New Publication

New Cosmology group publication

October 17, 2024

Observational Cosmology Group

William d’Assignies D. from the Observational Cosmology group at IFAE is a co-author

William d’Assignies Doumerg is a co-author of the paper High-redshift LBG selection from broadband and wide photometric surveys using a Random Forest algorithm .

In this publication, the authors investigate the possibility of selecting high-redshift (z>2) Lyman-Break Galaxies using photometric surveys, for future LSS spectroscopic surveys like DESI-II (start 2029).

Latest Group News

Event

CEPC 2025 International Workshop takes place in Barcelona

June 19, 2025

The 2025 European Edition of the International Workshop on the Circular Electron-Positron Collider (CEPC) is currently underway in Barcelona, Spain, from June 16 to 19, hosted by IFAE.

Event

Outreach talk about the latest DESI results

June 11, 2025

Sindhu Satyavolu and Laura Casas delivered the seminar “Probing Cosmic Acceleration with DESI: Is Dark Energy Evolving?” at the Sala de Graus II (UAB), in a hybrid format. The speakers presented the latest results from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) and introduced key cosmological concepts to ensure accessibility for a non-specialist audience.

New results

Andreu Font Presents Latest DESI BAO Results at Harvard

May 5, 2025

Andreu Font presented new DESI results on Baryon Acoustic Oscillations at Harvard, raising questions about the ΛCDM model and the constancy of the cosmological constant.