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The following lectures were arranged for the morning sessions:

Jenni Adams (Christchurch): The standard Big Bang cosmology

Lars Bergstorm (Stockholm): Dark matter and its detection

Wilfried Buchmuller (DESY Hamburg): Field theory - the Standard Model and beyond

Sergio Colafrancesco (ASI-ASDC): High energy astrophysics

Joe Conlon (DAMTP Cambridge): Cosmological aspects of  string theory abstract

Sacha Davidson (IPN Lyon): Neutrino mass and leptogenesis

Amol Dighe (TIFR Mumbai): Neutrino oscillations and supernovae

Hiranya Peiris (IoA Cambridge): Inflation and the cosmic microwave background abstract

Each topic had 2 lectures of 45 min + 15 min discussion.

In the afternoons there were short talks of 12+3 min by young researchers - the selection was been made by the Organisers from the submitted abstracts. Those who could not be offered a speaking slot were invited to contribute a poster (and made a brief oral presentation in the poster inauguration session on the opening day).

Special talks ended the session every afternoon:

Alan Barr: The startup of the LHC

Marco Cirelli: New particles as dark matter

Joseph Silk: Challenges in astroparticle physics

Joe Conlon (DAMTP Cambridge): Cosmological aspects of  string theory

My two lectures will discuss the cosmological aspects of the moduli fields that occur in string theory generically and ubiquitously. I introduce moduli and explain their potential uses for inflationary model building.

I describe the moduli (Polonyi) problem that afflicts the thermal computation of WIMP dark matter, the tension in string models between inflation and low-energy supersymmetry and possible observational consequences of moduli as part of dark matter.

Hiranya Peiris (IoA Cambridge): Inflation and the cosmic microwave background

In the first lecture, I will review the physics of the cosmic microwave background (CMB), and how precision observations of the CMB can be used to obtain information about the initial conditions, constituents, and dynamics of the universe.

In the second lecture, I will discuss the fundamentals of the inflationary paradigm, including background dynamics and the origin of perturbations, and highlight what we have learned about the big picture of inflation using measurements of the CMB.

Both lectures will be pedagogical/general rather than specialised, at the level of Scott Dodelson's excellent text book, "Modern Cosmology" (2003, Elsevier).

Short talks by young researchers

TALKS - Titles & Abstracts "here"

POSTERS- Titles & Abstracts "here"

 

	Time	Mon 22/9	Tue 23/9	Wed 24/9	Thu 25/9
	14:30-14:45	Delahaye	Babichev	Artymowski	Basboell
	14:45-15:00	Gustafsson	Konstandin	Clesse	Battefeld
	15:00-15:15	Kim	Kostouki	Collins	Ferrantelli
	15:15-15:30	Kulkarni	Ntalianis	Hamann	Mether
	15:30-15:45	Lattanzi	Panotopoulos	Hunt	Riva
	15:45-16:15	Tea/Coffee	Tea/Coffee	Tea/Coffee	Tea/Coffee
	16:15-16:30	Naranjo	Reijonen	Jarnhus	Ballesteros
	16:30-16:45	Palorini	Rigopoulos	Lerner	Bryja
	16:45-17:00	Park	Rosa	Nurmi	Shafieloo
	17:00-17:15	Riemer-Sorensen	Bogdanos	Renaux-Petel	Lund
	17:15-17:30	Sahu	Zuleta	Valkenburg	Piorkowska
	17:30-18:00	Poster session:
		Battefeld
		Coimbra-Araujo
		Dechant
		Gangopadhyay
		Kaminska
		Morelli
		Piechocki
		Vertongen
		Zajac

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