Daily Archives: July 29, 2010

ICTP School 2010


This week I had the pleasure to give a cycle of lectures on Dark Matter at the Summer School in Cosmology, organized at ICTP by P. Creminelli (ICTP) , U. Seljak (UC & LBNL Berkeley & Zürich U.), M. Viel (INAF, OATS). ICTP stands for International Center for Theoretical Physics, which was founded in 1964 by Abdus Salam (Nobel Laureate), and whose mission is to foster advanced studies and research, especially in developing countries.

The videos and slides of all lectures are available on the website of the Science Dissemination Unit of ICTP, that has been created “with the broad aim of disseminating ICTP scientific contents and programmes throughout the world, via electronic, digital, satellite and other information and communication tools, to more people than are able to visit the Centre.”

This way, the lectures delivered here become accessible not only to the ~250 students attending the school, but to students all around the planet, which is especially important for students in third world countries.

You can download the videos of the lectures here.

TeV Particle Astrophysics 2010

The TeV Particle Astrophysics conference was held this year at the Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris, and at the Cite Universitaire de Paris. The aim of the conference was to bring together theorists and experimentalists working in the fields of Particle Physics, Astrophysics and Cosmology, with a shared interest in physical processes at the TeV energy scale. After decades of theoretical speculation, the exploration of the TeV energy frontier has now in fact begun, with the results provided by ground-based and space-born observatories of gamma-rays (Fermi, HESS, Magic, Veritas, Cangaroo, Milagro), anti-matter (PAMELA, ATIC, HESS and soon AMS-02) and neutrinos (IceCube, Antares), with a large number of ongoing direct Dark Matter search experiments exploiting different detection techniques, and with the TeV particle accelerators Tevatron and the Large Hadron Collider. The physics underlying these experiments involves many intertwined problematics, such as the nature of Dark Matter, Physics beyond the Standard Model, the origin of Cosmic Rays and the distribution of Dark and visible matter in the Universe. All talks are available for download at http://irfu.cea.fr/Meetings/TeVPA/ .