DarkMap - Mapping the Dark Universe

Europe/Budapest
Hotel Benczúr, Budapest

Hotel Benczúr, Budapest

Budapest, Benczúr utca 35, 1068
András Kovács (Konkoly Observatory), Judit Nagy (Konkoly Observatory), Zsófia Fejes (Konkoly Observatory)
Description

Scientific program:

DarkMap will be a conference in Budapest about various topics in theoretical and observational cosmology, focusing on the physics of dark matter and dark energy. We will bring together early-career scientists and senior researchers and discuss how the state-of-the-art cosmic maps can be used to learn about cosmic history. 

During the conference, we will hear about novel methods that go beyond standard correlation function analyses, and we will also cover the latest simulation efforts to model standard as well as non-standard cosmological models. 

Confirmed speakers:

  • Zoltán Haiman (IST Austria)
  • Gabrijela Zaharijas (University of Nova Gorica)
  • John Peacock (University of Edinburgh)
  • Luigi Guzzo (Milan University)
  • Marika Asgari (Newcastle University)
  • Ofer Lahav (University College London)
  • István Szapudi (University of Hawaii)
  • Oliver Hahn (University of Vienna)
  • Alexander S. Szalay (Johns Hopkins University)

Registration details:

  • There is no registration fee for the meeting (including coffee breaks, lunches, and a conference dinner) courtesy of funding from Hungarian Mecenatúra Programme, under project MEC_SZ 149132.
  • The maximum capacity is approximately 50 participants.
  • The registration deadline for the conference is July 1st.
  • Selected speakers will be notified by the 15th of July at the latest

Local Organizing Committee:

Judit Nagy, Zsófia Fejes, András Kovács

Scientific Organizing Committee:

András Kovács, Mina Ghodsi Yengejeh, István Csabai

Participants
    • Registration
      Convener: András Kovács (Konkoly Observatory)
    • 1
      Welcome & Introduction

      Speaker: András Kovács

      Speakers: András Kovács (Konkoly Observatory), László Kiss (HUN-REN CSFK)
    • 2
      Spatial Statistics

      Speaker: István Szapudi

      Chair: I. Csabai

      Speaker: István Szapudi
    • 3
      Simulations of Rotatinging Universes with StePS

      Speaker: Gábor Rácz

      Speaker: Gábor Rácz
    • 4
      Alcock-Paczyński test with cosmic voids

      Speaker: Slađana Radinović

      Speaker: Slađana Radinović
    • 5
      The Dark Energy Survey Year 6 3x2pt: Multi-Probe Modeling Strategy and Validation

      Speaker: David Sanchez Cid

      Speaker: David Sanchez Cid
    • 15:30
      Coffee break
    • 6
      A catalog of high significance cosmic voids in the Local Universe

      Speaker: Rosa Malandrino

      Speaker: Rosa Malandrino
    • 7
      Catalogues of clusters, voids and spatial properties of quasars from the Quaia catalogue

      Speaker: Nestor Arsenov

      Speaker: Nestor Arsenov
    • 8
      Constraints on the cross-correlation between LSST galaxy survey and CMB lensing potential

      Speaker: Nicola Principi

      Speaker: Nicola Principi
    • 9
      The Euclid mission

      Speaker: Luigi Guzzo
      Chair: I. Horvath

      Speaker: Luigi Guzzo
    • 10
      Improving primordial non-Gaussianity measurements with angular redshift fluctuations: a new cosmological observable

      Speaker: Jose Ramon Bermejo-Climent

      Speaker: Jose Ramon Bermejo-Climent
    • 11
      Cosmology with Void Number Counts

      Speaker: Sofia Contarini

      Speaker: Sofia Contarini
    • 12
      Unveiling Cosmic Voids Through Tracer Dynamics

      Speaker: Simone Sartori

      Speaker: Simone Sartori
    • 13
      Evidence for a sign change of the ISW effect in the very recent universe

      Speaker: Frode Hansen

      Speaker: Frode Hansen
    • 10:30
      Coffee break
    • 14
      AI vs Science (Panel I)

      I. Csabai, I. Szapudi, A. S. Szalay

      Moderator: O. Lahav

      Speakers: Alexander S. Szalay, István Csabai, István Szapudi, Ofer Lahav
    • 12:30
      Lunch break
    • 15
      Cosmology with large scale structures: from KiDS to DESC

      Speaker: Marika Asgari

      Chair: M. Ghodsi Yengejeh

      Speaker: Marika Asgari
    • 16
      Data compression for cosmological inference

      Speaker: Susan Pyne

      Speaker: Susan Pyne
    • 17
      Strong lensing as the dark matter laboratory of the future

      Speaker: Conor O'Riordan

      Speaker: Conor O'Riordan
    • 18
      The Shear Ratio test for DES Y6

      Speaker: Gisela C. Camacho-Ciurana

      Speaker: Gisela C. Camacho-Ciurana
    • 19
      Photometric redshift and clustering of quasars in Kilo-degree survey

      Speaker: Anjitha John William

      Speaker: Anjitha John William
    • 15:30
      Coffee break
    • 20
      Emulation of cosmological simulations using Evolution Mapping

      Speaker: Alejandro Pérez Fernández

      Speaker: Alejandro Pérez Fernández
    • 21
      A new Halo Mass Function model through Evolution Mapping

      Speaker: Andrea Fiorilli

      Speaker: Andrea Fiorilli
    • 22
      Clusternets: a deep learning approach to probe clustering dark energy

      Speaker: Amirmohammad Chegeni

      Speaker: Amirmohammad Chegeni
    • 23
      Is Dark Energy evolving with cosmic time?

      Speaker: Ofer Lahav
      Chair: S. Contarini

      Speaker: Ofer Lahav
    • 24
      Mapping the Universe with gamma-ray bursts

      Speaker: István Horváth

      Speaker: István Horváth
    • 25
      The GRBs' Two-Point Correlation Function

      Speaker: Zsolt Bagoly

      Speaker: Zsolt Bagoly
    • 26
      From sensors to tensors

      Speaker: Alexander S. Szalay

      Speaker: Alexander S. Szalay
    • 10:30
      Coffee break
    • 27
      Past, present & future of Cosmic Maps (Panel II)

      L. Guzzo, M. Asgari, J. Peacock

      Moderator: I. Szapudi

      Speakers: John Peacock, Luigi Guzzo, Marika Asgari
    • 12:30
      Lunch break (+CONFERENCE PHOTO)
    • FREE AFTERNOON
    • Conference Dinner

      Our social dinner will be held at VakVarjú Restaurant on Wednesday, September 3rd, 2025, starting at 8 PM. Address: 1061 Budapest, Paulay Ede u. 7.

    • 28
      New imprints of large-scale structure on the CMB

      Speaker: John Peacock
      Chair: Gábor Rácz

      Speaker: John Peacock
    • 29
      A Window into Gravity: Cosmic Voids x CMB Planck

      Speaker: Mar Pérez Sar

      Speaker: Mar Pérez Sar
    • 30
      Can rotation solve the Hubble Puzzle?

      Speaker: Balázs Szigeti

      Speaker: Balázs Szigeti
    • 31
      Weak lensing beyond the Gaussian regime

      Speaker: Zoltán Haiman

      Speaker: Zoltán Haiman
    • 10:30
      Coffee break
    • 32
      Funding & proposals: ERC, MSCA, etc (Panel III)

      O. Lahav, Z. Haiman, G. Zaharijas

      Moderator: O. Hahn

      Speakers: Gabrijela Zaharijas, Ofer Lahav, Zoltán Haiman
    • 12:30
      Lunch break
    • 33
      Simulations

      Speaker: Oliver Hahn
      Chair: Mar Pérez Sar

      Speaker: Oliver Hahn
    • 34
      Probing dark energy models across scales: from linear to non-linear dynamics

      Speaker: Farbod Hassani

      Speaker: Farbod Hassani
    • 35
      Constrained simulations of cosmic walls & filaments from the caustic skeleton model

      Speaker: Benjamin Hertzsch

      Speaker: Benjamin Hertzsch
    • 36
      Delensing of CMB B-modes with tomographic cross-correlation between LSST and CMB-S4 survey

      Speaker: Kishan Deka

      Speaker: Kishan Deka
    • 37
      Revisiting the angular size–redshift cosmological test with milliarcsecond radio structures in AGN

      Speaker: Mina Ghodsi Yengejeh

      Speaker: Mina Ghodsi Yengejeh (Konkoly Observatory)
    • 15:30
      Coffee break
    • 38
      Extended Quintessence: the linear evolution

      Speaker: Abdolali Banihashemi

      Speaker: Abdolali Banihashemi
    • 39
      Weak lensing higher-order statistics with modified gravity and massive neutrinos

      Speaker: Alessandro Vadalà

      Speaker: Alessandro Vadalà
    • 40
      Schwarzschild black holes embedded in a Dehnen-type dark matter halo with quintessence

      Speaker: Ahmad Al-badawi

      Speaker: Ahmad Al-badawi
    • Social Night at Konkoly Observatory
    • 41
      Dark Matter searches with astrophysical probes

      Speaker: Gabrijela Zaharijas
      Chair: S. Pyne

      Speaker: Gabrijela Zaharijas
    • 42
      Preparing for WAVES: Building dark matter maps using group catalogues

      Speaker: Trystan Lambert

      Speaker: Trystan Lambert
    • 43
      Halo asymmetry and galaxy clustering

      Speaker: Anna Durkalec

      Speaker: Anna Durkalec
    • 44
      The generalized Dirac fermions and dark matter (remote)

      Speaker: Andrew Koshelkin

      Speaker: Andrew Koshelkin
    • 45
      CANCELLED Excursion sets with a "perfect" collapse model

      Speaker: Agata Wislocka

      Speaker: Agata Wislocka
    • 10:30
      Coffee break
    • Discussion & Conclusions: End of meeting