MGA Workshop IV: Multiscale Geometric Methods in Astronomical Data Analysis - IPAM

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

08:30-09:15
Check-In/Light Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
09:15-09:30
Welcome and Opening Remarks
09:30-10:30
Peter Coles (University of Nottingham)
Phase Correlations in Harmonic Analysis of Cosmological Fluctuations
10:30-11:00
Break
11:00-12:00
Marc Lachieze-Rey (CEA Saclay, France)
Multipole vectors and Harmonic analysis on the sphere

Afternoon Session

12:00-14:00
Lunch (on your own)
14:00-15:00
Jean-Luc Starck (Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique (CEA))
Weak Shear Mass Reconstruction using Wavelets
15:00-15:30
Break
15:30-16:30
Rien van de Weygaert (Rijksuniversiteit te Groningen)
Analyzing Cosmic Structure Formation with the Delaunay Tessellation Field Estimator
16:30-16:45
Break
16:45-17:45
Kevin Pimbblet (University of Queensland)
Filaments of Galaxies: An Observational Viewpoint.
17:45-19:15
Wine/Cheese Reception (Hosted by IPAM)

Tuesday, November 9, 2004

Morning Session

08:30-09:30
Continental Breakfast
09:30-10:30
Sergei Shandarin (University of Kansas)
Morphological Analysis of the Large-Scale Structure in the Universe
10:30-11:00
Break
11:00-12:00
Marc Lachieze-Rey (CEA Saclay, France)
Title not available

Afternoon Session

12:00-14:00
Lunch (on your own)
14:00-15:00
Vicent Martinez (University of Valencia)
Cosmological fields and the distribution of galaxies: Multiresolution morphology
15:00-15:30
Break
15:30-16:30
Andrei Doroshkevich (Theoretical Astrophysics Center)
Separation of the Large Scale Structure elements in observed and simulated catalogues.
16:30-16:45
Break
16:45-17:45
Alexander Gray (Carnegie-Mellon University)
Recent Geometric Multiscale Algorithms for n-point Correlations

Wednesday, November 10, 2004

Morning Session

08:30-09:30
Continental Breakfast
09:30-10:30
Enrique Martinez-Gonzalez (Instituto de Fisica de Cantabria (Spain))
Spherical Wavelets Applied to the Analysis of the Cosmic Microwave Background
10:30-11:00
Break
11:00-12:00
Keith Worsley (University of Chicago)
New results in the geometry of random fields, with applications to CMB and galaxy density.

Afternoon Session

12:00-14:00
Lunch (on your own)
14:00-15:00
Li-Zhi Fang (University of Arizona)
Probing cosmic structure formation in the wavelet representation
15:00-15:30
Break
15:30-16:30
Yassir Moudden (CEA Saclay, France)
Blind Component Separation From Incomplete Data Using Wavelets Application to CMB Data Analysis.
16:30-16:45
Break
16:45-17:45
Olivier Forni (University of Paris Sud)
Multiscale transforms: application to CMB secondary anisotropies and infrared spectra of Mars surface
17:45-19:15
Dinner (Hosted by IPAM)

Thursday, November 11, 2004

Morning Session

08:30-09:30
Continental Breakfast
09:30-10:30
Louis Lyons (Oxford University)
Statistical Problems in Particle Physics
10:30-11:00
Break
11:00-12:00
Emmanuel Candes (Stanford University)
Chirplets: Multiscale Detection and Recovery of Chirps.

Afternoon Session

12:00-14:00
Lunch (on your own)
14:00-15:00
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.
15:00-15:30
Break
15:30-16:30
Rebecca Willett (Duke University)
Multiscale Analysis of Photon-Limited Astronomical Signals and Images
16:30-16:45
Break
16:45-17:45
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
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