A UniverseNet Cosmology Workshop: Confronting theory with observations

Workshop schedule

	Monday, August 16
	9:40 am – 10:00 am	Registration
	10:00 am – 10:15 am	Opening Remarks
	10:15 am – 11:15 am	Quantum Origin of the Structure of the Universe Viatcheslav Mukhanov (Arnold Sommerfeld Center for Theoretical Physics, LMU München)
	11:15 am – 11:45 am	Coffee
	11:45 am – 12:45 pm	How to falsify inflation Anupam Mazumdar (Lancaster University)
	12:45 pm – 2:00 pm	Lunch
	2:00 pm – 3:00 pm	Confronting theory with observations of weak gravitational lensing Alan Heavens (University of Edinburgh)
	3:00 pm – onward	Coffee and Discussion
	Tuesday, August 17
	10:00 am – 11:00 am	Primordial black holes and contomporary gravitational waves Alexander Dolgov (ITEP, Moscow & Ferrara University)
	11:00 am – 11:45 am	Coffee
	11:45 am – 12:45 pm	Neutrino physics and precision cosmology—status and prospects Steen Hannestad (Aarhus University)
	12:45 pm – 2:00 pm	Lunch
	2:00 pm – 3:00 pm	What do cosmological dark matter structures look like, and why? Steen Hansen (DARK)
	3:00 pm – onward	Coffee and Discussion
	Wednesday, August 18
	10:00 am – 11:00 am	ΛCDM : Triumphs, Puzzles and Remedies Leandros Perivolaropoulos (University of Ioannina )
	11:00 am – 11:45 am	Coffee
	11:45 am – 12:45 pm	Analyzing the CMB in a model-independent manner Syksy Räsänen (University of Helsinki)
	12:45 pm – 2:00 pm	Lunch
	2:00 pm – 3:00 pm	Asymmetric dark matter Subir Sarkar (University of Oxford)
	3:00 pm – onward	Coffee and Discussion
	Thursday, August 19
	10:00 am – 11:00 am	Fingerprints of the early universe Hiranya Peiris (University College London)
	11:00 am – 11:40 am	Coffee
	11:40 am – 11:45 am	Workshop photograph
	11:45 am – 12:45 pm	Primordial non-Gaussianity:  Models and observational constraints Sabino Matarrese (University of Padua)
	12:45 pm – 2:00 pm	Lunch
	2:00 pm – 3:00 pm	Dark matter detection:  Complementarity of methods Lars Bergström (Stockholm University)
	3:00 pm – 6:30 pm	Coffee and Discussion
	7:00 pm – onward	Workshop Dinner
	Friday, August 20
	10:00 am – 11:00 am	Dark energy and modified gravity Shinji Tsujikawa (Tokyo University of Science)
	11:00 am – 11:45 am	Coffee
	11:45 am – 12:45 pm	Measuring dark energy using galaxy surveys Will Percival (University of Portsmouth )
	12:45 pm – 2:00 pm	Lunch
	2:00 pm – onward	Coffee and Discussion