The Iberian Cosmology meetings were born at a dinner chat between Maria Beltrán and Carlos Martins, during the Moriond 2006 Cosmology session. They were inspired by the UK Cosmology Meetings, and are therefore informal and without registration fees. The shorter name IberiCos was first introduced in 2008, and is due to José Pedro Mimoso.
The first meeting was held in Porto on the 1st and 2nd of December 2006. With the exception of the second meeting (which lasted one day and was included in a larger conference) they were initially two-day independent meetings, but their growing popularity meant that a three-day format was adopted, starting in 2010. Due to COVID-19 there was no meeting in 2020, while the 2021 edition was held online and the 2022 edition was hybrid.
The visibility of the meetings has grown beyond Portugal and Spain, and at present a significant fraction of the participants has no professional or personal connection to either country.
The meetings are open to cosmologists in the broadest sense, from theoretical particle physics to observational astrophysics. The sessions are usually organized around common themes, and sometimes include guided discussions.
The idea behind these meetings was also adopted by the asteroseismology, gravitational waves, and string theory communities, all of which have in more recent years started to organize their own Iberian meetings.
Previous editions of IberiCos:
- Porto 2006
- Bilbao 2007
- Lisbon 2008
- Madrid 2009
- Porto 2010
- Salamanca 2011
- Lisbon 2012
- Granada 2013
- Aveiro 2014
- Aranjuez 2015
- Vila do Conde 2016
- Valencia 2017
- Lisbon 2018
- Bilbao 2019
- Coimbra 2021 (online)
- Barcelona 2022
- Ponte de Lima 2023
- Salamanca 2024
