First EuCAPT Annual Symposium

Europe/Zurich
Online only (CERN)

Online only

CERN

Description

*14/05/2021: video recordings for all talks have been uploaded to Indico*

09/02/2021: the Symposium will be held in fully remote mode.

21/12/2020: invited speakers and area conveners announced.

The European Consortium for Astroparticle Theory (EuCAPT, https://www.eucapt.org) is a new initiative, with central hub at CERN, that aims to bring together the European community of theoretical astroparticle physicists and cosmologists. Our goals are to increase the exchange of ideas and knowledge; to coordinate scientific and training activities; to help scientists attract adequate resources for their projects; and to promote a stimulating, fair and open environment in which young scientists can thrive. More than 660 scientists completed the 1st EuCAPT census in January 2020, and expressed an interest in EuCAPT activities. 

We are delighted to announce the first edition of the EuCAPT annual symposium, the flagship event of our consortium, that aims to provide an interdisciplinary Europe-wide forum to discuss opportunities and challenges in Theoretical Astroparticle Physics and Cosmology. We invite all scientists (PhD students, postdocs, and staff) active in these fields of research to join us remotely from May 5 to May 7, 2021. The symposium will feature invited presentations, and young scientists will have the opportunity to present their work with lightning talks. Beside scientific presentations, the programme also includes: a plenary session dedicated to the planning of a community-wide white paper, followed by thematic parallel discussions; an award ceremony for the best talks by young scientists.

Participants
    • 9:00 AM 10:30 AM
      Dark Matter: Thursday, Morning Session 1

      Models and observations

      Convener: Marco Cirelli (CNRS LPTHE Jussieu)
    • 10:30 AM 11:00 AM
      Coffee break 30m
    • 11:00 AM 11:30 AM
      Dark Matter: Thursday, Morning Session 2

      Models and observations

      Convener: Marco Cirelli (CNRS LPTHE Jussieu)
    • 11:30 AM 11:40 AM
      Dark Matter

      Models and observations

    • 11:40 AM 11:45 AM
      High-Energy Astroparticle Physics

      Cosmic rays, gamma-ray bursts

      • 11:40 AM
        Evaluating cosmic coincidences 5m Lightning talk

        Lightning talk

        Speaker: Francesca Capel (Technische Universität München)
    • 11:45 AM 11:50 AM
      GWs and Compact Objects

      Primordial gravitational waves, black holes, neutron stars

    • 11:50 AM 11:55 AM
      Early Universe

      Inflation, baryogenesis, phase transitions

      • 11:50 AM
        No free diffusion during inflation without overproducing primordial black holes 5m Lightning talk

        Lightning talk

        Speaker: Ashley Wilkins (Newcastle University)
    • 11:55 AM 12:00 PM
      CMB and Late Universe

      CMB, LSS, dark energy, modified gravity

    • 12:00 PM 12:30 PM
      CMB and Late Universe: Thursday, Morning Session

      CMB, LSS, dark energy, modified gravity

      Convener: Julien Lesgourgues
    • 12:30 PM 2:00 PM
      Lunch break 1h 30m
    • 2:00 PM 4:00 PM
      CMB and Late Universe: Thursday, Afternoon Session

      CMB, LSS, dark energy, modified gravity

      Convener: Julien Lesgourgues
      • 2:00 PM
        Cosmology from galaxy redshift surveys: current results and future prospects 30m
        Speaker: Hector Gil-Marín
      • 2:30 PM
        The role of CMB spectral distortions in the Hubble tension 5m Lightning talk

        Lightning talk

        Speaker: Matteo Lucca (IDP - ULB (Universite libre de Bruxelles))
      • 2:35 PM
        Constraints on the distance duality relation with standard sirens 5m Lightning talk

        Lightning talk

        Speaker: Natalie Hogg
      • 2:40 PM
        Cosmology with UV galaxy luminosity functions 5m Lightning talk

        Lightning talk

        Speaker: Nashwan Sabti
      • 2:45 PM
        Tracing large scale structures with gravitational waves 5m Lightning talk

        Lightning talk

        Speaker: Sarah Libanore (Università degli Studi di Padova)
      • 2:50 PM
        Easing the sigma8-tension with neutrino-dark matter interactions 5m Lightning talk

        Lightning talk

        Speaker: Markus Mosbech (The University of Sydney)
      • 2:55 PM
        Constraining neutrino masses with clustering in harmonic space via multi-tracing 5m Lightning talk

        Lightning talk

        Speaker: Konstantinos Tanidis (Central European Institute for Cosmology and Fundamental Physics (CEICO))
      • 3:00 PM
        Recent progress in theory of large-scale structure 30m
        Speaker: Zvonimir Vlah
      • 3:30 PM
        Cosmology from reionization and cosmic dawn 30m
        Speaker: Julian Muñoz
    • 4:00 PM 4:30 PM
      Coffee break 30m
    • 4:30 PM 7:00 PM
      GWs and Compact Objects: Thursday, Afternoon Session

      Primordial gravitational waves, black holes, neutron stars

      Convener: Alessandra Buonanno
      • 4:30 PM
        Probing subatomic physics with GWs from neutron star binary systems 30m
        Speaker: Tanja Hinderer
      • 5:00 PM
        Cosmology with LIGO/Virgo dark sirens and galaxy catalogs 5m Lightning talk

        Lightning talk

        Speaker: Francesco Iacovelli (Université de Genève)
      • 5:05 PM
        Nonlinear curvature effects in gravitational waves from black hole binaries 5m Lightning talk

        Lightning talk

        Speaker: Banafsheh Shiralilou (University of Amsterdam)
      • 5:10 PM
        Probing the standard cosmological model with the population of binary black holes 5m Lightning talk

        Lightning talk

        Speaker: Jose Maria Ezquiaga (University of Chicago)
      • 5:15 PM
        Primordial black holes and how to produce them 5m Lightning talk

        Lightning talk

        Speaker: Pippa Cole
      • 5:20 PM
        Chasing the progenitors of merging binary black holes 5m Lightning talk

        Lightning talk

        Speaker: Giulio Scelfo (SISSA)
      • 5:25 PM
        Polarization distortions of lensed gravitational waves 5m Lightning talk

        Lightning talk

        Speaker: Charles Dalang (Université de Genève)
      • 5:30 PM
        Stochastic GW backgrounds from astrophysical sources 30m
        Speaker: Irina Dvorkin
      • 6:00 PM
        What can numerical relativity do for dark matter particle physics? 30m
        Speaker: Katy Clough
      • 6:30 PM
        Binary black holes and scattering amplitudes 30m
        Speaker: Mikhail Solon
    • 9:30 AM 10:30 AM
      High-Energy Astroparticle Physics: Friday, Morning Session 1

      Cosmic rays, gamma-ray bursts

      Convener: Elena Amato (INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri)
    • 10:30 AM 11:00 AM
      Coffee break 30m
    • 11:00 AM 12:30 PM
      High-Energy Astroparticle Physics: Friday, Morning Session 2

      Cosmic rays, gamma-ray bursts

      Convener: Elena Amato (INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri)
    • 12:30 PM 2:00 PM
      Lunch break 1h 30m
    • 2:00 PM 2:30 PM
      Early Universe: Outlook

      Inflation, baryogenesis, phase transitions

    • 2:30 PM 3:00 PM
      Low-Energy Neutrinos: Outlook

      Solar and supernova neutrinos, terrestrial experiments

    • 3:00 PM 3:30 PM
      GWs and Compact Objects: Outlook

      Primordial gravitational waves, black holes, neutron stars

    • 3:30 PM 4:00 PM
      CMB and Late Universe: Outlook

      CMB, LSS, dark energy, modified gravity

    • 4:00 PM 4:30 PM
      Coffee break 30m
    • 4:30 PM 5:00 PM
      Dark Matter: Outlook

      Models and observations

    • 5:00 PM 5:30 PM
      High-Energy Astroparticle Physics: Outlook

      Cosmic rays, gamma-ray bursts

    • 5:30 PM 6:00 PM
      Prize Ceremony and Closing