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Beckwith, Andrew projectbeckwith2@yahoo.com

Proposal for using mix of analytical work with data analysis of early CMB data obtained from the JDEM NASA - DOE Investigation

Riess, Adam ariess@stsci.edu

Dark Energy Evolution from HST and SNe Ia at z > 1

Allen, Steve swa@stanford.edu

Probing Dark Energy with Constellation X

Clarke, Tracy tclarke@ccs.nrl.navy.mil

Laying the Groundwork for Cluster Studies: The Long Wavelength Array

Kaiser, Nick kaiser@ifa.hawaii.edu

The Pan-STARRS Project

Baltay, Charles charles.baltay@yale.edu

The Palomar QUEST Variability Survey

Vikhlinin, Alexey avikhlinin@cfa.harvard.edu

Probing Dark Energy with Cluster Evolution in a 10,000 Square Degree ("10K") X-ray Survey

Thompson, Rodger thompson@as.arizona.edu

A Molecular Probe of Dark Energy

Miller, Chris cmiller@ctio.noao.edu

The XMM Cluster Survey (XCS)

Aldering, Greg aldering@panisse.lbl.gov

The Nearby Supernova Factory

Jahoda, Keith keith@milkyway.gsfc.nasa.gov

An X-ray Galaxy Cluster Survey for Investigations of Dark Energy

Pritchet, Chris pritchet@uvic.ca

The Supernova Legacy Survey -- SNLS

Peoples, John peop@fnal.gov

Dark Energy Survey

Schlegel, David djschlegel@lbl.gov

Baryon Oscillations with the “One Thousand Points of Light Spectrograph”

Golwala, Sunil golwala@caltech.edu

Supplementing Thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich Effect Surveys with CCAT High-Angular-Resolution Follow-Up

Wang, Yun wang@nhn.ou.edu

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

Crotts, Arlin arlin@astro.columbia.edu

ALPACA: Advanced Liquid-mirror Probe of Asteroids, Cosmology and Astrophysics

Gerke, Brian bgerke@berkeley.edu

Measuring the Growth of Structure with Spectroscopically Identified Galaxy Groups and Clusters

Dey, Arjun dey@noao.edu

Dark Energy and Cosmic Sound: w(z) Surveys with the Gemini/Subaru Wide-Field Multi-Object Spectrograph

Kirshner, Robert rkirshner@cfa.harvard.edu

Supernova Observations: Foundation of the Accelerating Universe

Lamb, Don lamb@oddjob.uchicago.edu

A Gamma-Ray Burst Mission to Investigate the Properties of Dark Energy

Kaiser, Mary Beth kaiser@pha.jhu.edu

DETF CalibrationWhite Paper: ACCESS - Absolute Color Calibration Experiment for Standard Stars

Bailyn, Charles bailyn@astro.yale.edu

The WIYN One-Degree Imager and Associated Yale Survey

Meyer, Stephan meyer@uchicago.edu

The Cluster Imaging eXperiment (CIX) and the Importance of Large Single Dish Sub-MM Measurements

Adelberger, Eric eric@npl.washington.edu

Laboratory Tests of Gravity at the Dark Energy Length Scale

Gebhardt, Karl gebhardt@astro.as.utexas.edu

HETDEX: Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment

Perlmutter, Saul saul@lbl.gov

Pre-JDEM Dark Energy Studies with SNe Ia

Perlmutter, Saul saul@lbl.gov

Probing Dark Energy via Weak Gravitational Lensing with the SuperNovaAcceleration Probe (SNAP)

Perlmutter, Saul saul@lbl.gov

Supernova Acceleration Probe: Studying Dark Energy with Type Ia Supernovae

Perlmutter, Saul saul@lbl.gov

SNAP/JDEM Overview

Cordes, Jim cordes@astro.cornell.edu

Dark Energy Experiments with the Square Kilometer Array

Carlstrom, John jc@hyde.uchicago.edu

The South Pole Telescope

Stubbs, Chris cstubbs@fas.harvard.edu

The ESSENCE Project: A Supernova Survey Optimized to Constrain the Equation of State of the Cosmic Dark Energy

Tyson, Tony tyson@physics.ucdavis.edu

The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST)

Stubbs, Chris cstubbs@fas.harvard.edu

Photometric Redshifts of SZ Clusters with Targeted Multiband Imaging

Morse, Jon jon.morse@asu.edu

DESTINY: Dark Energy Space Telescope




Dark Energy Task Force Whitepapers (Theory)

Bean, Rachel          rbean@astro.cornell.edu                Insights into Dark Energy: Interplay Between Theory and Observation

Daniel Eisenstein    eisenste@cmb.as.arizona.edu        Theoretical Investigations To Support the Acoustic Oscillation Method

Gus Evrard             evrard@umich.edu                         Dark Energy Studies: Challenges To Computational Cosmology

David Weinberg       dhw@astronomy.ohio-state.edu      Cosntraining dark Energy with the Dark Energy Survey: Theoretical Challenges

Eddie Baron            baron@nhn.ou.edu                        Quantitative Spectroscopy of Supernovae for Dark Energy Studies

Eric Linder              evlinder@lbl.gov                           Light & Dark: the Clear and Present Role of the CMB for Dark Energy

Eric Linder              evlinder@lbl.gov                           Baryon Acoustic Oscillations for Dark Energy

Bill Baker                bill.baker@furham.edu                   Dark Energy as a Geometric Effect

Karl Gebhardt          gebhardt@astro.as.utexas.edu       HETDEX Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment

Michael Pierce        mpierce@uwyo.edu                        Characterizing Dark Energy Through Nano-Arcsecond Astrometry of Quasars

Henk Hoekstra        hoekstra@uvic.ca                          Theory Requirements for Cosmic Shear Studies

Nick Gorkavyi         gorkavyi@gist.us                           Dark Energy and Acceleration of the Universe with Variable Gravitational Mass

Rudy Schild           rschild@cfa.harvard.edu                  White Paper on the Dark Energy Problem

Daniel Holtz           deholz@cfcp.uchicago.edu              Using Gravitational Wave Standard Sirens


Talks Presented at Meeting of 6/30-7/1

JDEM concept: DESTINY         J. Morse
           
JDEM concept: JEDI                A. Crotts:          
JDEM concept: SNAP              S. Perlmutter   
 JDEM concept: SNAP             M. Levi
JDEM concept: SNAP              E. Linder
LST concept: LSST                   A. Tyson
LST concept: Pan-STARRS      G. Magnier
Dark Energy Survey                  J. Frieman
Clusters                                    J. Mohr
Weak Lensing                           G. Bernstein
CMB Studies                            W. Hu
Baryon Oscillations                   L. Knox
21-cm                                       J. Hewitt




Talks presented at the 29-30 September meeting

Andy Albrecht's non-flat SN result (powerpoint file)

Proposed outline of report

Example of present status assuming spatially flat prior (see fig4 page 12)

Nick's summary of SNIa

John Mather's suggestions for recommendations


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