Corfu - IBS Workshop: Gravity and Cosmology by the Sea

from Monday, 7 September 2026 (08:00) to Friday, 11 September 2026 (21:00)


        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
7 Sept 2026
8 Sept 2026
9 Sept 2026
10 Sept 2026
11 Sept 2026
AM
09:00
Registration (until 09:40)
09:40
Opening Remarks (until 10:00)
10:00
Plenary Talk - Masahide Yamaguchi (IBS-CTPU) (until 10:50)
10:00 Probing the Universe with the 21 cm Hyperfine Transition of Atomic Hydrogen - Prof. Martin Bucher (APC, Université Paris Cité/CNRS)  
10:50 --- Coffee Break ---
11:20
Plenary Talk - Masahide Yamaguchi (IBS-CTPU) (until 13:00)
11:20 Building a photometric probe LSS analysis - Prof. Marika Asgari (Newcastle University)  
12:10 Stability and causality in acoustic geometry - Prof. Ignacy Sawicki (CEICO)  
09:00
Excursion (until 16:00)
10:00
Plenary Talk - Andronikos Paliathanasis (until 10:50)
10:00 TBA - Dr Drazen Glavan (Utrecht University)  
10:50
Coffee Break (until 11:20)
11:20
Plenary Talk - Andronikos Paliathanasis (until 13:00)
11:20 TBA - Prof. Orlando Luongo (University of Camerino)  
12:10 Quantum Stable Ghost - Prof. Alexander Vikman (CEICO)  
10:00
Plenary Talk - Emmanuel Saridakis (until 10:50)
10:00 Cosmology in the MEMe Universe - Prof. Sante Carloni (University of Genova)  
10:50 --- Coffee break ---
11:20
Plenary Talk - Emmanuel Saridakis (until 13:00)
11:20 Beyond LCDM: Cosmographic closure, dynamical Dark Energy and Modified Gravity - Prof. Peter Dunsby (University of Cape Town)  
12:10 Testing general relativity with gravitational waves - Elisa Maggio  
10:00
Plenary Talk -Dr Konstantinos Dialektopoulos (Center for Gravitation and Cosmology, Yangzhou University) (until 10:50)
10:00 Numerical relativity and hyperbolicity in teleparallel gravity - Dr Maria Jose Guzman (University of Tartu)  
10:50 --- Coffee break ---
11:20
Plenary Talk -Dr Konstantinos Dialektopoulos (Center for Gravitation and Cosmology, Yangzhou University) (until 13:00)
11:20 Black holes with primary hair - Prof. Christos Charmousis (Orsay)  
12:10 An Agnostic Exploration of Novel Equation Structures for Dynamical Dark Energy - Dr Rebecca Briffa (University of Malta)  
PM
13:00 --- Lunch break ---
15:00
Afternoon Session - Georg Trenkler (IBS CTPU-CGA) (until 16:45)
15:00 Dark Matter–Independent Orbital Decay Bounds on Ultralight Bosons from OJ287 - Huiyu ZHU (Institute for Basic Science)  
15:15 TBA - M Hassaine  
15:30 Constraining Dark Matter with Early-Universe 21-cm Signals - Dr Hyunbae Park (IBS-CTPU)  
15:45 Gravitational Waves from Supermassive Black Hole Binaries: towards Multi-Messenger Astrophysics and Cosmology - Dr Boris Goncharov  
16:00 Fermionic propagation in an exotic modified Schwarzschild black hole - Prof. Berta Cuadros-Melgar (UNESP)  
16:15 Testing Fundamental Physics with Seismology: The FuSe COST Action - Dr Velimir Ilic  
15:00
Afternoon Session - Sebastian Bahamonde (University of Tartu) (until 16:45)
15:00 Quantum particles and cosmological singularities - Prof. Alexander Kamenshchik (University of Bologna)  
15:15 Gauge Independent Effective Field Equations for Quantum Gravity - Richard Woodard  
15:30 First Indications from Leading Logarithms Quantum Gravity - Shun-Pei Miao (National Cheng Kung University)  
15:45 Kerr-Newman spacetime energy in general parallel relativity - Laur Järv (University of Tartu)  
16:00 Bounds on nonlinear effective field theories via resurgent relative entropy - Pietro Conzinu  
16:15 Beyond j=1: Observational Constraints on Almost-LCDM Cosmologies - Dr Jess Worsley (University of Cape Town)  
16:30 Relaxation of a Vlasov gas to an inhomogeneous state due to phase-space mixing in an axisymmetric potential - Dr Merce Guerrero (University of Tartu)  
16:45 --- Coffee Break ---
17:15
Afternoon Session (until 18:15)
17:15 Primordial Black Holes - Theodoros Papanikolaou (University of Patras, Greece)  
17:15 Theoretical consistency and well-posedness of modified gravity theories - Alexander Vikman (Czech Academy of Sciences (CZ))  
18:15
Free Discussion (until 19:00)
19:00
Dinner (until 21:00)
16:00
Afternoon Session (until 17:00)
17:00
Dinner (until 19:00)
19:30 Public Talk - Emmanuel Saridakis  
21:00 Telescope Night Under the Stars  
13:00
Lunch break (until 15:00)
15:00
Afternoon Session - Nils Albin Nilsson (IBS-CTPU) (until 16:45)
15:00 Primary black-hole scalar charges and kinetic screening in K-essence-Gauss-Bonnet gravity - Georg Trenkler (IBS CTPU-CGA)  
15:15 Magnetically assisted primordial scalar perturbations: Scalar-Induced Gravitational Waves - Theodoros Papanikolaou (University of Patras, Greece)  
15:30 Spontaneous Scalarization and the Thermodynamic Phase Structure of Charged Black Holes - STELLA KIORPELIDI (Centro de Investigación en Ciencias del Espacio y Física Teórica (CICEF), Universidad Central de Chile)  
15:45 New Dynamical Black Hole Solutions: Extending the Spectrum of Exact Primordial Objects - Adolfo Cisterna (Institute of Theoretical Physics, Charles University)  
16:00 Defying the Curvature Singularity: EGB Gravity reshapes Cosmology - Chevarra Hansraj (Stellenbosch University)  
16:15 Revisiting the matter creation process: observational constraints on gravitationally induced dark energy and the Hubble tension - Tiziano Schiavone (SISSA, Trieste)  
16:30 UV-complete Quintom models: Solving the Dynamical Dark Energy puzzle in a minimal way - KOUTROULIS FOTIOS fkoutroulis  
15:00
Afternoon Session - Mohammad Ali GORJI (until 16:45)
15:00 Cosmological Consistency Triangles and Tension-Resolving Models - Prof. Amare Abebe (North-West University)  
15:15 Gaussian process reconstructions of quintom dark energy - Prof. Xin Ren  
15:30 The emergence of our Universe - Prof. Yoshiyuki Watabiki  
15:45 Interacting Dark Energy: Background Theoretical and Observational Constraints after DESI DR2 - Marcel van der Westhuizen (North West University)  
16:00 Beyond Goodness of Fit: Comparing ΛCDM and Quasi-Linear Coasting Cosmologies through Late-Time Growth - Dávid Attila Ködmön (Eotvos Lorand University)  
16:15 Beyond ΛCDM: Coupled dark sector dynamics and observations - Trupti Patil (Korea Institute for Advanced Study (KIAS), Seoul, South Korea)  
16:45
Coffee Break (until 17:15)
17:15
Afternoon Session (until 18:15)
17:15 Compact objects in modified theories of gravity - Christos Charmousis (Orsay)  
17:15 Weak Lensing as a cosmological probe - Marika Asgari (Newcastle University)  
18:15
Free Discussion (until 20:00)
13:00
Lunch break (until 15:00)
15:00
Afternoon Session - Eve Dones (until 16:45)
15:00 A barotropic alternative to Early Dark Energy for alleviating the H_0 tension - YOURI CARLONI  
15:15 Mapping the redshift drift at various redshifts through cosmography - Anna Chiara Alfano (Scuola Superiore Meridionale)  
15:30 Kosmulator: A Python framework for cosmological inference with MCMC - Renier Hough (North West University)  
15:45 A neutrino solution to the excess radio background mystery - Pasquale Di Bari  
16:00 Exploring Non-Canonical Early-Universe Physics with CosmoLattice 2.0 - Nicolás Loayza Romero (CEICO/FZU)  
16:15 Covariant scalar-tensor theories beyond second derivatives - Mohammad Ali GORJI  
16:30 Testing Non-Minimally Coupled Dark Matter with Ultra-Diffuse Galaxy Kinematics - Saboura sadat Zamani  
15:00
Afternoon Session - Huiyu ZHU (Institute for Basic Science) (until 16:45)
15:00 Closing the Infinite Hierarchy: Motivations of the Algebraic Closure Method in Inflationary Dynamics - Vineshree Pillay  
15:15 Formulation and Application of Eigenvalue Technique for Stochastic Inflation - Swagat Saurav Mishra (University of Nottingham, UK)  
15:30 Inflationary dynamics of non-minimally coupled f(R) matter-curvature theories - Andreas Mantziris (IFJ-PAN)  
15:45 Cartan Khronon cosmology with effective dark matter - Dr Lucy Zheng (University of Tartu)  
16:00 Gravitational Instantons in Spin(4) Gauge theory of space-time with a Cartan-Khronon field - Stylianos Stelios Papadopoulos  
16:15 Large-scale simulations of string-walls in the early universe - Yuki Sakakihara (Yamagata University)  
16:30 Effects of non-minimal coupling to gravity on inflationary oscillons - Andrea Iacobellis (Scuola Superiore Meridionale)  
16:45
Coffee Break (until 17:15)
17:15
Afternoon Session (until 18:15)
17:15 Isocurvature and 21cm cosmology - Martin Bucher  
17:15 Numerical Relativity in non-Riemannian gravity - Maria Jose Guzman (University of Tartu)  
18:15
Afternoon Session (until 19:00)
18:15 Entropy in Black Hole Thermodynamics - Velimir Ilić  
19:00
Dinner (until 21:00)
13:00
Lunch break (until 15:00)
15:00
Afternoon Session - Amare Abebe (North-West University) (until 16:30)
15:00 Bootstrap for Features in Cosmological Correlators - Yuhang Zhu  
15:15 Noncomoving description of radial perturbations of stellar compact objects - Fabrizio Esposito (University of Genoa)  
15:30 Curvature-Induced Scalar Fluctuations: A Novel Pathway for Axion Dark Matter and a Universal Bound on the Duration of a Kination Era - Dr Cem Eröncel (Istinye University)  
15:45 Dynamics of the Bianchi V cosmological model with a monomial potential - Prof. Genly Leon  
16:00 Scalar perturbations from a two-field unified warm-inflationary cosmological model - Tommaso Mengoni (University of Camerino)  
16:15 Interacting dark energy models: constraints and implications - Sudipta Das  
15:00
Afternoon Session - Hyunbae Park (IBS-CTPU) (until 16:30)
15:00 xHam: a Mathematica package for Hamiltonian analysis - Mr Joffrey Le Grix de la Salle (IJC Lab)  
15:15 Primordial magnetogenesis from non-conformal coupling with a stealth scalar field - A G Marino  
15:30 Towards Bayesian Photometric Cosmic Chronometers - Swaraj Pradhan (Institute of Space Sciences (ICE, CSIC), Barcelona)  
15:45 Hairy rotating black hole solutions in scalar-tensor theories - Hugo Candan (LUX, Observatoire de Paris PSL & IJCLab, Université Paris-Saclay)  
16:00 Radiation-reaction effects at 3PN order in scalar-tensor theories - Eve Dones  
16:30
Coffee Break (until 17:00)
17:00
Afternoon Session (until 18:00)
17:00 Dark energy after DESI - Masahide Yamaguchi (IBS-CTPU)  
18:00
Free Discussion (until 19:00)
19:00
Dinner (until 21:00)