Physical Cosmology
Organized by David Schramm
March 27-28, 1992
Irvine, CA
Meeting Overview:
Cosmology has now entered a "golden age" where there is a close interplay between theory on the one hand and observation and experiment on the other. The probes of cosmology are multidisciplinary. The interrelationship of structure formation scenarios with the established parts of the cosmological framework, as well as the plethora of new observations and experiments, require a high level international scientific colloquium on the subject. This colloquium will address these timely questions on the interdisciplinary topic of physical cosmology.
March 27
Session One - Introduction and Overview
David N. Schramm, Chicago, Conference Chairman, Chair
Leon Silver, California institute of Technology, Welcome Address
The Basic Big Bang Framework
P.J.E. Peebles, Princeton University
Session Two - Density Determination
Marc Davis, University of California, Berkeley, Chair
Rotation Curves
Vera Rubin, Carnegie Institute of Washington
Large Scale Flow
Michael Rowan-Robinson, Queen Mary College, London
March 28
Session Three - Dark Matter
Savas Dimopoulos, Stanford University, Chair
Theory
Michael S. Turner, Chicago University
Experiment
Bernard Sadoulet, University of California
Session Four - Galaxy Formation
Anthony Tyson, AT&T, Chair
Basic Framework
Joseph Silk, University of California, Berkeley
Role of Hydrodynamics
Jeremiah Ostriker, Princeton University
Quasars as Probes
Martin Rees, Cambridge University
Session Five - The Microwave Background
Nicola Vittorio, Rome, Chair
Experiment
David Wilkinson, Princeton University
Brief Presentation
Paul Richards, University of California, Berkeley
Theory
Richard Bond, CITA
Session Six - Light Elements
Gary Steigman, Ohio State, Chair
Theory
David N. Schramm, Chicago University
Experiment
Bernard Pagel, NORDITA
Session Seven The Hubble Expansion
John Tonry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Chair
The Red-Shift Distance Relationship
Sidney van den Bergh, Dominion Astrophysical Observatory and Irving E. Segal, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Distance Scales
Brent Tully, University of Hawaii
Brief Presentation
Gerald de Vaucouleurs, University of Texas
Session Eight - Large-Scale Structure
Neta Bahcall, Princeton University, Chair
Discussion
John Huchra, Harvard University
Discussion
Alexander Szalay, Johns Hopkins
Discussion
Riccardo Giovanelli, Cornell University
Discussion
Sandra Faber, University of California, Santa Cruz
Discussion
George Efstathiou, Oxford University
Brief Presentation
Joel Primack, University of California, Santa Cruz
Session Nine - Gravitational Lenses and Galaxy Counts as Cosmological Probes
J. Richard Gott, Princeton University, Chair
Gravitational Lenses
Edwin L. Turner, Princeton University
Galaxy Counts
Lennox Cowie, University of Hawaii
Session Ten - Cosmological Phase Transitions
Ceceilia Jarlskog, Stockholm, Chair
Topological Seeds
Neil Turok, Princeton University
Inflation
Alan Guth, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
