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.
September 2015
Groningen Fall 2015
13h30 - 14h10: Saleem Zaroubi (Groningen)
14h15 - 15h00: Chanda Prescod-Weinstein (MIT)
Do Dark Matter Axions Form A Bose-Einstein Condensate?
15h30 - 16h10: Wessel Valkenburg (Leiden)
Towards simulating modified gravity by discretising imperfect fluids.
October 2015
Utrecht Fall 2015
14h00 - 15h00 Mathias Garny (CERN)
UV dependence of the large scale structure power spectrum
15h45 - 16h30 Cora Uhlemann (LMU, Munich)
Large scale structure formation with the Schrödinger method
November 2015
Leiden Fall 2015
12.30-14h: 'Sound-bite' session
Remko Klein (RUG) - An introduction to Galileons and higher order derivatives in scalar field theories
Anja Marunovic (UU) - Topological inflation and graceful exit
Antonella Garzilli (UL) - Features in the Lyman α forest spectrum
14h00-15h00: Giulio Fabbian (SISSA)
Modeling and measuring CMB lensing in the cross-correlation era.
15h30-16h30: Jorge Noreña (University of Geneva)
The squeezed limit of observable correlation functions
December 2015
Amsterdam Fall 2015
12:30-13:30 Jens Chluba (IoA, Cambridge).
Science with CMB Spectral Distortions: a New Window to Early-Universe and Particle Physics
14:15-15:15 David Marsh (King's College London)
Axion Cosmology, from strings to dwarf galaxies
16:00-17:00 Raphael Flauger (University of Texas, Austin)
On Tensions, Systematics and B-modes
February 2016
NIKHEF Spring 2016
14:00-15:00 Robert Brandenberger (McGill)
Searching for Cosmic Strings in New Observational Windows
15:30-16:30 Gianluca Inverso (NIKHEF)
Single-step de Sitter vacua from non-perturbative effects with matter
March 2016
Leiden Spring 2016
14.00-15.00: Gonzalo Palma (Univ. of Chile at Santiago)
The sound speed of primordial fluctuations in supergravity inflation
16.00: Joan van der Waals colloquium
David Reitze (Caltech / Univ. of Florida)
Executive Director, LIGO Laboratory
Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger
April 2016
Utrecht Spring 2016
14h00 - 15h00: Fabian Schmidt (MPA Garching, Germany)
From GUT scale to galaxies: probing the early universe with
large-scale structure
16h00 - 17h00: Daan Meerburg (CITA, Canada)
May 2016
Groningen Spring 2016
12:00 Talk by David Marsh (Cambridge)
Title: TBA
14:00 Talk by Alessandra Silvestri (Leiden)
Title: Parametrized approaches to modified gravity
15.30 Talk by Diederik Roest or Remko Klein (Groningen)
Title: Towards the most general scalar-tensor theory