EPFL/CERN/UNIGE Discussion Sessions

Friday 9 Dec 2016, 14:30 → 18:15 Europe/Zurich

Stueckelberg Auditorium (UniGe)

To prompt collaboration among the different groups in cosmology in the Léman area, we hold a common discussion session every month and a half. In those, recent news in the field are addressed by experts at a level that we can all understand. Please, suggest papers/subjects to the local organizers. The suggested papers for this session are:

 

 

 

14:30 → 15:30 The effect of massive neutrinos on the large scale structure of the Universe

I will present, large scale clustering, weak-lensing, CMB-lensing and ISW/Rees-Sciama photon ray-tracing across the first set of cosmological
simulations produced within the “Dark Energy and Massive Neutrino Universe” (DEMNUni) project. These simulations are characterised by
Lbox=2Gpc/h, Npart=2 x 20483, a baseline LCDM-Planck cosmology, and four different total neutrino masses, Mnu=0, 0.17, 0.3, 0.53eV, in the
form of a particle-component with a degenerate mass spectrum. I will present fully non-linear effects obtained from the DEMNUni simulations,
and show how massive neutrinos alter clustering, lensing and ISW/RS together with their cross-correlations.

Speaker: Dr Carmelita Carbone (INAF - Brera)

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee

16:00 → 17:00 Journal club: The Doppler effect on indirect detection of dark matter using dark matter only simulations

Authors: Devon Powell, Ranjan Laha, Kenny C. Y. Ng and Tom Abel

Speaker: Tien-Tien Yu (CERN)

17:00 → 18:00 Out for drinks