet cluster and MOND/TeVeS |
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