Name: OKC@15: Celebrating 15 Years of the Oskar Klein Centre
Start: 2023-10-17T09:00:00+02:00
End: 2023-10-19T22:00:00+02:00
Location: AlbaNova Main Building

OKC@15: Celebrating 15 Years of the Oskar Klein Centre

from Tuesday, 17 October 2023 (09:00) to Thursday, 19 October 2023 (22:00)

Monday, 16 October 2023
Tuesday, 17 October 2023
09:00 Session 1
Session 1
09:00 - 10:30
Room: FR4
Contributions

09:00 Welcome - Ariel Marcelo Goobar (Stockholm University)

09:10 History of the OKC - Lars Bergström (Stockholm University)

09:30 Bimetric and multimetric theories of gravity - Fawad Hassan (Stockholm University)

10:00 Testing General Relativity with gravitational waves - Vitor Cardoso (University of Copenhagen)
10:30 Morning Fika
Morning Fika
10:30 - 11:00
Room: FR4
11:00 Session 2
Session 2
11:00 - 11:30
Room: FR4
Contributions

11:00 Modelling the multi-messenger signals of neutron star mergers - Stephan Rosswog (Stockholm University)
11:30 Session 2
Session 2
11:30 - 12:10
Room: FR4
Contributions

11:30 Discovering fast transients and multi-messenger counterparts with the Zwicky Transient Facility - Igor Andreoni

11:50 Hurdles on the road to the promised land: When reality meets expectations post GW170817. - Nikhil Sarin (Stockholm University)
12:10 Lunch
Lunch
12:10 - 13:45
Room: FR4
13:45 Session 3
Session 3
13:45 - 15:10
Room: FR4
Contributions

13:45 Multi-messenger investigation on the neutron star equation-of-state-gravity degeneracy - Bhaskar Biswas (Universität Hamburg)

14:05 Numerical analysis of non-thermal emission signatures of relativistic jets through RMHD simulations - Sriyasriti Acharya (Hamburg University)

14:25 Transient science the past 15 years - Jesper Sollerman (Stockholm University)

14:45 Spectral Features from Pulsars and Dark Matter in the Cosmic-Ray Electron and Positron Fluxes - Isabelle John (Stockholm University)
15:10 Afternoon Fika
Afternoon Fika
15:10 - 15:40
Room: FR4
15:40 Session 4
Session 4
15:40 - 17:00
Room: FR4
Contributions

15:40 Dark Matter (H)eats Young Planets - Juri Smirnov (University of Liverpool)

16:00 Effects of wave packet profiles on neutrino oscillations - Evan Gale (University of Queensland)

16:20 Detecting single gravitons with quantum sensing - Germain Tobar (Stockholm University)
Wednesday, 18 October 2023
09:00 Session 5
Session 5
09:00 - 10:30
Room: FR4
Contributions

09:00 Resolving the complex dynamical evolution of supermassive black holes in cosmological simulations using the KETJU code - Peter Johansson (University of Helsinki)

09:30 Commander -- lessons learned from two decades of global Bayesian CMB analsis - Hans Kristian Eriksen (University of Oslo)

10:00 Metamaterial absorbers and detectors: How to hide the notable and detect the invisible. - Jon Gudmundsson (Stockholm University)
10:30 Morning Fika
Morning Fika
10:30 - 11:00
Room: FR4
11:00 Session 6
Session 6
11:00 - 12:00
Room: FR4
Contributions

11:00 The Case for Renormalizable Quantum Gravity - Luca Buoninfante (Nordita)

11:20 Free-Streaming Neutrinos in the Early Universe - Benjamin Wallisch (Stockholm University)

11:40 Constraining Cosmic Reionisation by Combining the kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect and the 21-cm Power Spectrum - Ivelin Georgiev (Stockholm University)
12:00 Lunch
Lunch
12:00 - 13:40
Room: FR4
13:40 Contributed Talks 7
Contributed Talks 7
13:40 - 14:00
Room: FR4
Contributions

13:40 Quantum superpositions of spacetimes and black holes - Magdalena Zych (Stockholm University)
14:00 Session 7
Session 7
14:00 - 14:30
Room: FR4
Contributions

14:00 Avatars of Doom / A Hole-y Universe? - Frank Wilzcek
14:30 Session 7
Session 7
14:30 - 15:10
Room: FR4
Contributions

14:30 The present and future of gravitationally lensed supernovae - Nikki Arendse (Stockholm University)

14:50 Strongly lensed supernovae; Discovery to cosmology in the LSST era - Suhail Dhawan (University of Cambridge)
15:10 Afternoon Fika
Afternoon Fika
15:10 - 15:40
Room: FR4
15:40 Session 8
Session 8
15:40 - 16:10
Room: FR4
Contributions

15:40 Is Dark Matter Primordial Black Holes? - Anne Green (University of Nottingham)
16:10 Session 8
Session 8
16:10 - 17:50
Room: FR4
Contributions

16:10 Cross-correlating galaxy catalogs and gravitational waves: a tomographic approach - Alessandro Cuoco (University of Turin)

16:30 Primordial Black Holes and Gravitational Waves in Higgs-$R^2$ Inflation - Dhong Yeon Cheong (Yonsei University & CERN)

16:50 Non-Gaussianity in rapid-turn multi-field inflation - Oksana Iarygina (Stockholm University)

17:10 Turbulent magnetic field amplification in binary neutron star mergers - Ricard Aguilera Miret (Hamburg Universität)

17:30 Is the JWST Hinting Towards a Cosmological Model Beyond the Standard? - Sambit Kumar Giri (Stockholm University, Nordita)
Thursday, 19 October 2023

09:00 Informal Meetings and Laboratory Tours - Session A
Informal Meetings and Laboratory Tours - Session A
09:00 - 10:30
Room: FR4

10:30 Morning Fika
Morning Fika
10:30 - 11:00
Room: FR4

11:00 Informal Meetings and Laboratory Tours - Session B
Informal Meetings and Laboratory Tours - Session B
11:00 - 12:00
Room: FR4

12:00 Lunch
Lunch
12:00 - 13:40
Room: FR4
13:40 Session 9
Session 9
13:40 - 14:10
Room: FR4
Contributions

13:40 The gamma-ray sky: insights and surprises - Gabrijela Zaharijas (Center for Astrophysics and Cosmology, University of Nova Gorica)
14:10 Session 9
Session 9
14:10 - 15:10
Room: FR4
Contributions

14:10 unimpeded: Universal model comparison and parameter estimation distributed over every dataset - Will Handley (University of Cambridge)

14:30 Self-interacting gravitational atoms in the strong gravity regime - Alexandra Wernersson (University of Amsterdam)

14:50 AMPEL: Scientific exploration in the era of high throughput astronomical observatories - Jakob Nordin (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
15:10 Afternoon Fika
Afternoon Fika
15:10 - 15:40
Room: FR4
15:40 Session 10
Session 10
15:40 - 16:30
Room: FR4
Contributions

15:40 A brief history and future perspectives of ML and Data Science activities at OKC - Jens Jasche (Stockholm University)

16:00 Has JWST Discovered Dark Stars? - Katherine Freese
16:30 Session 10
Session 10
16:30 - 17:10
Room: FR4
Contributions

16:30 Comprehensive constraints on the galaxy population enabled by machine-learning - Justin Alsing (Stockholm University)

16:50 Spacetime Emergence in the Real World - Matthew Lawson (Savantic AB)
17:30 Dinner Event
Dinner Event
17:30 - 21:00
Room: FR4