The general schedule and agenda of Cosmology from Home 2024 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 |
Timezone conversion chart
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Agenda
All times are in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).
Monday, 17 June 2024
Early Session
| 13:00 – 13:30 | Kick-Off Event I |
| 13:30 – 14:00 | Informal Discussions |
| 14:00 – | Social Events |
Late Session
| 19:00 – 19:30 | Kick-Off Event II |
| 19:30 – 20:00 | Informal Discussions |
| 20:00 – | Social Events |
Tuesday, 18 June 2024
Early Session
| 13:00 – 14:00 | Plenary Live Discussion Session Host and Co-Host: Elisa Ferreira & Matthijs van der Wild • Laura Herold: Cosmological Tensions & Statistics: Insights from Bayesian & Frequentist Approaches (video, slides) • Katie Mack: The Communication Space: Science, Scholarship and Public Engagement |
| 14:00 – 14:30 | Dedicated Informal Discussions |
| 14:30 – 15:30 | Parallel Live Discussion Session: Large-Scale Structure I Host and Co-Host: Steffen Hagstotz & Niko Sarcevic • Jonás Chaves-Montero: ForestFlow: Lya Forest Clustering from Linear to Nonlinear Scales (video, slides) • Benjamin Hertzsch: Complex Evaluation of Angular Power Spectra (video, slides) • Veronika Oehl: An Exact Likelihood for the Correlation Function • Kuan Wang: Evolution of Dark Matter Halos from Their Merger Histories (video, slides) • Bonny Y. Wang: Machine-Learning Cosmology from Void Properties (video, slides) |
| Parallel Live Discussion Session: Dark Sectors I & Neutrinos Host and Co-Host: Yuhsin Tsai & Ryan Keeley • Tonatiuh Matos: Physics and Cosmology on a Gravitational Wave Background (video, slides) • Shouvik Roy Choudhury: Neutrino Mass and Mass Ordering: No Conclusive Evidence for Normal Ordering (video, slides) • Liang Tan: Neutrino Mass Measurement with Cosmic Gravitational Focusing (video, slides) • Gen Ye: Horndeski Early Dark Energy (video, slides) • Vitor da Fonseca: Interacting Dark Energy Loosens Neutrino Mass Constraints (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 • Silvia Manconi: Astroparticle Physics: Selected Topics & Perspectives (video, slides) • Marius Millea & Srinivasan Raghunathan (for the SPT Collaboration): Cosmology with the South Pole Telescope (video, slides) |
| 20:00 – 20:30 | Dedicated Informal Discussions |
| 20:30 – 21:30 | Parallel Live Discussion Session: 21cm & Combined Probes I Host and Co-Host: Robert Reischke & Minh Nguyen • Matthew Colless: Peculiar Velocity Surveys for Cosmology: Recent Results and Future Plans (video, slides) • Steve Cunnington: Probing Cosmology at Radio Wavelengths with MeerKLASS 21cm Intensity Mapping (video, slides) • Ivelin Georgiev: Relating the Kinetic Sunyaev-Zel’dovich Effect and the 21cm Signal from the EoR (video, slides) • Martine Lokken: Cosmic Coherence: Hot Gas, Galaxies and Dark Matter in ACT+DES Superclusters (video, slides) • Peter Sims: A Joint Analysis of EoR Constraints from 21-cm, Lyman Line & CMB Data Sets (video, slides) |
| Parallel Live Discussion Session: Dark Sectors II Host and Co-Host: Benjamin Wallisch & Katie Mack • Ryan Keeley: Strongest Gravitational Lensing Limit on the Dark Matter Free-Streaming Length (video, slides) • Hoang Nhan Luu: Exploring Halo Diversity in Two-Field Fuzzy Dark Matter • Evan McDonough: The Field Theory Axiverse (video, slides) • Gabriele Montefalcone: Minimal Freeze-In Dark Matter at Low Reheating Temperatures (video, slides) • Arad Nasiri: Planckian Discreteness in Cosmology: Brownian Motion of Dark Matter Particles (video, slides) | |
| 21:30 – 22:00 | Dedicated Informal Discussions |
| 22:00 – | Social Events |
Wednesday, 19 June 2024
Early Session
| 13:00 – 14:00 | Themed Discussion Session I: Cosmological Sampling Methods Session Host: Minas Karamanis |
| 14:00 – 14:30 | Dedicated Informal Discussions |
| 14:30 – 15:30 | Themed Discussion Session II: Good Coding Practices Session Host: Cara Giovanetti |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | Dedicated Informal Discussions |
| 16:00 – | Social Events |
Late Session
| 19:00 – 20:00 | Themed Discussion Session I: Large-Language Models in Cosmology Research Session Host: Moritz Münchmeyer |
| 20:00 – 20:30 | Dedicated Informal Discussions |
| 20:30 – 21:30 | Themed Discussion Session II: Large-Scale Structure Cosmology in the Prior-Dominated Era Session Host: Robert Reischke |
| 21:30 – 22:00 | Dedicated Informal Discussions |
| 22:00 – | Social Events |
Thursday, 20 June 2024
Early Session
| 13:00 – 14:00 | Plenary Live Discussion Session Host and Co-Host: Niko Sarcevic & Elisa Ferreira • Shadab Alam: Beyond the Cosmic Backdrop: Accounting for Environmental Effects on Galaxy Evolution (video, slides) • Jens Chluba: Synergistic Opportunities with CMB Spectral Distortions (video, slides) |
| 14:00 – 14:30 | Dedicated Informal Discussions |
| 14:30 – 15:30 | Parallel Live Discussion Session: Large-Scale Structure II Host and Co-Host: Elisa Ferreira & Benjamin Wallisch • Tristan Daus & Elena Kozlikin: Hubbard-Stratonovich Transformation for Cosmic Large-Scale Structure Formation • Basundhara Ghosh: A Unified Linear Intrinsic Alignment Model for Elliptical and Disc Galaxies (video, slides) • Charlie Mpetha: Using the Infall Region around Galaxy Clusters as a Cosmological Probe (video, slides) • Marvin Sipp: Cosmic-Velocity Statistics from Hamiltonian Particle Dynamics |
| Parallel Live Discussion Session: Anomalies I Host and Co-Host: Laura Herold & Sudipta Das • Marina Cortês: An Observer’s Philosophy of Physics (video, slides) • Marcus Högås: Influence of Bimetric Gravity on the Hubble Tension: Hints of a BAO Bias (video, slides) • Ali Rida Khalife: Updated Constraints on Hubble Tension Solutions (video, slides) • Jay Krishnan: Do JWST Early Galaxies Pose a Crisis for Cosmology? • Lior Shamir: Asymmetry in JWST Deep Fields and Its Link to Consistent Redshift Bias (video, slides) | |
| Parallel Live Discussion Session: Primordial Universe I Host and Co-Host: Harry Goodhew & Gabriele Montefalcone • Sebastian Cespedes & Sadra Jazayeri: Peeking into Sub-Hubble Scales with Inflationary Phonons (video, slides) • Xi Tong: There and Back Again for Cosmological Observables (video, slides) • Gopal Yadav: Communicating Multiverses in Holographic de-Sitter Braneworld (video, slides) • Sudhava Yadav: Reheating Dynamics of Logarithmic-Corrected Quadratic Chaotic 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: Matthijs van der Wild & Benjamin Wallisch • Steffen Hagstotz & Robert Reischke: Fast Radio Bursts: A New Look at the Visible Universe (video, slides) • Yuhsin Tsai: Dark Sector Cosmology and Naturalness Problems in Particle Physics (video, slides) |
| 20:00 – 20:30 | Dedicated Informal Discussions |
| 20:30 – 21:30 | Parallel Live Discussion Session: Large-Scale Structure III Host and Co-Host: Moritz Münchmeyer & Martine Lokken • Job Feldbrugge: What Makes a Wall/Filament? (video, slides) • Leonardo Giani: Gravitational Collapse, Cosmic Web and (Almost) Spherical Cows (video, slides) • Christopher Harvey-Hawes: Strong Gravitational Lensing as a Test of Cosmological Model (video, slides) • Minh Nguyen: How Much Information Can Be Extracted from Galaxy Clustering at the Field Level? (video, slides) • Yunhao Zhang: Accurate and Efficient Marginalisation for Weak Gravitational Lensing Cosmology (video, slides) |
| Parallel Live Discussion Session: Anomalies II Host: Benjamin Wallisch • Helena Garcia Escudero: Do We Have a Model Better than ΛCDM? • Zachary Lane: Cosmological Foundations Revisited with Pantheon+ (video, slides) • Jaemyoung (Jason) Lee: Astrometric Redshifts of Supernovae (video, slides) • Bailey Martin: Beyond the Mass Step: A Host Galaxy [O II] Correction to SN Ia Light Curves (video, slides) • Anais Möller: Type-Ia Supernovae from the Dark Energy Survey (video, slides) | |
| Parallel Live Discussion Session: Dark Sectors III Host and Co-Host: Shaun Hotchkiss & Matthijs van der Wild • Emmanuel Frion: Bouncing Cosmology from Loop Quantum Cosmology with Ekpyrotic and Matter Fields (video, slides) • Marco Galoppo: Exact Solutions for Differentially Rotating Galaxies in General Relativity (video, slides) • Luz Ángela Garcia: Studying an Late-Time Accelerated Expansion With a Diffusive Dark Energy Model (video, slides) • Andrew Liddle: Interpreting DESI’s Evidence for Evolving Dark Energy (video, slides) • David Wiltshire: Solution to the Cosmological Constant Problem (video, slides) | |
| 21:30 – 22:00 | Dedicated Informal Discussions |
| 22:00 – | Social Events |
Friday, 21 June 2024
Early Session
| 13:00 – 14:00 | Themed Discussion Session I: Naive Question Time Session Host: Benjamin Wallisch |
| 14:00 – 14:30 | Dedicated Informal Discussions |
| 14:30 – 15:30 | Themed Discussion Session II: Large-Scale Structure Analyses beyond Two-Point Statistics Session Hosts: Minh Nguyen & Andres Salcedo |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | Dedicated Informal Discussions |
| 16:00 – | Social Events |
Late Session
| 19:00 – 20:00 | Themed Discussion Session I: Implications of Better Optical Depth Measurements Session Host: Guanhao Sun |
| 20:00 – 20:30 | Dedicated Informal Discussions |
| 20:30 – 21:30 | Themed Discussion Session II: Our Public Engagement Projects Session Host: Shaun Hotchkiss |
| 21:30 – 22:00 | Dedicated Informal Discussions |
| 22:00 – | Social Events |
Monday, 24 June 2024
Early Session
| 13:00 – 14:00 | Themed Discussion Session I: How Cosmological Observations Constrain Particle Physics Session Host: Olivia Bitter |
| 14:00 – 15:00 | Dedicated Informal Discussions |
| 15:00 – 16:00 | Themed Discussion Session II: How Simulations Simulate Our Universe Session Host: Matthijs van der Wild |
| 16:00 – | Social Events |
Late Session
| 19:00 – 20:00 | Themed Discussion Session I: Naive Question Time Session Host: Shaun Hotchkiss |
| 20:00 – 20:30 | Dedicated Informal Discussions |
| 20:30 – 21:30 | Themed Discussion Session II: Probing BSM Physics and Cosmology using Primordial Gravitational Waves Session Hosts: Oliver Gould & Swagat Mishra |
| 21:30 – 22:00 | Dedicated Informal Discussions |
| 22:00 – | Social Events |
Tuesday, 25 June 2024
Early Session
| 13:00 – 14:00 | Plenary Live Discussion Session Host and Co-Host: Niko Sarcevic & Elisa Ferreira • Elisa Chisari: Survey Systematics – In Theory • Matthieu Schaller (for the FLAMINGO Project): The FLAMINGO Simulation Suite: A Precision Cosmology Survey Virtual Twin (video, slides) |
| 14:00 – 14:30 | Dedicated Informal Discussions |
| 14:30 – 15:30 | Parallel Live Discussion Session: Combined Probes II & Large-Scale Structure IV Host and Co-Host: Luisa Lucie-Smith & Laura Herold • Santiago Avila: The Dark Energy Survey: BAO Measurement from the Final Dataset (video, slides) • Rodrigo Calderon: Reconstructing Dark Energy using DESI DR1 BAO Data (video, slides) • Umut Demirbozan: The CMB Lensing Imprints of DES-Y3 Superstructures (video, slides) • Ilya Khrykin: The Cosmic Baryons Illuminated by the Fast Radio Bursts (video, slides) • Alexander Reeves: Probe Combination Framework: Pipeline and Neutrino Mass Forecast (video, slides) |
| Parallel Live Discussion Session: Large-Scale Structure V Host and Co-Host: Elena Kozlikin & Kuan Wang • Olga Avsajanishvili: Reconstruction and Analysis of Cosmological Scalar Field ϕCDM Models (video, slides) • Jeger Broxterman: Impact of Baryonic Physics and Cosmology on Weak Gravitational Lensing Peaks (video, slides) • Feven Markos Hunde: Dark Matter Subhalo Properties in the Cosmic Web (video, slides) • Minas Karamanis: Preconditioned Monte Carlo: A New Tool for Bayesian Inference in Cosmology (video, slides) • Sara Konrad: Universality of Structures from the Small-Scale Limit of the DM Power Spectrum (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: Benjamin Wallisch & Matthijs van der Wild • Christoph Saulder (for the DESI Collaboration): The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI): Y1 Results (video, slides) |
| 20:00 – 20:30 | Dedicated Informal Discussions |
| 20:30 – 21:30 | Parallel Live Discussion Session: Cosmic Microwave Background Host and Co-Host: Benjamin Wallisch & Antón Baleato Lizancos • Cara Giovanetti: Cosmological Parameter Estimation with the Fast and Differentiable BBN Code LINX (video, slides) • Emilie Hertig: Combining Delensing and Foreground Cleaning for the Simons Observatory (video, slides) • Sergio Sevillano Muñoz: Cosmic Microwave Background Constraints on Extended Dark Matter Objects (video, slides) • Enrico Specogna: Breaking Planck’s Lensing Anomaly: A Parametric Approach • David Zegeye: The Square Kilometer Array as a Cosmic Microwave Background Experiment |
| Parallel Live Discussion Session: Large-Scale Structure VI & Primordial Universe II Host and Co-Host: Evan McDonough & Emmanuel Frion • Dario Lorenzoni: Natural Inflation with Exponentially Small Tensor-to-Scalar Ratio (video, slides) • Swagat S. Mishra: Preheating after Inflation: Inflaton Fragmentation, Oscillon Formation and Decay (video, slides) • Purba Mukherjee: Revisiting the Cosmic Distance Ladder with Deep Learning (video, slides) • Moritz Münchmeyer: Robust Neural Network-Enhanced Estimation of Local Non-Gaussianity with Halos (video, slides) • Supranta Sarma Boruah: Optimal Weak Lensing Analysis with Map-Based Inference (video, slides) | |
| Parallel Live Discussion Session: Dark Sectors IV Host and Co-Host: Ryan Keeley & Olivia Meredith Bitter • Tammi Chowdhury: Matter-Antimatter Asymmetry: A Leptogenesis Model (video, slides) • Ian DSouza: Disruption of Axion Minihalos Due to Stellar Interactions (video, slides) • Sohan Ghodla: Probing Dark Matter using LISA’s Galactic Black Holes • Hyunsu Kong: Exploring Small-Scale Structures: Testing ΛCDM with Dark Matter Subhalos (video, slides) • Maria Perez Mendoza: Impact of Realistic Narrow-Line Regions on Flux Ratio Measurements | |
| 21:30 – 22:00 | Dedicated Informal Discussions |
| 22:00 – | Social Events |
Wednesday, 26 June 2024
Early Session
| 13:00 – 14:00 | Themed Discussion Session I: Analysis of Dynamical Systems in Cosmology Session Host: Pierros Ntelis |
| 14:00 – 14:30 | Dedicated Informal Discussions |
| 14:30 – 15:30 | Themed Discussion Session II: Applications of the Functional Renormalization Group in Cosmology Session Hosts: Anas Farahat & Elena Kozlikin |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | Dedicated Informal Discussions |
| 16:00 – | Social Events |
Late Session
| 19:00 – 20:00 | Themed Discussion Session I: Dark Energy Survey Supernova Program Session Hosts: Tamara Davis & Shaun Hotchkiss |
| 20:00 – 20:30 | Dedicated Informal Discussions |
| 20:30 – 21:30 | Themed Discussion Session II: AI Risk and Risk Assessment in Cosmology Session Host: Marina Cortês |
| 21:30 – 22:00 | Dedicated Informal Discussions |
| 22:00 – | Social Events |
Thursday, 27 June 2024
Early Session
| 13:00 – 14:00 | Plenary Live Discussion Session Host and Co-Host: Elisa Ferreira & Benjamin Wallisch • Andrew Eberhardt: Ultralight Dark Matter Review (video, slides) • Luisa Lucie-Smith: Explainable Machine Learning in Cosmology (video, slides) |
| 14:00 – 14:30 | Dedicated Informal Discussions |
| 14:30 – 15:30 | Parallel Live Discussion Session: Gravitational Waves Host and Co-Host: Elisa Ferreira & Benjamin Wallisch • Qianhang Ding: The Merger Rate of Primordial Black Hole Binaries as a Probe of Hubble Parameter (video, slides) • Bhuvaneshwari Kashi: Exploring Higher-Order Modes in Gravitational Waves: LISA and NR Visualizations (video, slides) • Gabriele Perna: Fully Non-Gaussian Scalar-Induced Gravitational Waves • Martin Pijnenburg: The Kinematic Dipole Tension in Light of Next-Generation GW Detectors • Miguel Zumalacarregui: Lensing of Gravitational Waves: New Opportunities for Fundamental Physics (video, slides) |
| Parallel Live Discussion Session: Dark Sectors V Host and Co-Host: Oliver Gould & Guanhao Sun • Hanyu Cheng: Future Targets for Light Gauge Bosons from Cosmic Strings (video, slides) • Jun’ya Kume: Gravitational Waves and Baby Black Holes from a Catalyzed Phase Transition (video, slides) • Elena Pinetti: Hunting Dark Matter Lines with Infrared Telescopes (video, slides) • Jeremy Wachter: A Bump on a Spectrum: Cosmic Strings, Self-Interactions and Gravitational Waves • Ziwen Yin: Axion Star Condensation around Primordial Black Holes and Microlensing Limits (video, slides) | |
| Parallel Live Discussion Session: Dark Sectors VI & Modified Gravity Host and Co-Host: Andrew Liddle & Matthijs van der Wild • Basabendu Barman: Slaying Exotic Dragons With a Gravity Sword (video, slides) • Oscar Castillo-Felisola: Cosmological Expectations from a Polynomial Affine Model of Gravity (video, slides) • Sudipta Das: Study of Pressure Parametric Dark Energy Model in the Framework of f(Q) Gravity (video, slides) • Pierros Ntelis: A Probabilistic Expanding Universe under FA (video, slides) • Antonia Seifert: Flat Rotation Curves from Exact Axisymmetric Static Vacuum Spacetimes (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 & Shaun Hotchkiss • Raul Abramo: Unveiling the Connection between Galaxies and Halos with Machine Learning (video, slides) • Sébastien Renaux-Petel: New Particles in the Sky (video, slides) |
| 20:00 – 20:30 | Dedicated Informal Discussions |
| 20:30 – 21:30 | Parallel Live Discussion Session: Large-Scale Structure VII Host and Co-Host: Moritz Münchmeyer & Shaun Hotchkiss • Antón Baleato Lizancos: Harmonic Analysis of Discrete Tracers of the Large-Scale Structure (video, slides) • Utkarsh Giri: Constraining Local PNG using Long-Wavelength Modulation of Small-Scale Power • James Morawetz: Constraining Primordial Non-Gaussianity with Density-Split Clustering (video, slides) • Peter Taylor: Unsupervised Searches for Parity Violation (video, slides) • Michael Williams: Investigating Void Statistics in Numerical Relativity Simulations |
| Parallel Live Discussion Session: Primordial Universe III Host and Co-Host: Swagat Mishra & Jeremy Wachter • Santiago Agüí Salcedo: Effective Field Theory of Dissipative Inflation • Xiancong Luo: Open Quantum System in Cosmology (video, slides) • Alejandro Perez Rodriguez: Classical and Stochastic δN Formalisms (video, slides) • Ayngaran Thavanesan: The Cosmological CPT Theorem (video, slides) | |
| 21:30 – 22:00 | Dedicated Informal Discussions |
| 22:00 – | Social Events |
Friday, 28 June 2024
Early Session
| 14:00 – 15:00 | Dedicated Informal Discussions |
| 15:00 – | Social Events |
Late Session
| 18:00 – 19:00 | Themed Discussion Session I: How Can We Do Better Science? Session Host: Shaun Hotchkiss |
| 19:00 – 19:30 | Dedicated Informal Discussions |
| 19:30 – 20:30 | Themed Discussion Session II: Backreaction of Inhomogeneities & Timescape and Model (In-)Dependence of BAO Session Hosts: David Wiltshire & Shaun Hotchkiss |
| 20:30 – 21:00 | Dedicated Informal Discussions |
| 21:00 – | Social Events |
| End of the conference. Thank you everyone for attending! |