ATHEXIS - Athens Symposium on Exploring the Universe

Name: ATHEXIS - Athens Symposium on Exploring the Universe
Start: 2024-06-10T09:00:00+03:00
End: 2024-06-14T19:00:00+03:00
Location: Athens, Greece

10 Jun 2024, 09:00 → 14 Jun 2024, 19:00 Europe/Athens

Athens, Greece

National Hellenic Research Foundation (NHRF) 48 Vassileos Constantinou Ave. 11635 Athens, Greece http://www.eie.gr/index-en.html

Description

The Athens symposium on Exploring the Universe (ATHEXIS) will take place οn 10-14 June 2024.

It aims to bring together scientists working on (astro)particle physics and cosmology and initiate cross-field discussions on recent developments and future prospects. The presentations will cover recent progress on theoretical, phenomenological and observational aspects of cutting-edge topic.

This meeting is organized by the National Technical University of Athens, the National Hellenic Research Foundation, University of Cyprus, Instituto de Física Corpuscular - CSIC / University of Valencia, Sorbonne University and École Normale Supérieure.

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Ioannis Dalianis (Cyprus U)
Nikos Irges (NTU Athens)
Alexandros Kehagias (NTU Athens)
Chris Kouvaris - Chair (NTU Athens)
Nick E. Mavromatos (NTU Athens & King's College London)
Vasiliki A. Mitsou (Instituto de Física Corpuscular, CSIC / Valencia U)
Kalliopi Petraki (Sorbonne Université & École Normale Supérieure, Paris)

Contact

athens2024@mail.ntua.gr

Participants

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Monday 10 June
- 09:30 → 11:00
  Plenary talks
  - 09:30
    
    The cosmological axion domain wall problem 30m
    
    Speaker: Subir Sarkar (University of Oxford)
    
    Sarkar_Athens2024_axionwalls.pdf
  - 10:00
    
    Coherent and incoherent dynamics of Fuzzy Dark Matter . 30m
    
    Speaker: Gerasimos Rigopoulos (Newcastle University)
    
    Rigopoulos2_Coherent and Incoherent Dynamics of Fuzzy Dark Matter-ATHEXIS24.pdf
    
    Rigopoulos_Coherent and Incoherent Dynamics of Fuzzy Dark Matter-ATHEXIS24.pptx
  - 10:30
    
    Pre-merger & post-merger phenomena in compact binary mergers 30m
    
    Speaker: Kostas Kokkotas
    
    Kokkotas_NTUA.pdf
- 11:00 → 11:30
  
  Coffee break 30m
- 11:30 → 13:00
  Plenary talks
  - 11:30
    
    Pulsar Polarization Array 30m
    
    Speaker: Tao Liu (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HK))
    
    Liu_2024_06_PPA_ATHEXIS.pdf
  - 12:00
    
    Diffuse Axion Background 30m
    
    Speaker: Joshua Eby
    
    DiffuseAxions.pdf
  - 12:30
    
    Hunting for dark matter with its high-energy fluxes 30m
    
    Speaker: Filippo Sala
    
    Athexis_Jun2024_FSala.pdf
- 15:00 → 16:30
  Plenary talks
  - 15:00
    
    Tensions and anomalies in cosmology 30m
    
    Speaker: Javier de Cruz Pérez (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
    
    Athexis_presentation_Javier_de_Cruz.pdf
  - 15:30
    
    Finite volume effects in QFT and cosmic bounce 30m
    
    Speaker: Jean Alexandre
    
    Athens June 24.pdf
  - 16:00
    
    Investigating Dark Matter: Insights from Stars 30m
    
    Speaker: Ilidio Lopes
    
    Ilidio_Lopes_StarsDM_Athens_2024_final.pdf
- 16:30 → 17:00
  
  Coffee break 30m
- 17:00 → 17:45
  Short talks
  - 17:00
    
    Relic Background boosted in cosmic reservoirs 15m
    
    Speaker: Andrea Giovanni De Marchi
    
    ATHEXIS_De_Marchi.pdf
  - 17:15
    
    Cosmology from SKA observatory precursors 15m
    
    Speaker: Jacobo Asorey Barreiro (Universidad Complutense de Madrid and IPARCOS)
    
    ATHEXIS_Atenas_10June2024_JacoboAsorey.pdf
  - 17:30
    
    Explaining the broken power-law in JWST counts 15m
    
    Speaker: Dr Giorgio Manzoni
    
    GIORGIO_ATHENS2024.pdf
Tuesday 11 June
- 09:30 → 11:00
  Plenary talks
  - 09:30
    
    Non-adiabatic inflation 30m
    
    Speaker: David Wands
    
    Wands Athens 2024.pdf
  - 10:00
    
    The impact of modifications to gravity on inhomogeneous cosmologies 30m
    
    Speaker: Katy Clough
    
    AthensJun2024.pdf
  - 10:30
    
    Non-perturbative physics of inflation 30m
    
    Speaker: Sébastien Renaux-Petel
    
    Renaux-Petel-Athexis.pdf
- 11:00 → 11:30
  
  Coffee break 30m
- 11:30 → 13:00
  Plenary talks
  - 11:30
    
    LIGO - Virgo - KAGRA stochastic searches and results. 30m
    
    Speaker: Jishnu Suresh (Université catholique de Louvain)
    
    Jishnu-LVK-SGWB.pdf
  - 12:00
    
    Mechanisms for primordial black hole formation from single field inflation 30m
    
    Speaker: Guillermo Ballesteros (IFT UAM-CSIC)
    
    Athens 2024 GBM.pdf
  - 12:30
    
    Non-Gaussianity of the curvature peturbation and its impact on the primordial black hole formation 30m
    
    Speaker: Shi Pi (Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
    
    ATHEXIS_Shi_Pi.pdf
- 15:00 → 16:30
  Plenary talks
  - 15:00
    
    Entanglement in an expanding universe 30m
    
    Speaker: Nikolaos Tetradis (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (GR))
    
    ATHEXIS Tetradis.pdf
  - 15:30
    
    Like a bridge over troubled water: NEDE and the Hubble tension 30m
    
    Speaker: Martin Snoager Sloth
    
    Sloth_New_EDE-24-Athens-nb.pdf
  - 16:00
    
    On how BAO shape the late-time solutions to the H0 tension, and the wXCDM 30m
    
    Speaker: Adrià Gómez-Valent
    
    Talk Athexis June 2024.pdf
- 16:30 → 17:00
  
  Coffee break 30m
- 17:00 → 18:00
  Plenary talks
  - 17:00
    
    Gravitational particle production and freeze-in at stronger coupling 30m
    
    Speaker: Oleg Lebedev
    
    athens2024.pdf
  - 17:30
    
    Minimal & Nonminimal Dark Matter 30m
    
    Speaker: Anna Socha (LPENS)
    
    ATHEXIS_ASocha.pdf
- 18:00 → 18:20
  Short talks
  - 18:00
    
    Cosmological correlators with double massive exchanges 20m
    
    Speaker: Shuntaro Aoki (IBS CTPU)
    
    ATHEXIS_Aoki.pdf
Wednesday 12 June
- 09:30 → 11:00
  Plenary talks
  - 09:30
    
    Explaining nonlinearities in black hole ringdowns from symmetries 30m
    
    Speaker: Antonio Walter Riotto (Universite de Geneve (CH))
    
    Riotto_NonlinearRingdown.pdf
  - 10:00
    
    A stretched horizon effective field theory understanding of black hole echoes 30m
    
    Speaker: Subodh Patil
  - 10:30
    
    What's inside a black hole ? 30m
    
    Speaker: Ramy Brustein (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (IL))
- 11:00 → 11:30
  
  Coffee break 30m
- 11:20 → 13:00
  Plenary talks
  - 11:30
    
    Dynamical friction, dark matter and gravitational wave signals 30m
    
    Speaker: Vincent Desjacques (Technion)
    
    Vincent.pdf
  - 12:00
    
    The Black Hole Formation -- Null Geodesic Correspondence 30m
    
    Speaker: Davide Perrone (Universite de Geneve (CH))
    
    ATHEXIS_Perrone.pdf
Thursday 13 June
- 09:30 → 11:00
  Plenary talks
  - 09:30
    
    Connecting the baryons to the dark matter of the Universe 30m
    
    Speaker: Alejandro Ibarra (Technical University of Munich)
    
    Ibarra-1.pdf
  - 10:00
    
    Status of the LUXZEPLIN dark matter experiment 30m
    
    Speaker: Aiham Al Musalhi (UCL)
    
    AA_ATHEXIS.pdf
  - 10:30
    
    Searching for Dark Matter in Gamma Rays 30m
    
    Speaker: Ilias Cholis (Oakland University)
    
    ATHEXIS_2024_Cholis.pdf
- 11:00 → 11:30
  
  Coffee break 30m
- 11:30 → 13:00
  Plenary talks
  - 11:30
    
    Exploring the early universe via high energy nuclear collisions on the Earth 30m
    
    Speaker: Jamal Jalilian-Marian (Baruch College (US))
    
    jjm-athens-cosmology-06-2024.pdf
  - 12:00
    
    Minimal sterile neutrino dark matter 30m
    
    Speaker: Torsten Bringmann (University of Oslo (NO))
    
    Bringmann_Athens.pdf
  - 12:30
    
    Cosmology with broken diffeomorphisms 30m
    
    Speaker: ANTONIO LOPEZ MAROTO
    
    TDiff_Athens_Maroto.pdf
- 15:00 → 16:30
  Plenary talks
  - 15:00
    
    Constraining primordial black holes of asteroid masses by observation of stars in dwarf galaxies 30m
    
    Speaker: Peter Tinyakov (Universite Libre de Bruxelles)
  - 15:30
    
    On the early dressing of primordial black holes by particle dark matter in the radiation era 30m
    
    Speaker: Julien Lavalle (LUPM (CNRS / Univ. Montpellier))
    
    pbhs_and_wimps_jlavalle_athexis_2406.pdf
  - 16:00
    
    Unitarity in the non-relativistic regime and implications for dark matter 30m
    
    Speaker: Marcos Flores (LPENS)
    
    mflores_athexis2024.pdf
- 16:30 → 17:00
  
  Coffee break 30m
- 17:00 → 18:30
  Plenary talks
  - 17:00
    
    Condensed dark matter with a Yukawa interaction 30m
    
    Speaker: Jerome Vandecasteele
    
    Vandecasteele - DM SI in DS.pdf
  - 17:30
    
    Excited bound states and their role in dark matter production 30m
    
    Speaker: Stefan Lederer
    
    excitedBSF-ATHEXIS_Lederer_v4+backup.pdf
Friday 14 June
- 09:30 → 11:00
  Plenary talks
  - 09:30
    
    Applications of the Tunneling Potential Formalism 30m
    
    Speaker: Jose Ramon Espinosa Sedano (ICREA / IFAE Barcelona (ES))
    
    Espinosa_Athens_2024.pdf
  - 10:00
    
    A parity-violating Universe? Cosmic Birefringence (and more). 30m
    
    Speaker: Nicola Bartolo
    
    Bartolo_Athens2024.pdf
  - 10:30
    
    On the Effective Field Theory of Large Scale Structure 30m
    
    Speaker: Leonardo Senatore
    
    senatore_seminar_senatore_EFTofLSS_Athens_v1.pdf
- 11:00 → 11:30
  
  Coffee break 30m
- 11:30 → 13:30
  Plenary talks
  - 11:30
    
    Peering Beyond the Standard Model at the LHC: The Odyssey For Anomalously Ionizing Messengers of New Physics with MoEDAL-MAPP 30m
    
    Speaker: Michael Anthony Staelens (Instituto de Física Corpuscular (IFIC), Universitat de València–CSIC)
    
    Peering Beyond the Standard Model at the LHC (ATHEXIS Plenary, 14 June 2024) (Sequenced, v2).pdf
  - 12:00
    
    Search for cosmological phase transitions through their gravitational wave signals 30m
    
    Speaker: Marek Lewicki (University of Warsaw)
    
    2024_06_PTGW_MLewicki.pdf
  - 12:30
    
    Fundamental fields, scalar charges and Extreme Mass Ratio Inspirals 30m
    
    Speaker: Andrea Maselli
    
    Athens.pdf
- 15:00 → 16:30
  Plenary talks
  - 15:00
    
    Gravitational Wave Discoveries Enabled by Machine Learning 30m
    
    Speaker: Nikolaos Stergioulas (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
  - 15:30
    
    Probing massive black holes with gravitational waves 30m
    
    Speaker: Konstantinos Kritos
    
    athexis2024_kritos.pdf
  - 16:00
    
    Realising dark matter via dark branes 30m
    
    Speaker: Fotios Koutroulis (Warsaw University)
    
    KOUTROULIS_ATHEXIS2024.pdf
- 16:30 → 17:00
  
  Coffee break 30m
- 17:00 → 18:00
  Short talks
  - 17:00
    
    Radiation backreaction during dark-matter freeze-out via metastable bound states 20m
    
    Speaker: Christiana Vasilaki
    
    ChristianaVasilaki-ATHEXIS.pdf
  - 17:20
    
    Imprints of energy injection by compact dark stars during reionization 20m
    
    Speaker: Boris Betancourt Kamenetskaia (Technical University of Munich)
    
    Betancourt21cm.pdf
  - 17:40
    
    Gravitational Wave Detection in O3 LIGO-Virgo data with the AresGW Deep Learning Code 20m
    
    Speaker: Alexandra Eleni Koloniari (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)