Programme

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Sunday, February 12

Arrival and welcome at Zulu Nyala

Monday, Feburary 13

Session chair: Jonathan Sievers
9-9:05 Welcome remarks
9:05-9:35 Invited talk: CHIME: The Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment Kendrick Smith
9:35-9:55 Realizing the Promise of 21 cm Cosmology with HERA Joshua Dillon
9:55-10:15 Sunyaev-Zel’dovich effect observations with the SKA Keith Grainge
10:15-10:35 Stimela: Towards Simple, Reproducible and Portable data Reductions and Simulations in Radio Interferometry Sphesihle Makhathini
10:35-10:45 Poster introductions: Tamirat Gogo, Mthokozisi Mdlalose, Kwazi Mthembu, Liju Philip, Onkabetse Sengate, Charles Takalana, Siphiwe Thwala, Elimboto Yohana
10:45-11:15 Coffee break
Session chair: Adam Amara
11:15-11:45 Invited talk: Weak lensing by large-scale structure Henk Hoekstra
11:45-12:05 Simultaneous constraints on cosmology and photozs from weak lensing and large scale structure Sarah Bridle
12:05-12:35 Invited talk: Integrated Probe Combination Alexandre Refregier
12:35-14:00 Lunch
Session chair: Lerothodi Leeuw
14:00-14:30 Invited talk: SALT and extragalactic Astronomy Petri Vaisanen
14:30-14:50 Cosmology with Gravitational Lens Time Delays Sherry Suyu
14:40-15:00 The ACT galaxy cluster safari Matt Hilton
15:00-15:20 Coffee break
Session chair: Bharadwaj Vijaysarathy
15:20-15:40 A hierarchical study of galaxy clusters Maggie Lieu
15:40-16:00 Cosmological constraints from the brightest clusters in the sky Thomas Reiprich
16:00-16:20 The second XCS data release Maria Manolopoulou

Tuesday, February 14

Session chair: Aurelie Penin
9:10-9:30 The Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array (HERA): Simulation of the chromatic effects of the antenna and impact on the detection of the EoR power spectrum Nicolas Fagnoni
9:30-9:50 Machine Learning the Hell out of the Cosmic Infrared Background Marco Viero
9:50-10:10 Spots on the Sky: the ISW effect from cosmic superstructures Seshadri Nadathur
10:10-10:30 Machine Learning Methods for Cluster Based Cosmology Camille Avestruz
10:30-10:50 Coffee break
Session chair: Kavilan Moodley
10:50-11:20 Invited talk: Massive Non-Gaussianity Eva Silverstein
11:20-11:40 Resurrecting Quartic and Quadratic inflaton potentials in two-field inflationary model Suratna Das
11:40-12:00 Prospects of estimating cosmological parameters from gravitational-wave observations of coalescing binary black holes Archisman Ghosh
>12:20 Lunch and outing to Hluhluwe-Umfolozi

Wednesday, February 15

Session chair: Yin-Zhe Ma
9:00-9:20 The Cosmic Supernova Recycling Program Miguel Quartin
9:20-9:40 The clustering of clusters Catherine Cress
9:40-10:00 Modelling galaxy clustering on small scales Vimal Simha
10:00-10:30 Invited talk: Dwarf galaxies at high redshift Ryan Cooke
10:30-10:50 Coffee break
Session chair: Lyman Page
10:50-11:20 Invited talk: Latest cosmological results from Planck and future outlook for CORE and ground experiments Francois Bouchet
11:20-11:40 Measurements of the linear bias of radio galaxies using Cosmic Microwave Background Lensing from Planck Carolyn Devereux
11:40-12:00 Constraining Isocurvature modes with Planck data Moumita Aich
12:00-12:20 Cross-correlation of CMB lensing with 21cm intensity mapping Kavilan Moodley
12:20-14:00 Lunch
Session chair: Sarah Bridle
14:00-14:30 Invited talk: The Uncooperative Universe Glenn Starkman
14:30-15:00 Invited talk: Cosmic Tensions: Do the Pieces of LCDM Fit Together Adam Amara
15:00-15:20 Coffee break
Session chair: Francois Bouchet
15:20-15:50 Invited talk: The CMB and Neutrinos Lyman Page
15:50-16:10 Maximum-likelihood map-making for the Atacama Cosmology Telescope Simone Aiola
16:10-16:30 Lessons learned from SPIDER’s first flight and implications for future ballooning and satellite missions Jon Gudmundsson
16:30-16:50 Component Separation for SPIDER Benjamin Racine
16:50-17:10 C-BASS: the C-Band All Sky Survey Luke Jew

Thursday, February 16

<11:30    Free morning
Session chair: Mario Santos
11:30-11:50 Phenomenology of Dark Energy and Modified Gravity with BINGO Andre Alencar De Costa
11:50-12:10 The Extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Early science results Julian Bautista
12:10-12:30 Design and Calibration of the HIRAX Array Benjamin Saliwanchik
12:30-14:00 Lunch
Session chair: Kendrick Smith
14:00-14:20 Multiple Peak Testing on the Sphere: Controlling the False Discovery Rate Yabebal Fantaye
14:20-14:40 Probing primordial non-Gaussianity with 21-cm intensity mapping Yin-Zhe Ma
14:40-15:00 Exploring Intensity Mapping Techniques Via Simulations Theophilus Ansah-Narh
15:00-15:20 Coffee break
Session chair: Cynthia Chiang
15:20-15:50 Invited talk: Complementary Collider Based Results Sahal Yacoob
15:50-16:10 Precision measures of the primordial deuterium abundance Max Pettini
16:10-16:30 Neutrino mass scale in the era of precision cosmology Sunny Vagnozzi
Evening Conference banquet at Zulu Nyala quarry

Friday, February 17

Session chair: Kenda Knowles
9:20-9:50 Invited talk: A Safari to Distant Submm-bright Galaxies Lerothodi Leeuw
9:50-10:10 The power spectrum of HI beyond linear scales in the post reionization era Aurelie Penin
10:10-10:30 Detecting HI Galaxies with Bayesian Spectral Line Fitting Michelle Lochner
10:30-11:00 Invited talk: Cosmology with MeerKAT Mario Santos
11:00-11:20 Coffee break
Session chair: Matt Hilton
11:20-11:40 Cosmic shear as a probe of galaxy formation physics Simon Foreman
11:40-12:10 Invited talk: A multi-octave 21-cm All-sky Spectrum Experiment Jeff Peterson
12:10-12:20 Closing remarks
12:20-14:00 Lunch

Saturday, February 18

Departure from Zulu Nyala