Blois 2009: Plenary Sessions

Final program

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Opening session
09:00 - 09:10 Jean Trân Thanh Vân (LPT, Univ. Orsay) Welcome
09:10 - 09:30 Marc Gricourt (Mayor of Blois) Welcome
09:30 - 10:15 Coffee Break
Cosmology session: CMB , chairperson J. Cronin
10:15 - 11:00 James Peebles (IAS, Princeton) The State of our Understanding of the Universe pdf
11:00 - 11:30 George Smoot (LBNL, Berkeley) Overview on CMB ppt
11:30 - 12:00 Mark Halpern (UBC, Vancouver) New results from WMAP ppt
12:00 - 12:30 François Bouchet (IAP, Paris) Status of PLANCK pdf
12:30 - 14:15 Lunch at the Chateau
VHE Cosmic Rays session , chairperson A. Letessier-Selvon
14:15 - 14:45 James Cronin (U. of Chicago) Recent results from Auger Collaboration ppt
14:45 - 15:15 Pierre Sokolsky (U. of Utah, Salt Lake City) New results from HIRES and Telescope Arrays ppt
15:15 - 15:45 Ryan Nichol (London) Radio detection of cosmic rays pdf
15:45 - 16:15 Coffee Break
VHE Cosmic Rays session , chairperson A. Letessier-Selvon
16:15 - 16:45 Todor Stanev (U. of Delaware, Newark) Sources and propagation pdf
15:45 - 17:15 Tanguy Pierog (IfK, Karlsruhe) Modeling of Ultra High Energy Cosmic Ray Interactions and Atmospheric Cascade pdf
17:15 - 17:45 Conference Photograph
18:00 - 19:30 Visit of the Chateau de Blois
20:00 - 22:00 Dinner at the Chateau

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Dark Matter Dark Energy session , chairperson M. Perl
08:30 - 08:45 Martin Perl (SLAC) Introduction ppt
08:45 - 09:15 Ben Moore (ITP, Univ. of Zürich) Dark matter: recent results and constraints from simulations and observations ppt
09:15 - 09:45 Rocky Kolb (U. of Chicago) Particle Models of Dark Matter ppt
09:45 - 10:15 Laura Baudis (U. of Zürich) Direct searches for cold dark matter in the Milky Way pdf
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
Dark Matter Dark Energy session , chairperson J. Taylor
11:00 - 11:30 Lars Bergstrom (OKCCP, Stockholm) Dark Matter : Indirect detection pdf
11:30 - 12:00 Wendy Freedman (Carnegie Observatories, Pasadena) Dark Energy observations pdf
12:00 - 12:30 Ed Copeland (U. of Nottingham) Dark Energy theory pdf
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch at the Chateau
Particle Physics session , chairperson E. Kolb
14:00 - 14:30 François Englert (U. Libre de Bruxelles) Broken Symmetry pdf
14:30 - 15:00 Giorgio Chiarelli (INFN, Pisa) Electroweak and Top Physics at the Tevatron and LHC pdf
15:00 - 15:30 Wade Fischer (Fermilab) Searches for the Higgs at the Tevatron and LHC pdf
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break
Particle Physics session , chairperson R. Field
16:00 - 16:30 Pierre Fayet (ENS, Paris) Supersymmetry and new particles pdf
16:30 - 17:00 Christoph Paus (MIT, Cambridge) Search for physics beyond the Standard Model at the Tevatron and LHC pdf
17:30 - 19:30 Parallel Sessions
20:00 - 22:00 Dinner at the Chateau

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Excursions
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08:00 - 12:30 Excursion to Chenonceau and Clos Lucé
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12:30 - 13:45 Lunch at the Chateau
Parallel Sessions
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14:00 - 19:30 Parallel Sessions
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20:00 - 22:00 Dinner at the Chateau

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Gravitation session , chairperson P. Hello
08:30 - 09:00 Sam Waldman (MIT, Cambridge) News from gravitational wave observatories pdf
09:00 - 09:30 Frans Pretorius (Princeton) Black hole mergers pptx
09:30 - 10:00 Joe Taylor (Princeton) Pulsars and gravitational waves ppt
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break
Particle Physics session , chairperson B. Klima
10:30 - 11:00 Yoshihide Sakai (KEK) Flavor physics at B-factories, HERA, Tevatron and LHC ppt
11:00 - 11:30 Sergio Bertolucci (CERN) The LHC project: status and outlook ppt
11:30 - 12:30 General Discussion Scientific collaboration with Vietnam
Jim Cronin (U. of Chicago) ppt
Boaz Klima (Fermilab) ppt
Tuan Vu Anh (U. of Bonn) pdf
Jean Trân Thanh Vân (LPT, Orsay) ppt
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch at the Chateau
Neutrinos session , chairperson J. Steinberger
14:00 - 14:30 Francis Halzen (U. of Winconsin) Neutrino Telescopes ppt
14:30 - 15:00 Georg Raffelt (MPI, Munich) Supernovae neutrinos pdf
15:00 - 15:30 Jumpei Shirai (U. of Tohoku) Reactor, Geo and Solar Neutrinos pdf
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break
Neutrinos session , chairperson J. Dumarchez
16:00 - 16:30 Julien Lesgourgues (EPFL, Lausanne) Neutrinos and Cosmology pdf
16:30 - 17:00 Alexey Smirnov (ICTP, Trieste) Neutrino mass and new physics ppt
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20:00 - 24:00 Cocktail and Conference Dinner at the Chateau

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Violent Phenomena session , chairperson D. Smith
09:00 - 09:30 Riccardo Giacconi (Johns Hopkins) The high enery x-ray universe ppt
09:30 - 10:00 Neil Gehrels (NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt) Gamma Ray Burst Discoveries with the Swift Mission ppt
10:00 - 10:30 Peter Michelson (U. of Stanford) New results from Fermi ppt
10:30 - 11:00 Bernard Degrange (LLR, Palaiseau) Ground-based gamma-rays astronomy ppt
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
Future Telescopes session , chairperson R. Giacconi
11:30 - 12:00 Jonathan Gardner (NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt) The James Webb Space Telescope pdf
12:00 - 12:30 Roberto Gilmozzi (ESO) The EELT project pdf
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch at the Chateau
Future and Conclusions session , chairperson J. J. Trân Thanh Vân
14:00 - 14:30 Stavros Katsanevas (IN2P3, Paris) Astroparticle Physics, European and world coordination ppt
14:30 - 15:00 Jack Steinberger (CERN) The future of Energy and Climate ppt
15:00 - 15:45 Claude Canizares (MIT, Cambridge) Perspectives and Conclusions
15:45 - 16:00 End of the Conference