From boud w astro.uni.torun.pl Mon Dec 7 13:47:44 2009 From: boud w astro.uni.torun.pl (Boud Roukema) Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2009 13:47:44 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Cosmo-torun] cfalib: we should get Krasinski - Inhomogeneous Cosmological Models In-Reply-To: <011501ca7738$516be5a0$32064b9e@BIBLIOTEKA> References: <011501ca7738$516be5a0$32064b9e@BIBLIOTEKA> Message-ID: Hi Karolina, Could we please put: Inhomogeneous Cosmological Models Andrzej Krasinski Cambridge University Press 1997 ISBN 978-0521481809 on our list of priority books whenever there's some budget money that needs to be spent? (Sometimes at the end of the year there is money that will be lost if it doesn't get spent.) It seems we don't have this book anywhere in the UMK library system. The Universe is certainly inhomogeneous - UMK would not exist if the Universe were perfectly homogeneous (since LSS and galaxies and planets would not exist). The question is not *if* the Universe is inhomogeneous, the question is *how important* the inhomogeneity is, i.e. to what degree assuming a perfectly homogeneous model and then adding perturbations is a good enough approximation to reality. pozdr boud From karolina w astro.uni.torun.pl Mon Dec 7 16:57:22 2009 From: karolina w astro.uni.torun.pl (karolina w astro.uni.torun.pl) Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2009 16:57:22 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Cosmo-torun] cfalib: we should get Krasinski - Inhomogeneous Cosmological Models In-Reply-To: References: <011501ca7738$516be5a0$32064b9e@BIBLIOTEKA> Message-ID: <2697.158.75.6.50.1260201442.squirrel@galaxy.astro.uni.torun.pl> I do my best. kz > Hi Karolina, > > Could we please put: > > Inhomogeneous Cosmological Models > Andrzej Krasinski > Cambridge University Press > 1997 > ISBN 978-0521481809 > > on our list of priority books whenever there's some budget money that > needs to be spent? (Sometimes at the end of the year there is money > that will be lost if it doesn't get spent.) It seems we don't have > this book anywhere in the UMK library system. > > The Universe is certainly inhomogeneous - UMK would not exist if the > Universe were perfectly homogeneous (since LSS and galaxies and planets > would not exist). The question is not *if* the Universe is inhomogeneous, > the question is *how important* the inhomogeneity is, i.e. to what degree > assuming a perfectly homogeneous model and then adding perturbations is > a good enough approximation to reality. > > pozdr > boud > > _______________________________________________ > Cosmo-torun mailing list > Cosmo-torun w cosmo.torun.pl > http://cosmo.torun.pl/mailman/listinfo/cosmo-torun > From boud w astro.uni.torun.pl Fri Dec 18 14:42:44 2009 From: boud w astro.uni.torun.pl (Boud Roukema) Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 14:42:44 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Cosmo-torun] CDMS II: 2 events, P=23%, Fig 3 looks good and Fig 5 agrees with DAMA/LIBRA Message-ID: hi cosmo-torun, http://cdms.berkeley.edu/ http://cdms.berkeley.edu/results_summary.pdf http://cdms.berkeley.edu/0912.03592v2.pdf CDMS II: 2 events, P=23%, Fig 3 looks good and Fig 5 agrees with DAMA/LIBRA. There was big blog rumour about this - the significance is still low, but the results look cool to me. :) LDM and DAMA/LIBRA/CDMS particles will probably have to co-exist. There's a bit of discussion here: http://cosmocoffee.info/viewtopic.php?t=1487 And here's an article that totally ignores DAMA/LIBRA, presumably because DAMA/LIBRA is an Italian, not USA, experiment: http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/50960/title/Experiment_detects_particles_of_dark_matter,_maybe pozdr boud From boud w astro.uni.torun.pl Mon Dec 28 18:38:31 2009 From: boud w astro.uni.torun.pl (Boud Roukema) Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2009 18:38:31 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Cosmo-torun] Moriond 2010 Cosmology (fwd) Message-ID: Moriond 2010 Cosmology Dear colleague, The next Rencontres de Moriond meeting devoted to Cosmology will be organized in La Thuile (Valle d'Aosta, Italy), March 13-20, 2008. Registration is open on http://moriond.in2p3.fr/J10/ where more details can be found (including abstract submission) The main topics covered in the conference are summarized at the end of this message looking forward to welcom you in La Thuile, with our best regards, the organizing committee ------- 1. Clusters / SZ effect Cosmology with clusters Optical detection and self calibration methods X-ray clusters Hydrodynamical simulations SZ Clusters Radio galaxies clusters 2. CMB / Polarization WMAP Planck Polarization measurements 3. Reionization / Radio Numerical simulations LOFAR: foregrounds GMRT Other projects (MWA ...) 4. Dark Energy / Dark Matter SNLS BAO / SDSS Weak lensing Cluster Mass Profile 5. Dark Matter: accelerator searches Direct search at the LHC Direct search with underground detectors Indirect seraches (Fermi / Gamma-ray astronomy) 6. Theory Modified gravity Dark energy models Primordial universe / Inflation 7. Herschel Herschel Science Demonstration Phase Initial Results --