The First Stars and Galaxies: Challenges for the Next Decade
Mar 8-11, 2010
Austin, TX
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First Stars and Galaxies: Challenges in the Next Decade
Conference Participants
Name |
Affiliation |
Talk or Poster title
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Tom Abel |
Stanford University |
Star Formation Then and Now (T)
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Kyunjin Ahn |
Chosun University |
Cosmological Reionization by the First Stars under the Hydrogen-Molecule Dissociating Background (P)
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Anwar Almuhammad |
UT Austin |
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Timothy Beers |
Michigan State University |
Probing the IMF with the Hamburg/ESO and SEGUE Surveys (T)
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Trevor Back |
University of Edinburgh |
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Elizabeth Barton |
UC Irvine |
Exploring Observational Parameter Space at Very High Redshifts (T)
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Edo Berger |
Harvard University |
High-Redshift Gamma-Ray Bursts (T)
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Rychard Bouwens |
UC Santa Cruz |
Very Blue UV-Continuum Slopes of Star-Forming Galaxies at z ~ 7-8 and the Evolution to z ~ 2-4 (T)
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Mia Bovill |
University of Maryland |
The Ultra-Faint Dwarfs as Fossils of the First Galaxies (P)
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Volker Bromm |
UT Austin |
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Chris Carilli |
National Radio Astronomy Observatory |
The Host Galaxies of z=6 Quasars: Gas, Dust, Star Formation,
and M-sigma (T)
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Ranga Ram Chary |
Caltech |
The Stellar Initial Mass Function at the Epoch of Reionization (T)
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Ken Chen |
University of Minnesota |
First 3D Simulations of Thermonuclear Supernovae of Very Massive Stars (P)
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Isabelle Cherchneff |
Basel University |
Molecules and Dust in the Early Universe: the Supernova Connection (T)
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Paul Clark |
Institut fur Theoretische Astrophysik, Heidelberg |
Disc Fragmentation around Primordial Stars (T)
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Francoise Combes |
Observatoire de Paris |
ALMA and the First Galaxies (T)
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Asantha Cooray |
UC Irvine |
Hunting for Signatures of First Galaxies in the Infrared Background (T)
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Soma De |
University of Oklahoma |
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Maria Emilia De Rossi |
Institute for Astronomy and Space Physics |
Chemical Evolution of Galaxies in the High Redshift Universe (P)
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Mark Dijkstra |
Harvard CfA |
The Lyman-Alpha Signatures of the First Galaxies (T)
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Gustavo Doppcke |
Institut fur Theoretische Astrophysik, Heidelberg |
The Effect of Dust Cooling on the Fragmentation of Star-Forming Clouds and the Transition from Pop III to Pop II (P)
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Eli Dwek |
NASA GSFC |
The Origin of Dust in High-z Galaxies (T)
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Neal Evans |
UT Austin |
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Richard Ellis |
Caltech |
Did Star-Forming Galaxies Reionize the Universe? (T)
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Elizabeth Fernandez |
University of Colorado, Boulder |
The Imprint of the First Stars on the Near Infrared Background (P)
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Andrea Ferarra |
Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa |
The Most Distant Galaxies: Theoretical Challenges (T)
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Steven Finkelstein |
Texas A&M University |
Stellar Populations of Galaxies at 6.3 < z < 8.6 (T)
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Anna Frebel |
Harvard University |
Observations of the Chemical Abundances of Metal-Poor Stars and their Connection to the Pop III IMF (T)
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Katie Freese |
University of Michigan |
Supermassive Dark Stars (T)
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Chris Fryer |
Los Alamos National Laboratory |
The Light Curves and Spectra of the First Cosmic Explosions (T)
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Jonathan P. Gardner |
NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center |
First Stars and Galaxies, the Roadmap Ahead: Observation (T)
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Simon Glover |
ZAH/ITA, University of Heidelberg |
The Stellar Initial Mass Function in Low-Metallicity Gas (T)
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Thomas Greif |
MPA Garching |
Supernova Feedback and the First Galaxies (T)
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Jochen Greiner |
MPE Garching |
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Zoltan Haiman |
Columbia University |
The Origin and Detection of High-Redshift Supermassive Black Holes (T)
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Kenji Hasegawa |
University of Tsukuba |
The Impact of Ultraviolet Radiation on Secondary Pop III Star Formation (P)
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Sara Heap |
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center |
Observing the First Stars in Luminous Red Galaxies (P)
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Alex Heger |
University of Minnesota |
The End of the First Stars (T)
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Lars Hernquist |
Harvard University |
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Julie Hollek |
UT Austin |
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Robert Hueckstaedt |
Los Alamos National Laboratory |
Local and Global Radiative Feedback: the Rise of Early Stellar Populations (P)
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Jacob Hummel |
UT Austin |
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Garth Illingworth |
UC Santa Cruz |
The Cosmic Star Formation Rate Density since z ~ 10: Constraints on Galaxies in the First Gyr (T)
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Fabio Iocco |
Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris |
Dark Matter and the First Stars (Dark Stars) (T)
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Myoungwon Jeon |
UT Austin |
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Donghui Jeong |
UT Austin |
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Shardha Jogee |
UT Austin |
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Candace Joggerst |
UC Santa Cruz |
Primordial Supernovae and the Chemical Enrichment of the Early IGM (P)
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Jarrett Johnson |
Max-Planck-Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics |
Observational Signatures of the First Galaxies (T)
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Daniel Kasen |
UC Santa Cruz |
Pop III SNe Light Curves and Spectra (T)
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Ralf Klessen |
Zentrum fur Astronomie der Universitaat Heidelberg |
Possible Lessons from Present-Day Star Formation (T)
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Eiichiro Komatsu |
UT Austin |
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John Kormendy |
University of Texas at Austin |
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S. R. Kulkarni |
Caltech |
The Hunt for the Most Luminous Supernovae (T)
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Abraham Loeb |
Harvard University |
The End of the Cosmic Dark Ages (T)
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Masahiro Machida |
National Astronomical Observatory of Japan |
Magnetohydrodynamics of Population III Star Formation (T)
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John C. Mather |
NASA GSFC |
Capabilities of the James Webb Space Telescope (T)
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Milos Milosavljevic |
University of Texas at Austin |
Accretion Physics for the First Massive Black Holes (T)
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Takashi Moriya |
IPMU |
Interaction-Powered Supernovae as Probes of the High-Redshift Universe (P)
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Ken Nomoto |
IPMU, University of Tokyo |
Nucleosynthesis in Hypernovae (T)
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Michael L. Norman |
UC San Diego |
The Pop III IMF: A Progress Report (T)
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Jeff Oishi |
UC Berkeley |
Numerical Methods for Radiative Feedback from the First Stars: Ionization in Adaptive Mesh Refinement Simulations (P)
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Kazu Omukai |
Kyoto University |
Low-Metallicity Star Formation: the Pop III-II Transition (T)
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Brian O'Shea |
Michigan State University |
Radiative Feedback in Pop III Star Formation (T)
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Andreas Pawlik |
University of Texas at Austin |
The First Galaxies and the Reionization of the Universe:
Feeding and Feedback (P)
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Farah Prasla |
University of Texas at Austin |
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Julian Esteban Mejia Restrepo |
Antioquia University (Colombia) |
A Physical Model for High Redshift Lyman Alpha Emitters (P)
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Tanja Rindler-Daller |
University of Texas at Austin |
The Impact of Cold Dark Matter
Variants on the Halos of the First Stars and Galaxies: Angular Momentum and Vortex Creation in BEC Dark
Matter (P)
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Timur Sahin |
University of Texas at Austin |
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Stefania Salvadori |
Kapteyn Astronomical Institute |
Probing Early Cosmic Star Formation with the Faintest Dwarf Galaxies (T)
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Daniel Wolf Savin |
Columbia University |
Molecular Hydrogen Formation in the Early Universe: New Implications for Population III Stars from Laboratory Measurements (T)
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Dominik Schleicher |
ALMA Regional Centre, Leiden |
Molecular Line Detection in High-z AGN by ALMA (T)
Magnetic Fields: Reionization Constraints and Implications for the First Stars (P)
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Raffaella Schneider |
INAM, Firenze |
The Pop III - II Transition (T)
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Douglas W. Shields |
University of Arkansas |
Testing the Correlation between Spiral Arm Pitch Angle and Central Black Hole Mass (P)
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Chalence Safranek-Shrader |
UT Austin |
Fragmentation in the First Galaxies (P)
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Paul Shapiro |
University of Texas at Austin |
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Masatoshi Shoji |
UT Austin |
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Joe Silk |
Oxford University |
First Stars and Galaxies, the Roadmap Ahead: Theory (T)
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Britton Smith |
University of Colorado, Boulder |
Three Modes of Metal-Enriched Star Formation in the Early Universe (T)
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Rowan Smith |
Heidelberg University |
Including Accretion Luminosity in Population III Star Formation (P)
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Jennifer Sobeck |
University of Chicago |
Galactic Chemical Evolution of the Iron Peak Elements in the Lowest Metallicity Regimes (P)
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Mimi Song |
UT Austin |
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Athena Stacy |
UT Austin |
The First Stars: Formation of Binaries and Small Multiple Systems (P)
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Massimo Stiavelli |
Space Telescope Science Institute |
Studying the First Galaxies with the James Webb Space Telescope (T)
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Hajime Susa |
Konan University |
Generation of Magnetic Fields by the First Stars (P)
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Jonathan Tan |
University of Florida |
Protostellar Feedback Processes and the Mass of the First Stars (T)
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Ataru Tanikawa |
University of Tsukuba |
Successive Merger of Multiple Massive Black Holes in a Primordial Galaxy (T)
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Nozomu Tominaga |
Konan University |
Supernova Properties in the Early Universe (P)
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Matsumoto Toshio |
Seoul National University |
AKARI Observation of CIB Fluctuations (P)
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Michele Trenti |
University of Colorado, Boulder |
Population III Star Formation during and after the Reionization Epoch (T)
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Jason Tumlinson |
STSci |
Pop III, Pop II, and the Fossil Record (T)
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Matthew Turk |
UC San Diego |
The Formation of Population III Binaries from Cosmological Initial Conditions (T)
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Masayuki Umemura |
University of Tsukuba |
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Joaquin Vieira |
Caltech |
A New Population of Millimeter Galaxies Discovered by the South
Pole Telescope (P)
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Daniel Whalen |
Carnegie Mellon University |
Mechanisms for SMBH Seed Formation (T)
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J. Craig Wheeler |
UT Austin |
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Rogier Windhorst |
Arizona State University |
Observing SMBH growth with HST and JWST (T)
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John Wise |
Princeton University |
Ionizing Photon Escape Fractions from High Redshift Dwarf Galaxies (T)
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Joe Wolf |
UC Irvine |
Unmasking Ninja Galaxies in the Local Group as Fossil Remnants (P)
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Hidenou Yajima |
University of Tsukuba |
Ultraviolet and Infrared Radiation from Protogalaxies (P)
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Naoki Yoshida |
IPMU, Tokyo |
Star Formation in a Low-Metallicity Gas (P)
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Erik Zackrisson |
Stockholm University |
Finding High-Redshift Dark Stars with the James Webb Space Telescope (P) |
Jun Zhang |
UT Austin |
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Note: T = talk, P = poster
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