Monday July 7 | Tuesday July 8 | Wednesday July 9 | Thursday July 10 | Friday July 11 |
Monday July 7 2008
9:00 | Welcome |
Dark Energy I: Cosmology by distance
10:00 | B. Schmidt: Invited review |
11:00 | R. Pain: SNLS (invited talk) |
11:30 | M. Wood-Vasey: ESSENCE (invited talk) |
12:00 | Y. Copin: The Nearby Supernova Factory: First Results |
12h30: Lunch
Dark Energy II: Large Scale Structure
14:00 | S. Sarkar: invited review |
15:00 | A. Rassat: Combined Analysis of Dark Energy with Euclid |
15:25 | J.C. Fabris: Matter Power Spectrum in the Generalized Chaplygin Gas Model |
16h00: Coffee Break
Dark Energy II (cont.): Large Scale Structure
16:45 | P. Hunt: Constraints on Large Scale Voids from WMAP-5 and SDSS |
17:10 | L. Amati: Measuring cosmological parameters with the Ep,i-Eiso correlation of Gamma-Ray Bursts |
Tuesday July 8 2008
Dark Energy III: Cosmology by the Growth of Structure
9:00 | C. Schimd: invited review |
10:00 | A. Blanchard: invited talk |
10:25 | M. Szydlowski: The Sensitivity of Dark Energy Parameters on a Prior Choice |
10h50: Coffee break
Dark Energy III (cont.): Cosmology by the Growth of Structure
11:30 | F. Steiner: invited talk |
12:00 | M.N. Célérier: Challenging Dark Energy with Exact Inhomogeneous Models |
12h30: Lunch
Dark Energy III (cont.): Cosmology by the Growth of Structure
14:00 | S. Rasanen: The effect of structure formation on the expansion of the Universe (invited review) |
15:00 | A. Parajanpe: Structure Formation, Backreaction and Weak Gravitational Fields |
15:30 | Nan Li: Signatures of Cosmological Backreaction |
16h00: Coffee
Dark Energy III (cont.): Cosmology by the Growth of Structure
16:45 | D. Wiltshire: Gravitational Energy as Dark Energy: Towards Concordance Cosmology without Lambda |
Wednesday July 9 2008
Dark Matter I: Astrophysical Evidence for Dark Matter
9:00 | K. Freese: review |
9:50 | P. Jetzer: Limits on Dark Matter and Cosmological Constant from Solar System Dynamics |
10:10 | P. Salucci: The Universal Rotation Curve of Spiral Galaxies |
10:30 | A. Nakamichi: Cosmological Dark Turbulence and Scaling Relations in Self-Gravitating Systems |
10h55: Coffee Break
Dark Matter II: Links Between Dark Energy and Dark Matter
11:30 | M. Morikawa: Early Inflation and Recent Accelerated Universe Based on Bose-Einstein Condensation |
11:55 | A. Arbey: Dark Energy vs. Dark Matter: Towards a Unifying Scalar Field? |
12:20 | B. Broda: Quantum vacuum and accelerated expansion |
Free Afternoon
Thursday July 10 2008
Dark Matter III: Theoretical Candidates for Dark Matter Particles
9:00 | P. Salati: invited review |
9:45 | A.S. Majumdar: Primordial Black Holes as Dark Matter in Alternative Gravity Theories |
10:05 | D. Chelouche: Compact Astrophysical Objects as Direct Dark Matter Probes |
10h25: Coffee Break
Dark Matter III (cont.): Theoretical Candidates for Dark Matter Particles
11:00 | S. Mohanty: Fourth Generation Neutrino as Dark Matter |
11:20 | G. Belanger: Dark Matter Candidates and Direct Detection |
11:40 | T. Eifert: Searches for SUSY at the LHC and its implication with Dark Matter |
12h00: Lunch
Dark Matter IV: Searches for Dark Matter Particles
14:00 | E. Aprile: Direct Detection Review |
14:45 | M. Pyle: Challenges Faced in CDMS II and their Consequences in the Future |
15:10 | J.C. Lanfranchi: CRESST |
15:35 | V. Sanglard: Status of EDELWEISS-II |
15h55: Coffee Break
Dark Matter IV (cont.): Searches for Dark Matter Particles
16:10 | K. Miuchi: Direction-Sensitive Dark Matter Search --NEWAGE-- |
16:30 | H. Kraus: EURECA: invited review |
16:50 | T.J. Noble: Status of SNOLAB Dark Matter Search Programme |
17:10 | F. Mayet: MIMAC : A MicroTPC Detector for Non-Baryonic Dark Matter Search |
Friday July 11 2008
Dark Matter IV (cont.): Searches for Dark Matter Particles
9:00 | C. Goy: Indirect detection: invited review |
9:45 | J. Lavalle: Cosmological Dark Matter Sub-halos and Searches for Annihilation Signatures in the Antimatter Cosmic Rays |
10:05 | M. Vivier: HESS |
10:25 | P. Picozza: Dark Matter Research with the PAMELA Mission |
10:45 | H. Motz: Search for Dark Matter with the ANTARES Neutrino Telescope |
11h05: Coffee Break
11:30 | G. Ellis: Closing Reflections |