TALKS SCHEDULE

Friday, September 21, 2012 (Amphitheater Pierre Gilles de Gennes)

Time Speaker                  Title
Chair: Julian Borrill
  9:15AM - 10:10AM Horst Simon Barriers to Exascale Computing
10:10AM - 10:35AM Mikolaj Szydlarski Accelerating maximum likelihood Cosmic Microwave Background map-making
10:35AM - 11:05AM Coffee break
Chair: Bryan Steinbach
11:05AM - 11:45AM Hiranya Peiris Hunting for relics from the early universe in the CMB
11:45AM - 12:05PM Meisam Sharify Avoiding Communication in Generalized Least Square Problems.
12:05PM - 12:45PM Domenico Marinucci On needlets/wavelets nonGaussianity estimators
12:45PM - 2:15PM Lunch break
Chair: Stephen Feeney
  2:15PM - 2:55PM Robert Adler From mean Euler characteristics to the Gaussian kinematic formula
  2:55PM - 3:15PM Sandro Scodeller Detection of Point Sources Using Internal Templates and Needlets
  3:15PM - 3:55PM Benjamin Wandelt Optimal methods for non-Gaussianity
  3:55PM - 4:25PM Coffee break
Chair:
  4:25PM - 5:05PM Carmelita Carbone CMB lensing and N-body simulations
  5:05PM - 5:25PM Dominic Galliano Deriving bounds for trispectrum estimators for Planck
  5:25PM - 5:45PM Yabebal Fantaye CMB lensing reconstruction in the presence of diffuse polarized foregrounds
  5:45PM - 6:05PM Alessandro Renzi Primordial non-Gaussianity and diffuse Galactic emissions