| Wednesday, April 18, 2018 |
| 8:55-9:00 |
|
Welcome and introduction |
| 9:00-9:30 |
Katrin Heitmann |
Cosmic Calibration |
| 9:30-10:00 |
Masahiro Takada |
Towards Precision Cosmology with Halos and Halo Emulator |
| 10:00-10:30 |
Risa Wechsler |
Simulation-based predictions of galaxy observables |
| 10:30-11:00 |
Coffee break |
| 11:00-11:30 |
Martin Crocce |
Numerical Simulations for Large Galaxy Surveys |
| 11:30-12:00 |
Jens Jasche |
Deciphering the Dynamical Universe via Non-linear Bayesian Inference |
| 12:00-12:30 |
Sandrine Codis |
Modelling Galaxy Clustering in the Large Deviations Regime |
| 12:30-13:30 |
Lunch break |
| 13:30-13:50 |
Andrew Pontzen |
Accelerating statistical structure formation simulations using
controlled initial conditions
|
| 13:50-14:10 |
Guillhem Lavaux |
Non-linear Bayesian inference of cosmic fields in SDSS3 and 2M++ |
| 14:10-14:30 |
Marc Manera |
Obtaining non-linear galaxy bias constraints from galaxy-lensing
phase differences
|
| 14:30-14:50 |
Julien Peloton |
Analyzing large-scale structure data with Apache Spark |
| 14:50-15:20 |
Coffee break |
| 15:20-15:40 |
Eric Gawiser |
Simultaneous estimation of large-scale structure and Milky Way dust |
| 15:40-16:30 |
Early Career Talks |
Marika Asgari - Cosmic shear with care
Ben Giblin - Enhanced cosmic shear with clipping in KiDS-450
Vasiliy Demchenko - Weak lensing with voids
Marco Gatti - Weak lensing mass mapping with DES Y3
Antonino Troja - Prediction and measurements of the angular bispectrum
Georgios Valogiannis - Beyond delta
Alex Hall - Modelling the likelihood of maps and power spectra
David Copeland - The impact of baryons on dark energy measurements
Alessio Spurio Mancini - Weak lensing as a 3D probe of gravity
|
| 16:30-16:35 |
5-min break |
| 16:35-17:15 |
Panel discussion: Modelling astrophysics |
| Thursday, April 19, 2018 |
| 9:00-9:30 |
Alan Heavens |
Statistical challenges for large-scale structure in the era of LSST |
| 9:30-10:00 |
Tim Eifler |
Modeling the Universe – Interfacing Numerical Simulations, Theory, Statistical Methods, and Observations |
| 10:00-10:30 |
Hiranya Peiris |
The posterior predictive distribution as a measure of tension between datasets |
| 10:30-11:00 |
Coffee break |
| 11:00-11:30 |
Elisabeth Krause |
Lessons learned from two-point function cosmology with DES Year-1 data |
| 11:30-12:00 |
Alex Barreira |
Responses on Sample Covariance: what do we really need to model |
| 12:00-12:20 |
Zvonimir Vlah |
Advances in the perturbative description of LSS |
| 12:20-13:30 |
Lunch break |
| 13:30-13:50 |
Fabian Koehlinger |
A consistent approach to inconsistencies |
| 13:50-14:10 |
Chia-Hsun Chuang |
Optimal BAO measurement from galaxies+
voids & robust covariance matrix estimation |
| 14:10-14:30 |
Alex Mead |
A multi-component halo model for cross correlations and understanding
the baryon distribution
|
| 14:30-14:50 |
Jonathan Blazek |
Tools for modeling tracers of LSS |
| 14:50-15:20 |
Coffee break |
| 15:20-16:10 |
Early Career Talks |
Ben Moews - Non-parametric Bayesian methods
Doogesh Kodi Ramanah - Bayesian forward modelling
Tom Charnock - Automatic physical inference with neural networks
Giuseppe Congedo - Accurate weak lensing shear measurement with LensMC
Louis Legrand - Stellar to halo mass relation
Matteo Cataneo - Beyond LCDM with halo model responses
Danielle Leonard - Measuring IAs with multiple shear measurements
Chieh-An Lin - Photometric redshifts by machine learning
Constance Mahony - The Potential of Weak Lensing Magnification at LSST
Luisa Lucie-Smith - Machine learning dark-matter halo formation
|
| 16:10-16:15 |
5-min break |
| 16:15-17:15 |
Panel discussion: KiDS & DES |
| Friday, April 20, 2018 |
| 9:00-9:30 |
Eduardo Rozo |
A Precise H0 Measurement from DES Y1, BAO, and D/H Data |
| 9:30-10:00 |
Florian Beutler |
Beyond the standard Baryon Acoustic Oscillation measurement |
| 10:00-10:30 |
William Hartley |
Photo-z challenges for 2-pt cosmology at LSST depths |
| 10:30-11:00 |
Coffee break |
| 11:00-11:30 |
Boris Leistedt |
Hierarchical modeling and statistical calibration of photometric redshifts
for deep galaxy surveys
|
| 11:30-12:00 |
Ashley Ross |
Measurig galaxy clustering at gigaparsec scales |
| 12:00-12:20 |
Alex Malz |
Toward stack-free cosmology |
| 12:20-13:30 |
Lunch break |
| 13:30-13:50 |
Andreu Font-Ribera |
Statistical challenges in the Lyman-α forest |
| 13:50-14:10 |
Maciej Bilicki |
Probing the large-scale structure with the largest photometric catalogues: today and tomorrow
|
| 14:10-14:30 |
Ann Lee |
Nonparametric inference for complex data and simulations in astronomy |
| 14:30-14:50 |
Hector Gil-Marin |
Redshift-space distortion analysis from the DR14 eBOSS quasar sample in Fourier space
|
| 14:50-15:20 |
Coffee break |
| 15:20-15:40 |
Seshadri Nadathur |
Constraints on cosmology and gravity using voids in large-scale
structure surveys
|
| 15:40-16:00 |
Jon Loveday |
Small-scale galaxy dynamics: the pairwise velocity dispersion |
| 16:00-16:40 |
Early Career Talks |
Pauline Zarrouk - Towards precision cosmology with quasar anisotropic clustering
Rongpu Zhou - Galaxy clustering with photo-z's
Ken Osato - Orientation dependence of surface mass density profiles of halos
Simon Samuroff - Exploring Galaxy Intrinsic Alignment in DES Y1
Victoria Calafut - Cluster Mislocation in kSZ effect extraction
Humna Awan - Partial Galaxy Clustering
Robert Schuhmann - LSST+Euclid: galaxy shape measurement synergies
|
| 16:40-16:45 |
5-min break |
| 16:45-17:25 |
Panel discussion: Ask a photo-z expert! Slides: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 |
