- 8 Oct 2018: Registration opens
- 10 Dec 2018: Abstract submission deadline (presenters will be notified by 15 Dec 2018)
- 15 Jan 2019: Final registration / payment deadline
- 15 Feb 2019: Absolute final payment deadline [unpaid bookings will be cancelled on this date]
- 3 – 9 Mar 2019: Conference
Sunday, March 3
Arrival and welcome at Anew Hotel, Hluhluwe (transport will be provided from King Shaka International Airport, Durban). Welcome reception begins at 18.00.
Monday, March 4 – Friday, March 8
| Monday, 4 March | ||
| CMB I – Chair: Moumita Aich | ||
| 09:30 – 10:00 | Anthony Challinor | CMB Cosmology |
| 10:00 – 10:20 | Marion Dierickx | BICEP/Keck: Constraining the primordial gravitational-wave signal with CMB polarization observations from the South Pole |
| 10:20 – 10:40 | Johanna Nagy | Probing Inflation with SPIDER, a Balloon-Borne CMB Polarimeter |
| 10:40 – 11:00 | Marius Lungu | The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Status, Results, and Future Prospects |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | Tea Break | |
| CMB II – Chair: Kavilan Moodley | ||
| 11:30 – 12:00 | Joseph Eimer | The Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS): early survey results |
| 12:00 – 12:20 | Alexandra Rahlin | Preliminary Results from SPT-3G |
| 12:20 – 12:40 | Kimmy Wu | Delensing: Updates from the South Pole Telescope and BICEP/Keck Array |
| 12:40 – 13:00 | Lorenzo Moncelsi | BICEP Array: a Next-Generation CMB Polarimeter at the South Pole |
| 13:00 – 14:00 | Lunch | |
| Large Scale Structure – Chair: Matt Hilton | ||
| 14:00 – 14:30 | Alexandre Refregier | Cosmological weak lensing |
| 14:30 – 14:50 | Christoph Saulder | The fundamental plane as a probe for large-scale structure |
| 14:50 – 15:10 | Simon Pfeifer | Probing dynamical dark energy using large scale structure |
| 15:10 – 15:30 | Jose R. Bermejo-Climent | Cosmological parameters forecasts from CMB and LSS including their cross-correlation |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | Tea Break | |
| Theory/GR – Chair: Kavilan Moodley | ||
| 16:00 – 16:20 | David F. Mota | Nonlinear Astrophysical Probes of Modified Gravity |
| 16:20 – 16:40 | Matthew Stott | Constraining cosmological multi-axion models via black hole superradiance |
| 16:40 – 17:00 | Renier Hough | Constraining modified f(R) gravity models with cosmological data |
| 17:00 – 17:20 | Vijay Singh | LRS Bianchi I model with strange Quark matter and Lambda(t) in f(R,T) gravity |
| 17:20 – 17:30 | POSTER SESSION | |
| Tuesday, 5 March | ||
| Cosmic Dawn I – Chair: Yin-Zhe Ma | ||
| 09:30 – 10:00 | Raul Monsalve | The Signature of the Cosmic Dawn in the Sky-Averaged Radio Spectrum |
| 10:00 – 10:20 | Marina Migliaccio | Constraining the optical depth to reionization with Planck data |
| 10:20 – 10:40 | Charles Takalana | Probing the DA and EoR Using Differential Observations of the SZE-21cm |
| 10:40 – 11:00 | Sandeep Kumar Acharya | Rich structure of non-thermal relativistic CMB spectral distortions from high energy particle cascades at redshifts z < 2* 10^5 |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | Tea Break | |
| Cosmic Dawn + Diffuse Radio Emission – Chair: Jonathan Sievers | ||
| 11:30 – 12:00 | Anastasia Fialkov | Evaluating Cosmic Dawn |
| 12:00 – 12:20 | Kirit Karkare | Probing the Luminous Matter during Reionization: [CII] Intensity Mapping with the SuperSpec mm-wave Spectrometer |
| 12:20 – 12:40 | Mthokozisi Mdlalose | Quasi-Redundant Calibration of HERA Simulation |
| 12:40 – 13:00 | Sinenhlanhla Sikhosana | Diffuse Radio Emission in ACTPol Clusters |
| 13:00 – 14:00 | Lunch | |
| Clusters and Lensing – Chair: Kenda Knowles | ||
| 14:00 – 14:30 | Mathilde Jauzac | The BUFFALO Survey |
| 14:30 – 14:50 | Jörg Herbel | Cosmic Shear with Forward Modeling and Machine Learning |
| 14:50 – 15:10 | Arun Kannawadi | The importance of emulating cosmic shear data |
| 15:10 – 15:30 | Dominik Zuerher | Weak lensing peak statistics: Systematics and forecast on cosmological constrains from large area surveys |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | Tea Break | |
| Galaxies – Chair: Anthony Walters | ||
| 16.00 – 16.20 | Maarten Baes | Comparisons between the EAGLE simulations and observations from UV to submm wavelengths |
| 16:20 – 16:40 | Luca Tortorelli | Forward modeling wide-field galaxy surveys: the Luminosity function measurement |
| 16:40 – 17.00 | Martina Fagioli | Forward Modelling of Spectroscopic Galaxy Surveys |
| 17:00 – 17.20 | Ginevra Favole | Modelling the clustering properties of emission line galaxies in new-generation cosmological surveys |
| 17:20 – 17:40 | Ismael Ferrero | COLA mock for cosmological surveys |
| Wednesday, 6 March | ||
| Cosmology with Large Surveys – Chair: Moumita Aich | ||
| 09.15 – 09.45 | Michelle Lochner | Cosmology with LSST |
| 09.45 – 10:05 | Samuel Hinton | The path towards photometric supernova cosmology with DES |
| 10:05 – 10:25 | Raphael Sgier | Fast Generation of Multi-Probe Covariance Matrices |
| 10:25 – 10:45 | Tea Break | |
| Dark Matter – Chair: Matt Hilton | ||
| 10.45 – 11:15 | Celine Boehm | A new area in Cosmology: using Large-Scale-data surveys to constrain the dark matter particle properties. |
| 11:15 – 11:35 | Robert Poole-Mckenzie | Implications for dark matter direct detection searches using new cosmological simulations |
| 11.35 – 11.55 | Christina Kreisch | The Neutrino Puzzle: Anomalies, Interactions, and Cosmological Tensions |
| FREE AFTERNOON | ||
| Thursday, 7 March | ||
| Cosmological Parameter Inference – Chair: Kenda Knowles | ||
| 09:30 – 10:00 | Matteo Costanzi | Cosmological Constraints from the DES Y1 redMaPPer Galaxy Cluster Sample |
| 10:00 – 10:20 | Federica Tarsitano | Precision Cosmology with PyCosmo |
| 10:20 – 10:40 | Janis Fluri | Cosmological Parameter Inference with Convolutional Neural Networks |
| 10.40 – 11.00 | Heather Prince | Massively optimised parameter estimation and data compression in cosmology |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | Tea Break | |
| 21cm Cosmology I – Chair: H. Cynthia Chiang | ||
| 11:30 – 12:00 | Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro | Cosmology with 21cm intensity mapping |
| 12:00 – 12:30 | Matt Dobbs | The Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment |
| 12:30 – 13:30 | Lunch | |
| 21cm Cosmology II – Chair: Devin Crichton | ||
| 13:30 – 13:50 | Benjamin Saliwanchik | Designing HIRAX: From FEA Dish Simulations to Cosmology Forecasts |
| 13:50 – 14:10 | Kabelo Kesebonye | HIRAX instrumentation and prototype characterisation |
| 14:10 – 14:30 | Emily Kuhn | Noise temperature and beam mapping measurements for HIRAX |
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CONFERENCE DINNER (depart for braai at game reserve at 15.00 sharp)
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| Friday, 8 March | ||
| Cosmology with Cross Correlations – Chair: H. Cynthia Chiang | ||
| 09:30 – 09.50 | Nidhi Pant | Effect of observer’s peculiar motion on CMB and radio number counts |
| 09.50 – 10:10 | Yuuki Omori | Survey synergy: combining CMB and galaxy surveys |
| 10:10 – 10:30 | James Mertens | Testing general relativity using kinetic Sunyaev Zel’dovich tomography |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Tea Break | |
| Cosmology with Cross Correlations II – Chair: Devin Crichton | ||
| 11:00 – 11:20 | Warren Naidoo | Cross-correlation of 21cm HI and CMB lensing convergence: the 21cm-CMB lensing integrated bispectrum |
| 11:20 – 11.40 | Anthony Walters | Probing the IGM with FRBs |
| 11:40 – 12:00 | Yin-Zhe Ma | Quantifying the warm-hot baryons in the Universe |
| 12.00 – 12.15 | H. Cynthia Chiang | Closing Remarks |
Saturday, March 9
Departure from Hluhluwe (transport will be provided to King Shaka International Airport, Durban)