The Age of the Universe, Dark Matter, and Structure Formation
Organized by David Schramm and P. J. E. Peebles
March 21-23, 1997
Irvine, CA
Friday, March 21
NAS Vice President: Jack Halpern
Introduction
Session I
John Huchra, Harvard University, Chair
The Hubble Constant Using Type IA Supenovae
Robert Kirshner, Harvard University
Cosmological Parameters
Wendy Freedman, Carnegie Institute of Washington
New Hipparcos Results
I. Neill Reid, California Institute of Technology
Session II - Independent Age Determinations
Sandra Faber, UCO/Lick Observatory, Chair
Globular Clusters
Raul Jimenez, Royal Observatory in Edinburgh
Nucleochronology
James W. Truran, University of Chicago
Galaxies At High Redshifts
Charles Steidel, California Institute of Technology
Saturday, March 22
Session III - The Microwave Background Anisotropies
Cecilia Jarlskog, University of Stockholm, Chair
Observations
David Wilkinson, Princeton University
Theory
J. Richard Bond, Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics
Light Element Synthesis
David N. Schramm, University of Chicago
Session IV - D/H in QSO Absorption Systems
Jean Audouze, Institu d' Astrophysique de Paris, Chair
D/H - Low
David R. Tytler, University of California, San Diego
D/H - High
Lenniox L. Cowie, University of Hawaii, Manoa
Emergence of Structure Beyond z=5: a Probe of Cosmological Parameters
Martin Rees, Cambridge University
Session V - Dark Matter
Bernard Sadoulet, University of California, Berkeley, Chair
Astrophysical Arguments
Michael S. Turner, University of Chicago
Particle Components
John Ellis, European Laboratory for Partical Physics
New Experimental Results
Leslie Rosenberg, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Galaxy Formation
P.J.E. Peebles, Princeton University
Session VI
Anthony Tyson, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Chair
Gravitational Lensing
Ramesh Narayan, Harvard University
Microlensing
Bohdan Paczynski, Princeton University
Weak Lensing
Nick Kaiser, University of Hawaii
Sunday, March 23
Session VII
Neta Bahcall, Princeton University, Chair
X-ray Observations of Groups and Clusters
Richard Mushotzky, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Sunyaev-Zeldovich Effect
John Carlstrom, University of Chicago
Large-Scale Structure
Margaret Geller, Harvard University
Large-Scale Flows
Marc Davis, University of California, Berkeley
Session VIII
David N. Schramm, University of Chicago, Chair
Numerical Models
J.P. Ostriker, Princeton University
Finite Open Universes
David N. Spergel, Princeton University
