From Deep Learning to the Dark Universe

Celebrating Ofer Lahav's 60th Birthday

Ofer Lahav

Ofer Lahav reached 60 years of age in April 2019. To celebrate his distinguished and remarkably broad career, we held a conference in his honour.

‘From Deep Learning to the Dark Universe’ took place from 8 – 10 April 2019 at Cumberland Lodge, Windsor, UK.

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Programme

Sessions were held spanning the following topics of interest:

  • The local Universe
  • Cosmology
  • Dark Energy surveys
  • Neutrinos
  • Galaxy formation and evolution
  • Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Astronomy and beyond
  • Science & Society

Please follow the links to the Final Programme and Slides, and the list of Participants.

Venue

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The conference took place at Cumberland Lodge, a 17th-century Grade II listed country house set in the heart of Windsor Great Park, located 3.5 miles south of Windsor Castle.

 

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Links

Cambridge PhD
Starting PhD at Cambridge in 1985

The 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey
The 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey

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Blanco Telescope
At the Blanco Telescope, Chile, for DES inaugural ceremony (2012)

Dwingeloo 1 galaxy
The Dwingeloo 1 galaxy discovered behind the Mlky Way (from Kraan-Korteweg et al. 1994)

Conference Organisers

  • Richard Ellis (richard.ellis AT ucl.ac.uk)
  • Rebecca Martin (rebecca.martin AT ucl.ac.uk)