Announcements

Raphael Flauger (UC San Diego) will give a Lecture Series on the "Cosmic Microwave Background" from February 10 - 14 in the Bethe Center for Theoretical Physics in Bonn.

Abstract: The cosmic microwave background (CMB) is one of the pillars of modern cosmology. Its existence firmly establishes that our universe was once filled with a hot and dense plasma, and the statistical properties of the CMB anisotropies teach us a great deal about the history and composition of our universe.

These lectures provide an introduction to the physics underlying the spectrum of the CMB as well as its anisotropies. In addition to an introduction to the underlying theory, they will provide a short introduction to the analysis of the data from current CMB experiments and will give an outlook what we may hope to learn from future precision measurements of CMB polarization.

More information and the registration form are available on the event webpage.

From March 16 to 19, 2020, the yearly workshop "Beyond the Standard Model" will take place at the Physikzentrum Bad Honnef, organized by Gleb Arutyunov (Hamburg). The workshop focuses on recent developments in the theory of fundamental particles, the physics of the early universe, and mathematical physics. There will be introductory pedagogical lectures as well as shorter talks by the participants.
For more information see the webpage.

The Bethe Center for Theoretical Physics in Bonn will host a Bethe Forum on "Inflation" from March 23rd to 27th. The organizers are Marco Peloso (Padua), Manuel Drees (Bonn, Hans Peter Nilles (Bonn) and Ivonne Zavala (Swansea).

More information can be found on the event webpage.

The Bethe Forum on "Modular Flavor Symmetries" is scheduled for May 4th to 8th, 2020, in the Bethe Center for Theoretical Physics in Bonn. The organizers are Michael Ratz (Irvine), Ferruccio Feruglio (Padua), Tatsuo Kobayashi (Sapporo) and Hans Peter Nilles (Bonn).

More information and the registration form can be found on the event webpage.