IAUS306 - Statistical Challenges in 21st Century Cosmology

IAU Symposium 306 on Statistical Challenges in 21st Century Cosmology will take place in Lisbon, Portugal from 26-29 May 2014, with a tutorial day on 25 May.

Keynote speakers
 • Cosmic Microwave Background - Graca Rocha (USA / Portugal)
 • Weak Gravitational Lensing - Masahiro Takada (Japan)
 • Combining probes - Anais Rassat (Switzerland)
 • Statistics of fields - Sabino Matarrese (Italy)
 • Large-scale structure - Licia Verde (Spain)
 • Bayesian methods - David van Dyk (UK)
 • 21cm cosmology - Mario Santos (South Africa / Portugal)
 • Massive parameter estimation - Ben Wandelt (France)
 • Overwhelmingly large datasets - Alex Szalay (USA)
 • Errors and nonparametric estimation - Aurore Delaigle (Australia)
 • Sparsity - Jalal Fadili (France)

Invited speakers:
 • Supernovae Cosmology - Mario Hamuy (Chile)
 • Anomalies - Hiranya Peiris (UK)
 • Sparsity based CMB reconstruction - Jérôme Bobin (France)
 • Machine-learning in Astronomy - Mike Hobson (UK)
 • Statistical aspects of photo-z estimation - Narciso Benítez (Spain)
 • Closing remarks from a statistician - Joseph Hilbe (USA)

Tutorial sessions:
 • Sparsity - Jérôme Bobin, Florent Sureau (France)
 • Bayesian Cosmology - ICIC (UK)
 • R for Observational Cosmology - Eric Feigelson (USA)

You are invited to submit an abstract for a contributed talk or poster for the meeting, via the meeting website. Full information on the scientific rationale, programme, proceedings, critical dates, and local arrangements will be on the symposium web site at:

http://www.sccc21.ul.pt

Deadlines
28 March 2014    Abstract submission
4 April 2014        Notification of abstract acceptance
11 April 2014    Close of registration
30 June 2014    Manuscript submission