First announcement

International
Solvay
Institutes

DARK MATTERS

18-20 May 2005

The International Solvay Institutes for Physics and Chemistry Brussels, the Université Libre de Bruxelles, the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and the EC network MRTN-CT-2004-005104 "Constituents, Fundamental Forces and Symmetries of the Universe" announce the workshop "Dark Matters".
The aim of the workshop is to confront the cosmological dark matter and dark energy problems to the latest attempts to solve them, including new ideas on dark matter and on modifications of gravity.

We have invited a number of outstanding scientists to give lectures (or better to say reviews) as well as shorter, more specialized talks.
The number of participants we aim for is between 40 and 50.

The list of invited speakers includes:

Jacob Bekenstein (The Hebrew U., Jerusalem)
Gilles Gerbier (DAPNIA, Saclay)
Alain Blanchard (Obs. Midi-Pyrénées)
Céline Boehm (CERN)
Philippe Brax (SPhT, Saclay)
Edmund Copeland (Sussex U., Brighton)
Cédric Deffayet (LPT, Orsay)
Alexander Dolgov (INFN, Ferrara)
Sergei Dubovsky (CERN)
Gia Dvali (NYU, New York)
Juan Garcia-Bellido (U.Autonoma, Madrid)
Jaume Garriga ( U. Autonoma, Barcelona)
Gilles Gerbier (DAPNIA, Saclay)
Markus Luty (Maryland U.)
Massimo Porrati (NYU, New York)
Riccardo Rattazzi (CERN)
Valery Rubakov (INR, Moscow)
Joe Silk (Oxford U.)

Organising Committee

Catherine De Clercq (IIHE, Brussels)
Alexandre Sevrin (VUB, Brussels)
Petr Tinyakov (ULB, Brussels)
Michel Tytgat (ULB, Brussels)

Programme

Location: Université Libre de Bruxelles, Campus Plaine, Boulevard du Triomphe, B-1050 Brussels
"Salle Solvay", Building NO, 5th floor

Registration: There is no registration fee but we urge participants to register by sending an e-mail to Ms. Isabelle Juif

isabelle.juif@ulb.ac.be

before April 30, 2005. Only registered participants will be allowed to attend (an electronic confirmation of registration will be sent).

Accommodation: participants are responsible for their accommodation. The following link might be useful: Hotels in Brussels.
Hotels that we often use for our visitors are: Hôtel Opéra - Hôtel Arlequin - Hôtel Saint-Nicolas - Fondation Universitaire.

Poster

Support from the Belgian "Loterie Nationale - Nationale Loterij", from the "Communauté française de Belgique" and from Solvay SA-NV is gratefully acknowledged.