Current Themes in Transient Astrophysics and Cosmology

24 Jun 2024, 08:59 → 28 Jun 2024, 22:00 Europe/Copenhagen

Auditorium A (Niels Bohr Institute)

During the week of June 24-28, 2024, the Niels Bohr International Academy (NBIA) will host its annual workshop on Current Themes in Theoretical Physics. The focus of this year’s meeting will be on transient astrophysics and cosmology.

In the spirit of Bohr's annual theoretical physics meetings, we will provide a stimulating environment with few talks per day and plenty of time for informal discussions. 

Registration for the event is open, but speakers are by invitation only. If you register for the workshop, please be aware that there is only a limited number of seats in the room and we may not be able to accept all registrants. Please note that your participation is not confirmed, until you receive a confirmation email from the NBIA Administrative Officer Gosia Dekempe. 

The deadline for registration is May 15th, 2024.

List of invited speakers:

• Edo Berger – Harvard University 
• Tamara Davis - The University of Queensland
• Rob Fender – Oxford University
• Anna Franckowiak - Ruhr University, Bochum
• Steen Hannestad - Aarhus University
• Anna Ho – Cornell University
• Daniel Holz – University of Chicago
• Dong Lai – Cornell University
• Antony Mezzacappa – University of Tennessee
• Samaya Nissanke – University of Amsterdam
• Feryal Özel – Georgia Institute of Technology
• Dimitrios Psaltis - Georgia Institute of Technology
• Adam Riess – Johns Hopkins University
• Stephan Rosswog -  Hamburg Observatory
• Rashid Sunyaev – Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics
• Lieke van Son – Flatiron University
• Licia Verde – University of Barcelona

 

Organizers

• Irene Tamborra
• Poul Damgaard
• Martin Pessah

 

Logistics

Gosia Dekempe - malgorzata.dekempe@nbi.ku.dk

Monday, 24 June

1 Registration

2 Irene Tamborra - Welcome

3 Adam Riess, Johns Hopkins University - JWST Weighs in on the Hubble Tension

10:30 Break

4 Licia Verde, ICREA & ICCUB - A tale of many H

12:00 Lunch - Plus an opportunity to visit Niels Bohr's office from 13:00 to 13:30

5 Steen Hannestad, Aarhus University - Neutrinos and Other Weakly Interacting Particles In Cosmology

15:00 Break

6 Rashid Sunyaev - Black Body Photosphere of the Universe and CMB Spectral Distortions Due to the Energy Release In the Universe

7 Reception

Tuesday, 25 June

8 Daniel Holz, University of Chicago - Update on Gravitational-Wave Results

10:30 Break

9 Samaya Nissanke, University of Amsterdam - New Perspectives onto the universe in the era of the multi-messenger astronomy

12:00 Lunch

10 Lieke Van Son, Flatiron Institute/Princeton University - The Gravitational-wave Progenitor Population Puzzle

14:00 Break

11 Dong Lai - Cornell University/T.D.Lee Institute - Dynamical Formation of Merging Black-Hole Binaries

15:15 Break

12 Discussion - Edo Berger, GW Sources and Multi-Messenger Observations

Wednesday, 26 June

13 Edo Berger, Harvard University - Current Themes In Time-Domain Astronomy

10:30 Break

14 Anna Ho, Cornell University - Finding Relativistic Stellar Explosions as Fast Optical Transients

12:00 Lunch

15 Rob Fender, University of Oxford - Jetted Transients Near and Far

Jetted Transients Near and Far

15:00 Break

16 Bus to Black Diamond Lecture Hall

17 Adam Riess, Johns Hopkins University - The Surprising Expansion History of the Universe (Public Lecture at Black Diamond Lecture Hall)

Thursday, 27 June

18 Feryal Özel, Georgia Institute of Technology - Putting Plasmas Under the Telescope

10:30 Break

19 Stephan Rosswog, Observatory University Hamburg & Oskar Klein Centre Stockholm - What do observational signatures tell us about the physics in a neutron star merger?

12:00 Lunch

20 Anthony Mezzacappa, University of Tennessee - Core Collapse Supernovae: The Era of Precision Modeling

21 Discussion -- Antony Mezzacappa, Path forward on modeling of transients

16:00 Afternoon at Tivoli & Workshop Dinner. The dinner starts at 6:30 PM in Restaurant "Figaro" inside the Tivoli Gardens

Friday, 28 June

22 Tamara Davis, The University of Queensland - Dark Energy Survey Supernova Cosmology

10:30 Break

23 Dimitrios Psaltis, Georgia Institute of Technology - Harnessing AI/ML for Disruptive Advances in Compact Object Astrophysics

12:00 Lunch

24 Anna Franckowiak, Ruhr-University Bochum - Multi-Messenger Astronomy with High-Energy Neutrinos

25 Discussion - Feryal Özel, Future of Transient Astrophysics

15:00 Break

26 NBIA Colloquium: Rashid Sunyaev - Results from eRosita

27 Refreshments in the NBIA Lounge