The 13th International Symposium on Cosmology and Particle Astrophysics (CosPA 2016) will be hosted by the University of Sydney from November 28 to December 2, 2016 at the Sydney Nanoscience Hub, located on the University's Camperdown Campus.
CosPA 2016 will bring together theorists, experimentalists, and observers working in the fields of particle physics, cosmology, and astrophysics to discuss the latest results and ideas, and prospects for progress.
The conference will feature invited plenary talks covering topics of recent interest. A number of parallel sessions will provide an opportunity for junior scientists to present their work.
We look forward to seeing you in Sydney.
Plenary speakers include:
| Jenni Adams (U. Canterbury) | IceCube |
| Elisabetta Barberio (U. Melbourne) | SABRE |
| Jose Bellido (U. Adelaide) | Pierre Auger Observatory |
| Regina Caputo (UC Santa Cruz) | Fermi LAT |
| Roland Crocker (ANU) | Galactic positron population |
| Tamara Davis (U. Queensland) | Dark Energy with the Dark Energy Survey |
| Silvia Galli (IAP Paris) | Planck CMB results |
| Paolo Gondolo (U. Utah) | Dark matter theory |
| Clancy James (Erlangen-Nürnberg) | ANTARES/KM3NeT |
| Jihn E. Kim (Kyung Hee U.) | Axions |
| Chia-Ming Kuo (National Central U.) | Invisible Higgs decays, SUSY searches and BSM Higgs at the LHC |
| Alexander Kusenko (UCLA) | Baryo-/Leptogenesis |
| Geraint Lewis (U. Sydney) | Cosmological surveys |
| Eric Linder (UC Berkeley) | Dark energy |
| Manfred Lindner (MPIK Heidelberg) | Dark matter direct detection |
| David McClelland (ANU) | Gravitational waves |
| Millie McDonald (U. Melbourne) |
Mono-X, dijet, and long-lived particle searches at the LHC
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| Mercedes Paniccia (Geneva U.) | AMS |
| David Parkinson (U. Queensland) | Tests of modified gravity |
| Lisa Randall (Harvard U.) | Darkly-Charged Dark Matter |
| Gavin Rowell (U. Adelaide) | The Cherenkov Telescope Array: A TeV Gamma-Ray Observatory |
| Misao Sasaki (Kyoto U.) | Inflation |
| Pat Scott (Imperial College London) | Astroparticle tests of dark matter theories |
| Arman Shafieloo (KASI Daejeon) | Consistency checks of LCDM |
| Shinji Tsujikawa (Tokyo U. of Sci.) | Theories of modified gravity |
| Raymond Volkas (U. Melbourne) | Outlook for the discovery of new physics |
| Wei Wang (Sun Yat-sen U.) | Neutrino experiments |
| David Wiltshire (U. Canterbury) | Inhomogeneous cosmology |
| Tsutomu Yanagida (U. Tokyo) | Neutrino mass in the landscape of vacua |
Important reminder: All foreign visitors must obtain a valid visa before travelling to Australia! Please make the necessary arrangements well ahead of time.
| International Advisory Committee | |
| Nicole Bell (The University of Melbourne) | Bo-Qiang Ma (Peking University) |
| Pisin Chen (National Taiwan University) | Sandip Pakvasa (University of Hawaii) |
| Kiwoon Choi (Institute for Basic Science, Daejeon) | Raymond Volkas (The University of Melbourne) |
| Tamara Davis (The University of Queensland) | Bin Wang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University) |
| Richard Easther (The University of Auckland) | David Wiltshire (University of Canterbury) |
| Xiao-Gang He (National Taiwan University) | Jun’ichi Yokoyama (The University of Tokyo) |
| W.-Y. Pauchy Hwang (National Taiwan University) | |
| Local Organising Comittee | |
| Jan Hamann (The University of Sydney) | Michael Schmidt (The University of Sydney) |
| Gary Hill (The University of Adelaide) | Kevin Varvell (The University of Sydney) |
| Archil Kobakhidze (The University of Sydney) | Yvonne Wong (The University of New South Wales) |
| Geraint Lewis (The University of Sydney) |
We gratefully acknowledge sponsorship by:
Header photo by David Iliff. License: CC-BY-SA 3.0
