Name: GGI workshop: Exploring New Frontiers in Cosmology
Start: 2026-07-06T08:30:00+02:00
End: 2026-07-31T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Galileo Galilei Institute

Monday, July 6, 2026

8:30 AM Registration and welcome coffee

8:30 AM - 9:30 AM

9:30 AM School Welcome

9:30 AM - 9:40 AM

9:40 AM Supernova and the cosmic distance ladder: Lecture 1
Lecture 1
9:40 AM - 11:10 AM

11:10 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
11:10 AM - 11:40 AM

11:40 AM CMB and next-generation surveys: Lecture 1
Lecture 1
11:40 AM - 1:10 PM

1:10 PM Lunch
Lunch
1:10 PM - 2:30 PM

2:30 PM Large Scale Structure and BAO: Lecture 1
Lecture 1
2:30 PM - 4:00 PM

4:00 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM

4:30 PM CMB and next-generation surveys: Hands-on Session
Hands-on Session
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Tuesday, July 7, 2026

9:00 AM Dark Energy and Modified Gravity: Lecture 1
Lecture 1
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

10:30 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM

11:00 AM Cosmology with Gravitational Waves: Lecture 1
Lecture 1
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM

12:30 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

2:00 PM CMB and next-generation surveys: Lecture 2
Lecture 2
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

3:30 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM

4:00 PM Supernova and the cosmic distance ladder: Hands-on Session
Hands-on Session
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Wednesday, July 8, 2026

9:00 AM Numerical tools and parameter estimation: Lecture 1
Lecture 1
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

10:30 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM

11:00 AM Supernova and the cosmic distance ladder: lecture 2
lecture 2
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM

12:30 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

2:00 PM Large Scale Structure and BAO: Lecture 2
Lecture 2
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

3:30 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM

4:00 PM Large Scale Structure and BAO: Hands-on Session
Hands-on Session
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

6:00 PM Aperitivo
Aperitivo
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Thursday, July 9, 2026

9:00 AM Dark Energy and Modified Gravity: Lecture 2
Lecture 2
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

10:30 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM

11:00 AM Cosmology with Gravitational Waves: Lecture 2
Lecture 2
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM

12:30 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

2:00 PM Numerical tools and parameter estimation: Lecture 2
Lecture 2
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

3:30 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM

4:00 PM Numerical tools and parameter estimation: Hands-on Session
Hands-on Session
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Friday, July 10, 2026

9:00 AM Dark Energy and Modified Gravity: Hands-on Session
Hands-on Session
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

10:30 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM

11:00 AM Cosmology with Gravitational Waves: Hands-on Session
Hands-on Session
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM

12:30 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM Student Talks: Session 1
Session 1
2:00 PM - 3:40 PM
Contributions

2:00 PM Cosmology with Torsion and Nonmetricity - Ilaria Andrei

2:10 PM Inverse non-metricity in f(Q) gravity: cosmology and observational constraints - Simão Marques Nunes (Institute of Astrophysics and Space Sciences (Lisbon Portugal))

2:20 PM Revisiting Quadratic Scalar Field (Fuzzy, Wave, Ultralight) Dark Matter in Light of DESI DR2 and Current Cosmological Observations - Hafiz Inam ullah (ESFM - Escuela Superior de Física y Matemáticas - IPN)

2:30 PM Taming Instabilities in Mass-Varying Neutrino Cosmology - Vitor da Fonseca (Institute of Astrophysics and Space Siences (Lisbon, Portugal))

2:40 PM Cosmic Birefringence and Axion Dark Energy - Lena Stefanie Scheuchl (Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics)

2:50 PM Constraining DDE Models with AdS-to-dS and Similar Late-Time Transitions - Mine Gökçen (Istanbul Technical University)

3:00 PM Understandig the Dark Sector through reconstructions - David A López Magaña (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)

3:10 PM Reconstructing dark energy with fewer assumptions - Daniel Kessler (University of Sheffield)

3:20 PM Multi-field early dark energy and the Hubble tension - Marco Bella (University of Trento)

3:30 PM Non-linear structure of interacting dark energy model - Yuejia Zhai (University of Sheffield)
3:40 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
3:40 PM - 4:10 PM
4:10 PM Student Talks: Session 2
Session 2
4:10 PM - 5:50 PM
Contributions

4:10 PM Likelihood-Ratio Tests with Correlated Parameter Boundaries: Implications for CMB B-mode Searches - Georgia Kiddier (DAMTP, University of Cambridge)

4:20 PM Cosmic birefringence from a stiff axion-like field - Andrea Minotti

4:30 PM On the potential of pseudo-scalar dark energy - Yunzhi Wu (UniTo and INFN)

4:40 PM CMB spectral distortion anisotropies from photon to dark photon conversions - Sara Evangelista (University of Manchester)

4:50 PM Constraining Primordial Magnetic Fields using Rayleigh Scattering of CMB - Kwanit Gangopadhyay (University of Groningen)

5:00 PM Exploring the Lyman-Alpha Forest in a Dynamical Dark Energy Cosmology using Cholla - Diego Garza (University of California, Santa Cruz)

5:10 PM Dark energy, spatial curvature, and star formation efficiency from JWST photometric and spectroscopic high-redshift galaxies - Leonardo Comini

5:20 PM Measuring the Expansion Rate of the Universe with Strong Gravitational Lenses - Allan Gabriel Schweinfurth Pupo (Technical University of Munich / Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics)

5:30 PM Galaxy clusters as cosmic lenses for high frequency gravitational-waves - Tiziano Zanzarella

5:40 PM Constraining the lensing dispersion from the angular clustering of binary black hole mergers - Fumihiro Chuman (Chiba Universitty)
Saturday, July 11, 2026
Sunday, July 12, 2026

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