Graduate Student Support for COSMO-16 International Cosmology Conference

Regents Of The University Of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor MI

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Abstract

This award will provide a modest amount of funding to help offset the registration fee for junior participants, about 12 graduate students or postdocs, at the COSMO-16 conference. COSMO is the premier international series of cosmology conferences. It started with a meeting in Ambleside, Lake District, UK in 1997. It is in its 20th edition this year when it is hosted by the Department of Physics at the University of Michigan. The organizers expect ~250 participants from around the world. The program will be headlined by a number of distinguished plenary speakers, and will include dark matter, dark energy, inflation, and gravitational waves, among other topics. The organizers will pay particular attention to ensuring that the plenary and parallel-session speakers come from a sufficiently diverse pool.