The purpose of the conference 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 at the University of Iceland in Reykjavik between the 5th and 8th of August 2025. We look forward to meet you!
The conference poster can be downloaded here.
Invited Speakers include (* = TBC):
- Andreas Albrecht* (UCD)
- Vijay Balasubramanian (UPenn)
- Earl Bellinger (Yale)
- Alessandra Buonanno* (AEI)
- Matt Caplan (ISU)
- Nico Cappelluti* (UM)
- Bernard Carr (QMUL)
- Sébastien Clesse (ULB)
- Nelson Christensen (Artemis & OCA)
- Gia Dvali (MPP & LMU)
- Alexander Dolgov (NSU & Unife)
- Netta Engelhardt (MIT)
- Glennys Farrar* (NYU)
- Enrique Gaztanaga (UoP)
- Sarah Geller (MIT)
- Reinhard Genzel* (MPE & UCB)
- Marat Gilfanov (MPA)
- Ruth Gregory (KCL)
- Eduardo Guendelman (BGU)
- Alan Guth* (MIT)
- Günther Hasinger (DZA)
- Michael Hawkins (ROE)
- Dan Hooper (UW)
- David Kaiser (MIT)
- Sasha Kashlinsky (NASA)
- William Kinney (UB)
- Alexander Kusenko (UCLA)
- Julien Lavalle (UoM)
- Guido Müller* (AEI)
- Priyamvada Natarajan (Yale)
- Samaya Nissanke* (UvA & GRAPPA)
- Mairi Sakellariadou (KCL)
- Lisa Randall* (Harvard)
- Luciano Rezzolla* (GU)
- Subir Sarkar* (Oxford)
- Ravi Sheth (UPenn)
- Joe Silk* (IAP & JHU & Oxford)
- Mark Trodden* (UPenn)
- Herman Verlinde (Princeton)
- Hai-Bo Yu (UCR)
Organisational Committee:
- Florian Kühnel (MPP & LMU) [Chair]
- Lárus Thorlacius (UI)
- Valentina Giangreco M. Puletti (UI)
- David Kaiser (MIT)
- AEI = Albert Einstein Institute
- BGU = Ben Gurion University
- DZA = Deutsches Zentrum für Astrophysik
- GRAPPA = Gravitation & Astroparticle Physics Amsterdam
- GU = Goethe University Frankfurt
- Harvard = Harvard University
- IAP = Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris
- ISU = Illinois State University
- JHU = Johns Hopkins University
- KCL = King's College London
- LMU = Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
- MIT = Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- MPA = Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics
- MPE = Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics
- MPP = Max Planck Institute for Physics
- NASA = National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- NSU = Novosibirsk State University
- NYU = New York University
- OCA = Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur
- Oxford = University of Oxford
- Princeton = Princeton University
- QMUL = Queen Mary University of London
- ROE = Royal Observatory, Edinburgh
- UB = University at Buffalo
- UCB = University of California, Berkeley
- UCD = University of California, Davis
- UCLA = University of California, Los Angeles
- UCR =University of California, Riverside
- UI = University of Iceland
- ULB = Université Libre de Bruxelles
- UM = University of Miami
- Unife = University of Ferrara
- UoM = University of Montpellier
- UoP = University of Portsmouth
- UPenn = University of Pennsylvania
- UvA = University of Amsterdam
- UW = University of Wisconsin–Madison
- Yale = Yale University
The call for abstracts is open
You can submit an abstract for reviewing.
Application
Application for this event is currently open.
