Program
The main topics may be distributed in this way. The schedules for the individual sessions is outlined below.
| Morning session: 9.00-12.00 | Afternoon session: 14.00-17.00 | Evening | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 25 May | Supernovae | Black Holes | |
| 26 May | High-z and Structure formation | GRB | Conference dinner (19.30) |
| 27 May | Dark Matter | Free afternoon (Tour at 15.00) | |
| 28 May | Dark Energy | Summary session (13.00-15.00) |
Sessions:
Supernovae (chair: Jesper Sollerman)
- Introduction by chairman
- Seppo Mattila: SN searches and rates
- Giorgos Leloudas: SNe and WR distributions
- Coffee break 10.30-11.00
- Daniel Sauer: Alternatively powered supernovae
- Anders Jerkstrand: Late time supernova modeling
- Justyn Maund: What we learn from progenitors and polarisation studies.
Black Holes (chair: Margrethe Wold)
- Marianne Vestergaard: Supermassive black holes in galaxies near and far, why the fuzz?
- Josefin Larsson: The Fermi view of Active Galactic Nuclei
- Jari Kotilainen: Co-evolution of black holes and galaxies
- Coffee break 15.30-16.00
- Indrek Vurm: Mechanisms of gamma-ray burst emission
- Margrethe Wold: Probing galaxy evolution with red quasars
High-z and structure formation (chair: Göran Östlin)
- Göran Östlin: INTRO+Lyman alpha and Halpha from star forming galaxies at z=2
- Peter Laursen: Modelling Lyman alpha emission from high-z galaxies (15m)
- Johan Fynbo: Galaxy counterparts of metal rich Damped Lyman-alpha Absorbers
- Erik Zackrisson: Detecting the first light objects with JWST
- Garrelt Mellema: Reionisation of the universe
- Coffee break 10.30-11.00
- Elisabeth Leitet: The reionisation by looking at local galaxies
- Sune Toft: Massive galaxies at high redshifts
- Angela Adamo: Massive star clusters in starbursts
- Genoveva Micheva: Red haloes of starburst galaxies
GRB (chair: Palli Jakobsson)
- Palli Jakobsson:Is there a significant fraction of GRBs located in dusty environs?
- Johan Fynbo: Early results from X-shooter spectroscopy of GRB afterglows
- Annalisa De Cia and Paul Vreeswijk: The excited and ionized environment of GRB 080310
- Coffee break 15.30-16.00
- Bob Chapman: The effect of low luminosity GRBs on the overall Swift redshift distribution
- Sinead McGlynn: Evidence for a photospheric component in the spectrum of GRB 090902B
Dark Matter (chair: Steen Hansen)
- Lars Bergström: Dark Matter - recent developments
- Joakim Edsjo: SUSY and dark matter
- Pat Scott: Annihilation signals from ultra-compact minihalos of dark matter
- Coffee break 10.30-11.00
- Paolo Gondolo: Dark Stars
- Sofia Sivertsson: The effect of dark matter on the first stars
- Johan Samsing: Demystifying the classical redshift equation
- Steen Hansen: Measurement of the dark matter velocity anisotropy
- Martin Sparre: The origin of the dark matter velocity anisotropy
Dark Energy (chair: Edvard Mörtsell)
- Introduction by chairman
- Tamara Davis: The WiggleZ dark energy survey
- Martin Sahlen: Probing exotic physics with growth of structure
- Coffee break 10.30-11.00
- Rahman Amanullah: Supernovae and Dark Energy
- Troels Haugbolle: Inhomogeneous cosmological models as an alternative to dark energy
Review session (starts at 13.00, chair Jesper Sollerman)
- Genoveva Micheva: Structure formation and high-z galaxies
- Jari Kotilainen: Compact objects
- Jesper Sollerman: Supernovae
- Ross Church: Gamma Ray Bursts
- Lars Bergström: Dark Matter
- Ariel Goobar: Dark Energy
The summary session will start already at 13.00 and end just after 15.00 so people leaving on Friday are able catch the 16.00 ferry.