Black Holes & Cosmology

5 Aug 2025, 09:00 → 9 Aug 2025, 18:00 Atlantic/Reykjavik

University of Iceland

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 5^th and the 9^th of August 2025. We look forward to meet you!

The conference poster can be downloaded here.

Confirmed Invited Speakers:

• Vijay Balasubramanian (UPenn)
• Earl Bellinger (Yale)
• Alessandra Buonanno (MPI for Gravitational Physics)
• Andreas Burkert (LMU)
• Bernard Carr (QMUL)
• Sébastien Clesse (ULB)
• Gia Dvali (LMU & MPI for Physics)
• Alexander Dolgov (NSU & Unife)
• Netta Engelhardt (MIT)
• Albert Escrivà (NU)
• Katherine Freese (UT)
• Enrique Gaztanaga (UoP)
• Sarah Geller (UCSC)
• Marat Gilfanov (MPI for Astrophysics)
• Ruth Gregory (KCL)
• Eduardo Guendelman (BGU)
• Günther Hasinger (DZA)
• Michael Hawkins (ROE)
• Dan Hooper (UW)
• David Kaiser (MIT)
• Sasha Kashlinsky (NASA)
• William Kinney (UB)
• Alexander Kusenko (UCLA)
• Julien Lavalle (UoM)
• David Lowe (Brown)
• Guido Müller (MPI for Gravitational Physics)
• Priyamvada Natarajan (Yale)
• Don Page (Alberta)
• Lisa Randall (Harvard)
• Mairi Sakellariadou (KCL)
• Ravi Sheth (UPenn)
• Joe Silk (IAP & JHU & Oxford)
• Herman Verlinde (Princeton)
• Hai-Bo Yu (UCR)

Organisational Committee:

• Florian Kühnel (LMU & MPI for Physics) [Chair]
• Lárus Thorlacius (UI)
• Valentina Giangreco M. Puletti (UI)
• David Kaiser (MIT)

 

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• Alberta = University of Alberta
• BGU = Ben Gurion University
• Brown = Brown University
• DZA = Deutsches Zentrum für Astrophysik
• Harvard = Harvard University
• IAP = Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris
• JHU = Johns Hopkins University
• 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 Gravitational Physics = Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics
• MPI for Physics = Max Planck Institute for Physics
• NASA = National Aeronautics and Space Administration
• NSU = Novosibirsk State University
• NU = Nagoya University
• Oxford = University of Oxford
• Princeton = Princeton University
• QMUL = Queen Mary University of London
• ROE = Royal Observatory, Edinburgh
• UB = University at Buffalo
• UCLA = University of California, Los Angeles
• UCR =University of California, Riverside
• UCSC = University of California, Santa Cruz
• UI = University of Iceland
• ULB = Université Libre de Bruxelles
• Unife = University of Ferrara
• UoM = University of Montpellier
• UoP = University of Portsmouth
• UPenn = University of Pennsylvania
• UT = University of Texas at Austin
• UW = University of Wisconsin–Madison
• Yale = Yale University

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