Welcome to the website for the CosmoForward meeting, which will be held during 9-12 February 2026 in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain.
The meeting will be in San Cristóbal de La Laguna in Tenerife, hosted at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias • IAC .
The meeting will focus on four themes: (1) modelling, (2) measuring and (3) simulating the Universe, and the (4) infrastructure work required for it.
Below is a draft program summarising the talks, confirmed speakers, material we expect to cover, and split between talks and discussion.
| Start Time | Mon Feb 9 | Tue Feb 10 | Wed Feb 11 | Thu Feb 12 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9:00 | Coffee & chat | Coffee & chat | Coffee & chat | Coffee & chat |
| 10:00 | Welcome and Introduction ([Calabrese]) |
Measurement anchors in the early to mid Universe ([Sherwin]) |
New standard ingredients in cosmological analyses (Schmidt) |
Breakout |
| 10:30 | Cosmology in 2025 (Hložek) |
Measurement anchors in the mid to late Universe (Hadzhiyska) |
New standard astrophysical ingredients in cosmological analyses ([Schaan]) |
Lab tour |
| 11:00 | Viable, physical and descriptive models of the early Universe (Gerbino) |
External constraints on inflation theories (Braglia) |
Discussion: targeting new measurements (Spinelli and Migliaccio) |
Lab tour |
| 11:30 | Viable, physical and descriptive models of the late Universe (Baker) |
External constraints on matter components (Lattanzi) |
Review of experiment likelihood frameworks:SO (Harrison) |
Breakout |
| 12:00 | Removal and marginalisation of well-known foregrounds (Beringue) |
External constraints on Dark Energy theories (Burrage) |
Review of experiment likelihood frameworks:DESC (Nicola) |
Review of experiment likelihood frameworks:Euclid (Martinelli) |
| 12:30 | Lunch (provided) | Lunch (provided) | Lunch (provided) | Lunch (provided) |
| 14:00 | Treatment of less-known foregrounds (Cepeda-Arriota) |
Available simulations for cosmological analyses (Omori) |
Trip to observatory followed by social dinner |
Cross-correlation likelihoods, redundancy and use in combined cosmology (Fabbian) |
| 14:30 | Removal and marginalisation of well-known CMB instrumental systematics (Duivenvoorden) |
Missing components of current simulations ([Madhavacheril]) |
Inference sampling, speed and robustness (Ruiz Zapatero) |
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| 15:00 | Treatment of less-known CMB instrumental systematics (Atkins) |
Continued | Added value of new methods (Balkenhol) |
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| 15:30 | Coffee | Coffee | Coffee | |
| 16:00 | Discussion: community approaches to presentation of models |
Discussion: community approaches to measurement significance ([Raveri]) |
Discussion: mapping infrastructure requirements to funding |
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| 16:45 | Discussion: viability of one-parameter extensions |
Discussion: using simulations across multiple experiments (Lovell) |
Discussion: cross-platform implementation: who and how? Code quality and openness |
- Erminia Calabrese
- Ian Harrison
- Serena Giardiello
- Hidde Jense
- Marc Vina
- Tessa Baker
- Matteo Martinelli
- Clare Burrage
- Lennart Balkenhol
- Emmanuel Schaan
- Andrina Nicola
- Jaime Ruiz Zapatero
- Adri Duivenvoorden
- Zach Atkins
- Massimiliano Lattanzi
- Yuuki Omori
- Blake Sherwin
- Benjamin Beringue
- Martina Gerbino
- Giulio Fabbian
- Renée Hložek
- Roke Cepeda-Arroita
- Ricardo T. Génova Santos
- José Alberto Rubiño Martín
- Boryana Hadzhiyska
- Chris Lovell
- Marta Spinelli
- Matteo Braglia
- Mat Madhavacheril
- Emilio Bellini
- Marina Migliaccio
- Carlos Hernández-Monteagudo
- Jorge Martín-Camalich
- Alessandro Fasano
- Ana Almedia
- Kumar Aryan
- Utsav Bose
- Alba Crespo Pérez
- Mar Pérez-Sar
- Elena Vanetti
- Francisco-Shu Kitaura
- Marco Raveri
- Fabian Schmidt
- Giacomo Galloni