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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? | |