Tampere Cosmology meeting

Name: Tampere Cosmology meeting
Start: 2026-05-07T09:00:00+03:00
End: 2026-05-08T16:00:00+03:00
Location: Scandic Tampere Koskipuisto

May 7, 2026, 9:00 AM → May 8, 2026, 4:00 PM Europe/Helsinki

Scandic Tampere Koskipuisto

Description

Annual meeting of the particle cosmology community in Finland.

Participants

David Weir
Emma van Oijen
Jeff Schymiczek
Jun'ya Kume
Kari Rummukainen
Keijo Kajantie
Kimmo Kainulainen
Kimmo Tuominen
Matti Pekka Samuli Heikinheimo
Michele Benaco
Niklas Zimmermann
Olli Väisänen
Petteri Tuomola
Sami Nurmi
Sarah Farzand
Sebastian Sassi
Syksy Räsänen
+4

Thu, May 7
- Thu, May 7
- Fri, May 8
- 11:00 AM → 11:30 AM
  
  Coffee 30m
- 11:30 AM → 12:30 PM
  Block 1: Morning session
  - 11:30 AM
    
    Welcome 10m
    
    Speaker: Matti Pekka Samuli Heikinheimo (University of Helsinki and Helsinki Institute of Physics)
  - 11:40 AM
    
    Gravitational Wave Interferometer as Ultralight Dark Matter Detector 25m
    
    Speaker: Junya Kume
    
    Tampere_Cosmo_2026_Kume.pdf
  - 12:05 PM
    
    Migdal effect in solid target dark matter detectors 25m
    
    Speaker: Aula Al-Adulrazzaq
    
    Tampere_Cosmo_Meeting_2026.pdf
- 12:30 PM → 2:00 PM
  
  Lunch 1h 30m
- 2:00 PM → 3:30 PM
  Block 1: Afternoon session
  - 2:00 PM
    
    Troubled Bubbles: redoubled efforts to study nucleation, nonperturbatively 30m
    
    Speaker: Anna Kormu
  - 3:00 PM
    
    Higgs-portal dark matter beyond kinetic equilibrium 30m
    
    Speaker: Michele Benaco
    
    Benaco_Tampere.pdf
- 3:30 PM → 4:00 PM
  
  Coffee 30m
- 4:00 PM → 5:00 PM
  Block 1: Afternoon session 2
  - 4:00 PM
    
    QCD correction to the non-leptonic rate in dense Quark Matter 30m
    
    Speaker: Hanna Lempiäinen
    
    Tampere_Cosmo_2026_Lempiäinen.pdf
Fri, May 8
- Thu, May 7
- Fri, May 8
- 10:00 AM → 12:00 PM
  Block 1: Morning session
  - 10:00 AM
    
    The effect of matter discreteness on gravitational wave propagation 45m
    
    Speaker: Syksy Räsänen
    
    rasanen_gw.pdf
  - 10:45 AM
    
    Zebras Run Fast: Zernike-based Radon Transforms in DM Direct Detection 30m
    
    Speaker: Sebastian Sassi
    
    zebra_presentation.pdf
  - 11:15 AM
    
    Low energy excess in phonon based cryogenic dark matter detectors 45m
    
    Speaker: Matti Pekka Samuli Heikinheimo (University of Helsinki and Helsinki Institute of Physics)
    
    DefectsAndLEE.pdf
- 12:00 PM → 1:30 PM
  
  Lunch 1h 30m
- 1:30 PM → 3:00 PM
  Block 1: Afternoon session
  - 1:30 PM
    
    Light yield of nuclear recoil events in inorganic scintillation detectors 30m
    
    Speaker: Jeff Schymiczek (University of Helsinki)
    
    QF_presentation_Tampere_2026-4.pdf
  - 2:00 PM
    
    Tachyonic production of dark relics 30m
    
    Speaker: Olli Väisänen
    
    Tampere_presentation_Olli_Vaisanen.pdf
  - 2:30 PM
    
    Constrains on light dark matter using cosmic rays 30m
    
    Speaker: Niklas Zimmermann (Helsinki Institute of Physics (FI))
    
    tampere_cosmo_meeting_niklas.pdf
- 3:00 PM → 3:30 PM
  
  Coffee 30m