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Workshop

Astroparticle and Cosmology

Aug 28, 2006 - Nov 11, 2006



Abstract
"Astroparticle" is one of the fastest growing fields of modern physics. Current and forthcoming astroparticle experiments are expected to challenge some of the basic pillars of our current understanding of fundamental physics. The aim of the workshop is to gather together key worldwide researchers (theorists and observers) to collaborate on the main problems of cosmology and astroparticle physics, and at the same time, to offer a training opportunity for young researchers.

Topics
1. Models for the Early Universe
2. Dark Matter and Dark Energy
3. CMB, Large Scale Structure, Cosmological Parameters


Organizers
(C. Baccigalupi, K. Enqvist, E. Kolb, J. Lesgourgues)




During the workshop there will be a series of introductory lectures at the level of PhD students.
A very preliminary program is the following:
1) 6- 7 sep: Juan Garcia-Bellido "Preheating after Inflation"
2) 13-14 sep: Albert Stebbins " Large Scale Structure"
3) 20-21 sep: Ruth Durrer "Physics of the CMB"
4) 27-28 sep: Sabino Matarrese "Primordial non-gaussianity"
5) 4- 5 oct: Robert Caldwell "Dark energy and cosmological observations"
6) 11-12 oct: Christof Wetterich "Dark energy theory"
7) 18-19 oct: Gabriele Veneziano "String cosmology"
8) 1 nov: Martin White "Weak gravitational lensing"
9) 8- 9 nov: David Lyth "Inflation and particle physics"



Talks
Date Speaker Title Type Useful Links
Aug 29, 2006 - 14:30 Wilfried Buchmuller Gravitino as Dark Matter
Aug 30, 2006 - 14:30 Scott Watson Introduction to String Gas Cosmology Informal Seminar
Aug 31, 2006 - 14:30 Alexander Dolgov Charge Asymmetry in the Universe
Sep 05, 2006 - 14:30 Misha Shaposhnikov Dark Matter, Baryogenesis, Inflation and Neutrino Masses as Physics at Electroweak Scale
Sep 06, 2006 - 14:30 Juan Garcia-Bellido Preheating after Inflation Slides
Sep 08, 2006 - 10:00 Anupam Mazumdar A-Term inflation
Sep 11, 2006 - 14:30 Nemanja Kaloper How I learned to like w<-1 Dark Energy
Sep 12, 2006 - 09:00 Enrique Gaztanaga Does light trace mass?
Sep 12, 2006 - 13:30 Nicolao Fornengo Neutralino Dark Matter and its signatures Mini-conference on Dark matter: session I
Sep 12, 2006 - 14:30 Francesco Nozzoli The DAMA experiment Mini-conference on Dark matter: session I
Sep 12, 2006 - 16:00 David Mota Alternatives to the Dark Matter Paradigm Mini-conference on Dark matter: session II
Sep 13, 2006 - 09:00 Ben Moore Simulating the Dark Matter Slides
Sep 13, 2006 - 10:00 Oleg Ruchayskiy Sterile Neutrinos as Dark Matter Mini-conference on Dark matter: session III Slides
Sep 13, 2006 - 14:30 Albert Stebbins Large Scale Structure: Part I Mini-conference on Dark matter: session III
Sep 14, 2006 - 09:00 Alessandro Strumia Minimal Dark Matter
Sep 14, 2006 - 10:00 Zurab Berezhiani How could we explain Omega_B~Omega_M, and what is DM? Mini-conference on Dark matter: session IV
Sep 14, 2006 - 11:00 Julien Lesgourgues Cosmological Constraints on Neutrinos and Other Light Relics Mini-conference on Dark matter: session IV Slides
Sep 15, 2006 - 14:30 Albert Stebbins Large Scale Structure: Part II Mini-conference on Dark matter: session IV
Sep 18, 2006 - 14:30 Richard Holman Why did the Universe Start from a low Entropy State
Sep 19, 2006 - 14:30 Albert Stebbins An Anthrocentric Universe?
Sep 20, 2006 - 14:30 Ruth Durrer Physics of the CMB: Part I Review Lecture Slides
Sep 21, 2006 - 14:30 Ruth Durrer Physics of the CMB: Part II Review Lecture Slides
Sep 22, 2006 - 10:30 Roberto Trotta Which Probability Theory for Cosmology? For the Bayes Theorem to the Anthropic Principle Slides
Sep 25, 2006 - 14:30 Albert Stebbins New Methods of Correlating CMB and Large Scale Structure
Sep 27, 2006 - 14:30 Sabino Matarrese Primordial Non-Gaussianity: Part I Review Lecture Slides
Sep 28, 2006 - 14:30 Sabino Matarrese Primordial Non-Gaussianity: Part II Review Lecture Slides
Sep 29, 2006 - 10:30 Daniela Kirilova Neutrino Spectrum Distortion due to Active-Sterile Neutrino Oscillations and its Effect on BBN Slides
Oct 02, 2006 - 11:30 Christof Wetterich Early Dark Energy Mini-conference on Dark Energy Slides
Oct 02, 2006 - 14:30 Philippe Brax Quintessence and the MSSM Mini-conference on Dark Energy Slides
Oct 03, 2006 - 09:30 Robert Crittenden Dark Energy and the CMB Mini-conference on Dark Energy Slides
Oct 03, 2006 - 11:30 Marco Bruni Non-linear equation of state: DE parametrization, dynamics and singularities Mini-conference on Dark Energy Slides
Oct 03, 2006 - 14:30 Massimo Meneghetti Simulations, Strong lensing and DE Mini-conference on Dark Energy Slides
Oct 04, 2006 - 09:30 Jochen Weller Probing Modified Gravity with Supernovae and Galaxy Cluster Counts Mini-conference on Dark Energy Slides
Oct 04, 2006 - 11:30 Uros Seljak Constraining DE with observations Mini-conference on Dark Energy Slides
Oct 04, 2006 - 14:30 Robert Caldwell Dark energy and cosmological observations Part I pedagogical review lecture
Oct 05, 2006 - 09:30 Syksy Rasanen Accelerated expansion from structure formation Slides
Oct 05, 2006 - 11:30 Massimo Pietroni Dark matter clustering from the renormalization group and implications for universe acceleration Slides
Oct 05, 2006 - 14:30 Robert Caldwell Dark energy and cosmological observations Part II pedagogical review lecture
Oct 06, 2006 - 09:30 Paolo Mazzoli Type Ia supernovae and implications for cosmology Slides
Oct 06, 2006 - 11:30 Luca Amendola Is higher-order gravity a viable dark energy candidate? Slides
Oct 06, 2006 - 14:30 David Polarski Scalar-tensor dark energy models
Oct 09, 2006 - 16:00 Pierre Salati From galaxies to quarks: tracking the invisible Public Conference
Oct 10, 2006 - 14:30 David Langlois Non-linear perturbations in relativistic cosmology Seminar Slides
Oct 11, 2006 - 14:30 Christof Wetterich Dark Energy Theory Part I Pedagogical Review Lecture Slides
Oct 12, 2006 - 14:30 Christof Wetterich Dark Energy Theory Part II Pedagogical Review Lecture Slides
Oct 16, 2006 - 14:30 Fabio Finelli WMAP constraints on the inflationary expansion Seminar Slides
Oct 17, 2006 - 14:30 Alexei Starobinsky Viable Dark Energy Models with F(R) Gravity Seminar
Oct 18, 2006 - 14:30 Gabriele Veneziano String Cosmology Part I Pedagogical Review Lecture
Oct 19, 2006 - 14:30 Gabriele Veneziano String Cosmology Part II Pedagogical Review Lecture
Oct 20, 2006 - 10:00 Glenn Starkman Is the Universe out of Tune? Seminar
Oct 23, 2006 - 09:30 Subir Sarkar What have we learnt from WMAP about the primordial density perturbation? Mini-conference on Cosmological Perturbations Slides
Oct 23, 2006 - 11:30 Carlo Baccigalupi Reading cosmological perturbations in the CMB: expectations from Planck and future probes Mini-conference on Cosmological Perturbation Slides
Oct 23, 2006 - 12:15 Filippo Vernizzi Cosmological perturbations beyond linear order Mini-conference on Cosmological Perturbation Slides
Oct 23, 2006 - 14:30 Francis Bernardeau Extended hybrid inflationary models Mini-conference on Cosmological Perturbation Slides
Oct 23, 2006 - 15:15 Vesa Muhonen Constraints on isocurvature perturbations from CMB and LSS Mini-conference on Cosmological Perturbation Slides
Oct 24, 2006 - 09:30 Gerasimos Rigopoulos Non-Gaussianity and its evolution in multi-field inflation Mini-conference on Cosmological Perturbation Slides
Oct 24, 2006 - 11:30 Alexei Starobinsky Exact solutions in the theory of generation of primordial perturbations Mini-conference on Cosmological Perturbation
Oct 24, 2006 - 12:15 Katie Freese Inflation after WMAP Mini-conference on Cosmological Perturbation Slides
Oct 24, 2006 - 14:30 Michele Liguori Testing Gaussianity of Primordial Cosmological Perturbations in CMB Anisotropies Mini-conference on Cosmological Perturbation Slides
Oct 24, 2006 - 15:15 Paolo Creminelli Non-gaussianities in WMAP 3yr data Mini-conference on Cosmological Perturbation Slides
Oct 25, 2006 - 09:30 David Lyth The origin of primordial non-gaussianity Mini-conference on Cosmological Perturbation Slides
Oct 25, 2006 - 11:30 Pedro Ferreira Perturbations in TeVeS Mini-conference on Cosmological Perturbation Slides
Oct 25, 2006 - 12:15 Marieke Potsma Density perturbations in susy hybrid inflation with cosmic strings Mini-conference on Cosmological Perturbation Slides
Oct 25, 2006 - 14:30 Lotfi Boubekeur Right-handed neutrinos as the source of density perturbations Mini-conference on Cosmological Perturbation Slides
Oct 25, 2006 - 15:15 Nicola Bartolo Non-gaussianity: from inflation to CMB Mini-conference on Cosmological Perturbation Slides
Oct 26, 2006 - 14:30 Junichi Yokoyama Features in the primordial power spectrum, a running spectral index and formation of primordial black holes Seminar Slides
Oct 27, 2006 - 10:30 Gianpiero Mangano Status of BBN Seminar Slides
Oct 30, 2006 - 14:30 Andrea Zanzi Neutrino Dark Energy and moduli stabilization in a BPS braneworld Seminar
Oct 31, 2006 - 14:30 Joanne Cohn Clustering of Massive Halos Seminar
Nov 01, 2006 - 10:30 Martin White Weak Gravitational Lensing Part I Pedagogical Review Lecture
Nov 01, 2006 - 14:30 Martin White Weak Gravitational Lensing Part II Pedagogical Review Lecture
Nov 02, 2006 - 14:30 Martin Crocce Non-linear evolution of acoustic oscillations Seminar
Nov 03, 2006 - 10:30 Carlos Martins Astrophysical tests of fundamental physics Seminar
Nov 06, 2006 - 14:30 Stefano Borgani Cosmology with galaxy clusters Seminar
Nov 07, 2006 - 14:30 Junichi Yokoyama Time variation of the proton-electron mass ratio and fine structure constant in runaway inflation Seminar
Nov 10, 2006 - 10:30 Douglas Spolyar Devaluation-a technically natural solution to the cosmological constant problem Seminar