20 years of gravitational distortion: Paris July 2-6

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20 years of gravitational distortion: Paris July 2-6

Post by Antony Lewis » January 12 2007

XXIIIrd IAP Colloque

"From giant arcs to CMB lensing: 20 years of gravitational distortion"

in Honour of Bernard Fort.

July 2 to Friday July 6, 2007
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Dear colleagues,

We are please to announce the XXIIIrd IAP colloquium that will held at IAP between July 2 and 6.
Each year, The Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris organizes a colloquium on a different topic in cosmology and astrophysics
2007 will be the 65th anniversary of Prof. Bernard Fort and the 20th anniversary of the first papers on the discovery of giant arcs.
To celebrate ths event, the XXIIIrd IAP colloquium will focus on gravitational distortion: rings, giant arcs, weak lensing and cosmic shear, distortion of CMB anisotropy maps.


More details on the meeting will be published soon. But we invite you
to register already at the following registration page
http://www.iap.fr/scripts/colloques/iap2007/regmenu.asp


Registration fees: 250€ (incl. participation to the colloquium social event)

Please, propagate this annoucement to anyone who may be interested.

Practical details :

Dates:
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Monday 2nd to Friday 6th July 2007

Location:
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Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris
IAP main building
98 bis Bvd Arago
75014 Paris
(map)

Contact:
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email: [Log in to view email]
http://www.iap.fr/
fax: +33 1 44 32 80 01

LOC:
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Yannick Mellier (IAP and Obs. de Paris, Paris, France),
Francis Bernardeau (CEA/SPhT Saclay and IAP associate, Paris, France),
Karim Benabed (IAP, Paris, France),
Liping Fu (IAP, Paris, France),
Martin Kilbinger (IAP, Paris, France),
Delphine Charbonneau (IAP, Paris, France)

SOC:
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M. Bartelmann (ITA, Heidelberg, Germany)
F. Bernardeau (CEA/SPhT Saclay, France)
R. Blandford (KIPAC , Standford, USA)
F. Combes (Obs. Paris/LERMA, Paris, France)
R. Ellis (Caltech, Pasadena, USA)
T. Hamana (NAOJ, Tokyo, Japan)
B. Jain (U. Penn, Philadelphia, USA)
A. Lewis (IoA, Cambridge, UK)
A. Refregier (CEA/SAp, Saclay, France)
G. Soucail (OMP, Toulouse, France)
A. Taylor (ROE, Edinburgh, UK)
J.-P. Uzan (IAP, Paris, France)
L. Vigroux (IAP, France)
L. van Waerbeke (UBC, Vancouver, Canada)
R. Webster (U. Melbourne, Victoria, Australia)
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