Gravity and Cosmology 2024

On this long-term workshop

In 2007, Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics (YITP) started new project "Yukawa International Program of Quark-Hadron Sciences (YIPQS)" funded by Japan Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. In this project we select research topics for each long-term workshop and invite leading experts to stimulate discussion and to foster collaborations among workshop participants.

This time, we hold "Gravity and Cosmology 2024", as a successor of the four long-term workshops held under the same title in the past (2007, 2010, 2012, and 2018). (The one in 2022 except YKIS2022a was canceled due to the influence of COVID-19.) The aim of the workshop is to have comprehensive but intensive discussion on the rapidly expanding frontiers of physics of gravity and cosmology.

During the workshop, participants stay at YITP with desks and other facilities. They can take ample time for discussions with other participants in a relaxed atmosphere of Kyoto.

Schedule & Venue

• Start: January 29, 2024,   Close: March 1, 2024  
• Panasonic Auditorium, Yukawa Hall, Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

Invited Speakers

• Ana Achúcarro (Leiden)
• Niayesh Afshordi (Perimeter)
• Enrico Barausse (SISSA)
• Emanuele Berti (Johns Hopkins)
• Luc Blanchet (IAP)
• Rong-Gen Cai (ITP CAS)
• Vitor Cardoso (CENTRA/Niels Bohr)
• Chris Clarkson (Queen Mary)
• Anne-Christine Davis (Cambridge)
• Emanuela Dimastrogiovanni (Groningen)
• Eleonora Di Valentino (Sheffield)
• Jo Dunkley (Princeton)
• Ruth Durrer (Geneva)
• Roberto Emparan (Barcelona)
• Matteo Fasiello (Madrid)
• Joseph Giaime (LSU/Caltech/LIGO)
• Ruth Gregory (King's College London)
• Masashi Hazumi (KEK/IPMU/LiteBIRD)
• Takaaki Kajita (Tokyo/KAGRA)
• Eugene Lim (King's College London)
• Jiro Murata (Rikkyo)
• Tsvi Piran (Hebrew)
• Levon Pogosian (SFU)
• Lisa Randall (Harvard)
• Mairi Sakellariadou (King's College London)
• Misao Sasaki (IPMU)
• Masaru Shibata (AEI/YITP)
• Thomas Sotiriou (Nottingham)
• Masahiro Takada (IPMU)
• Andrew Tolley (Imperial)
• Jean-Philippe Uzan (IAP)
• Cumrun Vafa (Harvard)
• Vincent Vennin (ÉNS Paris)
• David Wands (Portsmouth)
• Masahide Yamaguchi (IBS)
• Nicolás Yunes (UIUC)

Main themes of each week

• 1st week (January 29–February 2): Inflation/PBH/dark matter
  [co-chair: Naruko, Fujita]
• 2nd week (February 5–9): Tensions in cosmology
  [co-chair: De Felice, Nishimichi]
• 3rd week (February 12–16): Nishinomiya-Yukawa Symposium
  "General Relativity and Beyond"
• 4th week (February 19–23): Gravitational-wave astronomy/cosmology
  [co-chair: Taruya, Ioka]
• 5th week (February 26–March 1): Dark energy and gravity beyond general relativity [co-chair: Aoki, Takahashi]

Organizers

Science organizing committee

Emanuele Berti (Johns Hopkins), Rong-Gen Cai (ITP CAS), Vitor Cardoso (CENTRA/Niels Bohr), Paolo Creminelli (ICTP), Anne-Christine Davis (Cambridge), Cédric Deffayet (ÉNS Paris), Claudia de Rham (Imperial), Ruth Durrer (Geneva), Roberto Emparan (Barcelona), Ruth Gregory (King's College London), Takaaki Kajita (Tokyo), Renata Kallosh (Stanford), Luis Lehner (Perimeter), Stefano Liberati (SISSA), Andrei Linde (Stanford), Shinji Mukohyama (YITP, Chair), Enrico Pajer (Cambridge), Tsvi Piran (Hebrew), Lisa Randall (Harvard), Mairi Sakellariadou (King's College London), Misao Sasaki (Kavli IPMU), Masaru Shibata (AEI/YITP), Masahiro Takada (Kavli IPMU), Jean-Philippe Uzan (IAP), David Wands (Portsmouth)

Local organizing committee

Katsuki Aoki (YITP), Antonio De Felice (YITP), Tomohiro Fujita (Waseda), Kunihito Ioka (YITP), Sugumi Kanno (Kyushu), Takeshi Kobayashi (SISSA), Sachiko Kuroyanagi (IFT), Hiroki Matsui (YITP), Shinji Mukohyama (YITP, Chair), Atsushi Naruko (YITP), Takahiro Nishimichi (YITP), Naritaka Oshita (YITP), Yoko Oya (YITP), Kazufumi Takahashi (YITP), Takahiro Tanaka (Kyoto), Atsushi Taruya (YITP)

Sponsors

YITP