Programme
Agenda
| When? | What? | Where? |
| 25 May [10h30] | Tutorial sessions | Pavilhão do Conhecimento |
| 25 May [18h00] | Welcome cocktail | Academia das Ciências de Lisboa |
| 26 - 29 May | Main Symposium sessions | Pavilhão do Conhecimento |
| 27 May [19h30] | Public lecture | Academia das Ciências de Lisboa |
| 28 May [20h00] | Social dinner | Restaurante Zambeze |
| 29 May [17h00] | Closing | Pavilhão do Conhecimento |
Keynote Speakers
- Cosmic Microwave Background Graca Rocha (USA / Portugal)
- Weak Gravitational Lensing Masahiro Takada (Japan)
- Combining probes Anais Rassat (Switzerland)
- Statistics of fields Sabino Matarrese (Italy)
- Large-scale structure Licia Verde (Spain)
- Bayesian methods David van Dyk (UK)
- 21cm cosmology Mario Santos (South Africa / Portugal)
- Massive parameter estimation Ben Wandelt (France)
- Overwhelmingly large datasets Alex Szalay (USA)
- Errors and nonparametric estimation Aurore Delaigle (Australia)
- Sparsity Jalal Fadili (France)
Invited Speakers
- Supernovae Cosmology Mario Hamuy (Chile)
- Anomalies Hiranya Peiris (UK)
- Sparsity based CMB reconstruction Jérome Bobin (France)
- Machine-learning in astronomy Mike Hobson (UK)
- Statistical aspects of photo-z estimation Narciso Benítez (Spain)
- Detection of B-mode polarization at degree angular scales using BICEP2
- Denis Barkats (ALMA - ESO) on behalf of the BICEP2 collaboration
- Closing remarks from a statistician Joseph Hilbe (USA)
- Closing remarks from a cosmologist Andrew Jaffe (UK)
Tutorials
- Sparsity Jérome Bobin, François Lanusse (France)
- Bayesian Cosmology Daniel Mortlock, Andrew Jaffe (UK)
- R for Observational Cosmology Eric Feigelson (USA)
Main Symposium Schedule
Tutorial Schedule
Public Lecture
- From Genes to Stars: the Fourth Paradigm of Science -- Alex Szalay (US)
