Hot points in Astrophysics and Cosmology

Bogoliubov Laboratory of Theoretical Physics

Joint Institute for Nuclear Research

Dubna, Russia

August 2 - 13, 2004

Texts of the lectures:

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Yu.N. Gnedin (Saint-Petersburg, Russia)
“Stars with Extremely Strong Magnetic Fields as Tools of Fundamental Physics”
“Astronomy and Particle Physics: zones of intersection”
“Axion Astronomy: Searching for Dark Matter Particles”
V. Chechetkin (KIAM RAS, Russia)
“The Mechanism Supernova Explosion” Part 1. Part 2.
A. Dorodnitsyn (IKI RAS, Russia)
"Accretion disk - wind connection"
M. Prokhorov (SAI, Russia)
"Evolution of stellar populations and compact objects"
D. Voskresensky (MEPI, Russia; GSI, Germany)
"Physics of neutron star interiors and cooling of neutron stars" Part 1. Part 2.
A. Sedrakian (Tuebingen University, Germany)
"Pairing properties and the crust of neutron stars"
"Neutrino production and propagation in dense matter"
S. Moiseenko (IKI RAS, Russia)
“Magnetorotational supernova exlosions. 2D MHD simulations”
L. Prokhorov (St.-Petersburg)
"Quantum mechanics and cosmology"
P. Fiziev (Sofia University, Bulgaria)
“ Gravitational field of massive point, (non)existence of Black Holes, and relativistic theory of stars ”
M. Miller (University of Maryland, USA)
"Quasi-Periodic Brightness Oscillations from Accreting Neutron Stars and Black Holes"
"Sources of Gravitational Radiation"
J. Yang (Ewha Womans University, Korea)
"AMS experiment on international space station - Current status and the participation of Korean group"
T. Tatsumi (Kyoto University, Japan)
"Magnetic properties of quark matter"
"Nuclear pasta structures in neutron stars and the Coulomb screening"
S. Popov (University of Padova, Italy; SAI, Russia)
"Population synthesis of isolated neutron stars" Part 1. Part 2. Part3. Part4.
M. Dabrowski (Inst. of Physics, University of Szczecin, Poland)
"Introduction to superstring and pre-big-bang cosmology"
"Relation between superstring, Brans-Dicke and conformal cosmologies"
D. Nadyozhin (ITEP, Moscow)
"Nuclear Astrophysics (stellar nucleosynthesis)" Part 1. (an introductory overview) Nuclear processes in stars and the origin of chemical elements. Part 2. The hydrogen and helium burning in stars. Part 3. The explosive nucleosynthesis in supernovae. The role of weak interaction (beta-processes) in stellar evolution and nucleosynthesis.
D. Kazakov (BLTP JINR, Dubna)
“The problem of the dark matter and its possible solution in Supersymmetric model” Part 1. Part 2.
A. Zakharov (ITEP, Russia)
"Observations of microimages and astrometric microlensing for distant quasars with the space based radio telescope RADIOASTRON"
"Dark matter searches with an analysis of microlensing for distant quasars"
A. Drago (Universita' di Ferrara, Italy)
"Viscosity in compact stars"
"Gravitational wave emission from compact stars"
V. Melnikov (CGFM, Russia)
"Cosmological Models with Fluids, Scalar Fields and Forms in Diverse Dimensions." Part 1. Part 2.
D. Blaschke (University Bielefeld, Germany & BLTP JINR Dubna)
"Path integral approach to dense Fermi systems"
"Phase diagram of strongly interacting matter"
A. Doroshkevich (IPM RAS, Russia)
"Large Scale Structure in observations and simulations" Part 1. Part 2.
I. Shovkovy (ITP, J.W. Goethe-University, Germany)
"Introduction to Color Superconductivity"
"Color superconductivity in neutral matter"
H. Grigorian (Rostock University, Germany)
"Hybrid star configuration"
"Hot neutron and quark star evolution"
A. Burinskii (Russia)
“Rotating Black Holes in the Kerr-Schild Approach: Structure of the Solution and Astrophysical Applications” Part 1. Part 2.
G. Poghosyan (Basel University, Switzerland)
“Influence of the deconfinement phase transition on binary neutron star mergers”