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Organizing Committee: Daniel Baumann (Amsterdam and National Taiwan Univ.), Daniel Green (UC San Diego), Austin Joyce (Univ. of Chicago), Guilherme Pimentel (SNS Pisa).
Scientific Committee: Eiichiro Komatsu ((Max Planck Inst. for Astrophysics), Marilena LoVerde (Univ. of Washington), Eva Silverstein (Stanford Univ), Raman Sundrum (Univ. of Maryland).
The Summer School will be held at the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques (IHES) from July 6 to 17, 2026. IHES is located in Bures-sur-Yvette, south of Paris (40 minutes by train from Paris) - Access map
This school is open to everybody but intended primarily for young participants, including Ph.D. students and postdoctoral fellows.
Deadline for applications: March 1, 2026
2026 IHES Summer School - Cosmological Correlators
The goal of this IHES school is to prepare students to make contributions to the study of cosmological correlations, both in the early and late universe. 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)
