3rd Nordic Cosmology Meeting

from Wednesday, 23 September 2026 (10:00) to Friday, 25 September 2026 (15:20)
Tallinn

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
23 Sept 2026
24 Sept 2026
25 Sept 2026
AM
10:30
Coffee break (until 11:00)
10:30
Registration (until 11:00)
11:00
Opening remarks (until 11:10)
11:10
Invited talks (until 12:30)
11:10 Cosmological Inference in the Age of Emulators - Thomas Tram  
11:50 Pandemic sterile neutrino dark matter - Kai Schmidt-Hoberg  
10:00
Invited talks (until 10:40)
10:00 Gravitationally Lensed Supernovae: Lessons from the First Decade - Edvard Mörtsell  
10:40
Coffee break (until 11:10)
11:10
Invited talks (until 11:50)
11:10 Cosmology with the next-generation 4MOST survey - Prof. Elmo Tempel (University of Tartu)  
11:50
Contributed talks (until 12:30)
11:50 The challenge of the largest structures in the Universe - Maret Einasto  
12:10 Is there evidence for a violation of the cosmological principle? - Till Sawala  
10:00
Invited talks (until 11:20)
10:00 The post-inflationary axion mass in a minimal scaling model - Prof. Mark Hindmarsh (University of Helsinki, University of Sussex)  
10:40 Gravitational Waves and Magnetic Fields from Axion Inflation - Oksana Iarygina (Nordita)  
11:20
Coffee break (until 11:50)
11:50
Contributed talks (until 13:00)
11:50 The theory of Axion Relic Pockets - David Marsh  
12:10 SU(N) Baryon formation in the large N limit and Dark Matter - Enrico Nardi (National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics (EE))  
12:30 Gravitational Waves from Dimension-6 Assisted Peccei - Quinn Phase Transitions - Kristjan Müürsepp (INFN-LNF, Frascati and NICPB, Tallinn, Estonia)  
12:45 Are PTA measurements sensitive to Non Gaussianities? - Jonas el Gammal  
PM
12:30
Lunch (until 14:00)
14:00
Invited talks (until 14:30)
14:00 From curiosity to manifesto: The particle interpretation of gravity - Carlo Marzo (NICPB)  
14:30
Contributed talks (until 15:30)
14:30 Cosmic variance and ergodicity in finite systems with correlations - Syksy Räsänen  
14:50 Entanglement in an expanding universe - Prof. Nikolaos Tetradis (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (GR))  
15:10 Peak Theory Revisited: asphericity and non-Gaussianity - Gabriele Perna  
15:30
Coffee break (until 16:00)
16:00
Lightning talks (until 17:40)
16:00 Simulation-Based Inference for Cosmological Field Reconstruction and Parameter Estimation - Oleg Savchenko  
16:07 Galaxy Superclusters in SDSS DR12 BOSS: Identification and Properties - Sumedh Ghamande  
16:14 Cosmological gravitational particle production: Scalars and fermions - Duarte Feiteira  
16:21 Light Dark Matter from Higgs-Portal Freeze-in at Stronger Coupling - Vinicius Oliveira  
16:28 Axion Misalignment Across First-Order Phase Transitions - Galymzhan Baltabay (NICPB, Taltech)  
16:35 Landau–Zener Formula and Resonant Axion–Photon Conversion in Neutron Star Magnetospheres - Topi Sirkiä (University of Helsinki)  
16:42 Non-perturbative aspects of curvaton primordial non-Gaussianities - Mr Sasha Allegrini (KBFI, Tallinn and Tallinn U. Tech.)  
16:49 A Disformal Affair: How Dark Matter Mimics Lorentz Violation - Apostolos Tsampodimos  
16:56 Emergent dark matter effect from Cartan Khronon gravity - Lucy Zheng (University of Tartu)  
17:03 Dark matter in the Cartan geometry? - Priidik Gallagher (University of Tartu)  
17:10 Dynamical systems analysis of Newer GR cosmology - Vasiliki Karanasou (University of Tartu)  
17:17 Bianchi cosmologies with four-dimensional groups of motion in New General Relativity - Paul Martin Kull (University of Tartu)  
17:24 Spacetime energy in general parallel relativity - Roald Heinrich Ivask  
18:00
Reception (until 20:00)
12:30
Lunch (until 14:00)
14:00
Contributed talks (until 15:30)
14:00 Constraints on the primordial tensor perturbation power spectrum from CMB and gravitational wave observations - Jussi Väliviita  
14:20 Beyond the basics: exploring gravitational waves from strong phase transitions - David Weir (University of Helsinki)  
14:40 Sphaleron rate for first-order electroweak phase transitions - Jaakko Annala  
15:00 Wave-optics lensing of gravitational waves - Helena Ubach  
15:15 Signatures of $10-10^4\,{\rm M}_{\odot}$ Dark Matter halos in LISA via Stochastic Diffraction - Juan Urrutia (KBFI)  
15:30
Coffee break (until 16:00)
16:00
Contributed talks (until 16:45)
16:00 Tachyonic production of dark relics: quantum 2PI formalism with momentum exchanging collisions - Olli Väisänen  
16:15 Scalar field with nonminimal couplings to metric-affine gravity and inflationary model building - Laur Järv (University of Tartu)  
16:30 Quasi-pole quintessential inflation in metric-affine gravity - Christian Dioguardi (KBFI)  
16:45
Break (until 17:00)
17:00
Colloquium (until 18:00)
17:00 Cracks in the Standard Cosmological Model: Anomalies, Tensions, and Hints of New Physics - Eleonora Di Valentino (University of Sheffield)  
19:00
Dinner (until 21:00)
13:00
Closing remarks (until 13:05)