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Centro de Astrofísica da Universidade do Porto
31 August to 6 September 2011, Angra do Heroísmo, Azores, Portugal

Wednesday, 31 August
18:00 Welcome reception
Thursday, 1 September
9:00 Dark energy theory & observations - Lecture 1 (PDF)
Bruce Bassett (Cape Town)
10:00 CMB Theory and Fundamental Physics - Lecture 1 (PDF)
Alessandro Melchiorri (Roma)
11:00 Coffee break
11:30 Gravitational waves - Lecture 1 (PDF)
Bernard Schutz (Max Planck Institute)
12:30 Lunch
16:00 Type Ia Supernovae - Part 1 (PDF)
Alex Kim (LBNL)
17:00 Coffee break
17:30 Looking for new physics in the early universe (PDF)
Carlos Martins (CAUP)
18:30 Limits on Dark Radiation, Early Dark Energy, and Relativistic Degrees of Freedom (PDF)
Erminia Calabrese (Roma)
18:50 Constraints on variations of fundamental constants (PDF)
Eloisa Menegoni (Roma)
19:10 Dinner
Friday, 2 September
9:00 Dark energy theory & observations - Lecture 2
Bruce Bassett (Cape Town)
10:00 CMB Theory and Fundamental Physics - Lecture 2 (PDF)
Alessandro Melchiorri (Roma)
11:00 Coffee break
11:30 Gravitational waves - Lecture 2 (PDF)
Bernard Schutz (Max Planck Institute)
12:30 Lunch
16:00 Type Ia Supernovae - Part 2 (PDF)
Alex Kim (LBNL)
17:00 Coffee break
17:30 Boosting the Universe: Observational consequences of our motion (PDF)
Amanda Yoho (CWRU)
17:50 Combining small-scale clustering with WMAP Data to Constrain Models of Dark Energy Dynamics (PDF)
Michelle Knights (Cape Town)
18:10 Merging Rates of the First Objects and the Formation of First Mini-Filaments in Models with Massive Neutrinos (PDF)
Hyunmi Song (Seoul National University)
18:30 High-z massive clusters and non standard cosmological models (PDF)
Edoardo Carlesi (Madrid)
18:50 Photometric calibration of the wide field imager MegaCam with the demonstrator SNDIce (PDF)
Francesca Villa (LPNHE)
19:10 Dinner
21:00 Public Talk
Saturday, 3 September
9:00 Non-gaussianity - Lecture 1 (PDF)
Paul Shellard/James Fergusson (Cambridge)
10:00 CMB Data analysis - Lecture 1 (PDF)
Kris Gorski (JPL/Caltech)
11:00 Coffee break
11:30 Dark energy theory & observations - Lecture 3 (PDF)
Bruce Bassett (Cape Town)
12:30 Lunch
14:30 Public Talk
16:00 Alternative models of gravity (PDF)
Dragan Huterer (Michigan)
17:00 Coffee break
17:30 Cosmology with ESPRESSO & CODEX (PDF)
Paolo Molaro (Trieste)
18:30 Physical properties of type Ia supernovae and cosmological applications (PDF)
Flora Cellier-Holzem (LPNHE)
18:50 Analysis of SDSS-II Supernova with SDSS-III, Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) host galaxy redshift (PDF)
Heather Campbell (Portsmouth)
19:10 Dinner
Sunday, 4 September
9:00 CMB Theory and Fundamental Physics - Lecture 3 (PDF)
Alessandro Melchiorri (Roma)
10:00 Non-gaussianity - Lecture 2 (PDF)
Paul Shellard/James Fergusson (Cambridge)
11:00 Coffee break
11:30 CMB Data analysis - Lecture 2 (PDF)
Kris Gorski (JPL/Caltech)
12:30 Lunch
19:30 School dinner
Monday, 5 September
9:00 CMB Data analysis - Lecture 3
Kris Gorski (JPL/Caltech)
10:00 Non-gaussianity - Lecture 3 (PDF)
Paul Shellard/James Fergusson (Cambridge)
11:00 Coffee break
11:30 Gravitational waves - Lecture 3 (PDF)
Bernard Schutz (Max Planck Institute)
12:30 Lunch
16:00 Early astrophysics results from Planck (PDF)
Graça Rocha (JPL/Caltech)
17:00 Coffee break
17:30 Fast methods to detect non-Gaussianities in CMB data (PDF)
Biuse Casaponsa (Cantabria)
17:50 Parameterization Effect in the Analysis of Sunyaev- Zel'dovich observations with Arcminute Mickrokelvin Imager (PDF)
Malak Olamaie (Cambridge)
18:10 Bayesian reconstruction of the gravitational potential from weak lensing (PDF)
Rafal Szepietowski (Portsmouth)
18:30 End