Cosmic Roy and the General Roylativitis

10 Mar 2025, 09:30 → 11 Mar 2025, 20:00 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

 

 

Monday 10 March

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 11:30 Roy@70

Speaker: George Ellis (UCT)

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

Speaker: Chris Clarkson (QMUL)

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

Speaker: Rob Adam

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

Speaker: Bruce Basset

12:50 → 13:00 Video Collection

13:00 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 14:20 Roy@70 - the early years

Speaker: Sunil Maharaj (UKZN)

Maartens.pdf

14:20 → 14:40 Amazwi Ombulelo

Speaker: Siyambonga Matshawule (UWC)

Cosmic_Roy_Talk_final.pdf

14:40 → 15:00 The effects of relativistic and wide-angle corrections to the galaxy power spectrum

Speaker: Sêcloka Lazare Guedezounme

Secloka_Guedezounme_Workshop_11_03_2025.pdf

15:00 → 15:20 Coffee break

15:20 → 15:40 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

15:40 → 16:00 Probing the Cosmological Principle with weak lensing shear

Speaker: James Adam

Roy_70th_March_2024.pdf

16:00 → 16:20 Honoring Roy Maartens: A Legacy in Science and Mentorship

Speaker: Sim Dlamini (UCT)

16:20 → 16:40 My last decade+ of roysearch

Speaker: Stefano Camera (Turin)

Tuesday 11 March

09:40 → 10:00 The primordial Universe and 21cm

Speaker: Dionysis Karagiannis

Roy's 70th meeting.pdf

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

Speaker: William Matthewson

SA_flat_sky.pdf

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

Speaker: Jose Fonseca (Porto)

10:40 → 11:20 Coffee break

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

Speaker: Mponeng Kopana (UWC)

mponeng.pdf

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

Speaker: Matilde Barberi-Squarotti (Milan)

RoyBirthday_MBS.pdf

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

Speaker: Bikash Ranjan Dinda

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

Speaker: Christian Marinoni

12:40 → 13:00 Cosmic Histories

Speaker: Lerothodi Leeuw (UWC)

Talk for Roy at 70 - 11 Mar 2025.pdf

13:00 → 13:20 Relativistic Effects in the Large-Scale Structure

Speaker: Pritha Paul (QMUL)

13:20 → 14:20 Lunch

14:20 → 14:40 Roylativistic Contributions to the Galaxy Bispectrum

Speaker: Samantha Rossiter

14:40 → 15:00 The Galaxy mass-spin relation (and Roy's contribution)

Speaker: Ed Elson (UWC)

elson_RoyCon.pdf

15:00 → 15:20 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

15:20 → 15:30 Contribution from all students

20250311_151350.jpg

15:30 → 16:00 Cosmology with MeerKAT/SKA from South Africa

Speaker: Mario Santos (UWC)

16:00 → 20:00 Aperitivo & Dinner