KITP Conference: Quantifying and Understanding the Galaxy

KITP Conference: Quantifying and Understanding the Galaxy—Halo Connection
(May 15-19, 2017)
Coordinators: Andrey Kravtsov, Alexie Leauthaud, Risa Wechsler, and Andrew Zentner
Scientific Advisors: Carlos Frenk, Marla Geha, Romain Teyssier, and Martin White

Monday, May 15, 2017
	Session: Theoretical and Observational Reviews, Chair: Andrew Zentner (U Pittsburgh)
8:50am	Lars Bildsten (KITP)	Welcome[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
9:00am	Andrew Hearin (Yale/ANL)	Theory Overview[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
9:45am	Rachel Mandelbaum (CMU)	Observational Overview[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
10:30am	Morning Break

11:00am	Mark Vogelsberger (MIT)	Illustris, IllustrisTNG, and Beyond: the co-evolution of CDM and Galaxies
11:30am	Rachel Somerville (Rutgers)	The Connection Between Halos and Galaxy Structural Properties[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
	Lightning talks (~3 minutes each) from conference participants
12:00pm	Participants	Lightning talks[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
12:00pm	1: Idit Zehavi	The evolution of the HOD
12:00pm	2: Ben Moster	The stellar-to-halo mass relation of red and blue galaxies
12:00pm	3: Philip Busch	Assembly bias and splashback in galaxy clusters
12:00pm	4: Victor Calderon	Small-scale galactic conformity in SDSS DR7
12:00pm	5: Simon Birrer	Strong lensing and the galaxy-halo connection
12:00pm	6: Jesse Golden-Marx	Parameterizing the stellar mass-halo mass relation: incorporating the magnitude gap
12:00pm	7: Rita Tojeiro	Assembly bias on the cosmic web
12:00pm	8: Hanwool Koo	Observational evidence for spin alignments in isolated galaxy pairs
12:00pm	9: Alex Krolewski	Measuring alignments between galaxies and filaments using galaxy spins from the MaNGA IFU Survey
12:30pm	Lunch Break
	Session: Recent Results
2:00pm	Guinevere Kauffmann (MPA Garching)	The Gaseous Structure of Galaxy Halos[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
2:30pm	Song Huang (UCSC)	New Insights from the HSC survey on the Stellar Halos of Massive Galaxies[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
3:00pm	Surhud More (U Tokyo IPMU)	Assembly Bias and Splashback Radius on Cluster Scales: Observational Status[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
3:30pm	Afternoon Break
	Session: Results/Moderated Panel Discussion of Important Issues
4:00pm	Priya Natarajan (Yale)	New Insights on the Galaxy-halo Connection from Cluster Lensing[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
4:30pm	Frank van den Bosch Risa Wechsler Andrew Hearin Rachel Mandelbaum	Moderated Group Discussion of Important Issues in the Galaxy-Halo Connection[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
5:30pm	SHUTTLE TO BWSCI
Tuesday, May 16, 2017
	Session: Halos and Simulations, Chair: Andrey Kravtsov (U Chicago)
9:00am	Benedikt Diemer (Harvard U)	Cold Dark Matter Halo Theory/Splashback Review[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
9:45am	Joop Schaye (Leiden U)	Hydro Simulations Review[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
10:30am	Morning Break

11:00am	Andrew Benson (Caltech)	Semi-Analytic Models Overview[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
	Lightning talks (~3 minutes) from conference participants
11:45am	Participants	Lightning talks[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
11:45am	1: August Evrard	The galaxy-hot gas connection in massive halos
11:45am	2: Bhuvnesh Jain	The boundaries and shapes of cluster halos
11:45am	3: Cristobal Sifon	The galaxy-subhalo connection in massive clusters from weak lensing
11:45am	4: Johannes Ulf-Lange	Brightest galaxies as tracers of the halo core
11:45am	5: Hung-Jin Huang	Galaxy alignment in redMaPPer clusters
11:45am	6: Pierre Guillard	The discovery of a massive, extended molecular gas reservoir in the halo of the spider-web proto-cluster.
11:45am	7: Hong Guo	Galaxy assembly bias from HI-selected galaxies
11:45am	8: Elena Massara	Designing a cosmology emulator with on demand simulations
11:45am	9: Ben Wibking	Emulating galaxy-galaxy lensing observables in the deeply nonlinear regime
11:45am	10: Pascal Elahi	SURFS: Synthetic UniveRses For Surveys
11:45am	11: Haojie Xu	Global modelling of color and luminosity dependent galaxy clustering
11:45am	12: Hao-Yi Wu	Constraining the galaxy-halo connection using the anisotropy of the cosmic FIR background
11:45am	13: Kareem El-Badry	When do low-mass galaxies form disks
11:45am	14: Harry Desmond	Dynamical constraints on the galaxy-halo connection
12:30pm	Lunch Break
	Session Chair: Rita Tojeiro (U St. Andrews)
2:00pm	Dylan Nelson (MPA Garching)	IllustrisTNG: Galaxy Color Bimodality and Clustering[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
2:30pm	Zheng Zheng (U Utah)	z-Space Galaxy Clustering: Modeling, Velocity Bias, and Assembly Bias[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
3:00pm	Andrey Kravtsov (U Chicago)	The Size-Virial Relationships of Galaxies[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
3:30pm	Afternoon Break
4:00pm	Mike Fall (STScI)	The Sizes and Angular Momenta of Galaxies and Their Halos[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
4:30pm	Marla Geha Guinevere Kauffmann Andrey Kravtsov Joop Schaye Bhuvnesh Jain	Moderated Group Discussion Panel[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
5:30pm	RECEPTION
6:00pm	SPECIAL EVENTS DINNER
8:00pm	SHUTTLE TO BWSCI
Wednesday, May 17, 2017
	Session: Recent Results, Chair: Benedikt Diemer (Harvard)
9:00am	Peter Behroozi (UCB)	The Universe Machine[Slides][Podcast][Vid][Aud][Cam]
9:30am	Fangzhou Jiang (Hebrew U)	On a Weak Correlation Between The Spins of Galaxies and Their Host Halos[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
10:00am	Joel Primack (UCSC)	Structural Evolution in the Galaxy-Halo Connection, and Halo Properties as a Function of Density and Web Environment[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
10:30am	Morning Break
	Session: New Results
11:00am	Yao-Yuan Mao (U Pittsburgh)	Beyond Assembly Bias[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
11:30am	Jeremy Tinker (New York U)	What Does Scatter Tell Us?[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
12:00pm	Andrej Dvornik (Leiden Obs)	KiDS Weak Lensing Analysis of Assembly Bias in GAMA Galaxy Groups[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
12:30pm	Lunch Break
2:00pm	FREE AFTERNOON-Shuttle Available to BWSCI
Thursday, May 18, 2017
	Session: Galaxy-Halo Connection at the Extremes, Chair: Nitya Kallivayalil (U Virginia)
9:00am	Alyson Brooks (Rutgers U)	The Abundance of Dwarf Galaxies[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
9:30am	Shea Garrison-Kimmel (Caltech)	Not So Lumpy After All: The Inevitable Depletion of Dark Matter Subhalos by Milky Way-size Galaxies[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
10:00am	Annalisa Pillepich (MPIA Heidelberg)	IllustrisTNG: DM halos, Stellar Halos, and the Galaxies at their Centers[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
10:30am	Morning Break

11:00am	Andrew Wetzel (Caltech)	Simulating MW-like Galaxies with Realistic Satellite Populations[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
11:30am	Marla Geha (Yale U)	Satellite Galaxy Populations Around Milky Way Analogs[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
12:00pm	Carlos Frenk (Durham U)	How to Rule Out CDM?[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
12:30pm	Lunch Break
	Session: Galaxy-Halo Connection Developments, Chair: Elisabeth Krause (SLAC)
2:00pm	Myoungwon Jeon (U Arizona)	Connecting the First Galaxies with Ultra-Faint Dwarfs in the LG[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
2:30pm	Yen-Ting Lin (IPMU)	Towards Understanding Massive Galaxy Formation: Mass Assembly History, Assembly Bias, and Conformity[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
3:00pm	Alison Coil (UCSD)	Galactic Conformity and Clustering as a Function of sSFR to z=1[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
3:30pm	Afternoon Break

4:00pm	Nitya Kallivayalil (U Virginia)	Probing the Dark Halo of the Milky Way[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
4:30pm	Shun Saito (MPA Garching)	The Galaxy-Halo Connection for the BOSS CMASS Sample[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
5:00pm	Alexie Leauthaud (UCSC)	Massive Galaxies: Comparing HSC Results with Hydro Simulations[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
5:30pm	RECEPTION
6:00pm	SPECIAL EVENTS DINNER
8:00pm	SHUTTLE TO BWSCI
Friday, May 19, 2017
	Session: Galaxy-Halo Connection and Cosmology, Chair: Idit Zehavi (Case Western Reserve U)
9:00am	Philip Mansfield (U Chicago)	Halo Splashback Radius[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
9:30am	Simon White (MPA Garching)	Assembly Bias[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
10:00am	Titouan Lazeyras (MPA Garching)	Large-scale Assembly Bias from Separate Universe Simulations[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
10:30am	Morning Break

11:00am	Frank van den Bosch (Yale U)	What Can We Learn from Small-scale Clustering?[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
11:30am	Uros Seljak (UCB)	Modeling Galaxies as a Nonlinear Transformation of the Matter Field[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
12:00pm	Elisabeth Krause (SLAC)	The Galaxy-Halo Connection and Cosmology[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
12:30pm	Lunch Break
	Session: Summary Panel Discussion - Panel Moderator: Risa Wechsler (Stanford University/SLAC)
2:00pm	Alexie Leauthaud Rachel Somerville Andrew Zentner Carlos Frenk Simon White	Final Discussion Panel[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
3:30pm	CONFERENCE END/SHUTTLE TO BWSCI *Also available to SB Airport and SB Airbus, Goleta location (See Registration Desk to sign up.)

Monday, May 15, 2017

Session: Theoretical and Observational Reviews, Chair: Andrew Zentner (U Pittsburgh)

Tuesday, May 16, 2017

Session: Halos and Simulations, Chair: Andrey Kravtsov (U Chicago)

Session Chair: Rita Tojeiro (U St. Andrews)

Wednesday, May 17, 2017

Session: Recent Results, Chair: Benedikt Diemer (Harvard)

Thursday, May 18, 2017

Session: Galaxy-Halo Connection at the Extremes, Chair: Nitya Kallivayalil (U Virginia)

Session: Galaxy-Halo Connection Developments, Chair: Elisabeth Krause (SLAC)

Friday, May 19, 2017

Session: Galaxy-Halo Connection and Cosmology, Chair: Idit Zehavi (Case Western Reserve U)