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

from Monday 7 December 2020 (08:00) to Friday 11 December 2020 (18:00)
Palais des Papes, Avignon (Chambre du Trésorier)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
7 Dec 2020
8 Dec 2020
9 Dec 2020
10 Dec 2020
11 Dec 2020
AM
09:00
Invited talks (until 12:30)
09:00 The early years of weak-lensing in cosmology - Nick Kaiser  
09:40 The Rubin Observatory (previously LSST): status and anticipated cosmology achievements - Pierre Astier  
10:20 --- Coffee break ---
10:40 LiteBIRD, in quest for the primordial gravitational waves - Ludovic Montier  
11:20 The dipole in the galaxy bispectrum - Roy Maartens  
12:00 A crisis in the standard model? - Eleonora Di Valentino (Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris)  
09:00
Invited talks (until 12:30)
09:00 Primordial Black Holes as a common origin for baryons and dark matter? - Sébastien Clesse (Catholic University of Louvain)  
09:40 Dark matter direct detection: present scenario and future prospects - Prof. José Matias-Lopes (Coimbra University)  
10:20 --- Coffee Break ---
10:40 Effective Field Theory of Dark Energy: current constraints and forecasts - Noemi Frusciante (Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço)  
11:20 Fifth force searches in galaxies - Dr Harry Desmond (University of Oxford)  
12:00 New tests for ultra-light dark matter with black hole superradiance - Dr Diego Blas Temino (King's College London)  
09:00
Invited talks (until 12:30)
09:00 A fresh look at the calculation of tunneling actions - Prof. Jose Ramon Espinosa (IFT-UAM/CSIC)  
09:40 Quantum scale symmetry in cosmology - Christof Wetterich (Heidelberg University)  
10:20 --- Coffee Break ---
10:40 Neff in the Standard Model - an Update - Marco Drewes (Universite Catholique de Louvain (UCL) (BE))  
11:20 Thermal production and interaction rates in the early universe - Jacopo Ghiglieri (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))  
12:00 Swampland and Trans-Planckian Censorship Constraints on Inflation and Dark Energy - Robert Brandenberger (McGill University)  
09:00
Invited talks (until 12:30)
09:00 Primordial gravitational waves with a blue-tilted spectrum - Sachiko Kuroyanagi (Tokyo University of Science)  
09:40 Cosmology with gravitational wave standard sirens: current results and future prospects - Nicola Tamanini (IPhT CEA/Saclay)  
10:20 --- Coffee Break ---
10:40 Detecting Gravitational Wave Backgrounds and their anisotropies using networked detectors - Carlo Contaldi (Imperial College London)  
11:20 Black hole metric from scattering amplitudes in various dimensions - Pierre Vanhove  
12:00 Tests of gravity with gravitational waves - Dr Miguel Zumalacarregui (University of California at Berkeley)  
09:00
Contributed talks (until 12:40)
09:00 Anisotropic cosmological models under f(R;T ) theory of gravity - Bivudutta Mishra (BITS-Pilani, Hyderabad Campus)  
09:20 Bounds on masses of dark matter particles in $R^2$-gravity - Elena Arbuzova (Dubna State University and Novosibirsk State University)  
09:40 Constraints on the growth rate using the observed power spectrum and multi-tracers - Jan-Albert Viljoen (University of the Western Cape)  
10:00 Accelerated universe from non-extensive entropy - Ahmad Sheykhi  
10:20 Gravitational radiation from MHD turbulence in the early universe - Alberto Roper Pol  
10:40 --- Coffee break ---
11:00 Thick Branes in Extra Dimensions and Suppressed Couplings - Ricardo Landim (Technical University of Munich)  
11:20 Hubble-induced phase transitions: Walls are not forever - Dario Bettoni  
11:40 Coupling to matter in degenerate scalar-tensor theories - Sebastian Garcia-Saenz (Imperial College London)  
12:00 The 1/N expansion for stochastic fields in de Sitter spacetime - Gabriel Moreau (Université de Montpellier)  
12:20 M-theory and the birth of the Universe - Frans Klinkhamer  
PM
12:30 --- Lunch break ---
14:30
Contributed talks (until 15:10)
14:30 Forecast on lepton asymmetry from future CMB experiments - Mr Alexander Bonilla Rivera (UFJF)  
14:50 Cosmology from low radio frequencies with LoTSS - Prof. Dominik Schwarz  
15:10
Invited talks (until 17:00)
15:10 The status of cosmological tensions after Planck - Silvia Galli  
15:40 The Hubble Constant Tension/Problem/Crisis - Adam Riess  
16:20 --- Coffee Break ---
16:35 A sound-horizon-agnostic look at the Hubble tension - Prof. Levon Pogosian (Simon Fraser University)  
17:00
Contributed talks (until 18:00)
17:00 Oscillating scalar fields and the Hubble tension: a resolution with novel signatures - Prof. Tristan Smith (Swarthmore College)  
17:20 Detecting dark matter signals by radio data of galaxy clusters - Dr Man Ho Chan (The Education University of Hong Kong)  
17:40 The synergy between CMB spectral distortions and anisotropies - MATTEO LUCCA (IDP - ULB (Universite libre de Bruxelles))  
12:30 --- Lunch break ---
14:30
Contributed talks (until 15:50)
14:30 CANCELED - Prof. Pradyumn Kumar Sahoo (Birla Institute of Technology and Science-Pilani, Hyderabad Campus)  
14:50 Dark matter bound states: where do we stand? - Dr Simone Biondini (Van Swinderen Institute for Particle Physics and Gravity)  
15:10 Scalar field dark matter around supermassive Black Holes - Dr Patrick Valageas (IPhT / CEA Salcay)  
15:30 Black Holes at Cosmic Dawn - Felix Mirabel (IAFE)  
15:50
Invited talks (until 17:00)
15:50 --- Coffee break ---
16:20 Updates on sub-GeV Direct Detection - Tien-Tien Yu (University of Oregon (US))  
17:00
Contributed talks (until 18:00)
17:00 The threshold for Primordial Black Holes: formation and cosmological impact - Dr Ilia Musco (University of Geneva)  
17:20 Mass spectrum of primordial black holes - Alexander Dolgov (NSU)  
17:40 Minimal self-interacting dark matter models with light mediator - Mr LAURENT VANDERHEYDEN (IDP - ULB (Universite libre de Bruxelles))  
19:30
Popular science event (in french) (until 21:30)
12:30 --- Lunch break ---
14:30
Contributed talks (until 18:00)
14:30 MEMe model: a generalized coupling theory - Justin Feng (Instituto Superior Tecnico)  
14:50 Where is the cosmic rest frame? : the local Universe and the Cosmological principle - Mohamed Rameez  
15:10 Implications of microscopic black holes in neutrino telescopes, FCC and the early Universe - Ningqiang Song (Queen's University)  
15:30 --- Coffee break ---
15:50 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)  
16:10 On the quantum origin of a small positive cosmological constant - Prof. Saurya Das (University of Lethbridge)  
16:30 Impact of Low Reheating Temperature and X-ray Bound Relaxation on Sterile Neutrino DM Searches in Terrestrial Experiments - Cristina Benso (MPIK, Heidelberg)  
16:50 Spherical cosmological models: an alternative cosmology - Herwig Dejonghe (Ghent University)  
17:10 Charging dark matter up - Dr Jose Beltran Jimenez  
12:30 --- Lunch break ---
14:30
Contributed talks (until 18:00)
14:30 Cross-correlation of the astrophysical gravitational-wave background with galaxy clustering - Valeri Vardanyan (Kavli IPMU)  
14:50 Probing pre-BBN era with Primordial Gravitational Waves: Modified Gravity and Non-Standard Cosmology - Anish Ghoshal (L)  
15:10 Classical de Sitter string backgrounds and the swampland - Dr David Andriot (TU Wien)  
15:30 A probe into leptophilic scalar dark matter - Ms Sreemanti Chakraborti (Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, India)  
15:50 --- Coffee break ---
16:10 Cosmological constraints on multi-interacting dark matter - Dr Deanna C. Hooper (ULB (Université libre de Bruxelles))  
16:30 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)  
16:50 Hints for decaying dark matter from S8 measurements - Mr Guillermo Franco Abellan (Laboratoire Univers et Particules (LUPM))  
17:10 Integral X-ray constraints on sub-GeV dark matter - Mrs Elena Pinetti (University of Turin & INFN Turin & Sorbonne University)  
17:30 Probing freeze-in dark matter with gamma ray telescopes - Johannes Herms (TU Munich)  
12:40 --- Lunch Break ---