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UM Cosmology Group Seminars

Welcome to the University of Michigan Cosmology Group seminar series, hosted by the Leinweber Institute for Theoretical Physics (LITP) and the Department of Physics.

We host speakers covering a wide range of topics in cosmology and astrophysics, including cosmic acceleration, large-scale structure, dark matter, dark energy, gravitational lensing, inflation, neutrinos, modified gravity, CMB science, and related areas. Talks may be theoretical, observational, or computational, and are open to faculty, postdocs, and students.

When & Where: Wednesdays at 2:00 PM in the conference room (Fishbowl), 3246 Randall Lab, unless otherwise noted.

The seminar series is currently organized by Uendert Andrade and Dragan Huterer.

Fall 2025 Seminar Schedule

Date Speaker Institution Title
Sept 10 Aaron Roodman SLAC / Stanford University Rubin/LSST (Department Colloquium)
Sept 17 Jiaming Pan University of Michigan Modified gravity constraints from DESI
Sept 24 Rodrigo von Marttens  Universidade Federal da Bahia Novel Approach to Cosmological Nonlinearities as an Effective Fluid
Oct 1 Alex Krolewski University of Waterloo / Perimeter Inst. Theor. Phys. A New Lens on the Universe’s Expansion and the Growth of Matter Perturbations
Oct 8 David Shlivko Princeton University TBA
Oct 15
Oct 22 Enrico Specogna University of Sheffield TBA
Oct 29 Farnik Nikakhtar Yale University Displacement Field Analysis of Large-Scale Structures via Optimal Transport
Nov 5 Erik Zaborowski  The Ohio State University TBA
Nov 12 Justin Pierel Space Telescope Science Institute TBA
Nov 19 Avery Tishue University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Fundamental Physics with kSZ Tomography: Prospects and New Challenges
Nov 26
Dec 3 Jessica Chellino University of Florida TBA