Slides: Science on the Sphere

From Thomas Kitching's Weak lensing on the sphere

Jason McEwen let me know that the presentation slides of the Science on the Sphere seminar is out on the Late Universe blog (a blog about Explorations in survey cosmology, theoretical physics, signal processing, and Bayesian inference). Here it is:

Day 1

0730 – 0830 : Breakfast

Introduction and Discussion of Objectives of the Meeting

0845 – 0900 : Dr Thomas Kitching & Dr Jason McEwen (UCL):

Welcome

0900 – 0930 : Dr Jason McEwen (UCL):

Spherical signal analysis

0930 – 1000 : Prof. Alan Heavens (Imperial College London):

Cosmology on the ball

1000 – 1030 : Dr Yves Wiaux (Heriot-Watt):

Sparse image reconstruction on the sphere: implications of a new sampling theorem

1030 – 1100 : Dr Thomas Kitching (UCL):

Weak lensing on the sphere

1100 – 1130 : Break

Foundations: Mathematics, Wavelets and Correlations on the Sphere

1130 – 1200 : Prof. Domenico Marinucci (University of Rome):

Geometric Methods for Spherical Data Analysis

1200 – 1230 : Mr Boris Leistedt (UCL):

Flaglets for studying the large-scale structure of the Universe

1230 – 1300 : Prof. Frederik Simons (Princeton):

Multitaper spectral and signal analysis on the sphere, for geophysics and cosmology

1300 – 1430 : Lunch

The Cosmological Context

1430 – 1500 : Prof. Andrew Jaffe (Imperial College London):

CMB analysis formalism

1500 – 1530 : Mr Francoise Lanusse (CEA Saclay):

Using the Cosmic Microwave Background to reconstruct the primordial power spectrum

1530 – 1600 : Break

Perspectives from Informatics

1600 – 1630 : Dr Hiranya Peiris (UCL):

Science with large imaging surveys

1630 – 1700 : Dr Chris Doran (Geomerics Ltd.):

Data structures for irradiance on the sphere: artefacts and real-time updates

1700 onwards : Discussion Session lead by Dr Jason McEwen (UCL) and Dr Thomas Kitching (UCL)

Day 2

0730 – 0830 : Breakfast

The Stellar Context

0900 – 1000 : Prof. Bill Chaplin (Birmingham):

Helioseismology and asteroseismology: sounding stars

1000 – 1100 : Prof. Yvonne Elsworth (Birmingham):

Probing stellar structure with pressure and gravity modes – the Sun and the Red Giants

1100 – 1130 : Break

Exploring the Sphere: Estimators and Likelihoods

1130 – 1200 : Prof. Mike Hobson (Cambridge):

Bayesian inference and machine learning in cosmology

1200 – 1230 : Dr Farhan Feroz (Cambridge):

Bayesian source detection

1230 – 1300 : Prof. Ben Wandelt (Insitute Astrophysique Paris):

Computational statistics on the sphere

1300 – 1400 : Lunch

Signal Processing on the Sphere

1400 – 1430 : Prof. Rod Kennedy (ANU):

Kernel-Based Formulations of Spatio-Spectral and Three Related Transforms on the Sphere

1430 – 1500 : Prof. Pierre Vandergheynst (EPFL):

Towards Multi-Scale Signal Processing on Graphs

1500 – 1530 : Dr Richard Shaw (CITA):

Wide field radio interferometry for cosmology

1530 – 1600 : Break

Discussions and the Way Forward

1600 – 1700 : Dr Jason McEwen (UCL), Dr Thomas Kitching (UCL)

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