Jun 8 – 12, 2026
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
America/Toronto timezone

Field-Level Inference of Primordial Non-Gaussianity

Jun 10, 2026, 11:40 AM
20m
PI/4-405 - Bob Room (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics)

PI/4-405 - Bob Room

Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics

60
Contributed Talk

Speaker

Hugo Simon (CEA Paris-Saclay)

Description

Field-Level Inference (FLI) needs to be made more tractable and robust at survey scale. To this purpose, I developed fast, differentiable cosmological simulators and introduced a standardized benchmark, showing how to reduce the required model evaluations by orders of magnitude. Building on this, I am working toward FLI constraints on local Primordial Non-Gaussianity (PNG) from DESI. I will show the validation of the pipeline on N-body simulations with HOD-populated galaxies, carefully assessing model fidelity and calibration, progressively incorporating survey realism at the field-level, and in parallel extending the analysis to a multi-probe framework combining galaxy clustering with CMB lensing.

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