IEA CosmoGravity

IEA CosmoGravity

French-Thai International Emerging Action in New challenges for cosmology and gravitation

IEA (PICS 07964) CosmoGravity

2018-2020

Prof. Ignatios Antoniadis
antoniad(at)lpthe.jussieu.fr

Prof. Auttakit Chatrabhuti
Auttakit.C(at)chula.ac.th

IEA CosmoGravity
Videos

IEA CosmoGravity
News

Introduction

The PICS  CosmoGravity (New challenges for cosmology and gravitation), managed by Prof. Ignatios Antoniadis (CNRS, Laboratoire de Physique Theorique et Haute Energies, Sorbonne Universite, Faculte des Sciences, Campus Jussieu) in collaboration with Physics Department of Chulalongkorn University (Prof. Auttakit Chatrabhuti), Bangkok, is effective in 2018, 2019 and 2020.

Missions and research themes

The project is devoted to study  present challenges in gravity and cosmology, with emphasis a new approach to mass scale hierarchies, in view of the experimental and theoretical state-of-the art. We have recently entered an unprecedented era, with the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) searching for new particles and interactions at energies ten times Present and forthcoming particle physics and cosmological data have a real chance of pointing to a deeper and more refined microscopic high-energy theory. We plan to develop and combine ideas and techniques from supersymmetry, string theory, extra dimensions and holography to make progress in this direction. Central questions are: (i) the origin of the different scales associated with a theory describing cosmology, gravitation and particle physics; (ii) the role of supersymmetry at a fundamental level and its possible non-linear realisation at low energies. 

MAIN projects of research

The main research objectives are: (1) Particle physics and cosmology of (approximate) de Sitter vacua in supergravity, towards the description of both inflation and present dark energy. (2) Non-linear supersymmetry and cosmology. (3) The Universe through gravitational waves. 

Our methodology relies heavily on effective field theory, symmetries and supergravity techniques. The results should be relevant to the ongoing and future observational programs in cosmology and gravitation, as well as to particle physics experiments searching for new physics beyond the Standard Model. In particular, we aim to identify interesting connections between cosmological observations, primordial gravitational waves and LHC results.

institutions and laboratories involved

France:
• Ignatios Antoniadis (LPTHE – CNRS – Sorbonne Universite, Faculte des Sciences, Campus Jussieu, Pari

Thailand

• Auttakit Chatrabhuti (Physics Department, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok)

 

Ignatios Antoniadis (front row, center)  and Auttakit Chatrabhuti (front row, on the left) at a conference (Unveiling the fundamental laws of Nature), along with students. 

Ignatios Antoniadis and Auttakit Chatrabhuti (front row) at the Bangkok school on high-energy physics. 

IRL MAJULAB

IRL MAJULAB

International Research Laboratory between France and Singapore in Quantum Technologies, Quantum Computing, Photonics, Material Science

IRL MajuLab

Creation date: 2014
Contact:
Dr. Christian Miniatura
direction(at)majulab.cnrs.fr

IRL MajuLab     Website

Yianing Li, Mehedi Hasan and David Wilkowski, tuning the laser system for cold atom experiments. Credits: Singapore

Full view of the laser system for cold atom experiments. Credits: CQT, Singapore

Cloud of magneto-optically trapped Strontium atoms (blue spot). Credits: CQT, Singapore

Introduction

The signing institutions of the IRL MajuLab are CNRS, Université Côte d’Azur, Sorbonne Université, National University of Singapore and Nanyang Technological University of Singapore. The IRL Majulab is currently directed by Dr Christian Miniatura (CNRS). It is one of the 75 IRL developed by the CNRS with strategic partners across the world and one of the 5 IRL in Singapore.

In Singapore, the historical partner labs are Centre for Quantum Technologies (NUS) and School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences (NTU).

In France, the historical partner labs are INPHYNI (UCA) and Laboratoire Kastler-Brossel (SU).

Mission and research themes

Mission: Bridge top researchers and labs of CNRS, UCA, SU, NUS and NTU into fruitful collaborative links and networks around selected topics in physics with a strong hold on quantum technologies.

Research Axes : Quantum Matter Physics, Quantum Information and Computation, Quantum Materials and Photonics.

MAIN projects of research

QuantAlgo – Quantum Algorithms (2018 -2021)

QND Measurement on Lattice Atom Interferometers with an Optical Clock Transition (2018-2021)

Energetics of fault tolerant quantum computation (2019-2021)

Visualizing Perovskite Growth to Unlock Optoelectronic Secrets (2020-2023)

Unconventional magnetism and magneto-transport in chiral metallic magnets (2020-2023)

laboratories involved

France:
Université Côte d’Azur: INPHYNI, CRHEA

Sorbonne Université: LKB, LPENS, LPTMC, LIP6

Université Grenoble Alpes: INSTITUT NEEL, LPM2C

Université Toulouse III: LPT, LCAR

Université de Bordeaux: LP2N

Université Cergy Pontoise: LPTM

Singapore:

National University of Singapore: CQT, CA2DM, DPT of PHYSICS

Nanyang Technological University: SPMS (PAP), MSE, CDPT

Yale-NUS: Science Division

SUTD: Science and Maths Cluster