Université de GenèveDépartement de Physique ThéoriqueCAP Genève

Swiss Cosmology Day (Note: This meeting will take place in BERN)

Date: 
15. February 2013 - 9:30
Speaker: 
Tammann, Rubio, Seehars, Nolde, Biagetti, Paranjape, Heisenberg, Blas, Di Dio, Montanari, Birrer, Figueroa and Yoo

 

Swiss Cosmology Day

 

To promote communication and exchanges among Swiss Cosmologists, we will organise a Swiss Cosmology Day once a year.

These days include short scientific presentations and a lot of time for  discussions.

Talks from young people, especially PhD students, are particularly encouraged.

 

Meeting Schedule (Note: All talks are 15 minutes long + 5 minutes for questions, except the one by G. Tammann)

09:45 - 10:15 Arrival and welcome coffee

10:15 - 10:20 Welcome – Ruth Durrer and Alexandre Refregier 

10:20 - 10:55 Tammann, Gustav (Uni Basel) "Allan Sandage and the Distance Scale"

10:55 - 11:15 Rubio, Javier (EPFL) "Higgs-Dilaton Cosmology: From the Early to Late Universe"

11:15 - 11:35 Seehars, Sebastian (ETH) "CosmoHammer: MCMC for cosmology"

11:35 - 11:55 Nolde, David (UniBas) "Recent progress on supergravity models of tribrind inflation"

11:55 - 12:15 Biagetti, Matteo (UniGe) 

12:15 - 12:45 Discussion

 

12:45 - 14:00 Lunch

 

14:00 - 14:20 Paranjape, Aseem (ETH)

14:20 - 14:40  Heisenberg, Lavinia (UniGe)

14:40 - 15:00 Blas, Diego (CERN)

15.00 - 15.20 Di Dio, Enea (UniGe) 

15.20 - 15.30 Discussion

 

15:30 -16:00 Coffee

 

16:00 - 16:20 Montanari, Francesco (UniGe)

16:20 - 16:40 Birrer, Simon (ETH)

16:40 - 17:00 Figueroa, Daniel (UniGe)

17:00 - 17:20 Yoo, Jaiyul (UniZh)

17:20 - 18:00 

Discussion chaired by Alexandre Refregier and Ruth Durrer; wrap-up

 

18:30 - 20:30 Dinner

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Département de Physique Théorique
Université de Genève
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1211 Genève 4
Switzerland
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