Straight after the XXV SIGRAV conference, I am travelling to Corfu, Greece, to attend the Corfu2023 Workshop on Tensions in Cosmology. The workshop, as the name suggests, is focused on cosmological tensions, with special attention to the Hubble tension. I have been particularly looking forward to this workshop, firstly because it will be an occasion to catch up with some friends colleagues I haven’t seen in a long time (e.g. Vivian Poulin), and finally meet several people I’ve written many papers with (e.g. Eleonora Di Valentino) or frequently interacted with online (Leandros Perivolaropoulos, Jackson Levi Said, and Özgür Akarsu, to name but a few), but never actually met in person, but also because I’ve never been to Greece before. I will also be delivering a plenary talk on “Seven hints that early-time new physics alone is not sufficient to solve the Hubble tension” (whose slides you can find here), obviously focused on my “seven hints” paper. I look forward to lots of fruitful discussions, and interesting workshop, and a series of exciting social events (including a boat trip and a traditional Greek dinner)!
