Physics Graduate Student Social Hour

Social Event | August 28, 2009 – December 28, 2012 every Friday | 5-7 p.m. | LeConte Hall, 375 - Helmholz Room

Sponsor: Graduate Assembly

Graduate students, staff, and faculty from any department are invited to this weekly event held by the Physics Graduate Student Association as a forum for informal networking and communication between scientists and science enthusiasts from all career levels. Come by for a relaxing atmosphere with delicious refreshments usually sponsored by the GA.

RPM talk "Baryon Acoustic Oscillations with BOSS"

Seminar: Cosmology Seminars | May 29 | 4-5 p.m. |  LBL 50A-5132

Speaker/Performer: Cameron McBride, Harvard

Sponsor: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

In this talk, I will focus on the first cosmological constraints
utilizing the "standard ruler" of the baryon acoustic oscillation
(BAO) feature as detected in the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic
Survey (BOSS) from the SDSS-III project. I will discuss the
cosmological constraints and the context of these results with
previous measurements to construct a cosmic distance ladder. This...   More >