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MGA Workshop IV: Multiscale Geometric Methods in Astronomical Data Analysis

November 8 - 12, 2004

IPAM Building
Room 1200

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Monday, November 08, 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

Peter Coles (University of Nottingham)

"Phase Correlations in Harmonic Analysis of Cosmological Fluctuations"
Presentation (PDF File)

10:30 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 12:00

Marc Lachieze-Rey (CEA Saclay, France)

"Multipole vectors and Harmonic analysis on the sphere "
Presentation (PDF File)

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"
Presentation (PDF File)

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"
Presentation (PDF File)

4:30 - 4:45 Break
4:45 - 5:45

Kevin Pimbblet (University of Queensland)

"Filaments of Galaxies: An Observational Viewpoint."
Presentation (PDF File)
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

5:45 - 7:15 Wine/Cheese Reception (Hosted by IPAM)

Tuesday, November 09, 2004

Morning Session

8:30 - 9:30 Continental Breakfast
9:30 - 10:30

Sergei Shandarin (University of Kansas)

"Morphological Analysis of the Large-Scale Structure in the Universe"
Presentation (PDF File)

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

Vicent Martinez (University of Valencia, Spain)

"Cosmological fields and the distribution of galaxies: Multiresolution morphology"
Presentation (PDF File)

3:00 - 3:30 Break
3:30 - 4:30

Andrei Doroshkevich (Theoretical Astrophysics Center)

"Separation of the Large Scale Structure elements in observed and simulated catalogues."
Presentation (PDF File)

4:30 - 4:45 Break
4:45 - 5:45

Alexander Gray (Carnegie Mellon University)

"Recent Geometric Multiscale Algorithms for n-point Correlations"
Presentation (PDF File)


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"
Presentation (PDF File)

10:30 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 12:00

Keith Worsley (McGill University)

"New results in the geometry of random fields, with applications to CMB and galaxy density."
Presentation (PDF File)

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

Afternoon Session

2:00 - 3:00

Li-Zhi Fang (University of Arizona)

"Probing cosmic structure formation in the wavelet representation"
Presentation (PDF File)
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

3:00 - 3:30 Break
3:30 - 4:30

Yassir Moudden (CEA Saclay, France)

"Blind Component Separation From Incomplete Data Using Wavelets Application to CMB Data Analysis."
Presentation (PDF File)

4:30 - 4:45 Break
4:45 - 5:45

Olivier Forni (University of Paris Sud)

"Multiscale transforms: application to CMB secondary anisotropies and infrared spectra of Mars surface "
Presentation (PDF File)

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."
Presentation (PDF File)

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

Afternoon Session

2:00 - 3:00

Pierre Kestener (CEA Saclay, France)

"Generalizing the wavelet-based multifractal formalism to vector-valued random fields: application to turbulent velocity and vorticity 3D numerical data."
Presentation (PDF File)

3:00 - 3:30 Break
3:30 - 4:30

Rebecca Willett (Rice University)

"Multiscale Analysis of Photon-Limited Astronomical Signals and Images"
Presentation Files (Zip Archive)

4:30 - 4:45 Break
4:45 - 5:45

Jeff Scargle (NASA Ames Research Center)

"Multiscale Data Analysis through Optimal Segmentation: From Photons and Stars to Galaxies and the Large Scale Structure of the Universe"
Presentation (PDF File)


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"
Presentation (PDF File)

10:30 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 12:00

Richard Massey (California Institute of Technology)

"Shapelet Measurement of Weak Gravitational Lensing and Galaxy Morphologies."
Presentation (PDF File)

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

Afternoon Session

2:00 - 3:00

David Donoho (Stanford University)

 

3:00 - 3:30 Conclusion

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