Mini-courses, Seminars and Posters

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Mini-courses, Seminars & Posters

Mini-course: CMB Theory (4 hours)
David Wands

1. Hot Big Bang

• Friedmann-Robertson-Walker geometry
• A brief thermal history
• Cosmological parameters
  

2. Cosmological perturbations

• Metric and gauge
• Gauge-invariant variables
• Evolution and constraint equations

3. CMB anisotropies

• Fourier and spherical harmonics
• Power spectra (and bispectra)
• Sudden-decoupling approximation

4. Boltzmann hierarchy

• Boltzmann equation
• B-modes and polarization
• Planck results

Mini-course: Inflationary Cosmology (4 hours)
Jérôme Martin

1. Problems of the hot Big Bang scenario

2. The inflationary solution

3. Inflationary perturbations of quantum mechanical origin

4. Inflation and Planck

Mini-course: Non-Gaussianity (4 hours)
Christian Byrnes

1. Introduction to non-Gaussianity

• Why are the primordial perturbations close to Gaussian?
  
• Why not exactly Gaussian?
  
• What we learn from this
  
• Observational constraints

2. The local model of non-Gaussianity

• Motivations for this simple model
  
• Method for calculations – the delta N formalism
  

3. Concrete scenario and extensions of the simplest model

• Curvaton scenario
  
• Trispectrum
  
• Scale-dependence of the bispectrum
  
  

4. Other shapes of non-Gaussianity

• Equilateral and orthogonal models
  
• How different models are related
  
• Theoretical motivations
  

Mini-course: CMB Observation I (4 hours)
Oleg Verkhodanov

1. Introduction

• Observational tests of radio cosmology
• Radio telescopes, parameters, antenna beam, Fourier analysis
  
• Telescopes for CMB study: COBE, DASI, CBI, BOOMERanG, WMAP, Planck
  

2. CMB analysis

• Map-making
• Multipole expansion
• Pixelization schemes
• Component separation
• Angular power spectrum
• Definition of cosmological parameters
  

3. Statistics of the CMB signal

• Non-gaussianity via systematics
• Phase analysis
• Maps of mosaic correlation
• Parity of power specrum
• CMB anomalies and local problems
  

4. Practicum "Study of power spectrum" (in the GLESP pixelization sheme)

• CMB maps simulation using theoretical power spectrum
• Modeling of radio sources, including radio sources onto the sky map
  

Mini-course: CMB Observation II (4 hours)
Rolando Dünner

1. Introduction

• Historical overview of the study of the CMB through differentexperiments and their technology.
• Current CMB experiments: review current CMB experiments, including their scientific goals and technology.
• CMB experiments in Chile: why Chile?
• The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: general introduction.
  

2. The Atacama Cosmology Telescope

•  Scientific goals and design.
• The Millimeter Bolometer Array Camera (MBAC): detailed description.
• System characterization and data properties.
  

3. From raw data to science

•  Full description of the data reduction pipeline developed for ACT.
• Map making with ACT: how to produce consistent CMB maps.
• Description of the current ACT maps.
• Overview of the main scientific results produced by the current ACT temperature maps.
  

4. ACTpol: a new polarization camera for ACT

• Scientific goals: polarization power spectrum, CMB lensing and B-modes, lensing field reconstruction, measuring the mass of the neutrinos.
• Overview of the technology developed for ACTpol
• Commissioning a new camera: a box of surprises.
• Future prospects for ACTpol and other CMB experiments.
  

Seminar: The Physics of Baryons (1 hour)
José de Freitas Pacheco

Seminar: The CMB and our peculiar velocity (1 hour)
Miguel Quartin

Seminar: Warm Inflation, Cosmological Fluctuations and Constraints from Planck
(1 hour)
Rudnei Ramos

Seminar: Brazilian participation in CMB measurements programs (1 hour)
Thyrso Villela

Communication: Equivalence between the Covariant and Bardeen Perturbation Formalism (1/2 hour)
Nelson Pinto-Neto

Communication: A path-integral approach to CMB (1/2 hour)
Paulo Henrique Flose Reimberg

Communication: Geometric scalar theory of gravity (1/2 hour)
Júnior Diniz Toniato

Communication: Dark degeneracy and interacting models (1/2 hour)
Saulo Carneiro

Posters:

• Quasi-spherical Szekeres model and supernovae tipe Ia - Cristofher Zuñiga Vargas
• General dissipative coefficient in warm intermediate and logamediate inflation - Nelson Videla Menares
• Number Counts Constraints on Dynamical Vacuum cosmology - Humberto de Almeida Borges
• Non-singular solutions in Rastall's theory - Gabriel Freitas Silva
• Power spectrum of viscous cosmological models - Carolina Martins de Siqueira Barbosa
• Sub-horizon evolution of dark matter perturbations - Denilson Luiz Amaro Martins
• Baryonic matter perturbations in decaying vacuum cosmology - Rodrigo Lugon Cornejo vom Marttens
• North-South CMB analyses using the Minkowski Functionals - Gabriela Antunes Marques