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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 | ||