From boud w astro.uni.torun.pl  Fri Feb 16 01:13:54 2007
From: boud w astro.uni.torun.pl (Boud Roukema)
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 01:13:54 +0100 (CET)
Subject: [Cosmo-torun] ToK - rough notes first day
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0702160110340.19510@adjani.astro.uni.torun.pl>

witam cosmo-torun

http://cosmo.torun.pl/Cosmo/ToK070215RoughNotes

The arguments for the Light Dark Matter hypothesis look 
impressive to me. E.g. the link between the LDM particle mass
and the neutrino mass.

If you don't understand the notes, well, probably most of it
is already in astro-ph, hep-ph, etc.

pozdr
boud



From boud w astro.uni.torun.pl  Thu Feb 22 15:36:54 2007
From: boud w astro.uni.torun.pl (Boud Roukema)
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 15:36:54 +0100 (CET)
Subject: [Cosmo-torun] several conferences in 2007
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0702221535070.18255@adjani.astro.uni.torun.pl>

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    message # 289                                             22 Fev.  2007

  5)  Public release of the VVDS-DEEP first epoch spectra

  6) ESO Workshop on "Science with the VLT in the ELT era"
     Garching near Munich, Germany, 8-12 October 2007
  7) Workshop, From Quantum to Cosmos II,Bremen, Germany, June 10-13, 2007.
    " Space-based Research in Fundamental Physics and Quantum Technologies"
  8) XXIIIrd  IAP Colloque, in Honour of Bernard Fort
     "From giant arcs to CMB lensing: 20 years of gravitational distortion"
     July 2 to Friday July 6, 2007 , IAP Paris
  9) Conference ,Château de Blois, France, May 20-May 26 2007
     "Matter and Energy in the Universe:  from nucleosynthesis to cosmology"
10) Conference :   "Frontiers of Nonlinear Physics" (FNP 2007) w
      Nizhny Novgorod July 3 to July 9, 2007.





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  5)  Public release of the VVDS-DEEP first epoch spectra

  The VIMOS VLT Deep Survey team (http://www.oamp.fr/virmos/) is pleased
  to annonce the public release of a catalogue of 8981 spectra of
  galaxies, stars and QSOs, selected to have 17.5 < I(AB) < 24.0 in the
  VVDS 0226-04 field. The spectroscopic redshifts are measured in the
  range 0 < z < 5, with a median redshift of about 0.76. The sample covers
  0.5 deg2 of sky area. The on-line database gives access to the redshifts
  and quality flags, to the multi-wavelength photometric information, as
  well as to the images and  VIMOS spectra. The data can be accessed via
  http://cencosw.oamp.fr

  Reference papers for the data are about: (a) the spectroscopy: Le Fevre
  et al., 2005, AA,  439, 845, and Le Fevre et al., 2004, AA, 428, 1023,
  (b) the imaging and photometry: Le Fevre et al., AA, 417, 839, McCracken
  et al., 2003 , AA, 410, 17, Radovich et al., 2004, AA, 417, 51 and
  Iovino et  al.,  2005, 442, 423, (c) the information system:  Le Brun et
  al., 2007, AA,  in preparation.

  For further information please contact: vincent.lebrun at oamp.fr,
  laurence.tresse at oamp.fr.

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  6) ESO Workshop on "Science with the VLT in the ELT era"
     Garching near Munich, Germany, 8-12 October 2007

  RATIONALE:
  The first of the ELTs (Extremely Large Telescopes) now under study could see
  first light in around 10 years when the ESO VLT will still be fully operational
  and receiving new 2nd generation instrumentation and upgrades. Even before then
  we will also have entered the ALMA (and JWST) era. This Workshop will provide a
  forum for the ESO community to debate and provide valuable feedback on how it
  expects the scientific use and  required instrumentation of the VLT and VLTI to
  evolve over this period. It is expected that the results will have a major
  impact on the priorities to be set in the next ESO Call for VLT Instrument
  Proposals planned to be issued in 2008.

  Amongst the topics envisaged are:

  -Science highlights illustrating unique VLT and VLTI capabilities

  -Future research priorities recommended by Astronet,ESA/ESO Working Groups etc.

  - New science capabilities offered by instruments to be installed in 2008-2012
    (HAWK-I, X-Shooter, KMOS, SPHERE, MUSE, PRIMA, 2nd gen. VLTI)

  - ELT science priorities and possible first light instruments

  - VLT and VLTI synergies with ELT, ALMA, JWST...

  - VLT and VLTI science priorities beyond 2014 and consequences for possible
    specialization of telescopes, operational modes etc.

  - Available resources and concepts for new 2nd generation VLT instruments
    to be installed beyond  2014

  FORMAT:

  - Invited review/overview talks

  - Contributed papers and posters

  - Discussion sessions following each major topic

  More details and registration at http://www.eso.org/vlt07


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  7) Workshop, From Quantum to Cosmos II,Bremen, Germany, June 10-13, 2007.
    " Space-based Research in Fundamental Physics and Quantum Technologies"

  The purpose of this workshop is to highlight the emerging discipline of
  space-based research in fundamental physics and demonstrate how this area of
  modern science can provide the knowledge needed to address outstanding
  questions at the intersection of physics, astronomy, and cosmology, thereby
  leading to major advances in these fields.

  More details at  http://www.zarm.uni-bremen.de/Q2C2/.


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  8) XXIIIrd  IAP Colloque, in Honour of Bernard Fort
     "From giant arcs to CMB lensing: 20 years of gravitational distortion"
     July 2 to Friday July 6, 2007 , IAP Paris

  We are please to announce the XXIIIrd IAP colloquium that will held at IAP
  between July 2 and 6.
  Each year, The Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris organizes a colloquium on a
  different topic in cosmology and astrophysics
  2007 will be the 65th anniversary of Prof. Bernard Fort and the 20th
  anniversary of the first papers on the discovery of giant arcs.
  To celebrate ths event, the XXIIIrd IAP colloquium will focus on gravitational
  distortion: rings, giant arcs, weak lensing and cosmic shear, distortion of
  CMB anisotropy maps.


  More details on the meeting will be published soon. But we invite you
  to register already  at the following registration page
  http://www.iap.fr/scripts/colloques/iap2007/regmenu.asp


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  9) Conference ,Château de Blois, France, May 20-May 26 2007
     "Matter and Energy in the Universe:  from nucleosynthesis to cosmology"

    http://confs.obspm.fr/Blois2007/index.htm

   This is an announcement and call for papers for an international
   conference which will be held in the Château of Blois, in
   France's Loire Valley.

   Matter and Energy in the Universe:  from nucleosynthesis to
   cosmology  is articulated around our increasingly detailed
   understanding of the processes involved in the creation of the
   elements and about our increasingly confused picture of the
   content of the Universe.    The year 2007 fmarks the fiftieth
   anniversary of two groundbreaking papers (the famous B2FH paper,
   and also a slightly less well known paper by A. Cameron) which
   finally put stellar nucleosynthesis on the map, and almost the
   sixtieth anniversary of the first quantitative calculations of
   big bang nucleosynthesis;  although this latter paper turned out
   to be fundamentally flawed insofar as nucleosynthesis is
   concerned, it did lead directly to Alpher and Hermann's
   prediction of the ubiquitous cosmic microwave background
   radiation, whose detailed study using instruments on the COBE
   satellite earned this year's Nobel prize for physics.

   It thus seems appropriate to "stand back" and survey what has
   been achieved, and (especially) to highlight  the puzzles which
   remain to be solved.

   Matter and energy in the Universe? will be organised around a
   number of basic themes, including:
   -  the contents of the Universe
   -  abundance determinations
   -  primordial nucleosynthesis
   -  stellar thermonuclear nucleosynthesis
   -  the nucleidic evolution of galaxies
   -  cosmological cosmic rays, galactic cosmic rays and stellar
      energetic particles
   -  dark matter, dark energy:  what do we really know, and what
      can we surmise
   -  the future.

   The conference  will consist of plenary sessions for invited
   indepth oral presentations (review talks and talks on specific
   specialised topics), and contributed papers, in the form of
   relatively short oral papers or posters.    We will aim to
   achieve a balance between review talks, provocative talks given
   by recognized  specialists, and shorter contributions, special
   emphasis being placed on participation by younger researchers and
   post-docs.   If the need arises (i.e. if so many short papers are
   proposed that plenary sessions are insufficient), parallel
   sessions will be organised - please do not hesitate to contribute
   your work - time can always be found!

            This conference  will be the 19th in a series of
   international mulitidisciplinary meetings which have in the past
   covered many topics in physics, astronomy and biology.    All
   sessions take place in the Château of Blois, a beautiful
   renaissance castle which has housed many French kings, and
   notably François 1st.    Meals are served in the castle to all
   participants, in order to encourage interaction between
   scientists at all levels.    Participation is limited to about
   150 persons.

   The detailed scientific programme  is currently under
   development;  on the web site
   http://confs.obspm.fr/Blois2007/index.htm you will find the
   latest information, and if you urgently need information which is
   currently not available on this site, you may contact L. M.
   Celnikier, at the email address:
                       blois.confs at obspm.fr

   The web site will be updated regularly, as new information
   becomes available.   Please login regularly.


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10) Conference :   "Frontiers of Nonlinear Physics" (FNP 2007) w
      Nizhny Novgorod July 3 to July 9, 2007.

    The Conference is focused on recent progress in the interrelated fields of
    nonlinear dynamics with applications to physical systems of different
    origins. Conference scope covers the following subjects, including both
    basic aspects and advanced applications:

     * Nonlinear dynamics: Coherent and stochastic processes
     * General problems of nonlinear waves: Solitons, collapses, and turbulence
     * Nonlinear processes in plasmas and laser-plasma interactions
     * Nonlinear and high-field optics
     * Nonlinear acoustics
     * Nonlinear processes and turbulence in fluid dynamics
     * Nonlinear problems in geophysics
     * Nonlinear problems in astrophysics and cosmology
     * Nonlinearities and coherent phenomena in quantum systems

    The conference program will include topical oral and poster sessions, and
    a set of plenary lectures on interrelated topics.

    The list of proposed MINI-SYMPOSIA includes:

     * Physics of Cold Gases and Bose-Einstein Condensates
     * Large Nonlinear Water Waves, with a Special Focus on Rogue Waves,
       Wave Breaking and Remote Sensing
     * Physics of Extreme Light: Novel Particle and Radiation Sources
     * Turbulence in Fluids and Plasmas
     * Nonlinear Processes in Photonic Crystals and Periodic Structures
     * Quantum, Coherent, and Nonlinear Optics
     * Laser Dynamics
     * Supernovae and Shocks
     * Semiconductor Optoelectronics and Teraherts Physics



    The Conference will be held on board a comfortable boat cruising along
    the Volga river from Nizhny Novgorod to Saratov and back from July 3 to
    July 9, 2007.

    All the relevant information concerned with our meeting,
    the form for on-line pre-registration included, is also available
    at the FNP 2007 Web-site: htt://www.fnp.sci-nnov.ru