3rd Biennial Leopoldina Conference on DARK ENERGY

7 Oct 2008, 14:00 → 11 Oct 2008, 18:00 Europe/Berlin

LMU, Geschwister-Scholl-Platz

A Joint Conference of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and the DFG Transregional Research Center TRR33 'The Dark Universe' with support from the Excellence Cluster Universe and the Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach-Stiftung.

Tuesday 7 October

Registration

Welcome Adresses

Volker ter Meulen, President of the German Academy
Leopoldina; Axel Schenzle, Dean of Physics at the
LMU

Key Note Talks

Brian Schmidt, Christof Wetterich

Welcome Reception / Registration

Wednesday 8 October

Morning Session: Dynamical Dark Energy

Luca Amendola, Ed Copeland, Ruth Durrer, Slava
Mukhanov...

13:00 Lunch break

Afternoon Session: Supernovae

Pierre Astier, Joshua Frieman, Wolfgang Hillebrandt,
Bruno Leibundgut, Adam Riess...

Thursday 9 October

Morning Session: Modified Gravity, Brane Worlds etc.

Roy Maartens, Georgi Dvali...

13:00 Lunch break

Afternoon Session: Microwave Background

Eiichiro Komatsu, Wayne Hu, Jean-Loup Puget...

Friday 10 October

Morning Session: Dark Energy - Dark Matter connection

Hans-Peter Nilles, Carlos Frenk

13:00 Lunch break

Afternoon Session: Large Scale Structure

John Peacock, Daniel Eisenstein, Roman
Scocciamarro, Uros Seljak

Saturday 11 October

Morning Session: Gravitational Lensing

Peter Schneider, Yannick Mellier, Andy Taylor...

13:00 Lunch break

Afternoon Session: Galaxy Clusters

Joe Mohr, Hans Böhringer, John Carlstrom, Günther
Hasinger...