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MPA/ MPE CosmoClub - The LSS (and more) Journal Club

2025/2026 — Wednesdays at 14:00, MPA seminar room 005

Admins: Ivana Nikolac, Andrea Fiorilli.
If you can’t attend, please email Ivana. If you want to join online, notify in advance to set up Zoom.
Date Speaker Title ArXiv number
Oct 15 Sha Azyzy Nonlinear Evolution of the Matter Trispectrum with Primordial Parity Violation arXiv:2510.06164
Wheel Mass dependence of halo baryon fractions from the kinetic Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect arXiv:2510.12553
Oct 22 Toshiki Kurita Parity Violation in Galaxy Shapes: Primordial Non-Gaussianity arXiv:2509.08787
Wheel Simulation budgeting for hybrid effective field theories arXiv:2510.13962
Oct 29 Andrea Fiorilli H0 Without the Sound Horizon (or Supernovae): A 2% Measurement in DESI DR1 arXiv:2510.19149
Wheel How to Build an Empirical Speed Distribution for Dark Matter in the Solar Neighborhood arXiv:2510.21914
Nov 5 Matteo Esposito Detection of supernova magnitude fluctuations induced by large-scale structure arXiv:2510.07673
Wheel A short blanket for cosmology: the CMB lensing anomaly behind the preference for a negative neutrino mass arXiv:2511.01967
Nov 12 Fabian Schmidt Non-Gaussian Galaxy Stochasticity and the Noise-Field Formulation arXiv:2511.05484
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Nov 19 Sofia Contarini Aletheia: Emulating the non-linear matter power spectrum in the context of evolution mapping arXiv:2511.13826
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Nov 26 Harry (Hsiang-Ming) Huang Equilateral non-Gaussian Bias at the Field Level arXiv:2511.14677v1
Wheel Implications of the Two-Component Dark Energy Model for Hubble Tension arXiv:2511.15087
Dec 3 Şafak Çelik Dark winds on the horizon: Prospects for detecting neutrino and hot dark matter wakes in large-scale structure arXiv:2511.08574
Wheel Probing CMB Polarization Gaussianity with the Statistics of Unpolarized Points: Non-Gaussianity of Planck Data and Prospects for Future B -Mode Measurements arXiv:2511.22220
Wheel Collapse of Axion Domain Wall Induced by Helical Primordial Magnetic Fields arXiv:2511.22949
Dec 10 Jeongin Moon Growth rate measurements from a joint analysis of the large-scale galaxy clustering in Fourier and configuration space arXiv:2512.05581v1
Wheel Constraints on nDGP gravity from SPT galaxy clusters with DES and HST weak-lensing mass calibration and from Planck PR4 CMB anisotropies arXiv:2512.05819
Dec 17 Lena Scheuchl Phantom Mirage from Axion Dark Energy arXiv:2510.14957
Wheel KiDS-Legacy: Constraints on Horndeski gravity from weak lensing combined with galaxy clustering and cosmic microwave background anisotropies arXiv:2512.11039
Dec 24 We're on a break
Dec 31 HAPPY NEW YEAR
Jan 7 We're still on a break
Jan 14 Manas Mohit Dosibhatla (IIT Indore) Tracing Large Scale Structure Morphology with Multiwavelength Line Intensity Maps arXiv:2508.09112
Wheel Neutrino decays as a natural explanation of the neutrino mass tension arXiv:2601.04312
Wheel The AIDA-TNG project: dark matter profiles and concentrations in alternative dark matter models arXiv:2512.15869
Jan 21 + cancelled +
Jan 28 Sveva Castello Testing the Equivalence Principle in Galaxy Clusters arXiv:2601.19861
Wheel Calibration-independent consistency test of BAO and SNIa data: update arXiv:2601.16229v1
Feb 4 Noemi Anau Montel Reconstructing the largest scales of the Universe with field-level inference applied to the Quaia Quasar Catalogue arXiv:2602.02363
Wheel The emergent Big Bang scenario arXiv:2602.02646
Feb 11 Francesco Conteddu An Effective Theory for Biased Tracers via the Boltzmann-Equation Approach arXiv:2512.24672
Feb 18 Florian List Physically-motivated priors in the local distance ladder significantly reduce the Hubble tension arXiv:2512.24672
Wheel An analytic approximation to the covariance between pre- and post-reconstruction galaxy two-point statistics arXiv:2602.12343
Feb 25 Ivana Nikolac Reanalyzing DESI DR1: 5. Cosmological Constraints with Simulation-Based Priors arXiv:2602.18554
Wheel A Quantum Genetic Algorithm with application to Cosmological Parameters Estimation arXiv:2602.15459
Mar 4 Wheel The capture of halo material by orbiting subhaloes arXiv:2602.23822
Wheel Dark Acoustic Oscillations and the Hubble Tension arXiv:2602.23895
Mar 11 Fachbeirat visit
Mar 18 Alejandro Pérez Fernández The simple way to measure evolving dark energy without prior-volume effects arXiv:2509.09562
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Mar 25 Adri Duivenvoorden Galaxy sizes as complementary (zero-)bias tracers of local primordial non-Gaussianity arXiv:2603.20196v1
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Apr 1 Francesco Conteddu Field-Level Inference from Galaxies: BAO Reconstruction arXiv:2603.15732
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Apr 8 Toshiki Kurita [Paper title] [ArXiv link]
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Apr 15 Sofia Contarini [Paper title] [ArXiv link]
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Apr 22 Drew Jamieson [Paper title] [ArXiv link]
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Apr 29 Sha Azyzy [Paper title] [ArXiv link]
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May 6 Andrea Fiorilli [Paper title] [ArXiv link]
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May 13 Fabian Schmidt [Paper title] [ArXiv link]
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May 20 Şafak Çelik [Paper title] [ArXiv link]
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May 27 Harry (Hsiang-Ming) Huang [Paper title] [ArXiv link]
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Jun 3 Jeongin Moon [Paper title] [ArXiv link]
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Jun 10 Sveva Castello [Paper title] [ArXiv link]
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Jun 17 Lena Scheuchl [Paper title] [ArXiv link]
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Jun 24 Noemi Anau Montel [Paper title] [ArXiv link]
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Jul 1 Ivana Nikolac [Paper title] [ArXiv link]
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Jul 8 Alejandro Pérez Fernández [Paper title] [ArXiv link]
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Jul 15 Adri Duivenvoorden [Paper title] [ArXiv link]
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