Programme

Abstracts can be downloaded from here.

All sessions to be held in Room E/0.15, Mathematics Institute, Senghennydd Road, Cardiff, UK, CF24 4AG.

Each talk consists of 35 minutes lecture, plus 10 minutes for questions/discussion.

Programme for printing can be downloaded from here.

29 June, Thursday

• 9.00 – 9.45 Coffee and registration in Room M/1.02
• 9.45 – 10.00 Welcome from Prof. Peter Coles and Prof. Nikolai Leonenko, Room E/0.15
  
  Chair Peter Coles
• 10.00 – 10.45 Prof. Ethan Anderes, University of California, Davis, USA, Lensing and delensing the cosmic microwave background
• 10.45 – 11.30 Dr Daniela Saadeh, University of Nottingham, UK, How isotropic is the Universe?
  
  
• 11.30 – 12.00 Coffee break in Room M/1.02
  
  
• 12.00 – 12.45 Dr Jean-Luc Starck, CEA Saclay, France, Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) field estimation
• 12.45 – 13.30 Prof. Paolo Baldi, University of Roma “Tor Vergata”, Italy, Representation of Gaussian isotropic spin random fields
  
  
• 13.30 – 14.15 Lunch, Room M/1.02
  
  Chair Nikolai Leonenko
• 14.14 – 15.00 Prof. Anatoliy Malyarenko, Malardalen University, Sweden, Spectral expansions of random sections of spin and tensor bundles
• 15.00 – 15.45 Dr Chiaki Hikage, IPMU, Japan, Morphological analysis of cosmological random fields using Minkowski functionals
  
  
• 15.45 – 16.00 Coffee break in Room M/1.02
• 16.00 – 17.00 Discussion
  
  
• 19.00 Dinner (29 June, Thursday) Hotel Jurys Inn, Park Place, CF10 3UD.

30 June, Friday

• 9.00 – 9.45 Prof. Andrew Jaffe, Imperial College London, UK Random Fields in Bayesian hierarchical models for cosmology
• 9.45 – 10.30 Dr Jason McEwen, University College London, UK, Wavelet localisation of isotropic random fields on spherical manifolds and cosmological implications
  
  
• 10.30 – 11.00 Coffee break in Room M/1.02
  
  
• 11.00 – 11.45 Prof. Tom Kitching, Mullard Space Sciences Laboratory, Spin power spectra on the ball
• 11.45 – 12.30 Prof. María D. Ruiz-Medina, University of Granada, Spain, Increasing and fixed domain asymptotics for functionals of spherical random fields
  
  
• 12.30 – 13.30 Lunch, Room M/1.02
  
  
• 13.30 – 14.15 Prof. Gyorgy Terdik, University of Debrecen, Hungary, Estimation the covariance function of isotropic fields on the sphere
• 14.15 – 15.00 Prof. Vicent J. Martínez, University of Valencia, Spain, Joint constraints on galaxy bias and sigma_8 through the N-pdf of the galaxy number density
  
  
• 15.00 – 15.30 Coffee break in Room M/1.02
• 15.30 – 17.00 Discussion
• 17.00 Close