IberiCos 2025

from Monday, April 14, 2025 (8:30 AM) to Wednesday, April 16, 2025 (1:50 PM)
Auditorium C.1

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
Apr 14, 2025
Apr 15, 2025
Apr 16, 2025
AM
8:30 AM
Registration (until 9:15 AM)
9:15 AM
Opening session (until 9:30 AM)
9:30 AM Gravitational waves and axion stars from strings - Prof. Edward Hardy (University of Oxford)  
10:15 AM
Session 1 - Phase Transitions & Topological Defects - Session convener: Carlos Martins (until 11:00 AM)
10:15 AM Gravitational Waves from compressional and vortical modes in strong first order phase transitions - José Ricardo Correia  
10:30 AM Gravitational waves from a curvature-induced phase transition of a Higgs-portal dark matter sector - Dr Andreas Mantziris (University of Porto)  
10:45 AM Catastrophic events in domain wall evolution - Daniel Jiménez Aguilar (Tufts University)  
11:00 AM --- Coffee break ---
11:30 AM
Session 2 - Phase Transitions & Topological Defects - Session convener: Chris Byrnes (until 12:45 PM)
11:30 AM Structure Formation From Cosmic Domain Wall Collapses - Clara Winckler  
11:45 AM Domain wall evolution beyond quartic potentials: The Sine-Gordon and Christ-Lee potentials - Ricarda Heilemann  
12:00 PM Analytical Methods for Realistic Cosmic Strings and Superstrings - Pedro Belo Barbosa (University of Porto)  
12:15 PM Preliminary evaluation of GVOS model parameters on the asymptotic solutions for current carrying cosmic strings networks evolution - Francisco Pimenta  
12:30 PM Analytical approximations to the stochastic gravitational wave background from cosmic strings with friction - Mr Sergei Mukovnikov (Institute of Astrophysics, Centre for Astrophysics of the University of Porto)  
9:30 AM Primordial Black Holes and the Early Universe - Jessica Turner  
10:15 AM
Session 5 - Compact objects & Cosmology - Session convener: Javier Rubio (until 11:00 AM)
10:15 AM Are supermassive black holes primordial? - Chris Byrnes  
10:30 AM Implications of cosmologically coupled black holes for pulsar timing arrays - Marco Calza (University of Trento)  
10:45 AM Probing fundamental physics using compact astrophysical objects - Eleanna Kolonia (Perimeter Institute, University of Waterloo)  
11:00 AM --- Coffee break ---
11:30 AM
Session 6 - Early Universe - Session convener: Richard Holman (until 12:45 PM)
11:30 AM Echoes of the Higgs: Gravitational Waves and the Fate of the Electroweak Vacuum - Dr JAVIER RUBIO (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)  
11:45 AM Current constraints on cosmological scenarios with very low reheating temperatures - Nicola Barbieri (INFN Ferrara)  
12:00 PM Testing inflationary models with de Sitter Swampland Conjectures - Prof. Orfeu Bertolami (University of Porto)  
12:15 PM Schwinger Current in de Sitter Space - Paulo B. Ferraz (University of Coimbra)  
12:30 PM Preheated inflation - Diogo Gorgulho (University of Coimbra)  
9:30 AM Line-Intensity Mapping: opportunities, challenges and new windows for new physics - José Luis Bernal  
10:15 AM
Session 9 - Observational Cosmology - Session convener: José Fonseca (until 11:00 AM)
10:15 AM Cosmological implications of the TDiff invariant models - Javier de Cruz Pérez (Universidad de Córdoba)  
10:30 AM JWST observations and state of cosmic anomalies - Dr Ruchika Ruchika (University of Salamanca)  
10:45 AM Illustrating the consequences of a misuse of sigma_8 in cosmology - Adrià Gómez-Valent  
11:00 AM --- Coffee break ---
11:30 AM
Session 10 - Observational Cosmology - Session convener: Mar Bastero-Gil (until 12:45 PM)
11:30 AM Quantifying BAO tension and its implications for late-time solutions to the Hubble crisis - Arianna Favale (University of Rome Tor Vergata)  
11:45 AM The revival of galaxy-quasar correlations for cosmology - Marcos Muniz Cueli  
12:00 PM Cosmography via Stellar Archaeology of stacked SDSS Legacy ETGs - Carlos Alonso Álvarez  
12:15 PM Study of the physical properties of strong gravitational lens candidates in the sub-mm through SED analysis - JUAN ALBERTO CANO DIEZ  
12:30 PM Varying fundamental constants cosmography - Carlos Martins  
PM
12:45 PM --- Lunch ---
2:30 PM
Session 3 - Modified Gravity & Dark Energy - Session convener: Filipe Mena (until 4:15 PM)
2:30 PM Quintessence approximations - Dr Artur Alho (CAMGSD-IST)  
2:45 PM Comparing Dark Energy Models in Extended Theories of Gravity - Paulo Alexandre Gomes Monteiro (Center for Astrophysics, University of Porto)  
3:00 PM Observational constraints on vector-like dark energy - Carolina Coelho Anna-Lena Gschrey  
3:15 PM The ESPRESSO Redshift Drift Experiment -- High-fidelity spectra of the Lyman forest of QSO J052915.80-435152.0 - ANDREA TROST (University of Trieste)  
3:30 PM Temperature-redshift relation in energy-momentum-powered gravity models - Ana Mafalda Vieira (Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa)  
3:45 PM Is cosmological data suggesting a nonminimal coupling between matter and gravity? - Miguel Barroso Varela  
4:00 PM Testing hyperconical modified gravity in galaxies and clusters with distinct datasets - Dr Robert Monjo (University of Alcalá)  
4:15 PM --- Coffee break ---
4:45 PM
Session 4 - Modified Gravity & Dark Energy - Session convener: Artur Alho (until 6:30 PM)
4:45 PM Testing Gravity with cross-correlations of CMB and LSS - Guglielmo Frittoli (Università Roma Tor Vergata)  
5:00 PM Diffusion Models for Emulating the Large-Scale Structure of the Universe in Modified Gravity Cosmologies - Mr Jorge Enrique García-Farieta (Universidad de Córdoba)  
5:15 PM The hybrid cosmology in the scalar-tensor representation of $f(\mathcal{G},T)$ gravity - Adam Kaczmarek (Jan Długosz University in Częstochowa, Poland)  
5:30 PM Homogeneous solutions to the Einstein-matter equations at a conformal gauge singularity - Prof. Ernesto Nungesser (UPM)  
5:45 PM Understanding Lcdm and Constraining Modified gravity using stacked galaxy clusters' caustics - Minahil Adil Butt  
6:00 PM Unveiling Cosmic Dynamics through f(Q) Gravity - Chaymae Karam (Mohammed V University of Rabat, Faculty of Sciences (High Energy Physics Team - Modeling and Simulation))  
12:45 PM --- Lunch ---
2:30 PM
Session 7 - Astroparticle Physics - Session convener: Orfeu Bertolami (until 4:15 PM)
2:30 PM A multiple QCD axion - Maria Pestana Da Luz Pereira Ramos  
2:45 PM Strong CMB bounds on ALPS form strings - Riccardo Impavido (Università di Ferrara, INFN Ferrara)  
3:00 PM Small instanton-induced flavor invariants and the axion potential - Guilherme Guedes (DESY)  
3:15 PM How much is the lifetime of an oscillon affected by coupling to another field? - Siyao Li  
3:30 PM Constraining dark matter candidates using gravitational strong lensing - Ioana Alexandra Zelko (Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics)  
3:45 PM Deviations from the von Laue Condition: Implications for the On-Shell Lagrangian of Particles and Fluids - Samuel Pinto (FCUP / CAUP)  
4:15 PM --- Coffee break ---
4:45 PM
Session 8 - Gravity - Session convener: José Mimoso (until 6:15 PM)
4:45 PM Electromagnetic wormholes - Ms MARÍA PÉREZ GARROTE (USAL)  
5:00 PM Penrose and super-Penrose energy extraction from a Reissner-Nordström black hole spacetime with a cosmological constant through the Bañados-Silk-West mechanism - Duarte Feiteira (Department of Physics, University of Helsinki)  
5:15 PM Two nonlinear electromagnetic generalizations of the Kerr-Newman-AdS-NUT Black holes. - Mr Oscar Jaime Michelin Galindo-Uriarte  
5:30 PM Energy extraction from electrostatic black holes. - José Arturo Báez Jiménez (Center of Research and Advanced Studies (CINVESTAV))  
5:45 PM Wormhole effective mass and gravitational waves by binary wormhole - Sung-Won Kim (Ewha Womans University)  
8:00 PM --- Conference dinner ---
12:45 PM
Closing session (until 1:00 PM)