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.
November 2018
Leiden Fall 2018
Leiden, November 9th, 2018 The first THC meeting of the academic year will take place in Leiden. The meeting will take place in Casimir room, Oort building 276, Institute Lorenz, Niels Bohrweg 2, 2333 CA Leiden. Program 14:00 - 15:00: Talk by Will Kinney (Buffalo University) Title: Swamp Creatures of the Inflationary Landscape Abstract: Cosmological inflation provides an elegant framework…
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Amsterdam Fall 2018
Amsterdam, December 7th 2018 The last THC meeting of the solar year takes place in Amsterdam. This meeting includes the opportunity to attend Daniel Baumann's inaugural lecture for his appointment as full professor at University of Amsterdam. Detailed schedule and locations below. Program 12:00 - 12:30: Arrival with lunch Location: Roeterseiland complex, lecture room REC E0.22 12:30 - 13:30: Talk…
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Groningen Winter 2019
Groningen, January 11th 2019 The first THC meeting of the solar year will take place in Groningen. The venue is located downtown Groningen, at the Harmonie Building, room 1315.0036, Oude Kijk in Het Jatstraat 26. Program 12:00 - 13:00: Talk by Filippo Vernizzi (Saclay) Title: Dark Energy after GW170817 Abstract: I will discuss some of the consequences of gravitational…
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Utrecht Winter 2019
Utrecht, March 1st 2019 The second THC meeting of the solar year will take place in Utrecht. The venue is located at Buys Ballot Building, Princetonplein 5, Utrecht, seminar room 7.12. Program 13:00 - 14:00: Coffee/Tea 14:00 - 15:00: Talk by Kyohei Mukaida (DESY) Title: Primordial black holes from inflation and their implications Abstract: Primordial black holes (PBHs) are one…
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Leiden Spring 2019
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…
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Leuven Spring 2019
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…
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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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