Scientific Program
During presentation and discussion sessions, along with outdoor activities, each participant will have the chance to exchange ideas with experts from gravitational lensing, but also mathematics, statistics, and machine learning, in order to seek and provide solutions to problems in their respective area of research.
monday, September 23
Morning (9:00 - 12:00)
9:00-9:20: Welcome and spirit of the meeting (30min)
9:20-10:40: Introduction round by participants
10:40-11:00: Coffee break
11:00-11:40: “New lenses, datasets and time delays” - Cameron Lemon
11:40-12:00: “Challenges in dark matter and lensing“ - Massimo Meneghetti
Chair: TBD
Lunch: we stay at the same place and discussion can continue at the tables
Outdoor activity/free time
Afternoon (17:00 - 19:30)
17:00-17:25: “Weak and strong lensing“ - Raphael Gavazzi
17:25-17:50: “Lensing by clusters” - Massimo Meneghetti
17:50-18:10: Coffee break
18:10-18:40: “Challenges in microlensing” - Luke Weisenbach, TBD
18:40-19:30: Round table discussion
Chair: TBD
Dinner: we stay at the same place and discussion can continue at the tables
tuesday, September 24
Morning (9:00 - 12:00)
9:00-9:25: “Lensing substructure” - Quinn Minor
9:25-9:50: “Challenges in lens modeling” - Aymeric Galan
9:50-10:30: Round table discussion
10:30-10:50: Coffee break
10:50-11:20: “Future and challenges“ - Tom Collett
11:20-12:00: Forming working groups
Chair: TBD
Lunch: we stay at the same place and discussion can continue at the tables
Outdoor activity/free time
Afternoon (17:00 - 19:30)
16:00-16:30: Round table discussion
16:30-17:30: Breakout session
17:30-18:00: Round table discussion
18:00-18:30: Breakout session
*coffee available throughout the afternoon
Chair: TBD
DINNER: conference dinner - HIONA restaurant
wednesday, September 25
Morning (9:00 - 12:00)
10:00-10:30: Working group presentations
10:30-11:00: Round table discussion
11:00-12:00: Breakout session
*coffee available throughout the afternoon
Chair: TBD
Lunch: we stay at the same place and discussion can continue at the tables
Outdoor activity/free time
Afternoon (17:00 - 19:30)
17:00-18:30: Breakout session
18:00-18:30: Working group presentations
18:30-19:30: Breakout sessions
*coffee available throughout the afternoon
Chair: TBD
Dinner: we stay at the same place and discussion can continue at the tables
thursday, September 26
Morning (9:00 - 12:00)
9:00-9:30: The next steps
9:30-10:30: Breakout session
9:50-10:30: Round table discussion
10:30-10:50: Coffee break
10:50-11:30: Working group presentations
11:30-12:00: Breakout session
Chair: TBD
Lunch: we stay at the same place and discussion can continue at the tables
Outdoor activity/free time
Afternoon (17:00 - 19:30)
14:00-14:40: Final presentations
14:40-16:00: Round table discussion - plan for the future