Contact: fkuehnel[AT]mpp.mpg.deLocation: Granada Spain
The purpose of the international conference series Black Holes and Cosmology is to bring together world-renowned experts as well as junior researchers working on theoretical and observational aspects of black holes, particularly (but not limited to) their role in cosmology.
Topics include:
Dark Matter
Structure Formation
Primordial Black Holes
Gravitational-Wave Astronomy
Quantum Aspects of Black Holes
This event will take place in Granada, Spain, at ‘Carmen de la Victoria’ – an historic 19th-century estate with an unobstructed view onto the Alhambra – between the 15th and the 19th of June 2026. We look forward to meet you!
The opening talk will be held by Professor Alan Guth (MIT).
Invited Speakers (* = TBC):
Alessandra Buonanno* (MPI for Gravitational Physics)
Roger Blandford (Stanford)
Andreas Burkert (LMU)
Diego Blas (IFAE)
Volker Bromm* (UT)
Nico Cappelluti (UF)
Bernard Carr (QMUL)
Sebastien Clesse (ULB)
Tamara Davis (UQ)
Gia Dvali (LMU and MPI for Physics)
Netta Engelhardt (MIT)
Glennys Farrar (NYU)
Wendy Freedman (Chicago)
Katherine Freese (UT)
Jaume Garriga (ICCUB)
Sarah Geller (UCSC)
Alan Guth (MIT)
Guenther Hasinger* (DZA)
Michael Hawkins (ROE)
Vicky Kalogera (NW)
Alexander Kusenko (UCLA)
Julien Lavalle (UoM)
Deyan Mihaylov (CWRU)
Priyamvada Natarajan (Yale)
Lisa Randall (Harvard)
Mairi Sakellariadou (KCL)
Pearl Sandick (UU)
Ravi Sheth (UPenn)
Adam Riess* (JHU)
Joe Silk (IAP and JHU and Oxford)
Glenn Starkman (CWRU)
Larus Thorlacius (UI)
Vincent Vennin (ENS Paris)
Tanmay Vachaspati (ASU)
Alexander Vikman (CEICO)
David Wands (UoP)
Organisational Committee:
Florian Kuehnel (LMU and TU Dortmund) [Chair]
Juan Garcia-Bellido (UAM)
Mar Bastero-Gil (UGR)
David Kaiser (MIT)
ASU = Arizona State University
CEICO = Central European Institute for Cosmology and Fundamental Physics, Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences
Chicago = University of Chicago
CWRU = Case Western Reserve University
DZA = Deutsches Zentrum fuer Astrophysik
ENS Paris = Ecole Normale Superieure de Paris
Harvard = Harvard University
IAP = Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris
ICCUB = Institute of the Universitat de Barcelona
IFAE = Institut de Fisica d’Altes Energies
KCL = King’s College London
LMU = Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
MIT = Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MPI for Astrophysics = Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics
MPI for Extraterrestrial Physics = Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics
MPI for Gravitational Physics = Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics
MPI for Physics = Max Planck Institute for Physics
NW = Northwestern University
NYU = New York University
Oxford = University of Oxford
QMUL = Queen Mary University of London
ROE = Royal Observatory, Edinburgh
Stanford = Stanford University
UAM = Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
UB = University at Buffalo
UCLA = University of California, Los Angeles
UCSC = University of California, Santa Cruz
UCR = University of California, Riverside
UF = University of Florida
UGR = University of Granada
UI = University of Iceland
ULB = Universite’ Libre de Bruxelles
UoM = University of Montpellier
UPenn = University of Pennsylvania
UQ = University of Queensland
UT = University of Texas at Austin
UU = University of Utah
Yale = Yale University