| Sunday 26 August |
| 18.00 - 20.00 | |
Welcome reception |
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| Monday 27 August |
| 08.00 - 09.00 | |
Reception |
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| Morning | | |
| 09.00 - 09.10 | G. Chincarini |
Welcome |
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P. J. E. Peebles) |
| 09.10 - 09.50 | C. Cesarsky |
Large Ground based facilities and Cosmology |
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| Session | COMPACT MATTER IN THE UNIVERSE |
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| 09.50 - 10.30 | R. Sunyaev |
The Richness and Beauty of the Physics of Cosmological Recombination |
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| 10.30 - 10.55 | |
Coffee Break |
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| | From first stars to massive black holes |
| 10.55 - 11.20 | R. Maiolino |
The evolution of the mass-metallicity relation at high-z |
| 11.20 - 11.45 | A. Bunker |
Star formation in the first billion year - implications for reionization |
| 11.45 - 12.10 | R. I. Thompson |
NICMOS measurements of the near-IR background |
| 12.10 - 12.35 | D. Stark |
New constraints on star formation at z>7 |
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| 12.35 - 14.00 | | Lunch |
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| Afternoon | |
Quest for reionization (Chairman: P. Madau) |
| 14.00 - 14.40 | X. Fan |
Observing the re-ionization epoch: what it is telling us |
| 14.40 - 15.05 | E. Dwek |
The evolution of metals and dust in the high-redshift universe (z>6) |
| 15.05 - 15.30 | M. Trenti |
The very first PopIII stars and their relation with bright z~6 QSOs |
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| 15.30 - 16.20 |
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POSTER SESSION |
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16.20 - 16.45 | D. Calzetti |
Measuring Star Formation in Local and Distant Galaxies |
| 16.45 - 17.10 | S. Gallerani |
Was the universe neutral beyond redshift six ? |
| 17.10 - 17.50 | B. Forman |
Shocks, bubbles, and filaments: the interaction of supermassive black
holes with gas rich environments |
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| Tuesday 28 August |
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| Session | EVOLUTION IN THE UNIVERSE |
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| Morning | | The LSS of the Universe (Chairman:
W. Freedmann) |
09.00 - 09.40 | P. J. E. Peebles |
Successes and challenges for the standard cosmology |
| 09.40 - 10.20 | M. Pettini |
Lyman Break Galaxies: a Ten Year Perspective |
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| 10.20 - 10.45 | | Coffee Break |
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| 10.45 - 11.10 | D. Koo |
The latest results from the DEEP and AEGIS surveys. |
| 11.10 - 11.35 | K. I. Caputi |
The optical spectral evolution of mid-IR galaxies in the COSMOS field |
| 11.35 - 12.00 | P. Tozzi |
Tracing distribution and evolution of metals in the intracluster medium |
| 12.00 - 12.25 | M. Colless |
Cosmology from large scale galaxy surveys |
| 12.25 - 12.50 | A. Fontana |
The origin of massive galaxies |
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| 12.50 - 14.30 | | Lunch |
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| Afternoon | |
Metals and dust in the Universe (Chairman: B. Forman) |
| 14.30 - 15.10 | J. X. Prochaska |
Probing the IGM and ISM at High z with Gamma-Ray Bursts |
| 15.10 - 15.35 | R. Salvaterra |
The GRB luminosity function in the light of the SWIFT 2-year data |
| 15.35 - 16.00 | R. Giovanelli |
ALFALFA: HI Cosmology in the Local Universe |
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| 16.00 - 16.50 | |
POSTER SESSION |
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| | | Coffee Break |
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16.50 - 17.15 | M. P. Haynes |
ALFALFA: the search for (almost) dark galaxies and their space distribution |
| 17.15 - 17.55 | M. Tarenghi |
The new cosmology with ALMA |
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Wednesday 29 August
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| | Session | EVOLUTION IN THE UNIVERSE |
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| Morning | | Evolution of galaxies (Chairman:
P. Saracco) |
| 09.00 - 09.40 | O. Le Fevre |
Galaxy evolution from the VIMOS VLT Deep Survey |
| 09.40 - 10.00 | D. Marchesini |
Assessing the predictive power of galaxy formation models: a comparison of predicted
and observed rest-frame optical luminosity functions at 2<z<3.3 |
| 10.00 - 10.20 | R. Bouwens |
Galaxy Buildup in the First 2 Gyr: Evolution of the UV LF from z~8 to z~4 |
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| 10.20 - 10.50 | | Coffee Break |
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| | 10.50 - 11.10 | A. Fernandez-Soto |
First results from ALHAMBRA: A deep, wide-area photometric redshift survey |
| 11.10 - 11.30 | M. Magliocchetti |
Clustering properties and masses of starforming galaxies at z~2: the Spitzer view |
| 11.30 - 11.50 | M. Cirasuolo |
The mass assembly history of massive galaxies |
| 11.50 - 12.10 | B. Garilli |
The assembly of stellar mass in galaxies during the last 10 Gyr: VVDS
results |
| 12.10 - 12.30 | M. Huertas-Company |
Morphology of z~1 galaxies from deep K-band AO imaging in the COSMOS field |
| 12.30 | |
Announcement of selected posters
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| | Free afternoon |
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Thursday 30 August
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| Session | EVOLUTION IN THE UNIVERSE |
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| Morning | | From dark halos to galaxies (Chairman:
J. Mather) |
| 09.00 - 09.40 | J. Ostriker |
The role of simulations in cosmology |
| 09.40 - 10.20 | J. Dunlop |
Galaxy formation and evolution: the far-IR/sub-mm view |
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| 10.20 - 10.45 | | Coffee Break |
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| 10.45 - 11.20 | P. Madau |
Galaxy formation and dark matter substructure |
| 11.20 - 11.40 | M. Giavalisco |
Multi-wavelength observations of galaxies at z>2 |
| 11.40 - 11.55 | E. Stanway (L. Douglas) |
Large scale structure in the first billion years |
| 11.55 - 12.10 | S. Cristiani |
The CODEX-Espresso experiment: cosmic dynamics, fundamental physics,
planets and much more... |
| 12.10 | M. J. Rees |
Growth and consequences of black holes beyond z=6 |
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| 13.00 - 14.30 | | Lunch |
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| Afternoon | |
Cosmological parameters (Chairman:
R. Ruffini) |
| 14.30 - 15.10 | A. G. Riess |
A Brief History of Cosmic Expansion (from SNe) |
| 15.10 - 15.30 | W. Freedmann |
The Carnegie Supernova Project |
| 15.30 - 15.45 | C. Grillo |
Cosmological parameters from strong gravitational lensing and stellar
dynamics in elliptical galaxies |
| 15.45 - 16.10 |
M. Davis |
Cosmological constraints form DEEP2 galaxy groups |
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| 16.10 - 16.40 | | Coffee Break |
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| | SHORT TALK SESSION |
| 16.40 - 16.50 | S. Salimbeni |
The red and blue galaxy luminosity function in the GOODS field: evidence for an excess of red dwarf |
| 16.50 - 17.00 | A. Pollo |
The VIRMOS-VLT Deep Survey: 10 billion yers of evolution of the large scale structure |
| 17.00 - 17.10 | E. Mikheeva |
A solution of the cusp problem in relaxed halos |
| 17.10 - 17.20 | V. Strokov |
On the lagrangian theory of cosmological density perturbations |
| 17.20 - 17.30 | E. R. Stanway |
Spectroscopy of galaxies at z=6 and above: cosmological implications |
| 17.30 - 17.40 | M. McQuinn |
Studying reionization with LyAlpha emission |
| 17.40 - 17.45 | 1st
K. Ota |
The reionization and galaxy evolution probed by z=7 Ly Alpha emitters |
| 17.45 - 17.50 | 2nd
G. Sonneborn |
Baryonic Content in the warm-hot IGM at low redshift |
| 17.50 - 17.55 | 3th
B. Metcalf |
Gravitational lensing of the protogalactic 21cm radiation |
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| 20.00 | |
SOCIAL DINNER |
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| Friday 31 August |
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| Session | THE DARK UNIVERSE |
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| Morning | | Constraints from the CMB (Chairman:
R. Sunyaev) |
09.00 - 09.40 | J. Mather |
Prospects for Future Cosmology |
| 09.40 - 10.20 | P. De Bernardis |
From Boomerang to B-Pol |
| 10.20 - 10.45 | G. Smoot |
The Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation Anisotropies: Their Discovery and
Utilization |
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| 10.45 - 11.00 | | DISCUSSION |
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| 11.00 - 11.30 | | Coffee Break |
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| 11.30 - 11.45 | D. Samtleben |
Measuring the CMB radiation polarization with QUIET |
| 11.45 - 12.00 | A. Kurek |
Chasing Lambda |
| 12.00 - 12.15 | F. Frontera |
The cosmic X-ray background level at its emission peak |
| 12.15 - 12.30 | D. Cline |
The role of dark matter in the cosmos |
| 12.30 - 12.55 | M. Bersanelli |
Present and (near) future of CMB observations from space |
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| 12.50 - 14.30 | | Lunch |
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| Afternoon | |
Dark matter and dark energy (Chairman: M. Pettini) |
| 14.30 - 15.00 | B. Sadoulet |
Dark Matter: at the brink of a discovery ? |
| 15.00 - 15.20 | G. Vereshchagin |
Massive neutrinos and inos and the upper cutoff to the fractal structure
of the Universe |
| 15.20 - 15.35 | H. Hoekstra |
Cosmic shear results fro the CFHT Legacy Survey |
| 15.35 - 15.50 | G. Guzzo |
Measuring dark matter and dark energy from redshift-space distortions at
z=1: early results from the VVDS-wide survey |
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| 15.50 - 16.15 | | Coffee Break |
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16.15 - 16.55 | S. Perlmutter |
Observationalist optimism for progress on Dark Energy |
| 16.55 - 17.25 | V. Lukash |
Cosmological model: from initial conditions to structure formation |
| 17.25 - 18.05 | G. Efstathiou |
Starting now what would I plan knowing where we are? |