JHU to host 2025 Cosmology Summer Fest in honor of Marc Kamionkowski and Robert Caldwell, July 23-25

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JHU to host 2025 Cosmology Summer Fest in honor of Marc Kamionkowski and Robert Caldwell, July 23-25

The 2025 Cosmology Summer Fest is in honor of Marc Kamionkowski and Robert Caldwell’s (Dartmouth) 60th birthdays. The event will be a 2.5-day science workshop that will feature talks on a range of topics surrounding theoretical and data-driven cosmology. The workshop will take place in the auditorium and lobby of the Bloomberg Center for Physics and Astronomy from Wednesday morning, July 23rd through lunchtime on Friday, July 25th. A timetable of the confirmed speakers’ talks is now available. Department members are welcome and encouraged to attend any of the talks that may interest them.

Confirmed invited speakers:

Bruce Allen (Albert Einstein Institute)
Kimberly Boddy (University of Texas at Austin)
Latham Boyle (University of Edinburgh)
Sean Carroll (Johns Hopkins University)
Xuelei Chen (National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Jens Chluba (Manchester University)
Cyril Creque-Sarbinowski (Center for Computational Astrophysics, Flatiron Institute)
Liang Dai (University of California, Berkeley)
Cora Dvorkin (Harvard University)
Chris Hirata (Ohio State University)
Dragan Huterer (University of Michigan)
Donghui Jeong (Penn State University)
Julian Munoz (University of Texas at Austin)
Lyman Page (Princeton University)
Hiranya Peiris (University of Cambridge)
Annika Peter (Ohio State University)
Vivian Poulin (LUPM, CNRS & Université de Montpellier)
Anthony Pullen (New York University)
Adam Riess (Johns Hopkins University)
Gabriela Sato-Polito (Institute of Advanced Study)
Joseph Silk (Johns Hopkins University)
Suzanne Staggs (Princeton University)
Avery Tishue (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne)