The team of Dr. Julien Lesgourgues (CERN/EPFL) will visit Kavli IPMU and kindly give us a series of lectures and hands-on exercise sessions on his linear Boltzmann code "CLASS" and Markov Chain Monte Carlo wrapper "MontePython". The lectures will be for one week. This will be one-and-the-only opportunity for everyone to learn how to go from the CMB and large-scale structure power spectra to the cosmological parameters, and the physics behind this process.
Topic: Linear Perturbation Theory and Markov Chain Monte Carlo Codes [CLASS/MontePython]
Program: available here for download
Summary of the program: available here for download
A typical day schedule is: 09:30-10:15 session 1 10:15-11:00 session 2 11:00-11:30 coffee break 11:30-12:15 session 3 12:15-13:30 lunch 13:30-14:15 session 4 14:15-15:00 session 5 15:00-15:45 tea time 15:45-16:30 extra time for asking questions, finishing exercises, or maybe explaining optional topics
Lecture notes available here for download; they will become available progressively, so please check back
Instructions available here
Lecturers
Julien Lesgourgues (CERN/EPFL) Benjamin Audren (EPFL) Thomas Tram (EPFL)
Dates October 27 (Mon) - 31 (Fri), 2014
Venue Lecture Hall (1F), Kavli IPMU main building
Accommodation Participants are expected to arrange their accommodation by themselves. Hotel information around Kashiwa is provided in Accommodation page.
Organizer Eiichiro Komatsu (MPA/Kavli IPMU)
Contact Address: Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Kavli IPMU), the University of Tokyo, 5-1-5 Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa City, Chiba 277-8583, Japan
Sponsor Kavli IPMU (WPI)
