Prof. Bayram Tekin from METU / ODTÜ in Ankara is visiting us this week, thanks to an Erasmus+ staff mobility agreement for teaching that allows him to give five lectures on "Modified Gravity" at our institute. It's great to have you, Bayram!

PCM taking Bayram Tekin from METU / ODTÜ out for Mexican dinner in Münster. 🫔🌮🌯

At the Bethe Center for Theoretical Physics in Bonn to talk about "New Physics at the PTA Frontier" 😀

PCM at the 18. Kosmologietag [indico.physik.uni-bielefeld.de/event/109/]. Always a pleasure to be in Bielefeld! 😀

Qaisar Shafi speaking in the QFT Seminar of our institute about "Monopoles, Strings, and Gravitational Waves" 😀

Colloquium at the Oskar Klein Centre in Stockholm! 😃

The video abstract of 𝗚𝗿𝗮𝘃𝗶𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝘄𝗮𝘃𝗲𝘀 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗹𝗼𝘄-𝘀𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝘀𝗺𝗶𝗰 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀 is now online on youtube! youtu.be/vNO6V9Avf5w?si…

Getting ready for my public outreach talk on gravitational waves at Staatstheater Mainz. 😁 #PhysikImTheater #MITP mitp.uni-mainz.de/physik-im-thea…

Really enjoyed the "Frontiers in Cosmology and Gravitational Physics" workshop [ sciama.icg.port.ac.uk/frontiers2024/… ] at the University of Portsmouth! Can you spot me in the picture? 😉

Yesterday I was awarded the "Förderpreis" award by the University Society ("Universitätsgesellschaft") Münster! 🎉 uni-muenster.de/news/view.php?…

Bielefeld-Münster Cosmo Connection 2024, summer edition: two days of talks to update each other on recent activities in Bielefeld and Münster, plus a nice "Flammkuchen" dinner this time. 😋

Impressions of the talks by our participants from the Bielefeld- Münster- Cosmo- Connection! We explored many interesting topics, including parallels in the search of new physics in CMB and GWB and progress on the statistical analysis of parameters in new hypotheses 🌌

🚨 New video on the PCM YouTube channel: youtu.be/qrJ7D3_oa2s?si… in which PCM postdoc Sasha Sobol summarizes our recent paper on "Scalar Perturbations from Inflation in the Presence of Gauge Fields": arxiv.org/abs/2404.19694

🚨 New analysis of the NANOGrav PFC 15-yr data (main contributions from Münster+Warsaw): We introduce the running of the spectral index, constrain it using our data, and discuss parameter bounds that apply if the signal should originate from cosmic inflation: arxiv.org/abs/2408.10166

🚨 New PCM paper on the arXiv [ arxiv.org/abs/2408.16538 ]: Schwinger pair production during axion inflation can be relevant for the generation of primordial magnetic fields. We take an in-depth look at this effect and partially find large deviations from earlier treatments.