Scientific Sessions

(20 min = 16 min talk + 4 min discussion;  15 min = 12 min talk + 3 min discussion)

Day 1 - Wednesday, July 15, 2009


Opening
9:00 - 9:30 Registration
9:30 - 9:40 Welcome Address
Frank Bertoldi & Florian Pacaud
Recent advances in SZ observations
9:40 - 10:00 The APEX-SZ project [PDF]
Adrian Lee
10:00 - 10:20 The South Pole Telescope: A new probe of cluster cosmology [PDF]
William Holzapfel [PPT]
10:20 - 10:50 Coffee break
10:50 - 11:10 AMiBA: Now and Future [N.A.]
Jiun-Huei Proty Wu
11:10 - 11:30 Observations of SZ galaxy clusters using the Cosmic Background Imager [N.A.]
Angela Taylor
11:30 - 11:50 First results from the AMI SZ Cluster survey [PDF]
Anna Scaife
11:50 - 12:10 Interferometric Cluster Imaging with the Sunyaev-Zeldovich Array [PDF]
Marshall Joy [PPT]
12:10 - 12:30 Mapping the SZ effect increment with sub-mm bolometer arrays [PDF]
Michael Zemcov [PPT]
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 14:20 Millimeter-wave Mapping of Massive Galaxy Clusters using the Thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich Effect with Bolocam [PDF]
Jack Sayers
14:20 - 14:40 The Atacama Cosmology Telescope survey [PDF]
Jean-Baptiste Juin
14:40 - 15:00 SZ observations of a complete sample of galaxy clusters using OCRA [PDF]
Katy Lancaster
15:00 - 15:20 The MUSTANG camera on the GBT [PDF]
James Aguirre
15:20 - 16:00 Discussion
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee break
16:30 - 16:50 SZE in WMAP data revisited [PDF]
Jose M. Diego
16:50 - 17:10 AzTEC observations of the SZE at 1.1mm and resolving point-source contamination [PDF]
David Hughes [PPT]
Future SZ experiments
17:10 - 17:30 The OLIMPO experiment [PDF]
Elia Battistelli
17:30 - 17:45 The SAGACE satellite: space-borne spectroscopic measurements of the SZ effect [PDF]
Luca Lamagna
17:45 - 18:00 The SZ effect with ALMA [N.A.]
Rüdiger Kneissl
18:00 - 18:30 Discussion


Day 2 - Thursday, July 16, 2009


X-ray clusters and the SZ connection
9:00 - 9:20 Science with the brightest ROSAT clusters [PDF]
Hans Böhringer
9:20 - 9:40 Characteristics of existing representative X-ray samples [N.A.]
Gabriel Pratt
9:40 - 10:00 The universal X-ray pressure profile and implications for SZ [N.A.]
Monique Arnaud
10:00 - 10:20 The galaxy cluster Ysz-M relation and its evolution from the WMAP-5yr data [PDF]
Jean-Baptiste Melin
10:20 - 10:50 Coffee break
10:50 - 11:10 The Planck Selection Function: Importance of high-resolution SZ observations with APEX [PDF]
Jim Bartlett
11:10 - 11:25 The Planck cluster catalogue: SZ/X-ray expected properties [PDF]
Antoine Chamballu
11:25 - 11:40 Local clusters: expected overlap between the Planck Surveyor and the ROSAT surveys [N.A.]
Rocco Piffaretti
11:40 - 12:00 Distant clusters: X-ray and SZ follow-up of Planck clusters [PDF]
Etienne Pointecouteau
12:00 - 12:15 Results and lessons from the ACBAR SZ (and XCS X-ray) Surveys [PDF]
Kathy Romer [PPT]
12:15 - 12:35 Determining Helium abundance in clusters by combining SZ and X-ray observations [PDF]
Maxim Markevitch
12:35 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 14:15 Determination of cosmological parameters using XMM-Newton observations of the HIFLUGCS cluster sample [N.A.]
Oxana Nenestyan
14:15 - 14:30 Distant X-ray clusters from the XDCP project [PDF]
Rene Fassbender
14:30 - 14:45 The XBCS XMM-Newton Cluster Survey [PDF]
Robert Suhada
The optical view of clusters
14:45 - 15:00 Weak lensing Follow-up of the 400 sq. deg. X-ray Selected Clusters [PDF]
Holger Israel
15:00 - 15:20 Early Weak Lensing and Mass-Y results from LoCuSS [PDF]
Graham Smith
15:20 - 15:40 Optical follow-up of SPT clusters and the Cluster-AGN Connection [N.A.]
Joe Mohr
15:40 - 16:00 Discussion
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee break
16:30 - 16:50 Massive Clusters in the Southern Cosmology Survey [N.A.]
Felipe Menanteau
Multiwavelength analysis
16:50 - 17:10 Multiwavelength view of HIFLUGCS clusters [PDF]
Thomas Reiprich [PPT]
17:10 - 17:30 Calibrating mass-observable relations with multi-wavelength data [PDF]
Yu-Ying Zhang
17:30 - 17:50 Halo selection functions from simulations for lensing, SZ and X-rays detections [PDF]
Francesco Pace
17:50 - 18:30 Discussion


Day 3 - Friday, July 17, 2009


Simulations and theoretical perspectives
9:00 - 9:20 SZE from hydrodynamical simulations [PDF]
Klaus Dolag [AVI]
9:20 - 9:40 Galaxy cluster merging activity imprints on the CMB [PDF]
Matteo Maturi
9:40 - 9:55 Magnetic fields in galaxy clusters and their analysis [N.A.]
Jörn Geisbüsch
9:55 - 10:15 On the peculiar motion of the baryons surrounding galaxy clusters. Implications for Dark Energy [PDF]
Carlos Hernandez-Monteagudo
10:15 - 11:35 Diffuse Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect in superclusters of galaxies using gasdynamical simulations [PDF]
Ines Flores
10:35 - 11:05 Coffee break
Multiwavelength SZ and analysis methods
11:05 - 11:25 Multi-frequency observations of the SZ effect in the Corona Borealis Supercluster [PDF]
Ricardo Genova-Santos
11:25 - 11:45 Imaging the extended SZE signal in decrement and increment [PDF]
Martin Nord
11:45 - 12:05 APEX-SZ Data Analysis Techniques [PDF]
Amy Bender
12:05 - 12:25 LABOCA submm observations of the Bullet Cluster [N.A.]
Daniel Johansson
12:25 - 14:00 Lunch
Joint modeling of SZ / X-ray / Weak Lensing
14:00 - 14:20 Observations of X-ray Luminous Clusters with SPT [PDF]
Brad Benson
14:20 - 14:40 Cluster deprojection by a joint analysis of SZ, X-ray and lensing data [PDF]
Ewald Puchwein
14:40 - 15:00 Joint SZE/X-ray modeling of relaxed clusters using APEX-SZ data [PDF]
Kaustuv Basu [ODP]
15:00 - 15:20 Probing substructures and inhomogeneities in galaxy clusters with the SZ effect [PDF]
Tetsu Kitayama
15:20 - 16:00 Discussion
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee break
The SZ power spectrum
16:30 - 16:50 Power Spectrum Results and Projections for APEX-SZ and SPT [PDF]
Christian Reichardt
16:50 - 17:05 The Sunyaev Zel'dovich contribution in CMB power spectra analysis [PDF]
Nicolas Taburet
17:05 - 17:30 Concluding remarks