Name: Strings & Cosmology Meeting
Start: 2025-12-10T08:00:00+01:00
End: 2025-12-12T18:00:00+01:00
Location: LAPTh

Strings & Cosmology Meeting

from Wednesday, 10 December 2025 (08:00) to Friday, 12 December 2025 (18:00)

Monday, 8 December 2025
Tuesday, 9 December 2025
Wednesday, 10 December 2025

08:45 Coffee: Welcome - registration
Welcome - registration
08:45 - 09:15
Room: Grande Galerie

09:15 Talk: Review - Cosmological Constraints from DESI Observations - Rodrigo Calderon
Review - Cosmological Constraints from DESI Observations - Rodrigo Calderon
09:15 - 10:00
Room: Auditorium

10:00 Talk: Review - String Cosmology - Gary Shiu
Review - String Cosmology - Gary Shiu
10:00 - 10:45
Room: Auditorium

10:45 Coffee

10:45 - 11:15
Room: Grande Galerie

11:15 Talk: Discussion - Questions to cosmologists and string theorists - Georges Obied and Nils Schöneberg
Discussion - Questions to cosmologists and string theorists - Georges Obied and Nils Schöneberg
11:15 - 12:15
Room: Auditorium

12:15 Lunch

12:15 - 14:00
Room: Grande Galerie

14:00 Talk: Philippe Brax - Dark energy, phantom crossing and screening in the axio-dilaton system
Philippe Brax - Dark energy, phantom crossing and screening in the axio-dilaton system
14:00 - 14:30
Room: Auditorium

14:30 Talk: Ignacio Ruiz - Transient acceleration in asymptotic regimes of string theory?
Ignacio Ruiz - Transient acceleration in asymptotic regimes of string theory?
14:30 - 15:00
Room: Auditorium

15:00 Talk: Michele Cicoli - Cosmic strings and bulk hidden photons after string inflation
Michele Cicoli - Cosmic strings and bulk hidden photons after string inflation
15:00 - 15:30
Room: Auditorium

15:30 Coffee

15:30 - 16:15
Room: Grande Galerie

16:15 Talk: Jean-Philippe Uzan
Jean-Philippe Uzan
16:15 - 16:45
Room: Auditorium

16:45 Talk: Nicole Righi - New vacua in heterotic string compactifications
Nicole Righi - New vacua in heterotic string compactifications
16:45 - 17:15
Room: Auditorium

17:15 Talk: Susha Parameswaran - The Elephant in the Room
Susha Parameswaran - The Elephant in the Room
17:15 - 17:45
Room: Auditorium

18:00 Talk: Public outreach talk (in French) - Thibaut Coudarchet - Des cordes, pour quoi faire ? Introduction à la théorie des cordes et à la cosmologie
Public outreach talk (in French) - Thibaut Coudarchet - Des cordes, pour quoi faire ? Introduction à la théorie des cordes et à la cosmologie
18:00 - 19:00
Room: Auditorium
Thursday, 11 December 2025

08:45 Coffee

08:45 - 09:15
Room: Grande Galerie

09:15 Talk: Review - Cosmic Tensions - Ali Rida Khalife
Review - Cosmic Tensions - Ali Rida Khalife
09:15 - 10:00
Room: Auditorium

10:00 Talk: Elsa Teixeira - Models of interacting dark energy
Elsa Teixeira - Models of interacting dark energy
10:00 - 10:30
Room: Auditorium

10:30 Coffee

10:30 - 11:00
Room: Grande Galerie

11:00 Talk: Mickael Rigault - Tensions in Cosmology, the central role of Type Ia Supernovae
Mickael Rigault - Tensions in Cosmology, the central role of Type Ia Supernovae
11:00 - 11:30
Room: Auditorium

11:30 Talk: Discussion - Shaking LCDM, not stirring - Miguel Escudero and William Giarè
Discussion - Shaking LCDM, not stirring - Miguel Escudero and William Giarè
11:30 - 12:29
Room: Auditorium

12:29 Lunch: Group Picture
Group Picture
12:29 - 12:30
Room: Auditorium

12:30 Lunch

12:30 - 14:15
Room: Grande Galerie

14:15 Talk: Review - CMB / ACT - Boris Bolliet
Review - CMB / ACT - Boris Bolliet
14:15 - 15:00
Room: Auditorium

15:00 Talk: Oliver Janssen - Constraints on inflation from the gravitational path integral?
Oliver Janssen - Constraints on inflation from the gravitational path integral?
15:00 - 15:20
Room: Auditorium

15:20 Talk: Flavio Tonioni - Seeking long-lived SEC-violating string solutions
Flavio Tonioni - Seeking long-lived SEC-violating string solutions
15:20 - 15:40
Room: Auditorium

15:40 Coffee

15:40 - 16:20
Room: Grande Galerie

16:20 Talk: Adam Smith - Axion-dilaton interactions in the dark sector
Adam Smith - Axion-dilaton interactions in the dark sector
16:20 - 16:40
Room: Auditorium

16:40 Talk: Margherita Putti - Towards a Heterotic Axiverse
Margherita Putti - Towards a Heterotic Axiverse
16:40 - 17:00
Room: Auditorium

17:00 Talk: Filippo Revello - Gravitational waves from cosmic strings and wrapped branes
Filippo Revello - Gravitational waves from cosmic strings and wrapped branes
17:00 - 17:20
Room: Auditorium

17:20 Talk: Harry Goodhew - Geometry of Kinematic Flow
Harry Goodhew - Geometry of Kinematic Flow
17:20 - 17:40
Room: Auditorium

17:40 Talk: Discussion - Questions to speakers
Discussion - Questions to speakers
17:40 - 18:00
Room: Auditorium

19:30 Dinner

19:30 - 21:30
Friday, 12 December 2025

08:45 Coffee

08:45 - 09:15
Room: Grande Galerie

09:15 Talk: Review - Cosmological Correlators - Denis Werth
Review - Cosmological Correlators - Denis Werth
09:15 - 10:00
Room: Auditorium

10:00 Talk: Lucas Pinol - One-loop freezing of the primordial curvature perturbation
Lucas Pinol - One-loop freezing of the primordial curvature perturbation
10:00 - 10:30
Room: Auditorium

10:30 Coffee

10:30 - 11:00
Room: Grande Galerie

11:00 Talk: Miguel Montero - Finding dark energy in the Riemann-flat Landscape
Miguel Montero - Finding dark energy in the Riemann-flat Landscape
11:00 - 11:30
Room: Auditorium

11:30 Talk: Discussion - Lessons, connections and constraints for both sides - Anne Davis and Thomas Van Riet
Discussion - Lessons, connections and constraints for both sides - Anne Davis and Thomas Van Riet
11:30 - 12:30
Room: Auditorium

12:30 Lunch: Take-away picnic
Take-away picnic
12:30 - 14:30
Room: Grande Galerie

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