An updated understanding, from a fundamental and deep point of view, of the progress and current problems in the early universe, cosmic microwave background radiation, large scale structure, dark matter problem, and the interplay between them. Emphasis is given to the mutual impact of fundamental physics and cosmology, both at theoretical and experimental -or observational- levels, within a deep and well defined programme and a global unifying view, which provides, in addition, a careful interdisciplinarity. Special lectures will be devoted to particle/nuclear physics and neutrinos in astrophysics and high energy astrophysics.
In addition, each Course of this series, introduces and promotes through special sessions, topics or subjects, which although not being of purely astrophysical or cosmological nature, are of relevant physical interest for astrophysics and cosmology. A special session of this Course will be devoted to the Physics of Scaling Laws, Fractals and Turbulence and their applications.
Deep understanding, clarification, synthesis, a careful interdisciplinarity within a fundamental physics approach, are goals of this series.
Lectures cover from a motivation and pedagogical introduction for students and participants not directly working in the field to the last developments and recent results.
All Lectures are plenary, have the same duration and are followed by a discussion.
In the latest years, the cross-section between these fields has been increasing, both at the theoretical and experimental levels: particles, fields and strings, astronomical observations, space satellites data. Such interplay fruitfully influence research activity setting up Astrofundamental Physics.
By the nature of the domain itself, there are different aspects, approachs and points of view (sometimes complementary to each other, sometimes in contradiction), to a same topic or subject. Special care is taken to provide the grounds of the different lines of research in competition (not only one approach). In this way, participants have an excellent opportunity to learn about the real state of the discipline, and to learn it in a critical way.
The Course provides an occasion to review achievements, to confront theory and models with observations and among themselves, to exchange information on the latest developments and to discuss future prospects. The Course brings together experimentalists and theoreticians, -physicists, astrophysicists and astronomers- from a variety of backgrounds, young scientists at post-doctoral level, senior scientists and advanced graduate students as well.
The detailed Programme and Lecturers of the Course will be distributed by February 1997.
Professor N. Sánchez
Observatoire de Paris DEMIRM
61, Avenue de l'Observatoire
F-75014 Paris, France
Tel: ++33.1.40512221
Fax: ++33.1.40512002
Telex: 270776 OBSPARIS
They should specify:
Young persons with only a few years of experience should enclose a letter of recommendation from their research group leader or from another senior scientist active in the field.
The total fee, which includes full board and lodging (arranged by the School), is US $1000.
EARLY APPLICATION IS STRONGLY ENCOURAGED
Closing date for application: June 1st, 1997
No special application form is required
A letter will be sent to successful applicants by June, 30th 1997. Participants experiencing difficulties with travel documentation and who need to know, before June, 30th, whether or not their applications have been accepted may get an earlier special decision upon request.
Admission to the Course will be decided on the basis of scientific excellency.
Arrival day is September 4th, 1997.
Departure day is September 15th, 1997.
Participants must arrive in Erice on September 4th, 1997, (NO LATER THAN 5 p. m.).
More detailed information will be sent to successful applicants together with a letter of acceptance.
According to the legend, Erice, son of Venus and Neptune, founded a small town on top of a mountain (750 meters above the sea level) more than three thousand years ago. The great historian thucydides (~ 500 B.C.) said that the Elymi -founders of Erice- were survivors of the destruction of Troy. Ancient historians agreed that Erice was the oldest city in Europe.
Homer (~ 1000 B.C), Theocritus (~ 300 B.C), Polybius (~ 200 B.C), Horace (~ 20 B.C), and others, have celebrated this magnificent spot in Sicily in their poems. In Erice you can admire the Castle of Venus, the Cyclopean Walls (~ 800 B.C) and the Gothic Cathedral (~ 1300 A.C) Erice is at present a mixture of ancient and medieval architecture.
Other masterpieces of ancient civilization are to be found in the neighbourhood: at Motya (Phoenician), Segesta (Elymian), and Selinunte (Greek). In the Aegadian Island -theatre of the decisive naval battle of the first Punic War (264-241 B.C)- suggestive neolithic and paleolithic vestiges are still visible: the grottoes of Favignana, the carvings and murals of Levanzo.
Splendid beaches are at San Vito Lo Capo, Scopello, and Cornino, and a wild and rocky coast around Monte Cofano: all at less than one hour's drive from Erice.
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Theories of the Early Universe and their Observational Consequences
o J. BARROW, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
Fields out of Equilibrium in the Early Universe:Theory of Reheating and Density
Perturbations
o H.J. DE VEGA, University of Paris VI, France
Gravitational Lensing and the True Nature of the Past Light Cone.
Covariant Analysis of Microwave Background Anisotropies.
o G.F.R. ELLIS, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Microwave Background Anisotropies and Relic Gravitational Waves
o L.P. GRISHCHUK, University of Wales, Cardiff, UK
Inflation, Density Perturbations, and Reheating
o A. LINDE, Stanford University, CA, USA
Probing Conditions of the Early Universe with Relativistic Heavy Ions
o B. MUELLER, Duke University, Durham NC, USA
The Quark-Gluon Plasma at High Temperature: An Overview
o R.D. PISARSKI, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, USA
New Developments in String Gravity
o N. SANCHEZ, Observatoire de Paris, France
Phase Transitions in the Early Universe
o Ch. WETTERICH, University of Heidelberg, Germany
Spectrum of the Cosmic Microwave Background: Results and Prospects.
Large-Scale Anisotropy of the Cosmic Microwave Background
o A. KOGUT, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD,USA
Observations and Theory of CMB Perturbations
o A. LASENBY, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, UK
The Status of CMB Anisotropy Measurements.
CMB Science and Cosmological Parameter Extraction.
Future Anticipated CMB Anisotropy Observations
o G. SMOOT, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA
Dark Ages of the Universe Between Recombination and QSO Epoch
o Y.N. PARIJSKIJ, Special Astrophys. Observ., Karachai-Cherkess Rep.
Large-scale Structure and Galaxy Formation
o C.S. FRENK, Durham University, UK
Encounters of Stars with Black Holes
o I. NOVIKOV, Theoretical Astrophysical Center, Copenhagen, DK
Status of Cosmological Parameters.
Status of Galaxy Formation Models
o J. PRIMACK, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA, USA
High Precision Cosmology.
Novel Statistical Approaches to Large Scale Structure
o A. SZALAY, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
Deciphering the Nature of Dark Matter
o B. SADOULET, Center for Particle Astrophysics, Berkeley, CA, USA
Fractals in Nature
o B.B. MANDELBROT, IBM, Yorktown Heights, NY, & Yale Univ., New Haven, CT, USA
Statistical Properties of Galaxy Distributions
o L. PIETRONERO, Univ.degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy
Fractal Dimensions and Scaling Laws in the Interstellar Medium and Galaxy
Distributions: A New Field Theory Approach
o H.J. DE VEGA, University of Paris VI, France
o N. SANCHEZ, Observatoire de Paris, France
Physics of Scale Invariance: Basic Principles and Selected Applications
o H.E. STANLEY, Boston University, MA, USA
Neutrino Cosmology
o A. DOLGOV, Theoretical Astrophysical Center, Copenhagen, DK
Gamma-ray Bursts
o G.J. FISHMAN, NASA/Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, USA
A Speculation about 3He-driven Mixing and the Solar Neutrino Problem.
Neutrino Evidence that Core-collapse Supernovae are the r-process Site
o W. HAXTON, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
The Sun, The Earth's Climate and Mass Extinctions of Species
o D.R.O. MORRISON, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland