CosmoZsurvey: International Meeting on Cosmology with Redshift Surveys
When: April 27-30, 2010
Where: Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM), Marseille
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Rationale
After CosmoTools (April 2008) and CosmoClusters (May 2009), this meeting addresses the hot topics of fundamental cosmology, primarily the nature of dark matter and dark energy, the subsequent gravitational dynamics, the validity of general relativity as theory of gravitation on large scales, the validity of the ΛCDM model, all these probed by the large, high-redshift galaxy and QSO surveys. Prompted by the most recent observations from SDSS, 2dF, DEEP2, VVDS, and COSMOS, in the light of the ongoing surveys such as VIPERS, SDSS-III/BOSS, WiggleZ, 6dFGS, and looking at mid- and long-term projects such as BigBOSS, JDEM and EUCLID, this extraordinary activity allows us to discuss the strong and weak issues of the cosmological standard model from the theoretical, observational, and statistical point-of-view. Among the pivotal questions:
• Are the spatial distribution of galaxies, QSO and damped Ly-alpha systems as well as their temporal evolution statistically equivalent? Are they compatible with the CDM hierarchical scenario of structures’ formation? Does-it need the (re)introduction of a warm dark matter component?
• Growth of structures on small, intermediate, and large scales: which observational aspects do prevent us from solid conclusions on the nature of dark matter and dark energy? Does the ΛCDM model work well on all scales?
• Structures on large scales: Why do not we still see the turnaround in the matter power spectrum? Do we see the anti-correlation in the two-point correlation functions? Is it compatible with the detection of baryonic acoustic oscillations?
• Which information from non-standard statistics, such as three-point correlation functions or Minkowski functionals, or from cross-correlations with weak-lensing, Lyman-alpha forest, Sunyaev-Zel’dovich effect and cosmic microwave background?
• News from luminosity bias? How much a realistic description does change the understanding of gravity and the measure of cosmological parameters? Which impact on the forecasts for future projects BigBOSS, JDEM and EUCLID?
• Do N-body simulations and perturbative descriptions agree on large scales? Do they allow us to implement alternative theories of gravity, back-reaction of structure formation on the global dynamics, or deviations from the Copernican principle? Which is the importance of baryons?
As for the previous CosmoTools and CosmoClusters meetings, the format is organised to allow the greatest interaction between participants, alternating talks and several free and leaded discussions, aiming to foster new ideas and collaborations. The major actors at the forefront of these fields are invited, and the attendance of students is highly encouraged. Aiming to offer an informal and productive ambience, the attendance is limited to 50 people.
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Talk sessions
- historical perspective
- theoretical aspects
- numerical simulation
- current surveys and results
- future instrumentation and surveys
Program
Instruction to call in the meeting CosmoZsurveyCallIn
Confirmed Participants
E. Aubourg (APC Paris), C. Blake (Univ. Swinburne), E. Branchini (Univ. Roma III), T. Buchert (Univ. Lyon), A. Cappi (Univ. Bologna & Obs. Nice), F. Castander (IEEC Barcelona), A. Cimatti (Univ. Bologna), S. Cole (Univ. Durham), S. Colombi (IAP Paris), C. Contreras (Univ. Swinburne), P.S. Corasaniti (Obs. Meudon), R. Crittenden (ICG Portsmouth), M. Crocce (ICE Barcelona), S. De la Torre (INAF Brera), C. Fedeli (Univ. Bologna), B.F. Gerke (KIPAC Stanford), B. Guiderdoni (CRAL Lyon), L. Guzzo (INAF Brera), A. Heavens (IoA Edinburgh), Y. Heling (Peking University), E. Jennings (Univ. Durham), K. Kovač (ETH Zürich), O. Lahav (UCL London), O. Le Fèvre (LAM Marseille), S. Lilly (ETH Zürich), V. Martinez (Univ. Valencia), F. Marulli (Univ. Bologna), S. Matarrese (Univ. Padova & INFN), L. Moscardini (Univ. Bologna), C. Porciani (AIfA Bonn), F. Prada (IAA Granada), F. Rostagni (Obs. Nice), D. Schlegel (LBNL), E. Sefusatti (CEA Saclay), H. Shan (National Astronomical Observatories, Beijing), T. Shanks (Univ. Durham), F. Sylos-Labini (Univ. Roma I), R. van de Weygaert (Univ. Groningen), T. Verdugo (Univ. Valparaiso), Y. Wang (Univ. of Oklahoma), S. White (MPA Garching), A. Wiegand (Univ. Bielefeld), J. Xia (SISSA Trieste).
From Marseille: A. Ealet (CPPM), O. Ilbert (LAM), V. Le Brun (LAM), M. Limousin (LAM), C. Lopez (LAM), A. Mazure (LAM), T. Schucker (CPT), L. Tasca (LAM), P. Taxil (CPT), L. Tresse (LAM), R. Triay (CPT), J.-M. Virey (CPT), N. Welikala (LAM)
If interested to come (and give a talk) please contact carlo.schimd@oamp.fr , jean-paul.kneib@oamp.fr , olga.cucciati@oamp.fr , christian.marinoni@cpt.univ-mrs.fr , or tao@cppm.in2p3.fr
Practical informations
- April 27 (first day): begin 2:20pm. April 30 (last day): end 4pm.
Lunch: offered by LAM to confirmed participants, at the Cyprès Bleu restaurant (5 min walking distance from LAM)
- How to get to LAM: Marseille/Nice/Lyon airport, then shuttle/train (TGV) to Marseille. In particular:
Nice - Marseille: train or shuttle
Marseille airport - Marseille "St. Charles" railway station: shuttle
From Marseille ("St. Charles" railway station or downtown) to LAM (~25 min): metro line n.1 until terminus "La Rose - Technopole Château-Gombert", then bus line n.1 (on the right at the metro’s exit) till "I.M.T." stop, OAMP-LAM is the red-blue building; see the map.
Marseille airport - LAM by taxi: from 30 min to hours... (50-60 euro).
Hotels: hotels_1*.pdf , hotels_2*.pdf , hotels_3*.pdf - suggestion: Vieux Port, Prefecture, or Corniche areas (downtown).