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KITP Conference: Tensions between the Early and the Late Universe
(Jul 15-17, 2019)
Coordinators: Adam Riess, Tommaso Treu, and Licia Verde

Monday, Jul 15, 2019

Introducing the Tension, Chair: Dan Holz (U. Chicago)

8:50am Lars Bildsten (KITP Director) Welcome[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
9:00am Adam Riess (STSCI) Local H0 from SH0ES[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
9:45am Lloyd Knox (UC Davis) Sounds Discordant[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
10:30am

Morning Break

11:00am Tommaso Treu (UCLA) Time delay cosmography and the Hubble constant tension[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
11:45am Graeme Addison (JHU) Cosmic Microwave Background, Baryonic Acoustic Oscillations and Tensions[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
12:30pm

Lunch Break

Early Universe, Chair: Lloyd Knox (UC Davis)

2:00pm Silvia Galli (IAP-UPMC) The view from Planck[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
2:45pm Kimmy Wu (U. Chicago) The View from the South Pole Telescope[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
3:30pm

Afternoon Break

4:00pm Eric Aver (Gonzaga U) Helium Abundance and Omega_B[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
4:30pm Vivian Poulin (LUPM, CNRS) Early Dark Energy[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
5:00pm Andras Kovacs (IAC) More out of less: an excess integrated Sachs-Wolfe signal from supervoids mapped out by the Dark Energy Survey[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
5:30pm

SHUTTLE TO BWSCI

Tuesday, Jul 16, 2019

Late Universe I, Chair: Tamara Davis (Queensland)

9:00am Licia Verde (ICC U Barcelona) Chronometers[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
9:45am Dan Scolnic (U. Chicago) Type Ia Supernovae[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
10:30am

Morning Break

11:00am In Sung Jang (AIP) Tip of the red giant branch[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
11:30am Mark Reid (CfA) H0: NGC 4258 and the Megamaser Cosmology Project[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
12:00pm Hendrick Hildebrandt
(Ruhr-Uni. Bochum)
Weak Lensing and Tensions in LCDM[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
12:30pm

Lunch Break

Early Meets Late I, Chair: Mark Reid (CfA)

2:00pm Tamara Davis (U Queensland) Baryonic Acoustic Oscillations[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
2:45pm Wendy Freedman (U. Chicago) The Carnegie Chicago Hubble Program[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
3:30pm

Afternoon Break

4:00pm Lucas Macri (Texas A&M) Cepheids and other Stellar Pops[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
4:30pm John Blakeslee (Gemini Obs.) Surface Brightness Fluctuations and H0[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
5:00pm Nabia Aghanim (IAS Orsay) Clusters and Tensions[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
5:30pm

RECEPTION-KITP Courtyard

6:00pm

SPECIAL EVENTS DINNER-KITP Courtyard

8:00pm

SHUTTLE TO BWSCI

Wednesday, Jul 17, 2019

Late Universe II, Chair: Wendy Freedman (U. Chicago)

9:00am Daniel Holz (U. Chicago) Standard Sirens and H0[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
9:45am Patricia Whitelock (Cape Town) Miras[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
10:30am

Morning Break

11:00am Anthony Brown (Leiden Obs.) Gaia I[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
11:30am Stefano Casertano (STSCI) Gaia and HST Parallax[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
12:00pm Victor Chan (U of Toronto) A Probabilistic Measurement of the Gaia DR2 Zero Point Parallax, and its Impact on the Hubble Constant[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
12:30pm

Lunch Break

Early Meets Late II, Chair: Silvia Galli (IAP-UPMC)

2:00pm Grzegorz Pietrzynski (CMAK-PAN) The LMC and Detached Eclipsing Binaries[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
2:30pm Dillon Brout (U of Penn) The view from the Dark Energy Survey[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
3:00pm Steve Rodney (South Carolina) Turning Gravitationally Lensed Supernovae into Cosmological Tools[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
3:30pm

Afternoon Break

4:00pm Anowar Shajib (UCLA) Towards a 1% Hubble constant measurement with time delay cosmography[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
4:30pm David Jones (UCSC) The Role of Type Ia Supernova Host Galaxies in Understanding the Hubble Tension[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
5:00pm Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine (Harvard) Rock 'n' Roll, Jazzy, and Classical Solutions to the Hubble Tension[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
5:30pm

CONFERENCE END SHUTTLE TO BWSCI *Also available to SB Airport and SB Airbus, Goleta location. (See Registration Desk BEFORE Wednesday to sign up.)