Cosmology and First Light

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Posters session // Dark Matter and Black Holes // High-redshift galaxies // Radiative Emission or Absorption // Simulations // Cosmic Dawn and Beyond // Reionization and First Galaxies // Cosmology // Cosmology and Energetic Particles // Reionization and Cosmic Dawn

Monday Dec. 7, 2015

08:30 - 09:00 | Registrations (entrance hall) and posters installation

09:00 - 09:10	Welcome address by Rennan Barkana and Francis Bernardeau, IAP head
Session: DARK MATTER AND BLACK HOLES
09:10 - 09:40	Neta Bahcall (Princeton U., USA): Lighting Up The Dark: Where Is The Dark Matter?
9:40 - 10:10	Jerry Ostriker (Columbia U., USA): Choosing the nature of dark matter to address small scale structure dramatically changes early galaxy formation
10:10 - 10:35	Zoltan Haiman (Columbia U., USA): Forming massive seed black holes at high redshift
Coffee break (entrance hall) and posters display
11:05 - 11:30	Tal Alexander (Weizmann Institute, Israel): Supra - exponential growth of seed black holes in the early universe
11:30 - 11:55	Tom Broadhurst (Ikerbasque, Spain): Comparison of the latest Hubble Data with the First Simulations of Bosonic Dark Matter for the "No - WIMP Era"
11:55 - 12:30	Session of brief introductions to posters
Lunch break
Session: HIGH-REDSHIFT GALAXIES
14:00 - 14:25	George Becker (University of California, Riverside): Reionization: What We Know From Quasar Absorption Lines
14:25 - 14:45	Mia Bovill (STScI, USA) [replacing Massimo Stiavelli]:
14:45 - 15:05	Jaiyul Yoo (U. of Zurich, Switzerland): Relativistic Effect in Galaxy Clustering as A Novel Probe of Cosmology
15:05 - 15:25	Tommaso Treu (UCLA, USA): The first galaxies through a magnifying GLASS
Coffee break (entrance hall)
16:00 - 16:30	Rogier Windhorst (Arizona State, USA): HST Observations of Escaping Lyman Continuum Radiation from Galaxies and Weak AGN at 2.3 < z < 5: (How) Did they Reionize the Universe, and what JWST must do next
16:30 - 17:00	Paul Shapiro (U. of Texas at Austin, USA): Simulating Reionization and Its Observable Consequences
17:00 - 17:25	Dominique Aubert (Observatoire Astronomique de Strasbourg, France): Looking at galaxy populations during the reionization using cosmological simulations

18:30 - 21:00 | Cocktail reception (Observatoire de Paris, Cassini Hall)

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Tuesday Dec. 8, 2015

Session: RADIATIVE EMISSION OR ABSORPTION
09:00 - 09:30	Marc Kamionkowski (Johns Hopkins U., USA): Intensity mapping with CO (and other) lines
09:30 - 09:55	Martin Haehnelt (U. of Cambridge, UK): Probing the end of hydrogen reionization with Lyman-alpha absorption
09:55 - 10:20	Tzu-Ching Chang (ASIAA, Taiwan): 21cm Intensity Mapping
Coffee break (entrance hall)
10:50 - 11:10	Nathalie Mashian (Harvard U., USA): Predicting the intensity mapping signal for multi-J CO lines in the early universe
11:10 - 11:35	Andrei Mesinger (Scuola Normale Superiore, Italy): Lyman alpha emitters as a probe of reionization
11:35 - 12:05	Richard Ellis (Caltech, USA): Spectroscopic Studies of Galaxies in the Reionization Era
Lunch break
Session: SIMULATIONS
14:00 - 14:25	Volker Bromm (U. of Texas at Austin, USA): The Formation of the First Stars and Galaxies
14:25 - 14:45	Gen Chiaki (U. of Tokyo, Japan): Numerical simulations of low-metallicity collapsing gas clouds
14:45 - 15:10	Ilian Iliev (U. of Sussex, UK): Radiative Feedback of the First Objects and its Effects on Galaxy Formation and the Detectability of the Epoch of Reionization
15:10 - 15:30	John Wise (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA): Synthetic Observations of the First Galaxies
Coffee break (entrance hall)
16:00 - 16:25	Garrelt Mellema (Stockholm U., Sweden): The three-dimensional view of the redshifted 21cm signal from reionization
16:25 - 16:45	Bradley Greig (Scuola Normale Superiore, Italy): 21CMMC: an MCMC framework for the astrophysics of reionisation
16:45 - 17:05	Stuart Wyithe (U. of Melbourne, Australia): Modelling galaxy formation and reionization with DRAGONS
17:05 - 17:30	Kyungjin Ahn (Chosun U., Korea): Role of First Galaxies in Cosmic Reionization and Their Impact on the Intergalactic Medium

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Wednesday Dec. 9, 2015

Session: COSMIC DAWN AND BEYOND
09:00 - 09:30	Andrea Ferrara (Scuola Normale Superiore, Italy): First stars, First Black Holes
09:30 - 09:55	Rennan Barkana (Tel Aviv U., IAP Paris, U. of Oxford): Cosmic Dawn: From Theoretical Ideas to the SKA
09:55 - 10:20	Leon Koopmans (Kapteyn Astro. Institute, Netherlands): Route 21: A bumpy road towards the Cosmic Dawn
Coffee break / Poster session
10:50 - 11:10	Olivier Dore (JPL/Caltech, USA): The SPHEREx mission
11:15 - 11:35	Jorryt Matthee (Leiden Observatory, The Netherlands): Discovery of the brightest Lyman-alpha emitters in the epoch of re-ionisation
11:35 - 12:05	Uros Seljak (UC Berkeley): Nonlinear clustering of large scale structure: from first light until today
Lunch break
Session: REIONIZATION AND FIRST GALAXIES
14:00 - 14:20	Josh Dillon (UC Berkeley, USA): 21 cm Power Spectrum Estimation in Theory and in Practice: Statistical Techniques and Early Results from First Generation Interferometers
14:20 - 14:40	Charlotte Mason (UCSB/UCLA, USA): The Galaxy UV Luminosity Function Before the Epoch of Reionization
14:40 - 15:05	Anastasia Fialkov (ENS Paris, ITC Harvard): The effect of first X-ray sources on cosmic observables
15:05 - 15:30	Masahiro Takada (IPMU, Japan): Halo bias
Coffee break (entrance hall)
Session: COSMOLOGY
16:00 - 16:20	Irina Dvorkin (IAP, France): The origin of dispersion in DLA metallicities
16:20 - 16:50	Mario Livio: Type Ia Supernovae and Cosmology
16:50 - 17:15	Rogier Windhorst (Arizona State, USA): Pre-Dinner Talk: Lessons learned from JWST and HST, that may help with WFIRST and other future big space missions.

21:00 - 23:15 | Conference Dinner at the Eiffel Tower (proper attire required)

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Thursday Dec. 10, 2015

Session: COSMOLOGY AND ENERGETIC PARTICLES
09:00 - 09:30	Ofer Lahav (UCL, UK): Galaxy Surveys: More Than Dark Energy
09:30 - 09:55	Raul Jimenez (iCrea, Spain): Do we Understand the Universe
09:55 - 10:20	Yoel Rephaeli (Tel Aviv U., Israel): Galactic Energetic Particles and Their Radiative Yields in Clusters
Coffee break (entrance hall)
10:50 - 11:10	Lorenzo Amati (INAF - IASF Bologna, Italy): Shedding light on the dark Universe with Gamma-Ray Bursts
11:10 - 11:30	Sergey Sazonov (Space Research Institute, Moscow, Russia): Preheating of the Universe by cosmic rays from primordial supernovae at the beginning of cosmic reionization
11:30 - 11:50	Anna Schauer (ITA / Heidelberg U., Germany): Lyman-Werner UV Escape Fractions from Primordial Halos
11:50 - 12:15	Ben Wandelt (IAP Paris): Analysis challenges for cosmological data sets
Lunch break
Session: REIONIZATION AND COSMIC DAWN
14:00 - 14:25	Jonathan Pritchard (Imperial College London, UK): Linking 21cm statistics and astrophysics
14:25 - 14:45	Felix Mirabel (CEA-Saclay, France): High Energy Sources in the Reionization Epoch
14:45 - 15:10	Lincoln Greenhill (Harvard U., USA): The Large Aperture Experiment to Detect the Dark Age (LEDA): Results and Prospects
15:10 - 15:30	Daniel Whalen (ITA / Heidelberg U., Germany): Finding the First Cosmic Explosions
Coffee break (entrance hall)
16:00 - 16:25	Benoit Semelin (LERMA, Observatoire de Paris): How much physics do you need to model the 21 cm forest?
16:25 - 16:45	Pierre Ocvirk (Observatoire Astronomique de Strasbourg, France): Cosmic Dawn (CoDa): the First Radiation-Hydrodynamics Simulation of Reionization and Galaxy Formation in the Local Universe
16:45 - 17:10	Saleem Zaroubi (Kapteyn Astro. Institute, Netherlands): Upper limits on the EoR from LOFAR

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Cosmology and First Light

a Lagrange Institute Conference at the Institut d'astrophysique de Paris (IAP)

December 7-10, 2015

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