A Symposium to Celebrate the 60th Birthday of David Spergel and the 5-Year Anniversary of CCA

Oct 22, 2021, 9:00 AM → Oct 25, 2021, 5:00 PM America/New_York

Flatiron Institute and Princeton University

October 22-23 at Princeton University - Will focus on David’s career and science.
October 24-25 at Simons Foundation - Will focus on the 5-year anniversary of CCA.

 

             


Although COVID may have delayed our celebrations, we are looking forward to gathering on October 22-25, 2021 for a four-day symposium in honor of David Spergel.

Please note: masks will be required at all times unless eating.

***Due to space limitations at the Princeton University location in New Jersey, we will add all plus ones to the waitlist. Everyone else who registered to attend the Princeton celebration is confirmed. If there are any cancellations, we will reach out to those participants directly to confirm their plus one's attendance.***

 

 

Code of Conduct

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Friday, October 22

9:00 AM → 10:00 AM Breakfast

10:00 AM → 12:00 PM Program Start: Peng Oh, Chair

10:00 AM Welcome & Introductions

10:15 AM Marc Kamionkowski: Theory and Speculative Ideas

10:50 AM Videos (Mustapha Ishak, Ben Wandelt)

11:00 AM Kris Pardo: More Speculative Ideas

11:25 AM Videos (Hiranya Peiris, Licia Verde & Eiichiro Komatsu)

11:35 AM Fireslides

Renee Hlozek
Jean Quashnock
Arif Babul
Eric Gawiser
Niayesh Afshordi
Simone Ferraro
Zoltan Haiman
KG Lee
Cullen Blake

12:00 PM → 1:30 PM Lunch

1:30 PM → 3:00 PM Session 2: Renée Hlozek, Chair

1:30 PM Kathryn Johnston: Local Group and Dynamics

2:05 PM Oliver Philcox: Extracting Cosmological Information

2:15 PM Fireslides

Colin Hill
Rachel Bean
Joe Hennawi
Priya Natarajan
Suvodip Mukherjee
Neelima Sehgal
Jahmour Givans
Marc Kuchner

2:40 PM Michael Strauss: David at Princeton

3:00 PM → 3:30 PM Coffee Break

3:30 PM → 6:00 PM Session 3: Suzanne Staggs, Chair

3:35 PM Emmanuel Schaan: The CMB as a Large-scale Structure Probe

4:00 PM Blake Sherwin + Mathew Madhavacheril: ACT Lensing

4:15 PM Fireslides

Jack Hughes
Nick Battaglia
Adri Duivenvoorden
Andrina Nicola

4:25 PM Will Coulton: Foreground Biases on Primordial Non-Gaussianity Measurements

4:50 PM Lisa Einstein (pre-recorded)

6:00 PM → 7:00 PM Reception

7:00 PM → 11:00 PM Dinner & Dancing

Saturday, October 23

9:00 AM → 9:30 AM Breakfast

9:30 AM → 11:00 AM Program Start: Eric Gawiser, Chair

9:30 AM Jeremy Kasdin: Roman

10:05 AM Videos (Olivier Dore, Hironao Miyatake, Jia Liu)

10:15 AM Lyman Page: WMAP and ACT

10:50 AM Videos (Chuck Bennett)

11:00 AM → 11:30 AM Coffee Break

11:30 AM → 12:30 PM Session 2: Joe Hennawi, Chair

11:30 AM Sudeep Das: From Astrophysics to AI: A Hitchhiker's Guide

11:50 AM Videos (Jared Crooks, Nick Hand)

12:00 PM Fireslides

Alice Pisani
Christina Kreisch
Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro
Jay Wadekar

12:15 PM Simon DeDeo: Resonance on the Spergel Manifold

12:30 PM → 1:30 PM Lunch

1:30 PM → 6:00 PM Travel: NJ Transit to NYC

6:00 PM → 8:00 PM Wine Reception at Spergel's Home in NYC (Due to Limited Capacity, by Invite only.)

Sunday, October 24

9:30 AM → 10:30 AM Breakfast

10:30 AM → 12:00 PM Program Start: Shirley Ho, Chair

10:30 AM Welcome from CCA: Julianne Dalcanton

10:35 AM Welcome Address: Jim Simons

10:50 AM David W. Hogg

11:20 AM Phil Armitage

11:50 AM Comments from David Spergel about the beginning of CCA

12:00 PM → 1:30 PM Lunch

1:30 PM → 3:00 PM Session 2: Katie Freese, Chair

1:30 PM Miles Cranmer

1:50 PM Megan Bedell

2:10 PM Will Farr

2:30 PM Tjitske Starkenburg

3:00 PM → 3:30 PM Coffee Break

3:30 PM → 5:00 PM Session 3: Khee Gan Lee, Chair

3:30 PM Francisco Antonio Villaescusa Navarro

3:50 PM Katerina Chatziioannou

4:10 PM Stephon Alexander

4:30 PM Lightning Talks

Rosalba Perna
Ruth Daly
Daniel Angles-Alcazar
Viviana Acquaviva

5:00 PM → 6:00 PM Reception

162, Rooftop Terrace

6:00 PM → 9:00 PM Dinner & Dancing

162, 11th Floor Dining Room

Monday, October 25

9:00 AM → 10:00 AM Breakfast

10:00 AM → 12:00 PM Program Start: Julianne Dalcanton, Chair

10:00 AM Rachel Somerville

10:20 AM Laurence Levasseur

10:40 AM Drummond Fielding

11:00 AM Lightning Talks

Stephanie Tonnessen
Sultan Hassan
Natasha Manger
Chirag Modi
Chiara Mingarelli

12:00 PM → 1:00 PM Lunch

1:00 PM → 2:30 PM Session 2: Greg Gabadadze, Chair

1:00 PM Bart Ripperda

1:20 PM Simone Aiola

1:40 PM Shy Genel

2:00 PM Lightning Talks

Yashar Hezevah
Chris Hayward
Chang Hoon Hahn
Kasey Wagoner

2:30 PM → 3:00 PM Coffee Break

3:00 PM → 4:00 PM Session 3: Tom Abel, Chair

3:00 PM Sasha Philippov

3:20 PM Dan Foreman-Mackey

3:40 PM Closing Address: Marilyn Simons