Evolving Universe: Theory and Observations
Starobinsky Memorial Conference
October 7-12, 2024, Yerevan, Armenia
Credit: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI
Overview
The conference is dedicated to the memory of Alexei Starobinsky, who passed away in December 2023.
This conference is aimed to bring together the researchers to cover the ongoing tendencies in cosmology and astrophysics, to discuss the tensions and the prospects for their developments.
The program of the conference will include invited talks, as well as selected presentations from participants.
Scientific Organizing Committee
- Andrei Barvinsky, LPI
- Alexander Dolgov, NSU, JINR
- Vahe Gurzadyan, AANL, YSU - co-chair
- Alexander Kamenshchik, Bologna U - co-chair
- Andrei Linde, Stanford U
- Vyacheslav Mukhanov, LMU
- Roger Penrose, Oxford Math.I
- Adam Riess, STSI
- Misao Sasaki, Kavli I
- Mikhail Shaposhnikov, EPFL
- Rashid Sunyaev, SRI RAS, MPI Astr.
Invited speakers:
- Andrei Barvinsky, LPI
- Alexander Belyaev, Southampton U
- Salvatore Capozziello, Napoli U
- Ignazio Ciufolini, Sapienza U
- Alexander Dolgov, NSU, JINR
- Galtsov Dmitry, MSU
- Gorbunov Dmitry, NRI
- Vahe Gurzadyan, AANL, YSU
- Renata Kallosh, Stanford U
- Alexander Kamenshchik, Bologna U
- Andrei Linde, Stanford U
- Vyacheslav Mukhanov, LMU
- Andronikos Paliathanasis, Durban U
- Dmitri Pogosyan, Alberta U
- Adam Riess, STSI
- Rashid Sunyaev, SRI RAS, MPI Astr.
- Sergei Sushkov, Kazan U
- Kip Thorne, Caltech
- Mikhail Volkov, Tours U
Programm Online
Monday | October 07
09:45 - 10:00
Opening
10:00 - 13:30
Chair Alexander Kamenshchik Invited talks (40+5 min) 10:00-13:30
09:45 - 10:00
Opening
10:00 - 10:40
Alexander Dolgov (NSU, JINR) Inflationary creation of primordial black holes
10:40 - 11:20
Vahe Gurzadyan (AANL, YSU) Structure formation in the late Universe and the Hubble tension
11:20 - 12:00
Coffee Break
12:00 - 12:40
Ignazio Ciufolini (Sapienza U) Tests of Gravitational Physics and GR with Satellite Laser Ranging
12:40 - 13:20
Alexander Belyaev (Southampton U) Probing Lambda-Gravity with Bose-Einstein Condensate
13:30 - 15:30
Lunch
15:30 - 18:50
Chair Salvatore Capozziello Contributed talks (20+5 min) 15:30-18:50
15:30 - 15:50
Sergei Vernov (SINP MSU) Integrable cosmological models with nonminimally coupled scalar fields
15:50 - 16:10
Oleg Zaslavski (Kharkov U) General approach to high energy collisions near black holes
16:10 - 16:30
Alex Giacomini (U Austral de Chile) Spontaneous symmetry breaking as a result of extra dimensions compactification
16:45 - 17:15
Coffee Break
17:15 - 18:00
Adam Riess (STSI) What JWST Reveals about the Hubble Tension, invited
18:00 - 18:25
Hector Fernandez Melendez (Southampton U) Gravity vs Bose-Einstein Condensate
18:25 - 18:50
Gabriele Gionti, S.J. (Specola Vaticana) Spherically Symmetric Geometrodynamic in the Jordan and Einstein Frames
18:50 - 20:30
Memorial Session Kip Thorne (Caltech), Rashid Sunyaev (SRI, MPI Astr.), Andrei Linde (Stanford U) and others
20:30 - 22:00
Welcome Party
Tuesday | October 08
10:00 - 13:30
Chair Alexander Dolgov
10:00 - 10:45
Viatcheslav Mukhanov (LMU) Gravitationally dominated instantons
10:45 - 11:30
Alexander Kamenshchik (Bologna U) Divergences in quantum field theory and singularities in cosmology - some remarks
11:30 - 12:00
Coffee Break
12:00 - 12:45
Salvatore Capozziello (Napoli U) Going beyond the standard LCDM model by cosmography
12:45 - 13:30
Dmitry Gorbunov (INR) Gravitational waves from evolving domain wall network
13:30 - 15:30
Lunch
15:30 - 18:30
Chair Dmitry Gorbunov Contributed talks
15:30 - 15:55
Artur Hakobyan (AANL) Constraining type Ia supernova progenitors using dynamical age tracers in host galaxy discs
15:55 - 16:20
Alexei Toporensky (SAI MSU) Generality of Starobinsky inflation in the case of positive spatial curvature
16:20 - 16:45
Polina Petriakova (Bologna U) IR finite correlation functions in de Sitter space, a smooth massless limit, and an autonomous equation
16:45 - 17:15
Coffee Break
17:15 - 17:40
Norayr Galikyan (MEPHI, AANL Neural Network Analysis of S-Stars Dynamics
18:05 - 18:30
Nikita Avdeev (SAI MSU) Comparison numerical and slow-roll predictions in EGB theory
Wednesday | October 09
10:00 - 13:00
Chair Ignazio Ciufolini Contributed talks
10:00 - 10:25
Alexander Belyaev (Southampton U) The Physics of Fermionic Portal to Vector Dark Matter
10:25 - 10:50
Sergio Luigi Cacciatori (Insubria U) New Observational test for a class of General Relativistic Models of disk galaxies
10:50 - 11:15
Victor Vedenyapin (Keldysh IAM) Vlasov–type Equations and Applications to Cosmology
11:15 - 11:45
Coffee break
11:45 - 12:10
Aram Saharyan (YSU) Vacuum polarization around cosmic strings
12:10 - 12:35
Sravan Kumar (ICG, Portsmouth) Finding origins of CMB anomalies in the inflationary quantum fluctuations
13:00 - 15:30
Lunch
15:30 - 18:30
Chair Alexander Belyaev Contributed talks
15:30 - 16:15
Dmitry Galtsov (MSU) Hidden symmetries and integrability of Petrov I spacetimes
16:15 - 17:00
Rashid Sunyaev (SRI, MPI Astr.) The Sky in X-rays: millions of supermassive black holes and one-third of all massive (10^14-10^15 solar masses) clusters of galaxies (filled by dark matter) in the observable Universe. SRG/eRosita results
17:00 - 17:30
Coffee Break
17:30 - 18:15
Dmitry Pogosian (Alberta U) Galactic merger rates and spin parameters ab initio via the clustering of critical events
18:15 - 19:00
Mikhail Volkov (Tours U) Black holes with electroweak hair
Thursday | October 10
10:00 - 19:00
Social Program, Conference dinner
Friday | October 11
10:00 - 13:30
Chair Vahe Gurzadyan Invited talks
10:00 - 10:45
Andrei Linde (Stanford U) From Starobinsky model to SL(2,Z) cosmological attractors
10:45 - 11:30
Renata Kallosh (Stanford U) SL(2,Z) cosmology
11:30 - 12:00
Coffee Break
12:00 - 12:45
Andronikos Paliathanasis (Durban Technology U) The Common Solution Space of General Relativity and Modern Cosmology
12:45 - 13:30
Elena Arbuzova (NSU) High energy phenomena in modified gravity
13:30 - 15:30
Lunch
15:30 - 18:30
Chair Alexander Belyaev Contributed talks
15:30 - 15:55
Marine Samsonyan (AANL, YSU) Smearing of primordial gravitational waves
15:55 - 16:20
Ekaterina Pozdeeva (SINP MSU) Possible extensions of Starobinsky model
16:20 - 16:45
Ashot Gevorkyan (Inf. I) Quantum vacuum and about massless Bose particles with spin 1 within the framework of the SU(2)xU(1) gauge symmetry group
16:45 - 17:15
Coffee Break
17:15 - 17:40
Evgeny Davydov (JINR) On the physical effects generated by gravitational shock waves
17:40 - 18:05
Alexei Golovnev (BUE) Cosmological perturbations in modified teleparallel theories of gravity
18:05 - 18:30
Pavel Petrov (IBS CTPU-CGA) On the strong coupling problem in K-inflation
Saturday | October 12
10:00 - 13:30
Chair Dmitry Galtsov Invited talks
10:00 - 10:45
Andrei Barvinski (LPI) Quantum origin of R^2 and Higgs inflationary Universe
10:45 - 11:30
Armen Allahverdyan (AANL) Time arrow is influenced by the dark energy
11:30 - 12:00
Coffee Break
12:00 - 12:45
Sergei Sushkov (Kazan U) Cosmological bounce in the theory of gravity with non-minimal derivative coupling
13:10 - 13:35
Aayush Sinha (Indian YNS) Precise Solutions to Non-Linear Partial Differential Equations of Einstein Tensor and Ricci Flow
13:35 -
Closing
Local Organizing Committee
- Marine Samsonyan, AANL, YSU - chair
- Robert Avetyan, AANL
- Artur Hakobyan, AANL
- Eric Khastyan, AANL
- Shant Khlghatyan, AANL
Contacts
- Email: starobinski-conf@aanl.am Phone: +37410 34 15 00
