II DES-Brazil Workshop

February 27

Part I: Science and Challenges of DES-Brazil

09:00h Opening (CBPF representative(s))

09:20h Overview of the Dark Energy Survey and DES-Brazil (Luiz Nicolaci da Costa)

10:00h Gravitational Lensing (Martín Makler)

10:40h Coffee break

11:00h Supernovae (Maurício Calvão)

11:40h Galactic Structure and stellar populations in the DES (Basílio Santiago)

12:20h Lunch

[14:00h Vitatcheslav Mukhanov’s course: quantum theory of cosmological perturbations]

16:30h Perspectives from CMB observations: the role of foregrounds (Thyrso Villela)

17:10h Highlights of Dark Energy Research in 2007 (Ioav Waga)

17:50h Closing of part I