Sep 12 – 15, 2023 A three-day intensive residential workshop in Astrophysical Observatory at Monte Pennar, University of Padova, organized jointly by the Department of Statistical Science, Department of Physics and Astronomy UNIPD and Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Lausanne.

Website https://agenda.infn.it/event/34608/

For further information, please, drop an email to cosmo2023(at)stat.unipd(dot)it

Modern cosmology heavily relies on statistical methods. At the same time, the recent explosion of available data, resulting from current and forthcoming astronomical sky surveys, provides unique challenges, and opportunities, to statistics. Successful collaboration grows from the ground. For this to happen, researchers, especially junior ones, need opportunities to meet each other and to exchange ideas. The aim of this project is to promote novel research and fuel new discoveries at the interface of two areas of much current interest: the statistical theory of extreme values and the study of cosmological observables. Statistics of extremes concerns inference for rare, possibly unobserved events. In cosmology, these may refer to the cosmic microwave background radiation – the oldest light we can see –, the clustering properties of large scale structure tracers and the cosmological signatures of gravitational lensing.

Organized by Alessandra R. Brazzale Valérie Chavez-Demoulin Sabino Matarrese