Workshop on Geometrical and Topological Methods for Cosmological Data Analysis

20th to 23rd July 2019

Programme

Day 1, July 20, 2019
Session-I
09:30 - 10:30 Introduction to Scalar and Tensor Minkowski Functionals - Pravabati
10:30 - 11:00 Tea/Coffee Break
Session - II
11:00 - 12:00 Introduction to Scalar and Tensor Minkowski Functionals - Pravabati
Session - III
13:30 - 14:00 Constraining Primordial Non-Gaussianity using CMB - Sandeep
14:00 - 14:30 Joby P. K. talk
Session - IV
14:30 - 16:00 Hands-on session on Minkowski Tensors (Pravabati, Fazlu, Joby, Priya)
16:00 - 16:30 Tea/Coffee Break
Session - V
16:30 - 17:30 Hands-on session on Minkowski Tensors
Day 2, July 21, 2019
Session-I
09:30 - 10:30 ILC method in pixel, harmonic and needlet domain - (Aparajita/Soumen)
10:30 - 11:00 Tea/Coffee Break
Session - II
11:00 - 12:00 Improved ILC methods - Rajib Saha/Vipin
Session - III
13:30 - 14:30 Violation of Statistical Isotropy - Pramoda Samal
Session - IV
14:30 - 16:00 Hands-on session on ILC method in pixel and harmonic domain(Rajib Saha and Pavan Aluri)
16:00 - 16:30 Tea/Coffee Break
Session - V
16:30 - 17:30 Hands-on session on ILC method in pixel and harmonic domain(Rajib Saha and Pavan Aluri)
Day 3, July 22, 2019
Session-I
09:00 - 10:00 Planck Foregrounds - Tuhin
10:00 - 10:20 Effect of gravitational lensing on morphology of CMB fields - Priya
10:20 - 10:40 Gaussianity and statistical isotropy of Galactic foreground emissions - Fazlu
10:40 - 11:00 Baibhav's talk
11:00 - 11:20 Tea/Coffee Break
Session - II
11:20 - 12:00 Introduction to CMB lensing - Rajorshi
Session - III
13:30 - 14:30 Planck Sky Model - Soumen/Tuhin
Session - IV
14:30 - 16:00 Hands-on session on Planck Sky Model and CMB lensing(Soumen, Tuhin, Pavan, Priya)
16:00 - 16:30 Tea/Coffee Break
Session - V
16:30 - 17:30 Hands-on session on Planck Sky Model and CMB lensing
Day 4, July 23, 2019
Session-I
09:30 - 10:30 Hamiltonian Markov Chain (HMC) sampling and its application - Shabbir
10:30 - 11:00 Tea/Coffee Break
Session - II
11:00 - 12:00 Hands-on session on HMC sampling - Debabrata
Session - III
13:30 - 14:30 N-body simulation techniques - Nishikant
Session - IV
14:30 - 16:00 Hands-on session on N-body simulations using Gadget
16:00 - 16:30 Tea/Coffee Break
Session - V
16:30 - 17:30 Hands-on session on N-body simulations using Gadget

  • Breakfast will be served from 08:30--09:30 hrs
  • Lunch will be served from 12:00--13:30 hrs.
  • Dinner will be served from 19:30--20:30 hrs.