Swampland and our Universe
April 15, 2026 @ 8:00 am - April 16, 2026 @ 5:00 pm
Swampland and our Universe
Dates: April 15–16, 2026
Location: Harvard CMSA, Room G10, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge MA
The swampland program has inspired a range of new ideas in both cosmology and neutrino physics. This workshop brings together experts in neutrino physics, dark energy, dark matter, early-universe cosmology, and string theory to share insights on these developments and to discuss current and future experimental tests.
Speakers
- Ignatios Antoniadis, IAS, Princeton
- Alek Bedroya, Princeton
- Mike Boylan-Kolchin, UT Austin
- Raphael Flauger, UC San Diego
- M.C. Gonzalez-Garcia, ICREA U. Barcelona & YITP Stony Brook
- Mustapha Ishak-Boushaki, UT Dallas
- Marc Kamionkowski, Johns Hopkins
- Miguel Montero, Institute of Theoretical Physics, Madrid
- Georges Obied, U Chicago
- Matt Reece, Harvard
Organizers: Luis Anchordoqui (CUNY Lehman College), Sonia Paban (Harvard Physics), and Cumrun Vafa (Harvard Physics)
Schedule Outline
| Wednesday, Apr. 15, 2026 | |
| 8:00 – 9:00 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 – 10:00 am | Talk |
| 10:00 – 10:30am | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 –11:30am | Talk |
| 11:30 am – 1:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 – 2:30 pm | Talk |
| 2:30 – 3:00 pm | Coffee Break |
| 3:00 – 4:00 pm | Talk |
| Thursday, Apr. 16, 2026 | |
| 8:00 – 9:00 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 – 10:00 am | Talk |
| 10:00 – 11:00 am | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 am – 12:00 pm | Talk |
| 12:00 – 2:00 pm | Lunch |
| 2:00 – 3:00 pm | Talk |
| 3:00 – 4:00 pm | Coffee Break |
| 4:00– 5:00 pm | Talk |