Nick Kaiser Tribute

A special tribute to Nick Kaiser's outstanding contribution to cosmology will be held on Wednesday 13^th December.

Nick Kaiser's  fundamental contributions to the field of theoretical cosmology have had a significant impact on the study of large-scale structures of the Universe and the development of numerical and observational cosmology at these scales. His research was guided by a very deep physical insight. He identified the fundamental aspects of seemingly complicated phenomena to build simple models that focused on the core issues. His kindness, his boundless enthusiasm for scientific discussions, often provocative but always filled with humour, has inspired generations of cosmologists.

The morning session will cover the simulation of large scale structures as part of the conference, in direct connection with Nick's core research, while the afternoon session will be devoted specifically to Nick's works and impact as a mentor. Long term collaborators, friends and familly will participate and join us to the conference dinner at the Eiffel Tower.      

The informal afternoon session will be divided into a few themes covering the broad scope of Nick's interests:

14:00 Part 1a: Science overviews  chair: Joe Silk

12 minutes each,

• Dick Bond: Peak-background split and BBKS story
• Alex Szalay: More on BBKS
• John Peacock: Biasing and haloes (+ some RSD + the WFHRI story)
• Gigi Guzzo:  RSD, modified gravity, and Euclid
• Albert Stebbins: KS effect; origin of B modes in lensing
• Gordon Squires: Mass mapping
• Konrad Kuijken:  Weak lensing, KiDS, and Euclid
• Larry Widrow: scalar-field dark matter

15:30:  10-minute comfort break

Part 1b: Career overviews   Chair: John Peacock
approximately 5 minutes each

• Martin Rees: Cambridge  [R]
• Scott Tremaine:  Toronto  [R]
• Istvan Szapudi:  Hawaii
• Martin Bucher:  Paris

16:00 Part 1c: Memories and personal remarks
approximately 3-4 minutes each

• Pierre Fleury
• Ben Wandelt
• Andrew Jaffe
• Brent Tully   [R]
• Bernard Carr  [R]
• George Efstathiou   [R]
• Shaun Cole [R]
• Matthias Bartelmann  [R]
• Lyman A Page   [R]
• Sergei Shandarin   [R]
• Eugene Magnier  [R]
• Joss Bland Hawthorn
• YanChuan Cai
• Niall Jeffrey
• Ofer Lahav 
• Zheng Zhang
• Norm Murray
• Maureen Miller

17:30 Cocktail in forum (2nd floor) and hall.

20:20 rendez vous at bottom of Eiffel tower for dinner @ 21:00

 You will find here photos taken during the tribute taken by Jean Mouette (in colour) and Henry McCraken (in B&W).