Theoretical Cosmology meetings
To actively encourage the field of theoretical cosmology and to set an informal stage for the exchange of ideas, the Dutch theoretical cosmology community organizes Friday afternoon meetings approximately 6 times a year — usually on the first Friday of the month. The meetings typically start in the afternoon with a main speaker, followed by a short break to continue with another seminar or journal club discussion on some topic of current interest. We end the afternoon with drinks. The supporting institutes in Leiden, Amsterdam, Groningen, Utrecht where recently joined by the strings and cosmology group in Leuven and take turns in hosting the event.
June 2019
Amsterdam Spring 2019
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…
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Grongingen Fall 2019
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…
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Leiden Fall 2019
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…
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Amsterdam Fall 2019
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…
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Utrecht Winter 2020
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.…
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Groningen Winter 2020
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…
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Leiden Spring 2020
Leiden, April 6th. This meeting will take place via remote connection. Here the information for connecting: Time: Apr 3, 2020 02:00 PM Amsterdam Join Zoom Meeting Zoom Link Meeting ID: 147 651 918 Password: 782828 14:00 - 14:30: Talk by Otto Akseli Hannuksela (Nikhef) Title:Gravitational-wave lensing within ground-based gravitational-wave detectors Abstract: Gravitational waves, like light, could be gravitationally lensed.…
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Amsterdam Spring 2020
Amsterdam, May 8th. This meeting will take place via remote connection. Here the information for connecting: Time: May 8, 2020 03:00 PM Amsterdam Join Zoom Meeting Zoom Link Meeting ID: 939 4974 3367 15:00 - 15:45: Talk by Enrico Pajer (DAMPT, Cambridge) Title:Boostless Boostrap Abstract: The space of inflationary models is vast, containing wide varieties of mechanisms, symmetries, and…
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Utrecht Spring 2020
Utrecht, June 5th. This meeting will take place via remote connection. Here the information for connecting: Time: June 5, 2020 02:00 PM Amsterdam Join Zoom Meeting Zoom Link Meeting ID: 939 4974 3367 14:00 - 14:30: Talk by Emanuele Castorina (CERN) Title:Could quasar lensing time delays hint to a core component in halos, instead of H0 tension? Abstract: There…
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