Since 1993 the Rencontres du Vietnam , which is an official partner of UNESCO, has organised international scientific conferences and schools to foster exchanges between Vietnamese or Asia-Pacific scientists and colleagues from other parts of the world.

The construction of the International Centre for Interdisciplinary Science Education (ICISE) in the city of Quy Nhon (Central Vietnam) will have the ambitious objective to focus on developing Science and Education, helping young Asian students and scientists to meet with the International Science community, bringing the opportunity to accelerate their knowledge from attending lectures and sharing ideas with overseas high-level counterparts.

  The Rencontres du Vietnam on Cosmology
Cosmology - 50 years after CMB discovery
will review the most recent status of the field. The conference will consist of plenary sessions for invited indepth oral presentations (review talks and talks on specific specialised topics), and contributed papers in half a day parallel sessions, in the form of relatively short oral papers (sollicitated or selected from abstract submission). Special emphasis is being placed on active participation by young researchers and post-docs.

The main topics of the conference are:

• History of the CMB
  History of the discovery and its interpretation
  CMB temperature measurements
  Instruments for the CMB measurements
• CMB Polarization
  results from space, ground and balloon borne projects
  future projects
• Other CMB measurements
  Astrophysics and Foregrounds, SZ catalogues ...
• Dark Energy
  optical surveys
  (galaxy and cluster correlations, BAO, weak lensing, SN1a)
  21cm observations
  high redshift galaxies and cosmic reionization
• Dark Matter
  Evidence for DM in the Universe
  Indirect searches
  Direct searches
• Primordial Perturbations and Cosmological Inflation after Planck
  large tensor modes, non-Gaussianities
  consequences of reheating on cosmic strings and gravitational waves
• Dark Energy and Modified Gravity
• String theory and Cosmology
• Cosmological neutrino phenomenology

Réza Ansari LAL, Orsay, France	Pierre Astier LPNHE, Paris, France	Cliff Burgess Perimeter Institute, Waterloo, Canada
Jacques Dumarchez LPNHE, Paris, France	Ken Ganga APC, Paris, France	Yannick Giraud-Héraud APC, Paris, France
Jean-Marc Le Goff Irfu-SPP, Saclay, France	Christophe Magneville Irfu-SPP, Saclay, France	Henry McCracken IAP, Paris, France
Hien T. Nguyen JPL, Caltech, Pasadena, USA	Joe Silk IAP, Paris, France Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA	Filippo Vernizzi IPhT, Saclay, France
Ben Wandelt IAP, Paris, France

For questions regarding the scientific program contact:

Jacques Dumarchez jacques.dumarchez@cern.ch

For administrative information contact:

Vera de Sá Varanda vera@lpnhe.in2p3.fr LPNHE - Université Paris 6 CC 200 4 Place Jussieu 75005 Paris France Tel : 33 (0)1 44 27 63 28