Session 23 Observational Probes of Dark Energy

Topical Oral, Tuesday, May 27, 2003, 8:30-10:00am, 10:45am-12:30pm, 2:00-3:30pm and 3:45-5:30pm, 205/206

23.01 Mysteries of Dark Energy

S. Carroll (U. Chicago)

23.02 Methods of Constraining the Equation of State: An Overview

D. H. Weinberg (Ohio State University)

23.03 Studying Dark Energy with Galaxy Cluster Surveys

J. Mohr, S. Majumdar (U. Illinois)

23.04 The Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect as Dark Energy Probe

G. P. Holder (Institute for Advanced Study)

23.05 Weak Gravitational Lensing: Role and Prospects

R.S. Ellis (Caltech)

23.06 Probing Dark Energy with High Redshift Supernovae

S. Perlmutter (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

23.07 Dark Energy Search Using Type Ia Supernovae

Y. Wang (Univ. of Oklahoma)

23.08 ESSENCE: Measuring the Equation of State of the Universe with Supernovae

R.P. Kirshner (CfA), C. Aguilera (CTIO), B. Barris (U. Hawaii), A. Becker (Bell Labs), P. Challis (CfA), R. Chornock (UC Berkeley), A. Clocchiatti (U. Catolica de Chile), R. Covarrubias (CTIO), A.V. Filippenko (UC Berkeley), P.M. Garnavich, Stephen Holland (Notre Dame), Saurabh Jha (UC Berkeley), Kevin Krisciunas (CTIO), B. Leibundgut (ESO), W.D Li (UC Berkeley), T. Matheson (CfA), A. Miceli, G. Miknaitis, A. Rest (U. Washington), A.G. Riess (STScI), B.P. Schmidt (ANU), R.C. Smith (CTIO), J. Sollerman (Stockholm Obs.), J. Spyromilio (ESO), C. Stubbs (U. Washington), N.B. Suntzeff (CTIO), J.L. Tonry (U. Hawaii), The ESSENCE Team (Around the World)

23.09 Constraining Dark Energy 3 different ways

L. Verde (Princeton University)

23.10 Dark Energy and Cosmic Sound

D.J. Eisenstein, H. Seo (Steward Observatory)

23.11 Measuring the Dark Energy from Redshift Surveys

A.S. Szalay, A. Pope (The Johns Hopkins University), T. Matsubara (Nagoya University, Japan), SDSS Collaboration

23.12 Probing dark energy via the high-redshift galaxy power spectrum: acoustic oscillations as a standard ruler

K Glazebrook (Johns Hopkins University), C Blake (University of New South Wales)