Modern cosmology heavily relies on statistical methods. At the same time, the recent explosion of available data, resulting from current and forthcoming astronomical sky surveys, provides unique challenges, and opportunities, to statistics. Successful collaboration grows from the ground. For this to happen, researchers, especially junior ones, need opportunities to meet each other and to exchange ideas.
The aim of this project is to promote novel research and fuel new discoveries at the interface of two areas of much current interest: the statistical theory of extreme values and the study of cosmological observables. Statistics of extremes concerns inference for rare, possibly unobserved events. In cosmology, these may refer to the cosmic microwave background radiation – the oldest light we can see –, the clustering properties of large scale structure tracers and the cosmological signatures of gravitational lensing.
This will be achieved by means of a three-day intensive residential workshop open to a limited number of highly motivated junior participants. In particular, the workshop will intertwine presentations of the state-of-the-art of both fields, roundtable discussion, peer learning and coaching activities with the intent to foster the interchange of ideas among junior and senior researchers. Networking will be facilitated by the relaxed and enriching environment of the workshop venue.
Participation to the workshop is upon invitation, though all session talks will be live-streamed.
For further information, please, drop an email to cosmo2023@stat.unipd.it
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within the framework of the UNIL - UNIPD 2022 joint call for projects
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