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This program brings together a small group of young scientists to study topics including the physics of the early universe, inflation, cosmic nucleosynthesis, dark matter, neutrino astrophysics, topological defects, structure formation, microwave background anisotropies, gravitational lensing by large-scale structure, and the statistics of large-scale structure.
This small and highly selected group is meeting over a two-year period to develop new research programs in the above areas through close interactions with each other and with the convenors and lecturers listed below. Half of the participants come from Germany and half from the United States. The first meeting of the institute was held at the Aspen Center for Physics, September 7-19, 1998.
The second meeting, will take place on 6-17 September 1999. The meeting will convene in Munich and Garching until 13 September. On September 13. the institute moves to Schloss Ringberg, a Bavarian mountain castle operated as conference center by the Max Planck Society. All costs for the selected participants (travel, lodging, local expenses) are covered by the Study Institute.
Format
The first meeting in Munich of the GAAC Institute will be on Monday
Sept. 6 in the lecture hall of the Max Planck Institute for
Astrophysics located on the research campus near Garching. This
will begin at 11:15 and the session before lunch will deal with
financial and organisational matters. The afternoon will be spent in
presentations of research programmes in the Munich area related to the
scientific interests of the group, particularly those of the MPA, of
the Max Planck Institute for
Physics, and within the Special Research Area #
375 funded by the German Research Foundation. The afternoon will
finish with a reception at the MPA.
Activities through this first week will consist of discussion groups in each of the 8 areas highlighted in the programme (see below), of two colloquia which should be of interest to the group as a whole and to a wider community, and of informal working discussions between the GAAC participants. We expect at least a couple of group outings to some of the famous Munich beer-gardens in the evenings. (Note that the Munich Oktoberfest begins on September 18 and that travel and accommodation can become difficult at this time.)
During this period roughly
half of the participants will be given office space at the
On
Monday 13th the Institute will transfer to Ringberg castle where the
programme will be more structured with a mix of talks and discussion
aimed at the full group with smaller discussions within each thematic
area. The programme will finish after lunch on Friday 17.
This Study Institute is not a conference, workshop, or school in
the standard sense. The Munich meeting is set up with the aim
of stimulating collaborations between the participants themselves, and between
the participants and scientists with similar interests in the Munich
area. Discussion leaders/lecturers for the programme are: IMPORTANT: Once you have purchased your ticket, please
e-mail your itinerary (airline flight nos. and departure/arrival
times) and the COST of your ticket to both Liz Duty (duty@fnal.gov)
and Cornelia Rickl (car@mpa-garching.mpg.de), so we have this
information. If your ticket price is substantially in excess of the
guidelines above, please contact them before making your
purchase. There are a number of Web sites where you might hunt down
bargain fares, e.g., http://www.lufthansa.com/ or
http://www.travelocity.com/. (If you find an exceptionally cheap fare
to Germany, please let us know so we can inform the other
participants/convenors.)
REIMBURSEMENT:Soon after your arrival in Munich, you will
be reimbursed for your air ticket and (except for convenors and
locals) a per
diem of US$20 per day while you are in Munich. There are no
registration fees for this meeting.
More detailed travel information will be sent to you once the hotel
arrangements are fixed.
For more information, contact:
Josh Frieman
(frieman@fnal.gov),
Michael Turner
(mturner@oddjob.uchicago.edu
), Simon White
(swhite@mpa-garching.mpg.de
), or Gerhard Boerner
(grb@mpa-garching.mpg.de
).
Travel
Arrangements
URGENT:If you have not yet done so,
you should book your air tickets to Munich NOW and strive to obtain
the cheapest fare possible. Our travel budget is predicated on average
cost of US$300 for those coming from within Germany and US$1000 for
those coming from the US. You should plan to arrive in Munich on
Sunday, Sept. 5 or Monday morning Sept. 6th. and to leave on Friday,
Sept. 17 evening or Saturday Sept. 18. Accommodation will be arranged
in Munich/Garching on Sunday 5 and at Ringberg castle on Friday 17
for those who need it.
Housing Information
Participants may stay in Hotels in Munich or Garching during the first
part of the meeting and should e-mail their preference for the
location of their office (MPA or MPP) and hotel (Munich or Garching).
Please make sure to send email to Cornelia Rickl car@mpa-garching.mpg.de
indicating your preferences.
Spouses/significant others can accompany you, though the GAAC will not
cover their travel expenses.or additional lodging expenses. Let us
know if you will be accompanied because accommodation at Ringberg is
quite limited.
Sponsorship and Organization
The Young
Scholars' Study Institute is supported by a grant from the
German-American Academic Council (das Deutsche-Amerikanische
Akademisches Konzil), with additional support from Fermi National
Accelerator Laboratory and the Max Planck Society. Principal
organizers of the Study Institute are members of the Fermilab
Theoretical Astrophysics Group and members of the Special Research Area #
375 of the German Research Foundation, based primarily at the Max Planck Institut fuer
Astrophysik.
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