Talks
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Welcome and practical info
Monday morning: Peculiar Velocity Theory
Ofer Lahav – Overview
Ravi Sheth – Non-linear, Non-Gaussian, Non-Newtonian
Yong-Seon Song – Cosmological implications of coherent peculiar velocity measurements
Hume Feldman – Sigma8 and velocities
David Parkinson – Breaking The Dark Degeneracy
Martin Hendry – Gravitational Wave Standard Sirens as future probes of the peculiar velocity field
Lam Hui – Random thoughts on peculiar motions
Monday afternoon: Existing Constraints and Conundrums
John Lucey – Past and continuing conundrums – the history of cosmic motions
Mike Hudson – Cosmic flows on very large scales, dark or not-so-dark
Pirin Erdogdu – Are we there yet? On the convergence of the dipole
Brent Tully – Our Peculiar Motion Away from the Local Void
Ravi Sheth – Some conundrums for a dumb theorist
Morag Scrimgeour – Simulating the effect of peculiar velocities on the observable Hubble Flow
Ofer Lahav – The future of the field (same slides as Monday morning session)
Tuesday morning: Reconstructing the density and velocity fields
Yehuda Hoffmann – From peculiar Velocities to LSS
Fransisco Kituara – Non-Gaussian Gravitational Clustering Field Statistics: Bayesian reconstruction of the Cosmological Large Scale Structure
Ed Shaya – LG orbits with proper motion constraints
Yong-Seon Song – Decomposition of the density and velocity fields from redshift surveys
Juliana Kwan – Reconstructing the velocity field with Delaunay Tessellation Field Estimator
Hume Feldman – 100Mpc/h flows
Brent Tully – Session Summary
Tuesday afternoon: Statistical bulk flow measurements
Chris Blake – Redshift space distortions in WiggleZ
Florian Beutler – Large Scale Structure in the 6dfGS
Lado Samushia – Wide-angle redshift space distortions
Emily Hall – Measuring infall onto galaxy clusters using redshift space distortions
Edward Macaulay – Large Scale Structure from peculiar velocities, and planning for an Infra-red Redshift Space Distortion Survey
Wednesday morning: Supernova peculiar velocity measurements
Suman Bhattacharya – Measuring Mean Pairwise Velocity from LSST Supernovae Survey
Tamara Davis – The effect of peculiar velocities on SN cosmology
Anja Weyant – An unbiased method of modeling the local peculiar velocity field with type 1a supernovae
Alexandra Abate – Testing gravity with SN1a
Troels Haugbølle – Selecting supernovae for cosmology
Brian Schmidt – SN Surveys – Capabilities and limitations
Wednesday afternoon: Galaxy peculiar velocity measurements
Brent Tully – http://edd.ifa.hawaii.edu
John Blakeslee – What’s Old & New in Surface Brightness Fluctuations
Genevieve Graves – A tighter fundamental plane relation
Chris Springob – The 6dFGS Fundamental Plane: Current Status
Christina Magoulas – Maximum likelihood fitting of the 6dFGS Fundamental Plane
Jeremy Mould – 6dF Galaxy Survey peculiar velocities
Lister Staveley-Smith – The WALLABY local Universe survey