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Tuesday 27th March




Session: Matter Power Spectrum (Chair: A. Stebbins)


09:00 – 09:30 S. Cole Galaxy and Mass Power Spectra
09:30 – 10:00 M. Joyce How accurately do N body simulations reproduce the clustering of CDM?




Session: The Standard Model vs Alternatives I (Chair: A. Stebbins)


10:00 – 10:30 D. Scott The Standard Model of Cosmology vs the Other One



10:30 – 11:00 Coffee



11:00 – 11:30 L. Krauss Cosmic Ignorance:  What we Don't know about Dark Energy, and Dark Matter, and might never know.
11:30 – 12:00 J. Cowan The Age of the Oldest Stars as a Constraint on Cosmological Models
12:00 – 12:30 A. Jaffe Constraints on the topology of the Universe



12:30 – 14:00 Lunch



(Chair: A. Jaffe)



14:00 –  14:20 A. Cooray Predictions, challenges, and ways to confirm inflation
14:20 – 14:50 K. Land Axis Of Evil
14:50 – 15:10 C. Jones Measuring the Properties of Dark Matter from Chandra and Lensing Observations
15:10 – 15:25 B. Famaey Modified Newtonian Dynamics as an alternative to dark matter: the Bullet Cluster case
15:25 – 15:40 C. Gordon Dipolar Modulation of the CMB



15:55 – 16:20 Coffee




Session: Large Scale Structure I (Chair: T. Kibble)



16:20 – 16:35 G. Chapline Blueprint for a Rotating Universe
16:35 – 16:50 P. Mukherjee Cosmological Model Selection
16:50 – 17:05 M. Neyrinck Cosmological Information in the Matter Power Spectrum
17:05 – 17:20 M. Torki Constraining Cosmology with the Halo Model




Session: CMB and Alternative Cosmologies (Chair: T. Kibble)

17:20 – 17:35 R. Mishra Cosmological Models with Variable Constants
17:35 – 17:50 N. Bevis Fitting CMB data with cosmic strings and inflation
17:50 – 18:05 C. Pahud When can the Planck satellite measure spectral index running?
18:05 – 18:20 P. Mannheim Dark Matter and Dark Energy - Fact or Fiction?