Name: Progress on Old and New Themes in cosmology (PONT) 2017
Start: 2017-04-24T08:00:00+02:00
End: 2017-04-28T15:30:00+02:00
Location: Palais des Papes, Avignon

Progress on Old and New Themes in cosmology (PONT) 2017

from Monday 24 April 2017 (08:00) to Friday 28 April 2017 (15:30)

Monday 24 April 2017
09:00
09:00 - 12:30
Room: Chambre du Trésorier
Contributions

09:00 Direct observation of gravitational waves from the merger and inspiral of two black holes - Bruce Allen (Max Planck Society/Albert Einstein Institute Hannover)

09:45 LISA and the low-frequency gravitational universe - Karsten Danzmann (M)

11:00 Decoding gravitational waves to measure black holes - Mark Hannam (Cardiff University)

11:45 Black holes in the gravitational wave cosmic landscape - Monica Colpi
12:30 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:30 - 14:30
14:30
14:30 - 18:15
Room: Chambre du Trésorier
Contributions

14:30 Gravitational Astrometry and Local Cosmology with Gaia - Mariateresa Crosta

14:53 Gaia, scalar-tensor theories of gravity, and its cosmological implications - Alberto Vecchiato

15:15 A New Age for Quiontessential Inflation - Konstantinos Dimopoulos (Lancaster University)

15:30 Cosmic Inflation from Yang-Mills Instantons - Seoktae Koh (Jeju National University)

15:45 Minimal but non-minimal inflation and electroweak symmetry breaking - Antonio Racioppi (National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics (EE))

16:30 Higgs Dynamics During And After Inflation - Marco Zatta (University of Helsinki)

16:45 SMASH - Guillermo Ballesteros (CEA Paris-Saclay)

17:00 Cosmology with Goldstone bosons: compact and non-compact cosets - Djuna Croon (University of Sussex)

17:15 Unitary NEC Violation in P(X) cosmologies - Scott Melville (Imperial College, London)

17:30 Gravitational waves from the QCD chiral phase transition before the electroweak symmetry breaking - Kengo Shimada (LAPTh)

17:45 Superradiance in rotating stars and implications for dark sectors - Tien-Tien Yu (CERN)

18:00 Piercing the Vainshtein screen with gravitational waves - Jose Beltran Jimenez (Universite d'Aix-Marseille)
18:45 Welcome cocktail
Welcome cocktail
18:45 - 20:15
Tuesday 25 April 2017
09:00
09:00 - 12:30
Room: Chambre du Trésorier
Contributions

09:00 Cosmological tests of modified gravity - Kazuya Koyama (University of Portsmouth)

09:45 Cosmology and dark energy with the Euclid satellite - Anne Ealet (CNRS)

11:00 Cosmological results at z~1 from the completed VIPERS galaxy survey - Luigi Guzzo (Universita' di Milano)

11:45 BBN - new ideas for old problems - Josef Pradler (Max-Planck-Institut für Physik)
12:30 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:30 - 14:30
14:30
14:30 - 19:25
Room: Chambre du Trésorier
Contributions

14:40 Relaxing SUSY - Matthew McCullough (Oxford University)

15:25 Effective Theory of (Higher-Order) Scalar Tensor Theories - Filippo Vernizzi (IPhT, CEA/Saclay)

15:40 Effective theory of dark energy and kinetic matter mixing - Mancarella Michele (IPhT - CEA Saclay)

15:55 Waves in Scalar-Tensor Theories - Robert Hagala

16:40 Unveiling Dark Energy from LSS: the theoretical side of the challenge. - Alessandra Silvestri (Leiden University)

17:25 Priors on the dark energy equation of state and modified growth parameters from general scalar field theories - Levon Pogosian (Simon Fraser University)

17:40 Generalized Einstein-Aether as a dark energy fluid - Damien Trinh (University of Manchester)

17:55 Applications of the EoS formalism to f(R) models - Francesco Pace (JBCA, University of Manchester)

18:10 Effective Field Theory of Dark Energy in the Effective Field Theory of Large-Scale Structure - Matthew Lewandowski (CEA Saclay)
19:30

19:30 - 21:30
Wednesday 26 April 2017
09:00
09:00 - 12:30
Room: Chambre du Trésorier
Contributions

09:00 Future Steps in Cosmology using CMB Spectral Distortions - Jens Chluba (University of Cambridge)

09:45 Exploring the inflation era with CMB Polarization - Jean-Christophe Hamilton

11:00 Measurements of the Local Value of the Hubble Constant - Daniel Scolnic

11:45 Dark Energy Survey (DES) - results and prospects for future - Bob Nichol
12:30 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:30 - 14:30
14:30
14:30 - 15:15
Room: Chambre du Trésorier
Contributions

14:30 Theoretical studies of the Large Scale Structure: results and prospects - Vincent Desjacques
15:15
15:15 - 18:30
Room: Chambre du Trésorier
Contributions

15:15 Neutrinos in cosmology, from CMB to Lyman-alpha forests - Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille (CEA)

16:30 How well can future CMB missions constrain inflation and reheating? - Vincent Vennin (University of Portsmouth (UK), Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation)

16:45 Optimal and fast Wiener filtering of CMB maps without preconditioning - Doogesh Kodi Ramanah (Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris)

17:00 CMB Anomalies From Next Generation Polarization Measurements - Suvodip Mukherjee

17:15 Cosmology with the Euclid galaxy bispectrum - Victoria Yankelevich (Argelander-Institut für Astronomie, University of Bonn)

17:30 Fully non-linear statistical analysis of Large scale structure data for wide and deep surveys - Guilhem Lavaux (Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris)

17:45 Consistency relations for large-scale structures: applications to the integrated Sachs-Wolfe effect and the kinematic Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect - Luca Alberto Rizzo

18:00 The Homogeneity Scale of the Universe - Pierros Delis

18:15 Numerical tests on renormalised non-linear galaxy bias - Kim Werner (Argelander Institut, University of Bonn)
Thursday 27 April 2017
09:00
09:00 - 12:30
Room: Chambre du Trésorier
Contributions

09:00 Dark Matter distribution around galaxies: predictions from simulations - Andrea Maccio'

09:45 Fundamental physics with the intergalactic medium - Matteo Viel

11:00 Full GR cosmological simulations with numerical relativity - Marco Bruni (University of Portsmouth)

11:45 Testing cosmic degeneracies with the SIMCODE project - Marco Baldi (Bologna University)
12:30 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:30 - 14:30
14:30
14:30 - 15:15
Room: Chambre du Trésorier
Contributions

14:30 Cosmological simulations beyond the quasi-static approximation: what can we learn from them? - Claudio Llinares (Durham University)
15:15
15:15 - 18:00
Room: Chambre du Trésorier
Contributions

15:15 Dynamically constrained model of Galactic subhalos and impact on dark matter searches - Martin Stref (Montpellier University)

15:30 A unique probe of dark matter in the core of M87 with the Event Horizon Telescope - Thomas Lacroix (LUPM)

15:45 Cosmological signatures of electromagnetically decaying dark matter - Vivian Poulin (LAPTh, Annecy-le-vieux)

16:30 Primordial Black Holes and Dark Matter from Axion Inflation - Francesco Muia

16:45 Split light Dark Matter - Chu Xiaoyong

17:00 The impact of pair flips on redshift-space distortions - Joseph Kuruvilla

17:15 Evaporation of the de Sitter horizon - Tommi Markkanen

17:30 Braneworld cosmology and holography - Neven Bilic (Rudjer Boskovic Institute)

17:45 Gravitational birefringence of light - Thomas Schucker (CPT)
19:45 Banquet
Banquet
19:45 - 23:00
Friday 28 April 2017
09:00
09:00 - 12:30
Room: Chambre du Trésorier
Contributions

09:00 Old and New Ideas in Dark Matter Direct Detection - Enectali Figueroa-Feliciano (Northwestern University)

09:45 Searching for dark matter in the Milky Way: current results and perspectives - Francesca Calore (LAPTh, CNRS)

11:00 Probing ultralight bosons with compact objects and gravitational waves - Paolo Pani

11:45 Primordial black holes and r-process nucleosynthesis - Alexander Kusenko
12:30 Last Lunch
Last Lunch
12:30 - 14:30