Tampere Cosmology meeting

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

Scandic Tampere Koskipuisto

Annual meeting of the particle cosmology community in Finland.

Thu, May 7

11:00 AM Coffee

Block 1: Morning session

1 Welcome

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

2 Gravitational Wave Interferometer as Ultralight Dark Matter Detector

Speaker: Junya Kume

Tampere_Cosmo_2026_Kume.pdf

3 Migdal effect in solid target dark matter detectors

Speaker: Aula Al-Adulrazzaq

Tampere_Cosmo_Meeting_2026.pdf

12:30 PM Lunch

Block 1: Afternoon session

4 Troubled Bubbles: redoubled efforts to study nucleation, nonperturbatively

Speaker: Anna Kormu

5 Higgs-portal dark matter beyond kinetic equilibrium

Speaker: Michele Benaco

Benaco_Tampere.pdf

3:30 PM Coffee

Block 1: Afternoon session 2

6 QCD correction to the non-leptonic rate in dense Quark Matter

Speaker: Hanna Lempiäinen

Tampere_Cosmo_2026_Lempiäinen.pdf

Fri, May 8

Block 1: Morning session

7 The effect of matter discreteness on gravitational wave propagation

Speaker: Syksy Räsänen

rasanen_gw.pdf

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

Speaker: Sebastian Sassi

zebra_presentation.pdf

9 Low energy excess in phonon based cryogenic dark matter detectors

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

DefectsAndLEE.pdf

12:00 PM Lunch

Block 1: Afternoon session

10 Light yield of nuclear recoil events in inorganic scintillation detectors

Speaker: Jeff Schymiczek (University of Helsinki)

QF_presentation_Tampere_2026-4.pdf

11 Tachyonic production of dark relics

Speaker: Olli Väisänen

Tampere_presentation_Olli_Vaisanen.pdf

12 Constrains on light dark matter using cosmic rays

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

tampere_cosmo_meeting_niklas.pdf

3:00 PM Coffee