[Forum SIS] Workshop: Probability and Statistics for Cosmology

[Domenico Marinucci]

APOLOGIES FOR CROSS-POSTING

Final Announcement – Workshop
Probabilistic and Statistical Techniques for Cosmological Applications
Rome, June 5-7th 2013
Istituto Nazionale di Alta Matematica
http://www.mat.uniroma2.it/~marinucc/Workshop/Home.html

The aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers working in Probability, Mathematical Statistics and Cosmology/Astrophysics to discuss issues and methods of possible common interest. The workshop will favour informal discussions and cross-disciplinary interactions. In particular, the themes of the workshop include, but are not restricted to, the following topics:

- Random Fields on the Sphere: Isotropy, Gaussianity, Spectral Representations; 
- Statistical Analysis of Spherical Data; 
- Wavelets, Nonparametric Estimation, Image Reconstruction; 
- Geometric Methods, Excursion Probabilities, Multiple Testing; 
- Applications to Cosmological Data Analysis: CMB, Cosmic Rays, Gravitational Lensing.

Programme

June - 5th 
  a.. 09:30-10:15 - Opening 
  b.. 10:15-11:00 - B. Wandelt - Cosmostatistics 
  c.. 11:00-11:30 - Coffee Break 
  d.. 11:30-12:15 - S. Matarrese - Non-Gaussianity and Cosmology 
  e.. 12:15-13:00 - A. Balbi - What have we learned from the CMB? 
  f.. 13:00-14:30 - Lunch 
  g.. 14:30-15:15 - C. Genovese - Hunting for Manifolds and Ridges I 
  h.. 15:15-16:00 - L. Wasserman - Hunting for Manifolds and Ridges II 
  i.. 16:00-16:30 - Coffee Break 
  j.. 16:30-17:15 - A. Dalalyan - Oracle Inequalities for Aggregation of Affine Estimators 
  k.. 17:15-18:00 - R. Adler / J. Taylor - A Tutorial on the Gaussian Kinematic Fundamental Formula
June - 6th 
  a.. 09:30-10:15 - R. Adler - Cosmology and (random) Topology: Is CMB Really Defined on a Sphere? 
  b.. 10:15-11:00 - J. Taylor - A significance test for adaptive linear modeling 
  c.. 11:00-11:30 - Coffee Break 
  d.. 11:30-12:15 - A. Schwartzman - Distribution of the height of local maxima of random fields 
  e.. 12:15-13:00 - J. Cisewski - Mapping the Intergalactic Medium using Lyman-alpha Data and  Persistent Homology 
  f.. 13:00-14:30 - Lunch 
  g.. 14:30-15:15 - G. Peccati - High-Frequency Asymptotics on Homogeneous Spaces: Some Explicit Estimates  
  h.. 15:15-16:00 - I. Wigman - On the Geometry of Random Spherical Harmonics 
  i.. 16:00-16:30 - Coffee Break 
  j.. 16:30-17:15 - J. Jin - Higher Criticism and Rare and Weak effects 
  k.. 17:15-18:00 - N. Leonenko - Monofractal and Multifractal Models for Isotropic and Spherical Random Fields
June - 7th 
  a.. 09:30-10:15 - J.L. Starck - Sparsity and the Cosmic Microwave Background 
  b.. 10:15-11:00 - J. McEwen - Signal Processing on Spherical Manifolds 
  c.. 11:00-11:30 - Coffee Break 
  d.. 11:30-12:15 - R. Nickl - Inference for Nonparametric Functions on Homogeneous Manifolds: Lie Groups, Needlets, Rademacher Processes and Graph Laplacians 
  e.. 12:15-13:00 - D. Marinucci - Testing for Isotropy and Geometric Features of Needlets Excursion Sets 
  f.. 13:00-14:30 - Lunch 
  g.. 14:30-15:15 - S. Feeney - A case study in anomaly detection: looking for other universes in the cosmic microwave background 
  h.. 15:15-16:00 - I. Pesenson - Shannon Sampling and Paley-Wiener Localized Frames on Riemannian Manifolds 
  i.. 16:00-16:30 - Coffee Break 
  j.. 16:30-17:15 - R. Scaramella - Euclid space mission: a cosmological challenge for the next 15 years




Registration
Attendance to the workshop does not require any formal registration procedure, nor the payment of any conference fee. However, the number of participants is limited; for organizational reasons anybody wishing to attend must hence contact the organizers in advance. 


Organizing Commitee:
Domenico Marinucci - marinucc at mat.uniroma2.it 
Valentina Cammarota - cammarot at mat.uniroma2.it
Claudio Durastanti durastan at mat.uniroma2.it

Secretary: Solange Barcaccia barcacci at mat.uniroma2.it 

Venue and Support
The meeting is supported by European Research Council Grant n. 277742 Pascal (PI: D.Marinucci) and hosted by I.N.d.A.M., Istituto Nazionale d'Alta Matematica.


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Domenico Marinucci
Dipartimento di Matematica
Università di Roma Tor Vergata
http://www.mat.uniroma2.it/~marinucc/
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