Conferences and Meetings on Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology

Physical systems look different when observed at different resolutions: what appears as a continuum liquid to the naked eye becomes a cluster of jiggling atoms when observed at the resolution of an electron microscope. Effective field theory provides a description of physics in terms of degrees of freedom appropriate to a given resolution. Over the last couple of decades, physicists have developed effective field theory tools which, to a large extent, unify fields as diverse as atomic and condensed-matter physics, particle and nuclear physics, and cosmology. The ensuing interaction between different branches of physics has never been as fruitful as it is now. Numerous physical phenomena, first predicted and studied in high-energy physics, have found their realization in novel materials. On the other hand, the richness of condensed-matter physics provides a lasting source of inspiration for new developments in high-energy physics and cosmology. Extremely useful in general, the effective field theory tools become indispensable for quantum phases of matter whose low-energy physics is driven by collective excitations, either due to the presence of spontaneous symmetry breaking or due to strong microscopic interactions. The aim of this program is to give a new impulse to a further development of this exciting interdisciplinary field. We bring together leading practitioners working on effective theories of quantum phases of matter across several branches of physics. Our goal is to map out important open problems with broad relevance and look for new directions towards their solution, to reinvigorate existing collaborations and foster new connections.

Condensed Matter Physics and Materials,    Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Information Theory

Stellar properties and behavior play a key role in addressing many pressing questions in exoplanet science, from breaking the stellar activity barrier for radial velocity planets to understanding how stellar environments affect planet formation and habitability. TESS and Gaia are improving stellar characterization by orders of magnitude in precision and sample size. Addressing both observations and theory, the conference will focus on recent advances in translating this new knowledge of stars into detecting and characterizing exoplanets and understanding their formation, evolution, and habitability. Members of the stellar community will share the latest results in characterizing and understanding stars, and members of the planetary community will share applications of planet-star connections and emphasize what stellar knowledge is most important in addressing open questions in exoplanet science.

XXVIIth International Conference on Supersymmetry and Unification of Fundamental Interactions (SUSY 2019), hosted by Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi during May 20-24, 2019, will provide a unique venue to discus and understand the status of SUSY, connection between particle physics and cosmology, supersymmetry and its alternative, Higgs sector, neutrino sector, flavor sector, dark matter, electroweak phase transition, astroparticle physics, gravitational waves and string theory. Discussion of results from the LHC, recent neutrino experiments and observations, direct and indirect dark matter detection experiments, detection of gravitational waves, data from particle colliders, as well as measurements of the CMB and Large Scale Structure will be an integral part of SUSY 2019. To ensure the younger participants will benefit from the conference the most, the conference will be preceded by the 4 day long pre-SUSY summer school for graduate students and postdocs.

Phone: [001-361-825-3916];     Email: SUSY2019@tamucc.edu

Particle Accelerators,    High Energy Physics, Particles and Fields

High Energy Physics, Particles and Fields,    Nuclear Physics

Geophysics and Geology,    Courses and Events for Physics Students

In May 1969 the groundbreaking book of Jean-Marie Souriau appeared, "Structure des Systèmes Dynamiques". We will celebrate, in 2019, the jubilee of its publication, with a conference in honour of the work of this great scientist. The subjects are : Symplectic Geometry/Mechanics, Relativity and Cosmology, Geometric Quantization, Diffeology, and anything related to these domains.

The Advanced School on Exoplanetary Science - taking place close to the enchanting Amalfi Coast - is aimed at providing a comprehensive, state-of-the-art picture of the rich variety of relevant aspects of the fast-developing, highly interdisciplinary field of exoplanet research (both from an observational and theoretical viewpoint). The School is addressed to graduate students and young post-doctoral researchers, and offers the fascinating possibility to interact with world-class experts engaged in different areas of the astrophysics of planetary systems. The 3rd edition of the School will be focused on the Demographics of Exoplanetary Systems, covering both the theoretical and observational perspectives.

Phone: [+390672594566];     Email: ases3@mpia.de

Planet formation, Dynamical evolution, Wide-separation Exoplanets, Close-in Exoplanets, Star-Planet interactions

The most violent and energetic phenomena observed in our Universe such as supernova, GRBs, and coalescence of compact objects are in their vast majority linked with objects in the “stellar graveyard”. This summer school aims at presenting the various facets of a same family of objects to allow young researchers entering the field to see the global picture and the evolutionary link between them. This school is organised in the context of the multi-messenger (photons, neutrinos, and gravitational waves) era and the large number of existing or upcoming telescopes to study the transient sky

Summer school, high-energy astronomy, multi-messenger

Probability and Statistics, Game Theory,    Courses and Events for Physics Students

The International Meeting on Fundamental Physics (IMFP) is the longest running conference organised by the Spanish High Energy Physics community, uninterruptedly held since 1973 in different Spanish locations. Its aim is to cover both theoretical and experimental aspects of collider, neutrino, astroparticle and cosmology experiments. The meeting includes invited talks and short courses aimed at quickly introducing research topics.

Email: jusanz02@ucm.es

High Energy Physics, Particles and Fields,    Nuclear Physics

The offered course is designed for PhD students, post-doctoral fellows and young researchers interested in understanding the scientific construction of the Gaia catalogue and its current and future scientific potential, in synergy with the large spectro-photometric surveys. With ESA’s Gaia mission the framework of relativistic astrometry is required to translate photons to astrometric quantities, thus the fields of “Fundamental Astronomy” and “Fundamental Physics” are unified under the perspective of a consistent use of the theory of General Relativity. General topics include fundamental astronomy and stellar surveys, global and differential relativistic astrometry, chemo-kinematics of the Milky Way and Galactic Archeology, and Galactic dynamics. Some specific topics include, stellar streams in the halo, stellar clusters, non-equilibrium dynamics in the disk of the Milky Way, inference of physical parameters and, one century after the famous experiment on the light deflection by the Sun in 1919, astrometric lensing.

Secretariat;     Email: ssc@aquila.infn.it

Space Astrometry, Fundamental astronomy, Stellar surveys, Relativistic astrometry, Galactic chemo-kinematics and dynamics, Galactic Archeology

The 27th edition of the International Workshop on Weak interactions and Neutrinos (WIN2019) will be held in Bari, from June 3-8, 2019. The purpose of the Workshop is to offer to the community a significant opportunity to assess the status of the field and to initiate collaborative efforts to address current physics questions.

Electro-Weak Symmetry Breaking and Higgs Neutrinos Astroparticle Physics Flavour Physics

This Nordita Program is devoted to theoretical and observational studies of the interstellar medium of galaxies across cosmic time, and to their implications in shaping future line-intensity mapping experiments which have recently generated a tremendous interest in the Community of astrophysicists and cosmologists.

Cosmological observations entered an era where the volumes of data collected by telescopes are immense. At the same time, incredible progress has recently been made in the fields of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning - sciences of creating advanced mathematical and statistical models to learn from the data. These techniques allow for analysis or large, rich datasets. In this workshop, we would like to explore the possibilities of applying these new methods to cosmological data. The benefits can potentially be vast, such as enabling extremely fast analyses of very large image datasets, accelerating cosmological simulations, and extracting more information from the data, to name a few. Machine Learning can also potentially greatly benefit from collaboration with cosmologists: new cosmological datasets can stimulate developments of new, complex learning methods and algorithms. By bringing together researchers from Cosmology and Machine Learning, we aim to foster collaboration between these two disciplines.

Cosmology, Machine Learning, Cosmological Information, Generative Models

Topics covered by the conference will range from the role of impacts in the early history of the Solar System over impacts physics, the characterisation of impactors (asteroids, meteorites, comets etc) and impact sites to the role impacts could have played in the emergence and evolution of life and their possible threat to life on Earth. Two further important aspects will be discussed: the geoconservation of impact sites as well as the use of impacts in education and outreach in order to get the general public interested in science. The conference will be held at Hotel Dalecarlia**** in the picturesque village of Tällberg in the Siljan crater area with good connections to Stockholm International Airport. Excursions to geologically interesting sites in the area are planned. We are looking forward to receiving your contribution to our event. Since bursaries for students and early career scientists will be available we would kindly ask you to forward this invitation to possibly interested people. Deadline for abstract submission is March 31st, 2019. For further information about the event please check the conference website: http://www.nordicastrobiology.net/Impacts2019

Phone: [0046855378649];     Email: wgeppert@fysik.su.se

Geophysics, Planetary Science, Evolution, Impact Physics, Geoconservation, Outreach

Geophysics and Geology,    Multidisciplinary Events in Physics

The Xth International Pulsar Timing Array (IPTA) workshop will be held in Pune, India between June 10 to 21, 2019. The IPTA consortium consists of established Pulsar Timing Array (PTA) efforts, that include the European Pulsar Timing Array (EPTA), the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves (NANOGrav), and the Parkes Pulsar Timing Array (PPTA) as well as the emerging efforts like the Indian Pulsar Timing Array (InPTA), South African Pulsar Timing Array and the Chinese Pulsar Timing Array. The IPTA consortium aims to detect gravitational waves using an ensemble of millisecond pulsars located in our Galaxy.

The meeting is aimed to i) foster close interactions between researchers working on individual pulsar timing array (PTA) experiments ii) provide detailed hands-on training for young researchers on the nuances of gravitational wave data analysis and ii) to develop links with the wider gravitational wave community. A status update from the established PTAs and the emerging PTAs will be presented along with detailed discussions on various data sharing and data combination issues relevant for the IPTA consortium. During the first week (the "student week"), experts in the field will share their knowledge and organize hands-on exercises to explore the data-sets and data challenges. During the second week, the active researchers in the field will help to advance the frontiers of our understanding through presentations and discussions on the road ahead that include various challenges and strategies. Apart from invited and contributed talks, updates from IPTA working groups and panel discussion on policy issues regarding the sharing of data and resources are included in the science program. A one day visit to upgraded GMRT is part of the program.

Phone: [912025719300];     Email: ipta2019@ncra.tifr.res.in

Plasma and Gas-discharge Physics, Nuclear Fusion,    Applied Physics: X-rays, Synchrotron Radiation and Crystallography

Hot plasmas are dominating the X-ray emission of supernova remnants, the hot interstellar medium in galaxies, galactic halos and winds and the intra-cluster medium in clusters of galaxies. XMM-Newton and Chandra have accumulated rich resources of emission line spectra with medium and high spectral resolution. In the next years XARM and later Athena will build on this heritage. Plasma codes are essential for the modelling of X-ray spectra. The workshop aims to summarise the current understanding of the X-ray plasma emission, its astrophysical implications and to foster cooperation between the participants. The overarching scheme of the workshop is the common astrophysics, the modelling of the X-ray emission, and the problems with data reduction of extended sources.

XMM-Newton Workshop 2019;     Email: xmmws2019@sciops.esa.int

Astrophysics, plasma, X-rays

Courses and Events for Physics Students,    High Energy Physics, Particles and Fields

The school belongs to the European Network of Nuclear Astrophysics Schools (ENNAS), a network made by the European schools on nuclear astrophysics and related areas (the Santa Tecla, the Sinaia, the Russbach school), having the common effort of preparing and educating young physicists in nuclear physics, astrophysics and their mutual relationship in the nuclear astrophysics field. For such a reason, the school will deal with both various astrophysical issues, ranging from primordial nucleosynthesis to stellar evolution, and nuclear topics, including novel experimental approaches, radioactive ion beams, and indirect methods.

Courses and Events for Physics Students,    Nuclear Physics

Astronomy & Astrophysics from Antarctica (AAA) is a Scientific Research Program of SCAR, the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research. This fifth meeting in the series aims to bring together all the key players in Antarctic astronomy to conclude the 2015 – 2018 implementation Plan and to coordinate future strategies and collaborations. In addition to Antarctic research, projects related to Arctic astronomy are also invited to AAA2019. This edition of SCAR AAA will be held on 17-19 June 2019 at the Skyway Mont Blanc in Courmayeur, Italy, between the eternal ice of Mont Blanc. It is being jointly organized by AAA and OAVdA, the Astronomical Observatory of the Autonomous Region of Aosta Valley. The language of the Workshop will be English.

Email: scar.aaa2019@gmail.com

astronomy, astrophysics, antartica, scar, polar astronomy, workshop

ASOS is a colloquium series which was started in Lund, Sweden (1983), and subsequently held in Toledo, Ohio, USA (1986), Amsterdam, Netherlands (1989), Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA (1992), Meudon, France (1995), Victoria, Canada (1998), Belfast, UK (2001), Madison, Wisconsin, USA (2004), Lund, Sweden (2007), Berkeley, California, USA (2010), Mons, Belgium (2013) and Sao Paulo, Brazil (2016). The purpose of ASOS is to bring together producers and users of atomic (and molecular) data. Atomic physicists who study the structure of atoms and their radiative and collisional properties are invited to describe the latest progress of their discipline, while astrophysicists and laboratory plasma physicists are invited to review their present research interests and the context in which atomic data are needed.

Email: xiao_jun@fudan.edu.cn

Atomic lifetime and oscillator strength determination, Hyperfine structure and isotope shifts, Theoretical modeling and computational approaches, Laboratory techniques, High resolution spectroscopy, Trapped ions, Tests of fundamental constants, Highly charged ions, Collisional processes, Atomic databases and related topics, Astrophysical and laboratory plasmas: atomic data needs, Spectroscopic diagnostics of fusion plasmas, Topics in astrophysics including elemental abundance determination, Atomic spectra from HED plasmas and polarization

Atomic and Molecular Physics,    Plasma and Gas-discharge Physics, Nuclear Fusion

Galaxy dynamics is key to our understanding of the assembly history and current structure of galaxies. Surveys of the Milky Way, Local Group, and nearby and distant galaxies, are mapping their kinematics and chemistry in unprecedented detail. The deluge of data is helping to clarify the role of interactions, gas cycle, star formation, nuclear activity, dynamical and secular evolution in shaping galaxies, and is also raising new questions. The conference will review our current knowledge and address the major challenges to our understanding of galaxy structure and evolution.

The objective of the meeting is to promote contacts between scientists working in the field of Relativity, Gravitation and Cosmology and related fields. It is well known that the important role in Gravitation and Cosmology is played by the Casimir effect. To underline this, special Symposia devoted to this effect have been included in the Programs of the 7th, 8th, and 9th Friedmann Seminars. The Casimir effect is a multidisciplinary subject. Its applications extend from gravitation and cosmology to the van der Waals forces, materials properties, precise measurements and nanotechnology.

Email: yuri.pavlov@mail.ru

Classical gravity, quantum gravity, quantum effects in curved space-time, theoretical astrophysics, Casimir effect

High Energy Physics, Particles and Fields,    Condensed Matter Physics and Materials

Courses and Events for Physics Students,    Plasma and Gas-discharge Physics, Nuclear Fusion

The conference will cover diversity of galaxy researches including local/high-z galaxies, IR galaxies, AGN, and cosmic star-formation history. We also welcome any sciences based on multi-wavelength data, not limited to AKARI. The deadline of registration and abstract submission is 31 May.

Email: seongini@gmail.com

local galaxy, high-z galaxy, IR galaxy, AGN, cosmic star-formation history, multi-wavelength observation

Cosmology is living a scientific golden age characterized by an unprecedented amount of high-quality data. A very large number of different experiments, aimed at observing the universe from the very early times of the Cosmic Microwave Background till the latest evolution of the Large Scale Structure, are currently testing cosmological models and measuring cosmological parameters at percent and sub-percent level. The 35th annual IAP conference will therefore be dedicated to cosmology. It will be a landmark of our current understanding of the universe in a moment of transition between the two largest ESA missions on this subject, the Planck satellite, whose final data release happened mid-2018, and Euclid, slated for launch in 2021.

Email: conferenceIAP2019@iap.fr

Cosmology, CMB, weak lensing, BAO, Hubble constant, gravitational waves, BBN, clusters of galaxies, cosmic concordance, LCDM, Planck, Euclid, future short/mid/long-term experiments, data anaysis and challenges

The conference brings together astrophysicists and observers to discuss the progress across the entire gravitational-wave and electromagnetic spectra.

This workshop is intended to review the astrophysical frontiers identified in the Science White Papers submitted to the Astro 2020 Decadal Survey. A particular focus will be on those science frontiers that demand observations at centimeter and/or millimeter wavelengths across all Astro 2020 thematic areas. It is anticipated that a broad range of innovative ideas and approaches will be described, and that this workshop will allow those ideas to be explored in view of the current and forthcoming facilities, notably including the next-generation Very Large Array (ngVLA). The program will be designed primarily around contributed presentations highlighting science frontiers and potential observations with the ngVLA. Such observations will additionally be discussed in the broader context of multi-wavelength and multi-messenger astronomy.

Plasma and Gas-discharge Physics, Nuclear Fusion,    Computational Physics and Numerical Simulation

This school is primarily aimed at PhD students, young researchers and outstanding undergraduate students are also welcome. It will feature lectures and practical sessions on the cutting-edge problems of physical cosmology. The talks will be delivered by renowned scientists from leading research centers in Great Britain, the US, Germany.

Phone: [–];     Email: beskin@lpi.ru

the early universe, the era of reionization, formation of the universe’s large-scale structure, dark matter, cosmic microwave background radiation, the history of the universe.

GR22 is the latest in the series of triennial international conferences held under the auspices of the International Society on General Relativity and Gravitation. This conference series constitutes the principal international meetings for scientists working in all areas of relativity and gravitation. The Amaldi conferences are held under the auspices of the Gravitational Wave International Committee. Since 1997, they have been held every two years and are regarded as the most important international conferences for the gravitational-wave detection community. In Valencia, GR22 and Amaldi13 are organized as a joint event.

GR22 is the latest in the series of triennial international conferences held under the auspices of the International Society on General Relativity and Gravitation. This conference series constitutes the principal international meetings for scientists working in all areas of relativity and gravitation. The Amaldi conferences are held under the auspices of the Gravitational Wave International Committee. Since 1997, they have been held every two years and are regarded as the most important international conferences for the gravitational-wave detection community. In Valencia, GR22 and Amaldi13 are organized as a joint event.

The standard cosmological model successfully describes observations from widely different epochs of the Universe, from primordial nucleosynthesis all the way to the present day. As the basic cosmological parameters of the model are being determined with increasing and unprecedented precision, it is not guaranteed that the same numerical values for the models’ parameters will continue to fit observations from widely different epochs. Discrepancies between observations at early and late cosmological time, if confirmed at high significance, would require an expansion of the standard model, and may perhaps lead to the discovery of new physics.

The 2019 school “ Evolution of galaxies and stars” will be devoted to astrophysics - theory and observations of galaxy formation and evolution and physics of core-collapse supernovae and stellar explosions. The school will include 7 lecture courses, 8-10 academic hours each.

The program targets the advanced students, PhD students and young researchers specializing in theoretical astrophysics. The purpose of the School is to provide modern physical basis in major topics in theory of galaxy formation and evolution and in theory of core-collapse supernovae and stellar explosions. The school will take place at the «SIRIUS” Education Centre (Sochi). 45 minutes drive time from Sochi International Airport.

Phone: [+7(916)3507546];     Email: kpostnov@gmail.com

galaxy formation and evolution, stellar core collapses, supernova explosions

In the last few years there has been renewed interest in QCD and hadronic dynamics using holographic gauge/gravity duality, resurge of the large N methods, progress in string models, integrability, unitarity and bootstrap and more. Also, many new experimental results were reported by ALICE at LHC regarding collectivization in pp and pA collisions, by LHCb at CERN and the B- and C-factories regarding the existence of exotics and the spectroscopy of heavy-light systems, and more recently the reporting of 2 neutron star mergers by the LIGO collaboration and its constraint on the nuclear dense equation of state. The conference will bring together practitioners of these interdisciplinary fields to discuss these exciting new developments, and explore the relevance of the holographic framework for addressing these observations.

The International Cosmic Ray Conference, or ICRC, is a physics conference organized biennially by the Commission C4 (Astroparticle Physics) of the International Union of Pure and Applied Sciences (IUPAP) since 1947, where physicists from the world present the results of their research in Astroparticle Physics. The meeting covers cosmic-ray physics, neutrino physics, gamma-ray astonomy, dark matter, particle astrophysics, and detector techniques in these fields.

The Kurt Gödel Society intends to celebrate the 70th anniversary of Gödel’s seminal publication and the 100th anniversary of the decisive experimental verification of general relativity by organizing a conference at the University of Vienna, Austria. This event should bring together the prominent researchers from the fields of Physics, Mathematics, Philosophy and Artificial Intelligence.

Casa Matemática Oaxaca (CMO)

The nature of the progenitors of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) has remained unclear though SNe Ia play a vital role in many areas of modern astrophysics. Numerous progenitor models have been proposed in the past, including the single-degenerate (SD) model, the double-degenerate (DD) model, the sub-Chandrasekhar mass model, and quite a few variants of these. The progenitor debate has remained heated in recent years as new observations, new explosion simulations and new supernova models have provided a wealth of new, sometimes contradictory constraints; different population synthesis models also make different predictions, although - with standard assumptions - they generally do not produce the required rates in either the Chandrasekhar-mass SD or DD model. On the other hand, there has been doubt whether sub-Chandrasekhar models can reproduce the observed properties of the majority of SN Ia explosions. Different observational constraints seem to favour different progenitor models. This conference is held to deepen our understanding of the progenitors of SNe Ia, to elucidate the connection between the progenitors and the observed properties of SNe Ia and their remnants and to provide a pathway of how to ultimately resolve the debate.

Phone: [+86-871-63920139, +86-13698755218];     Email: zhanwenhan@ynao.ac.cn

Observations of SNe Ia, Supernova Remnants and Surviving Companions, Signatures of the CS environment and Companion Constraints, Progenitor models, Explosion models, Nucleosynthesis and Chemical, Enrichment, Binary Population Synthesis, Progenitor Evolution and Supernova Cosmology

The Great Lakes Cosmology Workshop is a forum for students, postdocs, and senior scientists from around the Great Lakes region, North America, and the world to meet and discuss the latest results, ideas, and problems in modern cosmology. The 2020s will be the decade of large surveys of the spatial, spectral, and temporal characteristics of the cosmos, and current and upcoming instruments, measurements, and scientific interpretations promise to transform our understanding of the history and origin of cosmic structure. The 12th Great Lakes Cosmology Workshop will be held in Rochester, NY in August 2019 and will provide an opportunity for scientists working in the field to come together in an open, inclusive workshop devoted to understanding the origin, state, and fate of our universe and the structures within it.

Cosmology, Large Scale Structure, Cosmic Microwave Background, Galaxy Structure, Galaxy Formation, Intensity Mapping, Dark Matter, Dark Energy

The goal of the Dark Matter@LHC 2019 workshop is to bring together the experimental and theory communities interested in collider-based searches for dark matter, to review the current status and discuss potential avenues into the future. We are looking forward to an exciting and fruitful workshop!

Email: schsu@uw.edu

Dark Matter DM DM@LHC Long-lived particle LLP Dark Sectors

The program will include the following topics: Inflation, Theory, Primordial Black Holes, CMB, Reionization, Large Scale Structure (Surveys, SN, Ly-alpha,...), N-body simulations, Gravitational Waves, Gravitational Lensing, Galaxy Clusters, Galaxy Formation, Dark Matter, Dark Energy, Particle Astrophysics. Alternative Models to LCDM, ...

Phone: [942201452];     Email: jdiego@ifca.unican.es

Convene top scientists and discuss still open issues in modeling of stars due to discrepancies between theory and observations, concerning the physics needed to describe their structure (convection, rotation, magnetic fields, etc.) and evolution (from genesis to end of life), considering the interaction with their environment (winds out and in, outbursts, magnetic fields, etc.), and being member of ensembles (from binaries to galaxies). What are the most recent achievements in space observations and theory? Finally, attract the young generation, and develop a strategy for the future. Demonstrate the innovative role of BRITE-Constellation for developing a significant research potential of nanosatellites.

Werner W. Weiss;     Phone: [+43-(0)664-73478374];     Email: werner.weiss@univie.ac.at

Stellar structure and evolution, theory versus observations, role of observations from space

One of the most important and long-lasting challenges of modern astrophysics is understanding and unveiling the nature of dark matter. Despite the many uncertainties on its composition, dark matter is considered the main driver of large-scale structure formation in the Universe and, together with dark energy, accounts for 95 per cent of the total energy budget of the universe. The nature of dark matter and the standard LCDM models can be tested on many scales, from the shape of the cosmic web to the properties of galaxies and galaxy clusters, down to particle physics experiments aiming at detecting the dark matter particles. This conference aims at bringing together experts on galaxies, galaxy clusters, numerical simulations and observations, as well as dark matter detectors and alternative cosmological models. In this way, we hope to encourage stimulating and comprehensive discussions on the state of the art of dark matter models and boost research collaboration between different sides.

Email: info.materaoscura@gmail.com

cosmology, dark matter, galaxies, galaxy clusters, lensing, dark matter detection, alternative cosmologies

Email: vggrs@rikkyo.ac.jp

galactic sources, binaries, variability, gamma rays, non-thermal, multiwavelength, theory, observations, hydrodynamics

Courses and Events for Physics Students,    Metrology and Instrumentation

This conference will highlight the recent achievements and challenges in understanding nonlinear multiscale phenomena in astrophysical plasmas, bringing together theorists, simulators and observers who work on both astrophysical and space plasmas. The subjects will include the microphysics of shock acceleration and long range cosmic ray feedback in galaxies, the properties of reconnection in astrophysical and space plasmas, including its effect on particle acceleration, and the physics of turbulent cascades in magnetized plasmas of galaxy clusters and accretion disks.

Mathematical Physics,    Plasma and Gas-discharge Physics, Nuclear Fusion

High Energy Physics, Particles and Fields,    Metrology and Instrumentation

Courses and Events for Physics Students,    Nuclear Physics

Nuclear Physics,    High Energy Physics, Particles and Fields

The purpose of the meeting is to bring together experts and young researchers in the areas of nuclear, particle and astro-physics as well as cosmology and the pertinent interrelations among these fields. The aim is to discuss the current status of the field and to explore future directions, both in experiment and theory. With the recent observation of gravitational-wave signals of black-hole and neutron-star mergers - for the latter in coincidence with electromagnetic signals -, the meeting is particularly timely. The aim is to cover a broad range of topics to elucidate synergies and identify areas of future progress. This should be especially beneficial to the younger participants of the meeting.

Binary Star Mergers - the observations of gravitational waves, Binary Star Mergers – simulations, Binary Star Mergers – nucleosynthesis, Direct and indirect Dark Matter Searches, Axions - Dark Matter?, Dark Matter Searches at the LHC, Neutrino Mass from Tritium Decay, Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay (Majorana versus Dirac Neutrino), Neutrino Mass from electron Capture, Elastic Neutrino scattering – COHERENT, The Reactor Neutrino Spectrum Anomaly, Search for the Cosmic Neutrino Background, Neutrinos and Cosmology

Courses and Events for Physics Students,    High Energy Physics, Particles and Fields

The rich taxonomy of galaxies we observe today is understood to be regulated by two competing processes: accretion and feedback. Understanding the intricate exchange of regular matter between star-forming regions and the intergalactic space and its impact on subsequent galaxy growth remains a primary goal in astrophysics research. This meeting will bring together leading theorists and observers to discuss the latest progress in studying baryonic flows in and out of galaxies with an outlook towards key growth areas in the era of giant telescopes.

galaxies, accretion, feedback, giant telescopes

Gravitational waves promise a new window into the highest-energy events in the evolution of the universe. The recent LIGO/Virgo detections of gravitational waves from the mergers of binary black holes and binary neutron stars and have ignited interest in the future direction of gravitational wave astronomy. A space-based laser interferometer, pioneered by NASA's LISA concept and the European Space Agency's eLISA program and ESA's recent spectacularly successful LISA Pathfinder mission, would enable direct detection of gravitational waves in the milliHertz range. A lower frequency range would allow detection of supermassive black hole mergers, tracing the galaxy merger history and serving as cosmic sirens to probe the universe's expansion history, as well as precursors for the LIGO sources. A space-based detector would also be sensitive to stochastic gravitational wave backgrounds produced by unknown physics operating in the very early universe, including an electroweak phase transition. This Nordita program will bring scientists together to engage in an effort to characterize and detect sources contributing to the gravitational wave background from the early universe, and the implications for new physics at the TeV scale and beyond.

theoretical and numerical relativity ; classical and quantum black holes ; relativistic cosmology ; early universe ; dark matter ; dark energy ; gravitational waves ; approaches to quantum gravity ; quantum cosmology ; relation of relativity and superstring theory

One of the greatest current unsolved problems in physics is whether gravity, which is the least understood of the fundamental "forces", is universally Newtonian in the classical limit. The nature of gravitation is even unclear, but whatever the physical origin of gravitation, the empirical formulation of how a body is accelerated as a result of the mass-distribution around it can be applied to study the formation and evolution of galaxies.

With this meeting we aim to foster a discussion between the scientists who have been studying galaxies and cosmology in the dark matter and Milgromian frameworks which constitute two fundamentally different hypotheses. The aim is to achieve an exchange notably also on the technical challenges in applying both hypothesis to computational astrophysics problems in view of recent advances in understanding stellar populations, which are important for quantifying feedback processes.

Phone: [+4915789091309];     Email: pkroupa@uni-bonn.de

Dark matter, MOND, galaxies, cosmology, computational astrophysics

NuSTAR (Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array)

Following the tradition of the previous NuSYM symposia, NuSYM2019 is aimed to host synergies between the studies of nuclear structure, of nuclear reactions and of astrophysics, including new exciting ideas and all possible breakthroughs. The nuclear symmetry energy and its density dependence are known to govern to a large extent the physics of nuclear masses and radii, the collective excitations at moderate excitation energies, up to the dynamics and observables of the high-energy heavy-ion collisions that explore regimes characterized by higher densities and isospin asymmetry of nuclear matter, especially, with radioactive beams. Last but not least, the understanding of the density dependence of nuclear symmetry energy is of paramount importance in the context of the forefront research related to the astrophysical modelling of the stellar and explosive nucleosynthesis, of supernovae and kilonovae (first observed in the aftermath of GW170817), as well as of the properties of neutron stars and their mergers.

We are pleased to announce the 2020 Sun-Climate Symposium, which is sponsored by the Sun-Climate Research Center, a joint venture between NASA GSFC and LASP at the University of Colorado. The format for this symposium consists of invited and contributed oral and poster presentations in several themed sessions. We encourage your participation and hope that you will share this announcement with colleagues.

Environmental Physics,    Meteorology and Climate Change

This conference will bring together experts in cosmology, particle physics, and fundamental theory to address how and when the universe thermalizes following inflation, and the associated particle physics and dark matter phenomenology. Important topics that will be covered include hidden sector model building in the LHC era, thermalization of the universe following inflation, possibilities of post-inflation cosmic history prior to nucleosynthesis, and associated experimental signatures. The conference aims to attract researchers in different areas to develop new directions in model building and establish new experimental paths for probing early universe cosmology and dark matter phenomenology.

Mathematical Physics,    High Energy Physics, Particles and Fields

NuSTAR (Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array)

The two Fermi instruments have been surveying the high-energy sky since August 2008. The Large Area Telescope (LAT) has discovered more than a thousand new sources and many new source classes, bringing the importance of gamma-ray astrophysics to an ever-broadening community.

The interplay between ubiquitous dust, ice and gas in space knits an interesting tale from collapsing interstellar clouds to the formation of new stars, planets, moons and comets. Along this path the formation of complex organic molecules necessary to construct the building blocks of life brings us a step closer to the understanding of the evolution of life. The advancement in the understanding of these vast intricacies of space lies in the development of varied laboratory techniques together with astronomical observations and astrophysical modeling. The conference allows us an opportunity to ensure collaborations between scientists active in different research fields, which range from astronomy to geology and from chemistry to instrumentation. Further, new results will be discussed and ideas will be exchanged from interdisciplinary perspectives to address questions that will guide observations with the upcoming astronomical large-scale facilities, such as the James Webb Space Telescope.

Email: vito.mennella@inaf.it

This conference will synthesize recent observational discoveries of massive star clusters in nearby galaxies and the high-redshift universe. It will connect the observations to theoretical modeling of galaxy formation on large scales and star formation on small scales. The topics for discussion will include the efficiency of star cluster formation as a function of environment, and the origins of the cluster age and metallicity distributions. The meeting will aim to highlight the similarities and differences in star formation in low-redshift and high-redshift galaxies.

Email: benoit.commercon@ans-lyon.fr

star formation, protostellar disk, Initial Mass Function, Star formation Rate, feedback, galactic evolution

A conference to gather an overview of the status and future prospects of astrophysics and cosmology with a multimessanger approach. The conference will feature only plenary sessions on the following topics: astrophysics with electromagnetic waves, astrophysics with gravitational waves, astroparticle physics and neutrino astrophysics, nuclear astrophysics, cosmology.