Advances in Theoretical Cosmology in Light of Data

Jul 3, 2017, 9:00 AM → Jul 28, 2017, 6:00 PM Europe/Stockholm

122:026 (Nordita, Stockholm)

Ingunn Wehus (University of Oslo) , Jon Gudmundsson (Stockholm University) , Katherine Freese (Stockholm, University, University of Michigan) , Martina Gerbino (Stockholm University) , Shirley Ho (Carnegie Mellon University)

We have a new web page: http://cosmo-nordita.fysik.su.se/

Poster

Venue

Nordita, Stockholm, Sweden

Poster cmb_scatter4_rs.pdf

Monday, July 3

1 Welcome

Speaker: Prof. Hans Hansson (Nordita Director)

2 Present and future of Neutrinoless double-beta decay experiments

Speaker: Prof. Frank Avignone

Slides Stockholm2017.pptx

3 Coffee break

4 Late time cosmology with LISA: probing the cosmic expansion with massive black hole binary mergers as standard sirens

Speaker: Dr Nicola Tamanini

Slides Nicola_Tamanini.pdf

5 Time for collaboration and lunch

6 Time for discussion and collaboration

Tuesday, July 4

7 Neutrino pathways to cosmology

Speaker: Prof. Jose Valle

Slides valle-nordita.pdf

8 The quest for the Gravitational-Wave Stochastic Background

Speaker: Dr Tania Regimbau

Slides Nordita_regimbau.pdf

9 Coffee break

10 Testing dark energy at the speed of gravitational waves

Speaker: Dr Miguel Zumalacarregui

Slides DE_at_the_speed_of_GWs_Nordita.pdf

11 Time for discussion, collaboration and lunch

12 Quantifying the sensitivity to the neutrino mass hierarchy: role of the prior choice and interplay between cosmology and laboratory searches

Speaker: Dr Massimiliano Lattanzi

13 Time for discussion and collaboration

14 Workshop reception

Wednesday, July 5

15 Constraining sterile neutrinos with multi-survey approach

Speaker: Dr Ninetta Saviano

Slides saviano.pdf

16 LIGO's Black Holes

Speaker: Prof. Daniel Holz

17 Coffee break

18 Gravitational waves from first-order phase transitions

Visit http://www.helsinki.fi/~weir/index.html for animations shown during the talk

Speaker: Dr David Weir

Slides weir-smaller.pdf

19 Time for discussion, collaboration and lunch

20 Discussion: What is the impact of GW detection on current and future research in Cosmology?

Speaker: Dr Tania Regimbau

21 Time for discussion and collaboration

22 Workshop dinner

Thursday, July 6

23 Answering \nu kwastions with cosmology

Speaker: Sunny Vagnozzi

Slides Vagnozzi_Nordita_program.pdf

24 Cosmological tests with Multi-Messenger Astronomy

Speaker: Dr Alvise Raccanelli

Slides Alvise_Raccanelli_NORDITA_sub.pdf

25 Coffee break

26 Searching Dark Matter with Charged Cosmic Rays

Speaker: Dr Martin Winkler

27 Time for discussion, collaboration and lunch

28 Discussion: Future challenges and new directions for Cosmology

Speaker: Prof. Michael Turner

29 Time for discussion and collaboration

Friday, July 7

30 Probing new physics with high energy cosmic neutrinos

Speaker: Prof. Subir Sarkar

Slides Sarkar_7July10am.pdf

31 Gravitational waves at aLIGO and vacuum stability with a scalar singlet extension of the Standard Model

Speaker: Prof. Csaba Balazs

Slides GWs@aLIGO.pdf

32 Coffee break

33 Time for discussion, collaboration and lunch

Monday, July 10

34 Welcome

Speaker: Prof. Katherine Freese

35 Searching for cosmic dawn with PRIZM

Speaker: Prof. Cynthia Chiang

Slides 20170710_prizm_nordita.pdf

36 Cosmology and astrophysics from the z=3-6 Lyman-alpha forest

Speaker: Prof. Matthew McQuinn

37 Coffee break

38 Supernovae at high z and dark energy

Speaker: Prof. Pilar Ruiz-Lapuente

Slides Nordita_f.pdf

39 Time for discussion, collaboration and lunch

40 Primordial Black Holes as Dark Matter

Speaker: Dr Florian Kuhnel

41 Neutrino experiments for dark matter detection

Speaker: Dr Yue Zhao

Slides Nordita_YZ.pdf

42 Time for discussion and collaboration

43 Workshop reception

Tuesday, July 11

44 How to rule out cold dark matter

Speaker: Prof. Carlos Frenk

Slides stockholm_dark_matter.pdf

45 Hydrogen Intensity and Real-time Analysis eXperiment

Speaker: Prof. Jon Sievers

Slides sievers_nordita_2017_small.pdf

46 Coffee break

47 A black hole, a dark matter spike, and a story of enhanced annihilations

Speaker: Prof. Pearl Sandick

Slides Sandick2017Nordita.pdf

48 Time for discussion, collaboration and lunch

49 Supersymmetric dark matter after LUX

Speaker: Dr Marcin Badziak

Slides SUSYDM.pdf

50 Narrowing down the possible explanations of cosmic acceleration using geometric probes

Speaker: Dr Suhail Dawan

Slides Nordita_cosmwork_darkweek_Suhail_11072017.pdf

51 Time for discussion and collaboration

Wednesday, July 12

52 Effective Theory of Dark Energy

Speaker: Prof. Filippo Vernizzi

Slides Stockholm_2017.pdf

53 Life on the non-gaussianity frontier

Speaker: Dr Olivier Dore

Slides NORDITA_July17_Olivier_Dore_Pub.pdf

54 Coffee break

55 Novel Physics with First Galaxies

Speaker: Dr Martin Sahlén

Slides NORDITA_July2017_MSahlen.pdf

56 Observational properties of very weakly coupled dark matter

Speaker: Dr Tommi Tenkanen

Slides Tenkanen_Nordita.pdf

57 Time for discussion, collaboration and lunch

58 Discussion

59 Time for collaboration

60 Workshop dinner

Södermalm Stadsgården 6, Box 151 55, 104 65 Stockholm Telefon: 08-641 70 90

Thursday, July 13

61 Line Intensity Mapping

Speaker: Dr Tzu-Ching Chang

Slides lim.pdf

62 New efforts to extract CIB maps from Planck data

Speaker: Dr David Lenz

Slides 2017_nordita_cib.pdf

63 The role of stability conditions in single field Quintessence

Speaker: Dr Matteo Martinelli

Slides stability-2.pdf

64 Coffee break

65 Reconstructing linear information from nonlinear galaxy surveys

Speaker: Dr Marcel Schmittfull

Slides Nordita_LSSrecon_15min.pdf

66 Probes of Cosmic Acceleration

Speaker: Dr Matteo Fasiello

67 The Next-to-MSSM, the LHC, and Dark Matter

Speaker: Sebastian Baum

Slides SB_nordita.pdf

68 Time for discussion, collaboration and lunch

69 Discussion

70 Time for discussion and collaboration

Friday, July 14

71 Lensing in tension with the CMB - is this a sign for new physics?

Speaker: Prof. Catherine Heymans

Slides Heymans_Stockholm_2017.pdf

72 Multi-octave 21-cm All-Sky Spectrometers

Speaker: Prof. Jeff Peterson

73 Coffee break

74 Closing remarks

Speaker: Prof. Michael Turner

Monday, July 17

75 Welcome

Speaker: Prof. Lars Bergström

76 Optimization of B-mode experiments and the importance of low-frequency observations

Speaker: Prof. Hans Kristian Eriksen

Slides nordita2017_eriksen-expanded.pdf

77 Latest results from BICEP/Keck

Speaker: Prof. Clement Pryke

Slides 20170717_nordita_pryke.pdf

78 The low frequency universe and inflation

Speaker: Prof. Pavel Naselsky

Slides BHDM.pdf

79 The C-Band All Sky Survey (C-BASS): Observing diffuse Galactic emission at 5 GHz

Speaker: Dr Moumita Aich

Slides cbass_nordita_MA.pdf

80 PySM

Speaker: Benjamin Thorne

Slides NORDITA-17072017.pdf

81 Coffee break

82 Delensing the cosmic microwave background

Speaker: Dr Anthony Challinor

Slides Challinor_17_07.pdf

83 Testing early Universe physics with upcoming observations

Speaker: Prof. Emanuela Dimastrogiovanni

Slides talk_nordita_ED.pdf

84 Performance-based Inflation Forecasts for CMB-S4

Speaker: Victor Buza

Slides Buza_NorditaJuly2017.pdf

85 Lunch break

86 Higgsed Gauge-flation: inflation from massive non-Abelian gauge fields

Speaker: Dr Peter Adshead

Slides Adshead_Nordita.pdf

87 Imprints of our motion on the CMB radiation and what can be learned from them

Speaker: Prof. Elena Pierpaoli

Slides PierpaoliNORDITAJul17final.pdf

88 Cosmological Constraints on Ensembles of Unstable Particles

Speaker: Dr Patrick Stengel

Slides multiComp_Nordita_Stengel.pdf

89 Explorations in non-linear cosmological inference

Speaker: Prof. Benjamin Wandelt

Slides WandeltNordita20170717.pdf

90 Coffee break

91 Reconstruction of the primordial CMB B-modes with CORE

Speaker: Dr Mathieu Remazeilles

Slides Remazeilles_Nordita2017.pdf

92 Cosmology from the Stratosphere: A search for primordial gravitational waves, and measurements of gravitational lensing from near space

Speaker: Dr Jon Gudmundsson

Slides Gudmundsson.pdf

93 Planck constraints on Inflation

Speaker: Dr Massimiliano Lattanzi

Slides lattanzi_nordita-2.pdf

94 Firetalk session

Speakers: Adri Duivenvoorden , Aniket Agrawal , Ben Horowitz , Carlos Hervias-Caimapo , Philippa Cole , Ranajoy Banerji , William Coulton

Slides Session1.pdf

95 Conference reception

Tuesday, July 18

96 Firetalks

Speakers: Andrina Nicola , Eemeli Tomberg , Hemza Azri , Jessie Muir , Juuso Leskinen , Pavel Motloch , Victoria Yankelevich

Slides Session2.pdf

97 Inflationary Features and Shifts in Cosmological Parameters from Planck 2015 Data

Speaker: Prof. Cora Dvorkin

Slides Dvorkin_NORDITA_July2017.pdf

98 Axion-Gauge Field Inflation and Gravitational Leptogenesis

Speaker: Prof. Robert Caldwell

Slides CaldwellPDF-2.pdf

99 Minimal but non-minimal inflation and electroweak symmetry breaking

Speaker: Dr Antonio Racioppi

Slides Racioppi_18_07-2.pdf

100 European CMB coordination

Speaker: Dr Anthony Challinor

Slides Challinor_ECMB.pdf

101 Coffee break

102 Eternality in hilltop inflation

Speaker: Prof. Will Kinney

Slides WillKinney_Nordita.pdf

103 Axion Inflation with an SU(2) Gauge Field: Detectable Chiral Gravity Waves

Speaker: Dr Azadeh Maleknejad

Slides Maleknejad.pdf

104 Neutrino Effects in Large-Scale Structure

Speaker: Prof. Marilena Loverde

105 Lunch break

106 Reviewing tensions between Planck and other data

Speaker: Dr Silvia Galli

Slides Galli_nordita.pdf

107 Relics from the early universe

Speaker: Prof. Daniel Baumann

Slides Baumann.pdf

108 The polarization of the CMB with Planck and the reionization of the universe

Speaker: Dr Graca Rocha

Slides Rocha_Nordita_July_2017_vf.pdf

109 A Cosmological Open Quantum System

Speaker: Prof. Sarah Shandera

Slides Shandera.pdf

110 Coffee break

111 Thermalization in axion inflation

Speaker: Dr Ricardo Z. Ferreira

Slides RicardoZFerreira-2.pdf

112 CMB lensing: towards high-precision cosmology from future ground-based experiments

Speaker: Dr Blake Sherwin

Slides norditaTalkFinalShortPDF.pdf

113 Mechanisms of inflationary particle production leading to generation of non standard tensor modes

Speaker: Prof. Lorenzo Sorbo

Slides Sorbo_GW.pdf

Wednesday, July 19

114 Higgs inflation and gravitational degrees of freedom

Speaker: Dr Syksy Räsänen

Slides rasanen_higgs-2.pdf

115 Analysis for the consistency between the measured high frequency dust emission and the single-component thermal dust model

Speaker: Prof. Hao Liu

Slides Liu-2.pdf

116 Inflation as a probe of string theory

Speaker: Dr Yuko Urakawa

Slides YukoURAKAWA.pdf

117 HI emission as a tracer of interstellar reddening

Speaker: Dr Daniel Lenz

Slides 2017_nordita_ebv.pdf

118 Axions and ALPs as the CDM

Speaker: Dr Luca Visinelli

Slides Visinelli_Nordita2017-2.pdf

119 Coffee break

120 Measuring the CMB polarization

Speaker: Prof. Lyman Page

Slides nordita_2017-page.pdf

121 Exploring the ultra-large scale structure of the Unvierse

Speaker: Prof. Matthew Johnson

Slides NORDITA17.pdf

122 Maximum-likelihood map-making for the Atacama Cosmology Telescope

Speaker: Dr Simone Aiola

Slides 20170719_Aiola_Nordita_wide_web.pdf

123 Lunch break

124 Free afternoon

125 Conference dinner

https://www.stromma.se/en/groups- charter/stockholm/fleet/classic-ships/ms-gustafsberg-vii/

Thursday, July 20

126 Delensing CMB B-modes: results from SPT

Speaker: Alessandro Manzotti

Slides delensing_Stochkolm_large.pdf

127 Two efficient methods and three new results from manyfield inflation in random potentials

Speaker: Dr David Marsh

Slides Marsh_Manyfield.pdf

128 Reconstructing CMB fluctuations

Speaker: Dr Daan Meerburg

Slides meerburg_stockholm_2017.pdf

129 Simplifying the EFT of inflation

Speakers: Giovanni Cabass , Lorenzo Bordin

Slides Talk_Bordin_Cabass.pdf

130 Beyond Einstein in the era of precision cosmology: infrared models of gravity from ultra-large to small scales

Speaker: Dr Yashar Akrami

Slides YAkrami-Stockholm2017.pdf

131 Coffee break

132 Initial conditions and gravitational waves in large field inflation

Speaker: Prof. Andrei Linde

Slides Stockholm_2017_Linde.pdf

133 Primordial gravity waves and string theory/supergravity

Speaker: Prof. Renata Kallosh

Slides KalloshNorditaWorshop.pdf

134 Lattice simulations of Natural Inflation

Speaker: Dr Evangelos Sfakianakis

Slides Sfakianakis_Nordita_2017.pdf

135 Lunch break

136 Optimising primordial non-Gaussianity measurements from galaxy surveys

Speaker: Dr Eva-Maria Mueller

Slides Mueller_Nordita.pdf

137 B modes: map based component separation in the context of the SPIDER experiment

Speaker: Dr Benjamin Racine

Slides Stockolm_CMB_Racine.pdf

138 SPT-3G: The Third-Generation Receiver for the South Pole Telescope

Speaker: Dr Sasha Rahlin

Slides rahlin_nordita_2017.pdf

139 Signatures of particle production during inflation

Speaker: Prof. Marco Peloso

Slides peloso-nordita.key.pdf

140 Coffee break

141 On how to start inflation and on the Supersymmetric EFT of Inflation

Speaker: Prof. Leonardo Senatore

Slides seminar_Starting_Inflation_and_susyEFTofI_v5_export.pdf

142 Constraints and symmetries in the EFT of single-field inflation

Speaker: Dr Luca Santoni

Slides Luca_Santoni.pdf

143 Localizing the baryons on halo scales with the kSZ effect

Speaker: Dr Emmanuel Schaan

Slides schaan_ksz.pdf

Friday, July 21

144 Better CMB delensing for improved inflationary constraints through a practical and optimal Bayesian analysis

Speaker: Dr Marius Millea

Slides millea_nordita_july2017-expanded.pdf

145 CMB lensing reconstruction with SPT and SPTpol

Speaker: Dr Kyle Story

Slides kstory_spt_lensing_stockholm_201707.pdf

146 Science Goals of the Simons Observatory

Speaker: Dr Alexander van Engelen

Slides vanengelen_nordita_SOoverview.pdf

147 Primordial Black Holes as Dark Matter

Speaker: Dr Encieh Erfani

Slides NORDITA_E_Erfani.pdf

148 Deployment and Calibration of the HIRAX Prototype Array

Speaker: Dr Benjamin Saliwanchik

Slides Saliwanchik_NORDITA_2017.pdf

149 Coffee break

150 Cosmic Inflation

Speaker: Prof. Andreas Albrecht

Slides Albrecht_NORDITA_July_2017PTM.pdf

151 Modulated Natural Inflation in the CMB

Speaker: Dr Martin Winkler

Slides winkler.pdf

152 Cosmology and astrophysics from secondary anisotropies of the CMB

Speaker: Dr Simone Ferraro

Slides Ferraro_reionization.pdf

153 Lunch break

154 Recovering the Power Spectrum of density fluctuation using the CMB lensing signal

Speaker: Dr Elena Giusarma

Slides Giusarma-2.pdf

155 Inflationary paradigm in Modified Gravity

Speaker: Dr Lavinia Heisenberg

Slides inflationMG_Nordita2017_LaviniaHeisenberg.pdf

156 SMASH

Speaker: Dr Guillermo Ballesteros

Slides NORDITA.pdf

157 The Quest for Tensor Modes

Speaker: Prof. Hans Peter Nilles

Slides Nilles-2.pdf

158 Coffee break

159 Tomographic Mapping of the Galactic Magnetic Field for CMB B-Mode Physics

Speaker: Dr Ata Karakci

Slides karakci_Nordita_17.pdf

160 Finding Cosmic Inflation

Speaker: Prof. Eiichiro Komatsu

Slides finding_inflation_nordita.pdf

Monday, July 24

161 Welcome

Speaker: Prof. Shirley Ho

162 Modeling CMB lensing galaxy cross correlations with perturbation theory

Speaker: Prof. Martin White

Slides White_Nordita_w4-2.pdf

163 Massive galaxies: improved photometry and consequences

Speaker: Prof. Mariangela Bernardi

Slides Bernardi_Stockholm2017-2.pdf

164 Coffee break

165 Intensity mapping, the Lyman alpha forest and relativistic effects on large-scale structure

Speaker: Prof. Rupert Croft

Slides rcroft_stockholm17-2.pdf

166 Modelling and Measuring relativistic effects in Large Scale Structure

Speaker: Dr Shadab Alam

Slides Shadab_stockholm_July2017-2.pdf

167 Mapping the z~2 Cosmic Web with 3D Lyman-Alpha Forest Tomography

Speaker: Dr Khee-Gan Lee

Slides Lee_CLAMATO_Nordita2017-2.pdf

168 How neutrinos can kill cosmological models

Speaker: Sunny Vagnozzi

Slides Vagnozzi_Nordita_program_w4-2.pdf

169 Time for discussion, collaboration and lunch

170 Workshop reception

Tuesday, July 25

171 Quasars and large scale structure in cosmological simulations

Speaker: Prof. Tiziana Di Matteo

Slides DIMatteoNordita17.pdf

172 TBA

Speaker: Prof. Neal Dalal

173 Coffee break

174 Study mapping of large scale structure clustering from real space to redshift space

Speaker: Prof. Yong-Seon Song

Slides YSSong.pdf

175 Measuring alignment between large-scale structure filaments and galaxy spins from integral-field surveys

Speaker: Alex Krolewski

Slides krolewski_stockholm_talk.pdf

176 Modeling gravitational redshifts using perturbation theory

Speaker: Dr Elena Giusarma

Slides Giusarma_Nordita17_w4.pdf

177 Primordial Black Holes as Dark Matter

Speaker: Dr Florian Kühnel

Slides Kuhnel,_Florian_-_Primordial_Black_Holes_as_Dark_Matter_-_Stockholm_-_July_2017.pdf

178 The impact of confusing Hβ with [O III] on the determination of the BAO peak with WFIRST

Speaker: Dr Elena Massara

Slides Interloper_Stockholm.pdf

179 Time for discussion, collaboration and lunch

Wednesday, July 26

180 Halos and Voids: mass and light profiles

Speaker: Prof. Bhuvnesh Jain

181 Shot noise and the halo model

Speaker: Prof. Vincent Desjacques

Slides Desjacques_Nordita_17-2.pdf

182 Coffee break

183 Simulating and modelling massive neutrino cosmologies

Speaker: Dr Emiliano Sefusatti

Slides Sefusatti-Neutrinos-Stockholm-2.pdf

184 Dynamic Reconstruction of Earlier Universe

Speaker: Siyu He

Slides Siyu_He-2.pdf

185 A cleaner Baryon Acoustic Oscillations standard ruler: the Linear Point

Speaker: Dr Stefano Anselmi

Slides Stefano_Anselmi_BAO_Linear_Point-2.pdf

186 A halo model for cosmological neutral hydrogen

Speaker: Dr Hamsa Padmanabhan

Slides hamsa_padmanabhan_stockholm-2.pdf

187 Time for discussion, collaboration and lunch

188 Bimodal Formation Redshift Distribution of Accreted Subhalos

Speaker: Jingjing Shi

Slides Nordita_Shi_jingjing_simplified.pdf

189 Panel discussion

Speakers: Prof. Marilena Loverde , Prof. Martin White , Prof. Neal Dalal , Prof. Tiziana DiMatteo

190 Time for discussion and collaboration

191 Workshop dinner

Thursday, July 27

192 LSS power spectrum analysis: progress report

Speaker: Prof. Uros Seljak

Slides Seljak_Stockholm_2017.pdf

193 Constraining fundamental physics and halo energetics using Sunyaev-Zel'dovich measurements

Speaker: Dr Nicholas Battaglia

Slides Battaglia_Nordita_July_27_2017.pdf

194 Coffee break

195 Sample variance in local measurements of H0

Speaker: Dr Hao-Yi (Heidi) Wu

Slides Wu_H0-CV.pdf

196 Galileon cosmologies in light of CMB, BAO, ISW and H0 data

Speaker: Janina Renk

Slides Renk_GalileonGravity.pdf

197 Constraints on cosmological parameters from galaxy clusters

Speaker: Dr Laura Salvati

Slides LauraSalvati.pdf

198 Understanding clustering of galaxies using analytic approaches

Speaker: Dr Zvonimir Vlah

Slides vlah_nordita.pdf

199 The Carnegie-Chicago Hubble Program: A Distance Ladder without Cepheids

Speaker: Dr Rachael Beaton

Slides beaton_full.pdf

200 Time for discussion, collaboration and lunch

Friday, July 28

201 Sorting galaxy histories

Speaker: Dr Joanne Cohn

Slides JoanneCohn_nordita_pdf.pdf

202 Generating Cosmological Magnetic Fields

Speaker: Dr Jean-Baptiste Durrive

Slides Durrive_Nordita2017.pdf

203 The missing satellite problem re-examined

Speaker: Dr Zachary Slepian

Slides zs_nordita_talk_july2017.pdf

204 Coffee break

205 Large-scale clustering with counts-in-cells statistics

Speaker: Dr Cora Uhlemann

Slides Uhlemann_Talk_NORDITA.pdf

206 Relativistic Effects on LSS Observables

Speaker: Dr Enea Di Dio

Slides Nordita_DiDio.pdf

207 Feedback and the Thermal Sunyaev Zeldovich Power Spectra

Speaker: Dr Benjamin Horowitz

Slides Horowitz-tSZ-2.pdf

208 Optimal Reconstruction of Density Field from Observables

Speaker: Dr Chirag Modi

Slides modi_Chirag_optimal-recon.pdf

209 Closing remarks

Speaker: Prof. Ravi Sheth

210 Time for discussion, collaboration and lunch