Workshop: Inhomogeneous cosmologies, August 15-19 2011
Sunday 14.8:
| Welcome reception at hotel Alba at 19.00 | |
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Monday 15.8:
Morning session: Chairperson, Kimmo Kainulainen
| 9.10-9.40 | Rocky Kolb | Opening talk | ||
| 9.50-10.20 | Syksy Räsänen | Progress in backreaction | ||
| 10.30-11.10 | Coffee break | |||
| 11.30 - 11.30 | David Wiltshire | What is dust? - Physical foundations of the averaging problem in cosmology | ||
| 11.40 - 12.10 | Eleonora Villa | Quantifying the rareness of high-redshift galaxy clusters |
Afternoon session: Chairperson, Syksy Räsänen
| 14.30-15.00 | Robert Wald | A new framework for analyzing the effects of small scale inhomegeneities in cosmology | ||
| 15.10-15.40 | Stephen Green | A new framework for analyzing the effects of small scale inhomegeneities in cosmology - Perturbation theory | ||
| 15.50-16.20 | Tejinder Singh | The scale of homogeneity and its implications for cosmological backreaction | ||
| 16.30-17.00 | Coffee break | |||
| 17.00-17.30 | Shaun Hotchkiss | Cosmological backreaction and the gradient expansion | ||
| 17.40-18.10 | Obinna Umeh | Averaging/Fitting problem in cosmology: deceleration parameter as a case study |
Tuesday 16.8:
Morning session: Chairperson, Rocky Kolb
| 9.00-9.30 | Marie-Noelle Celerier | Some clarfications concerning non Copernican inhomogenous models | ||
| 9.40-10.10 | Chulmoon Yoo | Redshift drift in LTB void universes | ||
| 10.20-10.50 | Coffee break | |||
| 10.50-11.20 | Hideo Kodama | Probing the inhomogenous universe by the CMB B-mode | ||
| 11.30-12.00 | Keiki Sato | The dependece of CMB anisotrpoies on Void profile parameters in the local void model |
Afternoon session: Chairperson, Robert Wald
| 14.15-14.45 | Albert Stebbins | WYSIWYG Space-Time: an observationally based, non- perturbative approach to learning about our universe | ||
| 14.55-15.25 | Phil Bull | Viable voids? What the kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect is telling us about large scale homogeneity | ||
| 15.35-16.05 | Ryusuke Nishikawa | Evolution of density perturbations on the inhomogenous cosmological models | ||
| 16.15-16.45 | Coffee break | |||
| 17.00-19.00 | Jukka Maalampi and Syksy Räsänen | Public lectures on topic "Einstein today" (Agora building, lecture room 2) |
Wedndesday 17.8:
Morning session: Chairperson, Marie-Noelle Celerier
| 9.00-9.30 | Seshadri Nadathur | The ISW imprint of superstructures | ||
| 9.40-10.10 | Jim Zibin | Confronting void models for acceleration with the CMB | ||
| 10.20-10.50 | Coffee break with bagels | |||
| 11.00 - 11.30 | Troels Haugbølle | Using the LTB model to probe inhomogeneity | ||
| 11.40 - 11.50 | Kimmo Kainulainen | Excursion details |
Afternoon: Excursion to Mämminiemi
Thursday 18.8:
Morning session: Chairperson, Hideo Kodama
| 9.00-9.30 | Kryzsztof Bolejko | The distance-redshift relation in the inhomogenous Universe: matter inhomogeneities | ||
| 9.40-10.10 | Wessel Valkenburg | Living in observed structures: the universe as observed from insider the cold spot and inside the great attractor | ||
| 10.20-10.50 | Coffee break with bagels | |||
| 10.50 - 11.20 | Leandros Perivolaropoulos | Generalizing the LCDM with inhomogenous Dark Energy: Motivation and observational constraints | ||
| 11.30 - 12.00 | Mikko Pääkkönen | Exact spherically symmetric inhomogenous models with n perfect fluids |
Afternoon session: Chairperson, Albert Stebbins
| 14.30-15.00 | Tom Shanks | LCDM and WMAP CMB anisotropies | ||
| 15.10-15.40 | Valerio Marra | Gravitational lensing with the sGL method | ||
| 15.50-16.20 | Teppo Mattsson | On the role of shear in cosmological averaging | ||
| 16.30-16.40 | Concluding remarks | |||
| 16.40-17.10 | Coffee | |||
Friday 19.8:
Departure day. (There will be no talks but free discussions continue among the remaining participants.)