Current Problems in Extragalactic Dust
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Niels Bohr Institute
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Description
COSMIC dust is of fundamental importance to astrophysics. Though dust is only a tiny fraction of the baryons in the Universe, it influences the formation of planets and stars in a fundamental way and contains half of all the metals synthesised over cosmic time. Dust also plays a key role in astronomical observations, obscuring the optical and UV light from star-formation in galaxies and accretion 
onto compact objects, and reprocessing it into infrared radiation. Correction for the effects of dust is also the main observational uncertainty in current estimates of dark energy.
Current Problems in Extragalactic Dust is a 5 day workshop with a small number of invited participants (30–40).
Dates: 29 June – 3 July 2009
Location: Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen
The workshop will focus on one issue each day and try to make progress via general overview talks and a large amount of time set aside between talks for intensive discussion in the relatively small group.
The focus of the workshop is dust on a cosmic scale—where and when most of it forms and grows and what its properties are in those circumstances and how dust affects the physics and observations of the early Universe and cosmological parameters. The workshop is therefore of particular interest to those working on dust directly, dark energy, reionization, star-formation, and future users of ALMA, Herschel, and Planck for extragalactic work.
Supported by the Dark Cosmology Centre, the Niels Bohr International Academy, the Instrument Center for Danish Astrophysics and The Nordic Network for Astrophysics and Cosmology.
Current Problems in Extragalactic Dust is a 5 day workshop with a small number of invited participants (30–40).
Dates: 29 June – 3 July 2009
Location: Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen
The workshop will focus on one issue each day and try to make progress via general overview talks and a large amount of time set aside between talks for intensive discussion in the relatively small group.
The focus of the workshop is dust on a cosmic scale—where and when most of it forms and grows and what its properties are in those circumstances and how dust affects the physics and observations of the early Universe and cosmological parameters. The workshop is therefore of particular interest to those working on dust directly, dark energy, reionization, star-formation, and future users of ALMA, Herschel, and Planck for extragalactic work.
Supported by the Dark Cosmology Centre, the Niels Bohr International Academy, the Instrument Center for Danish Astrophysics and The Nordic Network for Astrophysics and Cosmology.
Participants
Andrea Ferrara
Anja C. Andersen
Bo Milvang-Jensen
Brice Menard
Bruce Draine
Christa Gall
Daniele Malesani
Daniele Pierini
Davide Lazzati
Dong Xu
Giorgos Leloudas
Haley Gomez
Hiroyuki Hirashita
James Rhoads
JD Smith
Jens Hjorth
Johan Fynbo
Karl Gordon
Kevin Krisciunas
Lars Mattsson
Linda Ostman
Loretta Dunne
Margrethe Wold
Marianne Vestergaard
Martin Kilbinger
Michal Michalowski
Mike Alexandersen
Patricia Schady
Peter Laursen
Raffaella Schneider
Rosa Valiante
Rosina Bertelsen
Rubina Kotak
Sangeeta Malhotra
Simona Gallerani
Simone Bianchi
Sofia Ramstedt
Takaya NOZAWA
Tayyaba Zafar
Thomas Greve
Árdís Elíasdóttir
Support