| 2nd
Announcement |
| Dear
Colleagues, *** DARK MATTER and ALTERNATIVE GRAVITIES *** 2nd annoucement of an international 3-day workshop April 20-22, 2006 Royal Observatory Edinburgh, Scottish University Physics Alliance (SUPA) A preliminary program, participants list & hotel information are on the website http://www.garrywangus.com/alternative-gravities.html Deadline for Talks: March 3, 2006 [Closing] Following Bekenstein's TeVeS paper (2004), some 30+ papers have been written on examining the advantages and disadvantages of Alternatives to Standard Dark Matter models. A few recent developments have been on: - Solar System constraints and tests http://www.arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0602161 http://www.arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0602266 - Constraints on the transition between strong and weak gravity in TeVeS http://www.arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0512425 - Constraints on sub-galactic scales (globular clusters and dwarf spheroidals) http://www.arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0511713 - CMB predictions an linear perturbations in TeVeS http://www.arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0505519 http://www.arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0511591 - Lensing predictions in TeVeS http://www.arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0509590 See other recent papers/preprints 2004-now here. This workshop hopes to pool these efforts together. The field is clearly expanding quickly. We hope to bring together many of those interested in order to discuss how best to proceed in testing and developing the competing theories, in the beautiful setting of a panorama of the Scottish capital, viewed from the Royal Observatory. To compare various theories, we make available on the website the rotation curves of a few benchmark galaxies, and we strongly encourage you to fit them with your theory! Another aim of the workshop is to discuss the strategy of funding future research in this fascinating field. Best wishes, and see you there, The Scientific Organising Committee: HongSheng Zhao (St Andrews/SUPA) David Bacon (Edinburgh/SUPA) Benoit Famaey (Brussels) Keith Horne (St Andrews/SUPA) Andy Taylor (Edinburgh/SUPA) The LOC: Garry Angus (St Andrews/SUPA) David Bacon (Edinburgh/SUPA) |
