Astrophysics and Cosmology

Astrophysics Cosmology Monday Digest History
Date	Room	Speaker	Title
Mar 21 2022 14:00	Remotely	Sandeep Haridasu (SISSA)	Cosmological direct detection of dark energy: non-linear structure formation signatures of dark energy scattering with visible matter
ABSTRACT: Journal club based on https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.04528 and https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.12374
Mar 07 2022 14:00	zoom	Kevin Wolz and Giovanni Gandolfi (SISSA)	What does a cosmological experiment really measure? Covariant posterior decomposition with normalizing flows; Type Ia supernovae data with scalar-tensor gravity
ABSTRACT: Journal based on paper https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.05737 and https://arxiv.org/pdf/2112.15126.pdf
Feb 21 2022 14:00	Zoom	Anto Idicherian Lonappan; Daniele Perri (SISSA)	Bias on Tensor-to-Scalar Ratio Inference With Estimated Covariance Matrices; Magnetic field strength in cosmic web filaments
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Jan 24 2022 14:00	Remotely	Lumen Boco (SISSA)	Cosmology with one galaxy (CAMELS)
ABSTRACT: Journal club based on https://arxiv.org/pdf/2010.00619.pdf and https://arxiv.org/pdf/2201.02202.pdf
Jan 10 2022 14:00	Remotely	Paolo Salucci (SISSA)	TBD
ABSTRACT: TBD
Dec 13 2021 14:00	Remotely	Gabriele Parimbelli (Università degli Studi Roma Tre)	Cosmological constraints without fingers of God
ABSTRACT: Journal Club based on https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.00006
Nov 29 2021 14:00	Remotely	Giulio Scelfo and Giulia Capurri (SISSA)	Journal Club based on arXiv:2110.15059 and arXiv:2111.04758
ABSTRACT: Discussion about the following recent papers: "CLASS_GWB: robust modeling of the astrophysical gravitational wave background anisotropies" (https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.15059) and "Primordial gravitational waves from NANOGrav: a broken power-law approach" (https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.04758).
Nov 15 2021 14:00	Remotely	Tommaso Ronconi (SISSA)	Inferring galaxy dark halo properties from visible matter with Machine Learning
ABSTRACT: Based on https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.01185. Probably also on 'Finding universal relations in subhalo properties with artificial intelligence' (https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.04484)
Oct 25 2021 16:00	Zoom	Jian Yao (SISSA)	BICEP / Keck XIII: Improved Constraints on Primordial Gravitational Waves using Planck, WMAP, and BICEP/Keck Observations through the 2018 Observing Season
ABSTRACT: Journal Club based on https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.00483
May 31 2021 14:00	Remotely	Pauline Vielzeuf (SISSA)	Dark Energy Survey Year 3 Results: Cosmological Constraints from Galaxy Clustering and Weak Lensing
ABSTRACT: https://www.darkenergysurvey.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/desy3_3x2_results.pdf
May 17 2021 14:00	Remotely	Marta Spinelli (INAF-OATS)	Evidence for primordial black holes in LIGO/Virgo gravitational-wave data
ABSTRACT: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2105.03349.pdf
May 03 2021 14:00	Remotely	Hasti Khoraminezhad and Anto Lonappan (SISSA)	Journal Club based on arXiv:2103.01971 and arXiv:2103.05582
ABSTRACT: Paper 1: Astrophysics & Cosmology from Line Intensity Mapping vs Galaxy Surveys Paper 2: Baryonic feedback biases on fundamental physics from lensed CMB power spectra
Apr 26 2021 14:00	Remotely	Gabriele Parimbelli (IFPU)	Anisotropic effective redshift and evolving clustering amplitude
ABSTRACT: https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.07022
Apr 19 2021 14:00	Remotely	Matteo Biagetti (SISSA-IFPU)	Primordial Black Holes Arise When The Inflaton Falls
ABSTRACT: https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.03972
Apr 12 2021 14:00	Remotely	Tommaso Ronconi (SISSA)	Observational Measures of Halo Properties Beyond Mass
ABSTRACT: Journal club based on https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.05280
Mar 29 2021 14:00	Remotely	Giulio Scelfo and Kevin Wolz (SISSA)	Probing the theory of gravity with gravitational lensing of gravitational waves and galaxy surveys + The integrated angular bispectrum of weak lensing
ABSTRACT: Journal Club based on https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.08951 and https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.05521
Mar 22 2021 14:00	Remotely	Lumen Boco and Giulia Capurri (SISSA)	To H0 or not to H0? + Gravitational wave cosmology with extreme mass-ratio inspirals
ABSTRACT: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2103.08723.pdf + https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.01708
Mar 15 2021 14:00	Remotely	Nicoletta Krachmalnicoff (SISSA)	Planck constraints on the tensor-to-scalar ratio
ABSTRACT: https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.01139
Mar 08 2021 14:00	Remotely	Pauline Vielzeuf (SISSA)	Shocks in the Stacked Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Profiles of Clusters I: Analysis with the Three Hundred Simulations
ABSTRACT: https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.04179
Mar 01 2021 14:00	Remotely	Carlo Baccigalupi (SISSA)	Detecting the anisotropic astrophysical gravitational wave background in the presence of shot noise through cross-correlations
ABSTRACT: https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.02888
Feb 22 2021 14:00	Remotely	Davide Poletti (SISSA)	Journal Club based on https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.07701
ABSTRACT: Probing Galaxy Bias and Intergalactic Gas Pressure with KiDS Galaxies-tSZ-CMB Lensing Cross-correlations
Feb 15 2021 14:00	Remotely	Gabriele Parimbelli (INAF/OATS)	Detecting neutrino mass by combining matter clustering, halos, and voids
ABSTRACT: https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.05049 https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.05273 https://arxiv.org/pdf/1811.03132.pdf https://arxiv.org/pdf/0907.0019.pdf
Feb 08 2021 14:00	Remotely	Paolo Creminelli (ICTP)	Dark Energy Radiation
ABSTRACT: https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.10549
Jan 25 2021 14:00	Remotely	Matteo Biagetti (SISSA)	Fundamental limits on constraining primordial non-Gaussianity
ABSTRACT: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2011.09461.pdf
Jan 18 2021 14:00	Remotely	Emiliano Sefusatti (INAF/OATS)	Cosmological inference from emulator based halo model I: Validation tests with HSC and SDSS mock catalogs
ABSTRACT: https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.00113
Jan 11 2021 14:00	Remotely	Anto Lonappan + Lumen Boco (SISSA)	https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.08163 + https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.14607
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Dec 14 2020 14:00	Remotely	Matteo Biagetti (IFPU)	https://arxiv.org/pdf/2012.05821.pdf
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Nov 30 2020 14:00	Remotely	Kevin Wolz + Hasti Khoraminezhad (SISSA)	TBD
ABSTRACT: "The NANOGrav 12.5-year Data Set: Search For An Isotropic Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background" (https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.04496) and "Early dark energy is not excluded by current large-scale structure data" (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2009.10740.pdf)
Nov 23 2020 14:00	Remotely	Andrea Oddo (SISSA)	https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.00622
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Nov 16 2020 14:00	Remotely	Tommaso Ronconi (SISSA)	https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.03309
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Nov 09 2020 14:00	Remotely	Matteo Viel (SISSA)	https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.15857
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Oct 19 2020 14:00	Remotely	Giulio Scelfo (SISSA)	https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.01728
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May 04 2020 14:15	Zoom call: https://zoom.us/j/8031611177	Andrea Oddo (SISSA)	Blinded challenge for precision cosmology with large-scale structure: results from effective field theory for the redshift-space galaxy power spectrum
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Apr 27 2020 14:15	Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/8031611177	Tommaso Ronconi (SISSA)	The BACCO Simulation Project: Exploiting the full power of large-scale structure for cosmology
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Mar 30 2020 14:15	Zoom call: https://zoom.us/j/8031611177	Lumen Boco (SISSA)	Cross-correlating galaxy catalogs and gravitational waves: a tomographic approach
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Feb 17 2020 14:15	Blue reading room (SISSA library)	Hasti Khoraminezhad (SISSA)	More accurate simulations with separate initial conditions for baryons and dark matter
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Jan 27 2020 14:15	Blue reading room (SISSA library)	Davide Poletti (SISSA)
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Jan 20 2020 14:15	Blue reading room (SISSA library)	Farida Farsian, Paolo Campeti (SISSA)
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Jan 13 2020 14:15	Blue reading room (SISSA library)	Paolo Creminelli (ICTP)
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Dec 16 2019 14:15	Blue reading room (SISSA library)	Giulio Scelfo (SISSA)
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Dec 09 2019 14:15	Blue reading room (SISSA library)	Titouan Lazeyras (SISSA)
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Dec 02 2019 14:15	Blue reading room (SISSA library)	Matteo Viel (SISSA)
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Nov 25 2019 14:15	Blue reading room (SISSA library)	Tommaso Ronconi (SISSA)
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Nov 18 2019 14:15	Blue reading room (SISSA library)	Andrea Oddo, Gabriele Parimbelli (SISSA)
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Nov 11 2019 14:15	Blue reading room (SISSA library)	Marta Spinelli (INAF-SISSA)
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Nov 04 2019 14:15	Blue reading room (SISSA library)	Anto Lonappan (SISSA)
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Oct 28 2019 14:15	Blue reading room (SISSA library)	Costantino Pacilio (SISSA)
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Oct 21 2019 0:00	Blue reading room (SISSA library)	Pauline Vielzeuf (SISSA)	Deficit of Luminous and Normal Red Galaxies in Cosmic Voids, The void halo mass function: a promising probe of neutrino mass
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Oct 14 2019 14:15	Blue reading room (SISSA library)	Lumen Boco (SISSA)	Cosmological data favor Galileon ghost condensate over ΛCDM
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Oct 07 2019 14:15	Blue reading room (SISSA library)	Hasti Khoraminezhad ()	Baryon-CDM isocurvature galaxy bias with IllustrisTNG
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Sep 30 2019 14:00	IFPU	Alexander Eggemeier (Durham university)	Towards a robust joint analysis of the galaxy power spectrum and bispectrum
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Oct 22 2018 14:00	Blue Room Library	Gabriele Parimbelli (SISSA)
ABSTRACT: https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.10747\r\nhttps://arxiv.org/abs/1810.02374
May 28 2018 14:00	Library Red Meeting Room	Lorenzo Bordin, Costantino Pacilio (SISSA)	https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.03814 & https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.07048
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May 07 2018 14:00	Library Blue Room	Dimitar Ivanov, Andrea Oddo (SISSA)	https://arxiv.org/abs/1310.3753 & https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.04970
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Apr 23 2018 14:00	Library Blue Room	Mihael Petač, Paolo Campeti (SISSA)	https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.05052 & https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.01858
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Apr 16 2018 14:00	Library Blue Room	Francesca Lepori, Anirban Roy (SISSA)	https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.03507 & https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.02543
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Apr 09 2018 14:00	Library Blue Room	Matteo Viel (SISSA)	https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.10741 & https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.00894
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Mar 26 2018 14:00	Library Blue Room	Hajar Vakili; Gabriele Parimbelli (Sharif University of Technology (Tehran); SISSA)	https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.06399; https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.00728
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Mar 19 2018 14:00	Library Blue Room	Andrej Obuljen, Riccardo Murgia (SISSA)	EDGES 21-cm absorption signal detection and its possible implications for Dark Matter
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Mar 12 2018 14:00	Library Blue Room	Gabriele Rigo (Syracuse University (NY))	https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.04813
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Mar 05 2018 14:00	Library Blue Room	Matteo Nori (Universita' di Bologna)	https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.08144
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Feb 19 2018 14:00	Library Blue Room	Costantino Pacilio (SISSA)	https://arxiv.org/pdf/1706.06311.pdf
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Feb 12 2018 14:00	Library Blue Room	Viviana Gammaldi (SISSA)	https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.08323v2
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Feb 05 2018 14:00	Library Blue Room	Anirban Roy, Riccardo Murgia (SISSA)	https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.05305; https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.07847
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Jan 29 2018 14:00	Library Blue Room	Paolo Creminelli (ICTP)	Review of recent literature about the implications of GW170817 for dark energy and modified gravity
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Jan 22 2018 14:00	Library Blue Room	Dimitar Ivanov, Mihael Petac (SISSA)	https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.02249, https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.02240
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Jan 15 2018 14:00	Library Blue Room	Paolo Campeti, Andrea Oddo (SISSA)	https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.11038; https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.01505
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Dec 18 2017 14:00	Library Blue Room	Carlo Baccigalupi (SISSA)	https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.02564
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Dec 11 2017 14:00	Library Blue Room	Gabriele Parimbelli (SISSA)	https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.03929
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Dec 04 2017 14:00	Library Blue Room	Matteo Viel (SISSA)	https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.10458
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Nov 27 2017 14:00	Library Blue Room	Tommaso Ronconi, Giuseppe Puglisi (SISSA)	https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.04688 (https://arxiv.org/pdf/1704.04125.pdf); http://arxiv.org/abs/1710.06861
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Nov 20 2017 14:00	Library Blue Room	Davide Poletti (SISSA)	https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.00403
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Nov 06 2017 14:00	Library Blue Room	Andrej Obuljen (SISSA)	https://www.nature.com/articles/nature24471
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Jun 12 2017 14:00	Library Blue Reading Room	Takeshi Kobayashi ()	https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.03461
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May 22 2017 14:00	Library Blue Reading Room	Francesca Lepori ()	https://arxiv.org/pdf/1608.00007.pdf
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May 15 2017 14:00	Library Blue Reading Room	Lorenzo Bordin, Jinjing Shi ()
ABSTRACT: https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.00013v1 https://arxiv.org/pdf/1705.01961.pdf
May 08 2017 14:00	Library Blue Reading Room	Takeshi Kobayashi ()
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Apr 10 2017 14:00	Library Blue Reading Room	Jiaxin Wang, Riccardo Murgia ()
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Apr 03 2017 14:00	Library Blue Reading Room	Davide Poletti ()
ABSTRACT: https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.09020, https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.09376
Mar 27 2017 14:00	Library Blue Reading Room	Giuseppe Puglisi, Andrej Obuljen ()
ABSTRACT: https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.02389, https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.05959
Feb 29 2016 14:00		Takeshi and Andrej ()
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Feb 15 2016 14:00	Sissa library	Giulio and Carlo ()	http://arxiv.org/abs/1602.00674 http://arxiv.org/abs/1602.02960
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Feb 01 2016 14:00	Sissa library	Marco and Viviana ()	http://arxiv.org/pdf/1204.0655.pdf http://arxiv.org/pdf/1601.05786.pdf
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Dec 14 2015 14:00	Blue meeting room - SIssa library	Marco ()	http://arxiv.org/abs/1512.00615
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Nov 30 2015 14:00	SISSA library, blue meeting room	Giulio, Carlo and Peppe ()	New BICEP2/Keck constraints on r
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Nov 23 2015 14:00	SISSA library, blue meeting room	Jingjing and Takeshi ()	http://arxiv.org/abs/1511.04391 and http://arxiv.org/abs/1510.07929
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Nov 16 2015 14:00	SISSA library, blue meeting room	Elena and Federico ()	http://arxiv.org/pdf/1511.01909.pdf and http://arxiv.org/abs/1510.06442
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Nov 09 2015 14:00	library blue meeting room	Lorenzo and Andrej ()	arXiv:1504.05993 and http://arxiv.org/abs/1508.01170
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Oct 26 2015 14:00	library blue meeting room	Francesca and Pawel ()	http://arxiv.org/pdf/1510.03554.pdf and http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2015arXiv150902532T
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Oct 19 2015 14:00	library blue meeting room	Peppe and Isabella ()	http://arxiv.org/pdf/1510.01692v1.pdf and http://arxiv.org/pdf/1509.04714.pdf
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Oct 12 2015 14:00	library blue meeting room	Carlo ()	cosmic birifrangence from Polarbear
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Mar 23 2015 14:00	SISSA, Library blue meeting room	Marco Raveri (SISSA)
ABSTRACT: Discussion on the Planck 2015 result paper on dark energy and modified gravity. http://arxiv.org/abs/1502.01590
Mar 16 2015 14:00	SISSA, Library blue meeting room	Gabriele Trevisan (SISSA)
ABSTRACT: Discussion on "The angle-averaged squeezed limit of nonlinear matter N-point functions", by Wagner et al. - http://arxiv.org/abs/1503.03487
Mar 09 2015 14:00	SISSA, Library blue meeting room	Pawel Bielewicz (SISSA)
ABSTRACT: Discussion on "Nowhere to hide: closing in on cosmological homogeneity", by Zibin and Moss http://arxiv.org/abs/1409.3831
Feb 09 2015 14:00	SISSA, Library Blue meeting room	Carlo Baccigalupi (SISSA)
ABSTRACT: Discussion on the joint Bicep2/Keck and Planck results "A Joint Analysis of BICEP2/Keck Array and Planck Data" http://arxiv.org/abs/1502.00612
Feb 02 2015 14:00	SISSA, Library Blue meeting room	Giulio Fabbian (SISSA)
ABSTRACT: Discussion on the following papers: "A Measurement of Gravitational Lensing of the Cosmic Microwave Background by Galaxy Clusters Using Data from the South Pole Telescope" http://arxiv.org/pdf/1412.7521.pdf and "The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Detection of Lensing of the Cosmic Microwave Background by Dark Matter Halos" http://arxiv.org/pdf/1411.7999v1.pdf
Jan 26 2015 14:00	SISSA, Library Blue meeting room	Emanuele Castorina (SISSA)
ABSTRACT: Discussion on recent papers about SKA that went out in the last days.
Jan 19 2015 14:00	SISSA, Library Blue meeting room	Federico Bianchini (SISSA)
ABSTRACT: Discussion on \"Cross-correlation between the CMB lensing potential measured by Planck and high-z sub-mm galaxies detected by the Herschel-ATLAS survey\", http://arxiv.org/abs/1410.4502
Dec 01 2014 14:00	SISSA, Library blue meeting room	Stefano Ansoldi ()
ABSTRACT: Discussion on "Cosmological nonlinear structure formation in full general relativity", by Torres et al. http://sissa.voxcharta.org/2014/11/26/cosmological-nonlinear-structure-formation-in-full-general-relativity-replacement-2/
Nov 17 2014 14:00	SISSA, Library Blue meeting room	Isabella Carucci (SISSA)
ABSTRACT: Discussion on \"Fast Radio Burst Discovered in the Arecibo Pulsar ALFA Survey\" by L. Spitler et al http://arxiv.org/abs/1404.2934
Nov 10 2014 14:00	SISSA, Library Blue meeting room	Jingjing Shi and Elena Massara (SISSA)
ABSTRACT: Discussion on "The universal nature of subhalo accretion" by N. Libeskind, A. Knebe, Y. Hoffman and S. Gottloeber http://mnras.oxfordjournals.org/content/443/2/1274.full.pdf+html and "The halo model in a massive neutrino cosmology" by E. Massara, F. Villaescusa-Navarro, M. Viel http://arxiv.org/abs/1410.6813
Oct 27 2014 14:00	SISSA, Library Blue meeting room	Matteo Calabrese (SISSA)
ABSTRACT: Discussion on "Properties of galaxies reproduced by a hydrodynamic simulation", by Vogelsberger et al., http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v509/n7499/full/nature13316.html
Oct 20 2014 14:00	SISSA, Library Blue meeting room	Federico Bianchini (SISSA)
ABSTRACT: Discussion on "Constraints on gravity and dark energy from the pairwise kinematic Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect", by Mueller et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1408.6248
Oct 13 2014 14:00	SISSA, Library Blue meeting room	Giulio Fabbian (SISSA)
ABSTRACT: Discussion on 'Planck intermediate results. XXX. The angular power spectrum of polarized dust emission at intermediate and high Galactic latitudes', http://arxiv.org/abs/1409.5738
May 12 2014 14:00	SISSA, Library Blue meeting room	Emanuele Castorina (SISSA)
ABSTRACT: Discussion on: \"Baryon Acoustic Oscillations in the Lyman forest of BOSS DR11 quasars\", by Delubac et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1404.1801 and on the most recent arXiv postings.
Apr 14 2014 14:00	SISSA, Library Blue meeting room	Noemi Frusciante (SISSA)
ABSTRACT: Discussion on 'The life and death of cosmic voids', by P.M.Sutter et al. http://arxiv.org/pdf/1403.7525.pdf and on the most recent arXiv postings from our VoxCharta agenda.
Apr 07 2014 14:00	SISSA, Library Blue meeting room	Giulio Fabbian (SISSA)
ABSTRACT: Discussion on paper: "A Guide to Designing Future Ground-based CMB Experiments" , by Wu et al. http://sissa.voxcharta.org/2014/02/17/a-guide-to-designing-future-ground-based-cmb-experiments-cross-listing/ and on the most recent arXiv postings from our VoxCharta agenda.
Mar 31 2014 14:00	SISSA, Library Blue meeting room	Ilia Musco ()
ABSTRACT: Discussion on paper: "Constraining chameleon models with cosmology" , by L.Lombriser http://arxiv.org/abs/arXiv:1403.4268 and on the most recent arXiv postings from our VoxCharta agenda.
Mar 17 2014 14:00	SISSA, Library Blue meeting room	Marco Raveri ()
ABSTRACT: 'The expansion rate of the intermediate universe in light of Planck' , by Verde et al. http://sissa.voxcharta.org/2014/03/10/the-expansion-rate-of-the-intermediate-universe-in-light-of-planck/ ; we will have also time to go over the most recent arXiv postings from our VoxCharta agenda.
Mar 10 2014 14:00	SISSA, Library Blue meeting room	Carlo Baccigalupi (SISSA)
ABSTRACT: Discussion on paper: \'Detection of thermal SZ -- CMB Lensing Cross-Correlation in Planck Nominal Mission Data\' , by Hill & Spergel, http://arxiv.org/abs/1312.4525 and on the most recent arXiv postings from our VoxCharta agenda.
Mar 03 2014 14:00	SISSA, Library Blue meeting room	Stefano Ansoldi ()
ABSTRACT: Discussion on paper: \"A viable explanation of the CMB dipolar statistical anisotropy\", by Kanno et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1309.1350 and on the most recent arXiv postings.
Feb 17 2014 14:00	SISSA, Library Blue meeting room	Matteo Martinelli (SISSA)
ABSTRACT: Discussion on paper: 'Curvature vs Distances: testing the Copernican Principle', by Sapone et al., http://sissa.voxcharta.org/2014/02/10/curvature-vs-distances-testing-the-copernican-principle/ and on the most recent arXiv postings.
Feb 10 2014 14:00	SISSA, Library Blue meeting room	Claudia Antolini (SISSA)
ABSTRACT: Discussion on paper: \'3D Cosmic Shear: Cosmology from CFHTLenS\', by Kitching et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1401.6842 and on the most recent arXiv postings.
Feb 03 2014 14:00	SISSA, Library Blue meeting room	Francesco Paci (SISSA)
ABSTRACT: Discussion on paper: 'The local Void: for or against LambdaCDM?', by Xie et al. http://sissa.voxcharta.org/2014/01/27/the-local-void-for-or-against-lambdacdm/ and on the most recent arXiv postings.
Jan 27 2014 14:00	SISSA, Library Blue meeting room	Riccardo Valdarnini (SISSA)
ABSTRACT: Discussion on paper: 'Galaxy Cluster Baryon Fractions Revisited', by Gonzalez et al., http://lanl.arxiv.org/abs/1309.3565
Jan 20 2014 14:00	SISSA, Library Blue meeting room	Giulio Fabbian (SISSA)
ABSTRACT: Discussion on papers: \'Evidence for Gravitational Lensing of the Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization from Cross-correlation with the Cosmic Infrared Background\', http://arxiv.org/abs/1312.6645 and \'Gravitational Lensing of Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization\', http://arxiv.org/abs/1312.6646
Dec 09 2013 14:00	SISSA, Library Blue meeting room	Carlo Baccigalupi & Claudia Antolini (SISSA)
ABSTRACT: A discussion of rings in the CMB and their detection, e.g. Fig. 27 of Planck's paper http://arxiv.org/abs/1303.5062 For the theory see 'Peaks and Rings on the Cosmic Microwave Background', by L.Amendola, C.Baccigalupi and F.Occhionero http://iopscience.iop.org/1538-4357/492/1/L5/fulltext/975538.text.html and http://arxiv.org/pdf/astro-h/9811176.pdf by C.Baccigalupi - 'Is there evidence for additional Neutrino Species from Cosmology?', by S.Feeney, H.Peiris and L.Verde et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1302.0014 - '(Lack of) Cosmological Evidence for Dark Radiation After Planck', by L.Verde et al.,http://arxiv.org/abs/1307.2904
Dec 02 2013 14:00	SISSA, Library Blue meeting room	Diana Lopez Nacir (ICTP)
ABSTRACT: Discussion on "No-Go Theorems for Generalized Chameleon Field Theories" by Wang, Hui, Khoury http://arxiv.org/abs/1208.4612
Nov 25 2013 14:00	SISSA, Library Blue meeting room	Matteo Martinelli & Daniele Gaggero (SISSA)
ABSTRACT: Discussion on papers: 'Model-independent constraints on the cosmological anisotropic stress', by Amendola et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1311.4765 'Implications of the first AMS-02 measurement for dark matter annihilation and decay', by Jin et al. http://arxiv.org/abs/1304.1997 'New limits on dark matter annihilation from AMS cosmic ray positron data', by Bergstrom et al. http://arxiv.org/abs/1306.3983v2
Nov 18 2013 14:00	SISSA, Library Blue meeting room	Marko Simonovic & Marco Raveri (SISSA)
ABSTRACT: Discussion on papers: 'Cosmic Degeneracies I: Joint N-body Simulations of Modified Gravity and Massive Neutrinos', by Baldi et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1311.2588 and 'Spectral Distortion in a Radially Inhomogeneous Cosmology', by Caldwell and Maksimova, http://arxiv.org/pdf/1309.4454.pdf
Nov 11 2013 14:00	SISSA, Library Blue meeting room	Emanuele Castorina & Alessandra Silvestri (SISSA)
ABSTRACT: Discussion on papers: 'Cosmological Parameter Estimation with Large Scale Structure Observations', http://inspirehep.net/record/1251398 and 'A brief history of curvature', http://inspirehep.net/record/1217797 'Catastrophic Consequences of Kicking the Chameleon', http://inspirehep.net/record/1225914
Oct 28 2013 14:00	Library Blue Meeting Room	Elena Massara & Shuang-Yong Zhou (SISSA)
ABSTRACT: Discussion on papers: "Beyond consistency test of gravity with redshift-space distortions at quasi-linear scales", by Taruya et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1309.6783 and "Fermionic Isocurvature Perturbations", by Chung et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/arXiv:1306.1966
Oct 21 2013 14:00	Library Blue Meeting Room	Rossella Aversa & Gabriele Trevisan (SISSA)
ABSTRACT: Discussion on papers: "Clustering Measurements of broad-line AGNs: Review and Future" by Krumpe et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1308.5976 and "Sequestering the Standard Model Vacuum Energy" Kaloper & Padilla, http://arxiv.org/pdf/1309.6562.pdf
Oct 07 2013 14:00	Library Blue Meeting Room	Federico Bianchini & Pawel Bielewicz (SISSA)	Gravitational lensing by cosmic voids and the effect of aberration on measurements CMB temperature power spectrum
ABSTRACT: "First measurement of gravitational lensing by cosmic voids in SDSS", by Melchior et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1309.2045 and "The effect of aberration on partial-sky measurements of the CMB temperature power spectrum", by Jeong et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1309.2285v2
Sep 30 2013 14:00	Library Blue Meeting Room	Paolo Creminelli & Guillaume Castex (ICTP & SISSA)	Inflation after Planck and Weak Lensing from SN
ABSTRACT: "Inflation after False Vacuum Decay: Observational Prospects after Planck", by Bousso et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1309.4060 "The effect of weak lensing on distance estimates from supernovae", by Smith et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/1307.2566
Sep 16 2013 14:00	Library Blue Meeting Room	Eolo Di Casola & Carlo Baccigalupi (SISSA)
ABSTRACT: Discussion on papers: "Why Gauge?" by C.Rovelli, http://arxiv.org/abs/arXiv:1308.5599 and "Detection of B-mode Polarization in the Cosmic Microwave Background with Data from the South Pole Telescope" by Hanson et al., http://arxiv.org/abs/arXiv:1307.5830
Sep 09 2013 14:00	Library Red Meeting Room	Matteo Calabrese & Matteo Martinelli (SISSA)
ABSTRACT: Discussion on paper: "The Jubilee ISW Project I: simulated ISW and weak lensing maps and initial power spectrum", Watson et al. http://arxiv.org/abs/1307.1712 and "nu-LambdaCDM: Neutrinos reconcile Planck with the Local Universe", Wyman et al., http://arxiv.org/pdf/1307.7715v1.pdf
Jul 08 2013 14:00	Library blue meeting room	Noemi Frusciante & Claudia Mancuso (SISSA)
ABSTRACT: Discussion on papers: Hernandez & Jimenez, "A first linear cosmological structure formation scenario under extended gravity", http://arxiv.org/abs/1307.0777v1 and Hickox et al., "Black hole variability and the star formation-AGN connection: Do all star-forming galaxies host an AGN?", http://arxiv.org/abs/1306.3218.pdf
Jul 01 2013 14:00	Library blue meeting room	Dario Bettoni (SISSA)
ABSTRACT: Discussion on papers: Motta et al., \"Probing Dark Energy through Scale Dependence\", http://arxiv.org/abs/arXiv:1305.0008 and Amendola et al., \"Observables and unobservables in dark energy cosmologies\", http://arxiv.org/abs/arXiv:1210.0439
Jun 24 2013 14:00	Library Blue Meeting Room	Elena Massara & Matteo Martinelli (SISSA)
ABSTRACT: Discussion based on papers: Barreira et al. "Nonlinear structure formation in the Cubic Galileon gravity model" http://arxiv.org/abs/1306.3219 Narikawa et al. "Testing general scalar-tensor gravity and massive gravity with cluster lensing" http://arxiv.org/abs/1302.2311
Jun 17 2013 14:00	Library Blue Meeting Room	Matteo Calabrese & Emanuele Castorina (SISSA)
ABSTRACT: Discussions on papers: Bruni et al. "Computing General Relativistic effects from Newtonian N-body simulations: Frame dragging in the post-Friedmann approach" http://arxiv.org/abs/1306.1562rnViel et al. "Warm Dark Matter as a solution to the small scale crisis: new constraints from high redshift Lyman-α forest data" http://arxiv.org/abs/1306.2314
Jun 10 2013 14:00	Library Blue Meeting Room	Carlo Baccigalupi (SISSA)
ABSTRACT: Discussion on paper: V. Pettorino "Testing modified gravity with Planck: the case of coupled dark energy" http://arxiv.org/abs/1305.7457
May 27 2013 14:00	Library Blue Meeting Room	Marco Raveri and Francesco Paci (SISSA)	Modified Gravity-GADGET: A new code for cosmological hydrodynamical simulations
ABSTRACT: Puchewein, Baldi, Springel, \"Modified Gravity-GADGET: A new code for cosmological hydrodynamical simulations of modified gravity models\" http://arxiv.org/abs/1305.2418\r\nUnnikrishnan, Sahni, \"Resurrecting power law inflation in the light of Planck results\" http://arxiv.org/abs/1305.5260
May 06 2013 14:00	Library Blue Meeting Room	Claudia Antolini and Alessandra Silvestri (SISSA)	Recent results from the AMS and Pamela collaboration
ABSTRACT: Based on papers: http://prl.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v110/i14/e141102 , http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v458/n7238/abs/nature07942.html and http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0927650510000824
Apr 29 2013 14:00	Library Blue Meeting Room	Pawel Bielewicz (SISSA)	Isotropy and Statistics of the CMB
ABSTRACT: Discussion of the two following papers: http://arxiv.org/abs/1303.5083 Planck 2013 results. XXIII. Isotropy and Statistics of the CMB http://arxiv.org/abs/1303.6949 The Pesky power asymmetry
Apr 22 2013 14:00	Library Blue Meeting Room	Alessandra Silvestri and Francesco Paci (SISSA)	Doppler boosting of the CMB
ABSTRACT: Doppler boosting of the CMB, based on papers: http://arxiv.org/abs/1304.3506 and http://arxiv.org/abs/1303.5087