Getting to Meudon
program
Preliminary Program (
unofficial copy only - this is
not an official copy of the program)
Tuesday 8 March : Topology and CMB
10.00 - J.-P. Luminet : Opening address - Cosmic topology, New Challenges
10.45 - Coffee break
11.00 - G. Starkman : Looking for the topology of the universe using
circles in the sky
11.45 - B. Roukema : The Poincaré dodecahedral manifold and matched
circles in the first-year WMAP ILC data -
meudonpp4.pdf
12.30 - Discussion and Lunch
14.30 - S. Lustig: CMB Anisotropy of Spherical Spaces
15.15 - A. Riazuelo : The State-of-the-Art of CMB simulations in
multiconnected spaces.
16.00 - Coffee Break
16.15 - F. Steiner: CMB Anisotropy of Hyperbolic Spaces
17.00 - General Discussion
Wednesday 9 March. Mathematical Methods for Multiconnected Spaces.
10.00 - J. Weeks : Mathematics of Multipoles - Ideas New and Old
10.45 - Coffee break
11.00 - M. Lachieze-Rey : A few remarks on Multipole Vectors
11.45 - J . Gundermann : Eigenmodes in spherical spaces, the case of S3,
S3/I*, S3/T* and S3/O*.
12.30 - Discussion and Lunch
14.30 - M. Lachieze-Rey : Mathematical methods for eigenmodes in
spherical spaces
15.15 - S. Caillerie : Computation of eigenmodes in Spherical
Dodecahedral Space
16.00 - Coffee Break and Discussion
Thursday 10 March. Crystallography and Other Methods. Open Discussion.
10.00 - M. Reboucas : title to come
10.45 - Coffee break
11.00 - G. Starkman : The statistical isotropy of the microwave
background, or is the low-l microwave background really cosmic?
11.45 - B. Lew : Tests of non-gaussian features of CMBR in WMAP map as
hints for non trivial topology
12.30 - Discussion and Lunch
14.30 - B. Roukema : Cosmic crystallography using short-lived objects - active galactic nuclei -
meudonpp4.pdf
15.15 - A. Riazuelo : CMB Polarization in multiconnected spaces.
16.00 - Final Discussion