Cosmic Roy and the General Roylativitis

Mar 10, 2025, 9:30 AM → Mar 11, 2025, 8:00 PM Africa/Johannesburg

Auditorium (SAAO)

A gathering of cosmologists for Roy Maartens' 70th birthday: 

SOC/LOC:

• Mario Ballardini
• Chris Clarkson
• Simthembile Dlamini
• Ed Elson
• José Fonseca
• Pritha Paul
• Mario Santos 
• Marta Spinelli

 

 

Mon, March 10

10:30 AM → 11:00 AM Coffee break

11:00 AM → 11:30 AM Roy@70

Speaker: George Ellis (UCT)

11:30 AM → 12:00 PM Roy is an Astro Super Star (ASS)

Speaker: Chris Clarkson (QMUL)

12:00 PM → 12:30 PM The strategic history of the SKA in South Africa

Speaker: Rob Adam

12:30 PM → 12:50 PM Reflections on the dawn of precision cosmology and the ICG

Speaker: Bruce Basset

12:50 PM → 1:00 PM Video Collection

1:00 PM → 2:00 PM Lunch

2:00 PM → 2:20 PM Roy@70 - the early years

Speaker: Sunil Maharaj (UKZN)

Maartens.pdf

2:20 PM → 2:40 PM Amazwi Ombulelo

Speaker: Siyambonga Matshawule (UWC)

Cosmic_Roy_Talk_final.pdf

2:40 PM → 3:00 PM The effects of relativistic and wide-angle corrections to the galaxy power spectrum

Speaker: Sêcloka Lazare Guedezounme

Secloka_Guedezounme_Workshop_11_03_2025.pdf

3:00 PM → 3:20 PM Coffee break

3:20 PM → 3:40 PM Cosmological constraints using 2-and 3- point corRoylations with MeerKAT, the SKA, and HIRAX

Speaker: Liantsoa Randrianjanahary (UKZN)

Li_slides_Cosmic_Roy_70_Conference.pdf

3:40 PM → 4:00 PM Probing the Cosmological Principle with weak lensing shear

Speaker: James Adam

Roy_70th_March_2024.pdf

4:00 PM → 4:20 PM Honoring Roy Maartens: A Legacy in Science and Mentorship

Speaker: Sim Dlamini (UCT)

4:20 PM → 4:40 PM My last decade+ of roysearch

Speaker: Stefano Camera (Turin)

Tue, March 11

9:40 AM → 10:00 AM The primordial Universe and 21cm

Speaker: Dionysis Karagiannis

Roy's 70th meeting.pdf

10:00 AM → 10:20 AM I Believe I can Fl(at Sk)y!

Speaker: William Matthewson

SA_flat_sky.pdf

10:20 AM → 10:40 AM Roylativistic effects and the quest for GR null tests with LSS

Speaker: Jose Fonseca (Porto)

10:40 AM → 11:20 AM Coffee break

11:20 AM → 11:40 AM Constraining primordial non-Gaussianity by combining photometric galaxy and 21cm intensity mapping surveys

Speaker: Mponeng Kopana (UWC)

mponeng.pdf

11:40 AM → 12:00 PM HI intensity mapping from forecasts to data

Speaker: Matilde Barberi-Squarotti (Milan)

RoyBirthday_MBS.pdf

12:00 PM → 12:20 PM Model-agnostic assessment of dark energy after DESI DR1 BAO

Speaker: Bikash Ranjan Dinda

12:20 PM → 12:40 PM Good Hope for detecting our acceleration trough space?

Speaker: Christian Marinoni

12:40 PM → 1:00 PM Cosmic Histories

Speaker: Lerothodi Leeuw (UWC)

Talk for Roy at 70 - 11 Mar 2025.pdf

1:00 PM → 1:20 PM Relativistic Effects in the Large-Scale Structure

Speaker: Pritha Paul (QMUL)

1:20 PM → 2:20 PM Lunch

2:20 PM → 2:40 PM Roylativistic Contributions to the Galaxy Bispectrum

Speaker: Samantha Rossiter

2:40 PM → 3:00 PM The Galaxy mass-spin relation (and Roy's contribution)

Speaker: Ed Elson (UWC)

elson_RoyCon.pdf

3:00 PM → 3:20 PM A positive and encouraging correlation of multi tracers Roy brought between the two towns 14,000km apart

Speaker: Shun Saito

ShunSaito_CosmicRoy_3-11-2025.pdf

3:20 PM → 3:30 PM Contribution from all students

20250311_151350.jpg

3:30 PM → 4:00 PM Cosmology with MeerKAT/SKA from South Africa

Speaker: Mario Santos (UWC)

4:00 PM → 8:00 PM Aperitivo & Dinner