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, April 24, 2017 (8:00 AM) to Friday, April 28, 2017 (3:30 PM)

Monday, April 24, 2017
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Chambre du Trésorier
Contributions

9:00 AM Direct observation of gravitational waves from the merger and inspiral of two black holes - Bruce Allen (Max Planck Society/Albert Einstein Institute Hannover)

9:45 AM LISA and the low-frequency gravitational universe - Karsten Danzmann (M)

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

11:45 AM Black holes in the gravitational wave cosmic landscape - Monica Colpi
12:30 PM Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:30 PM - 2:30 PM
2:30 PM
2:30 PM - 6:15 PM
Room: Chambre du Trésorier
Contributions

2:30 PM Gravitational Astrometry and Local Cosmology with Gaia - Mariateresa Crosta

2:53 PM Gaia, scalar-tensor theories of gravity, and its cosmological implications - Alberto Vecchiato

3:15 PM A New Age for Quiontessential Inflation - Konstantinos Dimopoulos (Lancaster University)

3:30 PM Cosmic Inflation from Yang-Mills Instantons - Seoktae Koh (Jeju National University)

3:45 PM Minimal but non-minimal inflation and electroweak symmetry breaking - Antonio Racioppi (National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics (EE))

4:30 PM Higgs Dynamics During And After Inflation - Marco Zatta (University of Helsinki)

4:45 PM SMASH - Guillermo Ballesteros (CEA Paris-Saclay)

5:00 PM Cosmology with Goldstone bosons: compact and non-compact cosets - Djuna Croon (University of Sussex)

5:15 PM Unitary NEC Violation in P(X) cosmologies - Scott Melville (Imperial College, London)

5:30 PM Gravitational waves from the QCD chiral phase transition before the electroweak symmetry breaking - Kengo Shimada (LAPTh)

5:45 PM Superradiance in rotating stars and implications for dark sectors - Tien-Tien Yu (CERN)

6:00 PM Piercing the Vainshtein screen with gravitational waves - Jose Beltran Jimenez (Universite d'Aix-Marseille)
6:45 PM Welcome cocktail
Welcome cocktail
6:45 PM - 8:15 PM
Tuesday, April 25, 2017
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Chambre du Trésorier
Contributions

9:00 AM Cosmological tests of modified gravity - Kazuya Koyama (University of Portsmouth)

9:45 AM Cosmology and dark energy with the Euclid satellite - Anne Ealet (CNRS)

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

11:45 AM BBN - new ideas for old problems - Josef Pradler (Max-Planck-Institut für Physik)
12:30 PM Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:30 PM - 2:30 PM
2:30 PM
2:30 PM - 7:25 PM
Room: Chambre du Trésorier
Contributions

2:40 PM Relaxing SUSY - Matthew McCullough (Oxford University)

3:25 PM Effective Theory of (Higher-Order) Scalar Tensor Theories - Filippo Vernizzi (IPhT, CEA/Saclay)

3:40 PM Effective theory of dark energy and kinetic matter mixing - Mancarella Michele (IPhT - CEA Saclay)

3:55 PM Waves in Scalar-Tensor Theories - Robert Hagala

4:40 PM Unveiling Dark Energy from LSS: the theoretical side of the challenge. - Alessandra Silvestri (Leiden University)

5:25 PM Priors on the dark energy equation of state and modified growth parameters from general scalar field theories - Levon Pogosian (Simon Fraser University)

5:40 PM Generalized Einstein-Aether as a dark energy fluid - Damien Trinh (University of Manchester)

5:55 PM Applications of the EoS formalism to f(R) models - Francesco Pace (JBCA, University of Manchester)

6:10 PM Effective Field Theory of Dark Energy in the Effective Field Theory of Large-Scale Structure - Matthew Lewandowski (CEA Saclay)
7:30 PM

7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Wednesday, April 26, 2017
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Chambre du Trésorier
Contributions

9:00 AM Future Steps in Cosmology using CMB Spectral Distortions - Jens Chluba (University of Cambridge)

9:45 AM Exploring the inflation era with CMB Polarization - Jean-Christophe Hamilton

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

11:45 AM Dark Energy Survey (DES) - results and prospects for future - Bob Nichol
12:30 PM Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:30 PM - 2:30 PM
2:30 PM
2:30 PM - 3:15 PM
Room: Chambre du Trésorier
Contributions

2:30 PM Theoretical studies of the Large Scale Structure: results and prospects - Vincent Desjacques
3:15 PM
3:15 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: Chambre du Trésorier
Contributions

3:15 PM Neutrinos in cosmology, from CMB to Lyman-alpha forests - Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille (CEA)

4:30 PM How well can future CMB missions constrain inflation and reheating? - Vincent Vennin (University of Portsmouth (UK), Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation)

4:45 PM Optimal and fast Wiener filtering of CMB maps without preconditioning - Doogesh Kodi Ramanah (Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris)

5:00 PM CMB Anomalies From Next Generation Polarization Measurements - Suvodip Mukherjee

5:15 PM Cosmology with the Euclid galaxy bispectrum - Victoria Yankelevich (Argelander-Institut für Astronomie, University of Bonn)

5:30 PM Fully non-linear statistical analysis of Large scale structure data for wide and deep surveys - Guilhem Lavaux (Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris)

5:45 PM Consistency relations for large-scale structures: applications to the integrated Sachs-Wolfe effect and the kinematic Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect - Luca Alberto Rizzo

6:00 PM The Homogeneity Scale of the Universe - Pierros Delis

6:15 PM Numerical tests on renormalised non-linear galaxy bias - Kim Werner (Argelander Institut, University of Bonn)
Thursday, April 27, 2017
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Chambre du Trésorier
Contributions

9:00 AM Dark Matter distribution around galaxies: predictions from simulations - Andrea Maccio'

9:45 AM Fundamental physics with the intergalactic medium - Matteo Viel

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

11:45 AM Testing cosmic degeneracies with the SIMCODE project - Marco Baldi (Bologna University)
12:30 PM Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:30 PM - 2:30 PM
2:30 PM
2:30 PM - 3:15 PM
Room: Chambre du Trésorier
Contributions

2:30 PM Cosmological simulations beyond the quasi-static approximation: what can we learn from them? - Claudio Llinares (Durham University)
3:15 PM
3:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Chambre du Trésorier
Contributions

3:15 PM Dynamically constrained model of Galactic subhalos and impact on dark matter searches - Martin Stref (Montpellier University)

3:30 PM A unique probe of dark matter in the core of M87 with the Event Horizon Telescope - Thomas Lacroix (LUPM)

3:45 PM Cosmological signatures of electromagnetically decaying dark matter - Vivian Poulin (LAPTh, Annecy-le-vieux)

4:30 PM Primordial Black Holes and Dark Matter from Axion Inflation - Francesco Muia

4:45 PM Split light Dark Matter - Chu Xiaoyong

5:00 PM The impact of pair flips on redshift-space distortions - Joseph Kuruvilla

5:15 PM Evaporation of the de Sitter horizon - Tommi Markkanen

5:30 PM Braneworld cosmology and holography - Neven Bilic (Rudjer Boskovic Institute)

5:45 PM Gravitational birefringence of light - Thomas Schucker (CPT)
7:45 PM Banquet
Banquet
7:45 PM - 11:00 PM
Friday, April 28, 2017
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Chambre du Trésorier
Contributions

9:00 AM Old and New Ideas in Dark Matter Direct Detection - Enectali Figueroa-Feliciano (Northwestern University)

9:45 AM Searching for dark matter in the Milky Way: current results and perspectives - Francesca Calore (LAPTh, CNRS)

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

11:45 AM Primordial black holes and r-process nucleosynthesis - Alexander Kusenko
12:30 PM Last Lunch
Last Lunch
12:30 PM - 2:30 PM

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