Early Universe from Home 2026 has ended. The public talks from the conference are all available in this YouTube playlist. If you wish to gain access to the rest of the Conference Materials, e.g. discussion recordings, you can request access via this form.

Stay tuned for the announcement of Early Universe from Home 2027 next year!

Early Universe from Home is an online cosmology conference with an innovative format. This format, pioneered by Cosmology from Home, produces a dynamic and collaborative workshop experience within the online domain. It includes the use of pre-recorded talks, and a combination of asynchronous and scheduled live discussions. A permanently available and freely-navigated discussion space also facilitates ongoing, organic discussions.

The conference will bring together cosmologists from around the world to discuss, and share ideas on, cosmological correlators, phase transitions, topological defects, primordial black holes and other early structure formation.

Pedagogical Talks

Kim Berghaus (Warm inflation in 2026: Current status and recent phenomenological progress)

Chris Byrnes (The theoretical status of primordial black holes in 2026)

Edward Hardy (Dark matter and gravitational waves from topological defects)

Michael Zantedeschi (The physics of the memory burden effect)

Confirmed Research Talks

  • Daniel Jimenez Aguilar
  • Chiara Animali
  • Nathan Belrhali
  • Daulet Berkimbayev
  • Sukannya Bhattacharya
  • Lukasz Bunio
  • Irene Abril Cabezas
  • Priyesh Chakraborty
  • Aleksander Chatrchyan
  • Chandramouli Chowdhury
  • Thomas Colas
  • José Correia
  • Steven Cotterill
  • Andrii Dashko
  • Alipriyo Hoory
  • Aurora Ireland
  • Callum Jones
  • Debanjan Karan
  • Soubhik Kumar
  • Benoit Laurent
  • Mang Hei Gordon Lee
  • Francescopaolo Lopez
  • Dario Lorenzoni
  • Riccardo Natale
  • Florian Niedermann
  • Bahar Nikbakht
  • Toshifumi Noumi
  • Matthias Nowinski
  • Theodoros Papanikolaou
  • Alejandro Perez Rodriguez
  • Mauro Pieroni
  • Guilherme Pimentel
  • Arthur Poisson and Denis Werth
  • Simona Procacci
  • Sébastien Renaux-Petel
  • Diederik Roest
  • Ivo Sachs
  • Rakesh Kumar Sivakumar
  • Ayngaran Thavanesan
  • Adam Thomasson
  • Antonio Vicente-Becerril
  • Zhong-Zhi Xianyu
  • Yuhang Zhu

Organizers

Amelia Drew (ICTP, Trieste)

Harry Goodhew (NTU, Taiwan)

Oliver Gould (University of Nottingham)

Shaun Hotchkiss (Effective Research Sharing)

Aurora Ireland (Stanford University)

Swagat Saurav Mishra (CTPU-CGA, Institute for Basic Science)

Eemeli Tomberg (UCLouvain)

Jeremy M. Wachter (Wentworth Institute of Technology)

Advisors

Philippa Cole (Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca)

Mahdiyar Noorbala (Tehran University)

Masahide Yamaguchi (IBS, Daejeon, CTPU & Tokyo Institute of Technology)