The general schedule and agenda of Cosmology from Home 2023 can be found below (see here for a detailed description of the various components). Important dates related to the conference are available here.
General Schedule
| All days | • Watching pre-recorded talks • Asynchronous discussions • Informal discussions |
| Talk-discussion days (Tuesdays & Thursdays) | • 13:00 – 14:00 UTC: Early live plenary talk discussions • 14:00 – 14:30 UTC: Dedicated informal discussions • 14:30 – 15:30 UTC: Early live parallel talk discussions • 15:30 – 16:00 UTC: Dedicated informal discussions • 19:00 – 20:00 UTC: Late live plenary talk or informal discussions • 20:00 – 20:30 UTC: Dedicated informal discussions • 20:30 – 21:30 UTC: Late live parallel talk discussions • 21:30 – 22:00 UTC: Dedicated informal discussions |
| Themed-discussion days (Mondays, Wednesdays & Fridays) | • 13:00 – 14:00 UTC: Live themed discussion session I • 14:00 – 15:00 UTC: Live themed discussion session II • 15:00 – 16:00 UTC: Dedicated informal discussions • 19:00 – 20:00 UTC: Live themed discussion session III • 20:00 – 21:00 UTC: Live themed discussion session IV • 21:00 – 22:00 UTC: Dedicated informal discussions |
Agenda
All times are in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).
Monday, 3 July 2023
Early Session
| 13:00 – 13:30 | Kick-Off Event I |
| 13:30 – 14:00 | First Buddy Meeting I and Informal Discussions |
| 14:00 – | Social Events |
Late Session
| 19:00 – 19:30 | Kick-Off Event II |
| 19:30 – 20:00 | First Buddy Meeting II and Informal Discussions |
| 20:00 – | Social Events |
Tuesday, 4 July 2023
Early Session
| 13:00 – 14:00 | Plenary Live Discussion Session Host and Co-Host: Benjamin Wallisch & Mariana Vargas-Magaña • Shreya Banerjee: Testing Models Beyond ΛCDM (video, slides) • Jorge Noreña: Alternative Methods for Constraining Primordial Non-Gaussianity (video, slides) |
| 14:00 – 14:30 | Dedicated Informal Discussions |
| 14:30 – 15:30 | Parallel Live Discussion Session: Large-Scale Structure I Host and Co-Host: Susan Pyne & Niko Šarčević • Theodore Anton: Modelling the Emergence of Cosmic Anisotropy from Nonlinear Structures (video, slides) • Mandar Karandikar: Investigating the Assumptions of the EFTofLSS (video, slides) • Josué Motoa-Manzano: Structure Formation in an Anisotropic Universe: Eulerian Perturbation Theory (video, slides) • Pierros Ntelis: New Avenues and Observational Constraints on Functors of Actions Theories (video, slides) • Zhenyuan Wang: Perturbation Theory Remixed (video, slides) |
| Parallel Live Discussion Session: Dark Sectors I Host and Co-Host: Elisa Ferreira & Benjamin Wallisch • Robin Buehler: Dynamical Friction in Fuzzy Dark Matter on Circular Orbits • Sudipta Das: Imprints of Interacting Dark Universe on Cosmological Perturbations (video, slides) • M. Sten Delos: Prompt Cusps of Dark Matter Halos (video, slides) • Yourong Frank Wang: Evolution of Mixed FDM-Baryon Systems (video, slides) • Tao Xu: Probing New Physics with Primordial Black Holes (video, slides) | |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | Dedicated Informal Discussions |
| 16:00 – | Social Events |
Late Session
| 20:00 – 20:30 | Dedicated Informal Discussions |
| 20:30 – 21:30 | Parallel Live Discussion Session: Large-Scale Structure II Host and Co-Host: Shaun Hotchkiss & Pierros Ntelis • Yi-Kuan Chiang: CSFD: A More Accurate Galactic Dust Map (video, slides) • Luz Ángela García: Broad Absorption Lines in DESI Y1 QSO Spectra (video, slides) • Agustín Rodríguez-Medrano: Local and Large-Scale Effects on the Astrophysics of Void Galaxies • Christoph Saulder, Jeongin Moon, David Valcin & Michael Rashkovetskyi: First Detection of the BAO Signal from Early DESI Data (video, slides) • John Soltis: Predicting Follow-Up Observations of Galaxy Clusters Using Machine Learning (video, slides) |
| Parallel Live Discussion Session: Primordial Universe I Host and Co-Host: Swagat Saurav Mishra & Harry Goodhew • Mauricio Gamonal: Primordial Fluctuations from Quadratic Curvature Terms (video, slides) • K. Sravan Kumar: Quantum Field Theory in Curved Spacetime and the CMB Anomalies (video, slides) • Lingfeng Li: Hybrid Cosmological Collider of Axion (video, slides) • Tonatiuh Matos: Cosmology from Quantum Fluctuations of Space-Time (CMaDE Model) (video, slides) • Nils Albin Nilsson: Testing Spacetime Symmetries in the Early Universe | |
| 21:30 – 22:00 | Dedicated Informal Discussions |
| 22:00 – | Social Events |
Wednesday, 5 July 2023
Early Session
| 13:00 – 14:00 | Themed Discussion Session I: Cosmological Polls Session Host: Javier Carrón Duque |
| 14:00 – 15:00 | Themed Discussion Session II: Best Coding Practices in Physics Session Hosts: Niko Šarčević, Sergio Sevillano & Tijmen de Haan |
| 15:00 – 16:00 | Dedicated Informal Discussions |
| 16:00 – | Social Events |
Late Session
| 19:00 – 20:00 | Themed Discussion Session: Is It Time to Replace ΛCDM as the Concordance Model? (Part I) Session Hosts: Pierros Ntelis, Susan Pyne, Michael Rashkovetskyi & Jenny Wagner |
| 20:00 – 21:00 | Dedicated Informal Discussions |
| 21:00 – | Social Events |
Thursday, 6 July 2023
Early Session
| 13:00 – 14:00 | Plenary Live Discussion Session Host and Co-Host: Mariana Vargas-Magaña & Niko Šarčević • Jonathan Braden: The Big Bang in the Lab: Simulating the Early Universe with BECs (video, slides) • Seshadri Nadathur: Cosmology with Cosmic Voids (video, slides) |
| 14:00 – 14:30 | Dedicated Informal Discussions |
| 14:30 – 15:30 | Parallel Live Discussion Session: Large-Scale Structure III Host and Co-Host: Angus Wright & Metin Ata • Jessica Chellino: Analytic Covariance Matrices for N-Point Correlation Functions (video, slides) • Tassia Ferreira: Cosmic Shear Covariance Matrix Comparison (video, slides) • Minh Nguyen: Cosmology from Field-Level Forward Modeling: An EFT Approach (video, slides) • Stephen Stopyra: Field-Level Inference of Voids and Galaxy Clusters (video, slides) • Zhuowen Zhang: Impact of Property Covariance on Galaxy-Cluster Weak-Lensing Mass Calibration (video, slides) |
| Parallel Live Discussion Session: Anomalies I & Dark Sectors II Host and Co-Host: Elisa Ferreira & Vivian Poulin • Simone Biondini: Effective Field Theories for Dark Matter Pairs in the Early Universe • Jonás Chaves-Montero: Cosmology Meets Astrophysics: The Lensing-Is-Low Problem (video, slides) • Qianhang Ding: Reconciling Cosmic Dipolar Tensions with a Gigaparsec Void (video, slides) • Philipp Schicho: Can EFT Reveal If There Was an Electroweak Phase Transition? (video, slides) • Gen Ye: Shape of CMB Lensing in EDE | |
| Parallel Live Discussion Session: Primordial Universe II Host and Co-Host: Eemeli Tomberg & Lucas Pinol • Oksana Iarygina: Non-Gaussianity in Rapid-Turn Multi-Field Inflation (video, slides) • Sébastien Renaux-Petel: The Cosmological Low-Speed Collider (video, slides) • Archit Vidyarthi: UV Unitarity Violations in Nonminimally Coupled Scalar-Starobinsky Inflation • Dong-Gang Wang: Bootstrapping Multi-Field Inflation (video, slides) • Vicharit Yingcharoenrat: Super-Horizon Resonant Magnetogenesis during Inflation (video, slides) | |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | Dedicated Informal Discussions |
| 16:00 – | Social Events |
Late Session
| 19:00 – 20:00 | Plenary Live Discussion Session Host and Co-Host: Shaun Hotchkiss & Benjamin Wallisch • Khaled Said: Cosmology with Current and Future Peculiar Velocity Surveys (video, slides) • Katelin Schutz: The Cosmology of Dark Matter Freeze-In |
| 20:00 – 20:30 | Dedicated Informal Discussions |
| 20:30 – 21:30 | Parallel Live Discussion Session: 21cm & Gravitational Waves Host and Co-Host: Jeremy Wachter & Mariana Vargas-Magaña • Sandeep Kumar Acharya: Importance of Soft Photon Heating for 21 cm Cosmology (video, slides) • Ivelin Georgiev: Simulating the End of Cosmic Reionization (video, slides) • Sambit Giri: Detecting Beyond Standard Model Cosmology through EoR Observations (video, slides) • Ameek Malhotra: Cosmological GW Anisotropies from Adiabatic and Isocurvature Perturbations • Jan Schütte-Engel: Freezing-In Gravitational Waves (video, slides) |
| Parallel Live Discussion Session: Large-Scale Structure IV Host and Co-Host: Robert Reischke & Niko Šarčević • Simeon Bird: New Cosmological Analysis of the eBOSS Lyman-α Forest (video, slides) • Marcos M. Cueli: The Submillimeter Galaxy Magnification Bias as a Cosmological Probe • Jaemyoung (Jason) Lee: Exploring the Non-Gaussianity of the CIB and Its Gravitational Lensing (video, slides) • Robert Lilow: Reconstructing the Local Universe with Neural Networks (video, slides) • Paul Rogozenski: The Neutrino-Induced Scale-Dependent Bias for Photometric Galaxy Surveys (video, slides) | |
| Parallel Live Discussion Session: Dark Sectors III Host and Co-Host: Yuhsin Tsai & Islam Khan • Fazlollah Hajkarim: Probing Axions via Light Circular Polarization and Event Horizon Telescope • Liqiang Hou: Dark Matter Annihilation in the 21cm Signal at Cosmic Dawn • Ryan Keeley: Pushing the Limits of Detectability: Mixed Dark Matter (video, slides) • Yusuke Manita: Distinguishing Ultralight Dark Matter Spin with Gravitational Wave Detectors (video, slides) • Kuldeep Purohit: Rotating Scalar Fields and Formation of Bose Stars (video, slides) | |
| 21:30 – 22:00 | Dedicated Informal Discussions |
| 22:00 – | Social Events |
Friday, 7 July 2023
Early Session
| 14:00 – 15:00 | Themed Discussion Session: PhD Advice Session Host: Neel Shah |
| 15:00 – 16:00 | Dedicated Informal Discussions |
| 16:00 – | Social Events |
Late Session
| 17:00 – 18:00 | Organized Social Event: Would We Lie to Each Other? |
| 18:00 – 19:00 | Dedicated Informal Disussions |
| 19:00 – 20:00 | Themed Discussion Session: Paper Writing Tips Session Host: Niko Šarčević |
| 20:00 – 21:00 | Dedicated Informal Discussions |
| 21:00 – | Social Events |
Monday, 10 July 2023
Early Session
| 13:00 – 14:00 | Themed Discussion Session: New Methods to Probe Large-Scale Structure: Beyond Power Spectra Session Hosts: Zhenyuan Wang & Minh Nguyen |
| 14:00 – 15:00 | Panel Discussion Session: The State of S8 in 2023 (video) Session Hosts: Benjamin Wallisch & Elisa Ferreira |
| 15:00 – 16:00 | Dedicated Informal Discussions |
| 16:00 – | Social Events |
Late Session
| 19:00 – 20:00 | Themed Discussion Session I: Non-Research Projects Session Hosts: Esteban Chalbaud & Niko Šarčević |
| 20:00 – 21:00 | Themed Discussion Session II: Public Codes Session Host: Niko Šarčević |
| 21:00 – 22:00 | Dedicated Informal Discussions |
| 22:00 – | Social Events |
Tuesday, 11 July 2023
Early Session
| 14:00 – 14:30 | Dedicated Informal Discussions |
| 14:30 – 15:30 | Parallel Live Discussion Session: Cosmic Microwave Background Host and Co-Host: Benjamin Wallisch & Elisa Ferreira • Alexandre Adler: Taurus: A Balloon-Borne Telescope to Constrain the Optical Depth of Reionization (video, slides) • Javier Carrón Duque: Minkowski Functionals for Non-Gaussianities: Extension to CMB Polarization (video, slides) • Nadia Dachlythra: Beam Modeling Importance and Techniques for CMB Telescopes (video, slides) • Barnali Das: Non-Gaussian Imprints in the Cosmic Microwave Background (video, slides) • Tijmen de Haan: LiteBIRD: A Satellite Experiment Measuring the B-Mode Polarization of the CMB (video, slides) |
| Parallel Live Discussion Session: Modified Gravity I Host and Co-Host: Vicharit Yingcharoenrat & Sudipta Das • Olga Avsajanishvili: Cosmological Scalar Field ϕCDM Models (video, slides) • Santiago Garcia-Serna: Scaling Solutions in Generalized Proca Theory and Its Cosmological Implications (video, slides) • Khandro K Chokyi: Bouncing Scale Factor and the Cosmology under the Purview of Holographic Fluid (video, slides) • Nandan Roy: Interacting Dark Sectors from a Dynamical System Perspective (video, slides) • Sankarshana Srinivasan: Probing Modified Gravity using Data from Large-Scale Structure Surveys (video, slides) | |
| Parallel Live Discussion Session: Primordial Universe III Host and Co-Host: Swagat Saurav Mishra & Eemeli Tomberg • Angelo Caravano: Lattice Simulations of Axion Inflation (video, slides) • E. Şeyma Kutluk: Cosmological Perturbations Out of the Box (video, slides) • Andreas Mantziris: Primordial Gravitational Waves from Phase Transitions after Inflation • Tays Miranda: Primordial Black Holes Sourced by a Non-Gaussian Curvaton Component • Lucas Pinol: Inflationary Flavor Oscillations: The Cosmic Spectroscopy (video, slides) | |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | Dedicated Informal Discussions |
| 16:00 – | Social Events |
Late Session
| 19:00 – 20:00 | Plenary Live Discussion Session Host and Co-Host: Niko Šarčević & Shaun Hotchkiss • Tomohiro Fujita: Cosmic Birefringence: How Our Universe Violates Left-Right Symmetry (video, slides) • Kathryn Jepsen: Conscious Language: Treating People with Dignity |
| 20:00 – 20:30 | Dedicated Informal Discussions |
| 20:30 – 21:30 | Parallel Live Discussion Session: Combined Probes Host and Co-Host: Simeon Bird & Minh Nguyen • Yurii Kvasiuk: Reconstruction of Velocity of the Universe with Joint CMB & LSS Likelihood Analysis • Thais Lemos: Constraints on the Baryon Fraction in the IGM from FRBs and SNe • Robert Reischke: Fast Radio Bursts and the Large-Scale-Structure (video, slides) • Shabbir Shaikh: Cosmology from Cross-Correlation of ACT-DR4 CMB Lensing and DES-Y3 Cosmic Shear (video, slides) • Jamie Sullivan: Learning Linear Cosmological Physics |
| Parallel Live Discussion Session: Anomalies II Host and Co-Host: Matthijs van der Wild & Mariana Vargas-Magaña • Matteo Billi: Lack of Power Anomaly with the Latest Planck Temperature and Polarization Data (video, slides) • Rafaela Gsponer: Early Dark Energy in the Light of Large-Scale Structure Data (video, slides) • W. D’Arcy Kenworthy: A SH0ES Two-Rung Distance Ladder: Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad (video, slides) • Lior Shamir: Observational Link between Galaxy Rotation Physics and Anomalies in the LSS (video, slides) • Jenny Wagner: As Good as It Gets – Towards the Best-Understood H0 from Strong Lensing (video, slides) | |
| Parallel Live Discussion Session: Primordial Universe IV Host and Co-Host: Harry Goodhew & Bart Horn • Swagat Saurav Mishra: Primordial Black Holes and Stochastic Inflation beyond Slow roll (video, slides) • Alejandro Perez Rodriguez: Revisiting Warm Inflation (video, slides) • Matthew Reinhard: Computing the Trispectrum for Axion Inflation (video, slides) • Eemeli Tomberg: Stochastic inflation and primordial black holes: challenges and solutions (video, slides) • Denis Werth: The Cosmological Flow (video, slides) | |
| 21:30 – 22:00 | Dedicated Informal Discussions |
| 22:00 – | Social Events |
Wednesday, 12 July 2023
Early Session
| 13:00 – 14:00 | Themed Discussion Session I: (Primordial) Black Holes and Their Relation with the Dark Sector Session Host: Pierros Ntelis |
| 14:00 – 15:00 | Themed Discussion Session II: Is It Time to Replace ΛCDM as the Concordance Model? (Part II) Session Hosts: Javier Carrón Duque & Jenny Wagner |
| 15:00 – 16:00 | Dedicated Informal Discussions |
| 16:00 – | Social Events |
Late Session
| 19:00 – 20:00 | Themed Discussion Session I: Dynamical Dark Energy and its Signatures Session Hosts: Rafaela Gsponer & William Ortolá |
| 20:00 – 21:00 | Themed Discussion Session II: Public Engagement Session Hosts: Shaun Hotchkiss & Don Lincoln |
| 21:00 – 22:00 | Dedicated Informal Discussions |
| 22:00 – | Social Events |
Thursday, 13 July 2023
Early Session
| 13:00 – 14:00 | Plenary Live Discussion Session Host and Co-Host: Elisa Ferreira & Matthijs van der Wild • Lilan Yang & Mike Boylan-Kolchin: What is JWST Telling Us about Early Galaxy Formation and Cosmology? (video, slides) |
| 14:00 – 14:30 | Dedicated Informal Discussions |
| 14:30 – 15:30 | Parallel Live Discussion Session: Large-Scale Structure V Host and Co-Host: Pierros Ntelis & Luz Ángela García • Rodrigo Calderón: Joint Reconstructions of Growth and Expansion Histories from Stage-IV Surveys (video, slides) • Ming-Feng Ho: MF-Box: Multi-Fidelity and Multi-Scale Emulation, and Lyα Emulator using Astrid (video, slides) • Enrique Paillas: Constraining Cosmology with Density-Split Clustering (video, slides) • Francesco Sinigaglia: Fast and Accurate Modeling of the Lyman-α Forest for Cosmological Surveys (video, slides) • Daniele Sorini: The Impact of Feedback on Haloes and Large-Scale Structure (video, slides) |
| Parallel Live Discussion Session: Dark Sectors IV Host and Co-Host: Ryan Keeley & Sudipta Das • Katherine Freese: Has JWST Discovered Dark Stars? (video, slides) • Evan McDonough: The π-Axion and π-Axiverse of Dark QCD (video, slides) • Elena Pinetti: All the X in One Basket: X-Ray Constraints on Sub-GeV Dark Matter (video, slides) • Shashwat Singh: Probing Fuzzy Dark Matter with Lensed Gravitational Waves (video, slides) • Yuhsin Tsai: Cosmological Particle Production and Pairwise Hotspots on the CMB (video, slides) | |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | Dedicated Informal Discussions |
| 16:00 – | Social Events |
Late Session
| 19:00 – 20:00 | Plenary Live Discussion Session Host and Co-Host: Matthijs van der Wild & Mariana Vargas-Magaña • Joseph Conlon: String Cosmology in 2023 (video) • Marta Spinelli: 21cm Intensity Mapping: Opportunities and Challenges on the Road to the SKAO (video, slides) |
| 20:00 – 20:30 | Dedicated Informal Discussions |
| 20:30 – 21:30 | Parallel Live Discussion Session: Large-Scale Structure VI Host and Co-Host: Enrique Paillas & Ming-Feng Ho • Nathan Carlson: Unveiling Traces of Primordial Non-Gaussianity in the Cosmic Web with WebSky (video, slides) • Carlos Mauricio Correa: Cosmic Voids as Cosmological Laboratories (video, slides) • Gabriel Jung: Signatures of Primordial Non-Gaussianity in the Non-Linear Density Field (video, slides) • Dante Paz: A Cosmological Test using the Abundance of Popcorn Voids (video, slides) • Sladana Radinovic: The Void-Galaxy Cross-Correlation Function in Euclid (video, slides) |
| Parallel Live Discussion Session: Modified Gravity II Host and Co-Host: Nandan Roy & Tays Miranda • Amarkumar Agrawal: Matter Bounce Scenario in Extended Symmetric Teleparallel Gravity (video, slides) • Luis Escamilla: Reconstructing the Dark Energy (video, slides) • Siddheshwar Kadam: Noether Symmetries in Extended Teleparallel Gauss-Bonnet Cosmology (video, slides) • Bayron Orjuela-Quintana: Validity of the Quasistatic and Subhorizon Approximations in Modified Gravity (video, slides) • Sergio Sevillano Muñoz: How to Find the Feynman Rules from Any Scalar-Tensor Theory and Not Collapse (video, slides) | |
| 21:30 – 22:00 | Dedicated Informal Discussions |
| 22:00 – | Social Events |
Friday, 14 July 2023
Early Session
| 11:00 – 12:00 | Themed Discussion Session I: String Cosmology Session Hosts: Joseph Conlon & Susha Parameswaran |
| 12:00 – 13:00 | Dedicated Informal Disussions |
| 13:00 – 14:00 | Themed Discussion Session II: Machine and Deep Learning in Cosmology Session Hosts: Barnali Das & Sudipta Das |
| 14:00 – 15:00 | Themed Discussion Session III: Complimentary Advancements in Cosmology and Particle Physics Session Hosts: Olivia Meredith Bitter & Jasmine Thomson-Cooke |
| 15:00 – 16:00 | Themed Discussion Session IV: Multi-Probe Analysis Tutorial Session Hosts: Pankaj Bhambhani & Shabbir Shaikh |
| Dedicated Informal Discussions | |
| 16:00 – | Social Events |
Late Session
| 18:00 – 19:00 | Ask Me Anything AskScience Subreddit and Livestream (reddit, YouTube livestream) |
| 19:00 – 20:00 | Dedicated Informal Disussions |
| 20:00 – 21:00 | Themed Discussion Session: Pulsar Timing Arrays and Gravitational Wave Background Session Hosts: Shaun Hotchkiss, Nataliya Porayko, Hippolyte Quelquejay Leclere & Clemente Smarra |
| 21:00 – 22:00 | Dedicated Informal Discussions |
| 22:00 – | Social Events |
| End of the conference. Thank you everyone for attending! |
Flash Talks (video)
• Sayan Saha: Extracting Cluster Information from the Small-Scale CMB (video, slides)
• Zachary Slepian: Introduction to Slepian Group at UF & Parity-Violation with the Four-Point Function (video, slides)
• William Ortolá-Leonard: A Model for the Redshift-Space Galaxy Four-Point Correlation Function (video, slides)
• David Jackson: Generalized Proper Time as a Basis for the Dark Sector (video, slides)
• Shi Yan: Dark Photon Limits from Jupiter’s Magnetic Field (video, slides)