IberiCos 2025

from Monday 14 April 2025 (08:30) to Wednesday 16 April 2025 (13:50)
Auditorium C.1

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
14 Apr 2025
15 Apr 2025
16 Apr 2025
AM
08:30
Registration (until 09:15)
09:15
Opening session (until 09:30)
09:30 Gravitational waves and axion stars from strings - Prof. Edward Hardy (University of Oxford)  
10:15
Session 1 - Phase Transitions & Topological Defects - Session convener: Carlos Martins (until 11:00)
10:15 Gravitational Waves from compressional and vortical modes in strong first order phase transitions - José Ricardo Correia  
10:30 Gravitational waves from a curvature-induced phase transition of a Higgs-portal dark matter sector - Dr Andreas Mantziris (University of Porto)  
10:45 Catastrophic events in domain wall evolution - Daniel Jiménez Aguilar (Tufts University)  
11:00 --- Coffee break ---
11:30
Session 2 - Phase Transitions & Topological Defects - Session convener: Chris Byrnes (until 12:45)
11:30 Structure Formation From Cosmic Domain Wall Collapses - Clara Winckler  
11:45 Domain wall evolution beyond quartic potentials: The Sine-Gordon and Christ-Lee potentials - Ricarda Heilemann  
12:00 Analytical Methods for Realistic Cosmic Strings and Superstrings - Pedro Belo Barbosa (University of Porto)  
12:15 Preliminary evaluation of GVOS model parameters on the asymptotic solutions for current carrying cosmic strings networks evolution - Francisco Pimenta  
12:30 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)  
09:30 Primordial Black Holes and the Early Universe - Jessica Turner  
10:15
Session 5 - Compact objects & Cosmology - Session convener: Javier Rubio (until 11:00)
10:15 Are supermassive black holes primordial? - Chris Byrnes  
10:30 Implications of cosmologically coupled black holes for pulsar timing arrays - Marco Calza (University of Trento)  
10:45 Probing fundamental physics using compact astrophysical objects - Eleanna Kolonia (Perimeter Institute, University of Waterloo)  
11:00 --- Coffee break ---
11:30
Session 6 - Early Universe - Session convener: Richard Holman (until 12:45)
11:30 Echoes of the Higgs: Gravitational Waves and the Fate of the Electroweak Vacuum - Dr JAVIER RUBIO (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)  
11:45 Current constraints on cosmological scenarios with very low reheating temperatures - Nicola Barbieri (INFN Ferrara)  
12:00 Testing inflationary models with de Sitter Swampland Conjectures - Prof. Orfeu Bertolami (University of Porto)  
12:15 Schwinger Current in de Sitter Space - Paulo B. Ferraz (University of Coimbra)  
12:30 Preheated inflation - Diogo Gorgulho (University of Coimbra)  
09:30 Line-Intensity Mapping: opportunities, challenges and new windows for new physics - José Luis Bernal  
10:15
Session 9 - Observational Cosmology - Session convener: José Fonseca (until 11:00)
10:15 Cosmological implications of the TDiff invariant models - Javier de Cruz Pérez (Universidad de Córdoba)  
10:30 JWST observations and state of cosmic anomalies - Dr Ruchika Ruchika (University of Salamanca)  
10:45 Illustrating the consequences of a misuse of sigma_8 in cosmology - Adrià Gómez-Valent  
11:00 --- Coffee break ---
11:30
Session 10 - Observational Cosmology - Session convener: Mar Bastero-Gil (until 12:45)
11:30 Quantifying BAO tension and its implications for late-time solutions to the Hubble crisis - Arianna Favale (University of Rome Tor Vergata)  
11:45 The revival of galaxy-quasar correlations for cosmology - Marcos Muniz Cueli  
12:00 Cosmography via Stellar Archaeology of stacked SDSS Legacy ETGs - Carlos Alonso Álvarez  
12:15 Study of the physical properties of strong gravitational lens candidates in the sub-mm through SED analysis - JUAN ALBERTO CANO DIEZ  
12:30 Varying fundamental constants cosmography - Carlos Martins  
PM
12:45 --- Lunch ---
14:30
Session 3 - Modified Gravity & Dark Energy - Session convener: Filipe Mena (until 16:15)
14:30 Quintessence approximations - Dr Artur Alho (CAMGSD-IST)  
14:45 Comparing Dark Energy Models in Extended Theories of Gravity - Paulo Alexandre Gomes Monteiro (Center for Astrophysics, University of Porto)  
15:00 Observational constraints on vector-like dark energy - Carolina Coelho Anna-Lena Gschrey  
15:15 The ESPRESSO Redshift Drift Experiment -- High-fidelity spectra of the Lyman forest of QSO J052915.80-435152.0 - ANDREA TROST (University of Trieste)  
15:30 Temperature-redshift relation in energy-momentum-powered gravity models - Ana Mafalda Vieira (Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa)  
15:45 Is cosmological data suggesting a nonminimal coupling between matter and gravity? - Miguel Barroso Varela  
16:00 Testing hyperconical modified gravity in galaxies and clusters with distinct datasets - Dr Robert Monjo (University of Alcalá)  
16:15 --- Coffee break ---
16:45
Session 4 - Modified Gravity & Dark Energy - Session convener: Artur Alho (until 18:30)
16:45 Testing Gravity with cross-correlations of CMB and LSS - Guglielmo Frittoli (Università Roma Tor Vergata)  
17:00 Diffusion Models for Emulating the Large-Scale Structure of the Universe in Modified Gravity Cosmologies - Mr Jorge Enrique García-Farieta (Universidad de Córdoba)  
17:15 The hybrid cosmology in the scalar-tensor representation of $f(\mathcal{G},T)$ gravity - Adam Kaczmarek (Jan Długosz University in Częstochowa, Poland)  
17:30 Homogeneous solutions to the Einstein-matter equations at a conformal gauge singularity - Prof. Ernesto Nungesser (UPM)  
17:45 Understanding Lcdm and Constraining Modified gravity using stacked galaxy clusters' caustics - Minahil Adil Butt  
18:00 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 --- Lunch ---
14:30
Session 7 - Astroparticle Physics - Session convener: Orfeu Bertolami (until 16:15)
14:30 A multiple QCD axion - Maria Pestana Da Luz Pereira Ramos  
14:45 Strong CMB bounds on ALPS form strings - Riccardo Impavido (Università di Ferrara, INFN Ferrara)  
15:00 Small instanton-induced flavor invariants and the axion potential - Guilherme Guedes (DESY)  
15:15 How much is the lifetime of an oscillon affected by coupling to another field? - Siyao Li  
15:30 Constraining dark matter candidates using gravitational strong lensing - Ioana Alexandra Zelko (Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics)  
15:45 Deviations from the von Laue Condition: Implications for the On-Shell Lagrangian of Particles and Fluids - Samuel Pinto (FCUP / CAUP)  
16:15 --- Coffee break ---
16:45
Session 8 - Gravity - Session convener: José Mimoso (until 18:15)
16:45 Electromagnetic wormholes - Ms MARÍA PÉREZ GARROTE (USAL)  
17:00 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)  
17:15 Two nonlinear electromagnetic generalizations of the Kerr-Newman-AdS-NUT Black holes. - Mr Oscar Jaime Michelin Galindo-Uriarte  
17:30 Energy extraction from electrostatic black holes. - José Arturo Báez Jiménez (Center of Research and Advanced Studies (CINVESTAV))  
17:45 Wormhole effective mass and gravitational waves by binary wormhole - Sung-Won Kim (Ewha Womans University)  
20:00 --- Conference dinner ---
12:45
Closing session (until 13:00)