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Yuexing Li
814-867-2291

Derek Fox
814-863-4989

The First Galaxies, Quasars & Gamma-Ray Bursts

June 6-10, 2010
Pennsylvania State University

 

Conference Program
(with confirmed speakers)

Sunday June 6

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

 

Monday June 7

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

 

Tuesday June 8

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

 

Wednesday June 9

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

 

Thursday June 10

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

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