The meeting on the Anisotropy and Energy Spectrum of the CGB has been a lot of fun, and very fruitful indeed.

In this picture, a brainstorming session during a sunny afternoon in Zurich. From left to right: Tim Linden, Alessandro Cuoco, Vaso Pavlidou, Jennifer Siegal-Gaskins, Fabio Iocco, Lidia Pieri, Mattia Fornasa and Enzo Branchini.

The results of our work will appear, in the form of a series of papers from different sets of authors, on the arXiv over the next few months. Stay tuned!

The workshop ɣ in Z will take place at ITP Zurich from November 16 to 20, 2009. It consists of a week long collaboration meeting in the framework of a Fermi guest investigator grant titled “Anisotropy and energy spectrum of the Gamma-ray Background as probes of Dark Matter and Astrophysical sources”, and of a one-day workshop, on Wednesday 18. More information can be found at http://www2.iap.fr/users/bertone/GinZ.

From October 2009 to September 2010 I will be a Visiting Professor at the Insitute for Theoretical Physics of the University of Zurich, on leave from IAP in Paris.