Agenda
Monday January 28, 2019
- 8:00-9:00: Registration & Breakfast
Introduction and ELTs overview (Chair: Warren Skidmore)
- 9:00-9:20: Tommaso Treu: Why are we here?
- 9:20-9:45: Mark Dickinson: Synergies between ELTs: the US-ELT program
- 9:45-10:30: Rebecca Bernstein GMT: Intro, Status, and Early Universe Science
- 10:30-11:00: Coffee Break
- 11:00-11:45: Christophe Dumas: TMT Status
- 11:45-12:30: Michele Cirasuolo: The Extremely Large Telescope: the future of European ground-based astronomy
- 12:30-13:30: Lunch Break
- 13:30-14:10: Shelley Wright: IRIS unique capabilities for exploring the early universe
- 14:10-14:50: Casey Papovich: Science in the Early Universe with GMACS, the Wide Field Spectrograph for the GMT
- 14:50-15:20: Coffee Break
Reionization and First Light (Chair: Shelley Wright)
- 15:20-16:00: Steven Furlanetto: Faint Galaxies and Reionization
- 16:00-16:20: Marusa Bradac: The Final Frontier: Galaxies at the Epoch of Reionization with TMT and JWST
- 16:20-16:40: Victoria Strait: Constraining Stellar Properties of Galaxies at Cosmic Dawn with HST and Spitzer
- 16:40-17:00: Kirk Barrow: Synthetic Observations of the Early Universe
- 17:00-17:20: Austin Hoag: Constraining the timeline of reionization with current and future telescopes
Tuesday, January 29, 2019
- 8:00 9:00 Registration & Breakfast
Reionization and First Light (Chair: Kate Whitaker)
- 9:00-9:40: Daniel Stark: Spectroscopy of Galaxies in the Reionization Era
- 9:40-10:20: Rob Simcoe: Infrared ELT Spectroscopy and Signatures of Metal Enrichment in the EoR
- 10:20-10:50: Coffee Break
- 10:50-11:10: Charlotte Mason: What can Extremely Large Telescopes tell us about Reionization?
- 11:10-11:30: Danielle Berg: Extreme UV Emission: Clues from Reionization-Era Analogs
- 11:30-11:50: Taylor Alexandra Hutchison: Near-Infrared Spectroscopy of a Galaxy During Reionization
- 11:50-12:10: Intae Jung: Constraining the Lyα Equivalent Width Distribution in the Early Universe with Future Large Telescopes
- 12:10-12:30: George Becker: Studying the IGM During Reionization with Giant Telescopes
- 12:30-13:30: Lunch Break
Early Black Hole Formation (Chair: George Becker)
- 13:30-14:10: John Wise: Early Black Hole Formation
- 14:10-14:50: Xiaohui Fan: Probing the first generation supermassive black holes with the ELTs
- 14:50-15:20: Coffee Break
- 15:20-15:40: Feige Wang: The First Statistical Complete Quasar Sample at the Epoch of Reionization
- 15:40-16:00: Jinyi Yang: Probing Cosmic Reionization with New z ∼ 7 Quasar sample
- 16:00-16:20: Yongjung Kim: The Low Eddington Ratio of IMS J2204+0112, a Faint Quasar at z~6
- 16:20-16:40: Chiara Mazzucchelli: A Multi-wavelength View of the Environment of z~6 QSOs
Galaxy Assembly I (Chair: George Becker)
- 16:40-17:20: Rachel Somerville: Extremely Big Eyes on Galaxy Assembly
- 17:20-18:00: Kate Whitaker: Resolving the Building Blocks of Distant Galaxies with ELTs
- 18:00-20:00: Banquet
Wednesday, January 30, 2019
Black Hole/Galaxy Co-Evolution (Chairs: Roberto Assef, Vivian U)
- 9:00-9:40: Tiziana DiMatteo: The next quasars and massive galaxies frontier
- 9:40-10:20: Jenny Greene: The Coevolution of Black Holes and Galaxies
- 10:20-10:50: Coffee Break
- 10:50-11:10: Vivian U: Merging Supermassive Black Holes in the Age of ELTs
- 11:10-11:30: Mayukh Pahari: The importance of intermediate to supermassive black hole mass measurements and the role of giant telescopes
- 11:30-11:50: Frederick Davies: Radiatively Inefficient Growth of Reionization-Epoch Supermassive Black Holes
- 11:50-12:10: Aklant Kumar Bhowmick: Dark matter haloes and Clustering at z>7: Predictions from BlueTides
- 12:10-12:30: Andrey Vayner: Quasar feedback today and in the era of extremely large telescopes
- 12:30-13:30: Lunch Break
- 13:30-14:10: Roberto Assef: Sudying AGN with the Next Generation of Telescopes
- 14:10-14:50: Ezequiel Treister: Supermassive Black Hole Growth in the Era of Extremely Big Telescopes
- 14:50-15:20 Coffee Break
Thursday, Janaury 31, 2019
Galaxy Assembly II (Chair: Sean Johnson)
- 9:00-9:40: Mariska Kriek: Stellar abundance patterns of distant galaxies: a new window into the assembly, star formation and chemical enrichment histories
- 9:40-10:00: Nell Byler: Disentangling stellar and nebular signatures from the rest-UV spectra of star forming galaxies
- 10:00-10:20: Vicente Estrada-Carpenter: Ages and Metallicities of Quiescent Galaxies at 1.0 < z < 1.8 Derived from Deep Hubble Space Telescope Grism Data
- 10:20-10:50: Coffee Break
Galaxy Stellar Populations and star-formation histories (Chair: Tucker Jones)
- 10:50-11:30: Caitlin Casey: Rare galaxies in the early Universe: contextualizing the evolution of the most massive systems using the ELTs
- 11:30-11:50: Irene Shivaei: Stars, gas, and dust in galaxies at intermediate redshifts (z~1-3)
- 11:50-12:10; Gregory Walth: Using Cosmic Telescopes to Characterize Dusty, Star-Forming Galaxies as an Early Look Toward Future ELT Science
- 12:10-12:30: Maren Cosens: Shedding Light on the Size-Luminosity Scaling Relations of Star Forming Regions
- 12:30-13:30: Lunch Break
Chemical Enrichment (Chair: Irene Shivaei)
- 13:30-14:10: Chuck Steidel: ELT Prospects Observing Gas, Dust, and Metals in High Redshift Galaxies
- 14:10-14:50: Hsiao-Wen Chen: Mapping Gas Flows in Absorption and in Emission in the ELT era
- 14:50-15:20: Coffee Break
- 15:20-15:40: Xin Wang: The First Census of Precise Metallicity Gradients in Dwarf Galaxies at Cosmic Noon
- 15:40-16:00: Ryan Sanders: Galaxy chemical abundances and ISM conditions at high redshifts: the present state and bright future with ELTs
- 16:00-16:20: Aleksandra Leśniewska: Dust production in galaxies at z > 6
- 16:20-16:40: Sean Johnson: Surveys of metal enriched halo gas at z<1 around galaxies from field dwarfs to quasar hosts
- 16:40-17:20: Andrew Newman: Mapping the Mpc-scale Environments of z~2-3 Galaxies using Lyman-alpha Tomography
Friday, February 1, 2019
Feedback Processes in Galaxies (Chair: Hsiao-Wen Chen)
- 9:00-9:40: Phil Hopkins: Big questions for big telescopes: the most uncertain physics in star and galaxy formation
- 9:40-10:20: Tim Heckman: Big Eyes on the Galactic Feedback Across Cosmic Time
- 10:20-10:50 Coffee Break
- 10:50-11:10: Tucker Jones: Galaxy growth and feedback in the early universe: a preview of ELT science
- 11:10-11:30: Jessie Hirtenstein: Dynamical effects of stellar feedback in low mass galaxies at z~2
- 11:30-11:50: Brian Siana: Lensed Dwarf Galaxies at High Redshift: A Glimpse at the Capabilities of Extremely Big Eyes
- 11:50-12:10: Marie Wingyee Lau: Gaseous environments surrounding luminous quasars at z ~ 2
- 12:10-13:10: Lunch Break
Synergies (Chair: Tommaso Treu)
- 13:10-13:30: Marc Postman: Synergies between ELTs and LUVOIR: Tracking the Growth of Structure and the Reionization of the Universe
- 13:30-13:50: Garth Illingworth: JWST, ELTs and WFIRST: A Synergistic Set of Powerful All-Sky Observatories
- 13:50-14:10: Pete Roming: Observations of GRBs and SNe in the Early Universe with ELT Instruments Like SCORPIO and ARISE
- 14:10-14:30: Haojing Yan: Transient Surveys for "First Stars"
- 14:30-14:50: Yueying Ni: High-z quasars outflows and obscuration
- 14:50-15:15: Alice Shapley: Conference Summary
Posters
- Warren Skidmore: Observing capabilities with TMT for the Dark Universe
- Swara Ravindranath: Observing the Star Cluster Complexes and Proto-Globular Clusters at High Redshift
- Mayukh Pahari: The importance of intermediate to supermassive black hole mass measurements and the role of giant telescopes