ABSTRACT: Elucidating the nature of dark matter is one of the central challenges in fundamental physics. Dark matter originating as a thermal relic from the early Universe is arguably one of the most compelling paradigm, and WIMP searches have been …

Bertrand Echenard (Caltech) "Probing light dark matter with the LDMX experiment" Read More »

Abstract: Strong HI absorbers are essentially the largest foreground contamination for Lyman alpha forest surveys, and so a better understanding of them is necessary for achieving the goals of future Lyman alpha cosmology surveys. I will talk about a new …

Simeon Bird (JHU) "Strong Absorbers in the Lyman-alpha Forest and Primordial Black Holes" Read More »

Abstract:  The most common machine learning algorithms operate on finite-dimensional vectorial feature representations. In many applications, however, the natural representation of the data consists of more complex objects, for example functions, distributions, and sets, rather than finite-dimensional vectors. In this …

Barnabas Poczos (CMU) Title: Distribution Regression and its Applications Read More »

Abstract: In this talk, I will present our joint measurement of cosmic infrared background (CIB) and CII line emission from large scales at redshift z=2.5 using an MCMC analysis of cross-correlations of the 3 high-frequency Planck bands with both SDSS-III …

Anthony Pullen (NYU) Title: Revealing CII Emission with LSS Cross-correlations Read More »