Tensions in Cosmology

from Wednesday 7 September 2022 (09:00) to Monday 12 September 2022 (18:00)
Municipal theatre

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
7 Sept 2022
8 Sept 2022
9 Sept 2022
10 Sept 2022
11 Sept 2022
12 Sept 2022
AM
08:00 --- Registration ---
08:45 --- Welcome – E. Saridakis, E. Di Valentino ---
09:00 How many h are there? And what do they mean? - Prof. Licia Verde (Instituto de Ciencias del Cosmos (ICC))  
09:30 Constraints on Cosmological Expansion With Type Ia Supernovae - Prof. Daniel Scolnic (Duke University)  
10:00 Toward Cosmological Concordance with New Physics in the Dark Sector - Prof. Colin Hill (Columbia University)  
10:30 Addressing cosmological tensions with new emerging probes: a perspective from cosmic chronometers - Dr Michele Moresco (University of Bologna)  
10:50 Measuring H0 with strongly lensed quasars - Prof. Leon Koopmans (Kapteyn Astronomical Institute)  
11:10 --- Coffee break ---
11:30 Inhomogeneous Hubble diagram from vector K-mouflage - Dr Philippe Brax (CEA Saclay)  
11:50 A uniform Zwicky Transient Facility-tip of the red giant branch distance ladder Implications for the Hubble constant - Dr Suhail Dhawan (University of Cambridge)  
09:00 Cosmological Constraints using Alternative Hubble Expansion Tracers - Prof. Manolis Plionis (NOA)  
09:30 A possible non-linear solution to the S8 tension - Prof. George Efstathiou  
10:00 The Dark Energy Survey and the S8 tension - Dr Alexandra Amon (Stanford U)  
10:30 Modified gravity with 2 d.o.f. as a tool to address tensions in cosmology - Prof. Shinji Mukohyama (Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University)  
10:50 How to address tensions in cosmology by modified gravity with 2 d.o.f. - Prof. Antonio De Felice  
11:10 --- Coffee break ---
11:30 Current and Future Constraints on H0 from Infrared SBF - Dr John Blakeslee  
11:50 Tensions with  cosmological singularities: Should we try to avoid their appearance? - Prof. Alexander Kamenshchik (Bologna University)  
09:00 Comprehensive Measurements of the Local Value of H0 with 1 km/s/Mpc Uncertainty from the SH0ES Team - Prof. Adam Riess (Johns Hopkins U)  
09:30 Avoiding tensions with a functioning cosmological model - Prof. Pavel Kroupa (Charles University/Bonn University)  
09:50 The Cepheid Distance Scale and its Metallicity Dependence - Dr Louise Breuval (Johns Hopkins University)  
10:10 A geometric measurement of H0 by the Megamaser Cosmology Project - Dr Dominic Pesce (Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian)  
10:30 Generalizing the Friedmann Model in Light of Cosmological Tensions - Dr Timothy Clifton (Queen Mary, U. of London)  
10:50 On the Hubble constant tension and its evolution. - Prof. Maria Dainotti (NAOJ)  
11:10 --- Coffee break ---
11:30 The H0 tension and the physics of the neutrino sector - Dr Antonio J. Cuesta (University of Cordoba)  
11:50 Cosmological Tensions: revisiting spatial curvature. - Dr Alan Coley (Dalhousie Univ.)  
09:00 Model-agnostic interpretation of 10 billion years of cosmic evolution traced by BOSS and eBOSS data - Dr Héctor Gil-Marín  
09:30 Cosmology with the Kilo Degree Survey - Dr Marika Asgari (Edinburgh U.)  
10:00 Reconstructed gravity and cosmological tensions - Prof. Alessandra Silvestri (Instituut Lorentz (Leiden University))  
10:20 Current constraints on the curvature of the Universe - Prof. Alessandro Melchiorri (Università di Roma Sapienza)  
10:40 The Hubble tension and new physics at the eV scale The path to New Early Dark Energy - Prof. Martin Sloth (CP3-Origins)  
11:00 --- Coffee break ---
11:30 3-forms as a mean of resolving tensions - Dr Mariam Bouhmadi López (University of the Basque Country & IKERBASQUE)  
11:50 Resolving Dark Matter Tension: The impact of dynamical friction due to fuzzy dark matter on satellites with triaxial and logarithmic potentials - Dr Kostas Gourgouliatos  
08:00
Departure (until 18:00)
PM
17:00
Arrival & registration (until 19:00)
12:10 Cosmological tension analyses in extended theories of gravity: artificial neutral path - Prof. Celia Escamilla-Rivera (Nuclear Institute of Science (Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares). Universidad Autonoma de Mexico. ICN-UNAM)  
12:30 Large-Scale Anomalies in the Cosmic Microwave Background Current Status, Future Prospects, and Possible Explanations - Dr Yashar Akrami (IFT Madrid & CWRU, USA)  
13:30 --- Lunch break ---
15:30 "Hubble tension: Understanding the theoretical uncertainties of TRGB calibrations theoretical uncertainties of TRGB > calibrations" - Dr Ippocratis Saltas (CEICO, Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Czechia)  
15:50 Inferring cosmological parameters from Baryon Acoustic Oscillations datasets - Prof. Denitsa Staicova (Institute for Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy, BAS)  
16:10 Towards solutions to the Hubble problem beyond Einstein's Gravity - Dr Miguel Zumalacárregui (Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics - Albert Einstein Institut)  
16:30 Next generation cosmological analysis with nested sampling - Dr Will Handley  
16:50 A 1% calibration of the Galactic Cepheid Luminosity scale based on cluster Cepheids strengthens the Hubble tension - Dr Richard Anderson  
21:00 --- Welcome drinks ---
12:10 A robust explanation of CMB anomalies with a new formulation of inflationary quantum fluctuations - Mr Sravan K. Kumar (Universidade da Beira Interior)  
12:30 Electromagnetic Accelerating Universe - Dr Paul Frampton  
12:50 Barrow holographic dark energy and a possible reduction of the Hubble tension - Prof. Mariusz Dabrowski (National Center for Nuclear Research)  
13:10 A reanalysis of the SH0ES data for H_0: Effects of new degrees of freedom on the Hubble tension - Prof. Leandros Perivolaropoulos (University of Ioannina)  
13:30 --- Lunch break ---
15:30 A Mechanism of Baryogenesis for Causal Fermion Systems - Dr Claudio Paganini (Mathematische Fakultät Universität Regensburg/ Albert Einstein Institute)  
15:30 Asymptotic Safety and the Cosmic Coincidence Problem - Prof. Vasileios Zarikas (Univ. of Thessaly)  
15:40 Domaine walls low tension - Prof. Holger Bech Nielsen (Niels Bohr Institute)  
15:40 Slicing through the tension: getting more cosmology from weak lensing - Dr Benjamin Giblin (University of Barcelona / University of Edinburgh)  
15:50 Consistent lensing and clustering in a low-S8 Universe with BOSS, DES Year 3, HSC Year 1 and KiDS-1000 - Dr Naomi Robertson (University of Cambridge)  
15:50 Towards realistic constraints on alternative theories of gravity - Dr Emilio Bellini (INFN Trieste)  
16:00 Alleviating the σ8 tension via Soft Cosmology and Modified Gravity - Mr Charalampos Tzerefos (NOA/NKUA)  
16:00 Is a new cosmological tension emerging from the (Lyman-α) forest? - Dr Matteo Lucca (ULB)  
16:10 Quantum vacuum, a cosmic chamaleon - Dr Cristian Moreno Pulido (University of Barcelona)  
16:10 Tilted cosmology and tensions with the ΛCDM model using SNIa - Ms Kerkyra Asvesta  
16:20 A new probe of dark energy - Mr Giorgos Korkidis (University of Crete - Institute of Astrophysics FORTH)  
16:20 The KBC void and Hubble tension in ΛCDM and Milgromian dynamics - Mr Moritz Haslbauer  
16:30 A 0.9% calibration of the Galactic Cepheid luminosity scale based on Gaia DR3 open cluster astrometry - Dr Mauricio Cruz Reyes  
16:30 Late-time Accelerating Universe in Teleparallel Gravity - Ms Rebecca Briffa (Institute of Space Sciences and Astronomy, University of Malta)  
16:40 Observational Tensions in Kinetically Coupled Quintessence - Ms Elsa Texeira (University of Sheffield)  
16:40 Well-Tempered Cosmology in Teleparallel Horndeski - Ms Maria Caruana (University of Malta (Institute of Space Sciences and Astronomy))  
16:50 A Legacy Calibration of the Tip of the Red Giant Branch Distance Scale as Constrained by the Hubble Space Telescope Implications for the Hubble Constant - Dr Taylor Hoyt (The University of Chicago)  
16:50 Assessing the hemispherical power asymmetry with gravitational waves - Mr Giacomo Galloni (Università di Roma Tor Vergata)  
17:00 A new era of fine structure constant measurements at high redshift - Dr Dinko Milakovic (Institute for Fundamental Physics of the Universe)  
17:00 Testing tension with GR using the mass profiles of galaxy clusters - Dr Lorenzo Pizzuti (Osservatorio Astronomico della Regione Autonoma Valle d’Aosta, Italy)  
17:10 Early Dark Energy meets massive neutrinos - Mr Alexander Reeves (ETHZ)  
17:10 Teleparallel scalar-tensor gravity through cosmological dynamical systems and Its relevance to H0 Tension - Mr Siddheshwar Kadam (BITS-Pilani Hyderabad Campus.)  
17:20 --- Coffee break ---
18:00 Increasing Accuracy in the Measurement of H0 - Prof. Wendy Freedman (University of Chicago)  
18:30 The Etherington-Hubble relation - Dr Fabrizio Renzi (Lorentz Institute for Theoretical Physics, Leiden University)  
18:50 Hubble tension and quantum gravity effects - Prof. Antonino Marcianò (INFN Frascati LNF)  
19:10 Dynamical Vacuum Energy and Cosmological Tensions - Prof. Emil Mottola (Univ. of New Mexico)  
19:30 Resolving tensions in cosmology via the modified measures approach to control vacuum energies - Dr Eduardo Guendelman (Ben Gurion University)  
21:00 --- Conference Dinner (Greek Night) ---
12:10 Testing the foundations of the concordance model - Prof. Roy Maartens (University of Western Cape)  
12:30 The multipole structure of the local expansion rate - Dr Christian Marinoni (Aix-Marseille University)  
13:00 --- Bus excursion ---
12:10 Explaining the Hubble tension and dark energy from alpha-attractors - Prof. Konstantinos Dimopoulos (Lancaster University)  
12:30 Cosmology under the fractional calculus approach: a possible $H_0$ tension resolution? - Dr Genly Leon (Universidad Catolica del Norte)  
12:50 Solving tensions faster with velocities - Prof. Miguel Quartin (Heidelberg U. + U. Federal do Rio de Janeiro)  
13:10 Tensions in Cosmological Probes and Quasar Cosmology - Dr Micol Benetti (University of Naples)  
13:30 --- Lunch break ---
15:30 Alleviation of H0 tension in f(Q) gravity - Dr Fotios Anagnostopoulos (NKUA)  
15:30 BBN constraints in models that alleviate the H0 tension - Mr Petros Asimakis (NTUA)  
15:40 Alleviating H0 tension in Horndeski gravity - Ms Maria Petronikolou (NTUA)  
15:40 The interacting galaxy cluster "El Gordo" a massive blow to LCDM cosmology - Ms Elena Asencio (University of Bonn)  
15:50 Testing robustness of supernovae cosmological parameter inference with Gaussian process - Mr Bohdan Bidenko (University of Groningen)  
15:50 The massless limit and tension in massive gauge theories - Ms Anamaria Hell (LMU Munich)  
16:00 A look beyond ΛCDM theory, phenomenology and observations - Dr William Giarè (Galileo Galilei Institute for theoretical physics)  
16:00 Boltzmann solvers in the era of cosmological tensions: symbolic implementation of extensions in PyCosmo - Ms Beatrice Moser (ETH Zurich)  
16:10 Challenging LCDM and the isotropy of the local Universe with galaxy clusters - Dr Konstantinos Migkas (University of Bonn)  
16:10 Quantifying the S8 tension with the Redshift Space Distortion data set - Dr David Benisty (Ben Gurion U. of Negev)  
16:20 Can intermediate time scales modified gravity theories solve the s8 and H0 tensions ? - Dr Ziad Sakr (IRAP Toulouse)  
16:20 Correlations between galaxy angular momenta and initial conditions - Dr Pavel Motloch (CITA, University of Toronto)  
16:30 Resolving Hubble Tension with New Gravitational Scalar Tensor Theories - Dr Shreya Banerjee (Friedrich Alexander University, Erlangen, Germany)  
16:30 The last 10 billion years of cosmic structure growth - Mr Carlos Garcia Garcia (University of Oxford)  
16:40 Alleviating H0 tension in entropic cosmology - Dr Andreas Lymperis (University of Patras)  
16:40 The H0 tension alleviated through ultra-light primordial black holes: an information insight through gravitational waves - Dr Theodoros Papanikolaou (National Observatory of Athens)  
16:50 A new constraint on Early Dark Energy using the profile likelihood - Ms Laura Herold (Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Munich)  
16:50 As good as it gets -- solving the H0-tension à la Ellis & Stoeger - Dr Jenny Wagner  
17:00 Can we alleviate the tensions using ANN - Dr Konstantinos Dialektopoulos (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)  
17:00 Tensions in the deceleration parameter the effect of peculiar velocities in the time-like and null q - Dr Jessica Santiago (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)  
17:10 Assessing tensions in CMB Polarization data by extending the Minkowski Functional framework - Mr Javier Carron Duque (University of Rome Tor Vergata)  
17:10 Impact of redshift systematics and intrinsic alignment modelling on the S8-tension - Mr Silvan Fischbacher (ETH Zurich)  
17:20 Clustering effects on GWs Dark Sirens determination of Ho A simulations study - Mr Marios Kalomenopoulos (University of Edinburgh)  
17:20 Early dark energy in the light of large scale structure data - Ms Rafaela Gsponer (Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation)  
17:30 --- Coffee break ---
18:30 Update on GW standard siren cosmology - Prof. Daniel Holz (University of Chicago)  
19:00 Tensions and anomalies: how well do we understand subtle dependencies of galaxy clustering on their properties? - Prof. Agnieszka Pollo (National Center for Nuclear Research)  
19:20 Interacting vacuum and tensions - Dr Marco Bruni (University of Portsmouth)  
19:40
Conference Closure - Emmanuel Saridakis Eleonora Di Valentino (until 20:00)