In our now-standard picture for the growth of structure, dark matter halos are the basic unit of nonlinear structure in the present Universe. I will report...
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TalkThe (very) small-scale structure of dark matter halos
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TalkThe Cosmic NeuTRIVIA game
In this talk, we shall review the impact of the neutrino properties on the different cosmological observables. We shall also present the latest cosmological...
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TalkThe Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI)
DESI is a massively multiplexed fiber-fed spectrograph that will make the nextmajor advance in dark energy in the timeframe 2018-2022. On the Mayalltelescope...
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TalkThe dark side
What's the dark matter made of? Do we have any idea of the kind of particle that should constitute ~85% of the matter content of the Universe? In this talk, I...
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TalkThe discovery of the CMB B-mode polarization, a smoking-gun of Universe's inflation
On March 17 the team responsible for the BICEP2 experiment, a CMB telescope located in the South Pole, announced the discovery of the primordial B-mode signal...
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TalkThe ESO VISTA telescope and the VISTA Hemisphere Survey
Survey operations with the VISTA telescope with it wide field near IR camera started in Feb 2010, following a science verification phase that started in Oct...
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TalkThe Extragalactic Background Light: Connecting Classical and High Energy Astronomy
The extragalactic background light (EBL) is the second most energetic diffuse background that fills our Universe. It is produced by star formation processes and...
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TalkThe galaxy-halo connection in the cosmic web
Galaxies and the dark matter halos in which they reside are intrinsically connected. That relationship holds information about key processes in galaxy and...
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TalkThe Hubble Constant: Relieving the Tension
Twenty years ago, no one convincingly knew the age or the size of theUniverse to within a factor of two. Ten years ago, everyone agreed onthose same two numbers...