witam wszystkim,
Jean-Pierre Luminet might come to visit us in January. i think that this
would be a great chance for people here to have some general
discussion on the state of research in cosmic topology with someone
other than me. :)
http://arxiv.org/find/astro-ph/1/au:luminet/0/1/0/all/0/1
pozdr
boud
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 08:24:29 +0200 (CEST)
> From: Krzysztof Meissner <Krzysztof.Meissner...
> Subject: Re: Fw: Porozumienie "Kosmologia i czastki elementarne"
>
> Szanowni Panstwo,
>
> W wyborach na przewodniczacego Rady Porozumienia oddano 12 glosow z czego:
>
> 9 na prof. Marka Zralka
> 3 na prof. Mariusza Dabrowskiego
>
> Dziekujemy za udzial w wyborach.
> Zapraszamy jeszcze raz wszystkich do IFT …
[View More]UW na poniedzialek 19.02.2007 na
> ogolne spotkanie Porozumienia.
>
> Serrdecznie pozdrawiamy
> Zygmunt Lalak i Krzysztof Meissner
>
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Cześć Krzysztof,
On Mon, 9 Oct 2006, Krzysztof Meissner wrote:
> Szanowni Panstwo,
>
> Zgodnie z decyzja wszystkich uczestnikow, `Porozumienie o
> wspolpracy naukowej w dziedzinie badan teoretycznych "Czastki -
> astrofizyka - kosmologia" ' ma posiadac strukture sieci tzn. miec
> koordynatora i rade naukowa. Jak Panstwo wiecie, koordynatorem zostal
> jednoglosnie wybrany prof. Stefan Pokorski. Do objecia funkcji
> przewodniczacego rady zgloszono dwoch kandydatow (…
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> kolejnosci alfabetycznej):
>
> prof. Mariusz Dabrowski (Uniw. Szczecinski)
> prof. Marek Zralek (Uniw. Slaski)
W CA-UMK głosimy dla Mariusza Dąbrowskiego jako
przewodniczący rady.
pozdr
boud
> W zwiazku z tym proponujemy, by w celu wyboru kazdy z osrodkow wskazal w
> liscie przeslanym na adres
> Krzysztof.Meissner(a)fuw.edu.pl
> jednego z kandydatow. Czekamy na listy do niedzieli 15.10. i w poniedzialek
> 16.10. podamy do Panstwa wiadomosci wynik glosowania (lub, w przypadku
> rownej liczby glosow, zarzadzimy ponowne glosowanie).
>
> Serdecznie pozdrawiamy
> Zygmunt Lalak i Krzysztof Meissner
>
>
>
>
> --
>
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hi cosmo-torun,
We as the CA-UMK group of the cosmo-pp network need to choose, by this
weekend (15.10.06), between Mariusz Dąbrowski and Marek Zrałek as
"przewodniczący" of the cosmo-pp network.
The vote seems to be confidential, though each group presumably has its own
way of deciding.
i suggest informal discussion by whatever means
(email/face-to-face/...) and attempts to get informal consensus -
consensus probably better *not* on public lists/twiki if it's about
personal stuff of the two …
[View More]candidates, but IMHO it can be public if it's a
meta-level question (e.g. should we ask questions to the two
candidates?)
i suggest the following procedure (since we won't necessarily get consensus):
* everyone who wants to "vote" email me his/her vote before the deadline
* i will publish the names of the people who vote and which candidate has
the majority - if it's 50:50 i'll toss a coin.
If someone wants a more formal or structured process, then please
propose it.
Both candidates seem fine to me, so i don't expect this to be terribly
controversial, but as a matter of principle, i prefer it to be more
participatory rather than less participatory. After all, in the long term
this sort of thing does have an effect and jobs and cosmology funding.
See http://arxiv.org: hep-ph, astro-ph, gr-qc for Mariusz' and Marek's
scientific work. For their experience as moderators, i guess you need
to look elsewhere.
pozdr
boud
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2006 14:45:44 +0200 (CEST)
> From: Krzysztof Meissner...
> To: Stefan Pokorski..
> Subject: Porozumienie "Kosmologia i czastki elementarne"
>
> Szanowni Panstwo,
>
> Zgodnie z decyzja wszystkich uczestnikow, `Porozumienie o
> wspolpracy naukowej w dziedzinie badan teoretycznych "Czastki -
> astrofizyka - kosmologia" ' ma posiadac strukture sieci tzn. miec
> koordynatora i rade naukowa. Jak Panstwo wiecie, koordynatorem zostal
> jednoglosnie wybrany prof. Stefan Pokorski. Do objecia funkcji
> przewodniczacego rady zgloszono dwoch kandydatow (podajemy w
> kolejnosci alfabetycznej):
>
> prof. Mariusz Dabrowski (Uniw. Szczecinski)
> prof. Marek Zralek (Uniw. Slaski)
>
> W zwiazku z tym proponujemy, by w celu wyboru kazdy z osrodkow wskazal w
> liscie przeslanym na adres
> Krzysztof.Meissner(a)fuw.edu.pl
> jednego z kandydatow. Czekamy na listy do niedzieli 15.10. i w poniedzialek
> 16.10. podamy do Panstwa wiadomosci wynik glosowania (lub, w przypadku
> rownej liczby glosow, zarzadzimy ponowne glosowanie).
>
> Serdecznie pozdrawiamy
> Zygmunt Lalak i Krzysztof Meissner
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hi cosmo-torun,
If nobody has any objections, i'll send the following email to the
"Rozumienie" that Marek Zrałek is coordinating. Reminder: this is
cosmologists/particle physicists organising a "pre-formal" network in Poland,
which can later be joined to create a European network, in order to get
research funding for cosmologyu/particle physics. At the moment it's only
"informal" with the idea of waiting until a new ustawa comes through, but
the cosmologists from the different institutes are …
[View More]writing sort of formally.
We're asked to respond by tomorrow (sorry about not writing earlier) about
"votes" (or proposals) for a head of the council and a coordinator - several
people have proposed Stefan Pokorski as council head and Marek Zrałek as
coordinator.
You can see what they do (hep-ph - high-energy physics phenomenology) here:
Marek: http://arxiv.org/find/hep-ph/1/au:+zralek/0/1/0/all/0/1
Stefan: http://arxiv.org/find/hep-ph/1/au:pokorski/0/1/0/all/0/1
i think their scientific track records speak for themselves.
If noone objects by tomorrow, i'll post the text below to the
(offlist) cc: list of the porozumienie.
pozdr
boud
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Porozumienie "Kosmologia i czastki elementarne"
Drogie Koleżanki i drodzy Koledzy,
Proponuję w imeniu Centrum Astronomicznego Uniwersytetu Mikołaja Kopernika
Prof. Marka Zrałka na stanowisko Przewodniczacego Rady i
Prof. Stefana Pokorskiego na stanowisko Koordynatora.
Serdecznie pozdrawiam wszystkich uczestnikow Porozumienia
Boud Roukema, CA-UMK
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witam cosmo-torun,
Andrzej Kus mi prosił zrobić seminarium poniedziałek 9.10.2006.
Jeśli ktoś chce sugerować poprawki, proszę mów. Abstrakt jest raczej
długi, ale jest trudny zrobić krótkiejszy dla osoby nie znając
temat...
Oczywiście, będę też iść trochę na wyniki WMAP itd, ale nie widzę,
że muszę to mówić w abstrakcie.
pozdr
boud
Title
2006 Nobel prize: Cosmological black body and density perturbations
Abstract
The standard hot big bang model became widely accepted as a serious
…
[View More]model in 1965 after the discovery of the 3 Kelvin primordial
background radiation (CMB), but it was still regarded sceptically by
many astronomers. During the 1980s and early 1990s, the model's
prediction that the background radiation should have a nearly perfect
Planckian black body spectrum was only weakly tested. The other
untested prediction of the model was that the Universe is not
perfectly uniform, it needed density perturbations which could
gravitationally collapse to form clusters of galaxies and galaxies and
stars. The COBE satellite, coordinated by Smoot, Mather and
Wilkinson, revealed that the CMB black body was more perfect than any
black body created artificially in Earth based laboratories.
Moreover, in its map of the CMB, it detected 0.001% fluctuations in
the temperature - revealing the density perturbations necessary to
form galaxies. These results spectacularly confirmed two of the basic
physical predictions of the hot big bang model.
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http://www.stecf.org/coordination/esa_eso/wg.php?working_group=cosmology
ESA-ESO WG on Fundamental Cosmology
Working Group Members:
George Efstathiou
John Ellis
Bruno Leibundgut
Simon Lilly
Yannick Mellier
John Peacock (chair)
Peter Schneider (co-chair)
Abstract of final report
In September 2003, the executives of ESO and ESA agreed to establish a
number of working groups to explore possible synergies between these
two major European astronomical institutions on key scientific
issues. …
[View More]The first two working group reports (on Extrasolar Planets and
the Herschel--ALMA Synergies) were released in 2005 and 2006, and this
third report covers the area of Fundamental Cosmology.
The Working Group's mandate was to concentrate on fundamental issues
in cosmology, as exemplified by the following questions:
* What are the essential questions in fundamental cosmology?
* Which of these questions can be tackled, perhaps exclusively,
with astronomical techniques?
* What are the appropriate methods with which these key questions
can be answered?
* Which of these methods appear promising for realization within
Europe, or with strong European participation, over the next ~15
years?
* Which of these methods has a broad range of applications and a
high degree of versatility even outside the field of fundamental
cosmology?
>From the critical point of view of synergy between ESA and ESO, one
major resulting recommendation concerns the provision of new
generations of imaging survey, where the image quality and near-IR
sensitivity that can be attained only in space are naturally matched
by ground-based imaging and spectroscopy to yield massive datasets
with well-understood photometric redshifts (photo-z's). Such
information is essential for a range of new cosmological tests using
gravitational lensing, large-scale structure, clusters of galaxies,
and supernovae. All these methods can in principle deliver high
accuracy, but a multiplicity of approaches is essential in order that
potential systematics can be diagnosed -- or the possible need for new
physics revealed. Great scope in future cosmology also exists for ELT
studies of the intergalactic medium and space-based studies of the CMB
and gravitational waves; here the synergy is less direct, but these
areas will remain of the highest mutual interest to the agencies. All
these recommended facilities will produce vast datasets of general
applicability, which will have a tremendous impact on broad areas of
astronomy.
Full report (2.4Mb pdf):
http://www.stecf.org/coordination/esa_eso/cosmology/report_cover.pdf
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