Progress on Old and New Themes in cosmology (PONT) 2023

from Tuesday, May 2, 2023 (8:35 AM) to Friday, May 5, 2023 (8:00 PM)
Palais des papes, Avignon (Chambre du Trésorier)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
May 2, 2023
May 3, 2023
May 4, 2023
May 5, 2023
AM
8:55 AM Intro - Christian Marinoni (Centre de Physique Théorique, Marseille)  
9:00 AM
Gravitational Waves (until 12:25 PM)
9:00 AM LVK review - Rachel Gray  
9:35 AM PTA Review - Golam Mohiuddin Shaifullah  
10:10 AM GW Beyond-LCDM - Tessa Baker  
10:45 AM --- Coffee break ---
11:15 AM Magnifying the gravitational-wave Universe - Jose Maria Ezquiaga Bravo  
11:50 AM LISA cosmology - Chiara Caprini (Universite de Geneve (CH))  
8:00 AM
Early Universe (until 11:50 AM)
9:00 AM Probing inflation: precision physics, exploratory physics, and formal aspects - Sébastien Renaux-Petel (IAP - CNRS)  
9:35 AM EFT Constraints on Inflationary Scenarios - Giovanni Cabass (Institute for Advanced Study)  
10:10 AM CMB review - Dr Matthieu TRISTRAM (CNRS)  
10:45 AM --- Coffee break ---
11:15 AM Cosmological tests of gravity - Kazuya Koyama  
11:50 AM
Early Universe (until 12:30 PM)
11:50 AM Resonant Features in Inflation Beyond Perturbation Theory - Giovanni Tambalo  
12:10 PM Robust constraints on the primordial power spectrum from mini halos and the CMB anisotropies - Guillermo Franco Abellán  
9:00 AM
Late Universe (until 11:50 AM)
9:00 AM Status of the Hubble tension - Dillon Brout (Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)  
9:35 AM EFT of the Large Scale Structure - Guido D'Amico (Universita degli Studi di Parma (IT))  
10:10 AM Review on theoretical solutions to the H0 and S8 tensions - Tristan Smith (Swarthmore College)  
10:45 AM --- Coffee break ---
11:15 AM The future of dark energy - Eric Linder  
11:50 AM
Late Universe (until 12:30 PM)
11:50 AM Cosmological tests of Einstein and Euler - Prof. Levon Pogosian (Simon Fraser University)  
12:10 PM ΛCDM is alive and well - Prof. Alain Blanchard (IRAP, UPS, Toulouse)  
9:00 AM
Astrophysical messengers of fundamental physics (until 12:25 PM)
9:00 AM Selected aspects of the particle vs wave nature of dark matter - Sebastian Hoof (Università degli Studi di Padova)  
9:35 AM Probing light particles with stars - Andrea Caputo (CERN)  
10:10 AM Dark matter in extreme astrophysical environments - Dr Djuna Croon (IPPP Durham)  
10:45 AM --- Coffee break ---
11:15 AM Probing dark matter with line intensity mapping - Alvise Raccanelli (Universita e INFN, Padova (IT))  
11:50 AM Gamma and X-ray searches for dark matter - Nicholas Llewellyn Rodd (CERN)  
PM
12:25 PM --- Lunch break ---
2:00 PM
Gravitational Waves (until 6:30 PM)
2:00 PM Gwfast and the detection of high-redshift black-hole binaries at third generation GW detectors - Michele Mancarella (University of Milan-Bicocca)  
2:20 PM Gravitational-wave cosmology with binary black holes as dark sirens in the 3G era - Danny LAGHI  
2:40 PM Measuring supermassive black hole properties from binary inspirals in LISA - Adrien KUNTZ (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa)  
3:00 PM Constraining cosmological parameters with massive black hole binaries - Alberto Mangiagli  
3:20 PM Modified gravitational-wave propagation with extreme mass-ratio inspirals - Chang Liu (L2IT / PKU)  
3:40 PM Smoking guns of beyong-GR physics in binary mergers - Dr Daniela Doneva (University of Tuebingen)  
4:00 PM --- Coffee break ---
4:30 PM Gravitational wave production in higher derivative gravity - Anna Tokareva (Imperial College London)  
4:50 PM The SGWB produced by MHD turbulence in the early universe - Dr Alberto Roper Pol (Universite de Geneve (CH))  
5:10 PM Real scalar phase transitions: bubble nucleation, nonperturbatively - Anna Kormu  
5:30 PM Reconstructing phase transitions from future LISA data - Deanna Hooper  
5:50 PM Searching for anisotropic stochastic GW backgrounds with constellations of space-based interferometers - Giulia Capurri (SISSA)  
6:10 PM Searching for the Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background with Ground-Based Detectors - Jishnu Suresh (Université catholique de Louvain)  
6:30 PM
Welcome Cocktail (until 7:30 PM)
7:30 PM
Conférence Grand Public (until 9:30 PM) (Cellier Benoit XII)
12:30 PM --- Lunch Break ---
2:00 PM
Early Universe (until 6:30 PM)
2:00 PM The Cosmological Flow: a Systematic Approach to Primordial Correlators - Denis Werth  
2:20 PM Enabling Beyond-LCDM Non-Linear Matter Power Spectrum Emulation with COLA - Guilherme Brando de Oliveira  
2:40 PM Dynamical Tunnelling-Induced Cosmological Bounce - Drew Backhouse  
3:00 PM Phase transitions in the early universe: a 2PI approach - Eleanor Hall  
3:20 PM Modified gravity in two body problem: theoretical implications and observational constraints - Dr David Benisty (University of Cambridge)  
3:40 PM Causality Constraints on Mergers beyond General Relativity - Francesco Serra  
4:00 PM --- Coffee break ---
4:30 PM Coupling metric-affine gravity to a Higgs-like scalar field - Claire Aude Laure Rigouzzo (King's College London)  
4:50 PM Covariant Effective Action for Generalized Proca Theories - Dr Sukanta Panda (IISER Bhopal)  
5:10 PM Ruling out Interacting Holographic Dark Energy with Hubble scale cutoff - Ricardo Landim (University of Portsmouth)  
5:30 PM A cosmological model where the expansion is blind to the spatial curvature - Vigneron Quentin (Copernicus University of Toruń)  
5:50 PM Screening approach to address relativistic species as sources of cosmological perturbations - Ezgi Yilmaz (CASUS)  
6:10 PM Backreaction of cosmological perturbations - Prof. Alexander Zhuk (Astronomical Observatory Odessa National University (UA), Center for Advanced Systems Understanding (Germany))  
12:30 PM --- Lunch Break ---
2:00 PM
Late Universe (until 6:30 PM)
2:00 PM Exploring the effects of primordial non-Gaussianity at galactic scales - Clément Stahl  
2:20 PM Constraining cosmological models with the effective field theory of large-scale structures - Théo Simon  
2:40 PM Constraining spatial curvature with large-scale structure - Mr Julien BEL (Centre de Physique Théorique)  
3:00 PM What it takes to solve the Hubble tension through modifications of cosmological recombination - Nanoom Lee  
3:20 PM Tensions in Cosmological Probes and Quasar Cosmology - Dr Micol Benetti (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Scuola Superiore Meridionale)  
3:40 PM Multipole Expansion of the Local Expansion Rate - Basheer KALBOUNEH  
4:00 PM --- Coffee break ---
4:30 PM Constraining non-standard neutrino interactions with cosmology - Petter Taule (IPhT, Saclay)  
4:50 PM Antisymmetric galaxy cross-correlations - Eleonora Vanzan (Università degli Studi di Padova)  
5:10 PM Measuring weak lensing with strong lensing: a proof of concept - Dr Natalie Hogg (IPhT CEA-Saclay)  
5:30 PM Mysteries under a strong lens - Charles Dalang (Queen Mary University of London)  
5:50 PM Gravitational lensing induced by matter currents - Dr Calum Murray (APC, University Paris Cité)  
6:10 PM Relativistic matter bispectrum of cosmic structures on the light cone - Thomas Montandon (University of Vienna)  
7:00 PM
Conference Cocktail & Dinner (until 10:00 PM)
12:25 PM --- Lunch Break ---
1:55 PM
Astrophysical messengers of fundamental physics (until 2:30 PM)
1:55 PM Dark matter - baryon interactions in the Milky Way - Prof. Kimberly Boddy (University of Texas at Austin)  
2:30 PM
Astrophysical messengers of fundamental physics: Contributed talks (until 6:40 PM)
2:30 PM First neutrino telescope dedicated search for DM induced neutrino lines - Thomas Hambye (ULB)  
2:50 PM CR antinuclei predictions and their detectability in the next years - Pedro De la Torre Luque  
3:10 PM Probing Axions through Tomography of Anisotropic Cosmic Birefringence - Alessandro Greco  
3:30 PM Quasi-extremal primordial black holes are a viable dark matter candidate - Matteo Lucca (ULB)  
3:50 PM Did black holes in the very early universe induced the formation of the first Pop III stars? - Dr Felix Mirabel (CEA-France & IAFE-Argentina)  
4:10 PM --- Coffee break ---
4:40 PM Black Holes as Probes for Ultralight Dark Matter - Bruno Bucciotti (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa)  
5:00 PM Ultra-Light Dark Matter: Current Constraints and Future Possibilities - Emily Kendall (The University of Auckland)  
5:20 PM Exploring the Role of Self-Interacting Scalar Dark Matter in Dynamical Friction and GW Emission - Alexis Boudon  
5:40 PM Strong electroweak phase transition and simplified dark matter models - Philipp Schicho (Goethe University Frankfurt)  
6:00 PM Solitons and halos for self-interacting scalar dark matter - Raquel Galazo  
6:20 PM Exploring the Dark Sector (non-abelian DM-DR interaction) - Asmaa Mazoun