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Simona Vegetti (MPA)15/06/2026, 14:30
The Cold Dark Matter (CDM) paradigm remains the most successful framework for describing the formation and evolution of cosmic structure, yet its predictions on sub-galactic scales are still only weakly tested. A key prediction of CDM is the existence of a large population of low-mass dark matter haloes with a well-defined mass density profile, both as subhaloes within galaxies and as isolated...
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Sara Simon (Fermilab)15/06/2026, 15:30
The Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) is a sensitive probe of cosmic birefringence, which, if detected, would imply physics beyond the standard model. For example, cosmic birefringence can be caused by axion-like pseudo scalar-fields coupling to photons via the Chern-Simons effect. These represent favored candidates for dark matter particles and are used in models to explain dark energy....
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Nicolao Fornengo (University of Torino and INFN)16/06/2026, 09:00Invited talk
Dark matter provides compelling evidence for physics beyond the Standard Model, yet its microscopic nature remains unknown. This talk will review theoretical perspectives on the dark sector, focusing on well-motivated dark matter candidates and the mechanisms that determine their cosmological abundance and phenomenology. Attention will be given to the interplay between theory and experimental...
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Nora Luetzgendorf (ESA)16/06/2026, 11:30
The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is a space-based observatory that will detect gravitational waves from massive and distant sources that cannot be observed from the ground. This talk will introduce LISA’s main science goals, including mergers of massive black holes, compact binaries in our Galaxy, and what gravitational waves can reveal about the growth of structure over cosmic...
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Stephen Fairhurst17/06/2026, 09:001
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Nancy Aggarwal (UC Davis)17/06/2026, 10:00Invited talk
Axions and other light bosonic fields are well-motivated candidates for physics beyond the Standard Model. Their masses span many orders of magnitude, giving rise to very different experimental signatures. In this talk, I will describe how our group targets these particles across multiple regimes using distinct experimental approaches. Light axions (~μeV–meV) can be detected through...
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Ulrich Sperhake (University of Cambridge)18/06/2026, 09:00Invited talk
This talk presents an overview of numerical relativity. The main concepts,
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key challenges and some of the most exciting results reviewed along a
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Andrew Newman (Carnegie Science)18/06/2026, 10:00Invited talk
The Lyman-alpha forest—the absorption signature of intergalactic hydrogen in the spectra of quasars and galaxies—is one of the most precise tools for quantifying the matter distribution in the distant universe. While the forest has been used for decades to constrain the mass of a warm dark matter particle, it can also test a broader class of dark matter models that modify structure on small...
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18/06/2026, 12:00
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Nora Luetzgendorf (ESA)
The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is a space-based observatory that will detect gravitational waves from massive and distant sources that cannot be observed from the ground. This talk will introduce LISA’s main science goals, including mergers of massive black holes, compact binaries in our Galaxy, and what gravitational waves can reveal about the growth of structure over cosmic...
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