The purpose of the conference Black Holes & Cosmology is to bring together world-renowned experts as well as junior researchers working on theoretical and observational aspects of black holes, particularly (but not limited to) their rôle in cosmology.
Topics include:
- Dark Matter
- Structure Formation
- Primordial Black Holes
- Gravitational-Wave Astronomy
- Quantum Aspects of Black Holes
This event will take place at the University of Iceland in Reykjavik between the 5th and 8th of August 2025. We look forward to meet you!
Invited Speakers include (* = TBC):
- Andreas Albrecht* (UCD)
- Earl Bellinger (Yale)
- Alessandra Buonanno* (AEI)
- Matt Caplan (ISU)
- Nico Cappelluti (UM)
- Bernard Carr (QMUL)
- Sébastien Clesse (ULB)
- Nelson Christensen (Artemis & OCA)
- Gia Dvali (MPP & LMU)
- Alexander Dolgov (NSU & Unife)
- Netta Engelhardt (MIT)
- Glennys Farrar* (NYU)
- Katherine Freese* (UTAUS)
- Enrique Gaztanaga (UoP)
- Sarah Geller (MIT)
- Reinhard Genzel* (MPE & UCB)
- Marat Gilfanov (MPA)
- Ruth Gregory (KCL)
- Alan Guth* (MIT)
- Michael Hawkins (ROE)
- Dan Hooper (UW)
- David Kaiser (MIT)
- Sasha Kashlinsky (NASA)
- William Kinney (UB)
- Alexander Kusenko (UCLA)
- Julien Lavalle (UoM)
- Guido Müller* (AEI)
- Priyamvada Natarajan (Yale)
- Samaya Nissanke* (UvA & GRAPPA)
- Mairi Sakellariadou (KCL)
- Lisa Randall* (Harvard)
- Luciano Rezzolla* (GU)
- Subir Sarkar* (Oxford)
- Ravi Sheth (UPenn)
- Joe Silk* (IAP & JHU & Oxford)
- Mark Trodden* (UPenn)
- Hai-Bo Yu (UCR)
Organisational Committee:
- Florian Kühnel (MPP & LMU) [Chair]
- Lárus Thorlacius (UI)
- Valentina Giangreco M. Puletti (UI)
- David Kaiser (MIT)
AEI = Albert Einstein Institute
GRAPPA = Gravitation & Astroparticle Physics Amsterdam
GU = Goethe University Frankfurt
Harvard = Harvard University
IAP = Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris
ISU = Illinois State University
JHU = Johns Hopkins University
KCL = King’s College London
LMU = Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
MIT = Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MPA = Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics
MPE = Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics
MPP = Max Planck Institute for Physics
NASA = National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NSU = Novosibirsk State University
NYU = New York University
OCA = Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur
QMUL = Queen Mary University of London
Oxford = University of Oxford
ROE = Royal Observatory, Edinburgh
UB = University at Buffalo
UCB = University of California, Berkeley
UCD = University of California, Davis
UCLA = University of California, Los Angeles
UCR =University of California, Riverside
UI = University of Iceland
ULB = Université Libre de Bruxelles
UM = University of Miami
Unife = University of Ferrara
UoM = University of Montpellier
UoP = University of Portsmouth
UPenn = University of Pennsylvania
UTAUS = The University of Texas at Austin
UvA = University of Amsterdam
UW = University of Wisconsin–Madison
Yale = Yale University