University of Chicago • July 17 to 19, 2024
The ACT and SPT collaborations are hosting a CMB school open to the broad CMB community July 17 through 19 of 2024.
The intent of this course is to familiarize those new to the CMB with the basic concepts of its simulation and analysis. Topics covered include: simulation of the CMB and astrophysical sources (point sources and SZ-clusters), instrument modeling, power spectrum analysis, matched filter techniques, analysis of archival data, CMB polarization, CMB lensing, time domain simulation, maximum likelihood mapmaking, and parameter estimation. The final day will cover advanced topics including working with real data from SPT and from ACT.