Kobe Workshop on Cosmology and Fundamental Physics
July 4-8, 2022
Organizers: Junsei Tokuda (Kobe U; Chair), Yoshihiko Abe (Kobe U), Toshifumi Noumi (Kobe U), Siyi Zhou (Kobe U)
The aim of this workshop is to offer an opportunity for in-person discussion on various issues on cosmology and its connection to fundamental physics.
Registration
The registration page is available here (there is no registration fee).
Invited Speakers
Yoshihiko Abe (Kobe U/Kyoto U), Elisa G. M. Ferreira (IPMU), Leila Lobato Graef (Fluminense U), Laura Herold (Max-Planck Institute for Astrophysics), Ryo Namba (RIKEN), Kimihiro Nomura (Kobe U), Ryosuke Sato (Osaka U), Maki Takeuchi (Kobe U), Daisuke Yoshida (Nagoya U)
Program
July 4 (Mon)
15:25- Opening remark
15:30-16:30 Elisa G. M. Ferreira (IPMU) "Ultra-light dark matter: the light and fuzzy side of dark matter"
17:00-18:00 Kimihiro Nomura (Kobe U) "Ringdown of black holes in nonlinear electrodynamics"
July 5 (Tue)
10:30-11:30 Maki Takeuchi (Kobe U) "Blow-up of magnetized T^2/Z_2 and index theorem"
13:30-14:30 Laura Herold (Max-Planck Institute for Astrophysics) "A new constraint on Early Dark Energy using the profile likelihood"
15:30-16:30 Leila Lobato Graef (Fluminense U) "Stochastic Background of Primordial Gravitational Waves and the H0 Tension Problem "
July 6 (Wed)
10:00-12:00 Discussion session lead by Kanji Nishii (Kobe U) and Sota Sato (Kobe U)
13:30-14:30 Yoshihiko Abe (Kobe U/Kyoto U) "Electroweak axion string"
15:30-16:30 Ryosuke Sato (Osaka U) "Axion fragmentation"
July 7 (Thu)
10:00-12:00 Discussion session lead by Ziwei Wang (Kobe U) and Siyi Zhou (Kobe U)
13:30-14:30 Daisuke Yoshida (Nagoya U) "Implications of the singularity theorem for the size of a non-singular universe"
15:30-16:30 Ryo Namba (RIKEN) "Particle production in the early universe as a seed of gravitational wave"
July 8 (Fri)
10:00-12:00 Free Discussion (at Seminar Room of Kobe Theory Group)