The purpose of the international conference series Black Holes & Cosmology is to bring together world-renowned experts as well as junior researchers working on theoretical and observational aspects of black holes, particularly (but not limited to) their rôle in cosmology.
Topics include:
- Dark Matter
- Structure Formation
- Primordial Black Holes
- Gravitational-Wave Astronomy
- Quantum Aspects of Black Holes
This event will take place in Granada, Spain, at 'Carmen de la Victoria' — an historic 19th-century estate with an unobstructed view onto the Alhambra — between the 15th and the 19th of June 2026. We look forward to meet you!
The opening talk will be held by Professor Alan Guth (MIT).
Invited Speakers (* = TBC):
- Alessandra Buonanno* (MPI for Gravitational Physics)
- Roger Blandford (Stanford)
- Andreas Burkert (LMU)
- Diego Blas (IFAE)
- Volker Bromm* (UT)
- Nico Cappelluti (UF)
- Bernard Carr (QMUL)
- Sébastien Clesse (ULB)
- Tamara Davis (UQ)
- Gia Dvali (LMU & MPI for Physics)
- Netta Engelhardt (MIT)
- Glennys Farrar (NYU)
- Wendy Freedman (Chicago)
- Katherine Freese (UT)
- Jaume Garriga (ICCUB)
- Sarah Geller (UCSC)
- Alan Guth (MIT)
- Günther Hasinger* (DZA)
- Michael Hawkins (ROE)
- Vicky Kalogera (NW)
- Alexander Kusenko (UCLA)
- Julien Lavalle (UoM)
- Deyan Mihaylov (CWRU)
- Priyamvada Natarajan (Yale)
- Lisa Randall (Harvard)
- Mairi Sakellariadou (KCL)
- Pearl Sandick (UU)
- Ravi Sheth (UPenn)
- Adam Riess* (JHU)
- Joe Silk (IAP & JHU & Oxford)
- Glenn Starkman (CWRU)
- Lárus Thorlacius (UI)
- Vincent Vennin (ENS Paris)
- Tanmay Vachaspati (ASU)
- Alexander Vikman (CEICO)
- David Wands (UoP)
Organisational Committee:
- Florian Kühnel (LMU & TU Dortmund) [Chair]
- Juan García-Bellido (UAM)
- Mar Bastero-Gil (UGR)
- David Kaiser (MIT)
ASU = Arizona State University
CEICO = Central European Institute for Cosmology and Fundamental Physics, Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences
Chicago = University of Chicago
CWRU = Case Western Reserve University
DZA = Deutsches Zentrum für Astrophysik
ENS Paris = École Normale Supérieure de Paris
Harvard = Harvard University
IAP = Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris
ICCUB = Institute of the Universitat de Barcelona
IFAE = Institut de Física d'Altes Energies
KCL = King's College London
LMU = Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
MIT = Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MPI for Astrophysics = Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics
MPI for Extraterrestrial Physics = Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics
MPI for Gravitational Physics = Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics
MPI for Physics = Max Planck Institute for Physics
NW = Northwestern University
NYU = New York University
Oxford = University of Oxford
QMUL = Queen Mary University of London
ROE = Royal Observatory, Edinburgh
Stanford = Stanford University
UAM = Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
UB = University at Buffalo
UCLA = University of California, Los Angeles
UCSC = University of California, Santa Cruz
UCR = University of California, Riverside
UF = University of Florida
UGR = University of Granada
UI = University of Iceland
ULB = Université Libre de Bruxelles
UoM = University of Montpellier
UPenn = University of Pennsylvania
UQ = University of Queensland
UT = University of Texas at Austin
UU = University of Utah
Yale = Yale University
