Ecole
Internationale Daniel Chalonge
Ecole
Internationale Daniel Chalonge
8th Paris Cosmology Colloquium 2004
TOPICAL MEETING WMAP AND THE EARLY UNIVERSE
Observatoire de Paris, Paris campus
Thursday 9th and Friday 10th DECEMBER 2004
PURPOSE AND TOPICS:
The Conference is within the astrofundamental physics spirit of the Chalonge School, this time focalized on CMB WMAP and the theory (models) of the early universe with power prediction.
Besides the WMAP talks, the main topics are: Inflation, quantum effects (inflaton decay, non gaussianity), primordial spectrum of density and tensor perturbations, CMB polarization, primordial magnetic fields effects on the CMB.
In summary, The aim of the meeting is to put together real CMB data and hard theory predictive approach connected to them.
All lectures are plenary, have one hour duration and are followed by a discussion. No contributed communications, neither poster sessions will be scheduled.
The format of the Meeting is intended to allow easy and fruitful mutual contact and communication.
Sessions last for two days in the beautiful parisian campus of Observatoire de Paris (built on orders from Colbert and to plans by Claude Perrault from 1667 to 1672).
The session on Thursday 9th morning takes place at the IAP Amphitheater, Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris, aside Observatoire de Paris, and within the same small campus.
The session on Thursday 9th afternoon takes place at the "Salle de l'Atelier" (Atelier Room) of Observatoire de Paris
The session on Friday 10th takes place at the "Salle du Conseil" (Council Room) in the historic Perrault building ("Bâtiment Perrault") of Observatoire de Paris HQ, under the portraits of Laplace, Le Verrier, Lalande, Arago, Delambre and Louis XIV.
PROGRAMME and LECTURERS INCLUDE
Daniel BOYANOVSKY (Univ. of Pittsburgh, USA)
Inflaton Decay during Inflation and its Power Spectrum
Implications
Asantha COORAY (CALTECH Astrophysics, USA)
The
Quest for Inflationary Gravitational Waves. Reionization and its
signatures in CMB.
Hector J. DE VEGA (LPTHE, Univ de Paris VI,
France)
Inflationary models and Fundamental Physics from WMAP
data
Alexander DOLGOV (Univ. di Ferrara, Italy)
Cosmological Magnetic Fields and CMB Polarization
Olivier DORE (Univ. of Princeton, USA)
Cosmology as enlightened by WMAP: one year after
Julien LESGOURGUES (LAPP, Annecy, France)
Isocurvature Perturbations after WMAP
Sabino MATARRESE (Univ. di Padova, Italy)
Surprises from second-order Cosmological Perturbation Theory
Alessandro MELCHIORRI (Univ of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy)
Cosmological constraints on Neutrino Physics
Hiranya PEIRIS (KICP, Univ of Chicago, USA)
Implications of WMAP for Early Universe Cosmology
Norma G. SANCHEZ (LERMA, Observatoire de Paris,
France)
Inflation in Field and String Theory from the WMAP
data
George SMOOT (LBL, Univ of California, Berkeley,
USA)
CMB Observations. Anisotropies and Polarization.
And
other Lecturers
Local and practical information can be found below.
mailto:Chalonge.Ecole@obspm.fr
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REGISTRATION
The Meeting is open to all scientists interested in the subject. There is no registration fees. Participants wishing to attend the Meeting should register in time by sending an email to Chalonge.Ecole@obspm.fr with copy to the Colloquium Secretariat: Nicole.Letourneur@obspm.fr and specifying their full names, position, Institution and address.
Hotel reservations for the invited Lecturers and accompanying persons will be provided by the Colloquium organizers.
TIMING AND LOCATION
Welcome of the participants and Registration starts Thursday 9 December at 8:00 am at the IAP. Lectures start at 9:00 am at IAP Amphitheater. Tickets for lunch will be on sale at the registration desk from Thursday morning.
We shall stick strictly to the timetible during the whole meeting.
THURSDAY 9th MORNING : IAP, Entry 98 bis Boulevard Arago, 75014 Paris. Registration at the Entry Hall of IAP from 8:00 am , Sessions from 9:00 am at IAP Amphitheater, Coffee Break: Entry Hall of IAP
Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris is aside Observatoire de Paris, and within the same small campus. IAP Entry: 98 bis, Boulevard Arago, 75014 Paris
LUNCH at the Self-service Restaurant of Observatoire de Paris ( located very near, inside the campus at Building B, ground floor)
THURSDAY 9th AFTERNOON: "Salle de l'Atelier" (Atelier Room) of Observatoire de Paris, (located in front of the Restaurant building B). Coffee Break: Restaurant of Observatoire de Paris , building B
FRIDAY 10 DECEMBER, the full day: "Salle du Conseil" (Council Room) in the historic Perrault building ("Bâtiment Perrault") of Observatoire de Paris. Coffee Breaks in the same building
LUNCH at the Self-service Restaurant of Observatoire de Paris ( located very near, inside the campus at Building B, ground floor).
COCKTAIL in the afternoon (from 19:00) at Perrault building
The entrance of the Observatoire de Paris is at 77, Avenue Denfert-Rochereau, Paris 75014.
[Notice that this differs from the postal address: 61, Avenue de l'Observatoire, Paris 75014, although they are nearby].
The nearest metro station is Denfert-Rochereau (100 m. approx). The RER station Port Royal is about the same distance. You can also reach the Observatoire with the buses 38, 91, 83 and Orlybus.
From the entry at 77, Avenue Denfert-Rochereau, once inside Observatoire, the "Salle de l'Atelier" is just located at the right, and in front of the new building B (''Bâtiment B"), where the Observatoire self-service restaurant is located.
From the entry at 77, Avenue Denfert-Rochereau, once inside Observatoire, to reach Bâtiment Perrault enter the campus following the straigth road going to the old Coudé building and coupoles (the way one sees new " Bâtiment B ", and old " Ateliers des Artistes ") and continue the road (on the left) till the open central path from which (bordered by the trees), the monumental front south main entry of Perrault building is seen.
The " Salle du Conseil " is just at the left of the front south entry. " Grande Galerie " is aside facing Salle du Conseil.
(is easy to find, and indications are placed.) Lunch will be served at the Observatoire Self-Service Restaurant. It is
located in the ground floor of building B ("Bâtiment B"). Tickets for lunch will be on sale at the Conference registration desk from Thursday morning.
The Observatoire Self-Service Restaurant is closed for dinner and on Saturdays and Sundays.
Some Restaurants near Observatoire are listed below.
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HOW TO REACH PARIS OBSERVATORY
Longitude: 2°20' East
Latitude: 48°50' North
Entry: 77, Avenue Denfert-Rochereau, 75014 Paris
Subway Station : Denfert-Rochereau or Port Royal
Bus 38, 83 or 91 , stop at Observatoire Port-Royal
From Roissy (Charles de Gaulle) airport: Taxi or
Take the RER B (fast subburban train) up to Denfert-Rochereau
From Orly airport: Taxi or
Two solutions: 1.cheaper (Bus) or 2. faster and secure (Orly Val)
1. Take the OrlyBus up to Denfert-Rochereau or
2. Take the OrlyVal up to Antony then take RER B direction Paris up to Denfert-Rochereau
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NEARBY HOTELS
Hotel du Midi, 4, Av. René Coty, Paris 75014. Metro : Denfert-Rochereau
tel. 33(0).14327-2325. fax 33(0).14321-2458.
Double room, with shower, WC and TV. Double room with bathtube, WC and TV.
Breakfast.
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Hotel Beauvoir, 43, Av. George Bernanos, Paris 75005,
tel. 33(0).14325-5710, fax-33(0).14354-3187.
Single room. Double room. Twin double rooms. With shower, WC and TV (in
double rooms).
Breakfast.
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Hotel Pierre Nicole, 39, rue Pierre-Nicole, Paris 75005,
Tel.33 (0).1 4354-7686, fax 33(0).14354-2245.
Single room. Double room. With shower, WC and TV in all rooms.
Breakfast.
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A FEW CHEAPER ACCOMODATIONS NOT FAR FROM THE OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS:
Hotel Floridor, 28, place Denfert-Rochereau, Paris 75014.
Tel. 33(0)1-4321-3553. Fax 33(0)1-4327-6581.
Single room. Double room. With shower, WC and TV. Breakfast.
Hotel des Voyageurs, 22 rue Boulard (near rue Daguerre), Paris 75014.
(Near place Denfert-Rochereau). Metro station: Denfert-Rochereau
Tel:(33-1) 43 21 08 20
Single room. Double room. Studio. With shower, WC and TV in all rooms.
Breakfast.
Hotel de l'Espérance, 1, rue Grancey, Paris 75014. (Near place Denfert-Rochereau).
Tel. 33(0)1-4321-4104.
Single and double rooms with TV, shower and lavatory. Without shower in
the room. Breakfast.
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Colegio de España, Cité Universitaire de Paris,
7e Boulevard Jourdan, 75014 PARIS, Metro RER Station: Cité Universitaire.
Tel: 33(0) 1 40 78 32 00, Fax: 33(0) 1 45 80 39 58. colesclu@msh-paris.fr
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Fundación Argentina in the Cité Universitaire.
19, Boulevard Jourdan, Paris 75014, Metro RER Station Cité Universitaire.
Tel. 33(0)144162900, Fax 33(0)144162905.
Single room with lavatory.
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NEARBY RESTAURANTS
La Contre-allée, 83, Av. Denfert-Rochereau. Tel. 014325-0528. Closed Saturday noon and Sunday.
French cuisine. Recommended dishes: green and white asparagus raw and cooked with orange and Espelette pepper, roasted whole bass with smashed potatoes, lamb sweet bread casserole braised with morel and little green vegetables from the garden, chocolate spring roll with jasmine jelly and apricot ice cream. Menus: 28 and 37 euros.
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Swann & Vincent , 22, pl. Denfert-Rochereau. Tel. 014321-2259. Open till 11.45 pm.
Italian restaurant (trattoria), Recommended dishes:
aubergines au gratin, sea bream (daurade) fillet with red peppers and
vegetables, veal escalope with lemon,
panna cotta and tiramisu, à la carte 30 euros.
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La Closerie des Lilas, 171, boulevard Montparnasse. Tel. 014051-3450.
Open everyday till 1 AM.
Formerly a Café littéraire had as customers Baudelaire, Verlaine, Gide,
Jarry, Apollinaire, Modigliani, Hemingway, Lenin and probably Trotsky.
Keeps a litterary crowd of customers like Philippe Sollers. The present
chef Jean-Pierre Cassagne has renovated the house and the excellent
meals. Besides the restaurant there is `brasserie' where meals are also
served. Menu 43 euros (including wine), à la carte 90 euros.
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Les Petites Sorcières, 12, rue Liancourt. Tel. 014321-9568.
Closed on saturdays and sundays and thursdays for lunch. Terrasse.
Parisian bistrot. Recommended dishes: Tartare of Saint-Jacques with
asparagus, braised filet of cod (cabillaud), roasted rabbit leg,
strawberries gratin. Pleasent atmosphere. Menus: 18 euros (lunch) and à
la carte 25 euros.
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L'Observatoire, 63, Av. Denfert-Rochereau (corner of rue Cassini).
Simple restaurant. It is also a Bar, Café and Brasserie.
`Formules' for 15 euros approximately. Menu 25 euros. Large choice of dishes.
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L'OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS : A BRIEF HISTORY
It is the oldest observatory still serving. In 1665 the physicist and astronomer Auzout convinced Colbert and Louis
XIV to construct `l'Observatoire Royale'. It is built without wood (to avoid fire) or metal (to avoid magnetic disturbances). At the summer solstice of 1667, the orientation (north-south) is traced in its place by members of the Académie Royale.
Claude Perrault (the architect of the Louvre Colonnade) projected the building and directed its construction. It was finished in 1672. It is a large rectangle (31 m x 29 m) with its four faces oriented with the cardinal points of the compass. The latitude of the south face defines the Paris latitude (48° 50' 11''). The meridian line passing through its center defines the Paris longitude.
The foundations are as deep (27 m) as high is the building itself. The Observatoire is in charge of the French legal time: UTC(OP) and of the Central Bureau of the International Earth Rotation Service. In 1933, the first speaking clock in the world started to give the accurate time by telephone (tel. 3699) from the ground floor of the Observatoire.
The basement of the Observatoire is connected with the Paris catacombs (visits forbidden). The catacombs consist of 65 km of underground galleries. First, at the head of the Observatoire de Paris was Jean-Dominique Cassini (Cassini I), born in Italy in 1625. He was followed by his son Jacques (Cassini II), his grand-son César-François and his grand-grand-son Jean-Dominique.
The Observatoire was later leaded by Joseph Jerôme Lefrançois de Lalande, Pierre-André Méchain, François Arago (1843-1853), Urbain Le Verrier (1854-1870 and 1873-77) and other distinguished personalities.
Further illustrious scientists worked at the Observatoire like Jean-Baptiste Delambre, Charles Marie de La Condamine and Pierre Simon de Laplace.
One can mention as principals scientific works made in the Observatoire: The map of the Moon by Cassini I that was the best till the photography was invented. The discovery of the gap in the Saturne ring by Cassini I and the table
of the satellites of Jupiter movements that allowed the danish astronomer Olaüs Römer to show that the speed of light was finite and compute approximately, for the first time in 1676 while he was working at the Observatoire.
Jacques Cassini discovered the proper motion of Arcturus, showing the first that the stars were not fixed.
César-François and Jean-Dominique (IV) Cassini made the first modern map of France from 1750 to 1790.
The units of mass (gramme) and length (meter) were defined following measurements (along the France meridian) and researches made at the
Observatoire. Lavoisier worked here on the mass unit. Arago introduced here the photography in astronomy. In 1845 Hyppolite Fizeau and Léon Foucault obtained the first daguerreotype of the sun.
Foucault in 1850-51 showed manifestly the rotation of the earth with his pendulum hanging in the salle Cassini (after a first experiment at his home, and before the demonstration at the Panthéon).
The works by Le Verrier lead to the discovery of Neptune. His tables of sun and planets positions were used for more than one century.
Discrepancies remarked by him between the calculated and observed orbit of Mercury were only solved with the advent of general relativity.
The three main halls in the Observatoire are the `Grande Gallerie' and the `Salle du Conseil' in the ground floor and the Cassini hall in the first floor. In the `Salle du Conseil' are displayed the portraits of Laplace, Le Verrier, Lalande, Arago, Delambre, as well as other distinguished scientists and the one of Louis XIV.
At present the Observatoire de Paris owns three campuses: Paris, the Meudon astrophysics section and the radioastronomy station at Nançay. More than 700 scientists, technicians and administrative staff work there.
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Nearby Historic Monuments
The Observatory Fountain (1873) by Davioud is known for its decoration of the four quarters of the globe by Carpeaux (Oceania was omitted for symmetry reasons).
Before the Closerie des Lilas café stands the statue of Marshal Ney by François Rude (1853). Ney was shot nearby in 1815 for his support of Napoleon. Rodin said that this was the nicest statue in Paris.
Inside the Baudelocque Maternity (123, boulevard Port Royal) remain some buildings from the Port Royal abbey. There is the nuns chapel (constructed by Le Pautre, 1646-47), the cloister (1652-55) and the hôtel d'Atry. The benedictian nuns of Saint Bernard were there from 1626 till 1664 when Louis XIV dispersed them due to their jansenist ideas.
Afterwards Visitandins nuns stay there till the French revolution. It become then a prison (Lavoisier was jailed here) and a Maternity since 1818. In the middle of the place Denfert-Rochereau is a small bronze version
of Bartholdi's Lion in commemoration of colonel Denfert-Rochereau successful defence of Belfort against the prussians in 1870-71.
In 1, Place Denfert-Rochereau there is the entrance of the Paris Catacombs. Several million skeletons are stored inside. The headquarters of the Résistance - F.F.I. (Interior French Forces) of the Ile-de-France commanded by colonel Henri Rol-Tanguy were here, inside the catacombs during the liberation of Paris in August 1944.
The elegant and vast hôtel Massa, (38, rue du Faubourg Saint-Jacques) was built in 1784 on the Champs-Elysées at the present location of the Virgin Megastore. The duke of Richelieu, the count Marescalchi and the duke of Massa lived there. In 1928 was moved here. It belongs to the Men of Letters Society.
Honoré de Balzac lived from 1829 to 1834 at the house in 6, rue Cassini.
He wrote there `Eugénie Grandet', `Le Père Goriot' and may be `La Peau de Chagrin'.
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CULTURAL
EVENTS
You can visit in Paris
its classical landmarks Museums as the Louvre, Orsay, Picasso, Rodin
and many others.
In addition, some outstanding temporary
expositions are held at the dates of the meeting. It is convenient to
make reservations to visit in advance.
Bibliotheque Nationale
de France, site Richelieu: "Robet Capa, Known an
Unknown",
http://www.bnf.fr/capa/index.htm
Galeries
nationales du Grand Palais: "Turner-Whistler-Monet"
http://www.paris.org/Musees/GPalais/
http://www.rmn.fr/galeriesnationalesdugrandpalais/02expo/2005/turn-whistler-monet/index.html
Musée
du Luxembourg:"Veronese
Profane"
http://www.museeduluxembourg.fr/
http://www.expoveronese.com/
Musée
de la vie romantique:"George Sand une nature
d'artiste".
http://www.paris.org/Musees/Vie.Romantique/info.html
http://www.george-sand.inf/
Institut
du Monde Arabe: "Pharaon
"
http://www.imarabe.org/
http://www.imarabe.org/temp/expo/pharaon.html
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