CosmoPalooza: CMB-S4, DES, DESC, DESI

Berkeley Lab Zoom Webinar
January 12-13, 2022

Please join us for CosmoPalooza, a resurrection of the special sessions planned for the AAS 239th meeting by CMB-S4, the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, the Dark Energy Survey, and the LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration. Each collaboration will present its latest developments, plans, and science advances with an exciting slate of speakers, on Wednesday, January 12 and Thursday, January 13.

All four sessions will be presented in Zoom webinars. Everyone is welcome to join in to hear about the latest on cosmology and astrophysics from the Big Bang to the nearby universe!

Best regards and happy new year,
CMB-S4, DES, DESC, DESI Collaborations

 

Video recordings of the sessions are now available at the links below. Please note the recordings will only be available for about a month.

 

Jan. 12, 8-9:30am PST (11-12:30 EST): LSST DESC (video recording; passcode p5^*=#.v)
``Beyond a Billion Galaxies: Preparing the Rubin Observatory LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration (DESC) for Stage IV Cosmology''
Chair: Michael Wood-Vasey

Speakers:
The LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration: Introduction and Overview - Eric Gawiser
Validating Our Simulated Sky Catalogs: Effort and Frameorks in the Rubin LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration - Yao-Yuan Mao
Generating Millions of Images for Better Cosmology - Antonia Sierra Villareal
Validating an End-to-End Weak Lensing and Clustering Framework for LSST - Judit Prat
New Photometric Redshift Frameworks and Techniques - Samuel Schmidt
Optimizing Lens Galaxy Binning for 3x2 Point Analysis - Irene Moskowitz
Cosmology with All the LSST Strong Gravitational Lenses Using Probabilistic Machine Learning - Ji Won Park
Dark Matter Physics + Rubin LSST - Ethan Nadler

Jan. 12, 10-11:30am PST (1-2:30 EST): DES (video recording; passcode VNvK.eq3)
``New Results from the Dark Energy Survey''
Chair: Richard Kron

Speakers:
Overview of the DES Year 3 Cosmology Results - Shivam Pandey
Lens Samples for Cosmology - Anna Porredon
Cosmology from Non-Gaussian Map-Based Statistics with DES Year 3 Data - Marco Gatti
Strong gravitational lensing in the Dark Energy Survey - Jimena Gonzalez
Variability-Selected Dwarf AGNs in the DES Deep Fields - Colin Burke
Results from the Dark Energy Survey transients and moving objects working group - Pedro Bernardinelli

Jan 13, 8-9:30am PST (11-12:30 EST): DESI (video recording; passcode t8hBvq?G)
``DESI Main Survey: from first light to first results''
Chair: Satya Gontcho A Gontcho

Speakers:
Current performance of DESI instrument and facility - Klaus Honscheid
Commissioning the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument - Edward Schlafly
Overview of DESI Survey Validation - Julien Guy
Target Selection for the 5-year Survey of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument - Adam Myers
Early Lyman-alpha forest analyses from DESI - Andrei Cuceu
Diversity in Quasar Spectra - Victoria Fawcett
Active Black Holes in Dwarf Galaxies with DESI Survey Validation - Ragadeepika Pucha
The DESI Peculiar Velocity Survey - Kelly Douglass
Very local universe galaxies: the DESI LOW-Z Secondary Target Survey - Elise Darragh-Ford

Jan 13, 10-11:30am PST (1-2:30 EST): CMB-S4 (video recording)
``CMB-S4: Astrophysics and Cosmology from the Cosmic Microwave Background''
Chair: Abigail Crites

Speakers:
Cosmology and Astrophysics with CMB-S4 - Joel Meyers
Synergies of Large Scale Structure Surveys with CMB-S4 - Simone Ferraro
CMB-S4 as a Transients Survey - Anna Ho

We look forward to meeting you at CosmoPalooza!

Webinar contacts: Satya Gontcho A Gontcho (satyagontcho at lbl.gov), Eric Linder (evlinder at lbl.gov)