Dr. Antonio J. Cuesta

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1 Dr. Antonio J. Cuesta Postdoctoral Research Associate Institut de Ciències del Cosmos Universitat de Barcelona Martí i Franquès 1, Office V-703-I E Barcelona (Spain) T +34 (93) [email protected] INTERESTS AND EXPERTISE Cosmology, Galaxy Redshift Surveys, Cosmological simulations, Markov Chain MonteCarlo data analysis, particle astrophysics, high-performance supercomputing. ACADEMIC HISTORY - EDUCATION 2010 Ph.D in Physics, University of Granada, Spain and Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia (CSIC) 2007 Master in Methods and Advanced Techniques in Physics, University of Granada, Spain B.A. in Physics, University of Granada, Spain (Highest score in Physics in 2005) POSITIONS HELD - EXPERIENCE 2013-Present Postdoctoral Associate, Institut de Ciències del Cosmos, Universitat de Barcelona,Spain Work with Prof. Licia Verde on the cosmological analysis of data from Sloan Digital Sky Survey Postdoctoral Associate, Yale University, New Haven CT Work with Prof. Nikhil Padmanabhan on the cosmological analysis of data from Sloan Digital Sky Survey MEC FPU Grant PhD Student, Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia (CSIC), Spain Work under supervision of Dr. Francisco Prada on the analysis of dark matter cosmological simulations CSIC I3P Grant Graduate Student, Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia (CSIC), Spain Work under supervision of Dr. Francisco Prada on the analysis of dark matter cosmological simulations CSIC Introduction to Research Student, Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia (CSIC), Spain Work under supervision of Dr. Francisco Prada on the analysis of dark matter cosmological simulations. FIRST AND SECOND AUTHOR PUBLICATIONS 2014 The reconstructed baryon acoustic feature in SDSS Main sample of Galaxies. Cuesta, A.J., Padmanabhan, N., Eisenstein, D.J., McBride, C., Xu, X, and Mehta, K. in preparation Measuring D_A and H at z=0.35 from the SDSS DR7 LRGs using baryon acoustic oscillations. Xu, Xiaoying; Cuesta, Antonio J.; Padmanabhan, Nikhil; Eisenstein, Daniel J.; McBride, Cameron K. eprint arxiv: A 2% Distance to z = 0.35 by Reconstructing Baryon Acoustic Oscillations - III : Cosmological Measurements and Interpretation. Mehta, Kushal T.; Cuesta, Antonio J.; Xu, Xiaoying; Eisenstein, Daniel J.; Padmanabhan, Nikhil. eprint arxiv: Clustering of Sloan Digital Sky Survey III Photometric Luminous Galaxies: The Measurement, Systematics and Cosmological Implications. Ho, Shirley; Cuesta, Antonio; Seo, Hee-Jong; de Putter, Roland; Ross, Ashley J.; White, Martin; Padmanabhan, Nikhil; Saito, Shun; Schlegel, David J.; Schlafly, Eddie; and 30 coauthors. eprint arxiv: Dark matter annihilation and decay in the Local Universe: CLUES from Fermi. A. J. Cuesta, T. E. Jeltema, F. Zandanel, S. Profumo, F. Prada, G. Yepes, A. Klypin, Y. Hoffman, S. Gottlöber, J. Primack, M. A. Sánchez-Conde, and C. Pfrommer. The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 726, Issue 1, article id. L6

2 (Erratum: ApJL Volume 745, Issue 2, article id. L35) The virialized mass of dark matter halos. A. J. Cuesta, F. Prada, A. Klypin & M. Moles. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 389, Issue 1, pp Spin alignment of dark matter haloes in the shells of the largest voids. A. J. Cuesta, J. E. Betancort-Rijo, S. Gottlöber, S. G. Patiri, G. Yepes & F. Prada. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 385, Issue 2, pp The alignment of dark matter halos with the cosmic web. S. G. Patiri, A. J. Cuesta, F. Prada, J. E. Betancort-Rijo & A. Klypin. The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 652, Issue 2, pp. L75-L COMPLETE LIST OF PUBLICATIONS 2014 The reconstructed baryon acoustic feature in SDSS Main sample of Galaxies. Cuesta, A.J., Padmanabhan, N., Eisenstein, D.J., McBride, C., Xu, X, and Mehta, K. in preparation The clustering of galaxies in the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: galaxy clustering measurements in the low redshift sample of Data Release 11. Tojeiro, Rita; Ross, Ashley J.; Burden, Angela; Samushia, Lado; Manera, Marc; Percival, Will J.; Beutler, Florian; Cuesta, Antonio J.; Dawson, Kyle; Eisenstein, Daniel J.; and 12 coauthors. eprint arxiv: The SDSS-III Baryonic Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: constraints on the integrated Sachs- Wolfe effect. Hernández-Monteagudo, Carlos; Ross, Ashley J.; Cuesta, Antonio; Génova-Santos, Ricardo; Xia, Jun-Qing; Prada, Francisco; Rossi, Graziano; Neyrinck, Mark; Viel, Matteo; Rubiño-Martin, Jose- Alberto; and 6 coauthor. eprint arxiv: SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Analysis of Potential Systematics in Fitting of Baryon Acoustic Feature. Vargas Magaña, Mariana; Ho, Shirley; Xu, Xiaoying; Sánchez, Ariel G.; O'Connell, Ross; Eisenstein, Daniel J.; Cuesta, Antonio J.; Percival, Will J.; Ross, Ashley J.; Aubourg, Eric; and 5 coauthors. eprint arxiv: The Clustering of Galaxies in the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Measuring growth rate and geometry with anisotropic clustering. Samushia, Lado; Reid, Beth A.; White, Martin; Percival, Will J.; Cuesta, Antonio J.; Zhao, Gong-Bo; Ross, Ashley J.; Manera, Marc; Aubourg, Éric; Beutler, Florian; and 20 coauthors. eprint arxiv: The clustering of galaxies in the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Baryon Acoustic Oscillations in the Data Release 10 and 11 galaxy samples. Anderson, Lauren; Aubourg, Eric; Bailey, Stephen; Beutler, Florian; Bhardwaj, Vaishali; Blanton, Michael; Bolton, Adam S.; Brinkmann, J.; Brownstein, Joel R.; Burden, Angela; and 55 coauthors, including Antonio J. Cuesta. eprint arxiv: The clustering of galaxies in the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: cosmological implications of the full shape of the clustering wedges in the data release 10 and 11 galaxy samples. Sanchez, Ariel G.; Montesano, Francesco; Kazin, Eyal A.; Aubourg, Eric; Beutler, Florian; Brinkmann, Jon; Brownstein, Joel R.; Cuesta, Antonio J.; Dawson, Kyle S.; Eisenstein, Daniel J.; and 18 coauthors. eprint arxiv: The Clustering of Galaxies in the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Including covariance matrix errors. Percival, Will J.; Ross, Ashley J.; Sanchez, Ariel G.; Samushia, Lado;

3 Burden, Angela; Crittenden, Robert; Cuesta, Antonio J.; Vargas Magana, Mariana; Manera, Marc; Beutler, Florian; and 12 coauthors. eprint arxiv: The Tenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Spectroscopic Data from the SDSS-III Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment. Ahn, Christopher P.; Alexandroff, Rachael; Allende Prieto, Carlos; Anders, Friedrich; Anderson, Scott F.; Anderton, Timothy; Andrews, Brett H.; Aubourg, Éric; Bailey, Stephen; Bastien, Fabienne A.; and 225 coauthors, including Antonio J. Cuesta. eprint arxiv: The clustering of galaxies in the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: measuring H(z) and DA(z) at z = 0.57 with clustering wedges. Kazin, Eyal A.; Sánchez, Ariel G.; Cuesta, Antonio J.; Beutler, Florian; Chuang, Chia-Hsun; Eisenstein, Daniel J.; Manera, Marc; Padmanabhan, Nikhil; Percival, Will J.; Prada, Francisco; and 11 coauthors. eprint arxiv: The clustering of galaxies in the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: singleprobe measurements and the strong power of f(z)σ8(z) on constraining dark energy. Chuang, Chia-Hsun; Prada, Francisco; Cuesta, Antonio J.; Eisenstein, Daniel J.; Kazin, Eyal; Padmanabhan, Nikhil; Sánchez, Ariel G.; Xu, Xiaoying; Beutler, Florian; Manera, Marc; and 6 coauthors. eprint arxiv: The clustering of galaxies in the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: cosmological constraints from the full shape of the clustering wedges. Sánchez, Ariel G.; Kazin, Eyal A.; Beutler, Florian; Chuang, Chia-Hsun; Cuesta, Antonio J.; Eisenstein, Daniel J.; Manera, Marc; Montesano, Francesco; Nichol, Robert C.; Padmanabhan, Nikhil; and 12 coauthors. eprint arxiv: The clustering of galaxies in the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Measuring D_A and H at z=0.57 from the Baryon Acoustic Peak in the Data Release 9 Spectroscopic Galaxy Sample. Anderson, Lauren; Aubourg, Eric; Bailey, Stephen; Beutler, Florian; Bolton, Adam S.; Brinkmann, J.; Brownstein, Joel R.; Chuang, Chia-Hsun; Cuesta, Antonio J.; Dawson, Kyle S.; and 28 coauthors. eprint arxiv: The clustering of galaxies in the SDSS-III DR9 Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: constraints on primordial non-gaussianity. Ross, Ashley J.; Percival, Will J.; Carnero, Aurelio; Zhao, Gong-bo; Manera, Marc; Raccanelli, Alvise; Aubourg, Eric; Bizyaev, Dmitry; Brewington, Howard; Brinkmann, J.; and 29 coauthors. eprint arxiv: The Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey of SDSS-III. Dawson, Kyle S.; Schlegel, David J.; Ahn, Christopher P.; Anderson, Scott F.; Aubourg, Éric; Bailey, Stephen; Barkhouser, Robert H.; Bautista, Julian E.; Beifiori, Alessandra; Berlind, Andreas A.; and 155 coauthors, including Antonio J. Cuesta. eprint arxiv: The Ninth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Spectroscopic Data from the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey. Ahn, Christopher P.; Alexandroff, Rachael; Allende Prieto, Carlos; Anderson, Scott F.; Anderton, Timothy; Andrews, Brett H.; Aubourg, Éric; Bailey, Stephen; Balbinot, Eduardo; Barnes, Rory; and 226 coauthors, including Antonio J. Cuesta. eprint arxiv: Measuring D_A and H at z=0.35 from the SDSS DR7 LRGs using baryon acoustic oscillations. Xu, Xiaoying; Cuesta, Antonio J.; Padmanabhan, Nikhil; Eisenstein, Daniel J.; McBride, Cameron K. eprint arxiv: Halo concentrations in the standard LCDM cosmology. Prada, Francisco; Klypin, Anatoly A.; Cuesta, Antonio J.; Betancort-Rijo, Juan E.; Primack, Joel. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 423, Issue 4, pp (2012) The Clustering of Galaxies in the SDSS-III DR9 Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Testing Deviations from $Lambda$ and General Relativity using anisotropic clustering of galaxies.

4 Samushia, Lado; Reid, Beth A.; White, Martin; Percival, Will J.; Cuesta, Antonio J.; Lombriser, Lucas; Manera, Marc; Nichol, Robert C.; Schneider, Donald P.; Bizyaev, Dmitry; and 12 coauthors. eprint arxiv: The clustering of galaxies in the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: measurements of the growth of structure and expansion rate at z=0.57 from anisotropic clustering. Reid, Beth A.; Samushia, Lado; White, Martin; Percival, Will J.; Manera, Marc; Padmanabhan, Nikhil; Ross, Ashley J.; Sánchez, Ariel G.; Bailey, Stephen; Bizyaev, Dmitry; and 37 coauthors. eprint arxiv: The clustering of galaxies in the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: cosmological implications of the large-scale two-point correlation function. Sanchez, Ariel G.; Scoccola, C. G.; Ross, A. J.; Percival, W.; Manera, M.; Montesano, F.; Mazzalay, X.; Cuesta, A. J.; Eisenstein, D. J.; Kazin, E.; and 46 coauthors. eprint arxiv: The clustering of galaxies in the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Baryon Acoustic Oscillations in the Data Release 9 Spectroscopic Galaxy Sample. Anderson, Lauren; Aubourg, Eric; Bailey, Stephen; Bizyaev, Dmitry; Blanton, Michael; Bolton, Adam S.; Brinkmann, J.; Brownstein, Joel R.; Burden, Angela; Cuesta, Antonio J.; and 66 coauthors. eprint arxiv: The clustering of galaxies in the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Analysis of potential systematics. Ross, Ashley J.; Percival, Will J.; Sanchez, Ariel G.; Samushia, Lado; Ho, Shirley; Kazin, Eyal; Manera, Marc; Reid, Beth; White, Martin; Tojeiro, Rita; and 31 coauthors. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 424, Issue 1, pp (2012) 2012 CLUES on Fermi-LAT prospects for the extragalactic detection of μνssm gravitino dark matter. Gómez-Vargas, G. A.; Fornasa, M.; Zandanel, F.; Cuesta, A. J.; Muñoz, C.; Prada, F.; Yepes, G. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, Issue 02, pp. 001 (2012) 2012 A 2% Distance to z=0.35 by Reconstructing Baryon Acoustic Oscillations - I : Methods and Application to the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Padmanabhan, Nikhil; Xu, Xiaoying; Eisenstein, Daniel J.; Scalzo, Richard; Cuesta, Antonio J.; Mehta, Kushal T.; Kazin, Eyal. eprint arxiv: A 2% Distance to z=0.35 by Reconstructing Baryon Acoustic Oscillations - II: Fitting Techniques. Xu, Xiaoying; Padmanabhan, Nikhil; Eisenstein, Daniel J.; Mehta, Kushal T.; Cuesta, Antonio J. eprint arxiv: A 2% Distance to z = 0.35 by Reconstructing Baryon Acoustic Oscillations - III : Cosmological Measurements and Interpretation. Mehta, Kushal T.; Cuesta, Antonio J.; Xu, Xiaoying; Eisenstein, Daniel J.; Padmanabhan, Nikhil. eprint arxiv: Acoustic scale from the angular power spectra of SDSS-III DR8 photometric luminous galaxies. Seo, Hee-Jong; Ho, Shirley; White, Martin; Cuesta, Antonio; Ross, Ashley; Saito, Shun; Reid, Beth; Padmanabhan, Nikhil; Percival, Will J.; de Putter, Roland; and 24 coauthors. eprint arxiv: Clustering of Sloan Digital Sky Survey III Photometric Luminous Galaxies: The Measurement, Systematics and Cosmological Implications. Ho, Shirley; Cuesta, Antonio; Seo, Hee-Jong; de Putter, Roland; Ross, Ashley J.; White, Martin; Padmanabhan, Nikhil; Saito, Shun; Schlegel, David J.; Schlafly, Eddie; and 30 coauthors. eprint arxiv: New Neutrino Mass Bounds from Sloan Digital Sky Survey III Data Release 8 Photometric Luminous Galaxies. de Putter, Roland; Mena, Olga; Giusarma, Elena; Ho, Shirley; Cuesta, Antonio; Seo, Hee-Jong; Ross, Ashley; White, Martin; Bizyaev, Dmitry; Brewington, Howard; and 11 coauthors. eprint arxiv:

5 2011 Ameliorating systematic uncertainties in the angular clustering of galaxies: a study using the SDSS-III. Ross, Ashley J.; Ho, Shirley; Cuesta, Antonio J.; Tojeiro, Rita; Percival, Will J.; Wake, David; Masters, Karen L.; Nichol, Robert C.; Myers, Adam D.; de Simoni, Fernando; and 22 coauthors. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 417, Issue 2, pp CLARA's view on the escape fraction of Lyman α photons in high-redshift galaxies. Forero- Romero, Jaime E.; Yepes, Gustavo; Gottlöber, Stefan; Knollmann, Steffen R.; Cuesta, Antonio J.; Prada, Francisco. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2011 The Eighth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Data from SDSS-III. Aihara, Hiroaki; Allende Prieto, Carlos; An, Deokkeun; Anderson, Scott F.; Aubourg, Éric; Balbinot, Eduardo; Beers, Timothy C.; Berlind, Andreas A.; Bickerton, Steven J.; Bizyaev, Dmitry; and 170 coauthors. The Astrophysical Journal Supplement, Volume 193, Issue 2, article id. 29. (Erratum: ApJS Volume 195, Issue 2, article id. 26) Dark matter annihilation and decay in the Local Universe: CLUES from Fermi. A. J. Cuesta, T. E. Jeltema, F. Zandanel, S. Profumo, F. Prada, G. Yepes, A. Klypin, Y. Hoffman, S. Gottlöber, J. Primack, M. A. Sánchez-Conde, and C. Pfrommer. The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 726, Issue 1, article id. L6 (Erratum: ApJL Volume 745, Issue 2, article id. L35) Simulated versus observed UV emission at high redshift: a hint for a clumpy interstellar medium? Forero-Romero, Jaime E.; Yepes, Gustavo; Gottlöber, Stefan; Knollmann, Steffen R.; Khalatyan, Arman; Cuesta, Antonio J.; Prada, Francisco. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters, Volume 403, Issue 1, pp. L31-L The correlation of UHECRs with nearby galaxies in the Local Volume. A. J. Cuesta & F. Prada. Submitted to MNRAS The dark outside: the density profile of dark matter haloes beyond the virial radius. H. Tavio, A. J. Cuesta, F. Prada, A. Klypin, & M. A. Sánchez-Conde. Submitted to MNRAS The virialized mass of dark matter halos. A. J. Cuesta, F. Prada, A. Klypin & M. Moles. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 389, Issue 1, pp Spin alignment of dark matter haloes in the shells of the largest voids. A. J. Cuesta, J. E. Betancort-Rijo, S. Gottlöber, S. G. Patiri, G. Yepes & F. Prada. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 385, Issue 2, pp The alignment of dark matter halos with the cosmic web. S. G. Patiri, A. J. Cuesta, F. Prada, J. E. Betancort-Rijo & A. Klypin. The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 652, Issue 2, pp. L75-L NON-REFEREED ARTICLES 2009 The correlation of UHECRs with nearby galaxies in the Local Volume. A. J. Cuesta & F. Prada. Submitted to MNRAS The dark outside: the density profile of dark matter haloes beyond the virial radius. H. Tavio, A. J. Cuesta, F. Prada, A. Klypin, & M. A. Sánchez-Conde. Submitted to MNRAS.

6 PROCEEDINGS 2012 A 2% Bao Distance Measurement From Density-field Reconstruction In The SDSS. Xu, Xiaoying; Cuesta, A.; Eisenstein, D.; Mehta, K.; Padmanabhan, N. American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #219, # The 3D Clustering of BOSS DR9 Galaxies. Ross, Ashley Jacob; Percival, W. J.; Berlind, A. A.; Blanton, M.; Bolton, A.; Brinkmann, J.; da Costa, L. A.; Crittenden, R.; Cuesta, A. J.; Eisenstein, D.; and 37 coauthors. American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #219, # Cosmology with Large Scale Structure. Ho, Shirley; Cuesta, A.; Ross, A.; Seo, H.; DePutter, R.; Padmanabhan, N.; White, M.; Myers, A.; Bovy, J.; Blanton, M.; and 16 coauthors. American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #219, # Cosmological Constraints from the Angular Power Spectra of SDSS DR8 Photometric LRGs. Cuesta, A.J.,; S. Ho; H. Seo; M. White; A. J. Ross; S. Saito; B. A. Reid; N. Padmanabhan; W. J. Percival; R. de Putter; D. J. Schlegel; D. J. Eisenstein; F. Prada; L. A. N. da Costa; F. de Simoni; R. A. Skibba; L. Verde; M. Viel. American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #219, # Acoustic Scale from the Angular Power Spectra of SDSS DR8 Photometric LRGs. Seo, Hee-Jong; Ho, S.; White, M.; Cuesta, A.; Ross, A.; Saito, S.; Reid, B.; Padmanabhan, N.; Percival, W.; de Putter, R.;and 10 coauthors. American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #219, # Angular Clustering of SDSS III DR8 photometric Luminous Red Galaxies. Ho, Shirley; Cuesta, A.; Ross, A.; Padmanabhan, N.; White, M.; Schlegel, D.; Percival, W.; Prada, F.; Verde, L.; Skibba, R.; Lin, Y; Mena, O.; Saito, S.; Ross, N. American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #217, #222.07; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 43, Photometric Redshift Catalog of SDSS DR8 Luminous Red Galaxies. A. J. Cuesta; A. Ross; S. Ho; N. Padmanabhan; F. Prada; M. White; D. J. Schlegel; W. J. Percival; N. Connolly; F. de Simoni; B. Ramos; N. Ross; L. A. N. da Costa. American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #217, #150.05; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 43, The Mass of Virialized Dark Matter Haloes. Cuesta, A. J.; Prada, F. Panoramic Views of Galaxy Formation and Evolution ASP Conference Series, Vol. 399, proceedings of the conference held December, 2007, at Shonan Village Center, Hayama, Japan. Edited by Tadayuki Kodama, Toru Yamada, and Kentaro Aoki. San Francisco: Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2008., p.121 SHORT-TERM VISITS 2011 Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley CA Work with Dr. Shirley Ho on the analysis of the angular power spectrum of SDSS-DR8 galaxies (2 weeks) Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge MA Work with Dr. Elena D Onghia and Prof. Lars Hernquist on the study of satellite abundances after dark matter halo mergers (4 months) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley CA Work with Dr. Nikhil Padmanabhan and Dr. David J. Schlegel on the selection of Luminous Red Galaxies from SDSS Data Release 7 (4 months).

7 CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS 12/2013 BOSS Collaboration Meeting at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley CA 06/2013 SDSS Collaboration Meeting at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore MD 01/ th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, Long Beach CA 12/2012 BOSS Collaboration Meeting at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA 10/2012 BigBOSS meeting at Institute Henri Poincare, Paris France 07/2012 NVIDIA Workshop on GPU programming at Yale, New Haven CT 07/2012 Santa Fe Cosmology Workshop, Santa Fe NM 01/2012 BOSS Collaboration Meeting at New York University, New York NY 01/ th meeting of the American Astronomical Society, Austin TX 08/2011 SDSS Collaboration Meeting, Nashville TN 07/2011 Santa Fe Cosmology Workshop, Santa Fe NM 03/2011 BOSS Collaboration Meeting, Cloudcroft NM 01/ th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, Seattle WA 09/2010 BOSS Collaboration Meeting. Laboratoire AstroParticule et Cosmologie. Paris (France). 08/2010 UC-HIPACC International AstroComputing Summer School on Galaxy Formation. UCSC, Santa Cruz, CA (USA). 07/2010 ASTROSIM Summer School on Computational Astrophysics. Toruń (Poland). 06/2010 2nd MULTIDARK Consolider Workshop. IFCA, Santander (Spain). 05/2010 CLUES Workshop UAM, Madrid (Spain). 03/2010 BOSS Collaboration Meeting University of Utah, Salt Lake City UT (USA). 01/2010 1st MULTIDARK Consolider Workshop. Shedding light in our dark Universe. UAM, Madrid (Spain). 08/2009 Santa Cruz Galaxy Workshop. UCSC-SCIPP, Santa Cruz CA (USA). 06/2009 ASTROSIM Meeting. The local universe: from dwarf galaxies to galaxy clusters. Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center, Jablonna (Poland). 06/2009 Unveiling the mass: Extracting and Interpreting Galaxy Masses. Queen s University in Kingston, Ontario (Canada). 02/2009 High-energy phenomena in Galaxy Clusters and Dark Matter Searches. IAA-CSIC, Granada (Spain). 01/2009 BOSS Target Selection Meeting. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley CA (USA). 09/2008 Cosmology Across Cultures. Parque de las Ciencias, Granada (Spain) (LOC). 08/2008 Santa Cruz Galaxy Workshop. UCSC-SCIPP, Santa Cruz CA (USA). 07/2008 ASTROSIM Meeting on Computational Cosmology. IAA-CSIC, Granada (Spain) (LOC). 06/2008 International School on AstroParticle Physics UAM, Madrid (Spain) 01/2008 Surveys and Simulations of Large-Scale Structure: A celebration of Marc Davis 60th Birthday. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley (USA). 12/2007 1st Subaru International Conference: Panoramic Views of Galaxy Formation and Evolution. Hayama, Japan. 11/2007 XIX Canary Islands Winter School of Astrophysics: The Cosmic Microwave Background, from quantum fluctuations to the present Universe. IAC, Tenerife (Spain). 10/2007 Spectroscopy in Cosmology and Galaxy Evolution IAA-CSIC, Granada (Spain) (participated as LOC). 09/2007 Next Generation of Computational Models of Baryonic Physics in Galaxy Formation: from protostellar cores to disk galaxies. ETH, Zurich (Switzerland). 07/2007 Galaxy Growth in a Dark Universe. University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg (Germany). 08/2006 Sixth Summerschool: Supercomputational Cosmology. Helmholtz Institute for Supercomputational Physics, Potsdam (Germany). 07/2006 V Taller de Altas Energias / V Workshop on High Energy Physics. IFCA, Santander (Spain). 07/2004 Las Fronteras de la Fisica / The Frontiers of Physics. Centro de Ciencias de Benasque, Benasque (Spain).

8 OUTREACH 2009 Conversations with Carl Sagan (Invited talk) IYA hours of Astronomy. Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia (CSIC) 2007 The Sun Dome (Activity monitor) Science week Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia and Estacion Experimental del Zaidin (CSIC) 1999 Meteorites (Activity monitor). Parque de las Ciencias de Granada. SKILLS MCMC Cosmological data analysis with CosmoMC. Pixelization of spherical data with HealPix. Generation of cosmological power spectra with CAMB. Running of cosmological simulations with GADGET-2. Code generation with C and Fortran90, and BASH scripts. Code parallelization with MPI and OpenMP. Representation of data with Python+Matplotlib and IDL.