Cosmic Connections
 Second Edition: AI/ML Across Cosmic Scales

Building on the first edition of Cosmic Connections, this national meeting will bring together researchers in cosmology. The 2026 edition will focus on the growing role of artificial intelligence and machine learning across cosmic scales, while retaining a broad scientific scope covering topics from the Early, Intermediate, and Late Universe. The talks and discussions are distributed (but not limited to) in the following areas:  

  • Early Universe: Inflation, primordial perturbations, CMB, primordial GWs      
  • Intermediate Universe: Dark ages, cosmic dawn, reionization, JWST results
  • Late Universe: Dark energy, large-scale structure, galaxy surveys, Lyman-alpha forest, 21cm cosmology, tensions in cosmology

 In addition to encouraging discussions on recent research developments and fostering collaborations within the community, Cosmic Connections aims to provide a platform for early-career researchers, especially PhD students and postdoctoral researchers, to present their work, interact with the broader community, and explore future academic opportunities.    The meeting will be live streamed on the matsciencechannel. Registration link: Please register for the conference following the link: https://forms.gle/ZUwugtauUbVzSVep8There is no registration fee for the conference.Note that only PhD students, Postdocs and faculty members can register. Deadline for registration is July 25, 2026. Website for the first edition of Cosmic Connections: https://sites.google.com/imsc.res.in/cosmic-connections

Conference Date: 
Mon, 07/09/2026 to Fri, 11/09/2026
Conference Venue: 

Ramanujan Auditorium, IMSc, Chennai

Conference URL: 
Cosmic Connections Second Edition
Plenary Speakers and Workshop Lecturers
This list will be updated with further confirmations.
Conference Plenary Speakers
Name Affiliation
Jasjeet Singh Bagla (TBC) Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Mohali, Mohali, India
Suddhasattwa Brahma Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India
Suchetana Chatterjee Presidency University, Kolkata, India
Abhirup Datta Indian Institute of Technology Indore, Indore, India
Koushik Dutta Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata, Kolkata, India
Sharvari Nadkarni-Ghosh Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur, India
Priyank Parashari (TBC) University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA
H. V. Ragavendra University of Padua, Padua, Italy
Mayuri Rao Raman Research Institute, Bengaluru, India
Namrata Roy Raman Research Institute, Bengaluru, India
S. Shankaranarayanan Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India
Priyanka Singh Indian Institute of Technology Indore, Indore, India
Workshop Lecturers
Name Affiliation
Debabrata Adak Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, Tenerife, Spain
Shadab Alam Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India
Anshuman Acharya (TBC) Berkeley Center for Cosmological Physics, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, USA
Madhurima Choudhury Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani, Hyderabad Campus, Hyderabad, India
Tirthankar Roy Choudhury National Centre for Radio Astrophysics–Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Pune, India
Suman Majumdar Indian Institute of Technology Indore, Indore, India
Soumak Maitra Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India
Purba Mukherjee (TBC) Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute, Daejeon, South Korea
Rajib Saha Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Bhopal, Bhopal, India
Anjan Sen Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India
* TBC: To be confirmed.