Tuesday, May 21, 2024

Time Event (+)
09:30 - 10:00 Welcome and introduction - Informal welcoming session and short presentation of the workshop's rationale.  
10:00 - 11:00 Strong lensing and cosmology (2.0.02) (+)  
10:00 - 10:30 › TBA - Raphael Gavazzi, Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris  
10:30 - 11:00 › COSMOS-Web: A James Webb Space Telescope survey of ~50 Galaxy-Scale Strong Gravitational Lenses - James Nightingale, Newcastle University [Newcastle]  
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break  
11:30 - 12:30 Strong lensing and cosmology (2.0.02) (+)  
11:30 - 12:00 › Compound lensing: Cosmology, exotic image configurations and the very high magnification Universe - Thomas Collett, ICG Portsmouth  
12:00 - 12:30 › Cosmic shear with Einstein rings - Pierre Fleury, Laboratoire Univers et Particules de Montpellier  
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch  
14:00 - 16:00 Focused discussion (+)  
14:00 - 16:00 › Uses and misuses of external shear in galaxy-scale lens modeling - Liliya Williams, University of Minnesota  
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee break  
16:30 - 18:30 Focused discussion (+)  
16:30 - 18:30 › What is the role of (strong) gravitational lensing for cosmology? - Jenny Wagner, Bahamas Advanced Study Information & Conferences  

Wednesday, May 22, 2024

Time Event (+)
10:00 - 11:00 Dark matter sub-structure (2.0.02) (+)  
10:00 - 10:30 › Reconstructing dark matter haloes in lensing - Wolfgang Enzi, University of Portsmouth  
10:00 - 10:30 › Dark matter inference and systematics in strong lensing - Conor O'Riordan, Max Planck Institute for astrophysics  
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break  
11:30 - 12:30 Dark matter sub-structure (2.0.02) (+)  
11:30 - 12:00 › Degeneracies between main lens angular complexity and external substructures - Samuel Lange, Durham University  
12:00 - 12:30 › Studying Substructure at Different Scales - Derek Perera, University of Minnesota  
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch  
14:00 - 16:00 Tutorial (+)  
14:00 - 16:00 › Tutorial on lensing and radiointerferometry - Devon Powell, Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik  
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee break  
16:30 - 18:30 Focused discussion (+)  
16:30 - 18:30 › Subhaloes vs line-of-sight haloes: the effect of systematics - Maryam Tajalli, Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics  

Thursday, May 23, 2024

Time Event (+)
10:00 - 11:00 Challenges in lens modelling (2.0.02) (+)  
10:00 - 10:30 › Project Dinos: a joint lensing-dynamics view into the internal structure of massive elliptical galaxies - Anowar Shajib, University of Chicago  
10:30 - 11:00 › Lopsidedness in the mass distribution of elliptical galaxies - Aristeidis Amvrosiadis, Durham University  
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break  
11:30 - 12:30 Challenges in lens modelling (2.0.02) (+)  
11:30 - 12:00 › Cluster Strong Gravitational Lensing Observed by James Webb Space Telescope - Barbora Bezdekova, Charles University [Prague]  
12:00 - 12:30 › Elucidating Galaxy Population Properties Using a Model-Free Analysis of Quadruply Imaged Quasar Lenses From Large Surveys  
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch  
14:00 - 16:00 Tutorial (+)  
14:00 - 16:00 › Tutorial on source modelling - James Nightingale, Newcastle University [Newcastle] - Aristeidis Amvrosiadis, Durham University  
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee break  
16:30 - 18:30 Focused discussion (+)  
16:30 - 18:30 › Methodologies for the evaluation of gravitational lensing: which one for which question? - Jenny Wagner, https://thegravitygrinch.blogspot.com, Bahamas Advanced Study Institute & Conferences  

Friday, May 24, 2024

Time Event (+)
10:00 - 11:00 Time-delay cosmography (2.0.02) (+)  
10:00 - 10:30 › As good as it gets -- towards the best-understood H0 from strong gravitational lensing - Jenny Wagner, https://thegravitygrinch.blogspot.com, Bahamas Advanced Study Institute & Conferences  
10:30 - 11:00 › Caustic area biases and how to deal with them - Alessandro Sonnenfeld, Shanghai Jiao Tong University  
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break  
11:30 - 12:30 Time-delay cosmography (2.0.02) (+)  
11:30 - 12:00 › Degeneracies in time-delay cosmography - Luca Teodori, Weizmann Institute of Science [Rehovot, Israël]  
12:00 - 12:30 › Foreground Biases in Strong Gravitational Lensing  
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch  
14:00 - 18:00 Informal session - Palavas-les-flots  
20:00 - 23:00 Dinner (Restaurant Les Bains de Montpellier)