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 (M.I.T.).
Confirmed invited speakers:
- Richard Anderson (Göttingen)
- Alessandra Buonanno (MPI for Gravitational Physics)
- Roger Blandford (Stanford)
- Diego Blas (IFAE)
- Bernard Carr (QMUL)
- Sébastien Clesse (ULB)
- Tamara Davis (UQ)
- Gia Dvali (LMU & MPI for Physics)
- Marco Drewes (UCLouvain)
- Netta Engelhardt (M.I.T.)
- Albert Escrivà (NU)
- Glennys Farrar (NYU)
- Wendy Freedman (Chicago)
- Katherine Freese (UT)
- Jaume Garriga (ICCUB)
- Sarah Geller (UCSC & Yale)
- José Luis Gómez (IAA-CISC)
- Alan Guth (M.I.T.)
- Michael Hawkins (ROE)
- Vicky Kalogera (NW)
- Matthew Kleban (NYU)
- Alexander Kusenko (UCLA)
- Julien Lavalle (UoM)
- Deyan Mihaylov (CWRU)
- Priyamvada Natarajan (Yale)
- Lisa Randall (Harvard)
- Jaime Ruz (TU Dortmund)
- Pearl Sandick (UU)
- Kristof Schmieden (Bonn)
- Ravi Sheth (UPenn)
- Glenn Starkman (CWRU)
- 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 (M.I.T.)
ASU = Arizona State University
Bonn = University of Bonn
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
Göttingen = The Georg August University of Göttingen
Harvard = Harvard University
IAA = Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia
ICCUB = Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of Barcelona
IFAE = Institut de Física d'Altes Energies
LMU = Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
M.I.T. = Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MPI for Gravitational Physics = Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics
MPI for Physics = Max Planck Institute for Physics
NU = Nagoya University
NW = Northwestern University
NYU = New York University
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
UCLouvain = Catholic University of Louvain
UCSC = University of California, Santa Cruz
UCR = University of California, Riverside
UGR = University of Granada
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
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