Tartu - Tuorla annual meeting 2008: Cosmology: from observations to simulations and beyond
1 - 4 october 2008 in Tõravere (Waide motel)

Thursday, 2. October

9.00 Jaan Einasto Opening

9.10 Dark session 1

Martti Raidal Indirect detection of Dark Matter

Andi Hektor Bounds of dark matter from direct and indirect measurements

Mario Kadastik Measuring neutrino parameters at LHC

10.30 Coffee

11.00 Dark session 2

Mauri Valtonen Anomal redshifts and dark energy.

Jaan Pelt To the left and to the right of the Nyquist limit.

12.30 Lunch

14.00 Correlation session

Vicent Martinez Testing the reliability of the detection of the acoustic peak in the large-scale galaxy two-point correlation function.

Gert Hütsi The cluster-galaxy cross-spectrum: an additional probe of cosmological and halo parameters.

Enn Saar Bootstrapping correlations.

15.30 Coffee

16.00 Large-scale session

Lauri Juhan Liivamägi Density fields and superclusters.

Pekka Heinämäki Superclusters and Planck.

Volker Müller Void statistics and void galaxies.

17.45 Excursion in Tõravere

Friday, 3. October

9.00 Gravity session

Margus Saal Scalar-tensor theory of gravity

Laur Järv Scalar-tensor cosmology as a dynamical system

10.30 Coffee

11.00 Activity and Dynamics session

Heidi Litzen Quasars in SDSS.

Antti Tamm Galaxy structure and it's connection with nuclear activity.

Esko Gardner Dynamics in barred systems.

Samuli Kotiranta Studies on general 3-body problem.

12.30 Lunch

14.00 Faraway session

Kari Nilsson Optical monitoring of TV blazars.

Petri Mutka Dark matter density profile analysis of gravitational lens objects.

Rami Rekola Life in the Universe?

16.00 Coffee

16.30 Groups session

Elmo Tempel Anatomy of luminosity functions.

Pasi Nurmi Merger histories of subhalos.

Erik Tago A volume-limited sample of groups of galaxies in the SDSS DR6: pro et contra.

18.00 Dinner

Posters:

Jaan Vennik Testing of the dwarf galaxy content and the evolutionary status of nearby groups of galaxies.

Sami Niemi Properties of nearby groups of galaxies.

4. October: departures, excursion to Tartu


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