Tampere Cosmology meeting

7 May 2026, 09:00 → 8 May 2026, 16:00 Europe/Helsinki

Scandic Tampere Koskipuisto

Annual meeting of the particle cosmology community in Finland.

Thursday 7 May

11:00 → 11:30 Coffee

11:30 → 12:30 Block 1: Morning session

11:30 Welcome

Speaker: Matti Pekka Samuli Heikinheimo (University of Helsinki and Helsinki Institute of Physics)

11:40 Gravitational Wave Interferometer as Ultralight Dark Matter Detector

Speaker: Junya Kume

12:05 Migdal effect in solid target dark matter detectors

Speaker: Aula Al-Adulrazzaq

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:30 Block 1: Afternoon session

14:00 Zebras Run Fast: Zernike-based Radon Transforms in DM Direct Detection

Speaker: Sebastian Sassi

14:30 Higgs-portal dark matter beyond kinetic equilibrium

Speaker: Michele Benaco

15:00 QCD correction to the non-leptonic rate in dense Quark Matter

Speaker: Hanna Lempiäinen

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee

16:00 → 17:00 Block 1: Afternoon session 2

Friday 8 May

10:30 → 12:00 Block 1: Morning session

10:30 The effect of matter discreteness on gravitational wave propagation

Speaker: Syksy Räsänen

11:15 Low energy excess in phonon based cryogenic dark matter detectors

Speaker: Matti Pekka Samuli Heikinheimo (University of Helsinki and Helsinki Institute of Physics)

12:00 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 15:00 Block 1: Afternoon session

13:30 Light yield of nuclear recoil events in inorganic scintillation detectors

Speaker: Jeff Schymiczek (University of Helsinki)

14:00 TBD

Speaker: Olli Väisänen

14:30 Constrains on light dark matter using cosmic rays

Speaker: Niklas Zimmermann (Helsinki Institute of Physics (FI))

15:00 → 15:30 Coffee