SF07 Cosmology Summer Workshop: Topics        

A suggested list of topics is given below. The list is purposely broad to encourage attendance of a diverse set of researchers. More suggestions are welcome. We do intend to prune it at a later stage when the set of attendees is better defined.

Large Scale Structure

Results from SDSS and 2dF
Power Spectrum
Higher-Order Correlations
Gravitational Lensing
Bias
Lyman Alpha Forest
Cluster Abundances
Reionization and High-Z Galaxies

Cosmic Microwave Background

Results from WMAP
Lensing of the CMB
CMB Polarization
Physics of Anisotropy: Inhomogeneous Reionization, Other Nonlinear Effects
Issues for Data Analysis
Beyond the 2-Point Function: Non-Gaussianity
SZ Effect

Dark Matter and Dark Energy

Models of Dark Energy
Probes of Dark Energy
CDM Halos: Structure vs. Observations
Dark Matter Detection and Realistic Halo Models
Status of Dark Matter Search Experiments
New Dark Matter Candidates

Early Universe

Extra Dimensions
Preheating
Baryogenesis
Primordial Magnetic Fields
Planck-Scale Effects
Gravitational Waves
Alternatives to Inflation

Other

Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays
Neutrino Astrophysics

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Salman Habib / T-8 / LANL / revised January 07
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