18:00-19:30	Conference Opening Public Lecture Everything from Nothing: The Great Cosmic Gamble by Carlos Frenk
19:30-21:00	Conference Reception

Time	Speaker	Title
Session I: Transition from PopIII to Normal Star Formation       (session chair: Derek Fox)
9:00 - 9:10	Larson/ Ramsey	Welcome
9:10 - 9:40	Tom Abel	Star Formation [review talk]
9:40 - 10:00	Matt Turk	IMF of PopIII stars
10:00 - 10:20	Liang Gao	First stars in warm dark matter model
10:20 - 10:40	Simon Glover	Binaries and multiples among Pop III
10:40 - 11:00	Coffee break
11:00 - 11:30	Alex Heger	Death Throes of the First Stars [invited review]
11:30 - 11:50	Dan Whalen	PopIII supernovae
11:50 - 12:10	Katharina Jappsen	Star formation at low metallicity
12:10 - 14:00	Lunch break
Session II: Emergence of the First Galaxies       (session chair: Yuexing Li)
14:00 - 14:30	Volker Bromm	From PopIII to normal star formation [review talk]
14:30 - 14:50	Avi Loeb	From first stars to first galaxies
14:50 - 15:10	John Wise	Formation of the first galaxies
15:10 - 15:30	Mark Dijkstra	Lyman_alpha emission from the first galaxies
15:30 - 15:50	Coffee break
15:50 - 16:20	Carlos Frenk	Observational signatures of the first galaxies [review talk]
16:20 - 16:40	Zheng Zheng	Radiative transfer modeling of lyman-alpha emitters
16:40 - 17:00	Anna Frebel	Metal poor stars in the Milky Way
17:00 - 17:20	Bryan Penprase	Nucleosynthetic Signature of the First Stars from Low-Metallicity DLA Spectroscopy

Time	Speaker	Title
Session III: Observing the First Galaxies       (session chair: Tom Abel)
9:00 - 9:30	Garth Illingworth	Observatons of the highest-redshift galaxies [review talk]
9:30 - 9:50	Rychard Bouwens	UV luminosity functions of galaxies at z=10-6
9:50 - 10:10	Sangeeta Malhotra	Ly_alpha galaxy luminosity functions
10:10 - 10:30	Casey Papovich	Characteristics and evolution of galaxies at 3 < z < 8
10:30 - 10:50	Coffee break
10:50 - 11:10	Daniel Schaerer	Physical properties of high-z galaxies
11:10 - 11:30	Mauro Giavalisco	Stellar Populations at z>6
11:30 - 11:50	Masami Ouchi	Clustering of high-z LAEs
11:50 - 12:10	Henry Ferguson	Near-infrared extragalactic background Fluctuations
12:10 - 14:00	Lunch break
Session IV: The Most Distant Quasars       (session chair: Tiziana DiMateo)
14:00 - 14:30	Xiaohui Fan	The most distant quasars [review talk]
14:30 - 15:00	Steve Warren	Surveys for the first quasars [review talk]
15:00 - 15:20	Gordon Richards	Quasar luminosity functions at high redshifts
15:20 - 15:40	Eilat Glikman	The faint end of the quasar luminosity function at high redshifts
15:40 - 16:00	Coffee break
16:00 - 16:30	Michael Strauss	Quasar clustering at high redshift [review talk]
16:30 - 16:50	Marianne Vestergaard	Measuring black hole masses of high-z quasars
16:50 - 17:10	Ran Wang	Molecular gas in z~6 quasar host galaxies

Time	Speaker	Title
Session V: Co-evolution of the Earliest SMBHs and Host Galaxies       (session chair: Niel Brandt)
9:00 - 9:30	Tiziana Di Matteo	Structure formation in the early Universe [review talk]
9:30 - 9:50	Yuexing Li	Quasars at the cosmic dawn
9:50 - 10:10	Marcelo Alvarez	Accretion onto the first stellar-mass BHs
10:10 - 10:30	Zoltan Haiman	Growth of high-z SMBHs
10:30 - 10:50	Coffee break
10:50 - 11:20	Dave Alexander	Coevolution of SMBHs and host galaxies at high z [review talk]
11:20 - 11:40	Debora Sijacki	Build-up of supermassive black holes in the early universe
11:40 - 12:00	Michele Trenti	The first galaxies: from HST-WFC3 to cosmological simulations
12:00 - 12:20	Desika Narayanan	Modeling molecular gas in high-z galaxies
12:20 - 14:00	Lunch break
12:45 - 13:45	**Special Event** Book signing by Prof. Avi Loeb at PSU bookstore
Session VI: GRBs at the Cosmic Dawn       (session chair: Steve Warren)
14:00 - 14:30	Nial Tanvir	Hunting the Highest-redshift GRBs [review talk]
14:30 - 14:50	Derek Fox	Lessons from the Highest-Redshift GRBs
14:50 - 15:10	Dale Frail	Radio Observations of the First Gamma-Ray Bursts
15:10 - 15:30	Edo Berger	Host Galaxies of High-z Gamma-Ray Bursts
15:30 - 15:50	Coffee break
15:50 - 16:20	Peter Meszaros	Origins of, and Recent Issues in the Prompt and High Energy Emission of GRB [review talk]
16:20 - 16:40	Bing Zhang	What could we learn from high-z GRBs?
16:40 - 17:00	Johan Fynbo	GRB Host Galaxies Back to the Earliest Epochs
17:00 - 17:20	Paul O'Brien	Observational evidence for magnetars powering long and short GRBs
18:30 - 21:30	Conference banquet + lecture: Taking "The Road Not Taken" -- Avi Loeb

Time	Speaker	Title
Session VII: Feedbacks and Impacts of the First Objects       (session chair: Don Schneider)
9:00 - 9:30	Benedetta Ciardi	Feedbacks from the first stars and galaxies [review talk]
9:30 - 9:50	Andrei Mesinger	The more we learn, the less we know: was reionization complete by z~5-6?
9:50 - 10:10	Emma Ryan-Weber	Intergalactic metals at redshifts approaching six
10:10 - 10:30	Massimo Ricotti	Near field cosmology constraints on models for the formation of the first galaxies
10:30 - 10:50	Coffee break
10:50 - 11:20	Nobunari Kashikawa	Probing EoR with LAE Surveys [review talk]
11:20 - 11:40	Peng Oh	Probing reionization with 21cm surveys
11:40 - 12:00	Adam Lidz	Detecting the Rise and Fall of 21 cm Fluctuations
12:00 - 12:20	Katherine Mack	21 cm forest observations as a probe of the pre-reionization IGM
12:20 - 14:00	Lunch break
Session VIII: Studying the Early Universe with Future Missions       (session chair: Nial Tanvir)
14:00 - 14:20	Jon Gardner	Science with the James Webb Space Telescope
14:20 - 14:40	Dominik Riechers	Studying the first galaxies in the ALMA epoch
14:40 - 15:00	Niel Brandt	Investigating the Growth of the First Supermassive Black Holes with the International X-ray Observatory
15:00 - 15:20	Roberto Gilli	The population of early accreting supermassive black holes: forecasts for the next decade
15:20 - 15:40	Pete Roming	Probing the High-z Universe with JANUS
15:40 - 16:00	Coffee break
16:00 - 16:20	Judd Bowman	21 cm experiments: MWA, EDGES, and more
16:20 - 16:40	Ian Sullivan	CIBER: A near-IR probe of reionization
16:40 - 17:20	Li & Fox	Summary & Discussions