Program

Monday, 8^th May

19:00 Reception & Registration

Tuesday, 9^th May

08,30 Registration

8:45 Welcoming address

9:00-9:40 Helge Kragh: The scientific life of Georges Lemaître  (Video)

9:40-10:20 Alex Filippenko: Type Ia Supernovae, Dark Energy, and the Hubble Constant (Video)

10:20-10:50 Coffee Break 

10:50-11:30 Nicola Vittorio: Strong evidence for an accelerating universe (Video)

11:30-12:10 Astrid Eichhorn: The asymptotic safety paradigm for quantum spacetime and matter  (Video)

12:10-12:50 Francesca Vidotto: Measuring the last burst of non-singular black holes (Video)

Lunch Break

15:00-15:30 Edmund Bertschinger: The Internal Structure of Spinning Black Holes  (Video)

15:30-16:00 Roberto Casadio: Horizon Quantum Mechanics for spherically symmetric and rotating sources (Video)

16:00-16:30 Coffee Break 

16:30-17:00 Krzysztof Meissner: Conformal anomaly and gravitational waves (Video)

17:00-17:30 Alessia Platania: Cosmic Censorship in Quantum Einstein Gravity  (Video)

17:30-18:00 Nicholas Suntzeff: The Observer’s Universe  (Video)

18:00-19:00 Discussion Panel

Wednesday, 10^th May

9:00-9:40 Gerard ‘t Hooft: Virtual Black Holes and space-time structure (Video)

9:40-10:20 Georgi Dvali: Secret Quantum Life of Black Holes  (Video)

10:20-10:50 Coffee Break

10:50-11:30 Giovanni A. Prodi: Gravitational waves searches by the network of ground-based interferometers  (Video)

11:30-12:10 Renata Kallosh: From the sky to the fundamental physics  (Video)

12:10-12:50 Joe Silk: The Limits of Cosmology  (Video)

Lunch Break

15:00-15:30 Donato Bini: Black hole perturbations: a review of recent analytical results  (Video)

15:30-16:00 Zoltan Haiman: Merging Supermassive Black Hole Binaries (Video)

16:00-16:30 Coffee Break

16:30-17:00 Achim Kempf: How can the singularities of black holes and of cosmologies be regulated without breaking local Lorentz invariance?  (Video)

17:00-17:30 Paolo Salucci: Supermassive Black Holes in Galaxies. A portal to the nature of dark matter?  (Video)

17:30-18:00 Michael Turner: Looking beyond ΛCDM to solve the big mysteries in cosmology  (Video)

18:00-19:00 Discussion Panel

20:30 Social Dinner

Thursday, 11^th May

9:00-9:40 Roger Penrose: The Big Bang and its Dark-Matter Content: Whence, Whither, and Wherefore (Video)

9:40-10:20 Andrei Linde: Inflation: Theory and Observations (Video)

10:20-10:50 Coffee Break

10:50-11:30 George Ellis: The Standard Cosmological Model: Its nature, and Queries (Video)

11:30-12:10 Alessandra Buonanno: Observing the Signature of Dynamical Space-Time through Gravitational Waves

12:10-12:50 Luigi Stella: Probing the strong gravitational field of accreting black holes with X-ray observations (Video)

Lunch Break

15:00-15:30 Elisa Bortolas: Massive Black Hole Binaries and their Hosts: a common journey towards Gravitational Waves (Video)

15:30-16:00 Alexander Kamenshchik: Singularity crossing, transformation of matter properties and the problem of parametrization in field theories (Video)

16:00-16:30 Coffee Break

16:30-17:00 Miok Park: Energent Metric from the Kitaeve Superconductor Model (Video)

17:00-17:30  Frank Saueressig: Cosmic perturbations from Asymptotic Safety (Video)

17:30-18:00 François Bouchet: 50 years of CMB research.: what is next? (Video)

18:00-19:00 Discussion Panel