| Monday |
| 1. Opening Session |
Chair: Saleem Zaroubi |
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| 8:30- 9:30 |
60 |
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Registration (Cont.) |
| 9:30- 9:50 |
20 |
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Welcome by Prof. F. Zwarts (Rector of the Univ. of Groningen)
& Prof. P. van de Kruit (Director of Kapteyn Astronomical Institute) |
| 9:50- 10:30 |
35+5 |
Martin Rees |
Opening Review: Probes of High-z Structure and Ionization
[PDF] |
| 10:30-11:00 |
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Coffee / tea |
| 2. Cosmic Microwave Background and the EoR |
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| 11:00-11:30 |
25+5 |
Naoshi Sugiyama |
Constraining the EoR with High resolution CMB Data (Invited) [PDF] |
| 11:30-12:00 |
25+5 |
Olivier Dore |
WMAP and the EoR [PDF] |
| 12:00-12:20 |
15+5 |
Jan Muecket |
The impact of ionized IGM on the CMB anisotropy by the SZ effect [PDF] |
| Lunch Break |
| 3. Sources of Ionizing Radiation |
Chair: Ue-Li Pen |
|
| 2:00- 2:40 |
35+5 |
Andrea Ferrara |
First Stars and the Cosmic Dawn (Review) [PDF] |
| 2:40- 3:10 |
25+5 |
Tom Abel |
First Structure Formation (Invited) [PDF] |
| 3:10- 3:30 |
15+5 |
Darren Reed |
The First Generation of Star-Forming Halos [PDF] |
| 3:30- 4:00 |
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Coffee / tea |
| 4:00- 4:30 |
25+5 |
Paul Shapiro |
The Impact of Small-Scale Structure on Cosmic Reionization
and the End of the Dark Ages (Invited) [PDF] |
| 4:30- 5:00 |
25+5 |
Massimo Ricotti |
Black-holes and the (Pre-)reionization process (Invited)
[PDF] |
| 5:00- 5:20 |
15+5 |
Masayuki Umemura |
Early Reionization by Pop III Binaries
[PDF] |
| 5:20- 5:40 |
15+5 |
Leonid Chuzhoy |
Element abundances in the first stars
[PDF] |
| |
| Tuesday |
| 3. Sources of Ionizing Radiation (Cont.) |
Chair: Steve Warren |
|
| 9:00- 9:30 |
25+5 |
Andrew Bunker |
The Star Formation Rate of the Universe at z~6 (Invited)
[PDF] |
| 9:30- 9:50 |
15+5 |
Laura Douglas |
The star formation histories of the earliest galaxies
[PDF] |
| 9:50- 10:10 |
15+5 |
Rychard Bouwens |
Luminosity Functions and Star Formation Rates at z~6-10: Galaxy Buildup in the Reionization Epoch
[PDF] |
| 10:10- 10:30 |
15+5 |
Raffaella Schneider |
The extinction of the first massive stars
[PDF] |
| 10:30-11:00 |
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Coffee / tea |
| 4. Theory of the Reionization Process |
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| 11:00-11:40 |
35+5 |
Avi Loeb |
The physics of the Epoch of Reionization (Review)
[PDF] |
| 11:40-12:10 |
25+5 |
Steven Furlanetto |
Analytic Models of Inhomogeneous Reionization
[PDF] |
| 12:10- 12:30 |
15+5 |
Andrei Mesinger |
Probing Reionization and Early Structures with the Proximity Effect, SNe and GRBs
[PDF] |
| Lunch Break |
| 4. Theory of the Rerionizatoin Process (Cont.) |
Chair: David Tytler |
|
| 2:00- 2:20 |
15+5 |
Ilian T. Iliev |
Simulating Reionization: A New Photon-Conserving
Method for Radiative Transfer
[PDF] |
| 2:20- 2:40 |
15+5 |
Jelle Ritzerveld |
Reionizing the Large Scale Structure
[PDF] |
| 2:40- 3:00 |
15+5 |
Romeel Dave |
Simulations of galaxy formation in the reionization
epoch
[PDF] |
| 3:00- 3:20 |
15+5 |
Emanuele Ripamonti |
An exploration of the effects of HD cooling on primordial star formation [PDF]
|
| 3:20- 3:40 |
15+5 |
Daniel Babich |
Polarization of High Redshift 21-cm Radiation
[PDF] |
| 3:40- 4:10 |
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Coffee / tea |
| 4:10-4:30 |
15+5 |
Tom Theuns |
Reionisation and the thermal history of the IGM
[!-Belongs to the Post-EoR IGM session] [PDF] |
| 5. The Pre-reionization IGM |
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|
| 4:30- 5:10 |
35+5 |
Piero Madau |
The pre-reionization state of the IGM (Review)
[PDF] |
| 5:10- 5:40 |
25+5 |
Adi Nusser |
Cosmological tests with the 21 cm data (Invited)
[PDF] |
| 5:40- 6:00 |
15+5 |
Jonathan Pritchard |
Descending from on high: Lyman-series cascades and spin-kinetic temperature coupling in the 21cm line
[PDF] |
| |
| Wednesday |
| 5. The Pre-reionization IGM (cont.) |
Chair: Avery Meiksin |
|
| 9:00- 9:20 |
15+5 |
Rennan Barkana |
Transforming 21cm fluctuations into a great cosmological probe[PDF] |
| 9:20- 9:40 |
15+5 |
Douglas Finkbeiner |
Pre-ionization via dark matter annihilation
[PDF] |
| 9:40-10:00 |
15+5 |
Argyro Tasitsiomi |
Lyman-α halos around sources before cosmological reionization
[PDF] |
| 10:00- 10:30 |
25+5 |
Benedetta Ciardi |
Simulating Radiative Processes During Reionization (Invited)
[!-Belongs to the EoR-Theory session]
[PDF] |
| 10:30-11:00 |
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Coffee / tea |
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|
| 11:00-11:20 |
15+5 |
Michiel van Haarlem |
The LOFAR-EoR Strategy
[PDF] |
| 11:20-12:00 |
35+5 |
Ger de Bruyn |
The foregrounds of the EoR 21 cm signals (Review)
[PDF] |
| 12:00-12:30 |
25+5 |
S. Peng Oh |
21cm tomography and foreground removal (Invited)
[PDF] |
| Lunch Break |
Free Afternoon or trip to Dwingeloo/LOFAR
Meeting point for busses at the corner of St. Jansstraat/Martini-Tower at 2:00 |
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| 2:00-7:00 |
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Trip to Dwingeloo that includes |
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A presentation by:
Heino Falcke |
LOFAR - more than
just a radio telescope for cosmology and astroparticle physics |
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A tour in the Lab with an
emphasis on LOFAR prototyping |
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| Thursday |
| 6. The 21 cm experiments (cont.) |
Chair: Peter Shaver |
|
| 9:00- 9:20 |
15+5 |
Miguel Morales |
Statistical EOR detection and foreground subtraction: recent results and the implications for array design [PDF] |
| 9:20- 9:40 |
15+5 |
Mario Santos |
Multifrequency analysis of the 21 cm fluctuations from the era of Reionization [PDF] |
| 9:40-10:10 |
25+5 |
Ue-Li Pen |
Searching for Reionization with 21CMA/PAST (Invited)
[PDF] |
| 10:10-10:30 |
15+5 |
Jeffery Peterson |
Goals and Design of the Primeval Structure Telescope
[PDF] |
| 10:30-11:00 |
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Coffee / tea |
| 11:00-11:20 |
15+5 |
Colin Lonsdale |
The Mileura Widefield Array as an EOR machine
[PDF] |
| 11:20-11:40 |
15+5 |
Ravi Subrahmanyan |
ATNF Cosmological Re-ionization Experiment
[PDF] |
| 11:40-12:00 |
15+5 |
Lincoln Greenhill |
Outfitting the VLA for Study of the Epoch of Reionization
[PDF] |
| 12:00-12:30 |
25+5 |
Frank Briggs |
The Square Kilometer Array & the EoR (Invited)
[PDF] |
| Lunch Break |
| 7. The Post Reionization IGM |
Huub Rottgering |
|
| 1:50- 2:30 |
35+5 |
Avery Meiksin |
The Impact of Reionization on the IGM (Review)
[PDF] |
| 2:30- 3:00 |
25+5 |
Michael Strauss |
The high-redshift SDSS QSOs and their implication on the EoR
[PDF] |
| 3:00- 3:30 |
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Coffee / tea |
| 3:30- 3:50 |
15+5 |
Cristiano Porciani |
The origin of intergalactic metals around Lyman-break galaxies
[PDF] |
| 3:50- 4:20 |
25+5 |
Joop Schaye |
What do the Intergalactic metals tell us about the EoR (Invited)
[PDF] |
| 4:20- 4:40 |
15+5 |
Marcin Sawicki |
Evolution of Low Luminosity Galaxies at High Redshift
[PDF] |
| 4:40-5:00 |
15+5 |
Akio Inoue |
Upper limit on the Lyman continuum flux escaping from z~3 galaxies
[PDF] |
| 5:00- 5:20 |
15+5 |
T. Roy Choudhury |
Obervational Constraints on Self-consistent Reionization Models
[PDF] |