BIG3 schedule - Wednesday, Sept 19

TALKS SCHEDULE

Wednesday, September 19, 2012 (Amphitheater Pierre Gilles de Gennes)

Time	Speaker	Title
8:30AM - 9:15AM	Registration
9:15AM - 9:25AM	Scientific Organizing Committee	Welcome address and organizational issues
		Chair: Carlo Baccigalupi
9:25AM - 10:05AM	George Smoot	Cosmology and Cosmic Microwave Background
10:05AM - 10:45AM	Lloyd Knox	Big overview
10:45AM - 11:15AM	Coffee break
		Chair: Reijo Keskitalo
11:15AM - 11:55AM	Ethan Anderes	Shrinking the quadratic estimator
11:55AM - 12:15PM	Sigurd Næss	Methodology and lessons from the QUIET Maximum Likelihood map-maker
12:15PM - 12:35PM	Stephen Feeney	A robust constraint on cosmic textures from the cosmic microwave background
12:35PM - 2:15PM	Lunch break
		Chair: Carmelita Carbone
2:15PM - 2:55PM	Joanna Dunkley	Sampling for Cosmic Microwave Background analysis
2:55PM - 3:15PM	Anais Rassat	Removal of two large scale Cosmic Microwave Background anomalies after subtraction of the Integrated Sachs Wolfe effect
3:15PM - 3:55PM	Sivan Toledo	Discrete Aspects of High-Performance Iterative Linear Solvers
3:55PM - 4:25PM	Coffee break
		Chair: Paul Sutter
4:25PM - 5:05PM	Gersande Fort	Adaptive and Interacting Monte Carlo methods for Bayesian analysis
5:05PM - 5:25PM	Jason McEwen	Spherical wavelet-Bayesian cosmic string tension estimation
5:25PM - 5:45PM	Frederic Guilloux	Power spectrum estimation on the sphere using wavelets
5:45PM - 6:05PM	Mathieu Remazeilles	Reconstruction of high-resolution SZ maps from heterogeneous datasets using needlets

-Wed, Sept 19