Tonale Winter School

This week I’m travelling to Passo del Tonale to lecture at the 2023 Tonale Winter School on Cosmology. The weather is fortunately fantastic, with clear skies and a lot of snow (below is the view from my hotel window)! For those of you who might be interested, below are the slides I will use during the lectures, and the questions which will be discussed in the working group sessions:

• Lecture 1: Basics of theoretical and observational cosmology [Slides]

• Lecture 2: Measuring the Hubble constant – the Hubble tension [Slides]

• Lecture 3: How (not) to solve the Hubble tension? [Slides]

• Lecture 4: Other tensions and challenges for ΛCDM [Slides]

• Working group questions

I have really fond memories from the time I attended as a student in 2014 (fun fact: my roommate was Vivian Poulin, now one of the big names in the Hubble tension game), and I’m looking forward to an exciting week!

Tonale Winter School on Cosmology

I’m pleased to announce that I will be lecturing at the Tonale Winter School on Cosmology later this year. This is a well-known cosmology winter school addressed to advanced MSc students, PhD students, and junior postdocs, which started in 2007 and takes place in Passo del Tonale, Italy. I myself attended as a student in 2014. This year I will deliver 4 lectures on cosmological tensions. More details, including the official school page, will follow later!

First day (of school)

Today is officially my first day as Assistant Professor at the University of Trento! In practice I’ll actually be physically starting in a month or so, during which I will be on leave of absence to take care of a number of scattered things (mostly bureaucracy related to the move). In the meantime, below is the view I will get from my new office - nothing short of breathtaking, right? 😎