Galaxy surveys are instrumental for the study of the large scale structure of the Universe. These surveys are becoming larger and deeper, producing cosmological (and non-cosmological) results of great importance. The next large survey will be conducted by the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), which will have its first light in 2020. In addition, there are several other projects that will have a significant impact on cosmology planned for the same period, with important synergies with LSST. Therefore it is timely to discuss what can be expected from these projects and how we can be prepared to extract information from the future experiments in an efficient and coordinated way. The aim of the workshop is to attract experts in different areas of observational cosmology to discuss recent challenges in the field coming from on-going and planned projects, as well as to enhance the visibility and participation of the South American community in these projects. The format will be of short talks with time for discussions. Contributed talks will be accepted depending on time availability. We also plan to have a Poster and Early Career Scientist sessions. There is no registration fee.
Organizers:
- Luiz Nicolaci da Costa (Observatório Nacional & LIneA,Brazil)
- Jeff Newman (University of Pittsburgh, USA)
- Jorge Noreña (PUC-Valparaiso, Chile)
- Rogerio Rosenfeld (IFT-UNESP & ICTP-SAIFR & LIneA, Brazil)
- Domenico Sapone (University of Chile)
- Michael Strauss (Princeton University, USA)
Online Registration is now closed
LIST OF ABSTRACTS: PDF updated on December 14, 2018
Plenary Talks:
- David Alonso (University of Oxford, UK): Analysis challenges and tools for next-generation large-scale structure surveys
- Tessa Baker (University of Oxford, UK): The Gravitational Landscape for the LSST Era
- Dillon Brout (University of Pennsylvania, USA): First Cosmology Results Using Tupe IA Supernova from the Dark Energy Survey
- Chihway Chang (University of Chicago & Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, USA): A Unified Analysis of Four Cosmic Shear Surveys
- Cora Dvorkin (Harvard University, USA): Deciphering the Dark Side of Structure Formation with Cosmological Data: Current Status and Future Prospects
- Katrin Heitmann (Argonne National Laboratory, USA): Simulations for Large-Scale Sky Surveys and the LSST Data Challenge 2
- Elisabeth Krause (University of Arizona, USA): Joint Probes Cosmology in the Systematics-Limited Regime
- Tom McClintock (Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA): Galaxy Cluster Cosmology in the LSST Era
- Jeff Newman (University of Pittsburgh, USA): Photometric Redshifts for LSST (by skype)
- Mariana Penna-Lima (Universidade de Brasília, Brazil): Galaxy cluster mass estimate from weak lensing signal
- Ricardo Ogando (Observatório Nacional & LIneA, Brazil): Galaxy Clusters Hunters
- Nelson Padilla (PUC-Santiago, Chile): Testing gravity with LSST
- Miguel Quartin (IF-UFRJ, Brazil): Velocity and density power spectrum measurements with LSST supernovae
- Domenico Sapone (University of Chile): Internal Robustness of Growth Rate data
- Marko Simonovic (CERN, Switzerland): Modeling Biased Tracers at the Field Level
Talks:
- Luis Campusano (Universidad de Chile): Dark Clusters on Megaparsec Scales
- Rafael Bravo Guerraty (Universidad de Chile): A generalized non-Gaussian consistency relation for single field inflation
- Emille Ishida (CNRS/LPC-Clermont, France): Interdisciplinary for astronomical data challenges: the case for PLAsTiCC
- Nikolas Kokron (Stanford University, USA): Sharpening cosmological constraints with EFT methods
- Massimo Meneghetti (INAF-OASBO, Italy): Strong lensing by substructures in galaxy clusters
- Camila Paiva Novaes (Observatório Nacional, Brazil): Tomographic local 2D analyses of the WISExSuperCOSMOS all-sky galaxy catalogue
- Reinaldo Roberto Rosa (INPE, Brazil): Challenges for Galaxy Morphological Classification from Large Surveys
- Antonino Troja (ICTP-SAIFR/IFT-UNESP, Brazil): Non-Gaussian Likelihood in Harmonic space. Why we don’t need covariance to estimate parameters
- Sandro Dias Pinto Vitenti (CP3-U. Catholique de Louvain): NumCosmo: Numerical Cosmology Library
- Carlos Alexandre Wuensche (INPE, Brazil): The BINGO Telescope: an instrument to explore the Universe in the 21cm wavelength
- Felipe Andrade Oliveira (IFT-UNESP, Brazil): Galaxy Surveys in Harmonic Space
- Henrique Xavier (IAG-USP, Brazil): Dealing with stellar contamination and anisotropic selection effects on large photometric surveys
Posters:
- William Celestino Algoner Jorge (UFPR, Brazil): Matter growth in imperfect fluid cosmology
- Natália Crepaldi Del Coco (IAG-USP, Brazil): The relation between the physical properties of the intracluster plasma and the large scale structure of the Universe
- David Montenegro Coelho (IFT-UNESP, Brazil): Thermodynamics of decaying vacuum
- Sandro Marcio Rodrigues Micheletti (UFRJ-Macaé, Brazil): Field theory models of interacting dark energy: observational constraints and model selection
- Cristobal Moya (PUC, Chile): Lensed Quasars on Large Surveys
- Rubens Andreas Sautter (INPE, Brazil): Machine and Deep Learning applied to galaxy morphological classification
- Carolina Queiroz de Abreu Silva (IF-USP, Brazil): Using quasars to probe the large-scale structure of the Universe
- Vinícius Santos Terra (IFT-UNESP, Brazil): Inferring Cosmological Parameters in a Non-Gaussian Likelihood Framework
Registration: ALL participants should register. The registration will be on December 17 at the institute at 08:30 am.
List of Participants: Updated on December 12, 2018.
Poster presentation: Participants who are presenting a poster MUST BRING A BANNER PRINTED. The banner size should be at most 1,5m x 1m. We do not accept A4 or A3 paper. Click here to see what a banner looks like: http://designplast.ind.br/produtos/detalhe/impressao-digital/banner/119/9
Visa information: Nationals from several countries in Latin America and Europe are exempt from tourist visa. Nationals from Australia, Canada, Japan and USA can apply for an e-visa through VSF Global. Please check here which nationals need a tourist visa to enter Brazil.
Accommodation: Participants, whose accommodation will be provided by the institute, will stay at The Universe Flat. Hotel recommendations are available here
How to reach the Institute: The workshop will be held at ICTP South American Institute, located at IFT-UNESP, which is across the street from a major bus and subway terminal (Terminal Barra Funda). The address which is closer to the entrance of the IFT-UNESP building is R. Jornalista Aloysio Biondi, 120 – Barra Funda, São Paulo. The easiest way to reach us is by subway or bus, please find instructions here.
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