Session 131. The Deep Dark Universe

Oral, Wednesday, January 12, 2005, 2:00-3:30pm, Royal Palm 4-6

131.01 What's New with SNAP?

S. Perlmutter (UC Berkeley), SNAP Collaboration

131.02 Safety in numbers: Gravitational Lensing Degradation of the Luminosity Distance-Redshift Relation

E. V. Linder (Berkeley Lab), D. E. Holz (University of Chicago and LANL)

131.03 SNAP Telescope Latest Developments

M. Lampton (U.C.Berkeley), SNAP Collaboration

131.04 SNAP Focal Plane Development

C. J. Bebek (LBNL), SNAP Collaboration

131.05 Issues and Science Driven Specifications for the Near Infrared Detector System for SNAP

G. Tarle (University of Michigan), SNAP Collaboration

131.06 Strategies for Calibration of a Dark Energy Mission

S. E. Deustua (American Astronomical Society), SNAP Collaboration

131.07 Joint Efficient Dark-energy Investigation (JEDI): a Candidate Implementation of the NASA-DOE Joint Dark Energy Mission (JDEM)

Y. Wang (U. of Oklahoma), A. Crotts (Columbia), P. Garnavich (Notre Dame), W. Priedhorsky, S. Habib, K. Heitmann (LANL), A. Kutyrev, H. Moseley (NASA GSFC), G. Squires (Caltech), M. Tegmark (MIT), N. Wright (UCLA), et al. (the JEDI team)

131.08 The Primeval Structure Telescope

J.B. Peterson (Carnegie Mellon U.), U.L. Pen (U. Toronto), X.P. Wu (Nat'l Astronomical Obs. of China)