SZ Workshop

Jun 1, 2022, 8:30 AM → Jun 3, 2022, 1:25 PM America/New_York

162 Fifth Avenue/2-2nd Floor Promenade (162 5th Avenue)

Observations of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effects use the CMB as a backlight to directly probe the ionized gas in galaxies, clusters, and the cosmic web. They can be used to reveal important information about galaxy formation and evolution, energetic feedback, and to extract cosmological information. Recent advances in the measurement techniques, together with the availability of low-noise, high-resolution CMB maps and galaxy catalogs with millions of galaxies, have turned the thermal and kinematic SZ effects into mature probes.

As we prepare to analyze data from the next generation of surveys, such as DESI and Simons Observatory, it is imperative to be able to connect SZ theory, simulations, and observations.  This effort will allow us to properly interpret the upcoming measurements, and will be the main goal of the workshop.  We anticipate contributions from CMB observers and analysts, galaxy formation theorists and simulators, and experts in the modeling of galaxy populations and ionized gas properties.

SOC:

• Nick Battaglia
• Simone Ferraro
• Colin Hill
• Mathew Madhavacheril
• Emmanuel Schaan

LOC:

• Colin Hill
• Will Coulton
• Shirley Ho
• Fiona McCarthy

Wednesday, June 1

8:30 AM Breakfast

Introduction/Opening Remarks

1 Thermal SZ Cosmology and Power Spectrum

Speakers: Elena Pierpaoli, Sebastian Bocquet, Uros Seljak

10:45 AM Coffee Break

2 SZ Astrophysics

Speakers: Eve Vavagiakis, Marco Gatti, Shivam Pandey

12:00 PM Lunch

3 Modeling and Simulations

Speakers: Daisuke Nagai, Hy Trac, Yuuki Omori

2:20 PM Coffee Break

4 SZ Profiles

Speakers: Jean Baptiste Melin, Leander Thiele, Tony Mroczkowski

3:45 PM Coffee Break

5 Panel/Group Discussion: tSZ + kSZ Astrophysics, Modeling, Feedback

Speaker: Emmanuel Schaan

5:00 PM Wine and Cheese Reception

Thursday, June 2

8:30 AM Breakfast

6 Kinematic SZ Bispectrum

Speakers: Fiona McCarthy, Matthew Johnson, Moritz Munchmeyer, Neha Kumar

10:45 AM Coffee Break

7 Kinematic SZ: Projected Fields

Speakers: Aleksandra Kusiak, Boris Bolliet, Raagini Patki

12:00 PM Lunch

8 Reionization kSZ

Speakers: Adam Lidz, Anirban Roy, Nianyi Chen

2:20 PM Coffee Break

9 Panel/Group Discussion: kSZ Cosmology and Astrophysics

3:40 PM Coffee Break

10 Miscellaneous kSZ + tSZ

Speakers: Blake Sherwin, Eric Baxter, Srini Raghunathan

Friday, June 3

8:30 AM Breakfast

11 New Ideas

Speakers: Alina Sabyr, Jay Wadekar, Oliver Philcox, Selim Hotinli

10:50 AM Coffee Break

12 Panel/Group Discussions: New Directions

Speakers: Colin Hill, Simone Ferraro

13 Closing Remarks

Speakers: Colin Hill, Simone Ferraro

12:05 PM Lunch