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A conference and a school for the northern summer 2011:

6. VIIIth Marseille International Cosmology Conference, "The Cosmic Odyssey of baryons: accreting, outflowing and hiding" June 20-24, Marseille, France

7. 2011 "Frontiers of Physics in Cosmology," Princeton July 18-29 application deadline = 28 February.

Details below.

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----------------------------------------------------------------------- 6. VIIIth Marseille International Cosmology Conference, "The Cosmic Odyssey of baryons: accreting, outflowing and hiding" June 20-24, Marseille, France

More than a decade of deep spectroscopic surveys of galaxies, absorption line studies in quasar spectra and intensive numerical simulations have placed the interactions between galaxies and the intergalactic medium (IGM) at the center of our understanding of the formation and growth of galaxies. The IGM appears as the dominant reservoir of baryons at all epochs, provides fuel for star formation in galaxies and, in turn, is transformed by radiation, metal production and mechanical energy released through galaxy evolution.

The conference aims at reviewing and studying this co-evolution of galaxies and the IGM, from the completion of reionization to the present epoch. A large place will be given to numerical simulations as providing the crucial link between the baryonic processes involved and the evolution observed. The main topics that will be addressed are: - the missing baryons problem and the development of the warm-hot intergalactic medium (WHIM), - the observational signatures of gas infall and outflows, and related phenomena observed at large scales (neutral hydrogen evolution, metallicity variations, etc), - the environment directly surrounding galaxies, the so-called circumgalactic medium (CGM).

More detailed information on the conference (SOC, invited speakers, sessions) is available on the conference web site at: http://www.oamp.fr/mrs2011/

----------------------------------------------------------------------- 7. 2011 "Frontiers of Physics in Cosmology,"

This is a reminder that the application deadline for this summer school, which is to take place at IAS from July 18-29, is February 28.

Lecturers for PiTP 2011 include Nima Arkani-Hamed, Eva Silverstein, David Spergel, Paul Steinhardt, Leonard Susskind, Neil Turok, and Matias Zaldarriaga.

The application can be accessed through the school website at http://www.sns.ias.edu/pitp/

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