The Extragalactic Distance Scale and Cosmic Expansion in the Era of Large Surveys and the James Webb Space Telescope

3 July - 28 July 2023

Richard I. Anderson, Sherry Suyu, Eleonora Di Valentino, Saurabh W. Jha, Hee-Jong Seo

Week 1
Mon 03/07/2023
Time Session
9:00 - 9:30

Journal club

9:30 - 10:00

Coffee Break

10:00 - 10:45

Cosmology with galaxy redshift surveys

Florian Beutler

Beutler_Slides.pdf

10:45 - 11:30

Subaru PFS cosmology and systematics of future spectroscopic surveys

Tomomi Sunayama

Sunayama_Slides.pdf

11:30 - 12:00

Discussion and Planning of Afternoon Session(s)

12:00 - 14:00

Lunch

14:00 - 15:30

Afternoon Session

15:30 - 16:00

Coffee Break

16:00 - 17:30

Optional Second Afternoon Session

Tue 04/07/2023
Time Session
9:00 - 9:30

Journal club

9:30 - 10:00

Coffee Break

10:00 - 10:45

Unresolved Anomalies and Tensions in the Standard Cosmological Model

Eleonora Di Valentino

Di Valentino_Slides.pdf

10:45 - 11:30

Stellar pulsation theory and models

Marcella Marconi

Marconi_Slides.pdf

11:30 - 12:00

Discussion and Planning of Afternoon Session(s)

12:00 - 14:00

Lunch

14:00 - 15:30

Afternoon Session

15:30 - 16:00

Coffee Break

16:00 - 17:30

Optional Second Afternoon Session

18:00 - 20:00

Discussion and Networking - Bavarian Brotzeit

Wed 05/07/2023
Time Session
9:00 - 9:30

Journal club

9:30 - 10:00

Coffee Break

10:00 - 10:45

Type Ia Supernova Distances and their Role in the H0 Tension

David Jones

Jones_Slides.pdf

10:45 - 11:30

Recent Analyses of the Distance Ladder Using Supernova

Dan Scolnic

Scolnic_Slides.pdf

11:30 - 12:00

Discussion

12:00 - 14:00

Lunch

15:30 - 16:30

Biermann Lectures at MPA - The LCDM cosmology

George Efstathiou

Thu 06/07/2023
Time Session
9:00 - 9:30

Journal club

9:30 - 10:00

Coffee Break

10:00 - 10:45

The metallicity effect in the Cepheid distance scale: past limitations and recent improvements

Louise Breuval

Breuval_Slides.pdf

10:45 - 11:30

The chemical composition of Magellanic Cloud Cepheids: results, pitfalls and lessons learnt

Martino Romaniello

Romaniello_Slides.pdf

11:30 - 12:00

Discussion and Planning of Afternoon Session(s)

12:00 - 14:00

Lunch

14:00 - 15:30

Afternoon Session

15:30 - 16:00

Coffee Break

16:00 - 17:30

Optional Second Afternoon Session

Fri 07/07/2023
Time Session
9:00 - 9:30

Journal club

9:30 - 10:00

Coffee Break

10:00 - 10:45

Strongly lensed supernovae; Discovery to cosmology in the LSST era

Suhail Dhawan

Dhawan_Slides.pdf

10:45 - 11:30

A new way to measure the expansion rate and the geometry of the Universe through the time delays of time-varying sources strongly lensed by galaxy clusters

Claudio Grillo

Grillo_Slides.pdf

11:30 - 12:00

Discussion and Planning of Afternoon Session(s)

12:00 - 14:00

Lunch

14:00 - 15:30

Afternoon Session

15:30 - 16:00

Coffee Break

16:00 - 17:30

Optional Second Afternoon Session

Week 2
Mon 10/07/2023
Time Session
9:00 - 9:30

Journal club

9:30 - 10:00

Coffee Break

10:00 - 11:00

Testing the Local Measurement of H0: Using JWST to test the Reliability of HST Cepheid Photometry

Adam Riess

11:00 - 11:45

Miras in M33: prospects for the Rubin/Roman era

Lucas Macri

Macri_Slides.pdf

11:45 - 12:00

Discussion and Planning of Afternoon Session(s)

12:00 - 14:00

Lunch

14:00 - 15:30

Afternoon Session

15:30 - 16:00

Coffee Break

16:00 - 17:30

Optional Second Afternoon Session

18:00 - 20:00

Discussion and Networking - BBQ

Tue 11/07/2023
Time Session
9:00 - 9:30

Journal club

9:30 - 10:00

Coffee Break

10:00 - 10:45

Carbon Stars in the Araucaria Project

Bartłomiej Zgirski

Zgirski_Slides.pdf

10:45 - 11:30

Using Carbon Stars as Standard Candles: Establishing the Foundations for an Independent Measurement of the Hubble

Abigail Lee

Lee_Slides.pdf

11:30 - 12:00

Discussion and Planning of Afternoon Session(s)

12:00 - 14:00

Lunch

14:00 - 15:30

Afternoon Session

15:30 - 16:00

Coffee Break

16:00 - 17:30

Optional Second Afternoon Session

Wed 12/07/2023
Time Session
9:00 - 9:30

Journal club

9:30 - 10:00

Coffee Break

10:00 - 10:45

The metallicity dependence of the PL relation for Galactic Classical Cepheids with Gaia

Vincenzo Ripepi

Ripepi_Slides.pdf

10:45 - 11:30

Geometric calibration of the absolute luminosity of standard candles using star clusters

Mauricio Cruz Reyes

Cruz Reyes_Slides.pdf

11:30 - 12:00

Discussion and Planning of Afternoon Session(s)

12:00 - 14:00

Lunch

15:30 - 16:30

Biermann Lectures at MPA - Tensions in cosmology?

George Efstathiou

Thu 13/07/2023
Time Session
9:00 - 9:30

Journal club

9:30 - 10:00

Coffee Break

10:00 - 10:45

Toward an accurate and precise Hubble constant measurement with galaxy-scale lensed quasars

Anowar Shajib

Shajib_Slides.pdf

10:45 - 11:30

HOLISMOKES: viewing the Hubble tension through a magnifying glass

Stefan Taubenberger

Taubenberger_Slides.pdf

11:30 - 12:00

Discussion and Planning of Afternoon Session(s)

12:00 - 14:00

Lunch

14:00 - 15:30

Afternoon Session

15:30 - 16:00

Coffee Break

16:00 - 17:30

Optional Second Afternoon Session

Fri 14/07/2023
Time Session
9:00 - 9:30

Journal club

9:30 - 10:00

Coffee Break

10:00 - 10:45

Knocking down ladders: type II supernovae as a barrier-free path to the Hubble constant

Christian Vogl

Vogl_Slides.pdf

10:45 - 11:30

Probing cosmological growth and expansion with peculiar velocities

Ryan Turner

Turner_Slides.pdf

11:30 - 12:00

Discussion and Planning of Afternoon Session(s)

12:00 - 14:00

Lunch

14:00 - 15:30

Afternoon Session

15:30 - 16:00

Coffee Break

16:00 - 17:30

Optional Second Afternoon Session

Week 3
Mon 17/07/2023
Time Session
9:00 - 9:30

Journal club

9:30 - 10:00

Coffee Break

10:00 - 10:45

Building an Independent Pop-II Distance Ladder Using Surface Brightness Fluctuations

Joseph Jensen

Jensen_Slides.pdf

10:45 - 11:30

Insights from Surface Brightness Fluctuations: Learning from the Past to Enhance Future Applications

Michele Cantiello

Cantiello_Slides.pdf

11:30 - 12:00

Discussion and Planning of Afternoon Session(s)

12:00 - 14:00

Lunch

14:00 - 15:30

Afternoon Session

15:30 - 16:00

Coffee Break

16:00 - 17:30

Optional Second Afternoon Session

Tue 18/07/2023
Time Session
9:00 - 9:30

Journal club

9:30 - 10:00

Coffee Break

10:00 - 10:45

How Can Tip of the Red Giant Branch (TRGB) Distances in the Near Infrared Be Used to Improve the Distance Scale?

Kristen McQuinn

10:45 - 11:30

Exploring the pulsation and evolutionary scenarios for Classical and Anomalous Cepheid radially pulsating stars

Giulia De Somma

De Somma_Slides.pdf

11:30 - 12:00

Discussion and Planning of Afternoon Session(s)

12:00 - 14:00

Lunch

14:00 - 15:30

Afternoon Session

15:30 - 16:00

Coffee Break

16:00 - 17:30

Optional Second Afternoon Session

18:00 - 20:00

Discussion and Networking - Bavarian Brotzeit

Wed 19/07/2023
Time Session
9:00 - 9:30

Journal club

9:30 - 10:00

Coffee Break

10:00 - 10:45

What can we do with strongly lensed supernovae?

Tanja Petrushevka

Petrushevska_Slides.pdf

10:45 - 11:30

The renaissance of the planetary nebula luminosity function (PNLF) using MUSE at the ESO-VLT

Azlizan Adhyaqsa Soemitro

Soemitro_Slides.pdf

11:30 - 12:00

Discussion and Planning of Afternoon Session(s)

12:00 - 14:00

Lunch

15:30 - 16:30

Biermann Lectures at MPA - Cosmology in crisis

George Efstathiou

Thu 20/07/2023
Time Session
9:00 - 9:30

Journal club

9:30 - 10:00

Coffee Break

10:00 - 10:45

Time-delay cosmography with cluster strong lensing

Ana Acebron

Acebron_Slides.pdf

10:45 - 11:30

Modelling Type Ia supernovae: how well do we understand these distance indicators?

Stéphane Blondin

Blondin_Slides.pdf

11:30 - 12:00

Discussion and Planning of Afternoon Session(s)

12:00 - 14:00

Lunch

14:00 - 15:30

Afternoon Session

Schuldt_Slides.pdf

15:30 - 16:00

Coffee Break

16:00 - 17:30

Optional Second Afternoon Session

Fri 21/07/2023
Time Session
9:00 - 9:30

Journal club

9:30 - 10:00

Coffee Break

10:00 - 10:45

Eclipsing binaries as precise and accurate distance indicators

Grzegorz Pietrzynski

10:45 - 11:30

Early-type Eclipsing Binaries as Distance Indicators

Mónica Taormina

11:30 - 12:00

Discussion and Planning of Afternoon Session(s)

12:00 - 14:00

Lunch

14:00 - 15:30

Afternoon Session

15:30 - 16:00

Coffee Break

16:00 - 17:30

Optional Second Afternoon Session

Week 4
Mon 24/07/2023
Time Session
9:00 - 9:30

Journal club

9:30 - 10:00

Coffee Break

10:00 - 10:45

Cosmicflows-4

Brent Tully

10:45 - 11:30

Baryon Acoustic Oscillations with Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument

Hee-Jong Seo

Seo_Slides.pdf

11:30 - 12:00

Discussion and Planning of Afternoon Session(s)

12:00 - 14:00

Lunch

14:00 - 15:30

Afternoon Session

15:30 - 16:00

Coffee Break

16:00 - 17:30

Optional Second Afternoon Session

Tue 25/07/2023
Time Session
9:00 - 9:30

Journal club

9:30 - 10:00

Coffee Break

10:00 - 10:45

Probing standard candles across the rungs of the astronomical distance ladder

Mitchell Dixon

Dixon_Slides.pdf

10:45 - 11:30

Lens identification in the era of wide field imaging surveys -- a crucial step for a systematic lensed supernova search

Alejandra Melo, Stefan Schuldt

Melo and Schuldt_Slides.pdf

11:30 - 12:00

Discussion and Planning of Afternoon Session(s)

12:00 - 14:00

Lunch

14:00 - 15:30

Afternoon Session

15:30 - 16:00

Coffee Break

16:00 - 17:30

Optional Second Afternoon Session

Wed 26/07/2023
Time Session
9:00 - 9:30

Journal club

9:30 - 10:00

Coffee Break

10:00 - 10:45

Reconciling JWST and HST with Planck

Ruchika

Ruchika_Slides.pdf

10:45 - 11:30

A look at the Hubble tension from a CMB perspective

William Giarè

Giare_Slides.pdf

11:30 - 12:00

Discussion and Planning of Afternoon Session(s)

12:00 - 14:00

Discussion and Networking - Pizza

14:00 - 15:30

Afternoon Session

15:30 - 16:00

Coffee Break

16:00 - 17:30

Optional Second Afternoon Session

Thu 27/07/2023
Time Session
9:00 - 9:30

Journal club

9:30 - 10:00

Coffee Break

10:00 - 10:45

Shortcut into the Hubble flow: Testing Type II supernovae as distance indicators

Geza Csörnyei

10:45 - 11:30

A Data Driven Approach to SNe Ia Studies

Lifan Wang

11:30 - 12:00

Discussion and Planning of Afternoon Session(s)

12:00 - 14:00

Lunch

14:00 - 15:30

Afternoon Session

15:30 - 16:00

Coffee Break

16:00 - 17:30

Optional Second Afternoon Session

Fri 28/07/2023
Time Session
9:00 - 9:30

Journal club

9:30 - 10:00

Coffee Break

10:00 - 10:45

Hubble constant from higher-order patterns in Large Scale Structure of the Galaxies

Lado Samushia

10:45 - 11:30

A new constraint on Early Dark Energy using the profile likelihood

Laura Herold

11:30 - 12:00

Discussion

12:00 - 14:00

Lunch

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