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 conference poster can be downloaded here.
The opening talk will be held by Professor Alan Guth (MIT).
Invited Speakers (* = TBC):
- Richard Anderson (Göttingen)
- Alessandra Buonanno (MPI for Gravitational Physics)
- Roger Blandford (Stanford)
- Diego Blas (IFAE)
- Volker Bromm* (UT)
- Nico Cappelluti (UF)
- Bernard Carr (QMUL)
- Sébastien Clesse (ULB)
- Tamara Davis (UQ)
- Gia Dvali (LMU & MPI for Physics)
- Marco Drewes (UCLouvain)
- Netta Engelhardt (MIT)
- Albert Escrivà (NU)
- 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)
- Matthew Kleban (NYU)
- Alexander Kusenko (UCLA)
- Julien Lavalle (UoM)
- Deyan Mihaylov (CWRU)
- Priyamvada Natarajan (Yale)
- Lisa Randall (Harvard)
- Jaime Ruz (TU Dortmund)
- Mairi Sakellariadou (KCL)
- Pearl Sandick (UU)
- Ravi Sheth (UPenn)
- Glenn Starkman (CWRU)
- Lárus Thorlacius (UI)
- Vincent Vennin (ENS Paris)
- Tanmay Vachaspati (ASU)
- Alexander Vikman (CEICO)
- David Wands (UoP)
- Matias Zaldarriaga (Princeton)
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
Göttingen = The Georg August University of Göttingen
Harvard = Harvard University
ICCUB = Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of 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
NU = Nagoya University
NW = Northwestern University
NYU = New York University
Princeton = Princeton 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
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
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