ITU International Science and Engineering Summit (SES) 2026

Session

Cosmology Session

6 May 2026, 15:50

Turgut Özal School of Foreign Languages Congress and Student Social Center, A 174 (İTÜ Ayazağa Campus)

Conveners

Cosmology Session: Modern Cosmology: Foundations, Challenges, and the Search for Solutions

• Özgür Akarsu (Istanbul Technical University)

2. Modern Cosmology: Foundations, Challenges, and the Search for Solutions

Prof. Özgür Akarsu (Istanbul Technical University)

06/05/2026, 15:50

Modern cosmology provides a powerful framework for describing the Universe, from the Copernican principle to Einstein’s general relativity and the standard cosmological model, ΛCDM. Despite its remarkable success, however, this model now faces serious challenges, most notably the Hubble tension: a persistent mismatch between early-Universe predictions and late-Universe observations. In this...