IHP Trimester Workshops programme 2018

Analytical Methods

Monday Sept. 17th
  • 09:00: Reception of the participants
  • 09:30: Welcome address
  • 10:00-10:45: Cliff Burgess
  • Gravitational Fields as Open Systems: Potential Surprises from Curved-Space QFT
  • 10:45-11:15: Coffee break
  • 11:15-12:00: Daniel Baumann
  • Inflationary correlations from the boundary
  • 12:00-12:45: Eva Silverstein
  • Non-Gaussian tails and PBH production
  • 12:45-14:30: Lunch break
  • 14:30-15:15: Vincent Vennin
  • Stochastic Inflation and Primordial Black Holes
  • 15:15-16:00: Sean Carroll
  • Quantum Circuit Cosmology
  • 16:00-16:30: Coffee break
  • 16:30-17:15: Leonardo Senatore
  • Recent developments of the Effective Field Theory of Large-Scale Structure
  • 17:30-18:30: Open discussion
  • Tuesday Sept. 18th
  • 10:00-10:45: Lisa Randall
  • Self charged dark matter
  • 10:45-11:15: Coffee break
  • 11:15-12:00: Azadeh Maleknejad
  • Primordial SU(2) gauge fields and physics of inflation
  • 12:00-12:45: Sebastien Renaux-Petel
  • Inflation, geometry and stochasticity
  • 12:45-14:30: Lunch break
  • 14:30-15:15: Liam McAllister
  • Quantum gravity constraints on large-field inflation
  • 15:15-16:00: Shinji Mukohyama
  • Horava-Lifshitz cosmology revisited
  • 16:00-16:30: Coffee break
  • 16:30-17:15: Tommi Markkanen
  • The 1-loop effective potential for the Standard Model in curved spacetime
  • 17:30-18:00: Daniel Litim
  • Quantum gravity and Cosmology
  • 18:00-18:30: Open discussion
  • Wednesday Sept. 19th
  • 09:30-10:15: Cora Dvorkin
  • Cosmological Probes of Dark Matter: Current Status and Future Prospects
  • 10:15-11:00: Luc Blanchet
  • Gravitational Waves and Theory
  • 11:00-11:30: Coffee break
  • 11:30-12:15: Ippocratis Saltas
  • Novel and model-independent test of theories beyond GR
  • 12:15-13:30: Marcello Musso
  • Assembly bias in the cosmic web
  • 13:45: Lunch break and free afternoon


  • Thursday Sept. 20th
  • 10:00-10:45: Mark Neyrinck
  • The Cosmic Spiderweb: void/wall perpendicularity in the adhesion model
  • 10:45-11:15: Coffee break
  • 11:15-12:00: Sandrine Codis
  • Topology of the cosmic web
  • 12:00-12:45: Paulo Reimberg
  • Large deviations theory applied to large scale structure cosmology
  • 12:45-14:30: Lunch break
  • 14:30-15:15: Raul Jimenez
  • Analytical methods to measure the energy scale of inflation from large scale structures
  • 15:15-16:00: Suvodip Mukherjee
  • Probing Axions from the future CMB and Large Scale Structure Missions
  • 16:00-16:30: Coffee break
  • 18:00-19:00: Conférence grand public
  • Pourquoi les mathématiques peuvent-elles expliquer le monde - Intervention en français de Mario Livio (Space Telescope Institute, USA)

    Friday Sept. 21st
  • 10:00-10:45: Rien van de Weygaert
  • Caustic skeleton of the Cosmic Web
  • 10:45-11:15: Coffee break
  • 11:15-12:00: Roman Scoccimarro
  • Galaxy Bias Loops
  • 12:00-12:45: Cora Uhlemann
  • Large-scale clustering with counts-in-cells statistics
  • 12:45-14:30: Lunch break
  • 14:30-15:15: Francis Bernardeau
  • Large-scale structure response functions
  • 15:15-16:00: Fabian Schmidt
  • Galaxy bias and its implications for forward models of the large-scale structure
  • 16:00-16:30: Coffee break
  • 16:30-17:15: Atsushi Taruya
  • Lagrangian perturbation theory at shell crossing and beyond
  • 17:30-18:30: Open discussion


  • IHP slideshow


    Scientific Organizing Committee:

  • Patrick Peter
  • Francis Bernardeau
  • Sebastien Renaux Petel
  • Liam McAllister (Cornell University)
  • > Analytical Methods: Download the programme (3 pages_PDF)

    Practical Informations:

    September 17-21, 2018

    Institut Henri Poincare - 11, rue Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris

    For more information, please send an email to the following address: cosmomath18[at]ihp.fr

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