News

The biggest recent news is of course that the Center for Cosmological Physics ceased to exist on March 10th and was transformed to the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics following a generous endowment of 7.5 Million dollars from Fred Kavli and the Kavli Foundation.

A bigger inaugural event is planned for April 30th when Fred Kavli and his colleagues will visit KICP. There will be an opportunity at that time for all KICP members and associates to hear from Mr. Kavli himself about his visions for the Institute.

Note that the domain name for our website is now kicp.uchicago.edu and all email addresses that were formerly xxx@cfcp.uchicago.edu will work if kicp.uchicago.edu is used instead. Please use the new name in your affiliation if you have used cfcp in the past.

	New on the KICP Web Site

If you haven't see it yet you official press release of the announcement of the Kavli endowment can be found at:
http://kicp.uchicago.edu/whatsnew/index.html

Rick Kessler has put together a new set of pages that describe KICPs contribution to the Supernova Factory project. These very nice set of pages include introductory material on what Dark Energy is, its effects, how it can be detected and how the goals of the SN Factory project will further our understanding of Dark Energy.
See http://kicp.uchicago.edu/research/structures/snf/

There is an updated version of the SZ workshop page which contains most of the talks online.
http://kicp.uchicago.edu/workshops/sz2003/index.html

Finally previous newsletters can now be viewed more conveniently at:
http://kicp.uchicago.edu/whatsnew/newsletters/index.html

	Long Term Visitors

Stelios Kazantzidis (University of Zurich) is visiting for the period January 5 - April 8, 2004. Andrey Kravtsov is his host.

Professor Martin Einhorn (University of Michigan) is visiting us for the period March 1 - June 30, 2004. His main area of research is elementary particle theory with focus on Higgs physics, gauge field theory and cosmology.

In the spring we will have brief visits from Alan Watson (Leeds) of the Auger Project, Ravi Sheth (Pittsburg), Eric Linder (LBL), David Hogg (NYU), Matias Zaldariagga ( ), Lexi Moustakas (STScI), Anthony Aguirre (IAS) and Ben Wandelt (UIUC). Please check our website for updates on their seminars/colloquia.

In addition our External Advisory Board will be visiting on April 8-9 for their annual review of our Institute. We hope most KICP fellows and students will be around to meet with them. Helen will send you email closer to the date.

A complete list of short term visitors to the center can be found at:
http://kicp.uchicago.edu/visitors/index.html.

And a complete list of seminars and colloquia can be found at:
http://kicp.uchicago.edu/seminars/index.html.

	Conferences and Workshops

"Santa Fe 2004 Cosmology Summer Workshop"
July 5 - 23, 2004

KICP will be supporting graduate student attendance at the Santa Fe workshop. The workshop will be held at St. John's College, a pleasant and prestigious campus situated in the hills east of downtown Santa Fe. Please contact conference organizer Salman Habib website for details.
(For more information, please visit the SF04 Website:
http://t8web.lanl.gov/people/salman/sf04/).

Since they do not support travel we will in addition support travel for 2-3 graduate students to attend this meeting. Graduate students please send your requests to Monica Valluri by April 15th.

The Santa Fe topical workshop for 2004 will concentrate on recent developments in cosmology, especially those related to current and expected observational advances, including the cosmic microwave background (CMB), large-scale structure, and dark matter and energy/early universe. The first two weeks will be devoted largely to structure formation and the CMB, while the last week will focus on dark energy. The format will emphasize discussion with some formal pedagogical review and related talks as appropriate.

	New in Education and Outreach

Cosmology Research @ Museums in 3D

Fly through the Large Scale Structure of the Universe or visit the VERITAS telescope without leaving Chicago.
Cosmus, an interdisciplinary team of graduate students, has been collaborating with SciTech Hands-On Science Museum and the Adler Planetarium & Astronomy Museum to create 3D electronic exhibits focused on KICP research. These virtual environments allow museum visitors explore exciting aspects of modern science from the actual structure of the universe (both observed by SDSS and simulated by A. Kravtsov) to the design of a gamma ray telescope. Center faculty have worked closely with the group and provided scientific background, ideas, and real data for these interactive exhibits.

The exhibits have been developed primarily for the "Geowall" which is an inexpensive stereo-projection system that consists of two LCD projectors, polarizing filters, polarized 3D glasses, a computer with two video cards, and a polarization preserving screen. The result is similar to a 3D movie, which museum visitors can actively navigate. A number the Cosmus teams creations are already on display at SciTech, and recently Josh Frieman used the SDSS data as part of the KICP/Adler The Adventure of Modern Cosmological class. The group is presenting a paper on their work at the IEEE VR 2004 meeting and will continue refining the exhibits next quarter. Please preview them at the "Projects" section of the Cosmus website. Also, if you are interested in viewing the large scale structure of the universe or the Veritas telescope in 3D, or the Geowall itself contact the Cosmus group leaders Randy Landsberg or Mark SubbaRao.

Cosmus website http://astro.uchicago.edu/cosmus/

Geowall website http://geowall.geo.lsa.umich.edu/

Cosmus is part of the SCOPE project see http://mps.uchicago.edu/

Aspen Center for Physics Summer Workshop 2004
June 28 - July 11, 2004

KICP is helping to organize Physics Education & Outreach workshop at the Aspen Center for Physics June 28 - July 11. This two week workshop will focus on communicating current science to the public and K-12 efforts. Both research physicists and educators are encouraged to attend.
see http://www.aspenphys.org/workshops04.html

	Recent KICP Preprints/Publications

KICP preprints are posted in the Schramm Lounge each Friday for a period of 4 weeks. We hope that this will enable everyone to be aware of the research being done here. These preprints are taken from astro-ph. If you have a preprint that we have missed please let Helen know. There have been 30 publications co-authored by KICP members since the last issue of the news letter. These are listed below.

astro-ph/0311062
"Density profiles of LCDM cluster"
Argyro Tasitsiomi (U Chicago Astron. & Astro, KICP), Andrey V. Kravtsov (U Chicago Astron. & Astro, KICP), Stefan Gottloeber (Institut Potsdam), Anatoly A. Klypin (NM State U)

astro-ph/0311397
"Constraints on the Very High Energy Emission from BL Lacertae Objects"
D. Horan, for the VERITAS Collaboration, Swordy, Simon

astro-ph/0311414
"Polarizing Grids, Their Assemblies and Beams of Radiation"
Martin Houde (1), Rachel L. Akeson (2), John E. Carlstrom (3), James W. Lamb (4), David A. Schleuning (3), David P. Woody (4)
(1) Caltech Submillimeter Observatory, (2) IPAC, California Institute of Technology, (3) University of Chicago, (4) Owens Valley Radio Observatory)

astro-ph/0312036
"The Galaxy-mass Correlation Function Measured from Weak Lensing in the SDSS"
E. S. Sheldon, D. E. Johnston, J. A. Frieman, R. Scranton, T. A. McKay, A. J. Connolly, T. Budavari, I. Zehavi, N. Bahcall, J. Brinkmann, M. Fukugita

New Astronomy Reviews, 2003..47..953C
"Status of CMB polarization measurements from DASI and other experiments"
Carlstrom, J. E.; Kovac, J.; Leitch, E. M.; Pryke, C.

Nature 426 (2003) 810-812
"A gravitationally lensed quasar with quadruple images separated by 14.62 arcseconds"
Inada, Naohisa; Oguri, Masamune; Pindor, Bartosz; Hennawi, Joseph F.; Chiu, Kuenley; Zheng, Wei; Ichikawa, Shin-Ichi; Gregg, Michael D.; Becker, Robert H.; Suto, Yasushi; Strauss, Michael A.; Turner, Edwin L.; Keeton, Charles R.; Annis, James; Castander, Francisco J.; Eisenstein, Daniel J.; Frieman, Joshua A.; Fukugita, Masataka; Gunn, James E.; Johnston, David E.; Kent, Stephen M.; Nichol, Robert C.; Richards, Gordon T.; Rix, Hans-Walter; Sheldon, Erin Scott; Bahcall, Neta A.; Brinkmann, J.; Ivezic, Zeljko; Lamb, Don Q.; McKay, Timothy A.; Schneider, Donald P.; York, Donald G.
AB (The University of Tokyo), AC (Princeton University Observatory), AD (Princeton University Observatory), AE (Johns Hopkins University), AF (Johns Hopkins University), AG (National Astronomical Observatory), AH (University of California at Davis), AI (University of California at Davis), AJ (The University of Tokyo), AK (Princeton University Observatory), AL (Princeton University Observatory), AM (University of Chicago), AN (Fermi National Accelerator), AO (Institut d'Estudis Espacials de Catalunya), AP (Steward Observatory, University of Arizona), AQ(University of Chicago), AR (Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, The University of Tokyo), AS (Princeton University Observatory), AT (University of Chicago), AU (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory), AV (Carnegie Mellon University), AW (Princeton University Observatory), AX (Max-Planck Institute for Astronomy), AY (University of Chicago), AZ (Princeton University Observatory), BA (Apache Point Observatory), BB (Princeton University Observatory), BC (University of Chicago), BD (University of Michigan), BE (Pennsylvania State University), BF (University of Chicago)

2003ApJ...599..909D
"Search for High-Energy Gamma Rays from an X-Ray-selected Blazar Sample"
de la Calle Pérez, I.; Bond, I. H.; Boyle, P. J.; Bradbury, S. M.; Buckley, J. H.; Carter-Lewis, D. A.; Celik, O.; Cui, W.; Dowdall, C.; Duke, C.; Falcone, A.; Fegan, D. J.; Fegan, S. J.; Finley, J. P.; Fortson, L.; Gaidos, J. A.; Gibbs, K.; Gammell, S.; Hall, J.; Hall, T. A.; Hillas, A. M.; Holder, J.; Horan, D.; Jordan, M.; Kertzman, M.; Kieda, D.; Kildea, J.; Knapp, J.; Kosack, K.; Krawczynski, H.; Krennrich, F.; LeBohec, S.; Linton, E. T.; Lloyd-Evans, J.; Moriarty, P.; Müller, D.; Nagai, T. N.; Ong, R. A.; Page, M.; Pallassini, R.; Petry, D.; Power-Mooney, B.; Quinn, J.; Rebillot, P.; Reynolds, P. T.; Rose, H. J.; Schroedter, M.; Sembroski, G. H.; Swordy, S. P.; Vassiliev, V. V.; Wakely, S. P.; Walker, G.; Weekes, T. C.
AA (Department of Physics, University of Leeds, ), AB (Department of Physics, University of Leeds), AC (Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago), AD (Department of Physics, University of Leeds), AE (Department of Physics, Washington University), AF (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University), AG (Department of Physics, University of California), AH (Department of Physics, Purdue University), AI (School of Science, Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology), AJ (Physics Department, Grinnell College), AK (Department of Physics, Purdue University), AL (Physics Department, National University of Ireland), AM (Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory, University of Arizona), AN (Department of Physics, Purdue University), AO (Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago), AP (Department of Physics, Purdue University), AQ (Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory), AR (Physics Department, National University of Ireland), AS (High Energy Astrophysics Institute, University of Utah,) AT (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Arkansas at Little Rock), AU (Department of Physics, University of Leeds), AV (Department of Physics, University of Leeds), AW (Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), AX (Department of Physics, Washington University), AY (Physics Department, De Pauw University), AZ (High Energy Astrophysics Institute, University of Utah), BA (Physics Department, National University of Ireland), BB (Department of Physics, University of Leeds), BC (Department of Physics, Washington University), BD (Department of Physics, Washington University), BE (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University), BF (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University), BG (Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago), BH (Department of Physics, University of Leeds), BI (School of Science, Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology), BJ (Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago), BK (High Energy Astrophysics Institute, University of Utah), BL (Department of Physics, University of California), BM (Physics Department, Grinnell College), BN (Department of Physics, University of Leeds), BO (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center), BP (Physics Department, National University of Ireland), BQ (Physics Department, National University of Ireland), BR (Department of Physics, Washington University), BS (Department of Physics, Cork Institute of Technology), BT (Department of Physics, University of Leeds), BU (Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics; Department of Physics, University of Arizona), BV (Department of Physics, Purdue University), BW (Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago), BX (High Energy Astrophysics Institute, University of Utah), BY (Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago), BZ (High Energy Astrophysics Institute, University of Utah), CA (Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)

Astron.J. 126 (2003) 2579
"The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasar Catalog. II. First Data Release"
Schneider, Donald P.; Fan, Xiaohui; Hall, Patrick B.; Jester, Sebastian; Richards, Gordon T.; Stoughton, Chris; Strauss, Michael A.; SubbaRao, Mark; Vanden Berk, Daniel E.; Anderson, Scott F.; Brandt, W. N.; Gunn, James E.; Gray, Jim; Trump, Jonathan R.; Voges, Wolfgang; Yanny, Brian; Bahcall, Neta A.; Blanton, Michael R.; Boroski, William N.; Brinkmann, J.; Brunner, Robert; Burles, Scott; Castander, Francisco J.; Doi, Mamoru; Eisenstein, Daniel; Frieman, Joshua A.; Fukugita, Masataka; Heckman, Timothy M.; Hennessy, G. S.; Ivezic, Zeljko; Kent, Stephen; Knapp, Gillian R.; Lamb, Donald Q.; Lee, Brian C.; Loveday, Jon; Lupton, Robert H.; Margon, Bruce; Meiksin, Avery; Munn, Jeffrey A.; Newberg, Heidi Jo; Nichol, R. C.; Niederste-Ostholt, Martin; Pier, Jeffrey R.; Richmond, Michael W.; Rockosi, Constance M.; Saxe, David H.; Schlegel, David J.; Szalay, Alexander S.; Thakar, Aniruddha R.; Uomoto, Alan; York, Donald G.

AAS 203rd Meeting (2004) 20311212E
"Tidal streams from dwarf spheroidal galaxies as diagnostics of the structure of the Milky Way halo"
Eftimova, M.; Valluri, M.

Elsevier 2003 NewAR..47.1083C
"QUEST on DASI: a South Pole CMB polarization experiment"
Church, Sarah; Ade, Peter; Bock, James; Bowden, Melanie; Carlstrom, John; Ganga, Ken; Gear, Walter; Hinderks, James; Hu, Wayne; Keating, Brian; Kovac, John; Lange, Andrew; Leitch, Eric; Mallie, Olivier; Melhuish, Simon; Murphy, Anthony; Rusholme, Ben; O'Sullivan, Creidhe; Piccirillo, Lucio; Pryke, Clem; Taylor, Andy; Thompson, Keith

astro-ph/0312429
"Observations and Theoretical Implications of the Large Separation Lensed Quasar SDSS J1004+4112"
M. Oguri, N. Inada, C. R. Keeton, B. Pindor, J. F. Hennawi, M. D. Gregg, R. H. Becker, K. Chiu, W. Zheng, S.-I. Ichikawa, Y. Suto, E. L. Turner, J. Annis, N. A. Bahcall, J. Brinkmann, F. J. Castander, D. J. Eisenstein, J. A. Frieman, T. Goto, J. E. Gunn, D. E. Johnston, S. M. Kent, R. C. Nichol, G. T. Richards, H.-W. Rix, D. P. Schneider, E. S. Sheldon, A. S. Szalay

hep-ph/0312249
"Uncertainties in limits on TeV-gravity from neutrino-induced air showers"
Eun-Joo Ahn, Marco Cavaglia, Angela V Olinto

astro-ph/0312427
"A Gravitationally Lensed Quasar with Quadruple Images Separated by 14.62 Arcseconds"
N. Inada, M. Oguri, B. Pindor, J. F. Hennawi, K. Chiu, W. Zheng, S.-I. Ichikawa, M. D. Gregg, R. H. Becker, Y. Suto, M. A. Strauss, E. L. Turner,C. R. Keeton, J. Annis, F. J. Castander, D. J. Eisenstein, J. A. Frieman, M. Fukugita, J. E. Gunn, D. E. Johnston, S. M. Kent, R. C. Nichol, G. T. Richards,H.-W. Rix, E. S. Sheldon, N. A. Bahcall, J. Brinkmann, Z. Ivezic, D. Q. Lamb, T. A. McKay, D. P. Schneider, D. G. York

2004sgig.book.....C
"Spacetime and geometry. An introduction to general relativity"
Carroll, Sean M.

Astrophys.J. 601 (2004) 47-53
"Gamma-Ray Constraints on Neutralino Dark Matter Clumps in the Galactic Halo"
Aloisio, Roberto; Blasi, Pasquale; Olinto, Angela V.

Astropart.Phys. 20 (2004) 405-412
"Signatures of ultra-high energy cosmic ray composition from propagation of nuclei in intergalactic photon fields"
Yamamoto, T.; Mase, K.; Takeda, M.; Sakaki, N.; Teshima, M.

astro-ph/0401088
"The tumultuous lives of galactic dwarfs and the missing satellites problem"
Andrey V. Kravtsov (1), Oleg Y. Gnedin (2), Anatoly A. Klypin

astro-ph/040151
"The Nearby Supernova Factory"
W. M. Wood-Vasey, G. Aldering, B. C. Lee, S. Loken, P. Nugent, S. Perlmutter, J. Siegrist, L. Wang, P. Antilogus, P. Astier, D. Hardin, R. Pain, Y. Copin, G. SMadja, E. Gangler, A. Castera, G. Adam, R. Bacon, J-P. Lemonnier, A. Pecontal, E. Pecontal, R. Kessler

astro-ph/0401547
"TASI Lectures: Introduction to Cosmology"
Mark Trodden, Sean M. Carroll

astro-ph/0402080
"Probing the Evolution of the Dark Energy Density with Future Supernova Surveys"
Yun Wang, Veselin Kostov, Katherine Freese, Joshua A. Frieman, Paolo Gondolo

astro-ph/0402060
"Covariant Linear Perturbation Formalism"
Wayne Hu (KICP, U Chicago)

astro-ph/0402139
"A Deep Chandra Observation of the Distant Galaxy Cluster MS1137.5+6625"
Laura Grego, Jan Vrtilek, Leon Van Speybroeck, Laurence P. David, William Forman, John E. Carlstrom, Erik D. Reese, Marshall K. Joy

astro-ph/0402345
"Microlensing of the Broad Emission Line Region in the Quadruple Lens SDSS J1004+4112"
Gordon T. Richards, Charles R. Keeton, Bartosz Pindor, Joseph F. Hennawi, Patrick B. Hall, Edwin L. Turner, Naohisa Inada, Masamune Oguri, Shin-Ichi Ichikawa, Robert H. Becker, Michael D. Gregg, Richard L. White, J. Stuart B. Wyithe, Donald P. Schneider, David E. Johnston, Joshua A. Frieman, J. Brinkmann

astro-ph/0402487
"The highest-energy cosmic rays"
James Cronin

astro-ph/0402588
"Neutralino Annihilation at the Galactic Center Revisited"
Roberto Aloisio, Pasquale Blasi, Angela V. Olinto

astro-ph/0402442
"Weak Lensing of the CMB: Sampling Errors on B-Modes"
Kendrick M. Smith (U Chicago), Wayne Hu (KICP, U Chicago), Manoj Kaplinghat (UC Davis)

Astrophys.J. 602 (2004) 66-92
"Difficulties with Recovering the Masses of Supermassive Black Holes from Stellar Kinematical Data"
Valluri, Monica; Merritt, David; Emsellem, Eric

2004ApJ...603...51H
"Constraints on the Very High Energy Emission from BL Lacertae Objects"
Horan, D.; Badran, H. M.; Bond, I. H.; Boyle, P. J.; Bradbury, S. M.; Buckley, J. H.; Carter-Lewis, D. A.; Catanese, M.; Celik, O.; Cui, W.; Daniel, M.; D'Vali, M.; de la Calle Perez, I.; Duke, C.; Falcone, A.; Fegan, D. J.; Fegan, S. J.; Finley, J. P.; Fortson, L. F.; Gaidos, J. A.; Gammell, S.; Gibbs, K.; Gillanders, G. H.; Grube, J.; Hall, J.; Hall, T. A.; Hanna, D.; Hillas, A. M.; Holder, J.; Jarvis, A.; Jordan, M.; Kenny, G. E.; Kertzman, M.; Kieda, D.; Kildea, J.; Knapp, J.; Kosack, K.; Krawczynski, H.; Krennrich, F.; Lang, M. J.; Le Bohec, S.; Linton, E.; Lloyd-Evans, J.; Milovanovic, A.; Moriarty, P.; Muller, D.; Nagai, T.; Nolan, S.; Ong, R. A.; Pallassini, R.; Petry, D.; Power-Mooney, B.; Quinn, J.; Quinn, M.; Ragan, K.; Rebillot, P.; Reynolds, P. T.; Rose, H. J.; Schroedter, M.; Sembroski, G. H.; Swordy, S. P.; Syson, A.; Vassiliev, V. V.; Wakely, S. P.; Walker, G.; Weekes, T. C.; Zweerink, J.

2004AJ....127.1318P
"SDSS J115517.35+634622.0: A Newly Discovered Gravitationally Lensed Quasar"
Pindor, Bart; Eisenstein, Daniel J.; Inada, Naohisa; Gregg, Michael D.; Becker, Robert H.; Brinkmann, Jon; Burles, Scott; Frieman, Joshua A.; Johnston, David E.; Richards, Gordon T.; Schneider, Donald P.; Scranton, Ryan; Sekiguchi, Maki; Turner, Edwin L.; York, Donald

astro-ph/0403016
"Determination of cluster distances from Chandra imaging spectroscopy and Sunyaev-Zeldovich Effect measurements: I - Analysis methods and initial results"
Massimiliano Bonamente, Marshall K. Joy, John E. Carlstrom, Samuel J. LaRoque

astro-ph/0403560
"Eigenspectra of the SDSS DR1 quasars"
Ching-Wa Yip, Andrew Connolly, Daniel Vanden Berk, Zhaoming Ma, Joshua Frieman, Mark SubbaRao, Alex Szalay