Cosmology at the Pati

Nov 16, 2026, 9:00 AM → Nov 20, 2026, 6:00 PM Europe/Andorra

Pati Manning and Institut d'Estudis Catalans (IEC), Barcelona

Fabrizio Rompineve (UAB & IFAE), Oriol Pujolas (IFAE; UAB), Stefan Stelzl (IFAE Barcelona)

This workshop aims to bring together international experts in particle physics and cosmology to discuss recent advances in our understanding of fundamental physics through observations of the Universe. The scientific program will focus on the interplay between theory and experiment, with particular emphasis on various probes of physics beyond the Standard Model such as early-Universe and late-Universe cosmological observations, gravitational waves, dark matter candidates, black holes.

The program will consist of a reduced number of talks leaving ample time for scientific discussion in the exceptional atmosphere provided by the Pati Manning (17-20 November), a peaceful retreat in the heart of Barcelona's vibrant Raval district. The opening day (16 Nov) will be held at the Institut d'Estudis Catalans.  

List of confirmed invited participants:

• Kimberly Boddy (U. Texas, Austin)
• Gongjun Choi (IBS Daejeon)
• Michael Geller (Tel Aviv University)
• Aurora Ireland (Stanford University)
• David Izquierdo (ICE-CSIC)
• Hyungjin Kim (IPhT Saclay)
• Takeshi Kobayashi (SISSA)
• Michele Maggiore (University of Geneva)
• Joel Meyers (Southern Methodist University)
• Jordi Miralda (ICREA/ICCUB)
• Mehrdad Mirbabayi (ICTP Trieste)
• Rudin Petrossian-Byrne (SISSA Trieste)
• Nataliya Porayko (MPIfR Bonn)
• Maria Ramos (CERN)
• Otari Sakhelashvili (Munich U.)
• Luca Santoni (APC)
• Géraldine Servant (DESY)
• Carlos Sopuerta (ICE-CSIC)
• Motoo Suzuki (University of Minnesota)
• Jessica Turner (Durham University)
• Wei Xue (University of Florida)
• Wen Yin (Tokyo Metropolitan University)

 

Outreach event by Michele Maggiore (Geneva U.) and Francesc Ferrer (Wash U. St. Louis, USA) on 17 November 19:00pm at the Centre Cívic Guinardó

 

Tentative Schedule

 

 

 

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Supported by AEI grants CEX2024-001441-S funded by MICIU/AEI/ 10.13039/501100011033, PID2023-146686NB-C31, RYC2021-031105-I

CosmoPati.pdf

Mon, November 16

Morning Session

1 Welcome

2 Unraveling the very early universe with black holes, boson stars, and cannibal stars

Speaker: Takeshi Kobayashi (SISSA, Trieste)

3 One Scale Metastable Cosmic Strings

Speaker: Jessica Turner (Durham University, Durham)

11:30 AM Coffee break

4 Suppressing Extra-Dimensional Axion Isocurvature Dynamically

Speaker: Gongjun Choi (IBS, Daejeon)

1:00 PM Lunch

Afternoon Session

5 eV Dark Matter

Speaker: Wen Yin (Tokyo Metropolitan University, Tokyo)

6 Alice and center strings in Lazarides–Shafi axion models

Speaker: Motoo Suzuki (University of Michigan)

4:00 PM Discussion

Reception

7 Reception

Tue, November 17

Morning Session

8 (In search of) The predictive Axion

Speaker: Rudin Petrossian-Byrne (SISSA, Trieste)

9 (When) Do Inflationary Perturbations Classicalize?

Speaker: Aurora Ireland (Stanford University, Stanford)

11:30 AM Coffee break

10 de-Sitter space as coherent state of gravitons

Speaker: Otari Sakhelashvili (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)

1:00 PM Lunch

Afternoon Session

11 TBA

Speaker: Wei Xue (University of Florida, Gainesville)

12 Tunneling out of a Condensate

Speaker: Mehrdad Mirbabayi (ICTP, Trieste)

4:00 PM Coffee and discussion

Wed, November 18

Morning Session

13 TBA

Speaker: Kimberly Boddy (UT, Austin)

14 TBA

Speaker: Joel Meyers (Southern Methodist University, Dallas)

11:30 AM Coffee

15 TBA

Speaker: Hyungjin Kim (IPhT, Saclay)

1:00 PM Lunch

Afternoon Session

16 From the Electroweak Epoch to the Dark Energy Era: LISA and the Millihertz Revolution

Speaker: Carlos Sopuerta (ICE-CSIC / IEEC, Barcelona)

3:15 PM Social program - Palau Güell

Thu, November 19

Morning Session

17 Love numbers of black holes and compact objects

Speaker: Luca Santoni (APC, Paris)

18 TBA

Speaker: Michael Geller (Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv)

11:30 AM Coffee

19 TBA

Speaker: Geraldine Servant (DESY / U. Hamburg, Hamburg)

1:00 PM Lunch

Afternoon Session

20 TBA

Speaker: Maria Ramos (CERN, Geneva)

21 Black hole thermodynamics and constraints on evaporation of primordial black holes as dark matter candidates

Speaker: Jordi Miralda (ICREA/ICCUB, Barcelona)

Fri, November 20

Morning Session

22 Constraining New Physics with Pulsar experiments

Speaker: Nataliya Porayko (MPIfR, Bonn)

23 TBA

Speaker: David Izquierdo Villalba (ICE-CSIC, Barcelona)

11:30 AM Coffee break

24 TBA

Speaker: Michele Maggiore (University of Geneva, Geneva)

1:00 PM Farewell!