Contact: roberto.peron[AT]inaf.itLocation: Como, Italy
Dear colleague,
the “Dark Matter, Dark Energy and the Cosmological Tensions” School will be held on 23-27 June 2025, in Como, Italy, at Villa del Grumello.
Event Description:
Today, cosmology and astrophysics are experiencing a dilemma: on one side, we have a very successful model, the LambdaCDM model, able to adjust to almost all observations. On the other hand, such a model requires 96% of stuff about whose nature we have yet no certain knowledge: 26% of dark matter and 70% of dark energy, with only 4% left for the known matter, mostly in the form of hydrogen and helium nuclei. While dark matter seems to be necessary to explain the formation and the dynamics of galaxies and of larger structures, such as galaxy clusters and super clusters, dark energy is required to explain why our universe is in a state of accelerated expansion. The school aims at providing master’s and doctoral students and young post doctoral researchers with a perspective on the most important proposals on the nature of the dark components of the universe, not only from the theoretical point of view, but also from the experimental and observational one.
Local Organizing Committee:
+ Sergio L. Cacciatori (Insubria, Como)
+ Monica Colpi (Bicocca, Milan)
+ Massimo Dotti (Bicocca, Milan)
+ Mario G. Lattanzi (INAF, Turin)
+ Roberto Peron (INAF, Rome)
+ Oliver F. Piattella (Insubria, Como)
Scientific Organizing Committee:
+ Francesco Belgiorno (Politecnico, Milan)
+ William Beordo (INAF, Turin)
+ Mariateresa Crosta (INAF, Turin)
+ Vittorio Gorini (Insubria, Como)
+ Francesco Haardt (Insubria, Como)
+ Ugo Moschella (Insubria, Como)
+ Federico Re (Bicocca, Milan)
Key dates:
Student application: 15 April 2025
Notification of acceptance: 30 April 2025
Registration and payment for accepted students: 15 May 2025
Please circulate this announcement to anyone potentially interested.
With our best wishes,
Sergio L. Cacciatori, Roberto Peron, Oliver F. Piattella
(on behalf of the Local and Scientific Organizing Committees)