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The seminar was aimed at a general public and was attended by over 60 participants, including undergraduate and high school students. The session lasted approximately one hour and will be available on the PICO YouTube channel.

During the week of April 15, 2025, Andreu Font delivered a talk at Harvard’s Center for Astrophysics, presenting the latest Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) results from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) collaboration.

The fate of the universe hinges on the balance between matter and dark energy: the fundamental ingredient that drives its accelerating expansion. New results from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) collaboration use the largest 3D map of our universe ever made to track dark energy’s influence over the past 11 billion years.

Sindhu Sri Sravya Satyavolu obtained her PhD in Physics from the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai. Her thesis focused on the proximity zones of quasars during the epoch of reionization.

Martine Lokken has joined the the COSMO-LYA team as a postodoctoral researcher in the IFAE Observational Cosmology Group.

Laura Casas has joined the the COSMO-LYA team as a PhD student in the IFAE Observational Cosmology Group. Laura has a degree in mathematics by the Imperial College London and a Masters’ in Physics by the the The University of Edinburgh.

Jonás Chaves-Montero and Laura Cabayol have recently joined the COSMO-LYA team, and will work on the development of the theoretical models to interpret the data from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI).