ESA Science & Technology - Cosmology 2005: a reality check

Start date: 14 Dec 2005
Address: Rockefeller Complex, Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark

The idea of the conference is to confront current theoretical ideas in Cosmology with state-of-the-art observations by bringing leading observers and theorists together. The topics addressed at the conference are:

• Cosmological and astrophysical observations
• Early Universe models, inflation, cosmic strings
• Status of density fluctuations, non-Gausianity and cosmological backreaction
• CMB, structure formation, current acceleration
• Gravity waves, detection and theory
• Future directions in theory and observations