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Fundamental of the Universe symposium 2024

24 April 2024

It is our pleasure to announce the next Fundamentals of the Universe (FotU) symposium on the 24th of April, 9:30-17:00, Senator Room, Academy building.

The FotU is an initiative between the Bernoulli Institute, the Kapteyn Institute and the van Swinderen Institute for Particle Physics and Gravity with the aim of building interdisciplinary research. The institute currently has 7 PhD fellows, who work on topics that are cross-disciplinary between these institutes. See www.fundamentalsoftheuniverse.com for more information about the current fellows and affiliate members.

The program has been running for almost 4 years and we like to celebrate this with presentations from our successful PhD’s complemented by talks of senior scientists related to the FotU interests. The event will start at 9:30 and close at 5PM and will be followed by drinks. Below a preliminary program. Titles and abstracts to follow soon.

9:30-9:50: Welcome/Coffee
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9:50-10:40:  Else Starkenburg: Galactic Archaeology to its limits
10:40-11:10:  Jann Aschersleben: Gamma rays from dark matter self-annihilation around black holes
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11:10-11:30:  coffee break
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11:30-12:00: Robbert Scholtens: Bianchi's Characterization: finding the metric frame given its desired Killing vector fields
12:00-12:30:  Bohdan Bidenko: TBD
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12:30-14:00: Lunch break
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14:00-14:50:  Tamás Görbe: Jacobi's 3-body problem
14:50-15:20: Kevin van Helden:  Differential geometry in Non-Lorentzian gravity
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15:20-15:40:  coffee break
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15:40-16:10: Thomas Floss: Generative AI meets cosmology
16:10-17:00:  Daniel Boer: Standard Model, quo vadis?

17:00-18:00: Borrel

We hope to see many of you there!

Manuela, Holger, Rien, Julia, Nicolay and Daan

FotU steering committee.

Last modified:24 April 2024 09.41 a.m.

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