Tensions in Cosmology 2025

from Tuesday 2 September 2025 (17:00) to Monday 8 September 2025 (14:00)
Mon-Repos, Corfu, Greece

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
2 Sept 2025
3 Sept 2025
4 Sept 2025
5 Sept 2025
6 Sept 2025
7 Sept 2025
8 Sept 2025
AM
08:00 --- REGISTRATION ---
08:45 Opening - Prof. Emmanuel Saridakis (National Observatory of Athens) Prof. Jackson Levi Said (Malta U.) Prof. Eleonora Di Valentino (University of Sheffield)  
09:00 The Hubble tension -- an overview and breakdown - Prof. Nils Schöneberg (ICC, Barcelona U.)  
09:45 Scalar field models for the dark sector and cosmological tensions - Prof. Carsten van de Bruck (Sheffield U.)  
10:30 Statistical Nuances in BAO Analysis Likelihood Formulations and Non-Gaussianities - Prof. Denitsa Staicova (INRNE, BAS)  
10:50 Condensate Inflation in Chern-Simons Gravity and Running Vacuum Cosmology - Prof. Nick Mavromatos (NTUA)  
11:10 --- Coffee Break ---
11:40 Four forms and the cosmological constant problem - Prof. Antonio Padilla (Nottingham U.)  
09:00 Lost beyond ΛCDM - Dr William Giarè (Sheffield U.)  
09:45 Cosmology and Tensions with Broken Spacetime Symmetries - Prof. Nils A. Nilsson (Institute for Basic Science, Korea)  
10:30 The interacting dark energy model - Dr Yuejia Zhai (University of Sheffield)  
10:50 How neutrinos can help solving cosmological anomalies and tensions - Prof. Pasquale Di Bari (University of Southampton)  
11:10 --- Coffee Break ---
11:40 Phantoms and early dark energy in axio-dilaton cosmology - Prof. Philippe Brax (IPhT Paris-Saclay)  
09:00 Multi-survey cosmology from galaxy clustering and weak lensing - Anna Porredon (CIEMAT, Madrid)  
09:45 A f(R)esh look at the dynamics of modified gravity - Prof. Peter Dunsby (University of Cape Town)  
10:30 The Palatini approach for cosmology and black hole physics - Prof. Diego Rubiera-Garcia (Complutense University of Madrid)  
10:50 A New Master Supernovae Ia sample and the investigation of the H_0 tension - Prof. Maria Giovanna Dainotti (NAOJ)  
11:10 --- Coffee Break ---
11:40 Cosmological Tensions and the Viability of f(Q) Gravity - Prof. Amare Abebe (Centre for Space Research, North-West University)  
09:00 Expanding the TRGB & JAGB SNe Ia Calibration Samples to Investigate Distance Ladder Systematics - Prof. Siyang Li (Berkeley U.)  
09:45 Cosmological implications of an Axion-Like Majoron - Prof. Antonio Cuesta (Cordoba U.)  
10:30 Biased domain walls: faster annihilation, weaker gravitational waves - Prof. Eugeny Babichev (IJCLab, Orsay)  
10:50 Thermodynamic Insights into Cosmic Acceleration Entropic Dark Energy and Observational Tensions - Prof. Sudipta Das (Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan, India)  
11:10 --- Coffee Break ---
11:40 Construction of LambdasCDM model from compact internal space manifold - Prof. Nihan Katirci (Doğuş U.)  
09:00 Cosmology with large scale structures: from KiDS to DESC - Prof. Marika Asgari (Newcastle U.)  
09:45 Angular redshift fluctuations as a new, complementary cosmological probe - Prof. Carlos Hernandez-Monteagudo (IAC, Tenerife)  
10:30 Dark Dimension Cosmology - Prof. Ignatios Antoniadis (LPTHE, Paris)  
10:50 Observations, biases and tensions - Prof. Agnieszka Pollo (National Centre for Nuclear Research and Jagiellonian University)  
11:10 --- Coffee Break ---
11:40 Resilience and implications of adiabatic CMB cooling - Prof. Ruchika Ruchika (INFN, Rome)  
09:00 --- DEPARTURE ---
PM
17:00 --- REGISTRATION ---
12:00 Primordial black holes as cosmic expansion accelerators - Dr Theodoros Papanikolaou (Scuola Superiore Meridionale)  
12:20 Assessing the significance of CMB anomalies with cosmological gravitational waves - Dr Giacomo Galloni (University of Ferrara)  
12:40 A late Universe exact solution of GR to solve the cosmological tensions the Szekeres model - Prof. Marie-Noelle Celerier (Paris Observatory)  
13:00 Exploring Cosmic Acceleration: Scalar Fields, Three-Forms, and the Sign Switching of the Cosmological Constant - Prof. Mariam Bouhmadi Lopez (Ikerbasque-EHU)  
13:20 --- Lunch Break ---
15:40 Modified Friedmann Equations from Quantum Lattice Gravity: Implications for Cosmic Acceleration and the Hubble Tension - Prof. Yoshiyuki Watabiki (Institute of Science Tokyo)  
16:00 Quasars as standard candles - Prof. Guido Risaliti (Florence U)  
16:20 Beyond the Standard Candle Cosmology with Quasars - Prof. Micol Benetti (Scuola Superiore Meridionale, Federico II University)  
16:40 Reconstructing the matter power spectrum with cosmic shear - Prof. Calvin Preston (University of Cambridge)  
17:00 Robust cosmology through combined probes - Prof. Alexander Reeves (ETHZ)  
17:20 --- Coffee Break ---
17:40 Advances in $\Lambda_{\rm s}$CDM Cosmology: Towards Resolving Multiple Cosmological Tensions - Prof. Ozgur Akarsu (Istanbul Technical University)  
18:00 A field theoretic approach to resolving cosmological tensions including DESI DR2 data - Prof. Pran Nath (Northeastern University)  
18:20 New generation of calibrated TRGB models - Dr Ippocratis Saltas (CEICO - Institute of Physics, Prague)  
18:40 Cosmic-Flows : Mapping galaxy motions to uncover fsigma_8 and H0 - Prof. Helene Courtois (University Lyon 1)  
19:00 Primordial regular black holes as all the dark matter - Prof. Davide Pedrotti (TIFPA-INFN, Universita  di Trento)  
19:20 Teleparallel dark energy in a nonflat universe - Prof. Rocco D'Agostino (Scuola Superiore Meridionale)  
21:00 --- Welcome Reception ---
12:00 Cosmic choreographies Dark matter, gravitational waves and the Waltz of black holes - Dr Kyriakos Destounis (CENTRA, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisboa)  
12:20 Spectroscopic tests of cosmology and fundamental physics - Prof. Dinko Milakovic (Institute for Fundamental Physics of the Universe)  
12:40 Addressing the Hubble tension in Yukawa cosmology? - Prof. Genly Leon Torres (Catolica del Norte U.)  
13:00 Exploring Cosmic Evolution and Tensions in Teleparallel f(T) Gravity - Dr Rebecca Briffa (Institute of Space Sciences and Astronomy, University of Malta)  
13:20 --- Lunch Break ---
15:40 Holographic Spacetime Foam: Theory and Observations - Eric Steinbring (NRC/HAA) Prof. Y. Jack Ng (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)  
16:00 Influence on S8 Discrepancy in Modified Gravity - Dr Gabriel Farrugia (University of Malta)  
16:20 Inflation in Scalar-Torsion Gravity From Single-Field Dynamics to Multi-Field Extensions - Prof. Giovanni Otalora (University of Tarapaca, Chile)  
16:40 Cosmic Microwave Background telescopes and the APPEC roadmap - Prof. Sotiris Loucatos (Irfu CEA Saclay and APC)  
17:00 Addressing the H0 and S8 tensions in f(Q) cosmology - Dr Maria Petronikolou (National Observatory of Athens)  
17:20 --- Coffee Break ---
17:40 Realising DM and NANOGrav data via Dark Branes - Dr Fotis Koutroulis (IHEP, Beijing)  
18:00 Quantum Gravity Meets DESI Dynamical Dark Energy in Light of Swampland Trans-Planckian Censorship Conjecture - Prof. Junkai Wang (Tsinghua U.)  
18:20 From N to (N,p) Attractors in view of ACT - Dr Constantinos Pallis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)  
18:40 Cosmological tension implications for a non-minimally coupled dark matter with dark energy - Prof. Shao-Jiang Wang (IThP, Chinese Academy of Sciences)  
19:00 TDCOSMO 2025 Cosmological constraints from strong lensing time delays - Dr Martin Millon (ETHZ)  
20:00 --- CONFERENCE DINNER (GREEK NIGHT) ---
12:00 Cosmology with Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time - Prof. Tesla Jeltema (UC, Santa Cruz)  
12:20 Big Bang revisited - Prof. Frans R. Klinkhamer (KIT)  
12:40 The challenges of using Baryon Acoustic Oscillations distances for cosmology - Prof. Stefano Anselmi (INFN-Padova)  
13:00 The stochastic gradient flow approach to out-of-equilibrium complex systems in particle and gravitational physics, and its phenomenological implications - Prof. Antonino Marciano (Fudan University & INFN)  
13:20 --- Lunch Break ---
15:40 The role of massive elliptical galaxies on the CMB - Prof. Pavel Kroupa (Charles University/Bonn University)  
16:00 Gaussian Process Data Reconstruction and Modified Gravity Realization of Dynamical Dark Energy - Dr Xin Ren (USTC, China)  
16:20 Probing Tensions in the LCDM Paradigm Through Kinematics and Lensing in Galaxy Clusters - Prof. Lorenzo Pizzuti (University of Milano-Bicocca)  
16:40 GW, PTA, CMB and Neff Bounds - Prof. Ido Ben-Dayan  
17:00 The 33311 Left-Right Bilepton Model (SM) A Model of Dark Matter and Energy (CO) - Prof. Paul Frampton (U of Salento)  
17:20 --- Coffee Break ---
17:40 The local void solution to the Hubble tension - Dr Indranil Banik (ICG Portsmouth)  
18:00 Self-Interacting Scalar Field Dark Matter Core-Halo relation - Prof. Jessica Nayely Lopez Sanchez (Central European Institute for Cosmology and Fundamental Physics)  
18:20 New tools for cosmology by Extended Theories of Electro-Magnetism - Prof. Alessandro Spallicci (Orleans U)  
18:40 GalSBI: Forward modelling galaxy surveys with simulation-based inference - Prof. Silvan Fischbacher (ETH Zurich)  
19:00 A Natural Expansion of the Cosmological Vacuum - Prof. Maurice van Putten (Sejong University/INAF-OAS)  
19:20 Galaxy-galaxy lensing application on cosmology - Dr Qingqing Wang (USTC, China)  
12:00 Hubble H0 tension in nonlocal de Sitter gravity - Prof. Branko Dragovich (Mathematical Institute, Serbian Academy of Sciences, Kneza Mihaila 36, Belgrade, Serbia)  
12:20 Dynamical heating in spin-s ULDM halos - Prof. Erick Munive Villa (CEICO-FZU)  
12:40 Inflation or quantum gravity? - Prof. Leonardo Modesto (University of Cagliari)  
13:00 Kinetically coupled dark matter condensates and early formation of supermassive black holes - Prof. Savvas Koushiappas (Brown University)  
13:20 --- Lunch Break ---
16:00 --- BOAT EXCURSION ---
12:00 Primordial black holes from non-Gaussian tails - Xiao-Han Ma (USTC China & IPMU)  
12:20 Interacting dark sector from entropy couplings - Dr Erik Jensko (University College London)  
12:40 Decaying dark matter and direct collapse black holes - Prof. James Dent (Sam Houston State University)  
13:00 --- Lunch Break ---
15:40 Hubble (non-)tension. Historical analysis on the underestimation of error bars - Prof. Martin Lopez-Corredoira (Inst Astrofı́sica de Canarias)  
16:00 Living in a Machian world - Dr Claudio Paganini (Regensburg U./ TU Chemnitz)  
16:20 Illustrating the consequences of a misuse of σ8 in cosmology - Prof. Matteo Forconi (La Sapienza, University of Rome)  
16:40 Exploring a variable Newton constant - Dr Fotios Anagnostopoulos (University of Peloponnese)  
17:00 Cosmological Solutions of a Nonlocal Gravity Model - Prof. Ivan Dimitrijevic (University of Belgrade, Faculty of Mathematics)  
17:20 --- Coffee Break ---
17:40 Probing cosmic expansion with gravitational wave-large scale structure correlations - Dr Sayantani Bera (CPT, Aix-Marseille University)  
18:00 Stochastic scalar field dynamics in dS from quantum deficient oscillators - Dr Koki Tokeshi (University of Tokyo)  
18:20 Dwarf galaxies as dark matter test - Dr Elena Asencio (University of Bonn)  
18:40 Future Parameter Constraints from Weak Lensing CMB and Galaxy Lensing Power- and Bispectra - Dr Jonas Frugte (VSI, Groningen U.)