Venue
Nordita, Stockholm, Sweden
Scope
We are happy to announce the three-week program on numerical simulations of early Universe sources of gravitational waves at Nordita, Stockholm, that will take place from July 28 to August 15 of 2025.
The main objectives of the program are to review the different possible sources contributing to a cosmological background of gravitational waves, the state-of-the-art numerical codes that are available and used by the community, to discuss numerical techniques for these studies, and to discuss what are the priorities that we should address as a community in the coming years.
For this purpose, the program is divided into three weeks, covering the following potential sources of GWs in the early Universe:
Week 1 (Jul 28-Aug 1): Inflation, (p)reheating, and primordial black holes
Week 2 (Aug 4-8): First order phase transitions and primordial turbulence
Week 3 (Aug 11-15): Topological defects: cosmic strings, domain walls, and others
Registration is now open and will close on March 15th.
To submit an abstract for a contributed talk, please provide the details while registering and then send an abstract in the call for abstracts section by the deadline, March 15th.
Confirmed Invited speakers
- Pierre Auclair (Louvain University)
- Jorge Baeza-Ballesteros (DESY)
- Jose Juan Blanco-Pillado (University of the Basque Country)
- Axel Brandenburg (Nordita)
- Malte Buschmann (University of Amsterdam)
- Angelo Caravano (IAP, Paris)
- Jose Ricardo Correia (University of Helsinki)
- Emanuela Dimastrogiovanni (University of Groningen)
- Matteo Fasiello (IFT)
- Marco Gorghetto (DESY)
- Mark Hindmarsh (University of Helsinki)
- Oksana Iarygina (Nordita)
- Ryusuke Jinno (Kobe University)
- Tina Kahniashvili (Carnegie Mellon University)
- Marek Lewicki (University of Warsaw)
- Joanes Lizarraga (University of the Basque Country)
- Swagat Mishra (University of Nottingham)
- Ilia Musco (INFN Rome)
- Gerasimos Rigopoulos (Newcastle University)
- Henrique Rubira (LMU/Cambridge)
- Kari Rummukainen (University of Helsinki)
- Philipp Schicho (University of Geneva)
- Lara Sousa (University of Porto)
- Francisco Torrenti (University of Barcelona)
- Tanmay Vachaspati (Arizona State University)
- Jorinde van de Vis (CERN)
- Masahide Yamaguchi (Institute for Basic Science, Daejeon)
Accommodation
We will provide accommodation in Stockholm for some accepted applicants, prioritizing early-career researchers and based on travel fund needs. Please indicate if you would like Nordita to cover your accommodation in the registration form and we will confirm accommodation and travel support shortly after the registration deadline.
We have reserved some apartments at Biz Apartment Gärdet at a reduced price. If you would like to reserve one of these apartments and cover the costs on your own, please indicate so in the registration form.
Application/Registration
Registration is open and will close on March 15th. Registrants will receive an on-site/remote participation confirmation from the organizers shortly after this date.
Organizers
Chiara Caprini (CERN and University of Geneva)
Amelia Drew (University of Cambridge)
Daniel Figueroa (IFIC, Valencia)
Alberto Roper Pol (University of Geneva)
David Weir (University of Helsinki)
Code of conduct
The Nordita EDI committee is in the process of finalising a code of conduct that will apply to events, including participation in this program. Unfortunately, we cannot provide the full text yet, however, we would like to let you know that by registering for this event you agree to abide by Nordita's code of conduct.
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