Probabilistic and Statistical Techniques for Cosmological Applications

Rome, June 5-7th 2013
Istituto Nazionale di Alta Matematica

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June - 5th

• 09:30-10:15 - Opening
• 10:15-11:00 - B. Wandelt - Cosmostatistics
• 11:00-11:30 - Coffee Break
• 11:30-12:15 - A. Balbi - What have we learned from the CMB?
• 12:15-13:00 - S. Matarrese - Non-Gaussianity and Cosmology
• 13:00-14:30 - Lunch
• 14:30-15:15 - C. Genovese - Hunting for Manifolds and Ridges I
• 15:15-16:00 - L. Wasserman - Hunting for Manifolds and Ridges II
• 16:00-16:30 - Coffee Break
• 16:30-17:15 - A. Dalalyan - Oracle Inequalities for Aggregation of Affine Estimators
• 17:15-18:00 - R. Adler / J. Taylor - A Tutorial on the Gaussian Kinematic Fundamental Formula

June - 6th

• 09:30-10:15 - R. Adler - Cosmology and(random) Topology: Is CMB Really Defined on a Sphere?
• 10:15-11:00 - J. Taylor - A significance test for adaptive linear modeling
• 11:00-11:30 - Coffee Break
• 11:30-12:15 - A. Schwartzman - Distribution of the height of local maxima of random fields
• 12:15-13:00 - J. Cisewski - Mapping the Intergalactic Medium using Lyman-alpha Data and  Persistent Homology
• 13:00-14:30 - Lunch
• 14:30-15:15 - G. Peccati - High-Frequency Asymptotics on Homogeneous Spaces: Some Explicit Estimates  
• 15:15-16:00 - I. Wigman - On the Geometry of Random Spherical Harmonics
• 16:00-16:30 - Coffee Break
• 16:30-17:15 - J. Jin - Higher Criticism and Rare and Weak effects
• 17:15-18:00 - N. Leonenko - Monofractal and Multifractal Models for Isotropic and Spherical Random Fields

June - 7th

• 09:30-10:15 - J.L. Starck - Sparsity and the Cosmic Microwave Background
• 10:15-11:00 - J. McEwen - Signal Processing on Spherical Manifolds
• 11:00-11:30 - Coffee Break
• 11:30-12:15 - R. Nickl - Inference for Nonparametric Functions on Homogeneous Manifolds: Lie Groups, Needlets, Rademacher Processes and Graph Laplacians
• 12:15-13:00 - D. Marinucci - Testing for Isotropy and Geometric Features of Needlets Excursion Sets
• 13:00-14:30 - Lunch
• 14:30-15:15 - S. Feeney - A case study in anomaly detection: looking for other universes in the cosmic microwave background
• 15:15-16:00 - I. Pesenson - Shannon Sampling and Paley-Wiener Localized Frames on Riemannian Manifolds
• 16:00-16:30 - Coffee Break
• 16:30-17:15 - R. Scaramella - Euclid space mission: a cosmological challenge for the next 15 years.

List of the Abstracts

The meeting is supported by European Research Council Grant n. 277742 Pascal and hosted by I.N.d.A.M., Istituto Nazionale d'Alta Matematica
Last Modify - Claudio D. - 05/09/2013