Though Hamza formally left the project in early November and relocated to sunny California, where he is now a postdoctoral researcher working at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, he is still very much involved in the project’s work. Starting on Jan …
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New project member at INRIA
Niels Guilbert just joined the B3DCMB project team at our INRIA-Paris partner. Niels will be working with Laura and others on adapting the randomized algorithms to solving CMB map-making and component separation linear systems !
Welcome on board, Niels !…
5th year kicked-off !
The 5th year kick-off of the project took place on Dec 14. On zoom again ! This did not however affect the scientific content of the meeting, though we missed on a free lunch, yet again !
This was amply …
Extra time at TGCC …
And as clearly good news go in pairs … we not only got a major project paper out (see the previous post), but also were awarded extra time on Joliot/Curie supercomputer at TGCC (‘au fil de l’eau’ = …
Simon on board !
Simon Biquard joined today, Dec 1, as a software engineer supported in part by ANR B3DCMB and in part by ANR BxB projects. Simon will continue using, maintaining, and developing our suite of massively parallel codes ! He is employed …
Josquin is the bossss …
Following on Radek’s departure from APC, Josquin is a newly minted coordinator of the global project as well as the APC partner. Congrats to Josquin !
The great things are about to come !!!
In meantime Radek remains on the …
The 5th year kick-off …
is scheduled for Dec 14. And will take place at APC hopefully in person. The agenda will be set in due course. …
B3DCMB forging on !
Given the COVID pandemic impact on the project we have received an accord of the French National Research Agency (ANR) to extend the project till the fall of 2022 ! This is great news which will allow for a better …
B3DCMB hosts an intern
Paule, an undergaduate student from TELECOM Paris, has joined the B3DCMB project for a four week long internship project. She is performing it at INRIA under the tutelage of Laura but spends significant part of her time at APC working …
The 4th year kick-off just happened !
As scheduled we had a 4 year kick off today. In the presence of essentially all participants, plus two new prospective PhD students, Arianna and Magdy, who will be joining the APC group in the fall, we have had exciting …
The 4th year kick-off scheduled …
With a slight delay but nevertheless the 4 year kick-off meeting (all in remote) has been scheduled and will take place on June 17. Stay tuned for details !…
A Julia crash-course !
A first installment of a crash, kick-off course in Julia, for (mostly) accomplished Python programmers stimulated by the B3DCMB project was held on March 11. The course is geared up towards the B3DCMB students and collaborators from APC and elsewhere …
Thanks, Aygul !
Aygul’s two-year postdoctoral position funded by the ANR and the region, DIM-ACAV, has come to an end. Aygul has worked on the implementation of novel two level preconditioning techniques in the context of the map-making software, MAPPRAISER.
We thank Aygul …
Collaboration meeting: 2020 kick-off
The 2020 kick-off meeting took place on March 6 at APC.
Participants: Nicolas Chopin (ENSAE), Thibault Cimic (INRIA), Gabriel Ducrocq (ENSAE), Hamza El Bouhargani (APC), Josquin Errard (APC), Laura Grigori (INRIA), Aygul Jamal (APC), Baptiste Jost (APC), Matthieu Tristram (LAL), …
3rd year kick-off scheduled !
The kick-off of the 3rd year activities is scheduled for March 6 and will take place at the APC Laboratory. More info soon !…
Tour de Pologne
Radek gave three talks over two days early this week during his visit to Poland: (1) at the Copernicus Astronomical Center (Nov 18 at 11am), (2) at the National Center for Nuclear …
B3DCMB results presented during a meeting !
Radek has given an invited overview of some of the results produced by the B3DCMB project to a cosmological audience during the meeting held at Institute of Fundamental Physics of the Universe in Trieste, Italy, and focused on “Fundamental Physics …
Center Pierre Binetruy
Center Pierre Binetruy (CPB) for cosmological and astroparticule physics has just come to existence ! The official signing ceremony took place on Sept 27. The center is an International Research Laboratory (IRL) between CNRS (and specifically its Institute for Particle …
A new postdoc has just arrived …
Over the summer we have successfully completed the search for a new postdoc and are pleased to announce that our selected candidate, Clemént Leloup, has not only accepted our offer but started (effective Sept 01, 2019) his work as a …
Search for a postdoctoral researcher continues !!!
We continue looking for a postdoctoral researcher who will work at the APC Laboratory on CMB data analysis and in particular on component separation techniques. The post is now officially advertised on the National Center for Scientific Research website.…
New student joining the project
Baptiste Jost, a Master 2 student from the master program NPAC, has joined our group at APC and will work closely with the B3DCMB project. Baptiste is currently doing his M2 internship but, upon a successful completion of his M2 …
Students on the roll
Clara Vergès and Hamza El-Bouhargani, PhD students working within the B3DCMB project, have been awarded travel grants from Université Paris-Diderot under the “Aires Culturelles” program of the University. The funds are dedicated to support a long term, collaborative visit to …
2nd year kick-off scheduled !
The 2nd year kick-off meeting is scheduled to take place on Feb 21 at INRIA ! Check our meeting page for more details.…
All on board !
With Gabriel Ducrocq who officially started his doctoral studies at ENSAE on Dec 1, the project is at its full strength !
Gabriel joins other PhD students, Thibault Cimic (INRIA), Hamza El Bouhargani (APC), and, a postdoc, Aygul Jamal (APC), …
meetings, meetings, and more meetings …
Next week members of the B3DCMB project get (nearly) evenly split between:
Masterclass in Bayesian Statistics co-organized by our very own Nicolas Chopin at CIRM in Marseille; Hamza and Nicolas will be there !
and
New PhD students have just started !
Thibault Cimic and Hamza El Bouhargani have just started their PhD work at INRIA (supervised by: L. Grigori) and APC (supervised by: R. Stompor and J. Errard), respectively. Thibault will work on novel solvers to linear systems of equations as …
Matching funds from DIM-ACAV
Good news ! We have received funding from DIM-ACAV for one extra year of a postdoc to complement the funding from the ANR. The job advert will be out very soon. Watch this space !!!…
B3DCMB github
The B3DCMB github team repository is up and running and free of charge thanks to the academic discount accorded to us by the GitHub organization. (Thanks !!!) We will use it for all the common software development tasks undertaken as …
New master students
We welcome Hamza El Bouhargani and Thibault Cimic who are joining the B3DCMB team as Master2 interns at APC and INRIA, respectively. They will start their internship in mid-April. We look forward to a long and fruitful collaboration !…