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 (postponed for the afternoon): “Challenges in dark matter and lensing“ - Massimo Meneghetti

Chair: Eric Paic

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: “Strong Lensing as a probe of dark matter” - Massimo Meneghetti

17:50-18:10: Coffee break

18:10-18:40: Challenges in microlensing” - Luke Weisenbach, TBD

18:40-19:05: “Lensing by clusters” - Massimo Meneghetti

19:05-19:30: Round table discussion

Chair: Matteo Guardiani

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 - 10:15: “Lensing, substructures, and dark matter” - Wolfgang Enzi

10:15-10:40: Coffee break

10:40-11:10: “Future and challenges“ - Tom Collett

11:10-12:00: Forming working groups

Chair: Leon Roman Ecker

Lunch: we stay at the same place and discussion can continue at the tables

Outdoor activity/free time

Afternoon (16:00 - 18:30)

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: Wolfgang Enzi

conference dinner - 20:00 HIONA restaurant


wednesday, September 25

Morning (10:00 - 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: Julian Rustig

Lunch: we stay at the same place and discussion can continue at the tables

Outdoor activity/free time

Afternoon (17:00 - 19:30)

17:00-18:00: Breakout session

18:00-18:30: Working group presentations

18:30-19:30: Breakout sessions

*coffee available throughout the afternoon

Chair: Allan Schweinfurth

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 (14:00 - 16:00)

14:00-14:40: Final presentations

14:40-16:00: Round table discussion - plan for the future

end of the meeting