The Elusive Universe: From Mathematical to Physical Cosmology

A screenshot of participants from the roundtable discussion

The Relativity Group organized an online workshop on the 9th-10th of April entitled The Elusive Universe: From Mathematical to Physical Cosmology, which brought together experts from both fields of cosmology, mathematical and physical, with the aim of sharing results and insights from each community and engaging postgraduate students with the current issues in the field.

Workshop Programme

Thursday, the 9th of April

Time (CET)Talk
09:45-10:00Opening and Welcome
10:00-10:45Hans Ringström
Quiescent big bang singularities (recording)
11:00-11:45Chris Clarkson
The relativistic galaxy bispectrum (recording)
12:00-12:45Viatcheslav Mukhanov
Modern Cosmology: Facts and Misconceptions (recording)

Friday, the 10th of April

Time (CET)Talk
09:00-09:45Todd Oliynyk
Stable and unstable behaviour in relativistic fluids on cosmological spacetimes (recording)
10:00-10:45David Fajman
Cosmological fluid dynamics: Shock formation vs. Homogenization (recording)
11:00-13:00Roundtable Discussion

Organizing Committee

  • Thomas Tawfik.
  • Florian Beyer.
  • Jörg Frauendiener.