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