NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
Colloquium Series
In 1991, the National Academy of Sciences inaugurated a series of scientific colloquia, five or six of which are scheduled each year under the guidance of the NAS Council’s Committee on Scientific Programs. Each colloquium addresses a scientific topic of broad and topical interest, cutting across two or more of the traditional disciplines. Typically two days long, colloquia are international in scope and bring together leading scientists in the field. Papers from colloquia are published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
SPEAKERS
The Age of the Universe, Dark Matter, and Structure Formation
The Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center of the National Academies of Sciences and Engineering
Irvine, California
March 21–23, 1997
Jack Halpern (NAS Vice President)
John Huchra (Harvard University)
Robert Kirshner (Harvard University)
Wendy Freedman (Carnegie Institution of Washington)
I.Neill Reid (California Institute of Technology)
Sandra Faber (UCO/Lick Observatory)
Raul Jimenez (Royal Observatory in Edinburgh)
James W.Truran (University of Chicago)
Charles Steidel (California Institute of Technology)
Cecilia Jarlskog (University of Stockholm)
David Wilkinson (Princeton University)
J.Richard Bond (Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics)
David N.Schramm (University of Chicago)
Jean Audouze (Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris)
David Tytler (University of California, San Diego)
Lennox Cowie (University of Hawaii, Manoa)
David N.Spergel (Princeton University)
Bernard Sadoulet (University of California, Berkeley)
Michael S.Turner (University of Chicago)
John Ellis (European Laboratory for Particle Physics)
Leslie Rosenberg (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
P.J.E.Peebles (Princeton University)
Anthony Tyson (AT&T Bell Laboratories)
Ramesh Narayan (Harvard University)
Bohdan Paczynski (Princeton University)
Nick Kaiser (University of Hawaii)
Samuel Ting (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Richard Mushotzky (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)
John Carlstrom (University of Chicago)
Margaret Geller (Harvard University)
Marc Davis (University of California, Berkeley)
Neta Bahcall (Princeton University)
J.P.Ostriker (Princeton University)
Martin Rees (Cambridge University)
COMMITTEES
The Age of the Universe, Dark Matter, and Structure Formation
The Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center of the National Academies of Sciences and Engineering
Irvine, California
March 21–23, 1997
Organizing Committee
David N.Schramm
(University of Chicago)—
Chairman
P.J.E.Peebles
(Princeton University)—
Co-Chairman
Alan Guth
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Martha Haynes
(Cornell University)
Bernard Sadoulet
(University of California, Berkeley)
Program Committee
George Efstathiou
(Oxford University)
John Ellis
(European Laboratory for Particle Physics)
Wendy Freedman
(Carnegie Institution of Washington)
Margaret Geller
(Harvard University)
Bernard Pagel
(Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics)
Martin Rees
(Cambridge University)
Katsuhiko Sato
(University of Tokyo)
Rashid Sunyaev
(Moscow University)
Joachim Trumper
(Max-Plank Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik)
David Wilkinson
(Princeton University)
PROGRAM
The Age of the Universe, Dark Matter, and Structure Formation
Friday, March 21 |
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Introduction |
NAS Vice President: Jack Halpern |
Session I |
Chair: John Huchra |
The Rubble Constant Using Type IA Supernovae |
Robert Kirshner |
Cosmological Parameters |
Wendy Freedman |
New Hipparcos Results |
I.Neill Reid |
Session II |
Chair: Sandra Faber |
Independent Age determinations: |
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A) Globular Clusters |
Raul Jimenez |
B) Nucleochronology |
James W.Truran |
Galaxies At High Redshifts |
Charles Steidel |
Saturday, March 22 |
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Session III |
Chair: Cecilia Jarlskog |
The Microwave Background Anisotropies |
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A) Observations |
David Wilkinson |
B) Theory |
J.Richard Bond |
Light Element Synthesis |
David N.Schramm |
Session IV |
Chair: Jean Audouze |
D/H in QSO Absorption Systems |
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A) D/H—Low |
David R.Tytler |
B) D/H—High |
Lenniox L.Cowie |
Emergence of Structure Beyond z=5: a Probe of Cosmological Parameters |
Martin Rees |
Session V |
Chair: Bernard Sadoulet |
Dark Matter |
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A) Astrophysical Arguments |
Michael S.Turner |
B) Particle Components |
John Ellis |
C) New Experimental Results |
Leslie Rosenberg |
Galaxy Formation |
P.J.E.Peebles |
Session VI |
Chair: Anthony Tyson |
Gravitational Lensing |
Ramesh Narayan |
Microlensing |
Bohdan Paczynski |
Weak Lensing |
Nick Kaiser |
Sunday, March 23 |
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Session VII |
Chair: Neta Bahcall |
X-ray Observations of Groups and Clusters |
Richard Mushotzky |
Sunyaev-Zel’dovich Effect |
John Carlstrom |
Large-Scale Structure |
Margaret Geller |
Large-Scale Flows |
Marc Davis |
Session VIII |
Chair: David N.Schramm |
Numerical Models |
J.P.Ostriker |
Finite Open Universes |
David N.Spergel |
PARTICIPANTS
The Age of the Universe, Dark Matter, and Structure Formation
The Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center of the National Academies of Sciences and Engineering
Irvine, California
March 21–23, 1997
Tim Appenzeller (Science Magazine)
Domingo Ricardo Artusa (Caltech)
Barry Barish (Caltech)
Karl van Bibber (Lawrence Livermore
National Laboratory)
Robert Bradenberger (Brown)
Roy Britten (Caltech)
David Burstein (Arizona State)
David Caldwell (UCSB)
Geoffrey Chew (LBL)
Jeff Childers (UCSB)
Sarah Church (Caltech)
David Cline (UCLA)
Judith Cohen (Caltech)
Arthur Davidsen (Johns Hopkins)
David De Young (NOAO)
S.G.Djorgovski (Caltech)
Mark Dragovan (Chicago)
Chris Fassnacht (Caltech)
Graciela Gelmini (UCLA)
Kim Griest (UCSD)
Marc Kamionkowski (Columbia)
Kenneth Kellerman (NRAO)
Tomislav Kundic (Caltech)
Andrew Lange (Caltech)
Erik Leitch (Caltech)
Alan Levy (UCSB)
Yoram Lithwick (Caltech)
Matt Malkan (UCLA)
Leslie Maxfield (Berkeley)
Peter Meinhold (UCSB)
Thomas Nash (FNAL)
Jerry Nelson (Santa Cruz)
John Peoples (FNAL)
Jeff Peterson (Carnegie Mellon)
Byron Philour (Caltech)
Andrew Phillips (UCO/Lick)
Jean Quashnock (Chicago)
George Raffelt (Max-Planck Munich)
Anthony Readhead (Caltech)
Sun Hong Rhie (Notre Dame)
R.Michael Rich (UCLA)
Steve Ruden (UC, Irvine)
Vera Rubin (CIW)
Humitaka Sato (Kyoto)
Mike Seiffert (UCSB)
Donald Shapero (NAS)
Xiangdong Shi (UCSD)
Luc Simard (UCO/Lick)
Tammy Smecker-Hane (UC, Irvine)
John Staren (UCSB)
Charles Townes (UC, Berkeley)
Virginia Trimble (UC, Irvine)
Nicole Vogt (UCO/Lick)
John Wilford (NY Times)
Sarah Yost (Caltech)
PROCEEDINGS
OF THE
NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Table of Contents
Papers from a National Academy of Sciences Colloquium on The Age of the Universe, Dark Matter, and Structure Formation
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The age of the universe, dark matter, and structure formation |
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Measuring cosmological parameters |
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Globular clusters, Hipparcos, and the age of the galaxy |
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Globular cluster ages |
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The age of the universe from nuclear chronometers |
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Galaxies and large scale structure at high redshifts |
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The microwave background anisotropies: Observations |
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Cosmic microwave background theory |
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Primordial nucleosynthesis |
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The universe at z > 5: When and how did the “dark age” end? |
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Particle components of dark matter |
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Direct searches for dark matter: Recent results |
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Galaxy formation |
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X-ray emission from clusters and groups of galaxies |
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Measuring the topology of the universe |