2026 IHES Summer School on Cosmological Correlators

The next Summer School will be held from July 6 to 17, 2026. It’s organized by Daniel Baumann (Amsterdam and National Taiwan Univ.), Daniel Green (UC San Diego), Austin Joyce (Univ. of Chicago), Guilherme Pimentel (SNS Pisa) and its goal is to prepare students to make contributions to the study of cosmological correlations, both in the early and late universe.

Eiichiro Komatsu ((Max Planck Inst. for Astrophysics), Marilena LoVerde (Univ. of Washington), Eva Silverstein (Stanford Univ), Raman Sundrum (Univ. of Maryland) are the members of the scientific committee for this 2026 edition.

If you want to participate, please send your application before March 1, 2026. The selected applicants will be informed on mid-April at the latest.

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Theoretical cosmology as a discipline is increasingly crossing traditional subfield boundaries within high-energy physics. As a result, the full spectrum of topics and expertise students require cannot be simply contained in a single course.

This school aims to fill this gap by providing a holistic viewpoint on the diverse set of topics that students need to know, with an eye towards their applications in cosmology. There has been a remarkable amount of progress in the study of cosmological quantum field theory in the last few years, and a dedicated school focused on the diverse set of skills needed to contribute is much needed.

The school will have a set of courses given by world leaders in the subject, with the first week focused on EFT and bootstrap methods to compute cosmological correlators, and the second week devoted to more advanced topics and connections at the interface of particle theory and cosmology.

Speakers:

• Dionysios Anninos (King’s College)
• Scott Dodelson (Carnegie Mellon & Chicago Univ.)
• Scott Melville (Queen Mary Univ. of London)
• Enrico Pajer (DAMTP, Cambridge Univ.)
• Claudia de Rham (Imperial College)
• Marko Simonovic (Florence Univ.)
• Charlotte Sleight (Univ. of Naples)
• Massimo Taronna (Univ. of Naples)
• Raffaele Tito D’Agnolo (IPhT CEA & ENS Paris)
• Andrew Tolley (Imperial College)
• Matias Zaldarriaga (IAS) 

 

 

More information on the dedicated webpage.