I Jayme Tiomno School of Cosmology

Hello reader!

The "I Jayme Tiomno School of Cosmology" will be held at the National Observatory in Rio de Janeiro from 5-9 July, 2010. This school aims at providing Ph.D. students and researchers of the Brazilian community with a broad view of selected topics in Cosmology and also at preparing our community to the next generation of Cosmology experiments.

The invited lecturers and the topics covered in this first edition are:

* Baryonic Acoustic Oscillations

Bruce Bassett (University of Cape Town)

* The Cosmic Microwave Background

Joana Dunkley (University of Oxford)

* Advanced Topics on LSS and BAO

Daniel Eisenstein (University of Arizona)

* Cosmology with Type Ia Supernovae

Joshua Frieman (Fermilab & University of Chicago)

* Statistical methods for Cosmology

Roberto Trotta (Imperial College)

Special Talk

* Photometric Redshifts and Cosmology: The J-PAS Survey

Narciso Benitez (Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía)

Duda Falcão