Advanced topics in Cosmology

June 10-14, 2019

 

Location:  Universidad de Guanajuato, Sede Forum. See http://fisica.ugto.mx/~events/mexicopas/venues/ for mor information. 

The main  goal of this school is to prepare the next generation of students, postdocs, and researchers to perform statistical analysis over cosmological observations, such as  present large scale surveys like BOSS  and future as DESI, LSST, SCI-HI, etc.

The first part of each day will be devoted to lectures and tutorials providing the basis of the advanced topics. The rest of the day will be dedicated to hands-on sessions for developing projects. A set of projects will be pre-defined. 

Lecturers

• Julian Bautista, University of Portsmouth

• Mariana Vargas-Magaña, Physics Institute, UNAM 

• Jose Alberto Vazquez, Physics Science Institute, UNAM

• Sébastien Fromenteau, Physics Science Institute, UNAM

• Josue de Santiago Sanabria, CINVESTAV

• TBA

TOPICS

• Bayesian Statistics

• Cosmology with Lyman-alpha
  

• Higher order statistics in Cosmology

 

PROJECTS (To be announced)

 

 

Important Dates

Application for scholarships:  May 19, 2019. 

Application Deadline: May 30, 2019.

MACSS school: June 10 to 14.

 

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 Event with CONACyT funding