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 Breakfast

Program Start: Peng Oh, Chair

1 Welcome & Introductions

2 Marc Kamionkowski: Theory and Speculative Ideas

3 Videos (Mustapha Ishak, Ben Wandelt)

4 Kris Pardo: More Speculative Ideas

5 Videos (Hiranya Peiris, Licia Verde & Eiichiro Komatsu)

6 Fireslides

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

12:00 PM Lunch

Session 2: Renée Hlozek, Chair

7 Kathryn Johnston: Local Group and Dynamics

8 Oliver Philcox: Extracting Cosmological Information

9 Fireslides

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

10 Michael Strauss: David at Princeton

3:00 PM Coffee Break

Session 3: Suzanne Staggs, Chair

11 Emmanuel Schaan: The CMB as a Large-scale Structure Probe

12 Blake Sherwin + Mathew Madhavacheril: ACT Lensing

13 Fireslides

Jack Hughes
Nick Battaglia
Adri Duivenvoorden
Andrina Nicola

14 Will Coulton: Foreground Biases on Primordial Non-Gaussianity Measurements

15 Lisa Einstein (pre-recorded)

6:00 PM Reception

7:00 PM Dinner & Dancing

Saturday, October 23

9:00 AM Breakfast

Program Start: Eric Gawiser, Chair

16 Jeremy Kasdin: Roman

17 Videos (Olivier Dore, Hironao Miyatake, Jia Liu)

18 Lyman Page: WMAP and ACT

19 Videos (Chuck Bennett)

11:00 AM Coffee Break

Session 2: Joe Hennawi, Chair

20 Sudeep Das: From Astrophysics to AI: A Hitchhiker's Guide

21 Videos (Jared Crooks, Nick Hand)

22 Fireslides

Alice Pisani
Christina Kreisch
Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro
Jay Wadekar

23 Simon DeDeo: Resonance on the Spergel Manifold

12:30 PM Lunch

1:30 PM Travel: NJ Transit to NYC

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

Sunday, October 24

9:30 AM Breakfast

Program Start: Shirley Ho, Chair

24 Welcome from CCA: Julianne Dalcanton

25 Welcome Address: Jim Simons

26 David W. Hogg

27 Phil Armitage

28 Comments from David Spergel about the beginning of CCA

12:00 PM Lunch

Session 2: Katie Freese, Chair

29 Miles Cranmer

30 Megan Bedell

31 Will Farr

32 Tjitske Starkenburg

3:00 PM Coffee Break

Session 3: Khee Gan Lee, Chair

33 Francisco Antonio Villaescusa Navarro

34 Katerina Chatziioannou

35 Stephon Alexander

36 Lightning Talks

Rosalba Perna
Ruth Daly
Daniel Angles-Alcazar
Viviana Acquaviva

5:00 PM Reception

162, Rooftop Terrace

6:00 PM Dinner & Dancing

162, 11th Floor Dining Room

Monday, October 25

9:00 AM Breakfast

Program Start: Julianne Dalcanton, Chair

37 Rachel Somerville

38 Laurence Levasseur

39 Drummond Fielding

40 Lightning Talks

Stephanie Tonnessen
Sultan Hassan
Natasha Manger
Chirag Modi
Chiara Mingarelli

12:00 PM Lunch

Session 2: Greg Gabadadze, Chair

41 Bart Ripperda

42 Simone Aiola

43 Shy Genel

44 Lightning Talks

Yashar Hezevah
Chris Hayward
Chang Hoon Hahn
Kasey Wagoner

2:30 PM Coffee Break

Session 3: Tom Abel, Chair

45 Sasha Philippov

46 Dan Foreman-Mackey

47 Closing Address: Marilyn Simons