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Licia Verde 2 Institute for Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK (August 2001) Caltech, Theoretical AstroPhysics Including Relativity group, Pasadena, CA, USA (June – July 2001) Caltech, Theoretical AstroPhysics Including Relativity group, Pasadena, CA, USA (May – July 2000) Columbia University, Physics department, New York, NY, USA (February – April 1999) Grants and Awards (past 5 years only) Maximizing the scientific return of future galaxy redshift surveys, Plan nacional 2008, PI, 180K Euros Physics of the accelerating Universe, Consolider-ingenio 2010, Ministry of Science and Education, Spain, Co-PI; 2007-2012 (5M Euros) CSIC startup grant PI, 2007–2008 (50K Euros) Marie Curie (IRC), PI, 2007–2011 (100K Euros) NASA group achievement award (July 2007) for the results of the WMAP mission NSF-AST grant “Analysis of ACT data” CoI, Fall 2007-2009. (400,000 USD) NASA GALEX legacy grant (CoI) September 2007-August 2009 (USD125,000) FEW grant (from University of Pennsylvania) 3,800 USD to invite Internationally renown women physicists to campus to lecture and ecourage the participation of women in science. NSF PIRE, Co. I., July 2005–June 2010 (2.3 M USD) NASA Astrophysics Data Program (ADP), P.I., Jan 2005-Dec 2007 (149,240 USD) NASA group achievement award (July 2004) for the results of the WMAP mission NASA Astrophysics Data Program (ADP), P.I., Jan 2004– Dec 2008 (133,935 USD) Computational and Observational Resources Supercomputing allocations at NCSA 2005-2008 30,000 SU, renewed twice. Keck telescope, CoI “Cosmic clocks” project, 2 nights in 2006, 2 nights in 2007, 4 nights in 2008 2. RESEARCH INTERESTS The subjects I have been working on are: Cosmology; statistics of the cosmic microwave background fluctuations, in particular I have been directly involved with analysis and interpretation of the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe satellite (WMAP) data, and I am part of the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) science team; Dark energy (I am part of the ADEPT science team and the PAU science team); use of higher order correlations in cosmology and their applications to galaxy redshift surveys in particular the Anglo-Australian two-degree galaxy redshift survey (2dFGRS); statistical analysis of largescale structure; relationship between the clustering properties of visible matter and of the dark matter; nature of the primordial fluctuations: the initial conditions for cosmological structure formation; galaxy clusters scaling relations; problems for the CDM paradigm on small scales: galaxy cusps and dwarf galaxies. Major projects I have been involved with are (in chronological order): • I have measured the relationship between the clustering properties of visible matter and of the dark matter from the 2dFGRS catalog. This work became one of the Two-degree-Field Galaxy Redshift Survey team papers. This measurement is particularly important in cosmology as the theory predicts the clustering properties of the dark matter but we mostly trace the large-scale structure via the clustering of visible matter. This measurement led to a determination of the density parameter of the Universe independent from the CMB. • Between 2002 and 2006 I have been a member of the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) science team and I have been directly involved in the analysis, interpretation and the release of the observations of the WMAP satellite. Two articles that reported the WMAP results in 2003 have been the first and second most cited papers in astronomy in 2003 and 2004 and the second and the third most cited papers in physics and in astronomy in the year 2003, 2004 and 2005, surpassed only by “Review of particle physics. Particle data group”. (source SLAC SPIRES).
Licia Verde 3 • I am a member of the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) science team (first light June 2007). More information at http://www.physics.princeton.edu/act/ and of the Southern Cosmology Survey http://www.ice.csic.es/personal/jimenez/SCS/Blank.html • I am member of the team of a proposed NASA space mission as part of JDEM (Joint Dark Energy Mission 2 ): Advanced Dark Energy Physics Telescope (ADEPT). ADEPT has been selected and funded for Concept Study. • I am member of the LSST (Large Scale Synoptic Telescope) collaboration. • Membership of SDSS III and BOSS collaboration under negotiations. • I am part of the BPol collaboration (a proposed European space mission to measure CMB polarization with the goal of constraining primordial gravity waves). 3. INVITED TALKS & SEMINARS (past 5 years) 5 invited lectures ”Introduction to Cosmology” CERN Student Summer Program July 2009 Cern colloquium, “Polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background: the next frontier”, May 14, 2009 5 Invited lectures on “Statistical tools for Cosmology”, 2nd TRR33 Winter School on Cosmology: Theory for Observers; Observations for Theorists, December 2008. “Measuring non-gaussianity from large-scale structure”, University of Pittsburgh Nov 2008 Invited talk on “Primordial non-gaussianity from galaxy surveys”, Non-Gaussianity Workshop, Sept. 2008, Cambridge, UK Review talk on “Looking for primordial non-gaussianity” Santa Fe cosmology whorshop 2008, Santa Fe, US (July 2008) Review talk on “Latest results on CMB” at Planck08, Barcelona (May 2008) Invited review talk at Space Telescope Science Institute 2008 spring symposium “A decade of dark energy”, Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD, USA (May 2008) Invited review talk on “Dark energy”, at “Topical Workshop on Cosmology: Interplay Between Theory and Observations”, Center for Cosmology and Gravitation, Penn State University, State College, PA, USA (May 2008) “Cosmology: a statistical view”, Invited talk, Cosmotools workshop, Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille, Marseille, FR (April 2008) “WMAP 5 years results”, invited discussion leader, PONT Avignon, Avignon, FR (April 2008) “Non Gaussianity and Large scale structures”, invited talk at workshop on NonGaussianity at Perimeter Institute (Canada) (March 2008) European Science Foundation exploratory workshop “Astrophysical Tests of Fundamental Physics”, invited talk: ”Observational Cosmology and fundamental Physics” Centro de Astrofisica, Universidade do Porto, PT (March 2008) “Minimally parametric reconstruction of the primordial power spectrum”, Aspen winter workshop, Aspen, CO, US (Feb 2008) and APC Paris (March 2008). Two lectures on “Tools to analyze large scale structure surveys”, PAU academic Training, Madrid (December 2007) “What’s new in cosmology 2007”, La trobada de navidad 2007, UB Barcelona, (Dec 2008) Four Lectures on “Statistical methods for CMB analysis”, ”XIX Canary island Winter School In Astrophysics: The Cosmic Microwave Background: from quantum fluctuations to the present Universe”, November 2007, IAC Canary Islands, Spain. 2 More information on JDEM: http://www.er.doe.gov/hep/JDEMroadmap.pdf♯search=%22concept%20study%20nasa%20definition%22
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