Talks and Posters

The programme for the conference can be found below. The talk titles will link to the corresponding slides. Links to posters are at the bottom of the page.

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Posters

Monday June 5th (day 1)

Chairs: Francoise Combes (morning), Stacy McGaugh (afternoon)
Time Speaker Title
9:10am - 10:10am Robert Sanders A brief scientific biography of Jacob Bekenstein
10:10am - 10:40am Stacy McGaugh Predictions and outcomes: tests of ΛCDM and MOND
10:40am - 11:30am Break and poster session
11:30am - 12:00pm Harry Desmond Three ways of looking at the radial acceleration relation
12:00pm - 12:30pm Kyu-Hyun Chae External field effect in rotationally-supported galaxies: present results and prospects
12:30pm - 2:00pm Lunch
2:00pm - 3:00pm Erik Verlinde Introduction to emergent gravity
3:00pm - 3:30pm Ruth Kastner Gravity from transactions: fulfilling the entropic gravity program
3:30pm - 4:15pm Break and poster session
4:15pm - 4:45pm Tom Richtler Isolated and central elliptical galaxies: the MONDian perspective
4:45pm - 5:15pm Pierfrancesco Di Cintio The halo mass - flattening relation of elliptical galaxies in the light of MOND
5:15pm - 6:00pm Discussion

Tuesday June 6th (Day 2)

Chairs: Benoit Famaey (morning), Federico Lelli (afternoon)
Time Speaker Title
9:00am - 10:00am Constantinos Skordis Extensions of General Relativity with a MOND and ΛCDM limit: Aether Scalar Tensor (AeST) theory and beyond
10:00am - 10:30am Sergio Mendoza Some relativistic metric MONDian extensions of gravity
10:30am - 11:15am Break and poster session
11:15am - 12:15pm Edwin Valentijn Observational tests: constraining modified gravity and cold dark matter hypotheses
12:15pm - 1:45pm Lunch
1:45pm - 2:15pm Haixia Ma Couplings between dark matter and baryonic matter on galactic scales: the radial vs. vertical
2:15pm - 2:45pm Sofia Splawska How "MOND-like" is Quasilinear MOND? Investigating the Vertical Acceleration Field of the Milky Way
2:45pm - 3:30pm Break and poster session
3:30pm - 4:00pm Riccardo Scarpa On the orbital velocity of galaxy pairs
4:00pm - 4:30pm Yong Tian Parallel Radial Acceleration Relation and Mass-Velocity Dispersion Relation on BCG-Cluster scales
4:30pm - 5:00pm Pengfei Li Challenge in galaxy clusters: can adding additional mass help MOND?
5:00pm - 5:45pm Discussion

Wednesday June 7th (Day 3)

Chairs: Lavinia Heisenberg (morning), Hongsheng Zhao (afternoon)
Time Speaker Title
9:00am - 9:30am Guillaume Thomas Probing the strong equivalence principle with Local Group globular clusters and their stellar streams
9:30am - 10:00am Marcel Pawlowski The reports of the demise of the Planes of Satellite Galaxies Problem are greatly exaggerated
10:00am - 10:30am Kosuke Jamie Kanehisa Lopsidedness in Andromeda's satellite galaxy distribution: A renewed tension with ΛCDM simulations
10:30am - 11:00am Break and poster session
11:00am - 12:00pm Mordehai Milgrom MOND as modified inertia
12:00pm - 12:30pm Asher Yahalom MOND & Retarded Gravity
12:30pm - 2:00pm Lunch
2:00pm - 2:30pm Robert Wilson Quaternionic mass quantisation
2:30pm - 3:00pm Igor Kanatchikov a0 and Λ from pre-canonical quantum gravity
3:00pm - 3:30pm Break and poster session
3:30pm - 4:00pm Marco Castellano Evidence of an accelerated evolution of the first galaxies in early JWST observations
4:00pm - 4:30pm Emiliano Merlin Passive galaxies at the dawn of the Universe as a challenge for ΛCDM cosmology
4:30pm - 5:00pm Federico Lelli Testing MOND in high-z galaxies
5:00pm - 5:45pm Discussion

Thursday June 8th (Day 4)

Chairs: Robert Sanders (morning), Indranil Banik (afternoon)
Time Speaker Title
10:00am - 10:30am Harsh Mathur MOND as an alternative to the Planet Nine Hypothesis
10:30am - 11:00am Xavier Hernandez Internal kinematics of GAIA DR3 wide binaries
11:00am - 11:30am Break and poster session
11:30am - 12:00pm Charalambos Pittordis Wide Binaries from GAIA EDR3: preference for GR over MOND?
12:00pm - 12:30pm Indranil Banik Strong constraints on MOND from GAIA DR3 wide binaries
12:30pm - 1:00pm Hongsheng Zhao What kind of MOND could pass the Wide Binary Test?
1:00pm - 2:30pm Lunch
2:30pm - 3:00pm Jonathan Freundlich Coma cluster ultra-diffuse galaxies as a testing ground for MOND
3:00pm - 3:30pm Srikanth Togere Nagesh Galaxy clusters in MOND: the case of ultra diffuse galaxies in the Coma cluster
3:30pm - 4:15pm Break and poster session
4:15pm - 4:45pm Elena Asencio The distribution and morphologies of Fornax Cluster dwarf galaxies suggest they lack dark matter
4:45pm - 5:15pm Michal Bilek Can the observation of globular clusters in low-mass galaxies exclude MOND modified gravity?
5:15pm - 6:00pm Discussion

Friday June 9th (Day 5)

Chair: Mordehai Milgrom
Time Speaker Title
9:00am - 10:00am Luc Blanchet Dipolar dark matter
10:00am - 10:30am Tobias Mistele Hybrid MOND-dark matter models confronted with weak lensing data
10:30am - 11:00am Francoise Combes Is there an alternative to MOND?
11:00am - 11:30am Break and poster session
11:30am - 12:30pm Tessa Baker Twin Tests of Cosmological Gravity
12:30pm - 1:00pm Alfie Russell Can cosmological simulations of vHDM ease the large-scale tensions in cosmology?
1:00pm - 2:30pm Lunch
2:30pm - 3:00pm Discussion

Posters

Presenter Title
William Beordo Geometry-driven Milky Way rotation curve with GAIA DR3: direct comparison with DM and MOND paradigms
Michal Bílek (1) Deciphering the detailed formation history of NGC 474 with the help of MOND
Michal Bílek (2) Imprint of the galactic acceleration scale on globular cluster systems
Michal Bílek (3) Origin of velocity dispersion of early-type galaxies: do we need a better theory of galaxy formation?
Valentina Cesare Dynamics of Disk and Elliptical Galaxies in Refracted Gravity
Francis Duey The Baryonic Tully-Fisher Relation from WISE Photometry of SPARC Galaxies
Mike Gerrard A Modified Inertia Interpretation of MOND
Xavier Hernández Will observed wide binaries in UFDs and dynamical friction falsify the CDM hypothesis?
Mark Huisjes Accelerations from Molecular Clouds in the Milky Way: Testing MOND on the ~30 parsec scale?
Kurt Koltko MOND and Gauge CPT: Similarites, Differences, and Connection
Federico Re Core-cusp problem in equivalent Newtonian systems of MOND N-body simulations
Antonio Sollima Testing QUMOND theory with Galactic globular clusters in a weak external field
Sara Tosi The Baryonic Size-Mass Relationship for SPARC Galaxies