Leiden, April 5th 2019 The first THC meeting of the spring takes place in Leiden. The venue is the Oort Building (Niels Bohrweg), in the Casimir room (room 273). Program 10:30 – 11:00: Talk by Yvette Welling (DESY) Title: Orbital inflation and the Chamber of Secrets Abstract: Motivated by the recent observation that multi-field inflation mimics the predictions of single…

Leuven, May 10th. The meeting will take place at Mgr. Sencie Instituut (MSI1), Erasmusplein 2, 3000 Leuven . Program 13:00 – 14:00: Talk by Matthias Bartelmann (Heidelberg University) Title: An analytic approach to non-linear cosmic structure formation Abstract:  Numerical simulations of cosmic structure formation are impressively  successful. However, they have practical and conceptual disadvantages: they  are computationally expensive and thus…

Amsterdam, June 7th. The meeting will take place at Nikhef, Science Park 105, 1098 XG Amsterdam, room H331. Program 13:30 – 14:30: Talk by David Weir (Nottingham University) Title:Vorticity, kinetic energy, and suppressed gravitational wave production in strong first order phase transitions Abstract: In the Standard Model, electroweak symmetry breaking is a crossover. In many extensions, the phase transition can…

Groningen,  October 4th. The meeting will take place in room A8 of the Academy Building, downtown Groningen (10min walk from the central station, 4min by bike). Coffee and tea will be available prior to the first talk (at 11.45) and in between both afternoon sessions (at 15.00).   12:00 – 13:00: Talk by Subodh Patil (Bohr Institute) Title:Tensor bounds on…

Leiden,  November 8th. The meeting will take place in Leiden, at the Institute Lorentz for Theoretical Physics, Niels Bohrweg 2, Leiden in room Oort 276.   13:00 – 14:00: Talk by David Harvey (Institute Lorentz) Title:Testing dark matter self-interactions with future all-sky surveys Abstract: Probing the interactions of dark matter provides a pathway to understanding its nature, however in the…

Amsterdam, December 6th. The meeting will take place in Amsterdam, at Nikhef, Science Park 105, in room H331.   14:00 – 15:00: Talk by Toshifumi Noumi (Kobe University) Title:Enlarging the scope of the cosmological collider: Beyond the positivity bounds Abstract: The energy scale of inflation could be as high as 10^14 GeV, hence it is a phenomenon at the highest…

Utrecht, January 10th. The meeting will take place in room 7.12, Buys Ballotgebouw, Princetonplein 5, Utrecht.   13:30 – 14:30: Talk by Zvonimir Vlah (CERN) Title:Cosmological structure formation and the shapes in the sky Abstract: Understanding dark matter inhomogeneities and the corresponding tracers, like galaxies, on large cosmological scales, is considered one of the pillars of the standard cosmological model.…

Groningen, March 6th. The meeting will take place in room 5159.0291 at the Energy Academy on Zernike Campus, Nijenborgh 6, 9747 AG Groningen.   12:15 – 13:15: Talk by Austin Joyce (UvA) Title:Cosmological Correlation Functions From Symmetries and Factorization Abstract: The large-scale correlations that we observe in the distribution of matter in the Universe have their origins in primordial perturbations…