2017 Feb 14-16 Meeting

AGENDA

Feb 14

    • 9h-10h: Coffee – Informal discussion
    • 10h Welcome
      • Jean-Paul Kneib: ISSI team meeting – scope of the meeting and deliverables
    • 10h15 OU requirements
      • Frederic Courbin: Perspectives and requirements from the OU side.
    • 10h30-17h: presentation of the different techniques used for the SL challenges (by those who have submitted: GOOD team)
      • 10h30: Christoph Schaefer/Mario Geiger: Convolutional Neural Network Lens Finder Architectures
      • 11h00: Enrico Petrillo: CNNs on SL challenge
      • 11h30: Giorgos Vernardos: Update on the Groningen SL group efforts: lens modelling, CNNs
    • 12h-13h30 Lunch
    • 13h30-14h Coffee @ ISSI – Informal discussion
      • 14h00: Philippa Hartley: Lens finding challenge: support vector machines
      • 14h30 Andrew Davies: convolutional neural network using edge detected images
      • 15h00: Remi Cabanac: Arcfinder on SL Challenge
    • 15h30-16h: Coffee Break
      • 16h: Clelio de Bom (remote: 12-17)
      • 16h30: Francois Lanusse (remote: afternoon)
      • 17h: Neal Jackson: Limitations of manual examinations of large lens samples and prospects for lensed radio-quiet quasars
  • 17h30-18h15: What should be the next challenge from the point of view of the GOOD team?
    • How easy was this challenge?
      • Ground
      • Space
    • What to improve in the next challenge?
      • Size of images, quality, masking, noise, IR bands? …
  • 18h15-19h: Informal discussion – Hotel drop-off – Beers ….
  • 19h-21h30: Dinner

Feb 15

  • 9h-10h: Coffee – Informal discussion – Email sessions
  • 10h: presentation of the results of the challenge
    • Ben Metcalf: preliminary results from the strong lensing challenge
  • 11h discussion
  • 12h-13h30 Lunch
  • 13h30-14h Coffee @ ISSI – Informal discussion
  • 14h: How to transfer the best algorithm(s) at the OU level and implementation on SDC:
    • 14h00: Andrea Tramercere: [remote] Primal: A Euclid-compliant Machine Learning Python framework
    • 14h45: Pierre Dubath: Progress on the SExtractor++ project (Pierre)
    • 15h15: Discussion on algorithm/software implementation at SDC
  • 15h45-16h15: Coffee Break
    • Schedule
    • Distribution of tasks
    • Schedule
    • 16h15: Massimo Meneghetti: status on SL white paper
    • 16h45: Discussion
  • 18h-19h: Informal discussion – Hotel drop-off – Beers ….
  • 19h-21h30: Dinner

Feb 16

  • 9h-10h: Coffee – Informal discussion – Email sessions
  • 10h: Other strong lensing topics:
    • 10h00 HFF:
      • Eric Jullo: Cosmological tests measurements on HFF simulated clusters
      • Massimo Meneghetti: HFF simulations follow-up?
    • 10h50 Cluster WL: Raphael Gavazzi: Outside-in characterization of the mass distribution in clusters. Methods for weak lensing and prospects for strong lensing.
    • 11h10 Galaxy SL: Danka Paraficz: Precision Cosmology  with  ALMA
    • 11h30: Leonidas Moustakas: WFIRST in a few words
  • 12h-13h30 Lunch
  • 13h30-14h Coffee @ ISSI – Informal discussion – picture of the team
    • Further White Paper discussion
    • June 2017: Euclid meeting preparation
      • Who is planning to go?
      • Special SL session?
    • Next meeting(s)
      • ISSI meeting
      • Other meetings (ECSL, EWASS …)
  • 15h30-16h Coffee – End of the meeting