Name: Progress on Old and New Themes in cosmology (PONT) 2020
Start: 2020-12-07T08:00:00+01:00
End: 2020-12-11T18:00:00+01:00
Location: Palais des Papes, Avignon

Progress on Old and New Themes in cosmology (PONT) 2020

from Monday, December 7, 2020 (8:00 AM) to Friday, December 11, 2020 (6:00 PM)

Monday, December 7, 2020
9:00 AM Observational Cosmology
Observational Cosmology
9:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Chambre du Trésorier
Contributions

9:00 AM The early years of weak-lensing in cosmology - Nick Kaiser

9:40 AM The Rubin Observatory (previously LSST): status and anticipated cosmology achievements - Pierre Astier

10:40 AM LiteBIRD, in quest for the primordial gravitational waves - Ludovic Montier

11:20 AM The dipole in the galaxy bispectrum - Roy Maartens

12:00 PM A crisis in the standard model? - Eleonora Di Valentino (Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris)
12:30 PM Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Room: Chambre du Trésorier
2:30 PM
2:30 PM - 3:10 PM
Room: Chambre du Trésorier
Contributions

2:30 PM Forecast on lepton asymmetry from future CMB experiments - Alexander Bonilla Rivera (UFJF)

2:50 PM Cosmology from low radio frequencies with LoTSS - Dominik Schwarz
3:10 PM Observational Cosmology
Observational Cosmology
3:10 PM - 5:00 PM
Room: Chambre du Trésorier
Contributions

3:10 PM The status of cosmological tensions after Planck - Silvia Galli

3:40 PM The Hubble Constant Tension/Problem/Crisis - Adam Riess

4:35 PM A sound-horizon-agnostic look at the Hubble tension - Levon Pogosian (Simon Fraser University)
5:00 PM
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Chambre du Trésorier
Contributions

5:00 PM Oscillating scalar fields and the Hubble tension: a resolution with novel signatures - Tristan Smith (Swarthmore College)

5:20 PM Detecting dark matter signals by radio data of galaxy clusters - Man Ho Chan (The Education University of Hong Kong)

5:40 PM The synergy between CMB spectral distortions and anisotropies - MATTEO LUCCA (IDP - ULB (Universite libre de Bruxelles))
Tuesday, December 8, 2020
9:00 AM Dark Matter and Dark Energy
Dark Matter and Dark Energy
9:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Chambre du Trésorier
Contributions

9:00 AM Primordial Black Holes as a common origin for baryons and dark matter? - Sébastien Clesse (Catholic University of Louvain)

9:40 AM Dark matter direct detection: present scenario and future prospects - José Matias-Lopes (Coimbra University)

10:40 AM Effective Field Theory of Dark Energy: current constraints and forecasts - Noemi Frusciante (Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço)

11:20 AM Fifth force searches in galaxies - Harry Desmond (University of Oxford)

12:00 PM New tests for ultra-light dark matter with black hole superradiance - Diego Blas Temino (King's College London)
12:30 PM Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Room: Chambre du Trésorier
2:30 PM
2:30 PM - 3:50 PM
Room: Chambre du Trésorier
Contributions

2:30 PM CANCELED - Pradyumn Kumar Sahoo (Birla Institute of Technology and Science-Pilani, Hyderabad Campus)

2:50 PM Dark matter bound states: where do we stand? - Simone Biondini (Van Swinderen Institute for Particle Physics and Gravity)

3:10 PM Scalar field dark matter around supermassive Black Holes - Patrick Valageas (IPhT / CEA Salcay)

3:30 PM Black Holes at Cosmic Dawn - Felix Mirabel (IAFE)
3:50 PM
3:50 PM - 5:00 PM
Room: Chambre du Trésorier
Contributions

4:20 PM Updates on sub-GeV Direct Detection - Tien-Tien Yu (University of Oregon (US))
5:00 PM
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Chambre du Trésorier
Contributions

5:00 PM The threshold for Primordial Black Holes: formation and cosmological impact - Ilia Musco (University of Geneva)

5:20 PM Mass spectrum of primordial black holes - Alexander Dolgov (NSU)

5:40 PM Minimal self-interacting dark matter models with light mediator - LAURENT VANDERHEYDEN (IDP - ULB (Universite libre de Bruxelles))
7:30 PM

7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Room: Chambre du Trésorier
Wednesday, December 9, 2020
9:00 AM The Early Universe
The Early Universe
9:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Chambre du Trésorier
Contributions

9:00 AM A fresh look at the calculation of tunneling actions - Jose Ramon Espinosa (IFT-UAM/CSIC)

9:40 AM Quantum scale symmetry in cosmology - Christof Wetterich (Heidelberg University)

10:40 AM Neff in the Standard Model - an Update - Marco Drewes (Universite Catholique de Louvain (UCL) (BE))

11:20 AM Thermal production and interaction rates in the early universe - Jacopo Ghiglieri (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))

12:00 PM Swampland and Trans-Planckian Censorship Constraints on Inflation and Dark Energy - Robert Brandenberger (McGill University)
12:30 PM Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Room: Chambre du Trésorier
2:30 PM
2:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Chambre du Trésorier
Contributions

2:30 PM MEMe model: a generalized coupling theory - Justin Feng (Instituto Superior Tecnico)

2:50 PM Where is the cosmic rest frame? : the local Universe and the Cosmological principle - Mohamed Rameez

3:10 PM Implications of microscopic black holes in neutrino telescopes, FCC and the early Universe - Ningqiang Song (Queen's University)

3:50 PM A formulation to study formation of Bose-Einstein condensation in cosmology at the level of particle physics processes - Kemal Gultekin (Izmir Institute of Technology)

4:10 PM On the quantum origin of a small positive cosmological constant - Saurya Das (University of Lethbridge)

4:30 PM Impact of Low Reheating Temperature and X-ray Bound Relaxation on Sterile Neutrino DM Searches in Terrestrial Experiments - Cristina Benso (MPIK, Heidelberg)

4:50 PM Spherical cosmological models: an alternative cosmology - Herwig Dejonghe (Ghent University)

5:10 PM Charging dark matter up - Jose Beltran Jimenez
Thursday, December 10, 2020
9:00 AM Gravitational Waves
Gravitational Waves
9:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Chambre du Trésorier
Contributions

9:00 AM Primordial gravitational waves with a blue-tilted spectrum - Sachiko Kuroyanagi (Tokyo University of Science)

9:40 AM Cosmology with gravitational wave standard sirens: current results and future prospects - Nicola Tamanini (IPhT CEA/Saclay)

10:40 AM Detecting Gravitational Wave Backgrounds and their anisotropies using networked detectors - Carlo Contaldi (Imperial College London)

11:20 AM Black hole metric from scattering amplitudes in various dimensions - Pierre Vanhove

12:00 PM Tests of gravity with gravitational waves - Miguel Zumalacarregui (University of California at Berkeley)
12:30 PM Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Room: Chambre du Trésorier
2:30 PM
2:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Chambre du Trésorier
Contributions

2:30 PM Cross-correlation of the astrophysical gravitational-wave background with galaxy clustering - Valeri Vardanyan (Kavli IPMU)

2:50 PM Probing pre-BBN era with Primordial Gravitational Waves: Modified Gravity and Non-Standard Cosmology - Anish Ghoshal (L)

3:10 PM Classical de Sitter string backgrounds and the swampland - David Andriot (TU Wien)

3:30 PM A probe into leptophilic scalar dark matter - Sreemanti Chakraborti (Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, India)

4:10 PM Cosmological constraints on multi-interacting dark matter - Deanna C. Hooper (ULB (Université libre de Bruxelles))

4:30 PM The early dark energy resolution to the Hubble tension in light of large-scale structure data and the CMB lensing anomalies - Riccardo Murgia (LUPM, CNRS & Montpellier University)

4:50 PM Hints for decaying dark matter from S8 measurements - Guillermo Franco Abellan (Laboratoire Univers et Particules (LUPM))

5:10 PM Integral X-ray constraints on sub-GeV dark matter - Elena Pinetti (University of Turin & INFN Turin & Sorbonne University)

5:30 PM Probing freeze-in dark matter with gamma ray telescopes - Johannes Herms (TU Munich)
Friday, December 11, 2020
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 12:40 PM
Room: Chambre du Trésorier
Contributions

9:00 AM Anisotropic cosmological models under f(R;T ) theory of gravity - Bivudutta Mishra (BITS-Pilani, Hyderabad Campus)

9:20 AM Bounds on masses of dark matter particles in $R^2$-gravity - Elena Arbuzova (Dubna State University and Novosibirsk State University)

9:40 AM Constraints on the growth rate using the observed power spectrum and multi-tracers - Jan-Albert Viljoen (University of the Western Cape)

10:00 AM Accelerated universe from non-extensive entropy - Ahmad Sheykhi

10:20 AM Gravitational radiation from MHD turbulence in the early universe - Alberto Roper Pol

11:00 AM Thick Branes in Extra Dimensions and Suppressed Couplings - Ricardo Landim (Technical University of Munich)

11:20 AM Hubble-induced phase transitions: Walls are not forever - Dario Bettoni

11:40 AM Coupling to matter in degenerate scalar-tensor theories - Sebastian Garcia-Saenz (Imperial College London)

12:00 PM The 1/N expansion for stochastic fields in de Sitter spacetime - Gabriel Moreau (Université de Montpellier)

12:20 PM M-theory and the birth of the Universe - Frans Klinkhamer
12:40 PM Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:40 PM - 2:30 PM
Room: Chambre du Trésorier