Topics:
This is a list with the preliminary topics for the school (to be confirmed):
| Supernova | H0 tension, distance ladder, SN, Cepheids, Leavitt law standardization (metallicity, dust, crowding, color), Integral Field Spectroscopy. Surveys: JWST, LSST, PISCO, AMUSING |
| Weak lensing | S8 tension, cosmic shear, 3x2pt. Intrinsic alignments, baryonic feedback, shape measurement, photometric redshifts. Photometric galaxy clustering, galaxy bias, CMB lensing, cross correlations (galaxy-galaxy lensing, tSZ, kSZ) and combinations 3x2pt, 5x2pt Surveys: DES, KiDS, EUCLID, LSST. |
| Spectroscopic Galaxy Clustering |
Spectroscopic galaxy clustering, perturbation theory, lens magnification, observing systematics, nonlinear physics (including growth, galaxy biasing and redshift space distortions); Baryon Acoustic Oscillations. Surveys: BOSS, eBOSS, DESI, |
| Numerical Simulations |
N-body simulations, Hydrodynamical simulations. MICE, Flagship. Gravity-only v magneto-hydro Numerical methods: machine learning, python, Bayesian inference, statistics, emulators. |
| Galaxy Formation | Galaxy-halo connection: HOD, SHAM, empirical, Semi-analytic models, hydro |
| Models beyond LCDM | Testing the foundational assumptions of ΛCDM (mnu, fnl, tensor-to-scalar ratio); exploring extensions to DE and DM. DE or MG: wCDM, f(R), sigma/mu, etc; DM: (warm DM, interacting DM, etc). |
