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Tuesday
27th March |
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Session: Matter Power Spectrum
(Chair: A. Stebbins) |
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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? |
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Session: The Standard Model vs
Alternatives I (Chair: A. Stebbins) |
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10:00 –
10:30 |
D. Scott |
The Standard
Model of Cosmology vs the Other One |
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10:30 –
11:00 |
Coffee |
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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 |
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12:30 –
14:00 |
Lunch |
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(Chair:
A. Jaffe) |
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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 |
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15:55 –
16:20 |
Coffee |
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Session:
Large Scale Structure I (Chair: T. Kibble) |
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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 |
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Session: CMB and Alternative
Cosmologies (Chair: T. Kibble) |
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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? |
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