BIG3 schedule - Friday, Sept 21

TALKS SCHEDULE

Friday, September 21, 2012 (Amphitheater Pierre Gilles de Gennes)

Time	Speaker	Title
		Chair: Julian Borrill
9:15AM - 10:10AM	Horst Simon	Barriers to Exascale Computing
10:10AM - 10:35AM	Mikolaj Szydlarski	Accelerating maximum likelihood Cosmic Microwave Background map-making
10:35AM - 11:05AM	Coffee break
		Chair: Bryan Steinbach
11:05AM - 11:45AM	Hiranya Peiris	Hunting for relics from the early universe in the CMB
11:45AM - 12:05PM	Meisam Sharify	Avoiding Communication in Generalized Least Square Problems.
12:05PM - 12:45PM	Domenico Marinucci	On needlets/wavelets nonGaussianity estimators
12:45PM - 2:15PM	Lunch break
		Chair: Stephen Feeney
2:15PM - 2:55PM	Robert Adler	From mean Euler characteristics to the Gaussian kinematic formula
2:55PM - 3:15PM	Sandro Scodeller	Detection of Point Sources Using Internal Templates and Needlets
3:15PM - 3:55PM	Benjamin Wandelt	Optimal methods for non-Gaussianity
3:55PM - 4:25PM	Coffee break
		Chair:
4:25PM - 5:05PM	Carmelita Carbone	CMB lensing and N-body simulations
5:05PM - 5:25PM	Dominic Galliano	Deriving bounds for trispectrum estimators for Planck
5:25PM - 5:45PM	Yabebal Fantaye	CMB lensing reconstruction in the presence of diffuse polarized foregrounds
5:45PM - 6:05PM	Alessandro Renzi	Primordial non-Gaussianity and diffuse Galactic emissions

-Fri, Sept 21