Summer School in Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (10-21 July) andWorkshop on Nongaussianity in Cosmology (24-28 July)

Administration

Description

     The purpose of the School is to provide an introduction to the current state of research in cosmology and astroparticle physics.  It is intended for beginning graduate students, as well as more senior non-expert researchers that are interested in these fields.  Each course will be 3-4 days long, with lectures during the day and a tutorial session at the end of the day.  More specialized seminars will also be scheduled.  

LECTURERS and TOPICS include:

* Tom Abel (Stanford) - The dark ages
* Alessandra Buonanno (Maryland) - Gravitational waves
* Sean Carroll (Chicago) - Introduction to cosmology and dark energy
* Andrea Ferrara (SISSA) - First light in the universe
* Ariel Goodbar (Stockholm) - Observational cosmology
* Renata Kallosh (Stanford) - String cosmology
* Andrei Linde (Stanford) - Inflation
* Ue-Li Pen (CITA) - Large scale structure in the universe
* Antonio Riotto (Padova) - Early universe
* Bernard Sadoulet (Berkeley) - Experimental astroparticle physics and dark matter searches
* Max Tegmark (MIT) - Cosmic microwave background
* Alexander Vilenkin (Tufts) - Topological defects

Material

Final List of Participants announcement

Summer School in Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (10-21 July) andWorkshop on Nongaussianity in Cosmology (24-28 July) | (smr 1761)

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Monday, 10 July 2006

09:30 - 09:45 Opening Address

Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
- 09:30 Opening Address 15'
  
  Speaker: U. Seljak (ICTP)
09:45 - 11:00 Formation of Large Scale Structure: Overview and Linear Theory - Lecture 1

Location: Main Building Lobby
- 09:45 Formation of Large Scale Structure: Overview and Linear Theory - Lecture 1 1h15'
  
  Speaker: U. Pen (University of Toronto, Canada)

11:15 - 12:30 Strategies for Dark Matter Detection - Lecture 1

Location:

Main Building Lobby

11:15 Strategies for Dark Matter Detection - Lecture 1 1h15'

Speaker:	B. Sadoulet (University of California, USA)
Material:	lecture notes

12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break

Location: Main Building Lobby
- 12:30 Lunch Break 1h30'

14:00 - 15:15 Introduction to Cosmology and the Early Universe - Lecture 1

Location:

Main Building Lobby

14:00 Introduction to Cosmology and the Early Universe - Lecture 1 1h15'

Speaker:	S. Carroll (University of Chicago, USA)
Material:	lecture notes

15:30 - 16:45 Anthropic selection and the Landscape - Lecture 1

Location: Main Building Lobby
- 15:30 Anthropic selection and the Landscape - Lecture 1 1h15'
  
  Speaker: A. Vilenkin (Tufts University, USA)

Tuesday, 11 July 2006

08:30 - 09:45 Anthropic selection and the Landscape - Lecture 2
- 08:30 Anthropic selection and the Landscape - Lecture 2 1h15'
  
  Speaker: A. Vilenkin

10:00 - 11:15 Strategies for Dark Matter Detection - Lecture 2

10:00 Strategies for Dark Matter Detection - Lecture 2 1h15'

Speaker:	B. Sadoulet
Material:	lecture notes

11:30 - 12:45 Gravitational Waves: Theory, Sources and Detectability - Lecture 1

11:30 Gravitational Waves: Theory, Sources and Detectability - Lecture 1 1h15'

Speaker:	A. Buonanno (University of Maryland, USA)
Material:	lecture notes

12:45 - 14:00 Lunch Break
- 12:45 Lunch Break 1h15'
14:00 - 15:15 Large Scale Structure: Non-Linear regime, simulations - Lecture 2
- 14:00 Large Scale Structure: Non-Linear regime, simulations - Lecture 2 1h15'
  
  Speaker: U. Pen
15:30 - 16:45 The First Stars: Overview - Lecture 1
- 15:30 The First Stars: Overview - Lecture 1 1h15'
  
  Speaker: T. Abel (Kavli Institute for Astro-Particle Physics, USA)
17:45 - 17:45 RECEPTION

Location: Main Building Terrace
- 17:45 RECEPTION

Wednesday, 12 July 2006

08:30 - 09:45 Strategies for Dark Matter Detection - Lecture 3

Location:

Main Building Main Lecture Hall

08:30 Strategies for Dark Matter Detection - Lecture 3 1h15'

Speaker:	B. Sadoulet
Material:	lecture notes

10:00 - 11:15 Gravitational Waves: Theory, Sources and Detectability - Lecture 2

Location:

Main Building Main Lecture Hall

10:00 Gravitational Waves: Theory, Sources and Detectability - Lecture 2 1h15'

Speaker:	A. Buonanno
Material:	lecture notes

11:30 - 12:45 The First Stars: Primordial Gas - Lecture 2

Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
- 11:30 The First Stars: Primordial Gas - Lecture 2 1h15'
  
  Speaker: T. Abel
12:45 - 14:00 Lunch Break

Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
- 12:45 Lunch Break 1h15'
14:00 - 15:15 Introduction to Cosmology and the Early Universe - Lecture 2

Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
- 14:00 Introduction to Cosmology and the Early Universe - Lecture 2 1h15'
  
  Speaker: S. Carroll
15:30 - 16:45 DISCUSSION SESSION

Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
- 15:30 DISCUSSION SESSION 1h15'

Thursday, 13 July 2006

08:30 - 09:45 Gravitational Waves: Theory, Sources and Detectability - Lecture 3

08:30 Gravitational Waves: Theory, Sources and Detectability - Lecture 3 1h15'

Speaker:	A. Buonanno
Material:	lecture notes

10:00 - 11:15 Strategies for Dark Matter Detection - Lecture 4

10:00 Strategies for Dark Matter Detection - Lecture 4 1h15'

Speaker:	B. Sadoulet
Material:	lecture notes

11:30 - 12:45 The First Stars: Radiative Transfer - Lecture 3
- 11:30 The First Stars: Radiative Transfer - Lecture 3 1h15'
  
  Speaker: T. Abel
12:45 - 14:00 Lunch Break
- 12:45 Lunch Break 1h15'
14:00 - 15:15 Introduction to Cosmology and the Early Universe - Lecture 3
- 14:00 Introduction to Cosmology and the Early Universe - Lecture 3 1h15'
  
  Speaker: S. Carroll
15:30 - 16:45 The Cosmic Baryon Budget: distribution of Baryons - Lecture 3
- 15:30 The Cosmic Baryon Budget: distribution of Baryons - Lecture 3 1h15'
  
  Speaker: U. Pen

Friday, 14 July 2006
- 08:30 - 09:45 The First Stars: Open Questions - Lecture 4
  - 08:30 The First Stars: Open Questions - Lecture 4 1h15'
    
    Speaker: T. Abel
- 10:00 - 11:15 Gravitational Waves: Theory, Sources and Detectability - Lecture 4
  - 10:00 Gravitational Waves: Theory, Sources and Detectability - Lecture 4 1h15'
    
    Speaker: A. Buonanno
- 11:30 - 12:45 Introduction to Cosmology and the Early Universe - Lecture 4
  - 11:30 Introduction to Cosmology and the Early Universe - Lecture 4 1h15'
    
    Speaker: S. Carroll
- 12:45 - 14:00 Lunch Break
  - 12:45 Lunch Break 1h15'
- 14:00 - 15:15 Mapping of dark matter and dark baryons: lensing and CMB secondaries - Lecture 4
  - 14:00 Mapping of dark matter and dark baryons: lensing and CMB secondaries - Lecture 4 1h15'
    
    Speaker: U. Pen
- 15:30 - 16:45 DISCUSSION SESSION
  - 15:30 DISCUSSION SESSION 1h15'

Monday, 17 July 2006

08:30 - 09:45 Observational cosmology: distant supernovae and dark energy - Lecture 1
- 08:30 Observational cosmology: distant supernovae and dark energy - Lecture 1 1h15'
  
  Speaker: A. Goobar (University of Stockholm, Sweden)

10:00 - 11:15 String Cosmology - Lecture 1

10:00 String Cosmology - Lecture 1 1h15'

Speaker:	R. Kallosh (Stanford University, USA)
Material:	lecture notes

11:30 - 12:45 Cosmological Feedbacks from the First Stars - Lecture 1

11:30 Cosmological Feedbacks from the First Stars - Lecture 1 1h15'

Speaker:	A. Ferrara (SISSA, Trieste)
Material:	lecture notes

12:45 - 14:00 Lunch Break
- 12:45 Lunch Break 1h15'
14:00 - 15:15 Cosmological Feedbacks from the First Stars - Lecture 2
- 14:00 Cosmological Feedbacks from the First Stars - Lecture 2 1h15'
  
  Speaker: A. Ferrara
15:30 - 16:45 Inflation, Cosmological perturbations from inflation & baryon asymmetry - Lecture 1
- 15:30 Inflation, Cosmological perturbations from inflation & baryon asymmetry - Lecture 1 1h15'
  
  Speaker: A. Riotto (INFN, Sezione di Padova, Italy)

Tuesday, 18 July 2006

08:30 - 09:45 Observational cosmology: distant supernovae and dark energy - Lecture 2
- 08:30 Observational cosmology: distant supernovae and dark energy - Lecture 2 1h15'
  
  Speaker: A. Goobar

10:00 - 11:15 String Cosmology - Lecture 2

10:00 String Cosmology - Lecture 2 1h15'

Speaker:	R. Kallosh
Material:	lecture notes

11:30 - 12:45 Inflation - Lecture 1

11:30 Inflation - Lecture 1 1h15'

Speaker:	A. Linde (Stanford University, USA)
Material:	lecture notes

12:45 - 14:00 Lunch Break
- 12:45 Lunch Break 1h15'
14:00 - 15:15 Cosmological Feedbacks from the First Stars - Lecture 3
- 14:00 Cosmological Feedbacks from the First Stars - Lecture 3 1h15'
  
  Speaker: A. Ferrara
15:30 - 16:45 Inflation, Cosmological perturbations from inflation & baryon asymmetry - Lecture 2
- 15:30 Inflation, Cosmological perturbations from inflation & baryon asymmetry - Lecture 2 1h15'
  
  Speaker: A. Riotto

Wednesday, 19 July 2006

08:30 - 09:45 Observational cosmology: distant supernovae and dark energy - Lecture 3
- 08:30 Observational cosmology: distant supernovae and dark energy - Lecture 3 1h15'
  
  Speaker: A. Goobar

10:00 - 11:15 String Cosmology - Lecture 3

10:00 String Cosmology - Lecture 3 1h15'

Speaker:	R. Kallosh
Material:	lecture notes

11:30 - 12:45 Inflation - Lecture 2
- 11:30 Inflation - Lecture 2 1h15'
  
  Speaker: A. Linde
12:45 - 14:00 Lunch Break
- 12:45 Lunch Break 1h15'
14:00 - 15:15 Cosmological Feedbacks from the First Stars - Lecture 4
- 14:00 Cosmological Feedbacks from the First Stars - Lecture 4 1h15'
  
  Speaker: A. Ferrara
15:30 - 16:45 Cosmic Conundrums: Dark Energy, Dark Matter & Inflation - Lecture 1
- 15:30 Cosmic Conundrums: Dark Energy, Dark Matter & Inflation - Lecture 1 1h15'
  
  Speaker: M. Tegmark (MIT, USA)

Thursday, 20 July 2006
- 08:30 - 09:45 Inflation - Lecture 3
  - 08:30 Inflation - Lecture 3 1h15'
    
    Speaker: A. Linde
- 10:00 - 11:15 Observational cosmology: distant supernovae and dark energy - Lecture 4
  - 10:00 Observational cosmology: distant supernovae and dark energy - Lecture 4 1h15'
    
    Speaker: A. Goobar
- 11:30 - 12:45 Cosmic Conundrums: Dark Energy, Dark Matter & Inflation - Lecture 2
  - 11:30 Cosmic Conundrums: Dark Energy, Dark Matter & Inflation - Lecture 2 1h15'
    
    Speaker: M. Tegmark
- 12:45 - 14:00 Lunch Break
  - 12:45 Lunch Break 1h15'
- 14:00 - 15:15 Inflation, Cosmological perturbations from inflation & baryon asymmetry - Lecture 3
  - 14:00 Inflation, Cosmological perturbations from inflation & baryon asymmetry - Lecture 3 1h15'
    
    Speaker: A. Riotto
- 15:30 - 16:45 Cosmic Conundrums: Dark Energy, Dark Matter & Inflation - Lecture 3
  - 15:30 Cosmic Conundrums: Dark Energy, Dark Matter & Inflation - Lecture 3 1h15'
    
    Speaker: M. Tegmark

Friday, 21 July 2006

08:30 - 09:45 Cosmic Conundrums: Dark Energy, Dark Matter & Inflation - Lecture 4
- 08:30 Cosmic Conundrums: Dark Energy, Dark Matter & Inflation - Lecture 4 1h15'
  
  Speaker: M. Tegmark
10:00 - 11:15 Inflation - Lecture 4
- 10:00 Inflation - Lecture 4 1h15'
  
  Speaker: A. Linde
11:30 - 12:45 Inflation, Cosmological perturbations from inflation & baryon asymmetry - Lecture 4
- 11:30 Inflation, Cosmological perturbations from inflation & baryon asymmetry - Lecture 4 1h15'
  
  Speaker: A. Riotto
12:45 - 14:00 Lunch Break
- 12:45 Lunch Break 1h15'

14:00 - 15:15 String Cosmology - Lecture 4

14:00 String Cosmology - Lecture 4 1h15'

Speaker:	R. Kallosh
Material:	lecture notes

15:30 - 16:30 DISCUSSION SESSION & CLOSING REMARKS
- 15:30 DISCUSSION SESSION & CLOSING REMARKS 1h0'

Monday, 24 July 2006
- 10:00 - 10:30 Setting the stage: Gaussian concordance cosmology and its parameters
  
  Location: Adriatico Guest House (Lower Level 1)
  - 10:00 Setting the stage: Gaussian concordance cosmology and its parameters 30'
    
    Speaker: Max Tegmark (MIT, USA)
- 10:30 - 11:30 Coffee Break
  
  Location: Adriatico Guest House (Terrace)
  - 10:30 Coffee Break 1h0'
- 11:30 - 12:00 Testing Lorentz invariance violation through electromagnetic wave propagation in the universe
  
  Location: Adriatico Guest House (Lower Level 1)
  - 11:30 Testing Lorentz invariance violation through electromagnetic wave propagation in the universe 30'
    
    Speaker: Tina Kahniashvili (Abastunami Astrophysical Observatory, Georgia)
- 12:00 - 12:30 Non-Gaussian anomalies in the WMAP
  
  Location: Adriatico Guest House (Lower Level 1)
  - 12:00 Non-Gaussian anomalies in the WMAP 30'
    
    Speaker: Joao Magueijo (Imperial College, UK)
- 12:30 - 14:30 Lunch Break
  
  Location: Adriatico Guest House (Lower Level 1)
  - 12:30 Lunch Break 2h0'
- 14:30 - 15:00 Evil axes and evil foreground
  
  Location: Adriatico Guest House (Lower Level 1)
  - 14:30 Evil axes and evil foreground 30'
    
    Speaker: Angelica De Oliveira-Costa (MIT, USA)
- 15:00 - 15:30 Mysteries on Universe's largest Observable Scales
  
  Location: Adriatico Guest House (Lower Level 1)
  - 15:00 Mysteries on Universe's largest Observable Scales 30'
    
    Speaker: Dragan Huterer (University of Chicago, USA)
- 15:30 - 16:00 Are non-Gaussianities responsible for excess small-scale anisotropy in the CMB?
  
  Location: Adriatico Guest House (Lower Level 1)
  - 15:30 Are non-Gaussianities responsible for excess small-scale anisotropy in the CMB? 30'
    
    Speaker: Asantha Cooray (University of California, USA)
- 16:00 - 16:30 Statistical isotropy of CMB temperature and polarization
  
  Location: Adriatico Guest House (Lower Level 1)
  - 16:00 Statistical isotropy of CMB temperature and polarization 30'
    
    Speaker: Tarun Souradeep (IUCAA, Pune, India)
Tuesday, 25 July 2006
- 09:30 - 10:00 A non-Gaussian cold spot in the CMB sky
  
  Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
  - 09:30 A non-Gaussian cold spot in the CMB sky 30'
    
    Speaker: Marcos Cruz (Universidad de Cantabria, Spain)
- 10:00 - 10:30 Anomalous large-scale angular correlations in CMB maps
  
  Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
  - 10:00 Anomalous large-scale angular correlations in CMB maps 30'
    
    Speaker: Armando Bernui (INPE, San Jose dos Campos, Brazil)
- 10:30 - 11:30 Coffee Break
  
  Location: Adriatico Guest House (Terrace)
  - 10:30 Coffee Break 1h0'
- 11:30 - 12:00 Local voids as the origin of the large-angle CMB anomalies
  
  Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
  - 11:30 Local voids as the origin of the large-angle CMB anomalies 30'
    
    Speaker: Kaiko Taro Inoue (Kinki University, Osaka, Japan)
- 12:00 - 12:30 Non-standard Non-Gaussianity
  
  Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
  - 12:00 Non-standard Non-Gaussianity 30'
    
    Speaker: Alejandro Gangui (IAFE, Buenos Aires, Argentina)
- 12:30 - 14:30 Lunch Break
  
  Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
  - 12:30 Lunch Break 2h0'
- 14:30 - 15:00 Non-Gaussian CMB maps from cosmic strings
  
  Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
  - 14:30 Non-Gaussian CMB maps from cosmic strings 30'
    
    Speaker: Paul Shellard (D.A.M.T.P., Cambridge, UK)
- 15:00 - 15:30 Non-Gaussianities in two field inflation
  
  Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
  - 15:00 Non-Gaussianities in two field inflation 30'
    
    Speaker: Filippo Vernizzi (University of Helsinki, Finland)
- 15:30 - 16:00 Non-linear evolution of inhomogeneities during multi-field inflation
  
  Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
  - 15:30 Non-linear evolution of inhomogeneities during multi-field inflation 30'
    
    Speaker: Gerasimos Rigopoulos (Utrecht University, Netherlands)
- 16:00 - 16:30 Non-Gaussianity in multiple-field inflation
  
  Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
  - 16:00 Non-Gaussianity in multiple-field inflation 30'
    
    Speaker: Bartjan VanTent (D.A.M.T.P., Cambridge, UK)
- 18:30 - 20:30 RECEPTION
  
  Location: Adriatico Guest House (Terrace)
  - 18:30 RECEPTION 2h0'
Wednesday, 26 July 2006
- 09:30 - 10:00 Relic Anisotropy as the source of all evil?
  
  Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
  - 09:30 Relic Anisotropy as the source of all evil? 30'
    
    Speaker: Carlo Contaldi (Imperial College, London, UK)
- 10:00 - 10:30 On the effective field theory approach to cosmological initial conditions
  
  Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
  - 10:00 On the effective field theory approach to cosmological initial conditions 30'
    
    Speaker: Massimo Porrati (New York University, USA)
- 10:30 - 11:30 Coffee Break
  
  Location: Adriatico Guest House (Terrace)
  - 10:30 Coffee Break 1h0'
- 11:30 - 12:00 Right-handed neutrinos as the source of density perturbations
  
  Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
  - 11:30 Right-handed neutrinos as the source of density perturbations 30'
    
    Speaker: Lotfi Boubekeur (ICTP)
- 12:00 - 12:30 Nongaussianity from Tachyonic Preheating in Hybrid Inflation
  
  Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
  - 12:00 Nongaussianity from Tachyonic Preheating in Hybrid Inflation 30'
    
    Speaker: Neil Barnaby (McGill University, Montreal, Canada)
- 12:30 - 13:00 Atacama Cosmology Telescope
  
  Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
  - 12:30 Atacama Cosmology Telescope 30'
    
    Speaker: Raul Jimenez
- 12:30 - 14:30 Lunch Break
  
  Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
  - 12:30 Lunch Break 2h0'
- 14:30 - 15:00 Second order gauge-invariant perturbations during inflation
  
  Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
  - 14:30 Second order gauge-invariant perturbations during inflation 30'
    
    Speaker: Giovanni Marozzi (University of Bologna, Italy)
- 15:00 - 15:30 Colored noise induced low L moments and non-Gaussianity in cosmology
  
  Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
  - 15:00 Colored noise induced low L moments and non-Gaussianity in cosmology 30'
    
    Speaker: Kin-Wang Ng (Academia Sinica, Taiwan, ROC)
- 15:30 - 16:00 High order correction terms for the peak-peak correlation function in nearly-Gaussian models
  
  Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
  - 15:30 High order correction terms for the peak-peak correlation function in nearly-Gaussian models 30'
    
    Speaker: Ana Paula Andrade (Univ. Estadual de Santa Cruz, Bahia, Brazil)
- 16:00 - 16:30 Non-Gaussian signatures in the large-scale power spectrum
  
  Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
  - 16:00 Non-Gaussian signatures in the large-scale power spectrum 30'
    
    Speaker: Alex Szalay (The John Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA)
Thursday, 27 July 2006
- 09:30 - 10:00 Testing primordial non-Gaussianity in CMB Anisotropies
  
  Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
  - 09:30 Testing primordial non-Gaussianity in CMB Anisotropies 30'
    
    Speaker: Michele Liguori (University of Padova, Italy)
- 10:00 - 10:30 Non-Gaussianity detection and discrimination using several multiscale transforms
  
  Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
  - 10:00 Non-Gaussianity detection and discrimination using several multiscale transforms 30'
    
    Speaker: Jean-Luc Starck (CEA, Gif-sur-Yvette, France)
- 10:30 - 11:30 Coffee Break
  
  Location: Adriatico Guest House (Terrace)
  - 10:30 Coffee Break 1h0'
- 11:30 - 12:00 Efficiency of non-Gaussian estimators
  
  Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
  - 11:30 Efficiency of non-Gaussian estimators 30'
    
    Speaker: Daniel Babich (Harvard University, Cambridge, USA)
- 12:00 - 12:30 Nongaussianity anomalies in WMAP
  
  Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
  - 12:00 Nongaussianity anomalies in WMAP 30'
    
    Speaker: Olivier P. Dore (University of Toronto, Canada)
- 12:30 - 14:30 Lunch Break
  
  Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
  - 12:30 Lunch Break 2h0'
- 14:30 - 15:00 New approaches for detecting non-Gaussianity in the CMB
  
  Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
  - 14:30 New approaches for detecting non-Gaussianity in the CMB 30'
    
    Speaker: Kristofer Jennings (Purdue University, USA)
- 15:00 - 15:30 Inflationary non-Gaussianity and the present Universe
  
  Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
  - 15:00 Inflationary non-Gaussianity and the present Universe 30'
    
    Speaker: Sabino Matarrese (University of Padova, Italy)
- 15:30 - 16:00 Nongaussianity from higher derivative interactions
  
  Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
  - 15:30 Nongaussianity from higher derivative interactions 30'
    
    Speaker: Paolo Creminelli (ICTP)
- 16:00 - 16:30 Statistical reconstruction of non-Gaussian PDF's
  
  Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
  - 16:00 Statistical reconstruction of non-Gaussian PDF's 30'
    
    Speaker: Ue-Li Pen (University of Toronto, Canada)
- 16:30 - 17:00 Statistical analysis of undetected point sources in cosmic microwave background maps
  
  Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
  - 16:30 Statistical analysis of undetected point sources in cosmic microwave background maps 30'
    
    Speaker: Rita Belen Barreiro (Universidad de Cantabria, Spain)
- 19:00 - 19:00 CONFERENCE DINNER
  
  Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
  - 19:00 CONFERENCE DINNER
Friday, 28 July 2006
- 09:30 - 10:00 Non-Gaussianity in the 21 cm background
  
  Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
  - 09:30 Non-Gaussianity in the 21 cm background 30'
    
    Speaker: Annalisa Pillepich (ETH, Zurich, Switzerland)
- 10:00 - 10:30 How optical imaging surveys can constrain cosmology
  
  Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
  - 10:00 How optical imaging surveys can constrain cosmology 30'
    
    Speaker: Lloyd Knox (University of California at Davis, USA)
- 10:30 - 11:30 Coffee Break
  
  Location: Adriatico Guest House (Terrace)
  - 10:30 Coffee Break 1h0'
- 11:30 - 12:00 Impact of primordial non-Gaussianity on dark energy constraints from clusters observations
  
  Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
  - 11:30 Impact of primordial non-Gaussianity on dark energy constraints from clusters observations 30'
    
    Speaker: Emiliano Sefusatti (Fermilab, Batavia, USA)
- 12:00 - 12:30 Newtonian correspondence and pure general relativistic correction terms from the relativistic non-linear cosmological perturbation theory
  
  Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
  - 12:00 Newtonian correspondence and pure general relativistic correction terms from the relativistic non-linear cosmological perturbation theory 30'
    
    Speaker: Jai-Chan Hwang (Kyungpook National University, Taegu, ROC)
- 12:30 - 13:00 Non-Gaussian statistics of galactic dust
  
  Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
  - 12:30 Non-Gaussian statistics of galactic dust 30'
    
    Speaker: Emory F. Bunn (University of Richmond, USA)