Session on sterile neutrinos and dark matter

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                On Monday, July 24 and Tuesday, July 25, and a report in the plenary meeting about the outcome of the session, as part of the Marcel Grossmann meeting in Berlin, July 23 - 29, 2006 -- http://www.icra.it/MG/mg11 
                                           






The plan is to have two sessions, from 15h - 19h, with one coffee/tea intermission, and about 1/4 to 1/3 of the entire time for discussion.

Now we have a quantitative proposal of what dark matter is, and the challenge is to work through the consequences, for particle physics and cosmology, for large scale structure formation, for galaxy formation and galaxy structure, for the first stars, for supernova physics, the interstellar medium, the growth of black holes and active galactic
nuclei, primordial magnetic fields, and other aspects.  The session will address these questions.







The list of confirmed speakers is (status on June 8, 2006):

Fred Baganoff (Cambridge, US)
Peter L. Biermann (Bonn, Germany)
George Fuller*(San Diego, US)
Laszlo Gergely (Szeged, HU)
Gerry Gilmore (Cambridge, UK)
Philipp P. Kronberg (Toronto, Canada)

Michela Mapelli (Trieste, Italy)
Faustin Munyaneza (London, UK)
Signe Riemer-Sorensen (Copenhagen, DK)

Emanuele Ripamonti (Groningen, NL)
Oleg Ruchayskiy (Bures-sur-Yvette, France)
Ina Sarcevic*(Arizona, US)
Mikhail Shaposhnikov (Lausanne, Switzerland)
Anze Slosar (Ljubljana, Slovenia)
Jaroslaw Stasielak (Cracow, Poland)

Casey R. Watson (Ohio, US)


   Anyone who is interested to join the discussion should send an email to
Peter L. Biermann, http://www.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de/div/theory/members/ 
with copy to Alexander
Kusenko, http://www.physics.ucla.edu/~kusenko/, and everyone should register for the conference.