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JOINT DAUT-ICTP-OATS-SISSA COLLOQUIUM
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Speaker:
Nick Gnedin (Chicago University, USA)
Title:
Simulating Reionization: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
Date: Thursday, November 20th, 2008
Time: 16:00
Venue: Villa Bazzoni
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Abstract:
Cosmic reionization - the process of ionization of the bulk of cosmic gas by
ultra-violet radiation from primeval galaxies - is by far the most dramatic
event that occurred in the universe since the formation of the first star. I
will give a very personal and highly biased view on the recent progress in
modeling reionization with numerical simulations, and will discuss a possible
avenue for catching the next big prize in numerical cosmology.
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contact: Luca Tornatore (DAUT)