Monday, May 14

AT&T Conference Center, Conference Room 301 [map]

9:00-9:05

Welcome, Eiichiro Komatsu (UT Austin) [5]

9:05-9:55

Opening Talk, Ned Wright (UCLA) [45+5]

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Session 1: Direct Measurements

9:55-10:20

Temporal, Spatial, Spectral Aspects of the Zodiacal Light
Rick Arendt (NASA/GSFC) [20+5]

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10:20-10:50

Break [30]

10:50-11:15

New Sub-degree-scale Measurements of CIB Fluctuations in Deep Spitzer Data and Their Implications
Sasha Kashlinsky (NASA/GSFC) [20+5]

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11:15-11:40

HST/NICMOS Observations of the Near Infrared Background
Rodger Thompson (Univ. of Arizona) [20+5]

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11:40-12:05

AKARI Observation of the Fluctuation of the Near-infrared Background
Toshio Matsumoto (Seoul National Univ.) [20+5]

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12:05-12:30

Cosmic Optical Background: The View from Pioneer 10/11
Yoshiki Matsuoka (Nagoya Univ.) [20+5]

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12:30-2:00

Lunch at Tejas Dining Room [90]

2:00-2:25

First EBL Fluctuation Results from CIBER
Michael Zemcov (Caltech/JPL) [20+5]

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2:25-2:50

New Measurements of the NIRB-fluctuations Using the CANDELS, CIBER and Spitzer Datasets
Joseph Smidt (UC Irvine) [20+5]

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2:50-3:15

CIBER Measurements of the Mean Intensity of the NIR Background
Shuji Matsuura (ISAS/JAXA) [20+5]

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3:15-4:00

Break [45]

4:00-5:00

Discussion Session 1 (Moderator: Jamie Bock) [60]

• Do the current measurements agree?
• How to overcome the Zodiacal light issues?

Summary Text for Discussion Session 1 [pdf]

5:00-5:10

Short Break [10]

Session 2: Gamma-ray Constraints

5:10-5:35

Blazars and the Extra-galactic Background Light
Luigi Costamante (Univ. of Milan) [20+5]

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5:35-6:00

The Opacity of the Universe in Gamma Rays: Recent Results & Future Prospects
Frank Krennrich (Iowa State) [20+5]

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7:30

Banquet at "Green Pastures"

Tuesday, May 15

AT&T Conference Center, Conference Room 301 [map]

Session 2: Gamma-ray Constraints (continued)

9:00-9:25

Secondary TeV gamma rays from distant blazars, and a new measurement of extragalactic background light
Alex Kusenko (UCLA) [20+5]

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9:25-9:50

Reionization Signatures in Gamma-ray Spectra
Rudy Gilmore (SISSA) [20+5]

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9:50-10:15

Gamma-ray Absorption in High-redshift Objects and Cosmic Reionization
Susumu Inoue (Univ. of Tokyo) [20+5]

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10:15-10:40

Axion Searches in Astrophysics
Kazunori Kohri (KEK) [20+5]

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10:40-11:10

Break [30]

11:10-12:10

Discussion Session 2 (Moderator: Alex Kusenko) [60]

• Direct measurements vs TeV limits: what do we make of this?
• Rooms for improved direct measurements and TeV limits?

Summary Text for Discussion Session 2 [pdf]

12:10-1:40

Lunch at Tejas Dining Room [90]

Session 3: Modeling

1:40-2:05

Reionization and the Infrared Background
Asantha Cooray [20+5]

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2:05-2:30

The sources of CIB fluctuations: what they may be and what they are not
Sasha Kashlinsky (NASA/GSFC) and Kari Helgason (Univ. of Maryland) [20+5]

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2:30-2:55

The Infrared Glow of the First Galaxies
Andrea Ferrara (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa) [20+5]

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2:55-3:20

Theoretical Implications of Near Infrared Background Observations
Elizabeth Fernandez (IAS Orsay) [20+5]

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3:20-4:00

Break [40]

4:00-4:25

Lyman-alpha Intensity Mapping During the Epoch of Reionization
Mario Santos (Technical Univ. of Lisbon) [20+5]

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4:25-4:50

On the Detectability of Lyman Alpha Emission by Galaxies from the Epoch of Reionization
Mark Dijkstra (MPA) [20+5]

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4:50-5:50

Discussion Session 3 (Moderator: Andrea Ferrara) [60]

• Do the current predictions agree?
• Do the predictions agree with observations?
• Room for improved calculations?

Summary Text for Discussion Session 3 [pdf]

5:50

Brief Summary [Eiichiro Komatsu] [10]

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6:00

Adjourn