There is a booming interest for Primordial black holes (PBHs) since the detection of gravitational waves from black hole mergers.  I will review some of the recent developments in the field of PBHs, going from formation scenarios to constraints on their abundance and to possible observational evidence, including subsolar-mass black hole candidates.  In particular, I will focus on the confrontation of PBH models with an extended mass distribution to the recent gravitational-wave observations, based on new calculations of their merger rates and clustering properties.

Biography

Sébastien Clesse is a professor at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium since 2020. He got his PhD at ULB and UCLouvain in 2011. From 2011 to 2020, he worked as a post-doc at DAMTP Cambridge, TUM Munich, University of Namur (Belgium), RWTH Aachen University, and finally at UCLouvain. 

Inviter

Shi Pi