HIP Theory Program: Cosmophysics


Conferences, visits and talks 2008:

Conferences, visits and talks 2009:

Conferences, visits and talks 2010:

Conferences, visits and talks 2011:


Conferences and workshops:

  • The return of de Sitter
    NORDITA, Stockholm, 6.3-14.3 2011: Syksy Räsänen (talk)

  • 46th Rencontres de Moriond,
    La Tuile, Italy, 18.3-28.3 2011: Dani Figueroa (poster)

  • Physics Days 2011
    Helsinki, Finland, 29.3-31.3 2011: Rose Lerner (talk), Tuukka Meriniemi.

  • Finnish CosmoPhysics Meeting
    Tampere, Finland, 20.4-21.4 2011: Kari Enqvist, Dani Figueroa (talk), Shaun Hotchkiss (talk), Kimmo Kainulainen, Rose Lerner (talk), Valerio Marra (talk), Tuukka Meriniemi (talk), Pyry Rahkila (talk), Mikko Pääkkönen (talk), Syksy Räsänen (talk), Jussi Virkajärvi (talk).

  • Euclid Science workshop
    Space Science Center, Copenhagen, Denmark, 23.5-24.5 2011: Kimmo Kainulainen (talk), Pyry M. Rahkila.

  • Niels Bohr International Academy
    Copenhagen, Denmark, 24.5-27.5 2011: Olli Taanila.

  • PPC 2011
    CERN, Switzerland, 13.6-20.6 2011: Dani Figueroa (invited talk), Rose Lerner.

  • Inhomogenous Cosmologies,
    Jyväskylä, Finland, 15.8-19.8 2011: Kimmo Kainulainen, Shaun Hotchkiss (talk), Valerio Marra (talk), Maria Mattsson, Mikko Pääkkönen (talk), Syksy Räsänen (talk).

  • cosmo 11,
    Porto, Portugal, 21.8-27.8 2011: Kari Enqvist, Dani Figueroa (talk), Shaun Hotchkiss, Rose Lerner (talk), Tuukka Meriniemi, Olli Taanila (talk)

  • Baryogenesis and First Order Phase Transitions in the Early Universe,
    Lorentz Center, Leiden, Neatherlands, 7.9.2011 - 9.9.2011: Kimmo Kainulainen (talk)

  • Clusters of Galaxies as Cosmic Laboratories,
    Alba Nova, Stockholm, Sweden, 12.9-14.9 2011: Shaun Hotchkiss (talk)

  • Dark Energy,
    Heidelberg, Germany, 4.10.2011-7.10.2011: Kimmo Kainulainen (talk)

  • Backreaction: where do we stand?
    IAP, Paris, France, 22.11 - 23.11 2011: Syksy Räsänen (talk).


  • Other meetings and schools:


    Visits and seminars

  • Queen Mary, London, UK 16.1 2011: Rose Lerner, Seminar: Higgs inflation: detectability and issues of unitarity.

  • Southampton, UK 17.1 2011: Rose Lerner, Seminar: Higgs inflation: detectability and issues of unitarity.

  • Bielefeld University, Germany 17.1-19.1 2011: Olli Taanila, collaboration

  • Imperial College, London, UK 23.1-31.1 2011: Dani Figueroa, collaboration. Seminar: Gravitational Waves from the Early Universe.

  • Saclay SPhT, Paris, France 4.2-13.2 2011: Dani Figueroa, collaboration. Seminar: New Aspects of Global Phase Transitions.

  • Oxford, UK, February 2011: Shaun Hotchkiss, collaboration. Seminar: Estimating fNL and gNL from massive high-redshift clusters.

  • ICTP, Trieste, Italy, March 2011: Shaun Hotchkiss, collaboration. Seminar: Fine tuning and inflection point inflation: definitions, problems, solutions and constraints.

  • Lancaster, UK, 14.3-15.3 2011: Rose Lerner, collaboration.

  • Sussex, UK 18.3 2011: Rose Lerner, collaboration.

  • Sussex, UK 20.6-23.6 2011: Rose Lerner, collaboration, seminar The simplest complete curvaton model.

  • Uttrecht, Neatherlands 21.6-23.6 2011: Kimmo Kainulainen, opponent

  • Sussesx, UK May: Syksy Räsänen, seminar Backreaction as an alternative to dark energy and modified gravity

  • Oxford, UK May: Syksy Räsänen, seminar Backreaction as an alternative to dark energy and modified gravity

  • Nottingham, UK June: Syksy Räsänen, seminar Backreaction as an alternative to dark energy and modified gravity

  • Pavia, Italy November: Syksy Räsänen, seminar Breaking the symmetry: Cosmological structure formation and accelerated expansion

  • Barcelona, Spain 27.6-29.6 2011: Rose Lerner, collaboration, seminar The simplest complete curvaton model.

  • IFT-Madrid, Madrid, Spain 27.6-8.7 2011: Dani Figueroa, collaboration.

  • Sheffield, UK 4.7 2011: Rose Lerner, seminar The simplest complete curvaton model.

  • Lancaster, UK 5.7-8.7 2011: Rose Lerner, collaboration

  • Imperial College, London, UK 10.7-15.7 2011: Dani Figueroa, collaboration.

  • CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, 1.9 2011 -31.8 2012: Kimmo Kainulainen, sabbatical leave.

  • IFT-Madrid, Madrid, Spain 16.11-27.11 2011: Dani Figueroa, collaboration.

  • Oxford, UK, 24.11-25.11 2011: Kari Enqvist, Seminar: Curvaton and other spectators.

  • Copenhagen, Denmark, 8.12-9.12 2011: Kari Enqvist, Seminar: Primordial perturbation in the curvaton model.

  • UNIGE, Geneve, Switzerland 11.12-20.12 2011: Dani Figueroa, collaboration.

  • Bielefeld, Germany, December 2011: Shaun Hotchkiss, collaboration. Seminar: Primordial gravitational wave expectations from inflation.


  • Visitors to Cosmophysics sites

    In addition we had about 25 foreign visitors visiting Jyväskylä site in connection of the workshop Inhomogenous Cosmologies. See the list of participants here.