Monday, June 27 |
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09:00-10:00 |
Registration |
10:00-10:15 |
Welcome |
The most distant quasars |
10:15-10:45 |
Eduardo Bañados (Invited) |
Quasars in the epoch of reionization |
10:45-11:05 |
Linhua Jiang |
The Final SDSS High-Redshift Quasar Sample: 52 Quasars at z > 5.7 since 2000 |
11:05-11:25 |
Sophie Reed |
A Sample of Eight New Quasars from the Dark Energy Survey |
11:25-11:45 |
Chiara Mazzucchelli |
The Pan-STARRS1 search for the highest-redshift quasars |
11:45-12:05 |
Yoshiki Matsuoka |
Subaru High-z Exploration of Low-Luminosity Quasars (SHELLQs) |
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12:05-13:30 |
Lunch |
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Galaxies in the Epoch of Reionization |
13:30-14:00 |
Pascal Oesch (Invited) |
Galaxy Build-up at Cosmic Dawn: Insights from Deep HST and Spitzer/IRAC |
14:00-14:30 |
Hsiao-Wen Chen (Invited) |
The Galaxy Luminosity Function at z=6-10 |
14:30-14:50 |
Jorryt Matthee |
Unveiling the nature of the brightest Lyman-alpha emitters in the epoch of re-ionisation |
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14:50-15:20 |
Coffee break |
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15:20-15:50 |
Masami Ouchi (Invited) |
Probing Early Galaxies with the Hubble, Subaru, and ALMA Legacy Data |
15:50-16:10 |
Michael Maseda |
The prevalence of CIII] emission before the Dark Ages |
16:10-16:40 |
Poster presentations |
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16:40-18:00 |
Reception and poster session |
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Tuesday, June 28 |
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Ionizing radiation from galaxies and reionization |
09:00-09:30 |
Laura Pentericci (Invited) |
Probing the end of the reionization epoch with spectroscopic observations of high-z galaxies |
09:30-09:50 |
Rychard Bouwens |
Faint Galaxies as Drivers of Cosmic Reionization: New Constraints on both their Volume Density and Lyman-Continuum Production Efficiency from the latest Frontier Fields Data |
09:50-10:10 |
Naveen Reddy |
Relationship between Reddening, Gas Covering Fraction, and the Escape of Ionizing Radiation at High Redshift |
10:10-10:30 |
Andrea Grazian |
The Lyman continuum escape fraction of z~3 star forming galaxies with LBC/LBT in the COSMOS and CANDELS fields |
10:30-10:50 |
Michael Rauch |
Observational constraints on the origin and effects of ionizing radiation |
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10:50-11:20 |
Coffee break |
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11:20-11:50 |
James Bolton (Invited) |
Exploring reionisation with Lyman-alpha absorption |
11:50-12:10 |
Mark Dijkstra |
The Lya-LyC Connection: Evidence for an Enhanced Contribution of UV-faint Galaxies to Cosmic Reionization |
12:10-12:30 |
Pratika Dayal |
Cosmic reionization: sources and constraints |
12:30-12:50 |
Ewald Puchwein |
Constraining reionization with Lyman-alpha emitters, the Lyman-alpha forest and the CMB |
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12:50-14:00 |
Lunch |
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The UV background and the IGM |
14:00-14:30 |
Emanuele Giallongo (Invited) |
AGNs in the CANDELS/GOODS fields: looking for high-z ionizing sources |
14:30-14:50 |
Gabor Worseck |
Do Quasars Dominate the UV Background at z>4? |
14:50-15:10 |
Jose Onorbe |
New Models of the UV-Background in Cosmological Hydrodynamical Simulations: Implications for IGM and galaxy formation observations |
15:10-15:30 |
Bradley Greig |
Constraints on the IGM neutral fraction at z=7 from the reconstructed Ly-alpha emission line profile of ULASJ1120+0641 |
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15:30-16:00 |
Coffee break |
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16:00-16:30 |
Tiziana DiMatteo (Invited) |
The next frontier of high-z Massive Galaxies and Quasars |
16:30-16:50 |
Jonathan Chardin |
Large scale opacity fluctuations in the Lyα forest: evidence for QSOs dominating the ionising UV background at z∼5.5-6? |
16:50-17:10 |
Frederick Davies |
What are the last Gunn-Peterson troughs in the Lyman-alpha forest? |
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Wednesday, June 29 |
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The Reionization Epoch |
09:00-09:30 |
Piero Madau (Invited) |
Cosmic Reionization After Planck: Progress and Challenges |
09:30-10:00 |
Dominique Aubert (Invited) |
Cosmological simulation of the Reionization with EMMA: successes and difficulties |
10:00-10:20 |
Marius Berge Eide |
New light on hydrogen and helium reionization in a cosmological volume |
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10:20-11:00 |
Coffee break |
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11:00-11:30 |
Joop Schaye (Invited) |
Simulations of the epoch of reionization |
11:30-11:50 |
Alireza Rahmati |
Introducing the Aurora reionization simulations |
11:50-12:10 |
Anne Hutter |
Exploiting 21cm-LAE synergies: constraints on reionization |
12:10-12:30 |
Mahavir Sharma |
Reionization by Starbursts |
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12:30-14:00 |
Lunch |
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Free afternoon |
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18:30: Conference dinner at the Schlosshotel Molkenkur |
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Thursday, June 30 |
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Black hole formation |
09:00-09:30 |
Martin Haehnelt (Invited) |
The early (feedback-regulated) growth of supermassive black holes |
09:30-09:50 |
Ricarda Beckmann |
From seed to supermassive: growing black holes at high redshift |
09:50-10:10 |
Muhammad Latif |
Formation of supermassive black holes via direct collapse |
10:10-10:30 |
Paramita Barai |
Quasar Outflows at z>=6 in Zoomed Cosmological Hydrodynamical Simulations |
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10:30-11:00 |
Coffee break |
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11:00-11:30 |
Marta Volonteri (Invited) |
The first black holes and AGN |
11:30-11:50 |
Dan Whalen |
How Supermassive Black Holes Form by z > 7: Synthetic Observables in the NIR, Ly-a and 21 cm |
11:50-12:20 |
Jenny Greene (Invited) |
Black Holes Seeds: A Local Perspective |
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12:20-14:00 |
Lunch |
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High redshift quasars: host galaxies and environment |
14:00-14:30 |
Manda Banerji (Invited) |
High-redshift quasars in current and future wide-field surveys |
14:30-14:50 |
Gijs Verdoes Kleijn |
Implications for the early growth of supermassive black holes from the KiDS+VIKING survey |
14:50-15:10 |
Ran Wang |
Gas and star formation in the quasar host galaxies at z~6 |
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15:10-15:40 |
Coffee break |
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15:40-16:00 |
Bram Venemans |
ALMA observations of z>6.5 quasar hosts: forming massive galaxies in the epoch of reionisation |
16:00-16:20 |
Roberto Decarli |
The birth of the giants: dust and gas in QSO host galaxies at z~6 |
16:20-16:40 |
Roberto Gilli |
Large scale galaxy overdensities around z~6 QSOs |
16:40-17:00 |
Emanuele Paolo Farina |
Chasing LyAlpha Haloes at z>6 |
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Friday, July 1 |
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IGM enrichment |
09:00-09:30 |
Emma Ryan-Weber (Invited) |
Metals in Absorption at the Conclusion of Reionization |
09:30-09:50 |
Sarah Bosman |
Metal Enrichment during Reionisation using the redshift 7 quasar ULAS J1120+0641 |
09:50-10:10 |
Laura Keating |
Testing the effect of feedback on the high-redshift IGM with metal-line absorbers |
10:10-10:30 |
Anna-Christina Eilers |
The intergalactic medium at high redshifts and its implications for the epoch of reionization |
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10:30-11:00 |
Coffee break |
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11:00-11:30 |
Richard Ellis (Invited) |
Spectroscopic Studies of Galaxies in the Reionization Era |
11:30-11:50 |
Sangeeta Malhotra |
Studying the dark ages with WFIRST |
11:50-12:20 |
Xiaohui Fan |
Concluding remarks |
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12:20-14:00 |
Lunch |
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14:00 End of conference |