31 July-2 August 2002	Predictions of Cold Dark Matter models on small scales: current status and future tests
18-21 September 2002	International Workshop on Particle Physics and the Early Universe
2-5 October 2002	Auger Event Reconstruction Workshop

Predictions of Cold Dark Matter models on small scales: current status and future tests

31 July-2 August 2002

Chicago, IL, USA

Contact E-mail: andreyoddjob.uchicago.edu

International Workshop on Particle Physics and the Early Universe

18-21 September 2002

Chicago, IL, USA

The COSMO-02 conference will be the sixth in the COSMO series (following Ambleside, Lake District, England, 1997 Asilomar, California, 1998 Trieste, Italy, 1999 Cheju Island, Korea, 2000 Rovaniemi, Finland, 2001), devoted to the interplay of particle physics and cosmology of the early universe. These conferences have been successful in bringing together particle physicists, cosmologists and astrophysicists and providing the format to discuss new results in the exciting and fast-moving field of particle astrophysics and cosmology.

Contact E-mail: cosmo02pancake.uchicago.edu

Auger Event Reconstruction Workshop

2-5 October 2002

Chicago, IL, USA

The Engineering Array of the Pierre Auger Observatory has been operating in steady fashion since January, 2002. It consists of 30 surface detectors overlooked by two fluorescence telescopes. During this period samples of all the types of events that we expect to observe have been found and many independent groups have begun to reconstruct them. These include events at zenith angles up to 85 deg, fluorescence events, and hybrid events seen both by the surface array and the fluorescence detector. The purpose of the workshop is to have well defined sets of events reconstructed by at least two independent teams. In addition, we want to compare different calibration techniques for the the surface detectors and the fluorescence telescopes. Finally, we want to compare simulations required to pass from observed signals in the detectors to energies.

Contact E-mail: heinzoddjob.uchicago.edu

8 March 2002

EFI Mini-Symposium on the SDSS

EFI Mini-Symposium on the SDSS

8 March 2002

Chicago, IL, USA

This mini-symposium highlighted some of the early science results from the SDSS, with particular emphasis on the large-scale structure of the Universe.