Workshop "Dark Matters"

  
Brussels, 18- 20 May 2005

The International Solvay Institutes for Physics and Chemistry Brussels, the Université Libre de Bruxelles, the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and the EC network MRTN-CT-2004-005104 "Constituents, Fundamental Forces and Symmetries of the Universe" announce the workshop "Dark Matters".
The aim of the workshop is to confront the cosmological dark matter and dark energy problems to the latest attempts to solve them, including new ideas on dark matter and on modifications of gravity.

We have invited a number of outstanding scientists to give lectures (or better to say reviews) as well as shorter, more specialized talks.
The number of participants we aim for is between 40 and 50.

 

Organizing Committee

  

 

  
Catherine De Clercq (IIHE, Brussels)      
Alexandre Sevrin (VUB, Brussels)      
Petr Tinyakov (ULB, Brussels)      
Michel Tytgat (ULB, Brussels)      

 

List of Invited Speakers
Jacob Bekenstein (The Hebrew University, Jerusalem)
Gilles Gerbier (DAPNIA, Saclay; France)
Alain Blanchard (Observatoir Midi-Pyrénées, France)
Céline Boehm (CERN, Switzerland)
Philippe Brax (SPhT, Saclay; France)
Edmund Copeland (Sussex University, Brighton; UK)
Cédric Deffayet (LPT, Orsay; France)
Alexander Dolgov (INFN, Ferrara; Italy)
Sergei Dubovsky (CERN; Switzerland)
Gia Dvali (New York University, USA)
Juan Garcia-Bellido (Universidad Autonoma, Madrid; Spain)
Jaume Garriga (Universidad Autonoma, Barcelona; Spain)
Gilles Gerbier (DAPNIA, Saclay; France)
Markus Luty (Maryland University, USA)
Massimo Porrati (New York University, USA)
Riccardo Rattazzi (CERN; Switzerland)
Valery Rubakov (INR, Moscow; Russia)
Joe Silk (Oxford University ; UK)

 

  • Location
 ULB-Campus Plaine-Salle Solvay
  • Registration
 We urge participants to register by sending an e-mail to Ms. Isabelle Juif
isabelle.juif@ulb.ac.be before April 30, 2005. Only registered participants will be allowed to attend (an electronic confirmation of registration will be sent).
  • Fee
 There is no registration fee.
  • Accommodation

Hotel reservations must be made directly by the participants. The following link might be useful: Hotels in Brussels.
Hotels that we often use for our visitors are: Hôtel Opéra - Hôtel Arlequin - Hôtel Saint-Nicolas - Fondation Universitaire.

 

Support from Solvay S.A., the Belgian "Loterie Nationale - Nationale Loterij" and the "Communauté française de Belgique" is gratefully acknowedged.