| Program |
| 1st
DAY (20 APRIL): GALAXIES AND SOLAR SYSTEM [Galaxies and beyond] Chair: A. Taylor 09h00 - 09h10 Welcome talk (Peacock) 09h10 - 09h30 Workshop program: questions to be addressed (Famaey) 09h30 - 10h15 Observational Constraints on the Acceleration Discrepancy Problem (McGaugh) TEA AND COFFEE 10h45 - 11h25 Solution from CDM or WDM (Moore) 11h25 - 12h10 TeVeS theory (Skordis) 12h10 - 12h35 MOND-like scalar field vs DM: similarity and difference (Zhao) LUNCH 14h45 - 15h05 DM density profiles (van Kampen) [Solar System: Obs -> Theory] Chair: K. Horne 15h05 - 15h50 Solar System: something strange is going on (Turyshev) TEA AND COFFEE 16h25 - 17h10 STVG and the Pioneer anomaly (Moffat) 17h10 - 17h30 Pioneer anomaly and modified inertia (McCulloch) Posters: (H. Shan, D. Chen, H. Zhao), (G. Gentile, B. Famaey, H. Zhao), (G. Angus, B. Famaey, H. Zhao) CONFERENCE DINNER |
| 2nd
DAY (21 APRIL): LARGE SCALE [Gravity Theories on Large Scale] Chair: Martin Hendry 09h00 - 09h25 Modified gravity and cosmic expansion (Olmo) 09h25 - 09h55 Logarithmic actions, MOND, and Dark Energy (Navarro) 09h55 - 10h40 Conformal Gravity and Dark Energy (Mannheim) TEA AND COFFEE [Cluster Tests] 11h20 - 11h40 Conformal Gravity in galaxy clusters (Horne) 11h40 - 12h00 X-ray Clusters in Conformal Gravity (Diaferio) 12h00 - 12h30 MOND and large scale structure formation (Nusser) LUNCH [Lensing Tests] Chair: Martin Hendry 14h25 - 14h50 Lensing tests of gravity theories (Jain) 14h50 - 15h10 Lensing constraints for dark energy (Kitching) TEA AND COFFEE 15h40 - 16h10 Lensing in TeVeS (Bacon) [CMB Tests] 16h10 - 16h50 CMB and LSS Test of TeVeS (Ferreira) 16h50 - 17h30 Open discussion: ideas about funding and next meetings |
| 3rd
DAY (22 APRIL): CHALLENGES [Satellites] Chair: Jerry Sellwood 09h00 - 09h20 Globular Cluster Systems of Giant Ellipticals (Richtler) 09h20 - 09h50 A Poisson/N-body code for MOND (Nipoti) 09h50 - 10h10 Testing MOND with globular clusters (Scarpa) 10h10 - 10h35 Satellites as challenges to TeVeS/MOND (Zhao) TEA AND COFFEE 11h05 - 11h40 DM substructures (Metcalf) [Challenges to DM and Alternatives] Chair: P. Ferreira 11h40 - 12h00 Some Issues for MOND-like field theories (Bruneton) 12h00 - 12h20 Dynamical friction in MOND (Selman) LUNCH 14h00 - 14h50 Open discussion: challenges to various theories (Discussion led by Van Acoleyen) TEA AND COFFEE 15h20 - 16h00 Halo density: the biggest challenge to CDM (Sellwood) |
