Name: Cosmology at the Pati
Start: 2026-11-16T09:00:00+01:00
End: 2026-11-20T18:00:00+01:00
Location: Pati Manning and Institut d'Estudis Catalans (IEC), Barcelona

Cosmology at the Pati

from Monday, November 16, 2026 (9:00 AM) to Friday, November 20, 2026 (6:00 PM)

Monday, November 16, 2026
9:45 AM Morning Session
9:45 AM - 1:00 PM
Room: Sala Pi i Sunyer
Contributions

9:45 AM Welcome

10:00 AM Unraveling the very early universe with black holes, boson stars, and cannibal stars - Takeshi Kobayashi (SISSA, Trieste)

10:45 AM One Scale Metastable Cosmic Strings - Jessica Turner (Durham University, Durham)

12:15 PM Suppressing Extra-Dimensional Axion Isocurvature Dynamically - Gongjun Choi (IBS, Daejeon)
1:00 PM Lunch
Lunch
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
2:30 PM Afternoon Session
2:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Room: Sala Pi i Sunyer
Contributions

2:30 PM eV Dark Matter - Wen Yin (Tokyo Metropolitan University, Tokyo)

3:15 PM Alice and center strings in Lazarides–Shafi axion models - Motoo Suzuki (University of Michigan)
5:00 PM Reception
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Room: Sala Pi i Sunyer
Contributions

5:00 PM Reception
Tuesday, November 17, 2026
10:00 AM Morning Session
10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Room: Aula 1 & 2
Contributions

10:00 AM (In search of) The predictive Axion - Rudin Petrossian-Byrne (SISSA, Trieste)

10:45 AM (When) Do Inflationary Perturbations Classicalize? - Aurora Ireland (Stanford University, Stanford)

12:15 PM de-Sitter space as coherent state of gravitons - Otari Sakhelashvili (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
1:00 PM Lunch
Lunch
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
2:30 PM Afternoon Session
2:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Aula 1 & 2
Contributions

2:30 PM TBA - Wei Xue (University of Florida, Gainesville)

3:15 PM Tunneling out of a Condensate - Mehrdad Mirbabayi (ICTP, Trieste)
Wednesday, November 18, 2026
10:00 AM Morning Session
10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Room: Aula 1 & 2
Contributions

10:00 AM TBA - Kimberly Boddy (UT, Austin)

10:45 AM TBA - Joel Meyers (Southern Methodist University, Dallas)

12:15 PM TBA - Hyungjin Kim (IPhT, Saclay)
1:00 PM Lunch
Lunch
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
2:30 PM Afternoon Session
2:30 PM - 3:15 PM
Room: Aula 1 & 2
Contributions

2:30 PM From the Electroweak Epoch to the Dark Energy Era: LISA and the Millihertz Revolution - Carlos Sopuerta (ICE-CSIC / IEEC, Barcelona)
3:15 PM Social program - Palau Güell
Social program - Palau Güell
3:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Thursday, November 19, 2026
10:00 AM Morning Session
10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Room: Aula 1 & 2
Contributions

10:00 AM Love numbers of black holes and compact objects - Luca Santoni (APC, Paris)

10:45 AM TBA - Michael Geller (Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv)

12:15 PM TBA - Geraldine Servant (DESY / U. Hamburg, Hamburg)
1:00 PM Lunch
Lunch
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
2:30 PM Afternoon Session
2:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Aula 1 & 2
Contributions

2:30 PM TBA - Maria Ramos (CERN, Geneva)

3:15 PM Black hole thermodynamics and constraints on evaporation of primordial black holes as dark matter candidates - Jordi Miralda (ICREA/ICCUB, Barcelona)
Friday, November 20, 2026
10:00 AM Morning Session
10:00 AM - 1:10 PM
Room: Aula 1 & 2
Contributions

10:00 AM Constraining New Physics with Pulsar experiments - Nataliya Porayko (MPIfR, Bonn)

10:45 AM TBA - David Izquierdo Villalba (ICE-CSIC, Barcelona)

12:15 PM TBA - Michele Maggiore (University of Geneva, Geneva)