Swiss Cosmology Days 2015
Date: 5-6 February 2015
Registration deadline: 14 November 2014
The Swiss Cosmology Days are yearly meetings aimed at promoting communication and exchanges amongst Cosmologists working in Switzerland. They offer a national platform for scientists to present their research, lead exciting discussions and enable closer collaborations and networking. Young scientists are particularly encouraged to participate. The first meeting took place in February 2013 at the University of Bern and we were happy to count over 40 participants. The meetings are jointly organized by Professors Ruth Durrer, University of Geneva and Alexandre Refregier, ETH Zurich.
The last Swiss Cosmology Days (counting over 60 participants) took place on 6 - 7 February 2014 at ETH Zurich, Switzerland and we are now pleased to announce the dates for the upcoming 2015 meeting: 5 - 6 February 2015 at the University of Geneva.
The meetings are open to all researchers in Cosmology working in Swiss Institutions. For further information regarding the upcoming Swiss Cosmology Days please view the following pages:
Please take note that the deadline for registration and abstract submission for the 2015 meeting closed on 14 November 2014. If you would like to register after this date, please contact us by email.
Contact: swisscosmo@phys.ethz.ch
Program
The next Swiss Cosmology Days are scheduled to take place on 5 - 6 February 2015 at the University of Geneva. The talks will take place in the Stueckelberg Auditorium. When entering from the main entrance of Ecole de Physique building, the room is located just at your right.
Please find a PDF version of the program and an abstract list at the end of the page.
February 5 | ||
| Speaker | Title | |
| 9:45-10:15 | COFFEE BREAK | |
| 10:15-10:30 | INTRO | |
| Lensing | ||
| 10:30-10:50 | Kacprzak, Tomasz (ETHZ) | Weak lensing in the Dark Energy Survey |
| 10:50-11:10 | Rexroth, Markus (EPFL) | Measuring weak lensing flexion |
| 11:10-11:30 | Shan, HuanYuan (EPFL) | Weak lensing measurement on CFHT/Stripe82 Survey |
| 11:30-11:50 | Paraficz, Danuta (EPFL) | A PCA-based search for galaxy-scale strong lenses |
| 11:50-12:10 | Birrer, Simon (ETHZ) | Strong lens modelling and the properties of Dark Matter |
| 12:10-12:30 | Coupon, Jean (UNIGE) | Cluster lensing profiles from redshift enhancement behind galaxy clusters |
| 12:30-12:50 | Küng, Rafael (UNIZH) | Modelling gravitational lenses in Space Warps |
| 12:50 -14:20 | LUNCH | |
| Dark matter and more | ||
| 14:20-14:40 | Eckert, Dominique (UNIGE) | Cosmology with the XMM-XXL survey |
| 14:40-15:00 | Mathias Garny (CERN) | Interplay of indirect, direct and collider searches for WIMP dark matter |
| DE & MG | ||
| 15:00-15:20 | Nesseris, Savvas (UNIGE) | Reconstruction of a null test for matter density perturbations |
| 15:20-15:40 | Sawicki, Ignacy (UNIGE) | Towards a minimal description for modified gravity |
| 15:40-16:10 | COFFEE BREAK | |
| 16:10-16:30 | Guarato, Pietro (UNIGE) | Perturbations for massive gravity theories |
| 16:30-16:50 | Motta, Mariele (UNIGE) | Instabilities in bimetric gravity |
| 16:50-17:10 | Cusin, Giulia (UNIGE) | Bi-metric cosmology: is there an instability in the tensor pertrubation sector? |
| 17:10-17:30 | Dirian, Yves (UNIGE) | Observational constraints and parameter extraction in nonlocally modified General Relativity |
| 19:00 | DINNER |
|
February 6 | ||
| Speaker | Title | |
| LSS | ||
| 9:20-9:40 | Bonvin, Camille (CERN) | Three–point phase correlations: a new measure of non–linear large–scale structure |
| 9:40-10:00 | Blas, Diego (CERN) | Variations on non–linear corrections in the large scale structure |
| 10:00-10:20 | Biagetti, Matteo (UNIGE) | Scale-dependent bias from an inflationary bispectrum: the effect of a stochastic moving barrier |
| 10:20-10:50 | COFFEE BREAK | |
| 10:50-11:10 | Marozzi, Giovanni (UNIGE) | Galaxy number counts to second order via geodesic light-cone coordinates |
| 11:10-11:30 | Montanari, Francesco (UNIGE) | Galaxy number counts to second order: bispectrum |
| 11:30-11:50 | Norena, Jorge (UNIGE) | The squeezed limit of the LSS bispectrum |
| 11:50-12:10 | Stadel, Joachim (UNIZH) | Euclid Precision Cosmology Simulations with the PKDGRAV3 Code |
| +Baryons | ||
| 12:10-12:30 | Mohammed, Irshad (UNIZH) | An analytic model of the matter power spectrum, its covariance matrix, and baryonic effects |
| 12:30-14:00 | LUNCH | |
| 14:00-14:20 | Atek, Hakim (EPFL) | Did galaxies reionize the Universe? New constraints from the strong lensing of the Hubble Frontier Fields |
| 14:20-14:40 | Mayer, Lucio (UNIZH) | Baryonic physics in galaxy formation modifies the nature of |
| Inflation | ||
| 14:40-15:00 | Orani, Stefano (UNIBAS) | Wall-crossing at the end of hilltop inflation |
| 15:00-15:20 | Cefala, Francesco (UNIBAS) | False vacuum energy dominated inflation with large r and the importance of κs |
| 15:20-15:40 | Rubio, Javier (EPFL) | Living beyond the edge: Higgs inflation and vacuum metastability |
| 15:40-16:00 | Nolde, David (UNIBAS) | Implications of large tensor modes for small-field models of slow-roll inflation |
| 16:00-16:30 | Discussion/ Conclusion | |
| 16:30-17:00 | COFFEE BREAK |
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Contact: swisscosmo@phys.ethz.ch
Participants
| Name | Affiliation | |
| Adamek, | Julian | University of Geneva |
| Amara, | Adam | ETH Zürich |
| Antusch, | Stefan | University of Basel |
| Atek, | Hakim | EPFL |
| Biagetti, | Matteo | University of Geneva |
| Birrer, | Simon | ETH Zürich |
| Blas Temino, | Diego | CERN |
| Bonvin, | Camille | CERN |
| Bruderer, | Claudio | ETH Zürich |
| Cardona Castro, | Wilmar Alberto | University of Geneva |
| Cefalà, | Francesco | University of Basel |
| Chan, | Kwan Chuen | University of Geneva |
| Coupon, | Jean | University of Geneva |
| Courbin, | Frédéric | EPFL |
| Cusin, | Giulia | University of Geneva |
| Desjacques, | Vincent | University of Geneva |
| Durrer, | Ruth | University of Geneva |
| Dirian, | Yves | University of Geneva |
| Eckert, | Dominique | Geneva Observatory |
| Fanizza, | Giuseppe | University of Geneva |
| Figueroa, | Daniel | CERN |
| Foffa, | Stefano | University of Geneva |
| Garny, | Mathias | CERN |
| Guarato, | Pietro | University of Geneva |
| Harvey, | David | EPFL |
| Jablonka, | Pascale | EPFL |
| Jacques, | Thomas | University of Geneva |
| Kacprzak, | Tomasz | ETH Zürich |
| Kehagias, | Alex | University of Geneva |
| Kneib, | Jean-Paul | EPFL |
| Küng, | Rafael | University of Zürich |
| Lesgourgues, | Julien | CERN and Aachen University |
| Maggiore, | Michele | University of Geneva |
| Marozzi, | Giovanni | University of Geneva |
| Mayer, | Lucio | University of Zürich |
| Mazumdar, | Anupam | Lancaster University |
| Mohammed, | Irshad | University of Zürich |
| Montanari, | Francesco | University of Geneva |
| Morgante, | Enrico | University of Geneva |
| Motta, | Mariele | University of Geneva |
| Nesseris, | Savvas | University of Geneva |
| Nicola, | Andrina | ETH Zürich |
| Nolde, | David | University of Basel |
| Noreña, | Jorge | University of Geneva |
| Orani, | Stefano | Basel University |
| Paraficz, | Danuta | EPFL |
| Patil, | Subodh | CERN |
| Perrier, | Hideki | University of Geneva |
| Philippoz, | Lionel | University of Zürich |
| Rabold, | Manuel | University of Zürich |
| Racco, | Davide | University of Geneva |
| Refregier, | Alexandre | ETH Zürich |
| Rémy, | Joseph | EPFL |
| Rexroth, | Markus | EPFL |
| Riotto, | Antonio | University of Geneva |
| Rubio, | Javier | EPFL |
| Schmid, | Christoph | ETH Zürich |
| Sawicki, | Ignacy | Univerisy of Geneva |
| Seehars, | Sebastian | ETH Zürich |
| Shan, | Huanyuan | EPFL |
| Stadel, | Joachim | University of Zürich |
| Tihhonova, | Olga | LASTRO EPFL |
| Timothée, | Delubac | LASTRO EPFL |
| Tucci, | Marco | University of Geneva |
Venue, Accommodation
Venue
The conference will take place in the Stueckelberg Auditorium. When entering from the main entrance of the 'Ecole de Physique' building (see address below), the room is located just at your right.
Address
Département de Physique Théorique
Université de Genève
24, quai Ernest Ansermet
1211 Genève 4
Switzerland
Contact: swisscosmo@phys.ethz.ch
How to find us
Our location on Google maps
http://cms.unige.ch/sciences/physique/contact/
theory.physics.unige.ch/homepage/en_loc.php
From the airport
Take a free ticket for the public transport system before you leave the luggage hall and go through customs. Then take a train to Geneva main station (all trains from the airport stop there next). Alternatively take bus number 10 to "Bel-Air" where you can either change to trame 14 to "Jonction" direction "P+R Bernex" or change to bus 19 to "Musée d'ethnographie" direction "Onex-Cité".
From the train station
Go to the front of the station and take bus number 1 to "Ecole-Medecine" direction "Rive". Alternatively, take tram 14 to "Jonction" direction "P+R Bernex" under the train tracks. This webpage of the theoretical physics department shows the location of the bus and tram stops when you come from the station.
Useful links: Geneva public transport, Swiss train system, Geneva airport
Accommodation
Special prices have been arranged with the following hotels:
- Hôtel Bel'Espérance
- single: CHF 110.00
- double: CHF 130.00
- Hôtel Le Prince
- single: CHF 115.00
- double: CHF 145.00
- double, occupation "single": CHF 130.00
- Hôtel Carmen
- single: CHF 130.00
- double: CHF 150.00
- Tor Hôtel
- single: CHF 145.00
- double: CHF 195.00
Please mention the code UNIGE, Swiss Cosmology Days 2015 when booking.
Please note that some rooms are reserved for Swiss Cosmology Days participants until December 31, 2014, so you are encouraged to book a room before this date.
Registration
Please take note that registration for the Swiss Cosmology Days on 5 - 6 February 2015 closed on 14 November 2014.
If you would like to register after this date, please contact us by email: swisscosmo@phys.ethz.ch
If you have have already registered and need to cancel your participation on short notice, please do let us know accordingly by email to the same address mentioned above.