APEC Seminar (Astronomy - Particle Physics - Experimental Physics - Cosmology)

Speaker: Fabian Kohlinger (Leiden Observatory)
Title: Cosmological constraints from weak lensing: present measurements and future challenges
Date (JST): Thu, Jul 09, 2015, 13:30 - 14:30
Place: Seminar Room A
Related File: 1501.pdf
Abstract: Weak lensing is a powerful tool for cosmological inference. In this talk I will discuss two major applications, cosmic shear and galaxy-galaxy lensing, in the context of recent studies carried out together with my collaborators. In the first part I will discuss a technique to directly extract the matter power spectrum in different tomographic redshift slices from weak lensing measurements. I will show results from an application to state-of-the-art CFHTLenS data, and discuss the constraints on cosmological parameters and neutrino mass. In the second part of my talk I will focus on the potentials and challenges of future large weak lensing surveys, such as Euclid, for cosmological constraints derived from cluster counts.