Reserach

Thesis manuscript

Lin C-A (2016). Cosmology with weak-lensing peak counts.

Refereed Papers

DES Collaboration, KiDS Collaboration, ..., Lin C-A, et al. (2023). DES Y3 + KiDS-1000: Consistent cosmology combining cosmic shear surveys. OJA, accepted.
Chang Y-Y, Lin L-H, ..., Lin C-A, et al. (2022). SDSS-IV MaNGA: Unveiling Galaxy Interaction by Merger Stages with Machine Learning. ApJ, 937, 97.
Tröster T, Asgari M, ..., Lin C-A, et al. (2021). KiDS-1000 Cosmology: constraints beyond flat ΛCDM. A&A, 649, A88.
Hildebrandt H, van den Busch J L, ..., Lin C-A, et al. (2021). KiDS-1000 catalogue: Redshift distributions and their calibration. A&A, 647, A124.
Heymans C, Tröster T, ..., Lin C-A, et al. (2021). KiDS-1000 Cosmology: Multi-probe weak gravitational lensing and spectroscopic galaxy clustering constraints. A&A, 646, A140.
Asgari M, Lin C-A, Joachimi B, Giblin B, et al. (2021). KiDS-1000 Cosmology: Cosmic shear constraints and comparison between two point statistics. A&A, 645, A104.
Giblin B, Heymans C, ..., Lin C-A, et al. (2021). KiDS-1000 catalogue: weak gravitational lensing shear measurements. A&A, 645, A105.
Joachimi B, Lin C-A, Asgari M, Tröster T, et al. (2021). KiDS-1000 Methodology: Modelling and inference for joint weak gravitational lensing and spectroscopic galaxy clustering analysis. A&A, 646, A129.
Dvornik A, Hoekstra H, ..., Lin C-A, et al. (2020). KiDS+GAMA: The weak lensing calibrated stellar-to-halo mass relation of central and satellite galaxies. A&A, 642, A83.
Asgari M, Tröster T, ..., Lin C-A, et al. (2020). KiDS+VIKING-450 and DES-Y1 combined: Mitigating baryon feedback uncertainty with COSEBIs. A&A, 634, A127.
Heydenreich S, Schneider P, ..., Lin C-A, et al. (2020). The effects of varying depth in cosmic shear surveys. A&A, 634, A104.
Tröster T, Sánchez A, ..., Lin C-A, et al. (2020). Cosmology from large-scale structure: Constraining ΛCDM with BOSS. A&A, 633, L10.
Dalmasso N, Lee A B, ..., Lin C-A (2020). Validation of Approximate Likelihood and Emulator Models for Computationally Intensive Simulations. PMLR, 108, 3349.
Lin C-A & Kilbinger M (2018). Quantifying systematics from the shear inversion on weak-lensing peak counts. A&A, 614, A36.
Beck R, Lin C-A, Ishida E E O, Gieseke F, et al. (2017). On the realistic validation of photometric redshifts. MNRAS, 468, 4323.
Peel A, Lin C-A, Lanusse F, Leonard A, et al. (2017). Cosmological constraints with weak lensing peak counts and second-order statistics in a large-field survey. A&A, 599, A79.
Lin C-A, Kilbinger M, & Pires S (2016). A new model to predict weak-lensing peak counts III. Filtering technique comparisons. A&A, 593, A88.
Pierre M, Pacaud F, ..., Lin C-A, et al. (2016). The XXL Survey: I. Scientific motivations - XMM-Newton observing plan - Follow-up observations and simulation programme. A&A, 592, A1.
Lin C-A & Kilbinger M (2015b). A new model to predict weak-lensing peak counts II. Parameter constraint strategies. A&A, 583, A70.
Lin C-A & Kilbinger M (2015a). A new model to predict weak-lensing peak counts I. Comparison with $N$-body simulations. A&A, 576, A24.

Talks

Imperial Cosmology Seminar, remote, Jun 2020.
NTNU Astronomy Seminar, Taipei, Jun 2020. (Invited)
LPSC Seminar, Grenoble, France, Nov 2019.
NTHU Cosmology Seminar, Hsinchu, Taiwan, Sep 2019. (Invited)
CosmoGold IAP 2019: The golden age of cosmology from Planck to Euclid, Paris, Jun 2019.
Likelihood-Free Inference Workshop, New York City, Mar 2019.
LPC Seminar, Clermont-Ferrand, France, Oct 2018. (Invited)
DAp Cosmology Seminar, Saclay, France, Oct 2018.
UCL Cosmology Seminar, London, Sep 2018.
Statistical Challenges in 21st Century Cosmology, Valencia, May 2018.
Statistical Challenges for Large-scale Structure in the Era of LSST, Oxford, Apr 2018.

Cosmology Seminar, Durham, UK, Apr 2018. (Invited)
KiDS Busy Week, Edinburgh, Feb 2018.
Durham-Edinburgh eXtragalactic Workshop XIV, Durham, UK, Jan 2018.
UTD Cosmology Seminar, Dallas, USA, Jun 2016. (Invited)
Statistical Challenges in Modern Astronomy VI, Pittsburgh, USA, Jun 2016.
Euclid Consortium Meeting, Lisbon, Jun 2016.
Statistical Challenges in 21st Century Cosmology, Chania, Greece, May 2016.
IAP Cosmology Seminar, Paris, Sep 2015.
IAS Cosmology Seminar, Orsay, France, Jan 2015. (Invited)
ASIAA Seminar, Taipei, Jan 2015.
International Workshop on Cosmology and Sparsity 2, Nice, Sep 2014.
Euclid Consortium Meeting, Marseille, May 2014.

Posters

From Theory to Applications: Celebrating a Century of Gravitational Lensing, Leiden, the Netherlands, Jul 2016.
Theoretical and Observational Progress on Large-scale Structure of the Universe, Garching, Germany, Jul 2015.
Statistical Challenges in 21st Century Cosmology, Lisbon, May 2014.

Teaching

Invited lecturer, Parameter Inference in Astronomy, full 2020, National Taiwan Normal University.
Workshop leader, Introductory Astronomy, 2019-2020, University of Edinburgh.
Summer intern: Shiming Gu, summer 2018, University of Edinburgh.
Teaching assistant, Nonlinear Optics MOOC, 2014-2016, École Polytechnique.
Instructor, Introduction to Quantum Mechanics, spring 2015, École Polytechnique.
High school project supervisor, Matière noire, fall 2014.
Instructor, Quantum Mechanics and Statistical Physics, spring 2013, École Polytechnique.
High school level tutor, 2009-2010, Collège Saint-François, France.

Service works

Paper reviewer for PRD.
Seminar organizer of the "Coffee Talks" institute seminar series, since 2018, University of Edinburgh.
Seminar organizer of the "CosmoClub" group seminar series, 2015-2016, CEA Saclay.
PhD student representative for the SAp/AIM Laboratory Council, 2014-2016, CEA Saclay.

Outreach

Scientific translation consulting for the French version of the science fiction trilogy The Three-Body Problem, The Dark Forest, and Death's End, 2016-2018.
Video: Labouret T, Pinilo M, & Lin C-A (2016). Dessine ta thèse 2 - La déformation des galaxies. Video in French with English subtitles.
Article: Lin C-A (2015). Popular Astrophysics from Interstellar. Taiwan Natural Science, 125, 84.
Outreach speaker, 2013-2014, Palais de la découverte, Paris.

Past research interests

Weak lensing

Peak counts

Approximate Bayesian computation

Photometric redshift estimation

Variable depth

Full-sky simulations

Thesis manuscript

Refereed Papers

Talks

Posters

Teaching

Service works

Outreach