MGA Workshop IV: Multiscale Geometric Methods in Astronomical Data Analysis

Part of the Long Program Multiscale Geometry and Analysis in High Dimensions
November 8 - 12, 2004

Schedule

All times in this Schedule are Pacific Time (PT)

Monday, November 8, 2004

Morning Session
8:30 - 9:15 Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
9:15 - 9:30 Welcome and Opening Remarks
9:30 - 10:30
10:30 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 12:00
Marc Lachieze-Rey (CEA Saclay, France)

Multipole vectors and Harmonic analysis on the sphere
PDF Presentation
12:00 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session
2:00 - 3:00
Jean-Luc Starck (CEA Saclay, France)

Weak Shear Mass Reconstruction using Wavelets
PDF Presentation
3:00 - 3:30 Break
3:30 - 4:30
Rien van de Weygaert (University of Groningen/Kapteyn Institute,)

Analyzing Cosmic Structure Formation with the Delaunay Tessellation Field Estimator
PDF Presentation
4:30 - 4:45 Break
4:45 - 5:45
Kevin Pimbblet (University of Queensland)

Filaments of Galaxies: An Observational Viewpoint.
PDF Presentation
Presentation (PowerPoint File)
5:45 - 7:15 Wine/Cheese Reception (Hosted by IPAM)

Tuesday, November 9, 2004

Morning Session
8:30 - 9:30 Continental Breakfast
9:30 - 10:30
10:30 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 12:00
Marc Lachieze-Rey (CEA Saclay, France)

 

12:00 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session
2:00 - 3:00
3:00 - 3:30 Break
3:30 - 4:30
4:30 - 4:45 Break
4:45 - 5:45

Wednesday, November 10, 2004

Morning Session
8:30 - 9:30 Continental Breakfast
9:30 - 10:30
Enrique Martinez-Gonzalez (Instituto de Fisica de Cantabria (Spain))

Spherical Wavelets Applied to the Analysis of the Cosmic Microwave Background
PDF Presentation
10:30 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 12:00
12:00 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session
2:00 - 3:00
3:00 - 3:30 Break
3:30 - 4:30
4:30 - 4:45 Break
4:45 - 5:45
5:45 - 7:15 Dinner (Hosted by IPAM)

Thursday, November 11, 2004

Morning Session
8:30 - 9:30 Continental Breakfast
9:30 - 10:30
Louis Lyons (Oxford University)

Statistical Problems in Particle Physics
Presentation (PowerPoint File)
10:30 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 12:00
Emmanuel Candes (California Institute of Technology)

Chirplets: Multiscale Detection and Recovery of Chirps.
PDF Presentation
12:00 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session
2:00 - 3:00
3:00 - 3:30 Break
3:30 - 4:30
4:30 - 4:45 Break
4:45 - 5:45

Friday, November 12, 2004

Morning Session
8:30 - 9:30 Continental Breakfast
9:30 - 10:30
Pia Mukherjee (University of Sussex)

Early Universe Physics with Wavelets
PDF Presentation
10:30 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 12:00
12:00 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session
2:00 - 3:00
David Donoho (Stanford University)

 

3:00 - 3:30 Conclusion