The meeting is primarily for
members of the UK particle physics community, who wish to have a
pedagogical exposition of the significance of the
WMAP results.
We hope that this will also serve
as a forum for expert discussion and debate.
A similar workshop was organised after the
COBE results 11 years ago, and this years meeting hopes to repeat
the success of its predecessor.
Some background knowledge will be assumed
(eg, have you heard of C_l's...or cosmic variance?).
Here are some reviews of
the CMB,
the physics
of acoustic peaks,
particle physics and inflation, the cosmological constant and dark energy, Dark Matter, and two of the WMAP papers
Determination of Cosmological Parameters, and
Implications for Inflation.
The talks are by invited speakers, with
plenty of time scheduled for discussion.
The meeting will start mid-morning on Saturday,
to allow people to travel Saturday morning, and end at lunchtime
on Sunday.
|