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)
Palais des Papes, Avignon (Chambre du Trésorier)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
Dec 7, 2020
Dec 8, 2020
Dec 9, 2020
Dec 10, 2020
Dec 11, 2020
AM
9:00 AM
Invited talks (until 12:30 PM) (Chambre du Trésorier)
9:00 AM The early years of weak-lensing in cosmology - Nick Kaiser   (Chambre du Trésorier)
9:40 AM The Rubin Observatory (previously LSST): status and anticipated cosmology achievements - Pierre Astier   (Chambre du Trésorier)
10:20 AM --- Coffee break ---
10:40 AM LiteBIRD, in quest for the primordial gravitational waves - Ludovic Montier   (Chambre du Trésorier)
11:20 AM The dipole in the galaxy bispectrum - Roy Maartens   (Chambre du Trésorier)
12:00 PM A crisis in the standard model? - Eleonora Di Valentino (Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris)   (Chambre du Trésorier)
9:00 AM
Invited talks (until 12:30 PM) (Chambre du Trésorier)
9:00 AM Primordial Black Holes as a common origin for baryons and dark matter? - Sébastien Clesse (Catholic University of Louvain)   (Chambre du Trésorier)
9:40 AM Dark matter direct detection: present scenario and future prospects - Prof. José Matias-Lopes (Coimbra University)   (Chambre du Trésorier)
10:20 AM --- Coffee Break ---
10:40 AM Effective Field Theory of Dark Energy: current constraints and forecasts - Noemi Frusciante (Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço)   (Chambre du Trésorier)
11:20 AM Fifth force searches in galaxies - Dr Harry Desmond (University of Oxford)   (Chambre du Trésorier)
12:00 PM New tests for ultra-light dark matter with black hole superradiance - Dr Diego Blas Temino (King's College London)   (Chambre du Trésorier)
9:00 AM
Invited talks (until 12:30 PM) (Chambre du Trésorier)
9:00 AM A fresh look at the calculation of tunneling actions - Prof. Jose Ramon Espinosa (IFT-UAM/CSIC)   (Chambre du Trésorier)
9:40 AM Quantum scale symmetry in cosmology - Christof Wetterich (Heidelberg University)   (Chambre du Trésorier)
10:20 AM --- Coffee Break ---
10:40 AM Neff in the Standard Model - an Update - Marco Drewes (Universite Catholique de Louvain (UCL) (BE))   (Chambre du Trésorier)
11:20 AM Thermal production and interaction rates in the early universe - Jacopo Ghiglieri (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))   (Chambre du Trésorier)
12:00 PM Swampland and Trans-Planckian Censorship Constraints on Inflation and Dark Energy - Robert Brandenberger (McGill University)   (Chambre du Trésorier)
9:00 AM
Invited talks (until 12:30 PM) (Chambre du Trésorier)
9:00 AM Primordial gravitational waves with a blue-tilted spectrum - Sachiko Kuroyanagi (Tokyo University of Science)   (Chambre du Trésorier)
9:40 AM Cosmology with gravitational wave standard sirens: current results and future prospects - Nicola Tamanini (IPhT CEA/Saclay)   (Chambre du Trésorier)
10:20 AM --- Coffee Break ---
10:40 AM Detecting Gravitational Wave Backgrounds and their anisotropies using networked detectors - Carlo Contaldi (Imperial College London)   (Chambre du Trésorier)
11:20 AM Black hole metric from scattering amplitudes in various dimensions - Pierre Vanhove   (Chambre du Trésorier)
12:00 PM Tests of gravity with gravitational waves - Dr Miguel Zumalacarregui (University of California at Berkeley)   (Chambre du Trésorier)
9:00 AM
Contributed talks (until 12:40 PM) (Chambre du Trésorier)
9:00 AM Anisotropic cosmological models under f(R;T ) theory of gravity - Bivudutta Mishra (BITS-Pilani, Hyderabad Campus)   (Chambre du Trésorier)
9:20 AM Bounds on masses of dark matter particles in $R^2$-gravity - Elena Arbuzova (Dubna State University and Novosibirsk State University)   (Chambre du Trésorier)
9:40 AM Constraints on the growth rate using the observed power spectrum and multi-tracers - Jan-Albert Viljoen (University of the Western Cape)   (Chambre du Trésorier)
10:00 AM Accelerated universe from non-extensive entropy - Ahmad Sheykhi   (Chambre du Trésorier)
10:20 AM Gravitational radiation from MHD turbulence in the early universe - Alberto Roper Pol   (Chambre du Trésorier)
10:40 AM --- Coffee break ---
11:00 AM Thick Branes in Extra Dimensions and Suppressed Couplings - Ricardo Landim (Technical University of Munich)   (Chambre du Trésorier)
11:20 AM Hubble-induced phase transitions: Walls are not forever - Dario Bettoni   (Chambre du Trésorier)
11:40 AM Coupling to matter in degenerate scalar-tensor theories - Sebastian Garcia-Saenz (Imperial College London)   (Chambre du Trésorier)
12:00 PM The 1/N expansion for stochastic fields in de Sitter spacetime - Gabriel Moreau (Université de Montpellier)   (Chambre du Trésorier)
12:20 PM M-theory and the birth of the Universe - Frans Klinkhamer   (Chambre du Trésorier)
PM
12:30 PM --- Lunch break ---
2:30 PM
Contributed talks (until 3:10 PM) (Chambre du Trésorier)
2:30 PM Forecast on lepton asymmetry from future CMB experiments - Mr Alexander Bonilla Rivera (UFJF)   (Chambre du Trésorier)
2:50 PM Cosmology from low radio frequencies with LoTSS - Prof. Dominik Schwarz   (Chambre du Trésorier)
3:10 PM
Invited talks (until 5:00 PM) (Chambre du Trésorier)
3:10 PM The status of cosmological tensions after Planck - Silvia Galli   (Chambre du Trésorier)
3:40 PM The Hubble Constant Tension/Problem/Crisis - Adam Riess   (Chambre du Trésorier)
4:20 PM --- Coffee Break ---
4:35 PM A sound-horizon-agnostic look at the Hubble tension - Prof. Levon Pogosian (Simon Fraser University)   (Chambre du Trésorier)
5:00 PM
Contributed talks (until 6:00 PM) (Chambre du Trésorier)
5:00 PM Oscillating scalar fields and the Hubble tension: a resolution with novel signatures - Prof. Tristan Smith (Swarthmore College)   (Chambre du Trésorier)
5:20 PM Detecting dark matter signals by radio data of galaxy clusters - Dr Man Ho Chan (The Education University of Hong Kong)   (Chambre du Trésorier)
5:40 PM The synergy between CMB spectral distortions and anisotropies - MATTEO LUCCA (IDP - ULB (Universite libre de Bruxelles))   (Chambre du Trésorier)
12:30 PM --- Lunch break ---
2:30 PM
Contributed talks (until 3:50 PM) (Chambre du Trésorier)
2:30 PM CANCELED - Prof. Pradyumn Kumar Sahoo (Birla Institute of Technology and Science-Pilani, Hyderabad Campus)   (Chambre du Trésorier)
2:50 PM Dark matter bound states: where do we stand? - Dr Simone Biondini (Van Swinderen Institute for Particle Physics and Gravity)   (Chambre du Trésorier)
3:10 PM Scalar field dark matter around supermassive Black Holes - Dr Patrick Valageas (IPhT / CEA Salcay)   (Chambre du Trésorier)
3:30 PM Black Holes at Cosmic Dawn - Felix Mirabel (IAFE)   (Chambre du Trésorier)
3:50 PM
Invited talks (until 5:00 PM) (Chambre du Trésorier)
3:50 PM --- Coffee break ---
4:20 PM Updates on sub-GeV Direct Detection - Tien-Tien Yu (University of Oregon (US))   (Chambre du Trésorier)
5:00 PM
Contributed talks (until 6:00 PM) (Chambre du Trésorier)
5:00 PM The threshold for Primordial Black Holes: formation and cosmological impact - Dr Ilia Musco (University of Geneva)   (Chambre du Trésorier)
5:20 PM Mass spectrum of primordial black holes - Alexander Dolgov (NSU)   (Chambre du Trésorier)
5:40 PM Minimal self-interacting dark matter models with light mediator - Mr LAURENT VANDERHEYDEN (IDP - ULB (Universite libre de Bruxelles))   (Chambre du Trésorier)
7:30 PM
Popular science event (in french) (until 9:30 PM) (Chambre du Trésorier)
12:30 PM --- Lunch break ---
2:30 PM
Contributed talks (until 6:00 PM) (Chambre du Trésorier)
2:30 PM MEMe model: a generalized coupling theory - Justin Feng (Instituto Superior Tecnico)   (Chambre du Trésorier)
2:50 PM Where is the cosmic rest frame? : the local Universe and the Cosmological principle - Mohamed Rameez   (Chambre du Trésorier)
3:10 PM Implications of microscopic black holes in neutrino telescopes, FCC and the early Universe - Ningqiang Song (Queen's University)   (Chambre du Trésorier)
3:30 PM --- Coffee break ---
3:50 PM A formulation to study formation of Bose-Einstein condensation in cosmology at the level of particle physics processes - Mr Kemal Gultekin (Izmir Institute of Technology)   (Chambre du Trésorier)
4:10 PM On the quantum origin of a small positive cosmological constant - Prof. Saurya Das (University of Lethbridge)   (Chambre du Trésorier)
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)   (Chambre du Trésorier)
4:50 PM Spherical cosmological models: an alternative cosmology - Herwig Dejonghe (Ghent University)   (Chambre du Trésorier)
5:10 PM Charging dark matter up - Dr Jose Beltran Jimenez   (Chambre du Trésorier)
12:30 PM --- Lunch break ---
2:30 PM
Contributed talks (until 6:00 PM) (Chambre du Trésorier)
2:30 PM Cross-correlation of the astrophysical gravitational-wave background with galaxy clustering - Valeri Vardanyan (Kavli IPMU)   (Chambre du Trésorier)
2:50 PM Probing pre-BBN era with Primordial Gravitational Waves: Modified Gravity and Non-Standard Cosmology - Anish Ghoshal (L)   (Chambre du Trésorier)
3:10 PM Classical de Sitter string backgrounds and the swampland - Dr David Andriot (TU Wien)   (Chambre du Trésorier)
3:30 PM A probe into leptophilic scalar dark matter - Ms Sreemanti Chakraborti (Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, India)   (Chambre du Trésorier)
3:50 PM --- Coffee break ---
4:10 PM Cosmological constraints on multi-interacting dark matter - Dr Deanna C. Hooper (ULB (Université libre de Bruxelles))   (Chambre du Trésorier)
4:30 PM The early dark energy resolution to the Hubble tension in light of large-scale structure data and the CMB lensing anomalies - Dr Riccardo Murgia (LUPM, CNRS & Montpellier University)   (Chambre du Trésorier)
4:50 PM Hints for decaying dark matter from S8 measurements - Mr Guillermo Franco Abellan (Laboratoire Univers et Particules (LUPM))   (Chambre du Trésorier)
5:10 PM Integral X-ray constraints on sub-GeV dark matter - Mrs Elena Pinetti (University of Turin & INFN Turin & Sorbonne University)   (Chambre du Trésorier)
5:30 PM Probing freeze-in dark matter with gamma ray telescopes - Johannes Herms (TU Munich)   (Chambre du Trésorier)
12:40 PM --- Lunch Break ---