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CIfAR Cosmology & Gravity Program

CIfAR Cosmology & Gravity Program. 12 fellows (all but 3 new/repatriated Cdns) 1 institute fellow 6 scholars (all new/repatriated Cdns) all in Canada (UVic, UBC, UofA, McMaster, PI, UofT, CITA, Queens, McGill) 22 Associates US, UK (4), Canada (3, incl 2 ex-fellows)

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CIfAR Cosmology & Gravity Program

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  1. CIfAR Cosmology & Gravity Program 12 fellows (all but 3 new/repatriated Cdns) 1 institute fellow 6 scholars (all new/repatriated Cdns) all in Canada (UVic, UBC, UofA, McMaster, PI, UofT, CITA, Queens, McGill) 22 Associates US, UK (4), Canada (3, incl 2 ex-fellows) 7 Board Members (treated as associates for interaction) To 04/07 US (4), Germany (1), Canada (2) Now US (5), Germany (1), Canada (1), UK(0) + 47 PDFs, 51 grad students (+ undergrads) in Canada CIfAR07 Annual Meeting Whistler, BC May 9 – 13, 2007 Review Committee, Jun 06, Part 1 and 2; Bibliometric Assessment of CIAR’s Cosmology & Gravity Program CIfAR YES decisions Research Council Oct 06, CIfAR Board Nov 06 News of renewal and Part I of Review Committee Report sent to Fellows, Scholars and Associates Nov 06 3 new members of the Advisory Board “recruited” in last few months First mtg of the Advisory Board since the Review held May 11, 2007

  2. Program 07-12 Keep basic multi-faceted plan Need to make new appointments Scholars/Fellow/Associates to enhance our areas and aid interconnection. Eye on targets of opportunity. Associate renewal & new ones. Associates become Fellows?? Prepare for 6th renewal 2012-17 String theory branes & compactified extra dimensions the landscape “environmental selection” anthropic emergence of space/time Strong Gravity Strings Early Universe Black holes HEA Physical cosmology Early universe physics & Inflation Dark matter, Dark Energy probes Cosmic Microwave Background Redshifted 21 cm Galaxy formation & properties Large scale structure Weak lensing, z-surveys Supernovae Clusters in CMB, optical,X Particle Astrophysics Experiment SNOlab, LHC High Energy Astrophysics neutron stars Black holes High energy cosmic rays Magnetars, double pulsars Numerical relativity colliding black holes in 3D Gravity Waves

  3. Advisory Board Membersto April 2007 Scott Tremaine, ChairPrinceton University Roger BlandfordKIPAC, Stanford Chris PritchetUniversity of VictoriaGary HorowitzUniversity of California at Santa BarbaraArt McDonald Queen's University Paul SteinhardtPrinceton UniversitySimon WhiteMax-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik, Garching, Germany

  4. Advisory Board Membersfrom May 2007 Scott Tremaine, ChairInstitute for Advanced Study Art McDonald – replacement TBD, Cdn?? Queen's University Roger BlandfordKIPAC, Stanford Richard EllisCaltech Renata Kallosh StanfordLyman Page Princeton Simon WhiteMax-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik, Garching, Germany

  5. INTERACTION: (1) the Annual Meetings (2) Support for CIAR people to attend Canadian meetings with a significant CIAR presence (3) "Focus Groups" flexible in concept, low cost, making use of near critical mass already present. New ideas for these welcome. (4) interaction costs for Associates with Fellows and Scholars. For these purposes, Advisory Board members are treated like Associates Beyond these, a major way our Fellows, Scholars and Associates interact is through the many contacts we have with each other at international and Canadian conferences and workshops, visits to our various universities for committees, talks, collaborations, etc. More venues for PDF/grad student interaction. Here 8 PDFs + 2 reporters at CIfAR07 A (quite) modest PDF program may emerge from CIfAR. Target Asia & India. Separate budget line. Associates?

  6. Some Activity since last Ann Mtg: 2006 Annual Program meeting, Banff, Feb. 16-20, 2006 (Organizers: D. Bond, M. Fukunaga, H. Hoekstra, L. van Waerbeke), 44 participants including 8 guests Focus Group Meetings ‘Early Universe, Strings: joint PI/CITA/UofT/McMaster”, May 2006, Waterloo (Organizers: L. Kofman, R. Myers, D. Bond) “Observational HEA”, 2006, McGill (Organizer: V. Kaspi) Clusters, Vancouver, April 2006 (Organizer: H. Hoekstra, G. Holder, L. van Waerbeke) Unruh/Wald Fest, Vancouver, August 2006, Choptuik, Garfinkle organizers CBI Focus Group, Toronto, September 2006 Annual Meeting, Whistler BC, May 9-13 2007 (Organizers: D.Bond, M. Fukunaga), 51 participants, including 7 guests and 10 PDFs Black Holes VI Workshop, May 2007 12th Cdn Conference on General Relativity and Relativistic Astrophysics, May 2007 Pulsar Discovery Anniversary Meeting, Kaspi & Cumming, McGill, August 2007, ~200 CIfAR08 CnG Annual Meeting: early March 2008 at Stanford/SLAC/KIPAC to coincide with the Andrei Linde 60th birthday celebration & more (Associates+Advisory Board members) are at Stanford. Synergy with the very active “particle astrophysics and cosmology” there. Downside: ski afternoons at Tahoe infeasible.

  7. Reporters: Mike Nolta & Jon Sievers (CITA, 2007) Olivier Dore (CITA, 2006) Carlo Contaldi (CITA, 2003-2005)

  8. Associates: Lars Bildsten (UCSB) – High Energy Astrophysics George Efstathiou (Cambridge IoA) – Physical Cosmology Richard Ellis (Caltech) – Observational Cosmology Wendy Freedman (Carnegie) - Observational Cosmology Carlos Frenk (Durham) - Cosmology & Large Scale Structure Valeri Frolov (Alberta) – Gravitation Theory, Black holes David Garfinkle (Oakland University) - Numerical GR Nick Kaiser (Hawaii) – Physical & Observational Cosmology Shamit Kachru (Stanford/SLAC) – String Theory Renata Kallosh (Stanford) – String Theory Louis Lehner (Louisiana) - Numerical GR Simon Lilly (ETH, Zurich) – Observational Cosmology Andrei Linde (Stanford) – Inflationary Cosmology Don Page (Alberta) – Quantum Cosmology, Black holes John Peacock (Edinburgh) – Cosmology, Large Scale Structure Jim Peebles (Princeton) – Dark Matter, Galaxy Formation Eva Silverstein (Stanford) – String Theory Joe Silk (Oxford) – Physical Cosmology Lenny Susskind (Stanford) – String Theory Alex Szalay (Johns Hopkins) – Physical & Observational Cosmology Chris Thompson (CITA) – High Energy Astrophysics Bob Wald (Chicago) – Gravitation Theory, Black holes

  9. Associates: Art McDonald (Queen's) – Particle Astrophysics Chris Pritchet (University of Victoria) – Physical Cosmology, SNGary Horowitz (UC Santa Barbara) – string theoryLars Bildsten (UCSB) – High Energy Astrophysics George Efstathiou (Cambridge IoA) – Physical Cosmology Wendy Freedman (Carnegie) - Observational Cosmology Carlos Frenk (Durham) - Cosmology & Large Scale Structure Valeri Frolov (Alberta) – Gravitation Theory, Black holes David Garfinkle (Oakland University) - Numerical GR Nick Kaiser (Hawaii) – Physical & Observational Cosmology Shamit Kachru (Stanford/SLAC) – String Theory Louis Lehner (Louisiana) - Numerical GR Simon Lilly (ETH, Zurich) – Observational Cosmology Andrei Linde (Stanford) – Inflationary Cosmology Don Page (Alberta) – Quantum Cosmology, Black holes John Peacock (Edinburgh) – Cosmology, Large Scale Structure Jim Peebles (Princeton) – Dark Matter, Galaxy Formation Eva Silverstein (Stanford) – String Theory Joe Silk (Oxford) – Physical Cosmology Lenny Susskind (Stanford) – String Theory Alex Szalay (Johns Hopkins) – Physical & Observational Cosmology Chris Thompson (CITA) – High Energy Astrophysics Bob Wald (Chicago) – Gravitation Theory, Black holes

  10. Which universities have positions coming up? CITA (we hope), TRIUMF. Others? All Associates into Fellows, so only Fellows & Scholars CIfAR-centre view. Increasing internationalization of CIfAR. Special funds for Asia/India scientists. Associates (new?): Nima Arkani-Hamad (IAS) – Particle Physics Yannik Mellier (IAP) - Observational Cosmology, Weak Lensing LHC person: Yanagida, Feng, … Cdn Associates/Scholars (new possibilities?): At this meeting: Matt Dobbs (McGill) – CMB experiment Kris Sigurdson (IAS to UBC) – Physical Cosmology Ingrid Stairs (UBC) – Pulsars Jeremy Heyl (UBC) - High Energy Astrophysics Observational Achim Schwenk (TRIUMF) - Dense Matter (Nuclear) Astrophysics OTHERS: Other TRIUMF appointment – SNOlab, LHC Perimeter Institute appointment – tried on a few occasions; people already there J. Gomis, Freddy C., J. Khoury Alberta: D. Pogosyan McMaster: C. Burgess

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