ESA Science & Technology - Symmetries and Phases in the Universe

Start date: 24 Jun 2008
Address: Kloster Irsee, Irsee, Germany

To bring together the astrophysics and the particle/nuclear physics communities to face the fundamental challenges of modern cosmology this symposium will present international top-level experts providing insights into the current status in their respective fields. Selected researchers will join the meeting for interdisciplinary discussions.

Speakers:

• Lars Bergström (Stockholm, Sweden): Dark matter: candidates and detection methods
• Pierre Binétruy (Paris, France): Brane inflation
• Peter Braun-Munzinger (GSI, Germany): Ultra-relativistic nuclear collisions and the QCD phase diagram
• Wilfried Buchmüller (DESY, Germany): Baryogenesis and dark matter
• Daniel Denegri (CERN Switzerland): Getting ready for the LHC
• Alvaro de Rujula (CERN Switzerland): The threat of dark science
• Gino Isidori (LNF Frascati, Italy): The breaking of CP and flavor symmetries
• Rocky Kolb (Chicago, USA): Prospects for understanding dark energy
• Manfred Lindner (MPIK Heidelberg, Germany): Neutrinos as probe of new physics
• Angela Olinto (Chicago, USA): The origin of the highest energy particles
• Keith Olive (Minnesota, USA): Big Bang Nucleosynthesis: status of concordance
• Bernard Schutz (AEI Potsdam, Germany): Gravitational wave cosmology
• Joe Silk (Oxford, UK): The evolution of structure in the Universe
• George Smoot (LBL Berkeley, USA): The Cosmic Microwave Background
• Wolfram Weise (TU Munich, Germany): Phases of QCD