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_________________________________________________________________________________ Media reports on the Network BLUEPRINT: The newsletter of the University of Oxford, 5 Oct 2006 A project co-ordinated by Professor Subir Sarkar in the Department of Physics has been awarded Euro 3.53 m in the Sixth Framework Programme of the European Union.'UniverseNet',consisting of 23 universities and 16 research institutes in 11 countries, will address fundamental questions such as "why are we made out of matter rather than antimatter?"; "what is the dark matter and the even more mysterious dark energy which dominate the universe?"; and "why are there just four space-time dimensions?" ...
____________________________________________________________________________________________________ Public talks by Network Participants National "Fete de la science", France, November 2009 Daniel Albornoz gave a public lecture on ”astronomie particulierement cosmique” (cosmic rays) U.Lyin, Lyon, France, 3 October 2009 Julien Lesgourges gave a public lecture in a colloquim of philosophy “Formes et Origines de l’Univers” CERN, 2009-2010 Julien Lesgourges gave several lectures on cosmology for visiting high-school teachers and architecture students University of Savoie, Chambery, 2010 Celine Boehm gave a public lecture “Amphi pour tous” Public Conference From Galaxies to Quarks, France, 12-18 November 2009 Pierre Salati gave the following lectures “in search of the invisible in Annecy in the frame work of Amphitéâtre pour Tous”, “in search of the invisible in Nantes” (invited by the Société Astronomique de Nantes) and “in search of the invisible in Evian” (invited by the Hadron Collider Physics Symposium). Public Conference on the Time in the Universe, Lyon, France, 7 April 2010 Pierre Salati gave a lecture titled “Le temps de l'univers” (invited by l'Université Ouverte de Lyon). Scientific Café, Chambéry, France, 8 April 2010 Pierre Salati gave a lecture on the subject of the Matter (la matière). Public Conference From Galaxies to Quarks, France, 22 June 2010 Pierre Salati gave a lecture titled “in search of the invisible in Saint-Jorioz” (invited by the 11ème rencontre des mécaniciens du CNRS). Public lecture : “L’Universo invisibile: il problema della materia ed energia oscure” (The invisible Universe: the problem of dark matter and dark Energy), Bari, Italy, 1 Oct 2009 A. Masiero gave the lecture in a plenary section of the annual meeting of the Italian Physical Society (SIF) open to the general public. Public Lecture at the Santa Maria di Sala Astronomers' club, Venice, Italy, entitled “From the infinitely big to the infinitely tiny", June 2009 A. Riotto gave this lecture. Public lecture at the Santa Maria di Sala Astronomers' club, Venice, Italy, entitled “What we wish to discover at the LHC", June 2010. A. Riotto gave this lecture. Annual Meeting of the British Astronomical Association, Shrewsbury, April 2010 Presented (invited) talk titled: “Where galaxies really come from” given by Konstantinos Dimopoulos Lecture to School 6th formers on Supernovae, Lancaster, UK, various dates in 2010 Given by Rose Lerner. Local schools outreach, Rutherford alpha-scattering demonstrations, Lancaster, UK, various dates in 2010 Given by Francesca Doddato. Scientific Journalism. From the biggest to the smallest, from astrophysics to nanotechnology Santander-UIMP, 14-18 June 2010 Prof. Juan Garcia-Bellido participates in the Summer courses of the Menendez Pelayo University (UIMP) with the talk "Cuando el universo media menos de un centimetro" (When the Universe was less than one centimetre long) Hands on Particle Physics Masterclass 2010, 26 February 2010. IFT participates in this event, orientated to high school students, in which students learn basic concepts about particle physics and perform measurements on real data from particle physics experiments at CERN "El lado oscuro del Universo: que es la materia oscura y como podemos detectarla?", 27 July 2010. Public talk by David G. Cerde~no (21:30h) - in Spanish. Una Universidad, Un Universo, Universidad de Murcia as part of the International Year of Astronomy 2009. Two lectures for the general public were given by David Cerdano and Carlos Munoz at this event. European Week of Astroparticle Physics, 10-17 October 2009 Two lectures for the general public were given by David Cerdano and Carlos Munoz at this event. A las puertas del proyecto. LHC Talk for a general audience by Prof. Alberto Casas. Aula Magna of the Sciences Faculty at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (13:30h). 3 November 2009 Ciclo de Conferencias del MTE, Museu de la Tecnica de l'Emporda. November 12 2009. Talk for a general audience by Prof. Alberto Casas. "El LHC y la frontera del conocimiento", "From Newton to the LHC" CIUP Paris, May 3rd 2010. Pablo Roig & Jose Miguel No, General public talk given at the "College d'Espagne". 'Cosmology and the LHC', September 2009 Julien Lesgourgues and Pierre Bientruy are organised this public outreach conference held in GERN globe, Geneva. Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition, July 2009 Roberto Trotta exhibited at this event. Oxford University Summer School for Adults, UK, 11 - 18 July 2009 Roberto Trotta gave a lecture entitled "The Big Bang - the Facts, the Science, and some Fiction" Lancaster University, UK, April 2009, 17 June 2009 Rose Learner (Lancaster) gave a talk titled "Supernovae: Shedding light on the mysteries of the Universe" for A-level physics students on an 'enrichment day'. Science for Fiction Workshop for Science fiction writers, Imperial College, London, UK, June 2009 Roberto Trotta lectured at this event. Bialystok, Poland, June 2009 M.Demianski gave a lecture on "Learning about the Universe" for secondary school pupils Daresbury Laboratory, Warrington, 15 May 2009 Roberto Trotta gave a lectures entitled "Does the Universe need Mankind?" Kassel High School (Germany), May 2009 Roberto Trotta gave two lectures entitled "The visible Universe" and "The invisible Universe" 'particle physics, cosmology and the LHC', October 2008 - May 2009 John Ellis (CERN) has given 18 public lectures and colloquia across the globe during this period including: Uppsala, Slovenia, Illinois, Bonn, Padova and more. Valdivai, Chile Instytut for Advanced Studies, April 2009 M. Demianski gave a lecture titled "The Dark side of the Universe" XIII Ciclo de Conferencias Humanidades, Ingenieria y Arquitectura, Madrid, Spain, 11 March 2009 C. Munoz gave a talk titled ‘ What is the Universe made of? (from elementary particles to dark matter) Green Templeton College, Oxford, 3 Mar 2009 International Year of Astronomy Public Lecture by S. Sarkar on “Seeing the Edge of the Universe” Association of Science Students, Siglio XXI, UAM, Spain, 18 February 2009 C. Munoz gave a talk titled ‘ What is the Universe made of? (from elementary particles to dark matter) National Science Days in Helsinki, 7-8 January 2009 Kari Enqvist gave two talks at the Science Days, which is a major event that takes place every second year with an integrated attendance level of more than 10000 people. Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education, Mumbai, 22 Dec 2008 International Physics Olympiad lecture by S. Sarkar on “Seeing the Edge of the Universe” En busca del bos´on de Higgs y otros misterios del Universo, 24 Nov 2008 D. Cerdeno gave a Colloquium for a general audience, part of the Red de Arte Joven de la Comu- nidad Autonoma de Madrid (Young Artists Network sponsored by Madrid local Government). Caf´e el Despertar, Madrid. "LHC - How does it work?", 21 Nov 2008 Popular lectures by Z. Lalak and B. Grzadkowski were given at this event and exhibition at the Politechnika Warszawska. Stockholm University, Sweden, 7-8 Oct 2008 Michael Gustafsson (INFN) gave a talk for a public lecture on 'Universums mörka hemlighet' as a part of the yearly 'Forskardagarna'. Williams College, October 2008 M. Demianski gave a lecture "The Planck Mission" Festival of Science, Warsaw, Sep 2008 Zygmunt Lalak (Warsaw) gave a talk on “Particle Physics in the Quest for Structure of the Universe”. Excellence programme of the Spanish Government, 19-23 May + 16-18 June 2008 Sarben Sarkar (KCL) gave an invited course on “Advanced Cosmology”. CERN, Switzerland, 5 Jun 2008 Julien Lesgourgues (Annecy) lectured on "Cosmology and Astroparticules Physics" to a group of visitors at CERN from the American Museum of Natural History, New York. Annecy, France, 30 May 2008 Richard Taillet (Annecy) gave a public lecture on "Anti-matiere et astrophysique". Green College, Oxford, UK, Mar 2008 Roberto Trotta (Oxford) gave a talk on “The dark sector of the Universe - Clever ways of observing invisible stuff” – in the ‘Astronomy for all’ lecture series. Astrophysics Department, Oxford University, UK, Mar 2008 Roberto Trotta (Oxford) gave a talk “The dark side of the Universe - Uncovering the nature of the dark matter and dark energy in the cosmos” to students from a Dutch school. Oxford University, UK, Mar 2008 Roberto Trotta (Oxford) gave a talk on “The invisible Universe - Hunting down the mysterious dark matter” in the ‘National Particle Physics Masterclass 2008’ for schools. Dept of Continuing Education, Oxford University, UK, Summer 2008 Roberto Trotta (Oxford) gave a 10 week course for the general public on “The Big Bang and Beyond - An introduction to observational cosmology”. University of Bristol, 30 Jan 2008 Subir Sarkar (Oxford) gave a talk on “Seeing the edge of the universe” to the Student Physics Society ‘Chaos’. Helsinki, Finland, 29 Jan 2008 Hannu Kurki-Suonio (Helsinki) gave a talk on “The Planck satellite project” in a lecture series of Kirkkonummen Komeetta, an amateur astronomical society. Annecy, France, 23 Nov 2007 Richard Taillet (Annecy) gave a public lecture on "L'astronomie de Copernic a nos jours". Vantaa, Finland, 11 Nov 2007 Hannu Kurki-Suonio (Helsinki) gave a talk on the Planck satellite project in the Space 2007 exhibition, Aviation Museum. Dept of Continuing Education, Oxford University, UK, 6 Oct 2007 Roberto Trotta (Oxford) gave a course (with Prof B Carr) on “Universe or Multiverse?” Oxford University Space and Astronomy Society, Oxford, UK, Oct 2007 Dr Roberto Trotta (Oxford) gave a talk titled "The dark sector of the Universe - Clever ways of observing invisible stuff ". BA Festival of Science, York, UK, 13 Sept 2007 Dr Roberto Trotta (Oxford) gave the Lord Kelvin Award Lecture “Does the Universe need humankind? The strange case of intelligent observers in the cosmos. Bedford School, Bedford, UK, Feb 2007 Dr Roberto Trotta (Oxford) gave a talk to 6th form students about the dark side of the Universe. Cherwell High School, Oxford, UK, 17 Jan 2007 Prof Subir Sarkar (Oxford) gave a talk on cosmology titled "Seeing the edge of the universe" to about 100 Sixth-Form science students from several schools in Oxford. University of Helsinki, Finland, 14 Jan 2007 Dr Syksy Rasanen (Geneva) gave a talk titled "Beyond the universe: a guided tour to extra dimensions" to an audience of 800-1000 during the Finnish biannual science festival "Tieteen paivat" ("The Science Forum"). CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, 25 Jan; 19 Mar; 17,19, 24 & 26 April; 18 & 24 May; 5 Jun 2007 Dr Syksy Rasanen (Geneva) gave a series of talks to visiting groups of 20-25 Finnish high school students and groups of teachers on "The structure of matter: from the small to the large and back again". CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, 9 May, 2 Nov, 16 Nov, 30 Nov, 15 Dec 2006 Dr Syksy Rasanen (Geneva) gave a series of talks to visiting groups of 20-25 Finnish high school students on "The structure of matter: from the small to the large and back again". Gonville Primary School, Thornton Heath, Surrey, UK, 10 Nov 2006 Dr Roberto Trotta (Oxford) gave a talk to about 65 five-year old children about the nature of light and darkness, our Universe, and the place of Earth in it.
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Popular articles by Network Participants Scintillations the journal of IRFU – ‘L’espace et le temps en cosmologie’ article by C. Caprini (Saclay) . No. 79, France, June 2009. “Evolution, a cosmic perspective” (In Greek) An article by ESR G. Rigopoulos on the double celebration of 2009 as the International Year of Astronomy as well as Darwin Year. It appeared in the wide circulation Athens Newspaper “Eleftherotypia” (Ελευθεροτυπία) on 16 Apr 2009. An English version will be sent to the English language Helsinki newspaper “Helsinki Times” in Autumn 2009. New Scientist Is dark energy getting weaker? *An article featuring* a paper by UniverseNet ER Arman Shafieloo which examines a newly released catalogue of supernova explosions, including a number of relatively recent blasts nearby. The new data made the best fit with a universe in which dark energy is losing strength (www.arxiv.org/abs/0903.5141). New Scientist, issue 2703, 11 April 2009, article written by R. Courtland. Les Dossiers de la Recherche (France) - "Neutrinos: temoins invisibles du Big Bang" Article by Julien Lesgourgues in a special issue, May 2009 m i +d – Imperfect symmetries and broken symmetries Article about 2008 Nobel Prixe awards in Physics, A. Casas, November 2008. Ciel et Espace, France, October 2008 ‘Dark Matter: the elixir of long life for stars’ by F. Locco (Saclay) Sky & Telescope ‘Dark Stars’ by F. Locco (Saclay) Clefs du CEA ‘Theory of Dark Matter’ by M. Cirelli and C. Bonvin (Saclay) El Pais – The asymmetries of Nature Article about 2008 Nobel Prize Awards in Physics, B. Gavela, October 2008. The Australian – ‘Particle surge lights up dark matter’ features the work of M. Cirelli (Saclay), September 2008. The Times Online – ‘Pamela the space smartypants thinks she’s found dark matter’ features the work of M. Cirelli (Saclay), September 2008. COLLAPSE magazine Dark Matter: Probing the Arche-Fossil - A conversation with the philosophical magazine COLLAPSE. An interview with Roberto Trotta (Oxford). Collapse, II (March07), R. MacKay (Ed). The anthropic principle: Interview with John Barrow Cover story in "Newton" (in italian) by Roberto Trotta, Oct 2006 Cosmologists scoop Nobel Prize for Physics An article in "Le Scienze" (Italian version of Scientific American) by Roberto Trotta, Nov 2006 Does the Universe need humankind? Contribution for scitizen.com by Roberto Trotta, Dec 2006 Dark Matter: Probing the Arche-Fossil A conversation with the philosophical magazine "Collapse" by Roberto Trotta, Mar 2007 Mapping out the invisible Universe Cover story in "Newton" (in italian) by Roberto Trotta, Apr 2007 Before the Big Bang Cover story in "Newton" (in italian) by Roberto Trotta, Sep 2007 Monimutkaisuus A popular science book on "Complexity" (in Finnish) by Kari Enqvist It is Physikshow time in Germany Herbi Dreiner, CERN Courier, Oct 2007
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Blogs Dmitry Podolsky maintains a popular physics blog: www.nonequilibrium.net. The blog currently belongs to top 200000 list of the internet. The audience of the blog includes more than 400 postdoctoral researchers, undergraduate and graduate students. D. Podolsky also publishes Twitter feed http://www.twitter.com/dpodolsky, mainly devoted to discussion of recent news in theoretical physics. The feed is currently 4th most popular feed in Finland; its audience exceeds 3000 people.
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Interviews Interview of Prof. Alberto Casas for the Spanish RTVE. A.Casas explains the LHC. 30 March 2010. La materia oscura se escapa por poco. Prof. Carlos Munoz is interviewed for the newspaper "Publico", 19 December 2009. De que esta hecho el Universo?. Prof. Carlos Mu~noz is interviewed for Onda Regional de Murcia. 2 December 2009. "Ensenar fisica pueder ser muy sencillo con la ayuda de heroes de comics o peliculas" by David G. Cerdeno. Collaboration and interview for the spanish RTVE. 13 November 2009. "Realment no sabem on es el limit del poder explicatiu dela ciencia". Prof. Alberto Casas is interviewed for the newspaper "Emporda". 8 December 2009. “Dark matter may be building up in the Sun” Report on our work in Wired Magazine, 9 July 2010, “Heart of darkness could explain Sun mysteries” Report on our work in New Scientist, 14 July 2010, Plus Magazine - “Lambda marks the spot — the biggest problem in theoretical physics” S. Sarkar was interviewed by the Millenium Mathematics Project for the article in Plus Magazine. ScienceNews (USA) interviewed M. Cirelli (Saclay) in their article “PAMELA may have spotted the dark stuff”, September 2008. Cosmos Magazine interviewed M. Cirelli (Saclay) in their article “Are scientists about to explain dark matter?”, September 2008. Scientific American interviewed M. Cirelli (Saclay) in their article “Does Dark Matter Encircle Earth?”, January 2009 Nature interviewed M. Cirelli (Saclay) in their article “Physicists aflutter about data photographed at conference”, September 2008 Christophe Grojean (CERN) has been interviewed by the Television Suisse Romande for a program on CERN and the LHC. Anupam Majumdar (NBI) was interviewed by the New Scientist and they covered our work here. January 2008. Anupam Majumdar (NBI) was also interviewed by Physorg. January 2008. Subir Sarkar (Oxford) was filmed for the multimedia exhibits at the new Space Galleries at Royal Greenwich Observatory, Dec 2007.
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Performances A physics show performed by students for kids: From mechanics to elementary particle physics Herbi Dreiner, ePrint: physics/0701344 As described in these articles, a fascinating set of physics demonstrations for children have been put together under Prof Dreiner's guidance by 2nd year undergraduates at Bonn University. These have proved to be a huge success with the public. Every year a new two-hour show is presented, with six performances in a full (550 seat) auditorium. Prof. Dreiner won the "High Energy Particle Physics Outreach Award" of the European Physical Society for these shows in July 2009. Several trailers can be seen on YouTube, S. Sarkar participated in a public debate on "The Fate of the Universe: Does dark energy exist?", Imperial College, London, 22 Jul 2009
________________________________________________________________ Books El LHC y la frontera de la F´ısica. 136 pag. Book by A. Casas. Series: What do we know about ...? Catarata & CSIC Editors ISBN 978-84-00-08819-4.

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BLUEPRINT: The newsletter of the University of Oxford, 5 Oct 2006
A project co-ordinated by Professor Subir Sarkar in the Department of Physics has been awarded Euro 3.53 m in the Sixth Framework Programme of the European Union.'UniverseNet',consisting of 23 universities and 16 research institutes in 11 countries, will address fundamental questions such as "why are we made out of matter rather than antimatter?"; "what is the dark matter and the even more mysterious dark energy which dominate the universe?"; and "why are there just four space-time dimensions?" ...

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Public talks by Network Participants

National "Fete de la science", France, November 2009

Daniel Albornoz gave a public lecture on ”astronomie particulierement cosmique” (cosmic rays)

U.Lyin, Lyon, France, 3 October 2009

Julien Lesgourges gave a public lecture in a colloquim of philosophy “Formes et Origines de l’Univers”

CERN, 2009-2010

Julien Lesgourges gave several lectures on cosmology for visiting high-school teachers and architecture students

University of Savoie, Chambery, 2010

Celine Boehm gave a public lecture “Amphi pour tous”

Public Conference From Galaxies to Quarks, France, 12-18 November 2009

Pierre Salati gave the following lectures “in search of the invisible in Annecy in the frame work of Amphitéâtre pour Tous”, “in search of the invisible in Nantes” (invited by the Société Astronomique de Nantes) and “in search of the invisible in Evian” (invited by the Hadron Collider Physics Symposium).

Public Conference on the Time in the Universe, Lyon, France, 7 April 2010

Pierre Salati gave a lecture titled “Le temps de l'univers” (invited by l'Université Ouverte de Lyon).

Scientific Café, Chambéry, France, 8 April 2010

Pierre Salati gave a lecture on the subject of the Matter (la matière).

Public Conference From Galaxies to Quarks, France, 22 June 2010

Pierre Salati gave a lecture titled “in search of the invisible in Saint-Jorioz” (invited by the 11ème rencontre des mécaniciens du CNRS).

Public lecture : “L’Universo invisibile: il problema della materia ed energia oscure” (The invisible Universe: the problem of dark matter and dark Energy), Bari, Italy, 1 Oct 2009

A. Masiero gave the lecture in a plenary section of the annual meeting of the Italian Physical Society (SIF) open to the general public.

Public Lecture at the Santa Maria di Sala Astronomers' club, Venice, Italy, entitled “From the infinitely big to the infinitely tiny", June 2009

A. Riotto gave this lecture.

Public lecture at the Santa Maria di Sala Astronomers' club, Venice, Italy, entitled “What we wish to discover at the LHC", June 2010.

A. Riotto gave this lecture.

Annual Meeting of the British Astronomical Association, Shrewsbury, April 2010

Presented (invited) talk titled: “Where galaxies really come from” given by Konstantinos Dimopoulos

Lecture to School 6th formers on Supernovae, Lancaster, UK, various dates in 2010

Given by Rose Lerner.

Local schools outreach, Rutherford alpha-scattering demonstrations, Lancaster, UK, various dates in 2010

Given by Francesca Doddato.

Scientific Journalism. From the biggest to the smallest, from astrophysics to nanotechnology

Santander-UIMP, 14-18 June 2010

Prof. Juan Garcia-Bellido participates in the Summer courses of the Menendez Pelayo

University (UIMP) with the talk "Cuando el universo media menos de un centimetro"

(When the Universe was less than one centimetre long)

Hands on Particle Physics Masterclass 2010, 26 February 2010.

IFT participates in this event, orientated to high school students, in which students learn basic concepts about particle physics and perform measurements on real data from particle physics experiments at CERN

"El lado oscuro del Universo: que es la materia oscura y como podemos detectarla?", 27 July 2010. Public talk by David G. Cerde~no (21:30h) - in Spanish.

Una Universidad, Un Universo, Universidad de Murcia as part of the International Year of Astronomy 2009.

Two lectures for the general public were given by David Cerdano and Carlos Munoz at this event.

European Week of Astroparticle Physics, 10-17 October 2009

Two lectures for the general public were given by David Cerdano and Carlos Munoz at this event.

A las puertas del proyecto. LHC Talk for a general audience by Prof. Alberto Casas. Aula Magna of the Sciences Faculty at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (13:30h). 3 November 2009

Ciclo de Conferencias del MTE, Museu de la Tecnica de l'Emporda. November 12 2009.

Talk for a general audience by Prof. Alberto Casas. "El LHC y la frontera del conocimiento",

"From Newton to the LHC" CIUP Paris, May 3rd 2010.

Pablo Roig & Jose Miguel No, General public talk given at the "College d'Espagne".

'Cosmology and the LHC', September 2009

Julien Lesgourgues and Pierre Bientruy are organised this public outreach conference held in GERN globe, Geneva.

Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition, July 2009

Roberto Trotta exhibited at this event.

Oxford University Summer School for Adults, UK, 11 - 18 July 2009

Roberto Trotta gave a lecture entitled "The Big Bang - the Facts, the Science, and some Fiction"

Lancaster University, UK, April 2009, 17 June 2009

Rose Learner (Lancaster) gave a talk titled "Supernovae: Shedding light on the mysteries of the Universe" for A-level physics students on an 'enrichment day'.

Science for Fiction Workshop for Science fiction writers, Imperial College, London, UK, June 2009

Roberto Trotta lectured at this event.

Bialystok, Poland, June 2009

M.Demianski gave a lecture on "Learning about the Universe" for secondary school pupils

Daresbury Laboratory, Warrington, 15 May 2009

Roberto Trotta gave a lectures entitled "Does the Universe need Mankind?"

Kassel High School (Germany), May 2009

Roberto Trotta gave two lectures entitled "The visible Universe" and "The invisible Universe"

'particle physics, cosmology and the LHC', October 2008 - May 2009

John Ellis (CERN) has given 18 public lectures and colloquia across the globe during this period including: Uppsala, Slovenia, Illinois, Bonn, Padova and more.

Valdivai, Chile Instytut for Advanced Studies, April 2009

M. Demianski gave a lecture titled "The Dark side of the Universe"

XIII Ciclo de Conferencias Humanidades, Ingenieria y Arquitectura, Madrid, Spain, 11 March 2009

C. Munoz gave a talk titled ‘ What is the Universe made of? (from elementary particles to dark matter)

Green Templeton College, Oxford, 3 Mar 2009

International Year of Astronomy Public Lecture by S. Sarkar on “Seeing the Edge of the Universe”

Association of Science Students, Siglio XXI, UAM, Spain, 18 February 2009

C. Munoz gave a talk titled ‘ What is the Universe made of? (from elementary particles to dark matter)

National Science Days in Helsinki, 7-8 January 2009

Kari Enqvist gave two talks at the Science Days, which is a major event that takes place every second year with an integrated attendance level of more than 10000 people.

Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education, Mumbai, 22 Dec 2008

International Physics Olympiad lecture by S. Sarkar on “Seeing the Edge of the Universe”

En busca del bos´on de Higgs y otros misterios del Universo, 24 Nov 2008

D. Cerdeno gave a Colloquium for a general audience, part of the Red de Arte Joven de la Comu- nidad Autonoma de Madrid (Young Artists Network sponsored

by Madrid local Government). Caf´e el Despertar, Madrid.

"LHC - How does it work?", 21 Nov 2008

Popular lectures by Z. Lalak and B. Grzadkowski were given at this event and exhibition at the Politechnika Warszawska.

Stockholm University, Sweden, 7-8 Oct 2008

Michael Gustafsson (INFN) gave a talk for a public lecture on 'Universums mörka hemlighet' as a part of the yearly 'Forskardagarna'.

Williams College, October 2008

M. Demianski gave a lecture "The Planck Mission"

Festival of Science, Warsaw, Sep 2008

Zygmunt Lalak (Warsaw) gave a talk on “Particle Physics in the Quest for Structure of the Universe”.

Excellence programme of the Spanish Government, 19-23 May + 16-18 June 2008

Sarben Sarkar (KCL) gave an invited course on “Advanced Cosmology”.

CERN, Switzerland, 5 Jun 2008

Julien Lesgourgues (Annecy) lectured on "Cosmology and Astroparticules Physics" to a group of visitors at CERN

from the American Museum of Natural History, New York.

Annecy, France, 30 May 2008

Richard Taillet (Annecy) gave a public lecture on "Anti-matiere et astrophysique".

Green College, Oxford, UK, Mar 2008

Roberto Trotta (Oxford) gave a talk on “The dark sector of the Universe - Clever ways of observing invisible stuff” – in the ‘Astronomy for all’ lecture series.

Astrophysics Department, Oxford University, UK, Mar 2008

Roberto Trotta (Oxford) gave a talk “The dark side of the Universe - Uncovering the nature of the dark matter and dark energy in the cosmos” to students from a Dutch school.

Oxford University, UK, Mar 2008

Roberto Trotta (Oxford) gave a talk on “The invisible Universe - Hunting down the mysterious dark matter” in the ‘National Particle Physics Masterclass 2008’ for schools.

Dept of Continuing Education, Oxford University, UK, Summer 2008

Roberto Trotta (Oxford) gave a 10 week course for the general public on “The Big Bang and Beyond - An introduction to observational cosmology”.

University of Bristol, 30 Jan 2008

Subir Sarkar (Oxford) gave a talk on “Seeing the edge of the universe” to the Student Physics Society ‘Chaos’.

Helsinki, Finland, 29 Jan 2008

Hannu Kurki-Suonio (Helsinki) gave a talk on “The Planck satellite project” in a lecture series of Kirkkonummen Komeetta, an amateur astronomical society.

Annecy, France, 23 Nov 2007

Richard Taillet (Annecy) gave a public lecture on "L'astronomie de Copernic a nos jours".

Vantaa, Finland, 11 Nov 2007

Hannu Kurki-Suonio (Helsinki) gave a talk on the Planck satellite project in the Space 2007 exhibition, Aviation Museum.

Dept of Continuing Education, Oxford University, UK, 6 Oct 2007

Roberto Trotta (Oxford) gave a course (with Prof B Carr) on “Universe or Multiverse?”

Oxford University Space and Astronomy Society, Oxford, UK, Oct 2007

Dr Roberto Trotta (Oxford) gave a talk titled "The dark sector of the Universe - Clever ways of observing invisible stuff ".

BA Festival of Science, York, UK, 13 Sept 2007
Dr Roberto Trotta (Oxford) gave the Lord Kelvin Award Lecture “Does the Universe need humankind? The strange case of intelligent observers in the cosmos.

Bedford School, Bedford, UK, Feb 2007
Dr Roberto Trotta (Oxford) gave a talk to 6th form students about the dark side of the Universe.

Cherwell High School, Oxford, UK, 17 Jan 2007
Prof Subir Sarkar (Oxford) gave a talk on cosmology titled "Seeing the edge of the universe" to about 100 Sixth-Form science students from several schools in Oxford.

University of Helsinki, Finland, 14 Jan 2007
Dr Syksy Rasanen (Geneva) gave a talk titled "Beyond the universe: a guided tour to extra dimensions" to an audience of 800-1000 during the Finnish biannual science festival "Tieteen paivat" ("The Science Forum").

CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, 25 Jan; 19 Mar; 17,19, 24 & 26 April; 18 & 24 May; 5 Jun 2007
Dr Syksy Rasanen (Geneva) gave a series of talks to visiting groups of 20-25 Finnish high school students and groups of teachers on "The structure of matter: from the small to the large and back again".

CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, 9 May, 2 Nov, 16 Nov, 30 Nov, 15 Dec 2006
Dr Syksy Rasanen (Geneva) gave a series of talks to visiting groups of 20-25 Finnish high school students on "The structure of matter: from the small to the large and back again".

Gonville Primary School, Thornton Heath, Surrey, UK, 10 Nov 2006
Dr Roberto Trotta (Oxford) gave a talk to about 65 five-year old children about the nature of light and darkness, our Universe, and the place of Earth in it.

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Popular articles by Network Participants

Scintillations the journal of IRFU – ‘L’espace et le temps en cosmologie’

article by C. Caprini (Saclay) . No. 79, France, June 2009.

“Evolution, a cosmic perspective” (In Greek)

An article by ESR G. Rigopoulos on the double celebration of 2009 as the International Year of Astronomy as well as Darwin Year. It appeared in the wide circulation Athens Newspaper “Eleftherotypia” (Ελευθεροτυπία) on 16 Apr 2009. An English version will be sent to the English language Helsinki newspaper “Helsinki Times” in Autumn 2009.

New Scientist

Is dark energy getting weaker?

An article featuring a paper by UniverseNet ER Arman Shafieloo which examines a newly released catalogue of supernova explosions, including a number of relatively recent blasts nearby. The new data made the best fit with a universe in which dark energy is losing strength (www.arxiv.org/abs/0903.5141).

New Scientist, issue 2703, 11 April 2009, article written by R. Courtland.

Les Dossiers de la Recherche (France) - "Neutrinos: temoins invisibles du Big Bang"

Article by Julien Lesgourgues in a special issue, May 2009

m i +d – Imperfect symmetries and broken symmetries

Article about 2008 Nobel Prixe awards in Physics, A. Casas, November 2008.

Ciel et Espace, France, October 2008

‘Dark Matter: the elixir of long life for stars’ by F. Locco (Saclay)

Sky & Telescope

‘Dark Stars’ by F. Locco (Saclay)

Clefs du CEA

‘Theory of Dark Matter’ by M. Cirelli and C. Bonvin (Saclay)

El Pais – The asymmetries of Nature

Article about 2008 Nobel Prize Awards in Physics, B. Gavela, October 2008.

The Australian – ‘Particle surge lights up dark matter’

features the work of M. Cirelli (Saclay), September 2008.

The Times Online – ‘Pamela the space smartypants thinks she’s found dark matter’

features the work of M. Cirelli (Saclay), September 2008.

COLLAPSE magazine

Dark Matter: Probing the Arche-Fossil - A conversation with the philosophical magazine COLLAPSE. An interview with Roberto Trotta (Oxford). Collapse, II (March07), R. MacKay (Ed).

The anthropic principle: Interview with John Barrow
Cover story in "Newton" (in italian) by Roberto Trotta, Oct 2006

Cosmologists scoop Nobel Prize for Physics
An article in "Le Scienze" (Italian version of Scientific American) by Roberto Trotta, Nov 2006

Does the Universe need humankind?
Contribution for scitizen.com by Roberto Trotta, Dec 2006

Dark Matter: Probing the Arche-Fossil
A conversation with the philosophical magazine "Collapse" by Roberto Trotta, Mar 2007

Mapping out the invisible Universe
Cover story in "Newton" (in italian) by Roberto Trotta, Apr 2007

Before the Big Bang
Cover story in "Newton" (in italian) by Roberto Trotta, Sep 2007

Monimutkaisuus
A popular science book on "Complexity" (in Finnish) by Kari Enqvist

It is Physikshow time in Germany
Herbi Dreiner, CERN Courier, Oct 2007

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Blogs

Dmitry Podolsky maintains a popular physics blog: www.nonequilibrium.net. The blog currently belongs to top 200000 list of the internet. The audience of the blog includes more than 400 postdoctoral researchers, undergraduate and graduate students.

D. Podolsky also publishes Twitter feed http://www.twitter.com/dpodolsky, mainly devoted to discussion of recent news in theoretical physics. The feed is currently 4th most popular feed in Finland; its audience exceeds 3000 people.

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Interviews

Interview of Prof. Alberto Casas for the Spanish RTVE. A.Casas explains the LHC. 30 March 2010.

La materia oscura se escapa por poco. Prof. Carlos Munoz is interviewed for the newspaper "Publico", 19 December 2009.

De que esta hecho el Universo?. Prof. Carlos Mu~noz is interviewed for Onda Regional de Murcia. 2 December 2009.

"Ensenar fisica pueder ser muy sencillo con la ayuda de heroes de comics o peliculas" by David G. Cerdeno. Collaboration and interview for the spanish RTVE. 13 November 2009.

"Realment no sabem on es el limit del poder explicatiu dela ciencia". Prof. Alberto Casas is interviewed for the newspaper "Emporda". 8 December 2009.

“Dark matter may be building up in the Sun” Report on our work in Wired Magazine, 9 July 2010,

“Heart of darkness could explain Sun mysteries” Report on our work in New Scientist, 14 July 2010,

Plus Magazine - “Lambda marks the spot — the biggest problem in theoretical physics”

S. Sarkar was interviewed by the Millenium Mathematics Project for the article in Plus Magazine.

ScienceNews (USA) interviewed M. Cirelli (Saclay) in their article “PAMELA may have spotted the dark stuff”, September 2008.

Cosmos Magazine interviewed M. Cirelli (Saclay) in their article “Are scientists about to explain dark matter?”, September 2008.

Scientific American interviewed M. Cirelli (Saclay) in their article “Does Dark Matter Encircle Earth?”, January 2009

Nature interviewed M. Cirelli (Saclay) in their article “Physicists aflutter about data photographed at conference”, September 2008

Christophe Grojean (CERN) has been interviewed by the Television Suisse Romande for a program on CERN and the LHC.

Anupam Majumdar (NBI) was interviewed by the New Scientist and they covered our work here. January 2008.

Anupam Majumdar (NBI) was also interviewed by Physorg. January 2008.

Subir Sarkar (Oxford) was filmed for the multimedia exhibits at the new Space Galleries at Royal Greenwich Observatory, Dec 2007.

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Performances

A physics show performed by students for kids: From mechanics to elementary particle physics
Herbi Dreiner, ePrint: physics/0701344
As described in these articles, a fascinating set of physics demonstrations for children have been put together under Prof Dreiner's guidance by 2nd year undergraduates at Bonn University. These have proved to be a huge success with the public. Every year a new two-hour show is presented, with six performances in a full (550 seat) auditorium. Prof. Dreiner won the "High Energy Particle Physics Outreach Award" of the European Physical Society for these shows in July 2009. Several trailers can be seen on YouTube,

S. Sarkar participated in a public debate on "The Fate of the Universe: Does dark energy exist?", Imperial College, London, 22 Jul 2009

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Books

El LHC y la frontera de la F´ısica. 136 pag. Book by A. Casas. Series: What do we know about ...? Catarata & CSIC Editors ISBN 978-84-00-08819-4.