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Wednesday 28th March




Session: The Standard Model vs Alternatives II (Chair: Jelle Kaastra)



09:00 – 09:30 C. Contaldi CMB Alignment and anisotropic inflation
09:30 – 10:00 R. Pain Probing Dark Energy with Type Ia Supernovae
10:00 – 10:30 A. Lewis CMB and the Dark Ages




10:30 – 11:00 Coffee




(Chair: Jelle Kaastra)




11:00 – 11:30 I. Novikov Standard model, phantom matter, wormholes and Multiverse
11:30 – 12:00 A. Blanchard The new vision on high redshift clusters with XMM: clusters scaling laws beyond Z = 0.5
12:00 – 12:30 P. Ferreira Modified Gravity and the Dark Matter Problem




12:30 – 13:45 Lunch





Session: CMB, Dark Energy, and Foreground Effects (Chair: Alain Blanchard)



13:45 – 14:05 R. Lieu for G. Verschuur Associations between WMAP Small Scale Structure and Interstellar Neutral Hydrogen Features
14:05 – 14:20 D. Cline The Search for Primordial Black Holes Using Very Short Gamma Ray Bursts 
14:20 – 14:35 C. Beck Laboratory tests on dark energy
14:35 – 14:50 S. Fay A geometrical method to reconstruct dark energy
14:50 – 15:05 C. Shapiro Weak Lensing Tomography: Are Theorists Ready?
15:05 – 15:20 A. Rassat The integrated Sachs-Wolfe effect: geometry or dark energy?
15:20 – 15:35 M. Smith The SDSSII Supernova Survey




15:35 – 16:00 Coffee




(Chair: Max Bonamente)




16:00 – 16:15 K. Bolejko Type Ia supernovae observations in the Lemaitre-Tolman model





Session: Large Scale Structure II (Chair: Max Bonamente)



16:15 – 16:30 S. Ettori Baryon budget in galaxy clusters
16:30 – 16:45 M. Swanson How much can we trust galaxies?
16:45 – 17:00 J. Lee Cluster-Supercluster Alignments
17:00 – 17:15 S. Rasanen Accelerated expansion from structure formation
17:15 – 17:30 P. Erdogdu Density and Velocity Fields of the 2MASS Redshift Survey and the Local Group Dipole