Cosmology in the Alps 2024
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Eurotel Victoria - Les Diablerets
Eurotel Victoria - Les Diablerets
Chemin du Vernex 3 , 1865 Les Diablerets, Switzerland
Anna Bonaldi
(SKA organization),
Carolyn Crichton,
Joanna Jermini-Howard
Description
Overview
The Cosmology in the Alps Conference will focus on radio cosmology studying the universe on large scales. It aims to bring together experts in the field together with early career researchers to foster interactions.
Cosmology in the Alps will focus on three main goals:
●Foster developments in radio Cosmology
●Highlight young researchers in Cosmology from across the globe
●Highlight Swiss contributions to the global Cosmology landscape
The conference will be held at the Eurotel Victoria in the Les Diablerets, in the Swiss Alps from 18-22 March 2024 and will be hosted by SKACH - the Swiss Consortium to the SKAO.
ASTRONAUT CLAUDE NICOLLIER ATTENDING OUR WELCOME DINNER
We will also have the honor to host Astronaut Claude Nicollier who will give a welcome address during our Welcome Dinner on Monday 18 March 2024. Furthermore, Les Diablerets is very special to him as it is the home of the Nicollier family. For more information on Claude Nicollier, please click here.
ABSTRACTS AND REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Abstracts are now open until 30 November 2023. For registration, please go to the "Registration Information" section on the menu window.
We look forward to welcoming you to Switzerland!
Contact
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Arrival and Registration 1h 30m
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Lunch 1h 30m
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Monday afternoon - part 1: Intensity Mapping
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Everything everywhere all at once: the MeerKLASS project 30mSpeaker: Mario Santos (University of the Western Cape and SARAO)
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New observational constraints on HI cosmology and galaxy evolution at z<0.5 from SKA precursors 20mSpeaker: Francesco Sinigaglia (Université de Gèneve)
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The stability of deep learning for post-EoR 21cm foreground removal 20mSpeaker: Tianyue Chen (EPFL)
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Neutral hydrogen intensity mapping on Mpc scales with MeerKAT interferometer 20mSpeaker: Sourabh Paul (The University of Manchester)
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The Tianlai project and 21cm Intensity Mapping 20mSpeaker: Reza Ansari (University Paris-Saclay & Dap/Irfu (CEA))
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Coffee Break & Group Photo 30m
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Monday afternoon - part 2: Intensity Mapping
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The Hydrogen Intensity and Real-time Analysis eXperiment: Overview and Status Updates 20mSpeaker: Devin Crichton (ETH Zurich)
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Launching the ultra-large-scale era with radio intensity mapping 20mSpeaker: Dr Steve Cunnington (University of Manchester)
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Progress towards measuring HI auto power spectrum using CHIME data 20mSpeaker: Arnab Chakraborty (McGill University)
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Line intensity mapping quest to solve the (possible!) JWST puzzle 20mSpeaker: Sarah Libanore (Ben Gurion University of the Negev)
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Calibration pipeline and results for HI intensity mapping with FAST 20mSpeaker: Wenxiu Yang (National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
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Constraining Cosmology With CMB and LIM Lensing 20mSpeaker: Hannah Fronenberg (McGill University)
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Free time 1h 10m
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Dinner - Fondue + Welcome address from Prof. Claude Nicollier 2h 30m
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Tuesday morning - part 1 a: Diversity and Inclusion
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Towards Effective Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Programs 30mSpeaker: Prof. Keshlan Govinder (University of KwaZulu-Natal)
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Tuesday morning - part 1 b: Dark and Quiet Skies
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The impact of large satellite constellations on the Dark and Quiet Sky 20mSpeaker: Anna Bonaldi (SKAO)
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Trajectory based RFI subtraction and calibration 20mSpeaker: Chris Finlay (UNIGE)
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Coffee Break 30m
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Tuesday morning - part 2: Radio Galaxy Surveys
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Galaxy Surveys at Radio Frequencies 30mSpeaker: Tessa Vernstrom (CSIRO)
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The spectral index-flux density relation for extragalactic radio sources selected at metre and decametre wavelengths 20mSpeaker: Dr Pratik Dabhade (Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC, Spain))
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Simulating HI galaxies with Semi-Analytical Models in preparation for the SKAO late-time cosmology case 20mSpeaker: Joel Mayor (ETH Zürich)
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Probing the Sources of Reionization using Radio Observations 20mSpeaker: Dr Omkar Bait (University of Geneva)
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Bringing Self-Supervised Learning to Radio Galaxy Surveys: A Novel Approach with MeerKAT MGCLS 20mSpeaker: Erica Lastufka (University of Geneva)
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Lunch 1h 15m
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Tuesday afternoon - part 1: Large Scale Structures and Magnetic Fields
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Magnetic Fields and the Large-Scale Structure of the Universe 30mSpeaker: Dr Tessa Vernstrom (CSIRO)
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MeerKAT’s view of cluster-scale faint diffuse emission 20mSpeaker: Sinenhlanhla Precious Sikhosana (University Of Kwazulu-Natal)
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LISA and γ-ray telescopes as multi-messenger probes of a cosmological first-order phase transition and intergalactic magnetic fields 20mSpeaker: Alberto Roper Pol (University of Geneva)
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Cosmology with the GLEAM-X survey 20mSpeaker: Brandon Venville (ICRAR/Curtin)
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Coffee Break 30m
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Free time - Poster set-up 45m
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Tuesday afternoon - part 2: Poster Session Entrance Hall (Maison des Congrès)
Entrance Hall
Maison des Congrès
Chem. des Grandes Isles 7 1865 Ormont-Dessus-
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Efficient Simulation of Cosmological Neutral Hydrogen based on a Halo Model Approach 4mSpeaker: Pascal Hitz (ETH Zurich)
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The REACH Global 21cm Experiment 4mSpeaker: Daniel Molnar (Department of Physics, University of Cambridge)
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The Point about Conical Emissions of First Galaxies 4mSpeaker: Timo Schwandt (University of Sussex)
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A Bayesian Method to Mitigate the Effects of Unmodelled Time-Varying Systematics for 21-cm Cosmology Experiments 4mSpeaker: Christian Kirkham (University of Cambridge)
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Metrology of the HIRAX Dishes 4mSpeaker: Jennifer Studer (ETH Zurich)
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Recent Observations with the Mapper of the IGM Spin Temperature 4mSpeaker: Prof. Jonathan Sievers (McGill University)
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Theoretical Predictions for HI Intensity Mapping on Non-Linear Scale in the Low-z Universe 4mSpeaker: Zhixing Li (Tsinghua University)
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BEoRN : a modular framework to simulate the 21cm signal 4mSpeaker: Timothée Schaeffer (University of Zurich)
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Improved full-sky reconstruction of the gravitational lensing potential through the combination of Planck and LiteBIRD CMB data 4mSpeaker: Miguel Ruiz-Granda (Instituto de Física de Cantabria (CSIC-UC))
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Towards 21-cm intensity mapping with uGMRT wideband observation 4mSpeaker: Khandakar Md Asif Elahi (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur)
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Probing evolution of 21-cm neutral hydrogen during epoch of reionization via bispectrum multipole moments 4mSpeaker: Mr Sukhdeep Singh (IIT Kharagpur)
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Free time 30m
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Dinner 1h 30m
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Wednesday Morning - part 1: Gravitational Lensing/Cosmology
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Strong Lensing as a Probe of Cosmology 30mSpeaker: Sherry Suyu (Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics)
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Cosmic Flows : probing the dynamics of large scale structures 20mSpeaker: Helene Courtois (University Lyon 1 / IP2I Lyon)
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Cosmology with LOFAR 20mSpeaker: Mr Lukas Böhme (Bielefeld University)
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Self-interacting dark matter impact on pulsar timing array observations 20mSpeaker: James Cline (McGill University)
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Coffee Break 30m
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Wednesday Morning - part 2: Gravitational Lensing/Cosmology
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Gravitational lensing signal reconstruction from the CMB and intensity maps 20mSpeaker: Prof. Julien Carron (Université de Genève)
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Weak Lensing Mass Maps and Cosmology from Peak Statistics: Results from the three-year shear catalogue of the Hyper Suprime-Cam Subaru Strategic Program 20mSpeaker: Kai-Feng Chen (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
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EMU simulations for a cosmic magnification test of GR 20mSpeaker: Albany Asher (Western Sydney University / CSIRO Space & Astronomy)
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Evidence for enhanced growth of cosmic structure 20mSpeaker: Dr Deng Wang (IFIC, CSIC-University of Valencia)
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The Canadian Galactic Emission Mapper (CGEM) - An 8-10 GHz Polarization Survey to Aid in the Search for Primordial Gravitational Waves 20mSpeaker: Pedro Villalba Gonzalez (University of British Columbia)
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Lunch (Lunch bag) 20m
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Free time - Getting ready for excursion 30m
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Glacier 3000 Excursion - Snow Outing 4h 30m Glacier 3000
Glacier 3000
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Thursday morning - part 1: Cosmic Dawn and The Epoch of Reionization (1)
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The Epoch of Reionisation through the low-frequency radio lens 30mSpeaker: Dr Adélie Gorce (CNRS IAS)
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Validating 21 cm cosmology analysis pipelines: lessons learned and future outlooks. 20mSpeaker: Piyanat Kittiwisit (University of the Western Cape)
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Updates from the Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array 20mSpeaker: Robert Pascua (McGill University)
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Impact of astrophysical scatter on the [H I] 21cm bispectrum 20mSpeaker: Mr Chandra Shekhar Murmu (IIT Indore)
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Thursday morning - part 2: Cosmic Dawn and The Epoch of Reionization (2)
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Constraining cosmic reionisation by combining the kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect and the 21 cm signal 20mSpeaker: Ivelin Georgiev (The Oskar Klein Centre, Department of Astronomy, Stockholm University)
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Simulating Cosmic Reionization on all scales 20mSpeaker: Ilian Iliev (University of Sussex)
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Signals of Cosmic Strings in the 21-cm Sky 20mSpeaker: Robert Brandenberger (McGill University)
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Observing the Epoch of Reionisation and Cosmic Dawn with LOFAR and NenuFAR, and the upcoming SKA 20mSpeaker: Leon Koopmans (Kapteyn Astronomical Institute)
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An End-to-End Simulation for SKA1-low and Signal Separation Approach for the EoR signal 20mSpeaker: Zhenghao Zhu
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Thursday afternoon - part 1: Cosmic Dawn and The Epoch of Reionization (3)
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PyFHD: Epoch of Reionization software for all 20mSpeaker: Nichole Barry (Curtin University)
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How the SKA will revolutionize studies of the first billion years 20mSpeaker: Prof. Andrei Mesinger (SNS)
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Interpreting Upper Limits from LOFAR 20mSpeaker: Garrelt Mellema (Dept. of Astronomy, Stockholm University)
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The sensitivity of 21cm signal - Lyman-alpha emitter cross-correlations to the ionisation topology 20mSpeaker: Anne Hutter (Cosmic Dawn Center, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen)
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ML-Enhanced Foreground Removal Methods for 21-cm Experiments Preparing for the SKA Era 20mSpeaker: Florent Mertens (Paris Observatory - LERMA)
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Thursday afternoon - part 2: Cosmic Dawn and The Epoch of Reionization (4)
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21cmCosmoSim: Simulations and inference for 21cm cosmology 20mSpeaker: Caroline Heneka
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Exploring Beyond Standard Cosmological Models during the Epoch of Reionization 20mSpeaker: Sambit Giri (Stockholm University)
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Probing Early Universe using the uGMRT, SKA and SEAMS 20mSpeaker: Abhirup Datta (Centre of Astronomy, Indian Institute of Technology-Indore,)
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Charting Cosmic Evolution: UV Background and the Persistence of HI in Galaxies for Post-EoR Simulations 20mSpeaker: Dr Michele Bianco (EPFL / ETH)
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Wavelet Based Statistics for Enhanced 21cm EoR Parameter Constraints 20mSpeaker: Ian Hothi (Imperial College London)
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Prospects of a statistical detection of the 21-cm forest and its potential to constrain the cosmic heating and reionization history 20mSpeaker: Tomas Soltinsky (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research)
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Free time 10m
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Dinner 1h 30m
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Snow Shoe Under the Stars 2h
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Friday morning - part 1: Instrumentation and Future Experiments
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Probing the Universe with radio observations from the lunar orbit and surface 20mSpeaker: Xuelei Chen (National Astronomical Observatory of China)
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Overview of CHORD 20mSpeaker: Seth Siegel (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics)
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Each Station is as Unique as a Snowflake — The Consequences of Assuming Uniformity for Epoch of Reionization Science 20mSpeaker: Aman Chokshi (University of Melbourne)
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Coffee Break 30m
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Friday morning - part 2: Workshop on Future Collaboration and Upcoming Science Topics
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