24–28 Aug 2026
Leiden University
Europe/Zurich timezone

Emulation of cosmological simulations using Evolution Mapping

Not scheduled
15m
Gorlaeus gebouw (Leiden University)

Gorlaeus gebouw

Leiden University

Einsteinweg 55, 2333 CC Leiden
Poster

Speaker

Alejandro Pérez Fernández (Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics)

Description

With the advent of stage-IV spectroscopic galaxy surveys, modern cosmology has entered an era of unprecedented precision. While perturbation theory approaches remain the state of the art for large-scale structure (LSS) analyses, their applicability is restricted to the mildly non-linear regime, meaning that valuable data is being discarded. Simulation-based methods offer an alternative to push our analyses to smaller scales. However, the computational cost of running high-fidelity simulations presents a major bottleneck. In recent years, machine-learning frameworks have been developed to emulate the output of N-body codes. Building on these efforts, we present a convolutional neural network (CNN) that leverages the Evolution Mapping framework. This approach exploits cosmological parameter degeneracies, enabling the CNN to emulate N-body simulations across a broad range of cosmological scenarios.

Other topic / keywords: Simulations, emulation

Authors

Alejandro Pérez Fernández (Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics) Dr Ariel Sánchez (Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics) Dr Carlos Correa (Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics)

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