Université Pierre et Marie Curie
DUEL Cosmology and Lensing Summer School 2009

24 August - 4 September, 2009
IAP, Paris, FRANCE

ABOUT THE SCHOOL

SPEAKERS AND TOPICS

THE VENUE AND THE CITY

IMPORTANT DATES

SCIENTIFIC ORGANISATION

SOC & LOC MEMBERS

HOW TO REACH THE IAP

REGISTRATION FORM
SPEAKERS AND TOPICS COVERED

  • Speakers

    Week one:

    Anthony Challinor (CMB)
    Matthias Bartelmann (basic and strong lensing)
    Andy Taylor (alternative models)
    Sarah Bridle (statistics, great 08)
    Henk Hoekstra (weak lensing observations)
    Peter Schneider (weak lensing theory)
    John Peacock (large-scale structure)

    Week two:

    Catherine Heymans
    Thomas Erben

     

  • Week One

    Basics of gravitational lensing and strong lensing
    Weak lensing: theory
    Weak lensing: observations
    Large-scale structure (including galaxy formation)
    CMB (including CMB lensing)
    N-body simulations and ray-tracing
    Alternatives to LambdaCDM
    Statistical methods in cosmology
    Great08

     
  • Week two

    Hands on data reduction
    Sextractor,
    SkyMaker
    Catalogue handling
    Optical image masking
    Shape measurement
    Mass reconstruction
    Photometric redshifts
     

                                                                                                                                                               

  Contact : duelschool@iap.fr