Learning the Deep Mysteries of Nature with Cosmology

9 Sept 2025, 08:30 → 12 Sept 2025, 18:00 Europe/Rome

Palazzo delle Miniere (Fiera di Primiero)

Daniele Bertacca (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

Cosmology has become, in the last 40 years, the main engine to discover how nature works. From the discovery that neutrinos were massive, to the need of dark matter, the discovery of the primordial fluctuation in the CMB to end the past millennium with the discovery of dark energy and the accelerating Universe. The past two decades has seen an even deeper and faster advance with the discovery of gravitational waves, which has opened the window to prove the fundamental laws of nature at the deepest level. The present conference aims at charting the path to advance even farther and devise a strategy to answer the many open questions: what is the dark matter, what is dark energy, is the Universe quantum in nature, what was the origin, how does the Universe evolve, is the Hubble tension a window to new physics. How do we handle the information from the future cosmology surveys that will extract almost all information from the sky?

Invited Keynote speakers are (with indicative titles):

Viviana Acquaviva (From the cosmos to modeling the complexity of climate)

Marica Branchesi (Gravitational waves)

Erminia Calabrese (The future of the CMB)

Alan Heavens (Inference from cosmology)

Marc Kamionkowski (TBC)

Raul Jimenez (The Complexity of the Cosmos: understanding the laws of nature)

Edward W. Kolb (Learning the Deep Secrets of Rarita-Schwinger Fields with Cosmology)

Paolo Natoli (Cosmology in Italy)
Fabian Schmidt (Non-Gaussianities in Large-Scale Structure)

Raffaella Schneider (The early dark ages)

Uros Seljak (Cosmology in the era of AI)

Jiro Soda (Quantum nature of Primordial Gravitational Waves)

Licia Verde (Large Scale Structure, non-gaussianities and cosmology)

Benjamin Wandelt (Machine learning in cosmology)

Locandina "Learning the Deep Mysteries of Nature with Cosmology"

Tuesday 9 September

Registration

Initial greetings

Session I

Convener: Raul Jimenez

1 Learning the Deep Secrets of Rarita-Schwinger Fields with Cosmology

Speaker: Rocky Kolb

2 Quantum nature of Primordial Gravitational Waves

Speaker: Jiro Soda

10:50 Coffee Break

Session II

3 Round table on the topics of the morning talks

Nicola Bartolo, Luigi Pilo, Rocky Kolb, Jiro Soda.

Speakers: Jiro Soda, Luigi Pilo, Nicola Bartolo, Rocky Kolb

12:45 Light Lunch Break

Session III

Convener: Simona Gallerani

4 Cosmology in the era of AI

Speaker: Uros Seljak

5 The Complexity of the Cosmos: understanding the laws of nature

Speaker: Raul Jimenez

15:50 Coffee Break

Session IV

6 Round table on the topics of the afternoon talks

Domenico Marinucci, Matteo Viel & Raul Jimenez, Uros Seljak.

Speakers: Domenico Marinucci, Matteo Viel, Raul Jimenez, Uros Seljak

19:30 Welcome Aperitif

Wednesday 10 September

Session V

Convener: Bin Hu

7 Gravitational waves

Speaker: Marica Branchesi

8 The future of the CMB

Speaker: Erminia Calabrese

10:50 Coffee Break

Session VI

9 Round table on the topics of the morning talks

Angelo Ricciardone, Carlo Baccigalupi & Marica Branchesi, Erminia Calabrese, Massimiliano Lattanzi.

Speakers: Angelo Ricciardone, Carlo Baccigalupi, Erminia Calabrese, Marica Branchesi, Massimiliano Lattanzi

12:45 Light Lunch Break

Session VII

Convener: Marco Bruni

10 Inference from cosmology

Speaker: Alan Heavens

11 Machine learning in cosmology

(online talk)

Speaker: Benjamin Wandelt

15:50 Coffee Break

Session VIII

12 Round table on the topics of the afternoon talks

Michele Liguori, Marina Migliaccio, Marco Raveri & Alan Heavens, Benjamin Wandelt.

Speakers: Alan Heavens, Benjamin Wandelt, Marco Raveri, Marina Migliaccio, Michele Liguori

Thursday 11 September

Session IX

Convener: Enzo Franco Branchini

13 The early dark ages

Speaker: Raffaella Schneider

14 Non-Gaussianities in Large-Scale Structure

Speaker: Fabian Schmidt

10:50 Coffee Break

Session X

15 Round table on the topics of the morning talks

Simona Gallerani, Cristiano Porciani & Fabian Schmidt, Raffaella Schneider, Marco Bruni.

Speakers: Cristiano Porciani, Fabian Schmidt, Marco Bruni, Raffaella Schneider, Simona Gallerani

12:45 Light Lunch Break

Session XI

Convener: Marina Migliaccio

16 Cosmology in Italy

Speaker: Paolo Natoli

17 TBC

(online talk)

Speaker: Prof. Marc Kamionkowski

15:50 Coffee Break

Outreach Session

Convener: Matteo Viel

18 Outreach in italiano: "Scopriamo insieme i misteri dell'Universo"

A colloquium featuring short speeches and a discussion with the audience on topics related to contemporary cosmology.

Viviana Acquaviva, Marica Branchesi, Erminia Calabrese, Sabino Matarrese.

Speakers: Erminia Calabrese, Marica Branchesi, Sabino Matarrese, Viviana Acquaviva

20:30 Social dinner

Friday 12 September

Session XII

Convener: Nicola Bartolo

19 From the cosmos to modeling the complexity of climate

Speaker: Viviana Acquaviva

10:20 Coffee Break

Session XIII

Convener: Nicola Bartolo

20 Round table on the topics: “Past, present and future of the Cosmology”

Stefano Borgani, Enzo Franco Branchini, Lauro Moscardini, Paolo Natoli, Cristiano Porciani, Sabino Matarrese.

Speakers: Cristiano Porciani, Enzo Franco Branchini, Lauro Moscardini, Paolo Natoli, Sabino Matarrese, Stefano Borgani

21 Talk finale

Speaker: Sabino Matarrese (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

12:55 Light Lunch Break