Overview
 
Lensing at different scales: strong, weak, and synergies between the two
Picture: Lensing at different scales: strong, weak, and synergies between the two
Original artwork by Jasmine Cortez (9th grade, Gwendolyn Brooks College Prep). The winning piece in the South Side Science Art Contest in the high school category.
This decade will be transformative for both strong and weak lensing applications for cosmology and extragalactic astrophysics due to several ground-based and space surveys, such as the Rubin Observatory's LSST, Euclid, and the Roman Space Telescope, providing data of unprecedented size and exquisite quality. By exploring synergistic avenues between the two regimes of lensing, strong and weak, there is great potential to elevate the strengths of each probe.

  • What are the outstanding challenges for both probes that may be solved by combining them?
  • What are the complementarities in cosmological likelihoods from both probes?
  • What can we learn about galaxy evolution in the next decade by joining the two probes?
  • What are the common and complementary approaches in data analysis methods and machine learning applications?


This workshop will bring together researchers from both regimes of lensing to discuss such questions and prepare the community to overcome the outstanding challenges with data from the next generation facilities. The workshop will have a balanced mixture of talks and discussions with ample time for collaboration in breakout groups.

The workshop will take place in person on July 31 - Aug 4, 2023, at the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics (KICP) of the University of Chicago.

To submit a presentation visit the abstract submission form. Submitting this form does not guarantee selection for participation. The workshop aims to have about 40 participants in total (including invited speakers and SOC members). The SOC will select about 10 contributed talks and 10 discussion-only participants out of the submissions.
Abstract submission deadline: May 31, 2023.

For more information, please contact the organizing committee 2023lensing-combined@box.uchicago.edu.

Anowar Shajib, on behalf of the organizing committee
KICP, University of Chicago

 
Invited Speakers
Nikki Arendse
Oskar Klein Centre, Stockholm University
Giulia Despali
University of Bologna
Scott Dodelson
Carnegie Mellon University
Jose Maria Ezquiaga
Niels Bohr Institute
Alex Hall
University of Edinburgh
Natalie Hogg
IPhT CEA Paris-Saclay
Francois Lanusse
CNRS
Alexie Leauthaud
UCSC
Martin Millon
Stanford University
Yuuki Omori
University of Chicago
Laurence Perreault-Levasseur
Université de Montréal and Mila
Alessandro Sonnenfeld
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Tilman Troester
ETH Zurich
Michael Troxel
Duke university
Keiichi Umetsu
ASIAA

 
Scientific Organizing Committee (SOC)
Anowar Shajib (Chair)
University of Chicago
Alex Alarcon
Argonne National Laboratory
Simon Birrer
Stony Brook University
Chihway Chang
UChicago/KICP
Josh Frieman
U. Chicago
Giulia Giannini
KICP
Daniel Gilman
University of Chicago
Hendrik Hildebrandt
Ruhr-University Bochum
Johannes Ulf Lange
University of Michigan
Priyamvada Natarajan
Yale University
Judit Prat
University of Chicago
Liliya Williams
University of Minnesota

 
Registration
To register for the workshop please submit the online Registration Form. Registration deadline: July 15, 2023.

All participants are required to review and agree to follow the KICP Community Values.

 
Abstract submission
To submit a presentation visit the abstract submission form. Submitting this form does not guarantee selection for participation. The workshop aims to have about 40 participants in total (including invited speakers and SOC members). The SOC will select about 10 contributed talks and 10 discussion-only participants out of the submissions.
Abstract submission deadline: May 31, 2023.

 
Registration fee
Registration fee: $145 for all participants.

It will cover one conference dinner, but not the lunches. The webpage link to pay the registration fee will be available to the selected participants by mid-June.

Refund policy: Refunded registration fees are issued on a case-by-case basis, with requests going to Galen Tsongas (Events Administrator) at gtsongas@uchicago.edu. All refunds for reasons other than illness, personal emergency, or travel difficulties should be requested by Monday July 24th.

The online payment form is open.

 
Location
Picture: Location
William Eckhart Research Center (ERC)
William Eckhardt Research Center (ERC)
The Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics
ERC 401
5640 S Ellis Avenue
University of Chicago
Chicago, IL, 60637

 
Contact Us
For questions about the workshop, please contact us at 2023lensing-combined@box.uchicago.edu