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 |
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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
