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 ony
Cosmology
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:

• 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
  Theory
  Direct and indirect searches
  Primordial black holes
• Inflation and the Early Universe after Planck
  Theory
  Primordial tensor modes, primordial non-Gaussianities, model selection
  Gravitational waves from reheating, phase transitions and cosmic strings
• Large Scale Structures
  Bias, Relativistic effects
  Effective approches to the mildly nonlinear regime
  N-body simulations
• Dark Energy and Modified Gravity
  Theory
  Tests of General Relativity and alternative theories
  Gravitational waves
• String theory and Cosmology
• Cosmic neutrino phenomenology

Pierre Astier LPNHE, Paris, France	François Bouchet IAP, 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	Tomotake Matsumura KEK, Tsukuba, Japan	Hien T. Nguyen JPL, Caltech, Pasadena, USA
Joe Silk IAP, Paris, France Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA	Filippo Vernizzi IPhT, Saclay, France

For questions regarding the scientific program contact:

Jacques Dumarchez jacques.dumarchez@cern.ch

For administrative information contact:

Aimie Fong Secretary of the Rencontres du Vietnam rencontres.vietnam@gmail.com BP 33 F-91192 Gif sur Yvette France Tel : 33 (0)1 69 28 51 35