Archive of the Physical Cosmology Journal Club
Journal Club Archive: Summer Term 2023
- 20.04 Jiamin Hou Large-Scale Structure: from observations to fundamental physics
- 27.04 Kai Lehman Updates on master thesis: ‘Emulating Void Statistics for Cosmology’
- 04.05 Massimiliano Romanello AMICO Galaxy Clusters in KiDS-DR3: Cosmological Constraints from Angular Power Spectrum and Correlation Function
- 11.05 Klaus Dolag Discussion on constrained simulations
- 01.06 David Gebauer Symbolic Regression: Using PySR to Discover Cosmological Relations
- 22.06 Jesus Torrado Machine-learning Bayesian inference with Gaussian processes
- 29.06 Carlos Correa Cosmic voids as cosmological laboratories
- 06.07 Suhail Dhawan Measuring the Hubble constant with Type Ia supernovae
- 13.07 Angelo Caravano Discussion on axion inflation
- 20.07 William Roster Photo-Z with Deep Learning for eROSITA AGN
Journal club archive: Winter Term 2022/23
- 14.10.22 Nicolas Pérez: Mass Prediction of eROSITA Galaxy Clusters Using Machine Learning
- 20.10.22 Martin Kerscher: Efficient computation of 2-point correlation functions (https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.13288)
- 27.10.22 Alessandra Fumagalli: Covariance matrix calibration for cluster cosmology
- 3.11.22 Angelo Caravano: Parity violation in the galaxy N-point function and consequences for inflation
- 24.11.22 Giovanni Verza: Cosmology with cosmic void statistics
- 01.12.22 Steffen Hagstotz: JWST high-z galaxies and cosmological implications
- 08.12.22 Daniela Galárraga-Espinosa: Characterising cosmic filaments using hydro-dynamical simulations
- 15.12.22 Daniele Oriti: Cosmology from Quantum Gravity
- 26.01.23 Tamas Varga: Insights from the LMU innovation incubator
- 02.02.23 Rintaro Kanaki: Map-based inference with weak lensing
- 23.02.23 Kai Lehman: Cosmic voids
- 02.03.23 Alexander Theis: Fast Radio Bursts
- 09.03.23 Rohan Srikanth: Probing primordial non-Gaussianity due to axion inflation using full late-time matter density PDF
Journal club archive: Summer Term 2022
- 20.05.22 Steffen Hagstotz "Introduction to the Hubble tension"
- 03.06.22 Apolline Chappard "Cosmological Models and Evidence"
- 07.06.22 Ivana Babic "BAO scale inference from biased tracers using the EFT likelihood"
- 10.06.22 Jochen Weller "Ultra-ligh axions and the kinetic SZ effect" (https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.13268)
- 24.06.22 Nico Schuster "Void replenishment: how voids accrete matter over cosmic history" (https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.08165)
- 01.07.22 Angelo Caravano "Lattice Simulations of Axion-U(1) Inflation" (https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.12874)
- 08.07.22 Lydia Haacke "Comparing Galaxy Cluster Catalogues in the Optical Wavelength Regime"
- 15.07.22 Sven Krippendorf "A duality connecting neural networks and cosmological dynamics" (https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.11104)
- 29.07.22 Richard Stiskalek "From the Gates of the Abyss: Frequency and Polarisation Dependent Propagation of Gravitational Waves"
Journal club archive: Winter Term 2021/2022
- 24.09.21 Peter Taylor "Separation of Scales in Projection"
- 01.10.21 Andrija Kostic "Machine-driven searches for cosmological physics" (https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.00657)
- 8.10.21 Thomas Vannieuwenhuyse "Finding and characterising cosmic voids with deep learning methods"
- 15.10.21 Martin Kerscher "The geometrical meaning of statistical isotropy of smooth random fields in two dimensions" https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.05726
- 29.10.21 Sara Maleubre "Accuracy of Power Spectrum from N-body simulations using Scale-Free cosmologies"
- 5.11.21 Gerrit Farren "Ultra-light Axions and the kSZ effect"
- 12.11.21 Jochen Weller "Fuzzy Dark Matter and the Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Data" (https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.01199)
- 16.11.21 Barbara Sartoris "Testing cosmology with galaxy cluster mass profiles"
- 3.12.21 Nico Schuster "Baryonic Voids and their profiles in Magneticum"
- 10.12.21 Nico Hamaus "Priors on red galaxy stochasticity from hybrid effective field theory" (https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.00012)
- 15.12.21 Agne Semenaite "Cosmological implications of the full shape of anisotropic clustering measurements in BOSS and eBOSS" (https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.03156)
- 14.01.22 Steffen Hagstotz "Cosmology with one galaxy?" (https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.02202)
- 21.01.22 Tobias Schröder "Gravitational Waves in Cosmology"
- 28.01.22 Angelo Caravano "Non-linear computation of the curvature bispectrum in the axion-U(1) model of inflation"
- 11.02.22 Alex Barreira "Higher-order statistics and baryonic effects in the large-scale structure"
- 18.02.22 Oliver Friedrich "Can you squeeze a quantum field into a universe that can only store finite information?"
- 25.02.22 Natalie Assmann "Nested sampling"
- 04.03.22 Richard Stiskalek "Lensing of Gravitational Waves"
Journal club archive: Summer Term 2021
- 23.04, Mona Dentler "Constraints on Fuzzy Dark Matter from DESY1 Cosmic Shear" Special seminar
- 30.04, Alex, Presenting paper in prep.
- 07.05, Giordano "Density profiles of cosmic voids in eRosita data" Master Thesis Update
- 28.05, Steffen, Discussion on the Hubble tension (in view of the Munich/Cambridge joint JC) Special Seminar
- 11.06, Hayley J. Macpherson "Luminosity distance and anisotropic sky-sampling at low redshifts: a numerical relativity study" https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.11918 Cambridge/LMU Joint JC
- 18.06, Yusuf "Searching for Superclusters in eFEDS" Master Thesis Update
- 25.06, Martin Lecture on estimators 10:00 - 12:00
- 02.07, Giorgia "Cosmic Voids in Generated N-body Simulations" https://arxiv.org/pdf/2106.04014.pdf
- 07.07, Steffen Hagstotz "A new measurement of the Hubble constant using Fast Radio Bursts" https://arxiv.org/pdf/2104.04538.pdf
- 09.07, Lucas Porth "Fast estimation of aperture-mass statistics II: Detectability of higher order statistics in current and future surveys" https://arxiv.org/pdf/2106.04594.pdf
- 16.07, Oliver "The PDF perspective on the tracer-matter connection: Lagrangian bias and non-Poissonian shot noise" https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.02300
- 23.07, Lydia "The WaZP galaxy cluster sample of the Dark Energy Survey Year 1" https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.08711 + short master-thesis update
Journal club archive: Winter Term 2020/2021
- 9.10 Martin: "Why Stan -- try PyStan on Hamilton Monte Carlo" arXiv:1701.02434, arXiv:1111.4246, arXiv:1212.6246
- 23.10 Sunny Vagnozzi "Spatial curvature, galaxy power spectrum, and cosmic concordance" https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.02230
- 30.10 Jochen "What is the price of abandoning dark matter? Cosmological constraints on alternative gravity theories" https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.00555
- 6.11 Sofia Contarini"Cosmic voids in modified gravity models with massive neutrinos" https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.03309
- 13.11 Angelo "Galaxy morphology rules out astrophysically relevant Hu-Sawicki f (R) gravity" https://arxiv.org/pdf/2009.08743.pdf
- 20.11 Nico "Constraining cosmology with weak lensing voids" https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.11954v1
- 27.11 Linda Blot "Cosmological Model Parameter Dependence of the Matter Power Spectrum Covariance from the DEUS-PUR Cosmo Simulations" https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.14984
- 04.12 - Emmanuel Artis: "Galaxy cluster cosmology with the future Euclid sample: new methods and forecasts"
- 11.12 Simon "Constraining Axion-Like Particles with Machine Learning"
- 18.12 Marvin "Phenomenological aspects of bimetric theory"
- 22.01 Angelo "Lattice Simulations of Inflation"
- 29.01 Alex "Responses of Halo Occupation Distributions: a new ingredient in the halo model & the impact on galaxy bias" https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.04637
- 12.02 Jochen "The Cosmic Axion Background" https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.09287
- 19.02 Nico S. "Identification of Cosmic Voids as Massive Cluster Counterparts" https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.03511
- 05.03 Cesar Hernandez Aguayo "Exploring galaxy formation in modified gravity theories" https://arxiv.org/pdf/1907.02977.pdf , https://arxiv.org/pdf/2006.15467.pdf https://arxiv.org/pdf/2011.00013.pdf
| Journal Club Archive - Summer Term 2019/2020 | |||
| Friday | Speaker | Title/Article | Note |
| 25th of Oct | Nico Hamaus | "Constraints on the growth of structure around cosmic voids in eBOSS DR14" https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.04394 | |
| 15th of Nov | Nico Schuster | "Void Formation: Does the Void-in-Cloud Process Matter?" https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.02197 |
WWF |
| 22nd of Nov | Jinah | "A solution to the initial condition problems of inflation : NATON" https://arxiv.org/pdf/1904.12703.pdf | |
| 29th of Nov | Giorgia | "The Aemulus Project" |
Post-poned |
| 6th of Dec | Luisa Lucie-Smith |
"Machine learning the formation of dark matter halos" |
Special Seminar |
| 13 of Dec | Yang | "Multi-wavelength consensus of large-scale linear bias" https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.12069 | |
| 17th of Jan | Martin |
"Large-scale structures in the ΛCDM Universe: network analysis and machine learning" https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.07868 |
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| 24th of Jan | Johannes & Nico. S |
Johannes : "(Towards) Probing Axions with Galaxy Cluster Counts" Nico S. : "The bias of cosmic voids in the presence of massive neutrinos" |
IMPRS interview practice |
| 31st of Jan | Angelo/Jinah |
Angelo: "On the stability of bimetric structure formation" https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.01651 Jinah: "Cosmology with Redshift-Space Distortion Analysis on Galaxy Tracer Voids" |
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| 7th of Feb |
Rodrigo Voivodic |
"The Halo-Void Model of Large Scale Structure" |
Special Seminar |
| 14th of Feb | Giorgia | "The Aemulus Project" | |
| 21st of Feb | Johannes | https://arxiv.org/pdf/1909.06712.pdf | |
| 28th of Feb | Machine Learning team | Meeting | 10:00-12:00 |
| JOURNAL CLUB ARCHIVE (2019) - Papers discussed in previous semesters | |||
| Date | Speaker | Title/Article | Note |
| Friday, 18th of Jan | Paul Hinz | https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.02240 | |
| Friday, 25th of Jan | Johannes | "Axion Cosmology" https://arxiv.org/abs/1510.07633 | |
| Friday, 1st of Feb | Malwin | IMPRS Practice Talk | |
| Friday, 8th of Feb |
Sunny Vagnozzi |
"Recent developments in neutrino cosmology" |
Special Seminar |
| Friday, 15th of Feb | Eva | IMPRS Practice Talk | |
| Friday, 22nd of Feb | Nico S. | IMPRS Practice Talk |
CANCELED |
| Friday, 1st of Mar | Martin | "Causal Dynamical Triangulations" https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.10434 |
Postponed |
| Friday, 8th of Mar |
Giorgia Tamas |
"Void size function" https://arxiv.org/pdf/1902.04585.pdf "Halo Mass function" https://arxiv.org/pdf/1903.01709.pdf |
International Woman's Day, suggested reading |
| Friday, 15th of Mar | Nico H. |
"An alternative approach to the Finger of God in large scale structures" |
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| Friday, 22nd of Mar | Cora Uhlemann |
"Counts-in-cells statistics for large-scale structure" |
Special Seminal |
| SEMESTER BREAK | |||
| Friday,3rd of May | Jochen | "Swampland Conjectures and Late-Time Cosmology" https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.10448 | |
| Friday, 17th of May | Giorgia | "Cosmological exploitation of the size function of cosmic voids identified in the distribution of biased tracers" https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.01022 | |
| Friday, 24th of May | Nico |
"Fisher matrix for multiple tracers: model independent constraints on the redshift distortion parameter" https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.00673 Briefly going through https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.08329
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| Friday, 31st of May | Brueckentag, No JC | ||
| Friday, 7th of June | Korbinian | "Super-CMB fluctuations can resolve the Hubble tension" https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.02278 | |
| Friday, 14th of June | Olivier | Overview on void size function and cleaning procedure | |
| Friday, 21st of June | DES meeting + Brueckentag, No JC | ||
| Thursday, 27th of June | Enrique Paillas |
"Weak lensing by voids as a test for alternative cosmological models” |
Special Seminal |
| Friday, 5th of July | Johannes | "Ultralight scalars as cosmological dark matter" https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.08297 | |
| Friday, 12th of July | Carlos Correa |
"A non-fiducial cosmological test from geometrical and dynamical distortions around voids" |
Special Seminar |
| SUMMER BREAK |
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