Program
Sunday
18.00
Welcome reception and Registration
Monday 1. Testing the cosmological paradigm
09.00 -
Registration
09.20 - 09.30
10
Simon White
Welcome address
09.30 - 10.15
35+10
Andrew Jaffe
The concordance model, cosmological isotropy, Gaussianity and the CMB
10.15 - 11.00
35+10
Krzysztof Gorski
Is the CMB gaussian? Is it isotropic?
11.00 - 11.30
Coffee break
11.30 - 11.50
15+5
Tarun Souradeep
Testing the Statistical Isotropy of CMB maps
11.50 - 12.10
15+5
Patricio Vielva
Detection of non-Gaussianity in the WMAP data using spherical wavelets
12.10 - 12.30
15+5
Niayesh Afshordi
Cosmological back-reaction: the mystery and the myth
12.30 - 12.50
15+5
Frank Steiner
CMB Anisotropy and Cosmic Topology
12.50 - 14.00
Lunch
14.00 - 14.30
25+5
Carlo Contaldi
BOOMERANG CMB Polarization Results
14.30 - 15.00
25+5
Charles Lawrence
CMB experiments beyond Plank
15.00 - 15.30
25+5
Francois Bouchet
Charting the new frontier of CMB polarisation
15.30 - 16.00
25+5
Tom Shanks
Challenges for the standard cosmology
16.00 - 16.30
Coffee break
2. Nucleosynthesis: does it fit?
16.30 - 17.00
25+5
Keith Olive
Nucleosynthesis: does it fit?
17.00 - 17.30
25+5
Karsten Jedamzik
Nucleosysthesis: problems for the conventional model?
17.30 - 18.00
25+5
David Tytler
The tension in Standard Big Bang Nucleosynthesis: the baryon density,
D, He and Li
18.00
Beer & Brezen
Tuesday 3. First objects and stars: what do they look like?
09.30 - 10.00
25+5
Volker Bromm
The first stars: what do they look like?
10.00 - 10.30
25+5
Jonathan Tan
What limits the masses of the first stars?
10.30 - 11.00
25+5
Raffaella Schneider
A PopIII to PopII transition?
11.00 - 11.30
Coffee break
11.30 - 12.00
25+5
Sean Ryan
Exploring population III through old, metal-poor stars
12.00 - 12.20
15+5
Darren Reed
The first generation of star forming halos
12.20 - 12.40
15+5
Daniel Whalen
Radiative Feedback of the First Stars
12.40 - 13.00
15+5
Emanuele Ripamonti
The role of HD cooling in the formation of the first luminous objects
13.00 - 14.15
Lunch
14.15 - 14.35
15+5
Hajime Susa
Feedback effects on the formation of first generation galaxies
14.35 - 15.05
25+5
Carlos Frenk
Do we need a modified IMF at high-z?
15.05 - 15.25
15+5
James Bock
The Cosmic Infrared Background Experiment
15.25 - 15.55
25+5
Carlos De Breuck
The high-z universe with ALMA
15.55 - 16.30
Coffee Break
4. Reionization history: how well do we
understand it?
16.30 - 17.15
35+10
Zoltan Haiman
Open questions in the theoretical modeling of cosmic reionization
17.15 - 17.45
25+5
Xiaohui Fan
High-z quasars and reionization
17.45 - 18.05
15+5
Simona Gallerani
Is the Ly-alpha forest able to constrain the epoch of reionization?
18.05 - 18.25
15+5
Garrelt Mellema
Simulating the Reionization Process from Small to Large Scales
Wednesday
09.30 - 10.00
25+5
Lennox Cowie
Do observations suggest alternative reionization histories?
10.00 - 10.20
15+5
Tom Theuns
Constraints on reionisation from the thermal state of the IGM
10.20 - 10.40
15+5
Tirthankar Roy Choudhury
Observational Constraints on Self-consistent Reionization Models
10.40 - 11.00
15+5
Ue-Li Pen
Searching for reionization with the 21cm
11.00 - 11.30
Coffee Break
11.30 - 11.50
15+5
Saleem Zaroubi
LOFAR as a probe of the sources of cosmological reionization
11.50 - 12.20
25+5
Ron Ekers
Future radio observations of the high redshift universe
12.20 - 12.40
15+5
Michael Fall
Direct detection of reionization sources
12.40 - 13.00
15+5
Andrew Bunker
Star formation at z~6 and reionization
13.00 - 14.15
Lunch Break
5. Observing the high-z universe
14.15 - 15.00
35+10
Richard Ellis
Characterizing the sources responsible for cosmic reionization
15.00 - 15.20
15+5
Masami Ouchi
Mapping the universe traced by galaxies at z=3-6
15.20 - 15.40
15+5
Daniel Schaerer
Lensed redshift 6 to 10 galaxies
15.40 - 16.00
15+5
Daniel Stark
Searching for low-luminosity galaxies at z~7-10
16.00 - 16.30
Coffee Break
20.00
Conference Dinner
Thursday
09.30 - 10.00
25+5
Sangeeta Malhotra
Lyman-alpha emitters at high redshift
10.00 - 10.30
25+5
Fabian Walter
Observations and implications of high-z dust/CO
detections
10.30 - 10.50
15+5
George Becker
A high-resolution look at the highest-redshift quasars
10.50 - 11.20
Coffee Break
11.20 - 11.50
25+5
Rob Ivison
Constraints on the prevalence of dusty, high-redshift starbursts
11.50 - 12.10
15+5
Matt Lehnert
The Properties of Young Galaxies Observed 1 Gyr After the Big Bang
12.10 - 12.30
15+5
Garth Illingworth
Galaxies in the first billion years: luminosity functions
and star formation rates at z~6-10
12.30 - 12.50
15+5
Bahram Mobasher
Evidence for a population of massive starburst galaxies at z>6
12.50 - 14.00
Lunch Break
14.00 - 14.30
25+5
Jean-Loup Puget
High redshift infrared galaxies: combining Spitzer, Hershel and
Planck data
6. The importance of cosmology for
next generation telescopes
14.30 - 15.00
25+5
Jacqueline Bergeron
Ground-based optical and IR
observations with ELTs: the cosmology science case
15.00 - 15.30
25+5
Peter Jakobsen
James Webb Space Telescope
15.30 - 15.50
15+5
Sandro D'Odorico
Will Cosmology still be a fashionable topic in the ELT era?
15.50 - 16.20
25+5
Alexander Szalay
The Virtual Observatory in 2020
16.20-16.50
Coffee Break
7. Intergalactic pollution: galactic winds or primordial
stars?
16.50 - 17.35
35+10
Antoinette Songaila Cowie
Observations of metals in the IGM
17.35 - 18.05
25+5
Joop Schaye
Controversies in the enrichment history of the IGM
18.05 - 18.25
15+5
Rob Simcoe
Observing Intergalactic Heavy Elements and Chemical Feedback During Reionization
Friday
09.30 - 10.15
35+10
Andrea Ferrara
Theoretical modeling of galactic winds
10.15 - 10.35
15+5
Evan Scannapieco
The sources of intergalactic metals
10.35 - 10.55
15+5
Hugo Martel
Galactic Outflows and Evolution of the IGM
10.55 - 11.25
Coffee Break
11.25 - 11.45
15+5
Jason X. Prochaska
Neutral gas dynamics and evolution during the first few
billion years
11.45 - 12.30
35+10
Chuck Steidel
Galaxies, AGN, and the IGM: Issues for Understanding the High Redshift Universe
12.30 - 14.00
Lunch Break
14.00 - 14.45
35+10
Simon White
Open questions in cosmology?
14.45
Discussion
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