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Résumé: Holography is one of the most powerful ideas to emerge in recent years from String/M-theory, and has led both to a radical new approach to quantum gravity, combined with a remarkably powerful calculational tool. It offers an exciting opportunity to tackle the long standing issues of the nature of the big-bang, the initial conditions and fate of the universe, which have recently begun to be explored.

This 5 week workshop will bring together leading researchers working in cosmology, string theory and quantum gravity in order to understand and develop the implications of holography for the cosmology of the early universe. The program will end with a conference from July 15 - 18 to which outside participants are encouraged to apply.

Résumé: This school continues the tradition of past NNPSSs. The NNPSS is distinctively different from many other schools in that it provides lectures and activities that cover the entire field of contemporary nuclear physics, ranging from QCD and the structure of the nucleon, over the reactions and structure of nuclei, to astrophysics. Particular attention is being paid to fostering interactions between students and lecturers as well as among the students that tend to come from all areas of nuclear science. This not only helps to broaden the perspective of the new generation but also aids in the formation of a community spirit within the field. The school can accommodate 50 students typically within 1-2 years either side of earning a PhD.

Michigan State University is the site of the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, the nations premier rare isotope facility, the Mesoscopic Theory Center, and is part of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics, and the UNEDF SciDAC Collaboration in nuclear theory.

Résumé: The traditional purpose of the Conference is to highlight the present status and prospects of searching for new physics beyond the Standard Model in non-accelerator experiments. Complementarity of accelerator and non-accelerator searches is a traditional leit-motif of the NANP conference. Various extensions of the Standard Model including ideas of supersymmetry, grand unification, extra dimensions etc. are supposed to attract both theoretical and experimental talks and discussions.

Résumé: The 31st International Cosmic Ray Conference, organized jointly by the Division of Experimental Physics of the University of Lódz and the Andrzej Soltan Institute for Nuclear Studies, will be held in July 7-15, 2009, in Lódz, Poland. Following the tradition of past International Cosmic Ray Conferences, the 31st ICRC will encompass a broad range of topics, covering cosmic ray physics, neutrino and gamma-ray astronomy, solar physics.

Résumé: Holography is one of the most powerful ideas to emerge in recent years from String/M-theory, and has led both to a radical new approach to quantum gravity, combined with a remarkably powerful calculational tool. It offers an exciting opportunity to tackle the long standing issues of the nature of the big-bang, the initial conditions and fate of the universe, which have recently begun to be explored.

This exciting conference will bring together leading researchers working in cosmology, string theory and quantum gravity in order to understand and develop the implications of holography for the cosmology of the early universe. Registration for this conference will be on our website shortly. Applicants are encouraged to apply.

Résumé: A network of European Doctorate Schools has organized a common curriculum in Astroparticle Physics. On the basis of agreements among these schools the specialized courses concerning Astroparticle Physics are organized in a common International School on Astroparticle Physics (ISAPP), while bilateral or multilateral student exchanges concerning the research activities in this field are also possible, in view of their thesis preparation.

Résumé: The school program will consist of lessons by leading specialists in both theoretical and experimental particle physics and astrophysics. Also it includes a little students reports. The Baikal Summer School is regularly held at a picturesque small village Bol'shie Koty on the Baikal lakeside.

Résumé: The goal of the Symposium is to bring together theoreticians and experimentalists in the fields of particle physics, astrophysics, cosmology and gravity, in order to discuss the present status of the searches for signatures of extra dimensions. The discussion should be held especially considering the upcoming data taking at the Large Hadron Collider. A particular focus will be put on the hypothetic production of mini black holes predicted by models of extra dimensions.

Résumé: In the last ten years, a wealth of observational data has revolutionized cosmology. The purpose of this conference is to bring together world-class leading figures in cosmology and particle physics, as well as renowned statisticians, in order to exchange knowledge and experience in dealing with large and complex data sets, and to meet the challenge of upcoming large cosmological surveys.

Résumé: We are pleased to announce the 2009 Summer Simons Workshop in Mathematics and Physics from July 27 to August 21. This will be the second Summer Workshop conducted by the new Simons Center for Geometry and Physics at Stony Brook. The Center's mission is to develop the interaction of geometry in the broadest sense with theoretical physics, and is rooted in a long tradition of engagement between Mathematics and Physics here at Stony Brook, and ultimately in the centuries-long history of these two fields. The Stony Brook tradition is exemplified by the joint ITP-Math seminars initiated by Jim Simons and Frank Yang in the 1970's; these stimulated interest worldwide in the mathematics of gauge theories.

This workshop, while the second run under the auspices of the Center, is also a continuation of six previous Simons Workshops; like them, it will focus on the intersection between physics and mathematics, particularly in the context of string theory. One of the principal themes of this workshop will be "Strings, Dark Matter, and the Geometry of Particle Phenomenology".

Résumé: Eta Car has been subject of a huge number of papers in the recent times, about 100 papers in the lat 5 years. This has brought solution to some questions and opened a large quantity of new ones. In Januray 2009 eta Car will display one of its periodic events, as a matter of fact the best one to be observed from the ground until now. Multi-wavelength campaigns are in progress from X-rays to radio spectral regions and a large amount of data will be collected. Augusto 2009 will be a good time to discuss the outcome of these data and to review the past accumulated work, as have occurred in the 4 meetings devoted to eta Car since 1998.

WR140 also is passing through periastron soon after eta Car. This also is an emblematic massive interacting binary and comparison of its properties with that of eta Car is very instructive. Since these are well known examples of evolved massive stars, they have clues to the fate of the most massive stars, in particular the impact of rotation and of the circumstellar material on the hypernovae/supernovae explosion.

Résumé: Chemically Peculiar (CP) stars are stage to a diversity of physical phenomena, such as pulsations, convection, rotation, accretion, diffusion or magnetism. As a consequence, they offer unique and colorful laboratory for examining and studying these phenomena simultaneously, competitively and in parallel, ultimately enriching the whole gamut of stellar physics.

During this Joint Discussion many new results from high-quality data of CP stars and sophisticated theoretical models will be presented. The techniques used to infer the data, and the ingredients of the models with which the data is compared will be discussed. Future challenges, expected in the context of new ground-based instrumentation, and of space missions recently launched or in preparation, will give the final tone to the Joint Discussion.

While the interaction and competition between different physical phenomena are particularly highlighted in studies of CP stars, these physical phenomena together with the ingredients and techniques needed to study them are of relevance to a much wider astrophysical community. We thus see this Joint Discussion as a possibility for a multi-disciplinary exchange of ideas, and a golden opportunity for us to share the recent progress from this field with a broader spectrum of researchers.

Résumé: An interdisciplinary meeting aimed to discuss the geochemistry, physics, morphology (roundish versus irregular shapes), and internal differentiation of the icy bodies of the solar system (comets, trans-neptunian objects, satellites of the outer planets, Centaurs, Trojans and transition objects in the asteroid belt), their accretion and transport within the different regions of the solar system, from near-Earth to the Oort cloud, and thier suitability for sustaining and delivering life forms.

Résumé: The aim of this Institute is to bring together theorists and phenomenologists interested in all different aspects of LHC physics (QCD, event simulations, electroweak physics, BSM theories) for an opportunity to review and discuss the first LHC data.

Résumé: The main scientific goals of the meeting will focus on understanding the driving mechanisms of jets from proto-stars (including their possible crucial link with star and planet formation) to microquasars and AGNs trying to emphasize their differences/similarities; the basic physics of the accretion-jet process in magnetized disks, which is not fully understood yet in the large parameter space involved, including the transport of angular momentum and the development of reconnection and turbulent dynamo; cooling/heating processes, instabilities, shock structures and particle acceleration mechanisms in the jets; the impact of the jets on energy balance and turbulence feeding in the astrophysical environments; and the potential association of jet-accretion phenomena with GRBs and UHECRs.

Résumé: Over the last two decades, there has been growing interest in elucidating the physical content of quantum theory by attempting to formulate physically comprehensible principles from which the quantum formalism can be reconstructed. Over this period, many reconstructive attempts have been made by researchers using a variety of different conceptual and mathematical frameworks.

The goals of the workshop are two-fold. First, to enable researchers that have been involved in reconstruction to become aware of the diversity of reconstructive approaches that exist and to understand the key underlying physical ideas, with the hope that this will lead to more compelling reconstructions that provide deeper insight into the nature of quantum reality. Second, to involve key researchers in areas, such as quantum gravity, that have the potential to benefit from reconstructive work so that they become more clearly aware of the area, and can, reciprocally, suggest questions that can be usefully asked of reconstructions.

Résumé: The conference is intended as a multidisciplinary event on the big questions of science. In the 21st century, which is widely held as the century of biology and of complexity sciences, it is timely to reconsider the nature of the Universe and our scientific world picture in the light of these new branches of natural sciences.

Résumé: The purpose of this symposium is to bring together researchers from different specializations to better define the current global landscape, to confront theory and observation, and to motivate new lines of research. The program will feature an even balance between theory and observation, and between the often-disjoint efforts between feeding and feedback.

Résumé: This Speclal Session will bring together researchers directly involved in the many surveys, along with specialists in the observations and modelling of the ISM, stellar evolution, star clusters and the structure of our Galaxy.

Résumé: Most of the baryonic matter in the Universe is permeated by magnetic fields, which affect many, if not most of astrophysical phenomena in diffuse gas. Recent years have been marked by a worldwide growing interest in the magnetic fields, their origin, and their influence on the formation and evolution of astrophysical objects (stars, galaxies, cooling flows). This interest is growing as it has become feasible to trace magnetic fields in molecular clouds, over vast extensions of the Milky Way and to study extragalactic magnetic fields, including fields in clusters of galaxies. With the combination of various techniques, including Zeeman and Faraday rotation measurements with polarimetry it is now possible to undertake quantitative studies of magnetic fields, the results of which can be compared with the results of dynamo and MHD turbulence simulations, subjects that have also made huge strides within several recent years.

The time is ripe to address many vital questions related to the origin of astrophysical magnetic fields in diffuse gas and quantify their effects on transport processes in the interstellar medium of spiral galaxies and in the intracluster medium, in order to get better insight into star formation, acceleration of cosmic rays, and transfer of matter and energy between the diffuse and dense gas. Thus it is really important to bring together world experts to identify the present state of art of the subject, summarize the progress achieved recently, as well as to outline the remaining outstanding problems, and review the progress of the 21st century instruments and projects for cosmic magnetic field investigation such as, upgraded SOFIA, PLANCK, LOFAR, ALMA and SKA.

This Joint Discussion at the IAU General Assembly will provide an excellent forum for this timely undertaking. Because of the cross-disciplinary nature of the subject and the intended discussion sessions, we expect to catch the attention and interest of a wide range of astrophysicists, including specialists in space and Solar physics. In fact, we plan to have also talks that would discuss magnetic fluctuations measured by spacecrafts.

Résumé: The purpose of the joint Discusion is to bring together astronomers who are interested in the great new facilities in the submillimetre and far-infred which allow us to probe the interstellar medium of galaxies both near and far, including the Milky Way.

Some already working, some are soon to be working, but all bring the promise of transformational science in our understanding of the life cycle of the ISM in galaxies, and its relationship to star formation.

We want this JD to be a real discussion, where we review the state of our knowledge of the ISM in galaxies now, and plan how best to proceed from the point of view of both obsevations and theory, to exploit the new instruments. While there will be invited review talks, we will also leave plenty of slots for contributed talks which address the themes of the meeting (see Contributed Talks / Posters at Left). There will also be three poster sessions during the meeting.

Résumé: This programme will bring together world-leading researchers in disciplines including accretion disc theory, planet formation, planet-disc interaction and solar system dynamics. With such a group we seek to provide a firm theoretical basis for our understanding of extrasolar planetary systems and their formation in protoplanetary discs. The programme encompasses three themes: (1) dynamics of astrophysical discs and the numerical and analytical methods used to study them (i.e., the study of gaseous accretion discs); (2) dynamics specific to discs in which planets are forming including that formation process (i.e. the study of how solid material interacts with gaseous discs); (3) dynamics that is relevant once planets have formed (i.e. the study of solid body interactions).

Résumé: Several different types of surveys are currently aiming at detecting signatures from the era beyond redshift 6, which is when the reionization of the Universe happened. Each of these surveys is at the cutting edge of what is possible, and detecting the desired signatures will be challenging. However, by comparing or cross-correlating the same areas on the sky between different data sets, a clearer detection may be possible.

In this workshop we want to explore the possibilities of combining and/or cross-correlating future redshifted 21cm data with other observables from the epoch of reionization. The main ones that have been considered are galaxy probes such as Ly-a emitters and high redshift QSOs, and CMB data from Planck and groundbased CMB experiments. Other data sets that could potentially be useful are the near-infrared and x-ray backgrounds, as well as the distribution of Ly-a absorption towards QSOs.

The idea of the meeting is both to present current or upcoming observational datasets relevant for epoch of reionization studies, as well as get an overview of how combining these multi-frequency datasets can help improve our understanding of this important epoch in the history of the Universe. (mostly based on theoretical/numerical explorations). The workshop could also be a meeting place for starting collaborations which could lead to such combined studies.

Résumé: Calibration is becoming increasingly more challenging as measurement requirements for many of today’s remote sensing applications become more stringent. The Annual Conference on Characterization and Radiometric Calibration for Remote Sensing provides a forum for scientists, engineers, and managers to present, discuss, and learn. Experts in the calibration community offer relevant knowledge and suggestions about calibration, characterization, and radiometric issues within the microwave, IR, visible, and UV spectrums. Individuals developing measurement requirements for today and future sensor systems are encouraged to participate and help close the gap between expectations and real world experiences. The continuity and advancement of our calibration community depends on your participation.

Résumé: This workshop aims to bring the observers, theorists and laboratory astrophysicists together for discussion on the cosmic dust. In addition, tutorial sessions on radiative transfer computation in different dusty meduim will be conducted.

Résumé: Black Holes in Binary Systems: Observations vs Theory is a Workshop the goal of which is to establish the current state of art in our understanding of Physics of Black Hole sources, their spectral and timing signatures and to formulate the key fundamental problems of BH Physics and General Relativity, which can be addressed by future X-ray spectroscopic, timing and polarimetry missions.

Résumé: Nuclear astrophysics plays a key role for understanding energy production in stars, stellar evolution and the concurrent synthesis of the chemical elements and their isotopes. It is also a fundamental tool to explain the ashes of the early universe, to determine the age of the universe through the cosmo-chronometry, to predict the neutrino luminosity, e.g. for Sun and Supernovae.

The “bone structure” for the above aspects is based on nuclear reactions, whose rates need to be determined in laboratories. Although impressive progress has been made over the past decades, which was rewarded by Nobel prizes, several open questions are still unsolved, which challenge the basis of the present understanding.

Résumé: The Department of Physics of the University of Rijeka, Croatia and the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA) of Trieste, Italy, organize "NOVICOSMO 2009 Highlights in Astrophysics", an International Summer School with the aim to cover major topics in modern astronomy and astrophysics. Leading scientists will deliver introductory courses in different fields of Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology to lay down the "status of the art" of these fields. The School is intended for graduates, postgraduates and people at the beginning of their PhD. It will provide the highlights of the current general picture of Astrophysics and its future directions. The warm atmosphere of the School will also foster friendships and scintific interactions among the participants, crucial for their future careers.

Résumé: The idea is to bring together a number of leading researchers in theoretical physics, focusing on particle physics and cosmology. The conference will start with comprehensive experimental overviews on current experiment at LHC, dark energy and gravitational waves, and will be followed by a number of theoretical talks. The topics include: string theory, string phenomenology, standard model, inflation, models of dark energy etc.

Résumé: UniverseNet is supported by the European Community's Sixth Framework Programme (contract n. MRTN-CT-2006-035863).

The network brings together the major European theoretical physics groups whose research involve cosmology and its relationship with particle physics.

The UniverseNet Schools provide training for postgraduate students and postdoctoral researchers. After the successful past schools, the 3rd UniverseNet school will be held in Hotel Campus, in Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona. The program, from Monday to Friday, will consist on lectures and discussions. There will also be short talks on current research topics.

Résumé: The 4th International Workshop on Astronomy and Relativistic Astrophysics is scheduled to occur in the period from 4th to 8th of October, in a city near the Atlantic Ocean, called Maresias, located in the State of São Paulo, Brazil.

The main purpose of the event is to offer new opportunities for personal and professional growth of our students. For this reason, we feel very important to keep the series of meetings that began in 2003 in which astrophysicists, astronomers and scientists working in nuclear, and high-energy particle physics, for the first time in this series, met with the intention of showing its latest results on a variety of topics involving new phenomena and new states of matter in the universe and therefore interact with their peers from around the world.

Résumé: Ce colloque entend, pour l'une des premières fois en France, réunir des physiciens, philosophes et épistémologues autour d'une réflexion commune sur notre cosmologie. L'etat de l'art en physique de l'univers primordial et physique des particules sera dressé et certaines ouvertures vers la théorie des cordes, la gravitation quantique et les univers multiples seront esquissées. Les questions plus proprement philosophiques seront ensuite abordées. Comment notre cosmologie se situe-t-elle dans l'histoire des représentations de l'Univers ? Appelle-t-elle une nouvelle épistémologie ? Dans quelle mesure peut-elle être confrontée aux analyses philosophiques ?

La participation est libre et gratuite, sans inscription. Le colloque s'adresse tout autant aux physiciens qu'aux philosophes.

Résumé: The conference’s goal is to discuss concepts and tools being developed for future mapping of Mars.

Résumé: The study of galaxies and their dark matter halo in phase space has become a fundamental tool for exploiting and interpreting modern astronomical surveys such as GAIA, the SDSS, the 2dF, or high energy astrophysics experiments, such as Fermi, PAMELA, HESS, etc.

Indeed, understanding the fine details of the dark matter distribution in phase space is essential both from the numerical and theoretical point of views in the framework of indirect dark matter detection in high energy astrophysics. In addition, the knowledge of peculiar motion of stars, combined for instance with their metallicity, can help to extract very precise pieces of information on the history of the dynamical structure of our galaxy and to constrain galaxy formation models in the Cold Dark Matter paradigm.

With the increasing available computational power, it becomes now possible considering a realistic numerical approach involving many physical processes at play over a large dynamical range. In particular, direct resolution of Vlasov-Poisson equations in 6D phase space has become now possible on Petaflop computers, as shown recently by recent calculations by plasma physicists.

The goal of this workshop is to discuss all these issues in a convivial atmosphere. The program will be composed of short talks followed by open discussions between dynamicists and computer scientists, astrophysicists and plasma physicists, in order to discuss for instance on how to combine new ensembles of observational data to exploit them in a dynamical context, or how to resolve numerically the dynamics of complex systems such as our galaxy and its halo in phase space.

Résumé: Mathematics and Astronomy walked together for thousands of years. Ptolemy, Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, Newton are good examples of this fruitful interaction between both disciplines. In medieval educational theory, the 'quadrivium' consisted of arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy, which prove their common past in the development of science. More recently, the extraordinary works by Einstein with the General Theory of Relativity give new insights to our vision of the universe, in a wonderful cooperation of geometry and physics. The proposed symposium wants to show and stress these links with the occasion of the celebration of the International Year of Astronomy IYA2009.

Résumé: To discuss and compare different methods of studying strong gravity effects around astrophysical black holes of all masses. Both theoretical and, when available, observational points of view will be discussed in the context of present and future approaches: line and continuum spectroscopy, timing, polarimetry, imaging.

The Conference program will consist of Invited lectures, Contributed talks, and Posters. We plan ample time for discussions. In a round-table debate the participants will address the most controversial issues and propose ways in which we can make progress on them.

Résumé: The 14th conference in the series "Recent Developments in Gravity" is organized by the Theoretical Physics group of the Department of Physics, University of Ioannina, Greece. NEB-14 will take place in Ioannina, Greece, from 8-11 June, 2010 at the Grand Serai Hotel.

Résumé: This is the twelfth in the series of Solar-Terrestrial Physics Symposia organized by SCOSTEP (Scientific Committee on Solar-Terrestrial Physics). They are held on an approximately quadrennial basis. The main goal of SCOSTEP is to organize scientific programs in the solar-terrestrial environment. The current program is Climate and Weather in the Sun-Earth System (CAWSES), which has the overall goals of fostering a scientific approach to understanding the short term (Space Weather) and long term (Space Climate) variability of the integrated solar-terrestrial environment, and for its societal applications and CAWSES-II: Toward Solar Maximum runs from 2009 to 2013.

Résumé: The ASOS meeting has been held once every three years since its inception in Lund in 1983 and has provided a forum for atomic spectroscopists and astronomers from around the world to meet and discuss atomic data from the perspectives of their production and application.

The 10th ASOS meeting will be organized by University of California Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory. It will comprise three days of invited talks, contributed talks, and poster presentations. The conference will begin with a welcome reception on Tuesday evening. An outing to locations in the greater San Francisco Bay Area is also being planned.

The ASOS conference represents an ideal occasion for students wanting to learn about atomic physics and its applications in astrophysical and laboratory plasmas. Student participation is highly encouraged. Attempts will be made to defray some of the cost of student participation.