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
Adrian E. Bayer (Princeton U)
Field-Level BAO Reconstruction and Beyond
10:40 — 11:00
11:00 — 11:20
Chiara Moretti (SISSA, Trieste)
Measuring dark energy without prior-volume effects
12:00 — 14:00
lunch break
14:00 — 14:20
Julia Stadler (MPI for Astrophysics, Garching)
Perturbative Forward-Modeling of Galaxy Surveys for Field-Level Cosmology
14:40 — 15:00
online talk (TBC): Elisabeth Krause (Arizona)
15:00 — 15:30
coffee break
15:30 — 18:00
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
14:20 — 14:40
14:40 — 15:00
Tomasz Kacprzak (PSI, Villigen)
Combined probes with AI-SBI
15:00 — 15:30
coffee break
15:30 — 18:00
discussion / breakout sessions
Sept. 24, 2025
09:20 — 09:40
Florian List (MPI for Astrophysics, Garching)
DISCO-DJ: DIfferentiable Simulations for COsmology - Done with Jax
09:40 — 10:00
Thomas Flöss (U of Vienna)
Field-level inference with DISCO-DJ
10:00 — 10:30
coffee break
10:50 — 11:10
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 — 17:00
discussion / breakout sessions
18:00 — 21:00
workshop dinner
Sept. 25, 2025
09:00 — 09:20
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 — 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 — 17:00
discussion / breakout sessions
20:00 — 21:00
guided visit at the observatory
Sept. 26, 2025
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 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 Paul Scherrer Institut, Villigen
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
Keita Minato Kyoto University
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 Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics
Jens Stücker University of Vienna
Eleni Tsaprazi Imperial College London
Zvonimir Vlah Ruđer Bošković Institute
Lukas Winkler University of Vienna
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)