CAPP2003, a Workshop on Cosmology and Particle Physics (4/6)

Sunday 15 Jun 2003, 09:00 → 17:00 Europe/Zurich

500/1-001 - Main Auditorium (CERN)

The CAPP2003 workshop will bring to CERN the leading cosmologists and particle physicists working on observations and speculative theories about the very early stages of the evolution of the Universe. During the last few years, this field has experienced a feverish activity and many new important discoveries, such as the detection and later confirmation of acoustic peaks in the CMB anisotropies, which strongly indicate a particle-physics explanation of cosmic perturbations, in terms of an inflationary theory. Moreover, the observation of an apparent acceleration of the Universe, deduced from high-redshift supernovae, suggests a non-zero cosmological constant, resurrecting one of the most puzzling problems in physics. Very recent observations of large-scale structures, together with the CMB results, are beginning to close in at a concrete Standard Cosmological Model, opening some new fundamental questions about the origin of the Universe.
During the week of the conference, there will also be two public talks in which some cosmologists will try to communicate the new exciting developments of the field to a broad audience. Hubert Reeves will talk (in French) on Friday 13 June at Forum Meyrin about "Dernières nouvelles du Cosmos". James Peebles will give an evening lecture (in English), on Saturday 14 June, at Geneva University (Uni Dufour, 12, rue du Général-Dufour, 1204 Genève).
The programme of this workshop is the following.

Visit of some sites of CERN LHC experiments (CMS, ATLAS), and possibly of the PSAD antimatter experiment.