In this talk, I will discuss various possibilities of producing dark matter in the early universe. By describing the transition between an inflationary epoch to a late time cosmology, I will emphasize how the dynamics of the universe can affect dark matter production and leave a cosmological imprint, allowing some of these scenarios to be constrained.

High-resolution spectroscopy of the simplest atoms and molecules plays an important role in the determination of fundamental physical constants such as the Rydberg constant or the proton charge radius, and may also be used to probe for hypothetical interactions beyond the standard model. As an introduction to this topic, I will review recent work on […]

Axion is a light particle arising in QCD as a solution to the strong CP problem and is considered to be one of the most promising dark matter candidate with interesting astrophysical and cosmological implications. At first, I will outline the scheme and sensitivity of a novel radio probe, axion gegenschein, in which axion-like particles […]

Within the AdS/CFT correspondence, the entanglement properties of the CFT are related to wormholes in the dual gravity theory. This gives rise to questions about the factorisation properties of the Hilbert spaces on both sides of the correspondence.  We review these issues and show how the Berry phase, a geometrical phase encoding information about topology, […]

The Lambda-cold-dark-matter (LCDM) model has established itself as a fantastic (yet parametric)  concordance model able to adjust a wide variety of cosmological observables — CMB, BBN, Large Scale Structure (LSS) & SN1a most notably.  However as the precision of the data has increased over the past few years, a number of predictions of the LCDM […]

I will discuss string theory compactifications where a large number of moduli is stabilized by fluxes. I will first present a conjecture which rules out the stabilization of all complex-structure moduli in F-theory at a generic point in moduli space by fluxes that satisfy the tadpole cancellation condition. Evidence for this conjecture comes from studying K3xK3 compactifications using […]