Preliminary Program

The program of the March 2002 Moriond Workshop "The Cosmological Model" is presently under construction.
Below is a first draft of the main subjects that will be covered during the week.
The spirit will be to step back and look at the journey from the beginning of modern cosmology until today, and beyond.

General Introduction: J. Peebles

A. How did we get here

A.1 Expansion

• History: Tamman
• Distance scales - HST : W. Freedman
• Age of the Universe : B. Chaboyer
• Supernovae : N. Regnault
• H0 from CBI : P. Udomprasert
• Surface brightness : S. Mei

A.2 Nucleosynthesis

• Theory : computations and uncertainties: Burles
• Deuterium with Fuse: G. Hebrard
• Helium-3 observations : T. Bania
• Helium-3: galactic evolution : C. Charbonnel
• Helium-4 : V. Luridiana
• Lithium-7: observations : Molaro
• Lithium-7: evolution : S. Vauclair

A.3 Cosmic Microwave Background

• Historical review : B. Partridge
• latest results :
  • BOOMERanG and MAXIMA : A. Jaffe
  • Archeops : A. Amblard
  • Radio interferometry (DASI, ...) : C. Pryke
• What can be learned from CMB polarisation measurements ? J. Delabrouille
• Testing gaussianity of the CMB: MAXIMA : Heavens
• CMB Observations in the Planck Era : Francois Bouchet
• CMB Observations in the Post-Planck Era : J. Peterson
• VSA : K. Maisinger
• VSA and cosmological implications : Taylor / Savage / Grainge
• CBI - L=4000 : B. Mason
• CBI : J. Sievers
• CMB polarization and CBI : J. Cartwright / T. Pearson
• CMB data analysis : M. Doupsis
• cosmology from Boomrang/CBI : C. Contaldi
• tools to detect non-gaussianity : J.L. Sanz
• Gaussianity of the CM maps : S. Shandarin
• CMB gaussianity : J.H. Proty Wu
• Varying alpha in the the Early Universe: CMB, Large-scale Structure and Fisher Matrix Analysis : C.J.A.P. Martins

B. Overall coherence of the model

B.1 Structure formation: theory and numerical simulations

• Structure formation : S. White
• Hydrodynamical SPH simulations : R. Valdardini
• Heating and cooling the ICM : S. Borgani
• Local Group Velocity : M. Chodorowski
• Hubble flow : C. Horellou
• Cluster masses in simulations : A. Maccio
• Dark matter versus baryons in clusters : N. Menci
• Primordial magnetic field : M. Langer
• Structure formation in the quintessence : E. Lokas
• Dark energy and structure formation : J. Schwindt

B.2 Weak lensing (observations, extraction of cosmological parameters)

• Review of observational results : L. Van Waereke
• Weak lensing effects in quintessence models : K. Benabed
• Gravitational mass profiles : S. Ettori
• Numerical arc cross sections : M. Meneghetti
• S-Z and weak lensing : Ph. Marshall

B.3 Clusters (X, SZ, extraction of cosmological parameters)

• Clusters as cosmic probes : A. Blanchard
• Superclusters with SZ surveys : A. Diaferio
• Strong lensing clusters : G. Golse
• Cosmological constant from SZ : R. Kneissl
• Cosmological parameters from LSS : V. Lukash
• SZ survey simulations : J. Geisbuesch
• Detection of SZ clusters : D. Herranz
• Estimating z of clusters from SZE data: J. Diego Rodriguez
• Wide-field imaging : S. Maurogordato

B.4 Galaxy distribution (2dF/SLOAN, extraction of cosmological parameters)

• review : extraction of cosmological parameters : O. Lahav
• HDF survey : S. Arnouts
• The topology of the 2dF galaxies : A. Canavezes
• Clustering - VVDS and CFDF : S. Foucault
• DEEP2 : C. Marinoni
• Bias of galaxies : L. Verde
• Density-density and v-v : S. Zaroubi

C. Open questions

C.1 Primordial Universe

• Inflation: review : D. Lyth
• Extra dimensions: review : P. Binetruy
• Ekpyrotic universe : N. Turok
• Lambda inflation versus observation : E. Mikheeva
• Brane world cosmology : M. Bucher
• Generalized chaotic inflation : F. Cao
• Baryogenesis : M. Gleiser
• DGP braneworlds : A. Lue
• K. Malik
• J. Martin
• Support for inflation : A. Gangui
• P. Peter
• M. Rodriguez
• Brane inflation : J. Garcia-Bellido
• Voids and the CMB : M. Kunz

C.2 The nature of dark matter

• Baryonic dark matter : J. Silk
• Non-baryonic dark matter : R. Kolb
• Direct and indirect detection : G. Chardin
• Matter density in clusters : A. Mahdavi
• Dark matter from space : A. Morselli
• Probing dark matter : T. Treu
• The self-annihilation signal from cold dark matter : J. Taylor

C.3 The cosmological constant

• Review : L. Krauss
• Constraints on dark energy : R. Bean
• Accelerated universe : C. Deffayet
• Quintessence : I. Maor
• Supernovae and cluster survey : J. Weller
• High-z supernovae searches : J. Raux
• The Supernova Factory : P. Antilogus