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Suggested Citation:"Front Matter." National Academy of Sciences. 1998. (NAS Colloquium) The Age of the Universe, Dark Matter, and Structure Formation. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/6237.
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COLLOQUIUM ON THE AGE OF THE UNIVERSE, DARK MATTER, AND STRUCTURE FORMATION

NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
WASHINGTON, D.C.
1998

Suggested Citation:"Front Matter." National Academy of Sciences. 1998. (NAS Colloquium) The Age of the Universe, Dark Matter, and Structure Formation. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/6237.
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NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES

Colloquium Series

In 1991, the National Academy of Sciences inaugurated a series of scientific colloquia, five or six of which are scheduled each year under the guidance of the NAS Council’s Committee on Scientific Programs. Each colloquium addresses a scientific topic of broad and topical interest, cutting across two or more of the traditional disciplines. Typically two days long, colloquia are international in scope and bring together leading scientists in the field. Papers from colloquia are published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

Suggested Citation:"Front Matter." National Academy of Sciences. 1998. (NAS Colloquium) The Age of the Universe, Dark Matter, and Structure Formation. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/6237.
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SPEAKERS

The Age of the Universe, Dark Matter, and Structure Formation

The Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center of the National Academies of Sciences and Engineering

Irvine, California

March 21–23, 1997

Jack Halpern (NAS Vice President)

John Huchra (Harvard University)

Robert Kirshner (Harvard University)

Wendy Freedman (Carnegie Institution of Washington)

I.Neill Reid (California Institute of Technology)

Sandra Faber (UCO/Lick Observatory)

Raul Jimenez (Royal Observatory in Edinburgh)

James W.Truran (University of Chicago)

Charles Steidel (California Institute of Technology)

Cecilia Jarlskog (University of Stockholm)

David Wilkinson (Princeton University)

J.Richard Bond (Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics)

David N.Schramm (University of Chicago)

Jean Audouze (Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris)

David Tytler (University of California, San Diego)

Lennox Cowie (University of Hawaii, Manoa)

David N.Spergel (Princeton University)

Bernard Sadoulet (University of California, Berkeley)

Michael S.Turner (University of Chicago)

John Ellis (European Laboratory for Particle Physics)

Leslie Rosenberg (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

P.J.E.Peebles (Princeton University)

Anthony Tyson (AT&T Bell Laboratories)

Ramesh Narayan (Harvard University)

Bohdan Paczynski (Princeton University)

Nick Kaiser (University of Hawaii)

Samuel Ting (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Richard Mushotzky (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)

John Carlstrom (University of Chicago)

Margaret Geller (Harvard University)

Marc Davis (University of California, Berkeley)

Neta Bahcall (Princeton University)

J.P.Ostriker (Princeton University)

Martin Rees (Cambridge University)

Suggested Citation:"Front Matter." National Academy of Sciences. 1998. (NAS Colloquium) The Age of the Universe, Dark Matter, and Structure Formation. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/6237.
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COMMITTEES

The Age of the Universe, Dark Matter, and Structure Formation

The Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center of the National Academies of Sciences and Engineering

Irvine, California

March 21–23, 1997

Organizing Committee

David N.Schramm

(University of Chicago)—

Chairman

P.J.E.Peebles

(Princeton University)—

Co-Chairman

Alan Guth

(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Martha Haynes

(Cornell University)

Bernard Sadoulet

(University of California, Berkeley)

Program Committee

George Efstathiou

(Oxford University)

John Ellis

(European Laboratory for Particle Physics)

Wendy Freedman

(Carnegie Institution of Washington)

Margaret Geller

(Harvard University)

Bernard Pagel

(Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics)

Martin Rees

(Cambridge University)

Katsuhiko Sato

(University of Tokyo)

Rashid Sunyaev

(Moscow University)

Joachim Trumper

(Max-Plank Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik)

David Wilkinson

(Princeton University)

Suggested Citation:"Front Matter." National Academy of Sciences. 1998. (NAS Colloquium) The Age of the Universe, Dark Matter, and Structure Formation. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/6237.
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PROGRAM

The Age of the Universe, Dark Matter, and Structure Formation

Friday, March 21

Introduction

NAS Vice President: Jack Halpern

Session I

Chair: John Huchra

The Rubble Constant Using Type IA Supernovae

Robert Kirshner

Cosmological Parameters

Wendy Freedman

New Hipparcos Results

I.Neill Reid

Session II

Chair: Sandra Faber

Independent Age determinations:

 

A) Globular Clusters

Raul Jimenez

B) Nucleochronology

James W.Truran

Galaxies At High Redshifts

Charles Steidel

Saturday, March 22

Session III

Chair: Cecilia Jarlskog

The Microwave Background Anisotropies

 

A) Observations

David Wilkinson

B) Theory

J.Richard Bond

Light Element Synthesis

David N.Schramm

Session IV

Chair: Jean Audouze

D/H in QSO Absorption Systems

 

A) D/H—Low

David R.Tytler

B) D/H—High

Lenniox L.Cowie

Emergence of Structure Beyond z=5: a Probe of Cosmological Parameters

Martin Rees

Session V

Chair: Bernard Sadoulet

Dark Matter

 

A) Astrophysical Arguments

Michael S.Turner

B) Particle Components

John Ellis

C) New Experimental Results

Leslie Rosenberg

Galaxy Formation

P.J.E.Peebles

Session VI

Chair: Anthony Tyson

Gravitational Lensing

Ramesh Narayan

Microlensing

Bohdan Paczynski

Weak Lensing

Nick Kaiser

Sunday, March 23

Session VII

Chair: Neta Bahcall

X-ray Observations of Groups and Clusters

Richard Mushotzky

Sunyaev-Zel’dovich Effect

John Carlstrom

Large-Scale Structure

Margaret Geller

Large-Scale Flows

Marc Davis

Session VIII

Chair: David N.Schramm

Numerical Models

J.P.Ostriker

Finite Open Universes

David N.Spergel

Suggested Citation:"Front Matter." National Academy of Sciences. 1998. (NAS Colloquium) The Age of the Universe, Dark Matter, and Structure Formation. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/6237.
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PARTICIPANTS

The Age of the Universe, Dark Matter, and Structure Formation

The Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center of the National Academies of Sciences and Engineering

Irvine, California

March 21–23, 1997

Tim Appenzeller (Science Magazine)

Domingo Ricardo Artusa (Caltech)

Barry Barish (Caltech)

Karl van Bibber (Lawrence Livermore

National Laboratory)

Robert Bradenberger (Brown)

Roy Britten (Caltech)

David Burstein (Arizona State)

David Caldwell (UCSB)

Geoffrey Chew (LBL)

Jeff Childers (UCSB)

Sarah Church (Caltech)

David Cline (UCLA)

Judith Cohen (Caltech)

Arthur Davidsen (Johns Hopkins)

David De Young (NOAO)

S.G.Djorgovski (Caltech)

Mark Dragovan (Chicago)

Chris Fassnacht (Caltech)

Graciela Gelmini (UCLA)

Kim Griest (UCSD)

Marc Kamionkowski (Columbia)

Kenneth Kellerman (NRAO)

Tomislav Kundic (Caltech)

Andrew Lange (Caltech)

Erik Leitch (Caltech)

Alan Levy (UCSB)

Yoram Lithwick (Caltech)

Matt Malkan (UCLA)

Leslie Maxfield (Berkeley)

Peter Meinhold (UCSB)

Thomas Nash (FNAL)

Jerry Nelson (Santa Cruz)

John Peoples (FNAL)

Jeff Peterson (Carnegie Mellon)

Byron Philour (Caltech)

Andrew Phillips (UCO/Lick)

Jean Quashnock (Chicago)

George Raffelt (Max-Planck Munich)

Anthony Readhead (Caltech)

Sun Hong Rhie (Notre Dame)

R.Michael Rich (UCLA)

Steve Ruden (UC, Irvine)

Vera Rubin (CIW)

Humitaka Sato (Kyoto)

Mike Seiffert (UCSB)

Donald Shapero (NAS)

Xiangdong Shi (UCSD)

Luc Simard (UCO/Lick)

Tammy Smecker-Hane (UC, Irvine)

John Staren (UCSB)

Charles Townes (UC, Berkeley)

Virginia Trimble (UC, Irvine)

Nicole Vogt (UCO/Lick)

John Wilford (NY Times)

Sarah Yost (Caltech)

Suggested Citation:"Front Matter." National Academy of Sciences. 1998. (NAS Colloquium) The Age of the Universe, Dark Matter, and Structure Formation. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/6237.
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PROCEEDINGS

OF THE

NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES

OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Table of Contents

Papers from a National Academy of Sciences Colloquium on The Age of the Universe, Dark Matter, and Structure Formation

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David N.Schramm

1945–1997

David Schramm died in a plane crash while travelling to his beloved home in Aspen, Colorado. He organized this conference and many others. He loved science; his research work was strong and effective. He was a tireless advocate for support of research by younger people, and all who knew him will remember his exuberant enjoyment of life. These colloquium proceedings are devoted to his memory—a valued friend and colleague.

—P.J.E.Peebles

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