Millisecond pulsars are magnetised, rapidly rotating neutron stars known to produce a pulsed emission at multiple frequencies, from radio to at least GeV energies. Stellar evolution models predict a large number of millisecond pulsars in the inner region of our Galaxy. However, their true contribution to the diffuse gamma-ray sky, and in particular to the Fermi GeV excess (which is also interpreted as an evidence for dark matter at the Galactic center), remains elusive.

While Quantum 1.0 technologies have already been used to great effect in high energy physics applications such as rare event dark matter searches, the next generation of experiments will make use of new Quantum 2.0 sensing technologies such as squeezing and initial state preparation using non-Gaussian resources.   Rudimentary qubit-based quantum processors are being deployed as the front end electronics to manipulate and detect signals at the single quantum level with readout noise far below the standard quantum limit of zero-point vacuum fluctuations.  In this talk, I will give an overview of

Cosmic Inflation, the currently favoured physical mechanism at the origin of structures in our universe, can be realised in many ways, ranging from modified gravity to string-theoretical constructions. However, up to now, its simplest incarnations, made of a scalar field slow-rolling a plateau-like potential, have passed all the observational tests. Will these models be confirmed by the upcoming Euclid and other large-scale structure surveys?