The general schedule and agenda of Cosmology from Home 2020 can be found below (see here for a detailed description of the various components). Important dates related to the conference are available here. A more detailed program had been released to the participants of the conference.
General Schedule
| All days | • Watching pre-recorded talks • Asynchronous discussions • Informal discussions |
| Talk-discussion days (Tuesdays & Thursdays) | • 16:00 – 17:00 UTC: Live plenary talk discussions • 17:00 – 18:00 UTC: Early live parallel talk discussions • 18:00 – 19:00 UTC: Dedicated informal discussions • 00:00 – 01:00 UTC (next day): Late live parallel talk discussions • 01:00 – 02:00 UTC (next day): Dedicated informal discussions |
| Themed-discussion days (Mondays, Wednesdays & Fridays) | • 16:00 – 17:00 UTC: Live themed discussion session I • 17:00 – 18:00 UTC: Live themed discussion session II • 18:00 – 19:00 UTC: Dedicated informal discussions • 00:00 – 01:00 UTC (next day): Live themed discussion session III. |
Agenda
All times are in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).
Monday, 24 August 2020
Early Session
| 16:00 – 17:00 | Kick-Off Event I |
| 17:00 – | Social Events |
Tuesday, 25 August 2020
Late Session
| 00:00 – 01:00 | Kick-Off Event II |
| 01:00 – | Social Events |
Early Session
| 16:00 – 17:00 | Plenary Live Discussion Session Session Host and Co-Host: Benjamin Wallisch & Shaun Hotchkiss • Daniel Green: Signals of a Quantum Universe (video) • Renée Hložek: Small-Scale CMB Constraints on Ultralight Axions |
| 17:00 – 18:00 | Parallel Live Discussion Session: Large-Scale Structure Theory I Session Host and Co-Host: Robert Reischke & Matthijs van der Wild • Matteo Cataneo: Gauging the Reaction: A New Framework for Non-Linear Clustering in ΛCDM and Beyond (video, slides) • Mikhail Ivanov: Precision Cosmology with Large-Scale Structure (video, slides) (The following four talks share a 20 minute discussion slot.) • Elena Kozlikin, Sara Konrad & Carsten Littek: Kinetic Field Theory: An Introduction (video, slides) • Sara Konrad: Universality of the Cold Dark Matter Power Spectrum (video, slides) • Elena Kozlikin: Kinetic Field Theory: A Comparison Between KFT and SPT • Carsten Littek: Kinetic Field Theory: Velocity Statistics (video, slides) (The above four talks share a 20 minute discussion slot.) • Paula Soares: Cosmological Parameter Estimation with 21cm Intensity Mapping (video, slides) |
| Parallel Live Discussion Session: Dark Sectors I Session Host and Co-Host: Yuhsin Tsai & Steffen Hagstotz • Manuel A. Buen-Abad: Common Origin of Warm Dark Matter and Dark Radiation (video, slides) • Elena Pinetti: A New Path for Particle Dark Matter Searches: 21cm Intensity Mapping and Gamma Rays (video, slides) • Wenzer Qin: Lyman-alpha Constraints on Cosmic Heating from Dark Matter Annihilation and Decay (video, slides) • Daniel Thomas: Poisson Isn’t a Red Herring: Modified Gravity on Non-Linear Scales (video, slides) • Luca Visinelli: Axion Miniclusters: Stellar Disruption and Radioastronomy (video, slides) | |
| Parallel Live Discussion Session: Primordial Universe I Session Host and Co-Host: Eemeli Tomberg & Niko Šarčević • Marios Bounakis: Hyperinflation: Stuck in the Swampland (video, slides) • Sebastian Cespedes: On the Time Evolution of Cosmological Correlators • Chandrima Ganguly: Viscous Cosmology and the Bounce (video, slides) • Soubhik Kumar: Cosmological Particle Production and Pairwise Hotspots on the CMB (video, slides) • Emine Seyma Kutluk: Quantum Cosmological Correlation Functions and Their Adiabatic Regularization | |
| 18:00 – 19:00 | Dedicated Informal Discussions |
| 19:00 – | Social Events |
Wednesday, 26 August 2020
Late Session
| 00:00 – 01:00 | Parallel Live Discussion Session: Large-Scale Structure Theory II Session Host and Co-Host: Shaun Hotchkiss & Yuanyuan Zhang • Andrew Bradshaw: Mapping Mass with Sky Surveys (video, slides) • Scott Chapman: Uncovering Massive Galaxy Protoclusters in the Early Universe with the South Pole Telescope (video, slides) • Sihao Cheng: A New Approach to Observational Cosmology using the Scattering Transform (video, slides) • ChangHoon Hahn: Constraining Mnu with the Bispectrum (video, slides) • Cullan Howlett: Cosmology with Peculiar Velocity Surveys (video, slides) |
| Parallel Live Discussion Session: Dark Sectors II Session Host and Co-Host: Katie Mack & Benjamin Wallisch • Basabendu Barman: Effective Theory of Freeze-in Dark Matter (video, slides) • Daniel Baxter: Latest Results from the Full Exposure of DAMIC at SNOLAB (video, slides) • Francisco Linares: Cosmological Evolution of Scalar Field Dark Matter with an Axion-Like Potential • Pranjal Ralegankar: Cannibal Domination and the Small-Scale Structure (video, slides) • Masaki Yamada: Unification for Darkly Charged Dark Matter | |
| 01:00 – 02:00 | Dedicated Informal Discussions |
| 2:00 – | Social Events |
Early Session
| 16:00 – 17:00 | Themed Discussion Session: Theoretical Requirements of Modified Gravity |
| 17:00 – 18:00 | Themed Discussion Session: Science Outreach and Communication |
| 18:00 – 19:00 | Dedicated Informal Discussions |
| 19:00 – | Social Events |
Thursday, 27 August 2020
Late Session
| 00:00 – 01:00 | Dedicated Informal Discussions |
| 01:00 – | Social Events |
Early Session
| 16:00 – 17:00 | Plenary Live Discussion Session Session Host and Co-Host: Amanda Weltman & Niko Šarčević • Tessa Baker: Testing Gravity with Gravitational Waves (video) • Steen Hannestad: Neutrinos and Other Light Relics in Cosmology (video) |
| 17:00 – 18:00 | Parallel Live Discussion Session: Large-Scale Structure Observations I Session Host and Co-Host: Ami Choi & Florian Beutler • Alexandra Amon: Lensing Without Borders and Weak Lensing with DES Year 3 (video, slides) • Catherine Heymans & Tilman Tröster: Cosmological Constraints from the Kilo-Degree Survey (video, slides) • Benjamin Joachimi: KiDS x BOSS: A Guide to Precision Cosmology from Combined Galaxy Surveys (video, slides) • Giulia Giannini: Redshift Estimation Techniques for the Dark Energy Survey Y3 Data (video, slides) • Angus Wright: Robust Estimation of Tomographic Redshift Distributions for KiDS (video, slides) |
| Parallel Live Discussion Session: Machine Learning, Clusters and Tensions Session Host and Co-Host: Elena Giusarma & Matthijs van der Wild • Nikki Arendse: Cosmic Dissonance (video, slides) • Jacobo Asorey Barreiro: Cosmology from the Cross-Correlation of Extragalactic Surveys using Horizon Run 4 (video, slides) • Lucia F. de la Bella: SkyPy (video, slides) • András Kovács: Impeaching Dark Energy: A Common Explanation of the Hubble Tension and Anomalous Cold Spots in the CMB (video, slides) • Michele Pizzardo: The Mass Accretion Rate of the CIRS and HeCS Clusters of Galaxies | |
| Parallel Live Discussion Session: Dark Sectors III Session Host and Co-Host: Clare Burrage & Marco Raveri • William Barker: Dark Energy and Radiation from the Novel Gauge Gravity Theories (video, slides) • Valentina Cesare: Dynamics of Disk and Elliptical Galaxies in Refracted Gravity (video, slides) • Mateja Gosenca: Simulations with Mixed Dark Matter • Stefany Medellin: Quick Simulations for a Scalar Field Dark Matter (SFDM) Model (video, slides) • Vicharit Yingcharoenrat: Dark Energy Instabilities Induced by Gravitational Waves (video, slides) | |
| 18:00 – 19:00 | Dedicated Informal Discussions |
| 19:00 – | Social Events |
Friday, 28 August 2020
Late Session
| 00:00 – 01:00 | Parallel Live Discussion Session: Dark Matter Probes, Hubble Constant and Line Intensity Mapping Session Host and Co-Host: Marius Millea & Benjamin Wallisch • Simon Birrer: Measuring the Hubble Constant with Strong Gravitational Lensing Time Delays (video, slides) • Jatan Buch: Dark Matter Substructure under the Electron Scattering Lamppost (video, slides) • Henry Gebhardt: Spherical Harmonic Tomography for Emission Line Surveys (video, slides) • Julián Muñoz: Small-Scale Structure at Cosmic Dawn (video, slides) • Arthur Tsang: Small-Scale Structure from Interlopers (video, slides) |
| Parallel Live Discussion Session: Primordial Universe II and Dark Sectors Session Host and Co-Host: Hayden Lee & Katie Mack • Jonathan Braden: A Real-Time (Semiclassical) Picture of Vacuum Decay (video, slides) • Nathan Musoke: Nonlinear Evolution during the Primordial Dark Age (video, slides) • Spyros Sypsas: Seeding Primordial Black Holes in Multifield Inflation (video, slides) • Volodymyr Takhistov: Primordial Black Hole Dark Matter and Ways to Find It • Nandan Roy: Generalized Tracker Quintessence Models for Dark Energy (video, slides) | |
| 01:00 – 02:00 | Dedicated Informal Discussions |
| 2:00 – | Social Events |
Early Session
| 16:00 – 17:00 | Themed Discussion Session: The Kilo-Degree Survey: KiDS-1000 |
| Themed Discussion Session: Gravitationally Lensed Quasars and the Recent TDCOSMO Results | |
| 17:00 – 18:00 | Themed Discussion Session: Effective Field Theory of Large-Scale Structure |
| 18:00 – 19:00 | Open Discussions |
| Themed Discussion Session: AvERA | |
| Themed Discussion Session: Quantum Dynamics in the Early Universe | |
| 19:00 – 20:00 | Ask Me Anything AskScience Subreddit (reddit, livestream) |
Saturday, 29 August 2020
Late Session
| 00:00 – 01:00 | Open Discussions |
| 01:00 – | Social Events |
Monday, 31 August 2020
Early Session
| 15:00 – 16:00 | Themed Discussion Session: Astronomy on Tap |
| 16:00 – 17:00 | Themed Discussion Session: Primordial Black Holes as Dark Matter |
| 17:00 – 18:00 | Themed Discussion Session: Parametrizing Deviations from LCDM |
| 18:00 – 19:00 | Themed Discussion Session: Kinetic Field Theory |
| 19:00 – | Social Events |
Tuesday, 1 September 2020
Late Session
| 00:00 – 02:00 | Open Discussions |
| 02:00 – | Social Events |
| 8:00 – 9:00 | Themed Discussion Session: Improving Publishing and Peer Review |
Early Session
| 16:00 – 17:00 | Plenary Live Discussion Session Session Host and Co-Host: Yuanyuan Zhang & Matthijs van der Wild • Ami Choi: Cosmological Lensing with a 2020 Focus on the Dark Energy Survey (video) • Antonella Palmese: Cosmology & Multi-Messenger Astronomy |
| 17:00 – 18:00 | Parallel Live Discussion Session: Large-Scale Structure Observations II Session Host and Co-Host: Florian Beutler & Marika Asgari • Julian Bautista & Eva-Maria Mueller: The Cosmological Implications from eBOSS/20 Years of Cosmology with SDSS – The Acceleration of our Universe, Curvature, Massive Neutrinos • Hector Gil-Marin: Redshift Space Distortions from the extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (video, slides) • Seshadri Nadathur: Beyond BAO: Cosmology with Voids in (e)BOSS (video, slides) • Andrej Obuljen: Detection of Anisotropic Galaxy Assembly Bias in BOSS Galaxies (video, slides) • Robert Reischke: Observer Effects in the Galaxy Power Spectrum (video) • Chun-Hao To: Combination of Cluster Number Counts and Two-Point Correlations (video, slides) |
| Parallel Live Discussion Session: Neutrinos and Astroparticle Physics Session Host and Co-Host: Anirban Das & Benjamin Wallisch • Lena Funcke & Christiane Lorenz: Relaxing the Cosmological Neutrino Mass Bound with Late-Time Neutrino Mass Generation • Steffen Hagstotz: Bounds on Light Sterile Neutrinos from Cosmology and Laboratory (video, slides) • Bodo Schwabe: Fuzzy Dark Matter on Galactic Scales (video, slides) • Sunny Vagnozzi: Massive Neutrinos and Scale-Dependent Galaxy Bias (video, slides) • Weishuang Linda Xu: Phenomenology of CP-Violating Higgs Portal Dark Matter (video, slides) | |
| Parallel Live Discussion Session: Primordial Universe III Session Host and Co-Host: Emine Şeyma Kutluk & Maria Mylova • Kate Brown: Quantum Fluids Meets Cosmology (video, slides) • Aliki Litsa: Constraints on Reheating to Standard Model Particles Due to Large Effective Higgs Boson Mass during Inflation (video, slides) • Evangelos Sfakianakis: Field-Space Effects in Preheating • Eemeli Tomberg: Preheating in Palatini Higgs Inflation and Related Plateau Models (video, slides) • Daniel Vagie: Phase Transitions in an Expanding Universe: Stochastic Gravitational Waves in Standard and Non-Standard Histories | |
| 18:00 – 19:00 | Dedicated Informal Discussions |
| 19:00 – 20:00 | Themed Discussion Session: Outreach Ventures |
| 19:00 – | Social Events |
Wednesday, 2 September 2020
Late Session
| 00:00 – 01:00 | Parallel Live Discussion Session: Large-Scale Structure Observations III Session Host and Co-Host: Simon Birrer & Cullan Howlett • Aaron Glanville: The Effect of Systematic Redshift Biases on BAO Cosmology (video, slides) • Ming-Feng Ho: Finding Strong Lyα Absorbers in the Shadows of Quasars with Bayesian Machine Learning (video, slides) • Oliver Philcox: Measuring H0 from Galaxy Surveys: With and Without the Sound Horizon (video, slides) • Overview of the eBOSS Results (also discussed in Large-Scale Structure Observations II) • Mariana Vargas-Magaña & Gong-Bo Zhao: BAO from eBOSS/eBOSS Multi-Tracer Analysis (video, slides) |
| Parallel Live Discussion Session: Primordial Universe IV Session Host and Co-Host: Nathan Musoke & Shaun Hotchkiss • Rafael Bravo: A Generalized Non-Gaussian Consistency Relation for Single Field Inflation (video) • Ryan Keeley: Model Independent Methods: Gaussian Processes and Inflation Wars (video, slides) • Hayden Lee: Bootstrapping Inflationary Correlators (video, slides) • Wei-Chen Lin: Trans-Planckian Censorship and k-inflation (video, slides) • Low Lerh Feng: The Distribution of Vacua in Random Landscape Potentials (video, slides) | |
| 01:00 – 02:00 | Dedicated Informal Discussions |
| 02:00 – | Social Events |
| 08:00 – 09:00 | Themed Discussion Session: GR Computational Cosmology |
Early Session
| 15:30 – 16:00 | Flash Talks Session Host: Matthijs van der Wild • Stefan Heimersheim: Cannibalism Hinders Growth: Cannibal Dark Matter and the S_8 Tension (video, slides) • Bart Horn: Observable Relics of the Simple Harmonic Universe (video, slides) • Keir Rogers: Strong Bound on Canonical Ultra-Light Axion Dark Matter from the Lyman-alpha Forest • Luis Ureña-López: Ultra-Light Scalar Fields as Dark Matter: A Story of Three Potentials (video, slides) • Oem Trivedi: Swampland Conjectures and Single-Field Inflation in Modified Cosmological Scenarios (video) • Benjamin Giblin: KiDS-1000: Robust Shear and Redshift Systematics Tests (video, slides) |
| 16:00 – 17:00 | Themed Discussion Session: Cosmology from eBOSS and Future Spectroscopic Surveys |
| 17:00 – 18:00 | Themed Discussion Session: Voids as a Tool to Extract Cosmological Information |
| 18:00 – 19:00 | Themed Discussion Session: Implications of a Non-Detection of Neutrino Masses |
| 19:00 – 20:00 | Social Event: Think You Know the Expanding Universe? Interactive talk on the expanding universe by Tamara Davis |
Thursday, 3 September 2020
Late Session
| 00:00 – 01:00 | Themed Discussion Session: Potential Links Between Primordial Features and Tensions |
| 01:00 – 02:00 | Open Discussions |
| 02:00 – | Social Events |
Early Session
| 13:00 – 15:00 | Watch party and discussion of the LIGO-VIRGO-Kagra webinar |
| 16:00 – 17:00 | Plenary Live Discussion Session Session Host and Co-Host: Shaun Hotchkiss & Yuanyuan Zhang • Kavilan Moodley: Dark Energy with HIRAX (video, slides) • Brian Nord: From Disruption, Opportunity: The Current and Future Impact of AI on Astronomy |
| 17:00 – 18:00 | Parallel Live Discussion Session: Cosmic Microwave Background I and Fast Radio Bursts Session Host and Co-Host: Marius Millea & Benjamin Wallisch • Simone Aiola: Cosmological Parameters from ACT DR4 CMB Power Spectra • Benjamin Beringue: Cosmology with Rayleigh Scattering (video, slides) • Julien Carron: Are There Any Holes in the CMB Likelihoods? (video, slides) • Margaret Ikape: Constraining Reionization Parameters (video, slides) • Robert Lilow: Probing Primordial Non-Gaussianity with Fast Radio Bursts (video, slides) |
| Parallel Live Discussion Session: Machine Learning, Hubble Constant and Tensions Session Host and Co-Host: Marco Raveri & Nikki Arendse • Suhail Dhawan: The Hubble Constant with Explosive Transients. A View from the Zwicky Transient Facility (video, slides) • Colin Hill: Early Dark Energy and Cosmological Concordance (video, slides) • Benne Holwerda: Supernovae Host Galaxy Dust Extinction Evolution (video, slides) • Luca Tortorelli: Measurement of the B-band Galaxy Luminosity Function with Approximate Bayesian Computation • Miguel Zumalacarregui: Towards Solutions to the Hubble Problem Beyond Einstein’s Gravity (video, slides) | |
| Parallel Live Discussion Session: Large-Scale Structure Theory III Session Host and Co-Host: Robert Reischke & Steffen Hagstotz • Job Feldbrugge: The Caustic Skeleton of the Cosmic Web • Oliver Hahn & Michaël Michaux: Initial Conditions for Cosmological Simulations: The Next Generation • Joseph Kuruvilla: Three-Point Gaussian Streaming Model for Redshift-Space Distortions (video, slides) • Cora Uhlemann: A Semiclassical Path to the Cosmic Web (video, slides) • Digvijay (Jay) Wadekar: Analytic Calculation of Covariance: Speedup by Four Orders of Magnitude (video, slides) | |
| 18:00 – 19:00 | Dedicated Informal Discussions |
| 19:00 – | Social Event: Pub Quiz |
Friday, 4 September 2020
Late Session
| 00:00 – 01:00 | Parallel Live Discussion Session: Modified Gravity and Expansion History Session Host and Co-Host: Cullan Howlett & Anthony Carr • Celia Escamilla-Rivera: Precision Cosmology for Modified Gravity (video, slides) • Jose Maria Ezquiaga: Gravitational Wave Lensing Beyond General Relativity (video, slides) • Hanwool Koo: Model-Independent Constraints on Type Ia Supernova Light-Curve Hyper-Parameters and Reconstructions of the Expansion History of the Universe (video, slides) • Tousif Islam: Acceleration Relations in the Milky Way as Differentiators of Modified Gravity Theories (video, slides) • Marco Raveri: Learning Gravity from Cosmological Data (video, slides) |
| Parallel Live Discussion Session: Cosmic Microwave Background II, Radio Astronomy and Neutrinos Session Host and Co-Host: Benjamin Wallisch & Shaun Hotchkiss • Nicholas DePorzio: Accurately Measuring Neutrinos and Massive Light Relics Using Cosmological Observables (video, slides) • Josh Dillon: Precision Calibration for 21cm Cosmology with HERA (video, slides) • Nikhel Gupta: Mass Estimation of Galaxy Clusters with Deep Learning (video, slides) • Marius Millea: A 2020s Vision of CMB Lensing (video, slides) • Syed Faisal ur Rahman: Doing Cosmology and Investigating the CMB Cold Spot With EMU-ASKAP Survey (video, slides) | |
| 01:00 – 02:00 | Dedicated Informal Discussions |
| 2:00 – | Social Events |
| 08:00 – 09:00 | Themed Discussion Session: Beyond 2-Point with the Large-Scale Structure |
Early Session
| 13:00 – 14:00 | Themed Discussion Session: Impact of Errors in the Initial Conditions in Simulations |
| 14:00 – 15:00 | Themed Discussion Session: AI/ML and Techniques to Infer the Associated Uncertainties |
| 15:00 – 16:00 | Themed Discussion Session: Links Between Dark Matter, Dark Energy and Small Scales |
| 16:30 – 17:30 | Themed Discussion Session: LISA Massive Black Hole Binaries Localization and Use for Cosmology |
| 17:30 – 18:30 | Themed Discussion Session: Technical Cosmology Wiki |
| 19:00 – 20:00 | Ask Me Anything AskScience Subreddit (reddit, livestream) |
| 20:00 – | Social Events |
| End of the conference. Thank you everyone for attending! |