Conference
20 Jul, 2026 - 26 Jul, 2026
This conference will be dedicated to exploring new frontiers and emerging directions in cosmology, astrophysics, and astroparticle physics, in light of the wealth of new data collected over the past decade. Special emphasis will be placed on exploring the interplay between these observations and our understanding of fundamental physics. The conference aims to bring together various international research groups to compare approaches and examine potential extensions of our current standard models.
Topics to be addressed during the conference include (but are not limited to):
- Inflation;
- Dark Matter;
- Dark Energy;
- Extensions to the Standard Model of particles and their implications for cosmology;
- Modified theories of gravity and their implications for cosmology.
Eleonora Di Valentino — School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, The University of Sheffield
William Giarè — Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Hawaii
Matteo Martinelli — INAF, Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma
Vivian Poulin — Laboratoire Univers & Particules de Montpellier, CNRS
Elsa M. Teixeira — Laboratoire Univers & Particules de Montpellier, CNRS
Luca Visinelli — Dipartimento di Fisica “E.R. Caianiello”, Università degli Studi di Salerno,
William Giarè and Elsa M. Teixeira
Please read the INFN Code of Conduct for Conferences and Events.
The participants who would like to present a poster are kindly invited to send an email with the title and a short abstract to alice.bernamonti@unifuit before May 22, specifying for which week of the workshop. Since a limited number of panels is available, the organizers will select the posters shortly after the deadline.
week 3
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | |
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| 11:30 - 12:30 | Tomasevic | Newenfeld | Collin-Ellerin | Caceres | |
| 13:00 - 14:30 | lunch | lunch | lunch | lunch | lunch |
| 14:30 - 15:30 | Sorce | Emparan |
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| Date | Speaker | Title | Type | Useful Links |
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| 20 Jul, 2026 - 10:45-11:00 | Welcome | Introduction |
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| 20 Jul, 2026 - 11:00-11:45 | Ruth Durrer | Cosmology at the Crossroads: Puzzles and Perspectives | Talk |
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| 20 Jul, 2026 - 11:45-12:30 | Eric Linder | Invading Florence with Elephants Across the Phantom Divide | Talk |
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| 20 Jul, 2026 - 14:00-14:20 | Júlia Laguna I Miralles | AGN Variability in the Survey Era: From Accretion-Disk Physics to Cosmological Distances | Talk |
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| 20 Jul, 2026 - 14:20-14:40 | Stephen King | Coupled Dark Energy and Dark Matter for DESI: An Effective Guide to the Phantom Divide | Talk |
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| 20 Jul, 2026 - 14:40-15:00 | Andrea Cozzumbo | Dark Energy and Modified Gravity in the DESI Era: Breaking Degeneracies with Multi-Probe Strategies | Talk |
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| 20 Jul, 2026 - 15:00-15:20 | Yuejia Zhai | Non-linear effects of interacting dark energy model | Talk |
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| 20 Jul, 2026 - 15:50-16:10 | Jessica Santiago | Quantifying Anisotropies in the Local Expansion Rate with Cosmic-Flows 4 | Talk |
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| 20 Jul, 2026 - 16:10-16:30 | Tiziano Schiavone | The Universal Rotation Curve of disk galaxies: probing dark matter and the local expansion rate | Talk |
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| 20 Jul, 2026 - 16:30-17:15 | Adam Riess | SH0ES update | Talk |
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| 21 Jul, 2026 - 09:00-09:45 | Dragan Huterer | Stress-testing LCDM with large-scale structure | Talk |
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| 21 Jul, 2026 - 09:45-10:30 | Alkistis Pourtsidou (online) | Combined probes of dark energy | Talk |
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| 21 Jul, 2026 - 11:00-11:45 | Samuel Brieden | DESI Full-Shape Constraints and the Challenge of Bias Degeneracies | Talk |
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| 21 Jul, 2026 - 11:45-12:30 | Julien Lesgourgues | Theories of Large-Scale Structure and Newtonian Motion Gauges | Talk |
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| 21 Jul, 2026 - 14:00-14:20 | Ruchika Ruchika | BAO Experiments in Tension: Methods, Redshift Coverage, and Interpretation | Talk |
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| 21 Jul, 2026 - 14:20-14:40 | Anjan Ananda Sen | Beyond ΛCDM with a Logistic RG-like Flow of the Low Redshift Cosmic Evolution | Talk |
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| 21 Jul, 2026 - 14:40-15:00 | Alessio Notari | Mimicking Phantom Dark Energy with Evolving Dark Matter Mass | Talk |
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| 21 Jul, 2026 - 15:00-15:20 | Özgür Akarsu | Defocusing dark energy: Raychaudhuri diagnostics beyond $w<-1/3$ and the phantom divide | Talk |
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| 21 Jul, 2026 - 15:20-15:40 | Helena García Escudero | Reframing the Hubble Tension Through the Sound Horizon | Talk |
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| 21 Jul, 2026 - 16:10-16:30 | Despoina Farakou | Constraining 2-loop EFTofLSS with weak lensing | Talk |
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| 21 Jul, 2026 - 16:30-16:50 | Nathaniel Woodcock | EFT-Ramses Effective Field Theory of Dark Energy | Talk |
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| 21 Jul, 2026 - 16:50-17:10 | Dong Ha Lee | Dynamical dark energy from QCD vacuum | Talk |
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| 21 Jul, 2026 - 17:10-17:30 | Saba Rahimy | Deciphering the coupled scalar dark sector | Talk |
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| 22 Jul, 2026 - 09:00-09:45 | Bryce Cyr | Stress-Testing the Universe with CMB Spectral Distortions | Talk |
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| 22 Jul, 2026 - 09:45-10:30 | Jason Kumar | Constraints on the Injection of Radiation in the Early Universe | Talk |
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| 22 Jul, 2026 - 11:00-11:45 | Jeremy Sakstein | Unifying Early and Late Dark Energy | Talk |
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| 22 Jul, 2026 - 11:45-12:30 | Mustafa Amin | Waving in the Dark: Noisy, Warm, and Spinning Dark Fields | Talk |
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| 22 Jul, 2026 - 14:00-14:20 | Anne Davis | Unveiling the Dark Universe with the Sun | Talk |
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| 22 Jul, 2026 - 14:20-14:40 | Hong-Yi Zhang | Time-domain axion searches with magnetic white dwarfs | Talk |
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| 22 Jul, 2026 - 14:40-15:00 | Thomas Montandon | Halo Abundance in Decaying Dark Matter Models | Talk |
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| 22 Jul, 2026 - 15:00-15:20 | Simon Clery | Asymmetric Reheating of Dark QED | Talk |
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| 22 Jul, 2026 - 15:20-15:40 | Francesco Sorrenti | Reconstructing the kinematics of Laniakea using Type Ia Supernovae | Talk |
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| 22 Jul, 2026 - 16:10-16:30 | Martin Teuscher | Large deviations for halos and voids: beyond perturbative non-gaussianities | Talk |
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| 22 Jul, 2026 - 16:30-16:50 | Lisa Mickel | A superposition quantum universe and its perturbations | Talk |
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| 22 Jul, 2026 - 16:50-17:10 | Hanyu Cheng | Beyond LCDM: Dynamical Dark Energy and High-Redshift Reionization | Talk |
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| 22 Jul, 2026 - 17:10-17:30 | Peizhi Du | Isocurvature Induced Gravitational Waves at Pulsar Timing Arrays | Talk |
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| 23 Jul, 2026 - 09:00-09:45 | Sherry Suyu | Time-delay cosmography: present and future | Talk |
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| 23 Jul, 2026 - 09:45-10:30 | Antonella Palmese | Standard siren cosmology | Talk |
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| 23 Jul, 2026 - 11:00-11:45 | Michele Moresco | Shedding light on the Hubble tension with novel cosmological probes: Cosmic Chronometers and Gravitational Waves | Talk |
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| 23 Jul, 2026 - 11:45-12:30 | Guido Risaliti | Evidence of evolving dark energy from a Hubble Diagram of Quasars | Talk |
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| 23 Jul, 2026 - 14:00-14:20 | Guadalupe Cañas-Herrera | cloe-org: a new computational environment for LSS cosmology | Talk |
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| 23 Jul, 2026 - 14:20-14:40 | Isaac Tutusaus | Measuring the evolution of the Weyl potential | Talk |
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| 23 Jul, 2026 - 14:40-15:00 | Matteo Peronaci | Constraining structure growth and primordial non-Gaussianity with Euclid AGNs and CMB lensing | Talk |
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| 23 Jul, 2026 - 15:00-15:20 | Benjamin Stölzner | KiDS-Legacy: Constraints on Horndeski gravity | Talk |
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| 23 Jul, 2026 - 15:20-15:40 | Rodrigo Calderon | Reconstructing Inflationary Dynamics Beyond Slow Roll from Cosmological Observables | Talk |
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| 23 Jul, 2026 - 16:10-16:30 | Daniel Johnson | Cosmology with the line-of-sight shear of strong gravitational lenses | Talk |
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| 23 Jul, 2026 - 16:30-16:50 | Giacomo Queirolo | LOS Shear Cosmology - Testing Measurability with Hydrosimulated Strong Gravitational Lenses | Talk |
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| 23 Jul, 2026 - 16:50-17:10 | Yanchuan Cai | Constraints on cosmology with transverse-velocity and CMB cross-correlations | Talk |
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| 23 Jul, 2026 - 17:10-17:30 | Lado Samushia | Breaking Galaxy–Halo Degeneracies with Anisotropic Small-Scale Three-Point Clustering | Talk |
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| 24 Jul, 2026 - 09:00-09:45 | Matteo Fasiello | Recent progress on cosmic inflation | Talk |
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| 24 Jul, 2026 - 09:45-10:30 | Michele Cicoli | Cosmological implications of generic features of string compactifications | Talk |
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| 24 Jul, 2026 - 11:00-11:45 | Ema Dimastrogiovanni | Gravitational waves from Inflation | Talk |
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| 24 Jul, 2026 - 11:45-12:30 | Nils Schöneberg | The H0 world cup | Talk |
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