The Cosmoglobe Winter Workshop 2023

In January, young scientists from all over the world came to Oslo for a week of collaboration, research and fun, as the CMB&CO group of Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics arranged the Cosmoglobe Winter Workshop 2023.

group photo of people standing on skies, snow, fog

The group out on cross country skies.

The Cosmoglobe Winter Workshop was held in Oslo from January 23rd to January 27th, and around thirty attendees from near and far convened at the colorful Thon Hotel Slottsparken for a week of scientific collaboration as well as delicious food and fun activities.

The aim of the workshop was to bring together bright minds from all over the world, and to facilitate collaboration through the Cosmoglobe project. We wanted to see in which ways we could find new avenues of interesting research, and to enable everyone involved to work on projects related to the Cosmoglobe vision.

young man presenting a lecture

To these ends, the workshop was varied: Parts of it was devoted to presentations from the participants themselves, where we were given an opportunity to know the various fields of interest that were represented in the workshop.

Another part of the workshop consisted of more in-depth presentations of a selection of topics. Here, we learned more about what the group of people at an escape roomCosmoglobe project is, as well as getting hands-on tutorials for how to work with the software that powers it. We also learned about QUIJOTE data, FIRE simulations of CII and CO emission lines, Bianchi-I anisotropic cosmological models, as well as cosmic ray estimation for the upcoming LiteBIRD mission - in short, a varied suite of topics, all very interesting!

Finally, for the lion's share of the workshop we worked together. Various workshop groups were formed based on what people were interested in working on, and working in these groups proved to work very well, with feedback received after the workshop indicating that most participants would have liked to spend even more time on this.

We also had ample time for activities outside the workshop. As an icebreaker activity, we met up for an escape room session, and although only one team could emerge as the winner, all the teams had fun and we got to know each other a lot better. One whole day was also set aside for skiing and winter activities, or board games for those who preferred the indoors. The hotel served delicious lunches, and every night we all went out for dinners together.

Enjoyable dinners was part of the experience

In short, this workshop turned out to be a great success, and we thank everyone who attended for making it so. Many new connections were made, and to us this workshop is a good example of the importance of working together as a scientific community.

Tags: Cosmoglobe, workshop, winter By Eirik Gjerløw
Published June 5, 2023 12:23 PM - Last modified July 4, 2025 2:44 PM