Session 100. Cosmology, Early Universe, Cosmic Distance Scale I

Oral, Tuesday, January 10, 2006, 2:00-3:30pm, Salon 1

100.01 The Near Infrared Background: Interplanetary Dust or Primordial Stars

E. Dwek (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center), R. G. Arendt (Science Systems and Applications, Inc.), F. Krennrich (Iowa State University)

100.02 Detecting Population III stars in cosmic infrared background anisotropies from deep Spitzer data

A. Kashlinsky, R.G. Arendt, J. Mather, S.H. Moseley (GSFC)

100.03D The Clustering of Photometric Luminous Red Galaxies and its Cosmological Implications

N. Padmanabhan (Princeton U.), D.J. Schlegel (LBNL), U. Seljak (Princeton U.; ICTP, Trieste)

100.04 Illuminating Dark Energy with the Joint Efficient Dark-energy Investigation (JEDI)

Y. Wang, E. Baron, D. Branch (Univ. of Oklahoma), S. Casertano (Space Telescope Institute), E. Cheng (Conceptual Analytics), A. Crotts (Columbia), I. Dell'Antonio (Brown Univ.), P.M. Garnavich (Notre Dame), S. Habib (LANL), M. Hamuy (Univ. of Chile), K. Heitmann (LANL), A.S. Kutyrev (GSFC), J.W. MacKenty (Space Telescope Institute), L.A. Moustakas (JPL), C. Papovich (Steward Observatory), M. Phillips (Carnegie Institution of Washington Las Campanas Observatory), W.C. Priedhorsky (LANL), R. Silverberg (GSFC), V. Springel (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Astrophysik), G. Squires (Caltech), M. Tegmark (MIT), C. Wheeler (UT Austin), E. L. Wright (UCLA), JEDI Collaboration

100.05D Probing the early universe with gravitational waves

L. A. Boyle, P. J. Steinhardt (Princeton University), N. Turok (Cambridge University)

100.06 Probing the Reioniation Era with the Hubble Space Telescope

M. Stiavelli, S. Beckwith, L. Bergeron (STScI), C. M. Carollo (ETHZ), H. C. Ferguson (STScI), R. Hook (ST-ECF), A. Gardner (GSFC), A. Koekemoer (STScI), S. Lilly (ETHZ), R. Lucas (STScI), B. Mobasher, N. Panagia (STScI and ESA), H.W. Rix (MPIA), M. Robberto (STScI)

100.07 Results of CMB Observations with the Cosmic Background Imager

J. Sievers (CITA), CBI Collaboration