- All News
- All Events
-
- Workshops and Conferences
- Public Lectures
- Seminars
-
- Brown Bag Seminars
- High Energy Theory Seminars
-
Seminar History
- 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 students, postdocs, and faculty.
When & Where: Fridays at 11:00 AM in the conference room (Fishbowl), 3247 Neal Lab, unless otherwise noted.
The seminar series is currently organized by Uendert Andrade and Dragan Huterer.
Winter/Spring 2026 Seminar Schedule
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| April 10 | Michael 'Misha' Rashkovetskyi | The Ohio State University | Semi-analytical covariance matrices for DESI BAO measurements, and more information from tSZ-split clustering |
| April 17 | Kaili Cao | The Ohio State University | Weak Gravitational Lensing Cosmology with the Roman Space Telescope High Latitude Imaging Survey |
| April 24 |
Shishir Sankhayanan | Tartu Observatory | Superclusters and their Environmental Effect on Giant Radio Galaxies |
| May 7 |
Marco Bonici | University of Waterloo | Taming projection effects in EFTofLSS analysis of DESI DR1 and beyond |
| May 22 | Allison Blum | University of Hawaii at Manoa | Supernova Cousins: Leveraging Galaxy-group Information to Improve Type Ia Supernova Cosmology |
Jun 3 |
Toby Satterthwaite | SLAC / Stanford University | TBD |
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 | Dynamical dark energy: Physical theories and parameterized models |
| Oct 15 | — | — | — |
| Oct 22 | Enrico Specogna | University of Sheffield | Modified gravity & friends vs current CMB data |
| Oct 22 |
Wei Liu | University of Science and Technology of China | Go beyond in a unifying way—summary statistics and modified gravity theories |
| Oct 29 | Farnik Nikakhtar | Yale University | Displacement Field Analysis of Large-Scale Structures via Optimal Transport |
| Nov 5 | Erik Zaborowski | The Ohio State University | Measuring the Hubble Constant Without the Sound Horizon: A New Constraint from DESI |
| Nov 12 | Justin Pierel | Space Telescope Science Institute | The JWST Revolution in High-Redshift Supernova Discovery |
| 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 | Holding the Universe up to a Mirror: The Importance of Analytic Covariance Matrices |
