The First Stars and Galaxies: Challenges for the Next Decade

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