WMAP - Programme

The Cosener's House, Abingdon, U.K.
June 7-8, 2003


Saturday 7th June
 
10.30- almost 11.00 arrival and coffee
almost 11.00 - 11.00 Subir Sarkar Welcome
11.00 - 12.00 George Efstathiou WMAP observations of the CMB
12.00-13.00 George Efstathiou The standard Lambda-CDM cosmology
13.00-14.30 Lunch
14.30-15.30 Joe Silk dark matter in the light of WMAP
15.30-16.30 Ed Copeland Dark energy and quintessence
16.30-17.00 Coffee
17.00-18.00 David Wands Inflationary density perturbations
19.00 Drinks and Dinner

Sunday 8th
 
7.30  breakfast
8.30-9.30 David Lyth The particle physics of inflation
9.30-10.30 Neil Turok Alternatives to inflation
10.30-11.00 Coffee
11.00-12.00 Fernando Quevedo String/brane cosmology
12.00-13.00 Andrew Jaffe Beyond WMAP - the future of CMB
13.00 (Lunch) and leave