MONDAY 02/04

• 8:45 Prof. Dr. Marco Antonio Zago (Dean of Research) – Opening

Part I – Theoretical Cosmology and Early Universe

• 9:00 Alan Heavens – Cosmology: from theory to observation, and back
• 10:00 Gustavo Burdman – The LHC and Cosmology
• 11:30 Jochen Liske – Cosmology with the European Extremely Large Telescope
• 14:30 Jean-Loup Puget – Cosmic Background Radiation with Planck: early results
• 15:30 Brian Schmidt – Supernovae and Dark Energy
• 17:00 Luca Amendola – Searching for Dark Energy with the next decade observations

TUESDAY 02/05

• 9:00 Thaisa Storchi-Bergmann – AGNs and feedback in galaxy formation

Part II – Structure of the Universe: Theory, Simulations and Observations

II.1 Observational Probes of Dark Energy and Large Scale Structure

• 10:00 Ofer Lahav – Probing Dark Energy by combining imaging and spectroscopic surveys

II.2 Numerical Simulations

• 11:30 Volker Springel – Simulations of Large Scale Structure
• 14:30 Tom Theuns – Supernova feedback in galaxy formation
• 16:00 Rubens Machado – Simulations of the merging galaxy cluster Abell 3376

WEDNESDAY 02/06

II.3 Dark Matter and Dark Energy

• 9:00 Bin Wang – Interactions between dark energy and dark matter: relations to modified gravity
• 10:00 Fabio Governato – Dark matter distribution at the centers of galaxies
• 11:30 Peter Schneider - Gravitational lensing
• 14:30 Narciso Benitez Cosmology with photometric redshifts

II.4 Comparison of simulations with observations

• 15:30 Mario Abadi – Dwarf galaxies in the ΛCDM model
• 17:00 Patricia Tissera – Chemo-dynamical patterns: a challenging route to understand how galaxies form

THURSDAY 02/07

Part III – First Objects: First Stars, supernovae, black holes, galaxies

• 9:00 Daniel Schaerer – First objects in the Universe
• 10:00 François Hammer – Formation and evolution of galaxies from observations
• 11:30 Françoise Combes – ALMA and first objects
• 14:30 Tim Beers – Observational constraints on the first stars
• 15:30 Cristina Chiappini – Early chemical evolution
• 17:00 Garth Illingworth – Galaxy growth in the first billion years