XI Cycle, III Course - Bertinoro, May 8 - 13 2011

Dark Energy probes - Dynamical evolution of globular clusters



The scientific organizing committee has chosen for the school the following topics:

Dark Energy probes (director: Lauro Moscardini, Università  di Bologna):

Luca Amendola (Institut für Theoretische Physik - Universität Heidelberg, Germany):
Introduction to Dark Energy
Carlo Baccigalupi (SISSA - Trieste, Italy):
Analysis and physics of the cosmic microwave background anisotropies: a dark energy perspective
Stefano Ettori (INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna, Italy):
Galaxy clusters as probes of the Dark Energy
Luigi Guzzo (INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera, Italy):
Large-scale Structure as a Probe of Dark Energy
Thomas D. Kitching (University of Edinburgh, UK):
Weak Gravitational Lensing: From Theory to Practice




Dynamical evolution of globular clusters (director: Enrico Vesperini, Drexel University)

Melvyn Davies (Institutionen för Astronomi - Lunds Universitet, Sweden):
Dynamical Evolution and Stellar Collisions in Globular Clusters
Francesco Ferraro (Università di Bologna, Italy):
Tracing the Dynamical Evolution of Globular Clusters with Exotic Stellar Populations
Barbara Lanzoni (Università di Bologna, Italy):
Tracing the Dynamical Evolution of Globular Clusters with Exotic Stellar Populations
Douglas Heggie (University of Edinburgh, UK):
Long-term Evolution of Globular Clusters
Steve McMillan (Drexel University, USA):
Early Dynamical Evolution of Globular Clusters and Numerical Techniques
Giampaolo Piotto (Università di Padova, Italy):
Observational study of the structure and stellar content of globular clusters
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via Ranzani 1,
40127 Bologna - Italy


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