Cosmology at the Beach

Playa del Carmen is a beautiful, vibrant town located on the pristine Caribbean coast of Mexico. It is the perfect base to explore the fascinating sites along the Cancun-Tulum Corridor, now called 'Riviera Maya'. There are miles of unspoiled white sandy beaches and crystal-clear Caribbean waters to explore. Have you ever wondered what the planets, the stars and the universe might sound like? While working individually on very different careers, musician Mickey Hart and Nobelist George Smoot have been wondering about the same question for years. Their mutual curiosity eventually brought them together in exploring this fascinating question at the Cosmology on the Beach conference in Mexico. Public Talk George Smoot, Nobel Laureate First Light, First Sound: Adventures in Contemporary Cosmology January 13, 6:00pm at the Maya site of Tulum Presentation Mickey Hart, Grammy Winner and Grateful Dead percussionist Rhythms of the Universe January 13, 9:15pm at Iberostar Quetzal	Organizing Institutions
Berkeley Center for Cosmological Physics Advanced Institute for Cosmology, Mexico Contacts
A range of topics in cosmology was covered at the 2010 conference by eminent scholars in the field, with elements of both a winter school and the latest research topics. Students and postdocs presented posters and gave short talks. The beauty of the natural and cultural environment was as a catalyst for young researchers to interact and generate new ideas. We encouraged a diverse group of advanced graduate students and postdocs interested in attending to submit the Participant Application form below. See Cosmology on the Beach 2009 for details of the January 2009 meeting.
Applications for Cosmology on the Beach 2010 have closed. Please visit us again next year.
Agenda Presentations Contributed Talks Participant List Logistical Information
Course Lectures
Andrew Liddle (University of Sussex) - Inflation Masahiro Takada (IPMU) - Weak Gravitational Lensing Max Tegmark (MIT)- Large Scale Structure and Surveys Matias Zaldarriaga (IAS) - CMB Polarization and Non-Gaussianity
Conference Poster
Plenary Talks
Tom Crawford (Chicago) - South Pole Telescope Science Sudeep Das (Berkeley/LBNL) - Atacama Cosmology Telescope Results Axel de la Macorra (UNAM) - Connections between Dark Energy and Particle Physics Natalie Roe (LBNL) - Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) Science Nicholas Suntzeff (Texas A&M) - Recent Supernova Results
Seminar topics include: CMB and Non-Gaussianity Inflation Weak Gravitational Lensing Particle Physics Constraints from Cosmology Large Scale Structure in Surveys

Playa del Carmen is a beautiful, vibrant town located on the pristine Caribbean coast of Mexico. It is the perfect base to explore the fascinating sites along the Cancun-Tulum Corridor, now called 'Riviera Maya'. There are miles of unspoiled white sandy beaches and crystal-clear Caribbean waters to explore.

Have you ever wondered what the planets, the stars and the universe might sound like? While working individually on very different careers, musician Mickey Hart and Nobelist George Smoot have been wondering about the same question for years. Their mutual curiosity eventually brought them together in exploring this fascinating question at the Cosmology on the Beach conference in Mexico.

Public Talk

George Smoot, Nobel Laureate
First Light, First Sound: Adventures in Contemporary Cosmology
January 13, 6:00pm at the Maya site of Tulum

Presentation

Mickey Hart, Grammy Winner and Grateful Dead percussionist Rhythms of the Universe
January 13, 9:15pm at Iberostar Quetzal

Organizing Institutions

Berkeley Center for Cosmological Physics

Advanced Institute for Cosmology, Mexico

Contacts

A range of topics in cosmology was covered at the 2010 conference by eminent scholars in the field, with elements of both a winter school and the latest research topics. Students and postdocs presented posters and gave short talks. The beauty of the natural and cultural environment was as a catalyst for young researchers to interact and generate new ideas. We encouraged a diverse group of advanced graduate students and postdocs interested in attending to submit the Participant Application form below.

See Cosmology on the Beach 2009 for details of the January 2009 meeting.

Applications for Cosmology on the Beach
2010 have closed. Please visit us again next year.

Logistical Information

Course Lectures

Andrew Liddle (University of Sussex) - Inflation
Masahiro Takada (IPMU) - Weak Gravitational Lensing

Max Tegmark (MIT)- Large Scale Structure and Surveys

Matias Zaldarriaga (IAS) - CMB Polarization and Non-Gaussianity

Conference Poster

Plenary Talks

Tom Crawford (Chicago) - South Pole Telescope Science
Sudeep Das (Berkeley/LBNL) - Atacama Cosmology Telescope Results
Axel de la Macorra (UNAM) - Connections between Dark Energy and Particle Physics
Natalie Roe (LBNL) - Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) Science
Nicholas Suntzeff (Texas A&M) - Recent Supernova Results

Seminar topics include:

CMB and Non-Gaussianity
Inflation
Weak Gravitational Lensing
Particle Physics Constraints from Cosmology
Large Scale Structure in Surveys