Monday December 5, 2011
Organized by Tim Eifler and Michael Mortonson
The Center for Cosmology and Astro-Particle Physics (CCAPP) at The Ohio State University (OSU) is holding a workshop on "Dark Energy Survey Theory" in Columbus, Ohio on Monday Dec 5, 2011. Participation is restricted to members of the DES Collaboration.
Agenda:
- 9:00 - 9:15
- Discussion of agenda..."what do we want to discuss/achive"
- Discussion of agenda..."what do we want to discuss/achive"
- 9:15 - 10:30
- Combining Probes:
- General discussion, e.g. combining different posterior probabililties if they are not independent
- Specific: Inclusion of WMAP/Planck priors into DES likelihood analysis
- Combining Probes:
- 10:30 - 11:00
- astro-ph coffee
- astro-ph coffee
- 11:00 - 12:00
- Theoretical uncertainties in likelihood analyses (power spectrum, mass function, covariances)
- Theoretical uncertainties in likelihood analyses (power spectrum, mass function, covariances)
- 12:00 - 13:00
- Lunch
- Lunch
- 13:00 - 14:00
- Seminar talk: "N-body simulations of galaxy clusters: Is overmerging still an issue?" (McPherson 4045)/
- 14:00 - 16:00
- Combining WL and Clusters:
- joint modeling of nuissance parameters
- fit simultaneously for the mass-observable relation and cosmology
- Combining WL and Clusters:
- 16: 00
- End coffee / discussions / individual conversations
Participants
- Heidi Wu (U. of Michigan)
- Dragan Huterer (U. of Michigan)
- Elisabeth Krause (Caltech)
- Michael Mortonson
- Tim Eifler