Black Holes & Cosmology

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 The Bahamas in Nassau between the 11^th and 15^th of March 2024. We look forward to meet you!

The conference poster can be downloaded here.

Invited Speakers:

• Andreas Albrecht
• Earl Bellinger
• Gianfranco Bertone
• Alessandra Buonanno*
• Matt Caplan
• Nico Cappelluti
• Bernard Carr
• Sébastien Clesse
• Gia Dvali*
• Alexander Dolgov
• Glennys Farrar
• Carlos Frenk
• Juan García-Bellido
• Enrique Gaztanaga
• Reinhard Genzel*
• Cristiano Germani
• Andrea Ghez*
• Michael Hawkins
• Shirley Ho*
• David Kaiser
• Sasha Kashlinsky
• William Kinney
• Julien Lavalle
• Michela Mapelli
• Emil Mottola
• Priya Natarajan*
• Samaya Nissanke
• Sergey Odintsov
• Malcolm Perry
• Hernando Quevedo
• Lisa Randall
• Luciano Rezzolla*
• Subir Sarkar
• Ravi Sheth
• Joseph Silk
• Gerald 't Hooft*
• Lárus Thorlacius
• Mark Trodden
• Chris van den Broeck
• Alexander Vilenkin*
• Hai-Bo Yu

*TBC

Organisational Committee:

• Florian Kühnel (MPP & LMU) [Chair]
• Katherine Freese (UTAUS)
• Juan García-Bellido (UAM)
• Eduardo Guendelman (BGU & FIAS & BASIC)
• Alexander Kashlinsky (NASA)
• Claude McNamarah (UB)
• Remo Ruffini (UNIROMA1)

• BASIC = Bahamas Advanced Study Institute and Conferences
• BGU = Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
• FIAS = Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies
• LMU = Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
• MPP = Max Planck Institute for Physics
• NASA = National Aeronautics and Space Administration
• UAM = Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
• UB = University of The Bahamas
• UNIROMA1 = Università Roma La Sapienza
• UTAUS = The University of Texas at Austin