UCL Cosmology Group and Dark Energy Survey activities
Michela Massimi discusses Bayesian methods in contemporary observational cosmology. She argues that they enter into three main tasks: (I) cross-checking datasets for consistency; (II) fixing constraints on cosmological parameters; and (III) model selection. This article explores some epistemic limits of using Bayesian methods. The first limit concerns the degree of informativeness of the Bayesian priors […]
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4 April, 1700-1900, Auditorium, National Museum of Scotland Searching for Dark Matter and Dark Energy For the second year in a row, our project features in the Edinburgh International Science Festival with a panel discussion that brings together cosmologists searching for dark matter and dark energy at the Dark Energy Survey. We will discuss problems […]
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Monday 16 May 2016, 1.30-2.30, UCL, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy The Perspectival Realism team, with Michela Massimi, Casey McCoy and Franklin Jacoby will convene a meeting with Prof. Ofer Lahav’s Cosmology Group at UCL to discuss the latest news coming from the Dark Energy Survey and lay the road map for the fieldwork ahead.
Read moreRoyal Astronomical Society, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London, 9 November 2018 We present some of our research on the use of Bayesian inferences in cosmology, and in particular in DES Year 1 results, at this event organised by the Dark Energy Survey Collaboration. The group will also explore the latest reports on Supernova Ia, galaxy clusters, weak […]
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