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KITP Conference: Cosmic Dawn Revealed by JWST: The Physics of the First Stars, Galaxies, and Black Holes
(Aug 26-29, 2024)
Coordinators: Volker Bromm, Roberto Maiolino, Brant Robertson, Rachel Somerville, and Marta Volonteri

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Monday, Aug 26, 2024

Session I: The first billion years of galaxy evolution, Chair: Rachel Somerville (Flatiron)

8:50am Lars Bildsten (KITP)
Rachel Somerville (Flatiron)
Welcome[Video]
9:00am Caitlin Casey (Texas) Observations of Massive Galaxies at Cosmic Dawn (R)[Slides][Video][CC]
9:37am Seiji Fujimoto (U of Texas, Austin) Galaxy Assembly Probed by JWST, ALMA, MUSE, and Lensing: From Young Star Cluster Formation to Dynamical Interplay at z=6 (H)[Video][CC]
9:57am Kevin Hainline (U Arizona/Steward Observatory) Cosmic Dawn Revealed: The JADES View of Galaxies at z > 10 (H)[Slides][Video][CC]
10:17am L. Y. Aaron Yung (STScI) Lightning talk: Simulating galaxies in the ultra-z universe with GUREFT + SC SAM[Video][CC]
10:22am Zhaozhou Li (Hebrew U) Lightning talk: Feedback-free starbursts at cosmic dawn: Observable predictions for JWST[Video][CC]
10:30am

Morning Break

11:00am Christopher Lovell (Portsmouth) Novel approaches to simulating the first galaxy populations (R)[Video][CC]
11:37am Pratika Dayal (U Groningen) The emergence of galaxies in the first billion years: implications for reionization, cosmology and gravitational wave astronomy (H)[Video][CC]
11:57am Aklant Bhowmick (Florida) Lightning talk: BRAHMA simulations: Unveiling signatures of black hole seeds using cosmological simulations[Video][CC]
12:02pm Fabio Pacucci (Harvard) Lightning talk: Widespread Super-Eddington Accretion in the Little Red Dots and the X-ray Weakness Problem[Video][CC]
12:07pm Haowen Zhang (Arizona) Lightning talk: High-z Prediction from the TRINITY model: the Origin of the Little Red Dots[Video][CC]
12:12pm Avishai Dekel (Hebrew U) Lightning talk: Black Hole Growth in FFB Galaxies at Cosmic Dawn[Video][CC]
12:17pm Dhruba Dutta Chowdhury (Hebrew U Jerusalem) Lightning talk: Dynamical Friction in Disks and Application to FFB disks[Slides][Video][CC]
12:30pm

Lunch Break

Session II: First Black Holes, Chair: Peter Behroozi (Arizona)

2:00pm Hannah Uebler (Cambridge) Observational constraints on high-redshift black holes with JWST (R)[Video][CC]
2:37pm Dale Kocevski (Colby College) Insights into Black Hole Growth in the Early Universe with JWST (H)[Video][CC]
2:57pm Kohei Inayoshi (Peking U) Radiative signatures of growing massive black holes in the early universe (H)[Video][CC]
3:17pm Daming Yang (Leiden Obs.) Lightning talk: Hunting High-z Quasars in the Euclid Era[Video][CC]
3:22pm Ben Wang (Leiden Obs.) Lightning talk: Uncovering Type-2 QSO Population at High Redshift Using Keck, Gemini and Euclid[Video][CC]
3:30pm

Afternoon Break

4:00pm Priya Natarajan (Yale) New Insights into black hole seed formation in the first billion years (R)[Video][CC]
4:37pm Alessandro Trinca (U Insubria) Seeking the growth of the first massive black holes (H)[Video][CC]
5:00pm Discussion Leaders:
Marta Volonteri (IAP-Sorbonne),
Fabio Pacucci (Harvard)
Discussion of Session I & II topics
5:30pm

SHUTTLE TO BWSCI

Tuesday, Aug 27, 2024

Session IIIa: Physical Properties of the first galaxies: metallicity, SFH, dust, Chair: Raffaella Schneider (U Rome)

9:00am Daniel Stark (Arizona) Galaxy Properties in the Reionization Era[Video][CC]
9:37am Alice Shapley (UCLA) A New Era for Emission-line Probes of Star-forming Galaxies back to Cosmic Dawn (H)[Video][CC]
9:57am Andrea Ferrara (SNS Pisa) Super-Early Galaxies seen by JWST. Puzzles and Solutions (H)[Video][CC]
10:17am Umberto Maio (Obs. di Trieste) Lightning talk: Early galaxies, early metals and early CII emission[Video][CC]
10:22am Lu Shen (Texas A&M U) Lightning talk: The Next Generation Deep Extragalactic Exploratory Public (NGDEEP) Survey[Video][CC]
10:30am

Morning Break

11:00am Michaela Hirschmann (EPFL) Modelling emission lines in cosmological & galaxy simulations (R)[Video][CC]
11:37am Harley Katz (U Chicago) Probing the ISM at Cosmic Dawn: Insights from Observations and Simulations (H)[Video][CC]
11:57am Hakim Atek (Caltech) Lightning talk: Low-Mass Galaxies at High Redshift in the JWST Era[Video][CC]
12:02pm Jacob Shen (MIT) Lightning talk: Early Dark Energy and Early Galaxies[Video][CC]
12:07pm Guochao Sun (Northwestern) Lightning talk: The Unsettled Youth of Galaxies: the Physics and Implications of Bursty Star Formation in the High-redshift Universe[Video][CC]
12:12pm Weida Hu (Texas A&M) Lightning talk: Characterizing the Average Interstellar Medium Conditions of Galaxies at z~5.6-9 with UV Nebular Lines[Video][CC]
12:17pm Massimo Pascale (UCB) Lightning talk: Chemical Enrichment in Cosmic Noon Super Star Clusters[Video][CC]
12:30pm

Lunch Break

Session IIIb: Physical Properties of the first galaxies: morphology, sizes, kinematics, Chair: Harley Katz (Oxford)

2:00pm Andrey Kravtsov (U. Chicago) Sizes, structure, and morphology of the early stages of galaxy evolution: modeling perspective (R)[Slides][Video][CC]
2:37pm Arjen van der Wel (Ghent U) Sizes and Shapes of Galaxies at 0.5 ~ z ~ 10 (H)[Video][CC]
2:57pm Viraj Pandya (Columbia) Why are early low-mass galaxies preferentially elongated? (H)[Video][CC]
3:17pm Lightning talks
3:30pm

Afternoon Break

4:00pm Erica Nelson (CU Boulder) The Sizes, Shapes, and Kinematics of Early Galaxies with JWST (R)[Video][CC]
4:37pm Susan Kassin (STScI) The GARDEN Survey (H)[Video][CC]
4:57pm Discussion Leaders: Brant Robertson (UCSC),
Alice Shapley (UCLA)
Discussion of Session IIIa and IIIb topics
5:30pm

RECEPTION

6:00pm

SPECIAL EVENTS DINNER

7:30pm

SHUTTLE TO BWSCI

Wednesday, Aug 28, 2024

Session IV: first stars, Chair: Martin Haehnelt (Cambridge)

9:00am Raffaella Schneider (U Rome) The physics of primordial and low-metallicity star formation (R)[Video][CC]
9:37am Shyam Harimohan Menon (Rutgers) The Interplay of Feedback and Star Formation in Dense Compact Star Clusters (H)[Video][CC]
9:57am Mike Grudic (Carnegie Obs) Forging Extreme Stars in Extreme Environments (H)[Slides][Video][CC]
10:17am Ken Chen (Acad. Sinica) Lightning talk: How Population III Supernovae Determined the Properties of the First Galaxies[Video][CC]
10:22am Alessandra Venditti (U Rome) Lightning talk: A needle in a haystack? Catching Population III stars during the Epoch of Reionization[Slides][Video][CC]
10:30am

Morning Break

11:00am Alex Ji (U Chicago) Stellar Archaeology Constraints on the First Stars (R)[Video][CC]
11:37am Sunmyon Chon (MPA) Transition of IMF in the Early universe (H)[Video][CC]
11:57am Zixuan Peng (UCSB) Lightning talk: Physical Origins of Outflowing Cold Clouds in Local Star-forming Galaxies[Video][CC]
12:02pm Liang Dai (UCB) Lightning talk: An Investigation of Godzilla: Can Young Super Star Clusters Retain Stellar Ejecta?[Video][CC]
12:07pm Claire Williams (UCLA) Lightning talk: Insights into galaxy formation at cosmic dawn with the stream velocity via faint JWST galaxies[Video][CC]
12:12pm Sahil Hegde (UCLA) Lightning talk: a semi-analytic model for pop III star formation[Video][CC]
12:30pm

Lunch Break

Session V: The near field/far field connection, Chair: Crystal Martin (UCSB)

2:00pm Keith Hawkins (Texas) Near-Far Connections: The Milky Way and its Local Environment as a Laboratory (R)[Video][CC]
2:37pm Grace Telford (Princeton) New Insight into Early Massive Stars from Local Metal-Poor Dwarf Galaxies (H)[Slides][Video][CC]
2:57pm Peter Senchyna (Carnegie Obs) Metal-poor massive stars in the first galaxies and next-door (H)[Video][CC]
3:30pm

Afternoon Break

4:00pm Jenna Samuel (U Texas at Austin) Connecting Local Group substructure with the first galaxies through simulations (H)[Video][CC]
4:20pm Benedetta Ciardi (MPA) Theoretical modeling of the reionization process (R)[Video][CC]
4:57pm Discussion Leaders: Umberto Maio (OAT-INAF),
Grace Telford (Princeton)
Discussion of Session IV & V topics
5:30pm

RECEPTION

6:00pm

SPECIAL EVENTS DINNER

7:30pm

SHUTTLE TO BWSCI

Thursday, Aug 29, 2024

Session VI: reionization and the intergalactic medium, Chair: Michaela Hirschmann (EPFL)

9:00am Stefania Salvadori (U Florence) From Near to Far-Field cosmology: understanding early cosmic star-formation (R)[Video][CC]
9:37am Sultan Hassan (NYU) Pressure-Regulated Feedback-Modulated Star Formation Model: A plausible explanation for the abundance of high-z galaxies observed by JWST and implications for cosmic reionization(H)[Video][CC]
9:57am Martin Haehnelt (Cambridge) Timing reionization with Lyman-alpha in emission and absorption (H)[Slides][Video][CC]
10:17am Shikhar Asthana (Cambridge) Lightning talk: QSO assisted reionization in light of JWST[Video][CC]
10:22am Hanjue Zhu (U. Chicago) Lightning talk: On the Physical Nature of Lyman Alpha Transmission Spikes[Embargoed]
10:30am

Morning Break

11:00am Valentina D'odorico (OAT-INAF) The epoch of Reionization dissected with quasar spectra (R)[Video]
11:37am Anna Christina Eilers (MIT) The extreme environments of luminous quasars at z~6 (H)[Video]
11:57pm Yi Kang (UCSB) Lightning talk: Inferring Quasar Properties with Light Echoes[Video]
12:02pm Joe Hennawi (UCSB) Lightning talk: Precisely Measuring Reionization with IGM Damping Wings Towards Quasars[Video]
12:07pm Timo Kist (Leiden Obs.) Lightning talk: Towards precision constraints on reionization history with quasar IGM damping wings[Video]
12:12pm Silvia Onorato (Leiden Obs.) Lightning talk: Optical and near-infrared spectroscopy of quasars at z>6.5: public data release and analysis of their proximity zones[Video]
12:17pm Chris Cain (Arizona State) Lightning talk: A tale of three histories: distinguishing reionization scenarios in the JWST era[Slides][Video]
12:30pm

Lunch Break

Session VII: Afternoon Session Chair: Large scale structure, environment, and clustering, Chair: Raffaella Schneider (U Rome)

2:00pm Peter Behroozi (Arizona) What do we learn from Clustering of Galaxies and SMBHs at Cosmic Dawn? (R)[Slides][Video][CC]
2:37pm Crystal Martin (UCSB) LAE Emitters and Cosmic Reionization[Slides][Video][CC]
2:57pm Jake Helton (Arizona) Identification of High-Redshift Galaxy Overdensities with JWST (H)[Slides][Video][CC]
3:17pm Elia Pizzati (Leiden Obs.) Lightning talk: Modeling JWST clustering measurements[Video][CC]
3:22pm Jiamu Huang (UCSB) Probing galaxy and quasar dark matter halo masses with JWST clustering analysis[Video][CC]
3:30pm

Afternoon Break

4:00pm Mark Dickinson (NSF's NOIRLab) Surveying Galaxies and their Environments at Cosmic Dawn in the JWST era (R)[Slides][Video][CC]
4:37pm Julian Munoz (Texas) The clustering of the first galaxies and their impact on reionization (H)[Slides][Video][CC]
4:57pm Discussion Leaders: Joe Hennawi (UCSB),
Roberto Maiolino (Cambridge)
Discussion of Session VI & VII topics
5:30pm

CONFERENCE END SHUTTLE TO BWSCI *Also available to SB Airport and SB Airbus, Goleta location. (See Registration Desk BEFORE THURSDAY to sign up.)

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