Putting the Cosmic Large-scale Structure on the Map: Theory Meets Numerics

The cosmic large-scale structure (LSS) provides a unique testing ground for probing gravity, dark energy, inflation, dark matter, and the neutrino-mass scale. The coming decade will bring an unprecedented influx of data from LSS surveys, including DESI, Euclid, LSST, and SPHEREx. To fully exploit this wealth of information, we must move beyond traditional summary statistics and harness the full statistical power of field-level inference. This workshop will focus on the advantages of field-level inference, the theoretical and computational challenges involved, and its application to real and simulated data. By working directly with full map-level data, we can extract significantly more cosmological information, break degeneracies, and improve constraints on fundamental physics.

Sept. 22, 2025
09:00 — 10:00
registration & welcome
10:00 — 10:20
10:20 — 10:40
10:40 — 11:00
11:00 — 11:20
12:00 — 14:00
lunch break
14:40 — 15:00
discussion kick off
15:00 — 15:30
coffee break
15:30 — 17:00
discussion / breakout sessions
Sept. 23, 2025
09:20 — 09:40
Carolina Cuesta-Lazaro (Harvard U, Cambridge)
Implicit vs Explicity field level inference
09:40 — 10:00
Jia Liu (Kavli IPMU)
HalfDome Cosmological Simulations
10:00 — 10:30
coffee break
10:30 — 12:00
discussion session
12:00 — 14:00
lunch break
14:40 — 15:00
Tomasz Kacprzak (LMU Munich)
Combined probes with AI-SBI
15:00 — 15:30
coffee break
15:30 — 17:00
discussion / breakout sessions
Sept. 24, 2025
09:20 — 09:40
09:40 — 10:00
Thomas Flöss (U of Vienna)
Field-level inference with DISCO-DJ
10:00 — 10:30
coffee break
11:10 — 12:00
discussion session
12:00 — 14:00
lunch break
14:00 — 14:20
Natalia Porqueres (CEA Paris-Saclay)
Field-level inference of weak lensing data
14:40 — 15:00
15:00 — 15:30
coffee break
15:30 — 15:50
online talk: Elisabeth Krause (U of Arizona, Tucson)
Requirements for the next mock challenge
15:50 — 17:00
discussion / breakout sessions
19:00 — 21:00
workshop dinner
Sept. 25, 2025
09:20 — 09:40
Drew Jamieson (MPI for Astrophysics, Garching)
Simulating the Initial Conditions of the Universe
09:40 — 10:00
Azadeh Moradinezhad Dizgah (LAPTh Annecy)
Parity in Composite-Field Galaxy Correlators
10:00 — 10:30
coffee break
10:30 — 10:50
10:50 — 12:00
discussion session
12:00 — 14:00
lunch break
14:00 — 14:20
Jens Stücker (U of Vienna)
Gaussian Lagrangian Galaxy Bias
14:40 — 15:00
15:00 — 15:30
coffee break
15:30 — 15:50
Francois Lanusse (CEA Paris-Saclay)
Hybrid Forward Models and Efficient Interference
15:50 — 17:00
discussion / breakout sessions
20:00 — 21:00
guided visit at the observatory
Sept. 26, 2025
09:00 — 09:20
09:20 — 09:40
Zvonimir Vlah (RBI, Zagreb)
Modelling Cosmological Correlators on the Sky
09:40 — 10:00
10:00 — 10:20
10:20 — 11:00
coffee break
11:00 — 12:00
workshop summary

Organizers

Name Affiliation
Oliver Hahn University of Vienna
Cornelius Rampf Ruđer Bošković Institute
Cora Uhlemann Bielefeld University

Attendees

Name Affiliation
Kazuyuki Akitsu KEK Theory Center
David Alonso Monge University of Oxford
Raul Angulo Donostia International Physics Center
Adrian E. Bayer Princeton University
Sandrine Codis CNRS/AIM
Carolina Cuesta-Lazaro Harvard University
Guido D'Amico University of Parma
Alejandro Estrada Llesta University of Vienna
Thomas Flöss University of Vienna
Boryana Hadzhiyska University of California, Berkeley
Zoltan Haiman Institute of Science and Technology Austria
Ben Horowitz Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe, University of Tokyo
Jiamin Hou University of Cambridge
Anne Hutter University of Vienna
Drew Jamieson Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics
Jens Jasche University of Stockholm
Tomasz Kacprzak The Humboldt Foundation / LMU Munich
Elisabeth Krause University of Arizona
Francois Lanusse Centre d'Energie Atomique Saclay
Guilhem Lavaux Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris
Florent Leclercq Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris
Yin Li Peng Cheng Laboratory
Laila Linke University of Innsbruck
Florian List Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics
Jia Liu Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe, University of Tokyo
Azadeh Moradinezhad Dizgah LAPTh, Université Savoie Mont-Blanc
Chiara Moretti SISSA
Takahiro Nishimichi Kyoto Sangyo University
Ken Osato Chiba University
Natalia Porqueres Centre d'Energie Atomique Saclay
Ashim Sen Gupta Bielefeld University
Julia Stadler Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Jens Stücker University of Vienna
Eleni Tsaprazi Imperial College London
Zvonimir Vlah Ruđer Bošković Institute
Lukas Winkler University of Vienna
Preview of David Alonso - Projected clustering: the information in N-point statistics
David Alonso Monge (U Oxford): Projected clustering: the information in N-point statistics
Sept. 22, 2025 10:00 — 10:20
Preview of Adrian E. Bayer - Field-Level BAO Reconstruction and Beyond
Adrian E. Bayer (Princeton U): Field-Level BAO Reconstruction and Beyond
Sept. 22, 2025 10:20 — 10:40
Preview of Chiara Moretti - Measuring dark energy without prior-volume effects
Chiara Moretti (SISSA, Trieste): Measuring dark energy without prior-volume effects
Sept. 22, 2025 11:00 — 11:20
Preview of Carolina Cuesta-Lazaro - Implicit vs Explicity field level inference
Carolina Cuesta-Lazaro (Harvard U, Cambridge): Implicit vs Explicity field level inference
Sept. 23, 2025 09:20 — 09:40
Preview of Florian List - DISCO-DJ: DIfferentiable Simulations for COsmology - Done with Jax
Florian List (MPI for Astrophysics, Garching): DISCO-DJ: DIfferentiable Simulations for COsmology - Done with Jax
Sept. 24, 2025 09:20 — 09:40
Preview of Drew Jamieson - Simulating the Initial Conditions of the Universe
Drew Jamieson (MPI for Astrophysics, Garching): Simulating the Initial Conditions of the Universe
Sept. 25, 2025 09:20 — 09:40
Preview of Jens Stücker - Gaussian Lagrangian Galaxy Bias
Jens Stücker (U of Vienna): Gaussian Lagrangian Galaxy Bias
Sept. 25, 2025 14:00 — 14:20
Preview of Cora Uhlemann - Going Below and Beyond: A Dive into One-Point Statistics
Cora Uhlemann (Bielefeld U): Going Below and Beyond: A Dive into One-Point Statistics
Sept. 25, 2025 14:40 — 15:00
At a glance
Type:
Workshop
When:
Sept. 22, 2025 — Sept. 26, 2025
Where:
ESI Boltzmann Lecture Hall
Organizer(s):
Oliver Hahn (U of Vienna)
Cornelius Rampf (RBI, Zagreb)
Cora Uhlemann (Bielefeld U)