Name: Cosmology in the Alps 2024
Start: 2024-03-18T10:30:00+00:00
End: 2024-03-22T15:00:00+00:00
Location: Eurotel Victoria - Les Diablerets

Cosmology in the Alps 2024

from Monday, 18 March 2024 (10:30) to Friday, 22 March 2024 (15:00)

Monday, 18 March 2024

10:30 Arrival and Registration
Arrival and Registration
10:30 - 12:00

12:00 Lunch
Lunch
12:00 - 13:30
13:30 Intensity Mapping
Intensity Mapping
13:30 - 15:20
Contributions

13:30 Everything everywhere all at once: the MeerKLASS project - Mario Santos (University of the Western Cape and SARAO)

14:00 New observational constraints on HI cosmology and galaxy evolution at z<0.5 from SKA precursors - Francesco Sinigaglia (Université de Gèneve)

14:20 The stability of deep learning for post-EoR 21cm foreground removal - Tianyue Chen (EPFL)

14:40 Neutral hydrogen intensity mapping on Mpc scales with MeerKAT interferometer - Sourabh Paul (The University of Manchester)

15:00 The Tianlai project and 21cm Intensity Mapping - Reza Ansari (University Paris-Saclay & Dap/Irfu (CEA))
15:20 Coffee Break & Group Photo
Coffee Break & Group Photo
15:20 - 15:50
15:50 Intensity Mapping
Intensity Mapping
15:50 - 17:50
Contributions

15:50 The Hydrogen Intensity and Real-time Analysis eXperiment: Overview and Status Updates - Devin Crichton (ETH Zurich)

16:10 Launching the ultra-large-scale era with radio intensity mapping - Steve Cunnington (University of Manchester)

16:30 Progress towards measuring HI auto power spectrum using CHIME data - Arnab Chakraborty (McGill University)

16:50 Line intensity mapping quest to solve the (possible!) JWST puzzle - Sarah Libanore (Ben Gurion University of the Negev)

17:10 Calibration pipeline and results for HI intensity mapping with FAST - Wenxiu Yang (National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

17:30 Constraining Cosmology With CMB and LIM Lensing - Hannah Fronenberg (McGill University)
17:50 Free time
Free time
17:50 - 19:00

19:00 Dinner - Fondue + Welcome address from Prof. Claude Nicollier
Dinner - Fondue + Welcome address from Prof. Claude Nicollier
19:00 - 21:30
Tuesday, 19 March 2024
09:00 Diversity and Inclusion
Diversity and Inclusion
09:00 - 09:30
Contributions

09:00 Towards Effective Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Programs - Keshlan Govinder (University of KwaZulu-Natal)
09:30 Dark and Quiet Skies
Dark and Quiet Skies
09:30 - 10:10
Contributions

09:30 The impact of large satellite constellations on the Dark and Quiet Sky - Anna Bonaldi (SKAO)

09:50 Trajectory based RFI subtraction and calibration - Chris Finlay (UNIGE)
10:10 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:10 - 10:40
10:40 Radio Galaxy Surveys
Radio Galaxy Surveys
10:40 - 12:30
Contributions

10:40 Galaxy Surveys at Radio Frequencies - Tessa Vernstrom (CSIRO)

11:10 The spectral index-flux density relation for extragalactic radio sources selected at metre and decametre wavelengths - Pratik Dabhade (Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC, Spain))

11:30 Simulating HI galaxies with Semi-Analytical Models in preparation for the SKAO late-time cosmology case - Joel Mayor (ETH Zürich)

11:50 Probing the Sources of Reionization using Radio Observations - Omkar Bait (University of Geneva)

12:10 Bringing Self-Supervised Learning to Radio Galaxy Surveys: A Novel Approach with MeerKAT MGCLS - Erica Lastufka (University of Geneva)
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 13:45
13:45 Large Scale Structures and Magnetic Fields
Large Scale Structures and Magnetic Fields
13:45 - 15:15
Contributions

13:45 Magnetic Fields and the Large-Scale Structure of the Universe - Tessa Vernstrom (CSIRO)

14:15 MeerKAT’s view of cluster-scale faint diffuse emission - Sinenhlanhla Precious Sikhosana (University Of Kwazulu-Natal)

14:35 LISA and γ-ray telescopes as multi-messenger probes of a cosmological first-order phase transition and intergalactic magnetic fields - Alberto Roper Pol (University of Geneva)

14:55 Cosmology with the GLEAM-X survey - Brandon Venville (ICRAR/Curtin)
15:15 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:15 - 15:45

15:45 Free time - Poster set-up
Free time - Poster set-up
15:45 - 16:30
16:30 Poster Session
Poster Session
16:30 - 18:30
Room: Entrance Hall
Contributions

16:40 Efficient Simulation of Cosmological Neutral Hydrogen based on a Halo Model Approach - Pascal Hitz (ETH Zurich)

16:44 The REACH Global 21cm Experiment - Daniel Molnar (Department of Physics, University of Cambridge)

16:48 Refining the Ideal Sky Model for CD/EoR Detection - Shijiao Yin

16:52 The Point about Conical Emissions of First Galaxies - Timo Schwandt (University of Sussex)

16:56 A Bayesian Method to Mitigate the Effects of Unmodelled Time-Varying Systematics for 21-cm Cosmology Experiments - Christian Kirkham (University of Cambridge)

17:00 Metrology of the HIRAX Dishes - Jennifer Studer (ETH Zurich)

17:04 Recent Observations with the Mapper of the IGM Spin Temperature - Jonathan Sievers (McGill University)

17:08 Theoretical Predictions for HI Intensity Mapping on Non-Linear Scale in the Low-z Universe - Zhixing Li (Tsinghua University)

17:12 BEoRN : a modular framework to simulate the 21cm signal - Timothée Schaeffer (University of Zurich)

17:16 Improved full-sky reconstruction of the gravitational lensing potential through the combination of Planck and LiteBIRD CMB data - Miguel Ruiz-Granda (Instituto de Física de Cantabria (CSIC-UC))

17:20 Towards 21-cm intensity mapping with uGMRT wideband observation - Khandakar Md Asif Elahi (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur)

17:24 Probing evolution of 21-cm neutral hydrogen during epoch of reionization via bispectrum multipole moments - Sukhdeep Singh (IIT Kharagpur)
18:30 Free time
Free time
18:30 - 19:00

19:00 Dinner
Dinner
19:00 - 20:30
Wednesday, 20 March 2024
08:30 Gravitational Lensing/Cosmology
Gravitational Lensing/Cosmology
08:30 - 10:00
Contributions

08:30 Strong Lensing as a Probe of Cosmology - Sherry Suyu (Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics)

09:00 Cosmic Flows : probing the dynamics of large scale structures - Helene Courtois (University Lyon 1 / IP2I Lyon)

09:20 Cosmology with LOFAR - Lukas Böhme (Bielefeld University)

09:40 Self-interacting dark matter impact on pulsar timing array observations - James Cline (McGill University)
10:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:00 - 10:30
10:30 Gravitational Lensing/Cosmology
Gravitational Lensing/Cosmology
10:30 - 12:10
Contributions

10:30 Gravitational lensing signal reconstruction from the CMB and intensity maps - Julien Carron (Université de Genève)

10:50 Weak Lensing Mass Maps and Cosmology from Peak Statistics: Results from the three-year shear catalogue of the Hyper Suprime-Cam Subaru Strategic Program - Kai-Feng Chen (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

11:10 EMU simulations for a cosmic magnification test of GR - Albany Asher (Western Sydney University / CSIRO Space & Astronomy)

11:30 Evidence for enhanced growth of cosmic structure - Deng Wang (IFIC, CSIC-University of Valencia)

11:50 The Canadian Galactic Emission Mapper (CGEM) - An 8-10 GHz Polarization Survey to Aid in the Search for Primordial Gravitational Waves - Pedro Villalba Gonzalez (University of British Columbia)
12:10 Lunch (Lunch bag)
Lunch (Lunch bag)
12:10 - 12:30

12:30 Free time - Getting ready for excursion
Free time - Getting ready for excursion
12:30 - 13:00

13:00 Glacier 3000 Excursion - Snow Outing
Glacier 3000 Excursion - Snow Outing
13:00 - 17:30

17:30 Free time
Free time
17:30 - 19:00

19:00 Dinner
Dinner
19:00 - 20:30
Thursday, 21 March 2024
08:30 Cosmic Dawn and The Epoch of Reionization (1)
Cosmic Dawn and The Epoch of Reionization (1)
08:30 - 10:00
Contributions

08:30 The Epoch of Reionisation through the low-frequency radio lens - Adélie Gorce (CNRS IAS)

09:00 Validating 21 cm cosmology analysis pipelines: lessons learned and future outlooks. - Piyanat Kittiwisit (University of the Western Cape)

09:20 Updates from the Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array - Robert Pascua (McGill University)

09:40 Impact of astrophysical scatter on the [H I] 21cm bispectrum - Chandra Shekhar Murmu (IIT Indore)
10:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:00 - 10:30
10:30 Cosmic Dawn and The Epoch of Reionization (2)
Cosmic Dawn and The Epoch of Reionization (2)
10:30 - 12:10
Contributions

10:30 Constraining cosmic reionisation by combining the kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect and the 21 cm signal - Ivelin Georgiev (The Oskar Klein Centre, Department of Astronomy, Stockholm University)

10:50 Simulating Cosmic Reionization on all scales - Ilian Iliev (University of Sussex)

11:10 Signals of Cosmic Strings in the 21-cm Sky - Robert Brandenberger (McGill University)

11:30 Observing the Epoch of Reionisation and Cosmic Dawn with LOFAR and NenuFAR, and the upcoming SKA - Leon Koopmans (Kapteyn Astronomical Institute)

11:50 An End-to-End Simulation for SKA1-low and Signal Separation Approach for the EoR signal - Zhenghao Zhu
12:10 Lunch
Lunch
12:10 - 13:40
13:40 Cosmic Dawn and The Epoch of Reionization (3)
Cosmic Dawn and The Epoch of Reionization (3)
13:40 - 15:20
Contributions

13:40 PyFHD: Epoch of Reionization software for all - Nichole Barry (Curtin University)

14:00 How the SKA will revolutionize studies of the first billion years - Andrei Mesinger (SNS)

14:20 Interpreting Upper Limits from LOFAR - Garrelt Mellema (Dept. of Astronomy, Stockholm University)

14:40 The sensitivity of 21cm signal - Lyman-alpha emitter cross-correlations to the ionisation topology - Anne Hutter (Cosmic Dawn Center, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen)

15:00 ML-Enhanced Foreground Removal Methods for 21-cm Experiments Preparing for the SKA Era - Florent Mertens (Paris Observatory - LERMA)
15:20 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:20 - 15:50
15:50 Cosmic Dawn and The Epoch of Reionization (4)
Cosmic Dawn and The Epoch of Reionization (4)
15:50 - 17:50
Contributions

15:50 21cmCosmoSim: Simulations and inference for 21cm cosmology - Caroline Heneka

16:10 Exploring Beyond Standard Cosmological Models during the Epoch of Reionization - Sambit Giri (Stockholm University)

16:30 Probing Early Universe using the uGMRT, SKA and SEAMS - Abhirup Datta (Centre of Astronomy, Indian Institute of Technology-Indore,)

16:50 Charting Cosmic Evolution: UV Background and the Persistence of HI in Galaxies for Post-EoR Simulations - Michele Bianco (EPFL / ETH)

17:10 Wavelet Based Statistics for Enhanced 21cm EoR Parameter Constraints - Ian Hothi (Imperial College London)

17:30 Prospects of a statistical detection of the 21-cm forest and its potential to constrain the cosmic heating and reionization history - Tomas Soltinsky (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research)
17:50 Free time
Free time
17:50 - 18:00

18:00 Dinner
Dinner
18:00 - 19:30

19:30 Snow Shoe Under the Stars
Snow Shoe Under the Stars
19:30 - 21:30
Friday, 22 March 2024
09:00 Instrumentation and Future Experiments
Instrumentation and Future Experiments
09:00 - 10:00
Contributions

09:00 Probing the Universe with radio observations from the lunar orbit and surface - Xuelei Chen (National Astronomical Observatory of China)

09:20 Overview of CHORD - Seth Siegel (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics)

09:40 Each Station is as Unique as a Snowflake — The Consequences of Assuming Uniformity for Epoch of Reionization Science - Aman Chokshi (University of Melbourne)
10:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:00 - 10:30

10:30 Workshop on Future Collaboration and Upcoming Science Topics
Workshop on Future Collaboration and Upcoming Science Topics
10:30 - 12:00

12:00 Lunch
Lunch
12:00 - 13:30

13:30 Departure
Departure
13:30 - 15:00