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Sunday 25th March

18:00 – 21:00 Reception Buffet & Registration, Level 8 Blackett



Monday 26th March


Session: Opening (Chair: T. Kibble)


08:45 – 08:55 Welcoming remarks by the Rector: Sir Richard Sykes

and Prof. Richard Lieu, UAH



Session: CMB and the Standard Cosmological Model (Chair: C.Contaldi)

09:00 – 09:45 R. Blandford Origins and Tests of the Standard Model
09:45 – 10:15 G. Hinshaw Three-Year Results from WMAP
10:15 – 10:45 O. Lahav Surveys of Dark Energy: Challenges and Prospects



10:45 – 11:15 Coffee



11:15 – 11:45 L. Knox Future CMB Observations
11:45 – 12:15 B. Nichol Measurements of dark energy with the SDSS and beyond
12:15 – 12:45 S. Sarkar Does WMAP Require Dark Energy?



12:45 – 14:00 Lunch



14:00 – 14:30 T. Shanks Problems with the Current Cosmological Paradigm




Session: Baryons (Chair: R. Lieu)


14:30 – 15:00 F. Combes Cold molecular gas as dark baryons
15:00 – 15:20 F. Nicastro FUV and X-ray Observations of Local Warm Gas Clouds, and Mass Budget.
15:20 – 15:40 N. Afshordi Missing Thermal Energy of the Universe



15:40 – 16:10 Coffee



16:10 – 16:30 J. Kaastra The matter content of clusters of galaxies from X-ray observations
16:30 – 16:50 Y. Takei XMM and Suzaku observation of the WHIM and clusters soft excess
16:50 – 17:10 M. Bonamente The Hubble constant from observations of high-redshift galaxy clusters
17:10 – 17:30 J. Quenby Non-detection of the full Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect and Cluster non-thermal emission

Session: Poster Presentation Summaries (Chair: C. Jones)
17:30 – 18:00
Poster Presentation Summaries



18:30 Conference Banquet 170 Queen's Gate