6eme Journée des Lacs Alpins de Cosmologie (JLAC6)

University of Geneva, 21.01.2004

Location

The meeting will take place at the Département de Physique Théorique, University of Geneva, Ecole de Physique.

Click here for details on how to get there. The main entrance to the building on Quai Ansermet is currently hidden by construction works - just go around the construction site.

The talks will be in the Seminar Room 234, 2nd floor.

Format

Speakers should avoid technical details as much as possible. The chalk-talk format is preferred; a slide projector (and a beamer, for desperate cases) will be at disposal.  The talks should not exceed 15 mins, with additional 5 mins for questions and discussion. Please remember that the audience is mixed, so the level should be adequate for non-experts.

If you wish to attend the meeting without given a talk, please register with the organisers - we need an estimate of the total number of persons for the planning. There is no registration fee.
 

Social dinner

If enough people are interested, we are planning to have dinner together in downtown Geneva on Wed. night. If you want to participate, please register with the organisers. The cost will be at the charge of participants.
 

Preliminary program

For any enquiry, please contact the organisers:

Julien Lesgourgues ,  Roberto Trotta

Morning session (10:00 - 13:00)

Chairperson: J. Lesgourgues
 
Time Speaker Title
10:00 - 10:20 Christophe Ringeval (U. Geneva) Wiggles of primordial origin in the WMAP data?
10:20 - 10:40 Roberto Trotta (U. Geneva) Isocurvature perturbations from a Peccei-Quinn field as curvaton
10:40 - 11:00 Marc Türler (Geneva Obs.) Geneva's contribution to the Planck LFI software development
11:00 - 11:20                                                                          COFFEE BREAK
11:20 - 11:40 Thierry Baertschinger (U. Geneva) Growth of correlations in gravitational N-body simulations
11:40 - 12:00 Daniel Schaerer (Geneva Obs) New results from recent theoretical work on PopulationIII galaxies and observations of galaxies beyond redshift 7
12:00 - 12:20 Florian Dubath (U. Geneva) General limits on the gravitational mass loss of the Galaxy
12:20 - 12:40 Denis Puy (Geneva Obs.) Differential chemistry in the early Universe
12:40 - 13:00 Alvise Mattei (LAPTH Annecy) Charged black holes and ultra-high energy cosmic rays
13:00 - 14:30          LUNCH BREAK: a choice of sandwiches, fruits and drinks wil be provided

Afternoon session (14:30 - 17:30)

Chairperson: R. Trotta
 
Time Speaker Title
14:30 - 14:50 Michele Papucci (SNS Pisa, U. Geneva) Constraints on neutrino masses in Leptogenesis models
14:50 - 15:10 Dominik Schwarz (CERN) Classification of inflationary models
15:10 - 15:30 Ruth Durrer (U. Geneva) Vector perturbations
15:30 - 16:00                                                                       COFFEE BREAK
16:00 - 16:20 Christoph Schmid (ETHZ) Cosmology and the Origin of Inertia: Mach's Principle
16:20 - 16:40 Marcus Ruser (U. Geneva) On the Casimir energy in brane world models
16:40 - 17:00 Riccardo Sturani (U. Geneva) Thermodynamics of a D-brane gas
17:00 - 17:20 Stephen Davis (EPFL) Gauss-Bonnet brane worlds
17:20 - 17:30 Ruth Durrer Concluding remarks