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Scientific Organizing Committee
Matthew Colless, Brian Boyle, Luiz da Costa, Richard Ellis, John Huchra,
Jeremy Mould, Joe Silk, Alex Szalay
Local Organizing Committee
Matthew Colless, Paul Francis, Bruce Peterson, Ian Price, Robert Smith
The Australian National University's Research School of Astronomy & Astrophysics (formerly Mount Stromlo & Siding Spring Observatories) sponsored the second Coral Sea Cosmology Conference, held over 24-28 August 1999. The conference was also supported by the Anglo-Australian Observatory. The topic of the conference was Redshift Surveys and Cosmology, and the venue was the resort on Dunk Island, a tropical rainforest island in the midst of the Great Barrier Reef near Cairns.
The focus of the meeting was on redshift surveys (recent, ongoing and planned) and their use in probing cosmological parameters, large-scale structure and the evolution of galaxies, QSOs and other cosmologically-interesting populations. Links between redshift surveys and other survey approaches to cosmology were highly relevant, as were new techniques in instrumentation and data analysis. Topics covered included:
All participants had the opportunity to speak. The style of the meeting was informal, with a mix of 30 and 45 minute talks and discussion periods. Talks were held in the mornings and evenings, leaving afternoons free to explore the rainforest and the reef. There are no formal published proceedings, but every speaker was asked to provide their talk material in either electronic or hardcopy form for publication on the WWW.
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