The Accelerating Universe

 
Conference aims

DENET (International Research Network for Dark Energy) is a core-to-core program funded by JSPS (Japan Society of Promotion of Science) with French, British and US institutions for 2007-2012. The PI of the program is Yasushi Suto at the University of Tokyo, and three co-PI's include Edwin Turner at Princeton University, Jerome Martin at Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris, and John Peacock at Royal Observatory of Edinburgh.

DENET aims at promoting international collaboration on dark energy in the universe, and indeed played a significant role in establishing the next generation wide-field imaging camera, Hyper-Suprime Cam, on Subaru telescope. Four international conferences on dark energy in the universe have been hosted by DENET so far (Edinburgh in 2007, Hawaii in 2008, Princeton in 2009, and Caltech in 2010).

This final conference, "The accelerating Universe", will be held in IAP for 3 days (from October 24th to 26th, 2011) and will bring the program to a close. It will focus on observational and theoretical approaches to understanding the accelerating universe. We will invite world-experts on this field to give the recent developments, and discuss future directions with particular emphasis on the international collaboration with Subaru telescope.

The conference will include invited talks and contributed talks.
For contributed talks, plan for 20 min (including questions).

We can welcome a maximum of 80 participants.

• Hitoshi Murayama
• David Spergel
• Hajime Sugai
• Jenny Greene
• Jun'ichi Yokoyama
• Masahiro Takada
• Masashi Chiba
• Yasushi Suto
• Takahiko Matsubara
• Alexander D. Dolgov
• Cédric Deffayet
• Jérome Martin
• Francis Bernardeau
• Thomas Buchert
• Eugeny Babichev

registration:                                      Open until september 15
abstracts:                                          September 15
announcement of final program:   October 1
conference:                                      October 24 – 26, 2011