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STAR AND STRUCTURE FORMATION: FROM FIRST LIGHT TO THE MILKY WAY
 
Program

(per August 12, 2003)

The Conference will take place at ETH Center, Main Building, Audi Max, F30

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Sunday, August 17, 2003

16:00 - 20:00 Registration *
(ETH Center, Main Building, in the Main Hall)
18:00 - 20:00 Welcome Reception
(ETH Center, Main Building, Dozentenfoyer, J-Floor)


Monday morning, August 18, 2003
1. When & where was First Light and how can we look for it?
Time
08:30 M. Carollo Opening of the Conference
O. Kübler
ETH President
Welcoming Address
Times min. Speaker Title
08:45 50' M. Rees Introduction to Conference and Session
09:35 20' A. Loeb Probing the First Stars and their Effects on the Universe
09:55 20' M. Shull First Stars and Quasars: What are their Effects on the IGM?
10:15 10' V. Bromm The End of the Dark Ages: The Formation of the First Stars and Quasars
10:25 20' A. Ferrara Feedback Effects at Cosmic Dawn
10:45 15'
Questions and Discussion
11:00 30'
Coffee Break
11:30 20' T. Abel The First Sources of Light
11:50 10' S. Malhotra First Light - have we found it in Lyman-alpha emitters?
12:00 20' L. Cowie High z galaxies and AGN
12:20 30'
Questions and Discussion



Monday afternoon, August 18, 2003
2. When did Reionization occur and what did it?
Times min. Speaker Title
14:30 30' Z. Haiman Introduction to Session
15:00 20' R. Barkana GRBs versus Quasars: Lyman-alpha Signatures of Reionization versus Cosmological Infall
15:20 10' J. Rhoads Probing Reionization History with Topological Tests
15:30 20' J. Miralda-Escude The First Stars and Reionization
15:50 15'
Questions and Discussions
16:05 30'
Coffee Break
16:35 20' X. Fan Highest-redshift Quasars: Probing the End of the Reionization Epoch
16:55 10' C. Maier Constraints to the Evolution of Ly-alpha bright Galaxies between z = 3 and z = 6
17:05 10' C. Martin The Space Density of Redshift 5.7 LyA Emitters from a Deep, Keck Multislit Windows Search
17:15 10' M. Bremer Constraints on Reionization from High-z Galaxies
17:25 20' E. Hu Observational Constraints on Reionization from High-z Galaxy Studies
17:45 30'
Questions and Discussion



Tuesday morning, August 19, 2003
3. How does Metallicity of the Universe develop?
Times min. Speaker Title
08:30 30' R. Kennicutt Introduction to Session
09:00 20' J. Truran Evolution of the Metallicity of the Universe
09:20 20' L. Greggio On the constraints on galaxy formation timescales from observed alpha elements overabundance
09:40 10' A. Ferguson Constraints on Galaxy Formation from Observations of Resolved Fossils
09:50 10' M. Cappellari The Fossil Record of Galaxy Formation Observed with SAURON
10:00 20' C. Chiosi Chemical Evolution of the ICM
10:20 15'
Questions and Discussion
10:35 25'
Coffee Break
11:00 20' D. Koo New Explorations with DEEP of the Metallicities of Gas and Stars at iItermediate Redshifts
11:20 10' J. Schaye The Distribution of Metals in the Intergalactic Medium
11:30 10' E. Scannapieco The Sources of Intergalactic Metals
11:40 10' V. Kulkarni Evolution of Metals in Galaxies: Clues from the Damped Lyman-alpha Absorbers
11:50 10' D. Maoz Star Formation and Metal-enrichment History in Clusters and in the Field from SNe
12:00 30'
Questions and Discussion
12:30 30'
Photo Session



Tuesday afternoon, August 19, 2003
4. How do Galaxies grow?
Times min. Speaker Title
14:30 30' M. Steinmetz Introduction to Session
15:00 20' M. Franx The Evolution of Galaxies from very deep Near-IR imaging
15:20 20' B. Abraham First Results from the Gemini Deep Deep Survey
15:40 20' H. Ferguson Early Results from the Great Observatories Origins
deep Survey
16:00 15'
Questions and Discussion
16:15 30'
Coffee Break
16:45 20' O. Le Fevre Early results from the VIMOS VLT Deep Survey
17:05 20' A. Renzini Massive Galaxies at High Redshift from K20+GOODS
17:25 20' A. Szalay The Clustering of SDSS Galaxies as a Function of Color
17:45 20' O. Gerhard Models for Disk Galaxy Formation
18:05 30'
Questions and Discussion


Times
Social Program
19:30
Drinks
20:00
Social Dinner
(ETH Center, Dozentenfoyer, J-floor)


Wednesday morning, August 20, 2003
5. When and how are Fundamental Scaling Relations set?
Times min. Speaker Title
08:30 30' G. Illingworth Introduction to Session
09:00 20' H.-W. Rix An empirical picture of the evolution of galaxies
from the COMBO-17 survey
09:20 20' G. Kauffmann Galaxy Scaling Relations in the SDSS and their Dependence on Environment
09:40 20' T. Heckman The Host Galaxies of 23,000 AGN
10:00 15'
Questions and Discussion
10:15 30'
Coffee Break
10:45 20' K. Gebhardt Relationship of Black Hole to Host Galaxy: Properties and Evolution
11:05 20' M. Begelman Feedback Effects from Growth of Supermassive Black Holes
11:25 20' D. Merritt Origin of Black Hole Scaling Relations
11:45 30'
Questions and Discussion


Wednesday afternoon, August 20, 2003
Excursions
Times
Departures Excursions
12:45
13:45



Thursday morning, August 21, 2003
6. What is the underlying Physics of Disk Formation?
Times min. Speaker Title
08:30 30' F. van den Bosch Introduction to Session
09:00 20' D. Pfenniger Gas Dynamic Spiral Galaxies
09:20 20' L. Mayer Galaxy Formation in SPH Simulations: Physical and Numerical Effects
09:40 10' I. Ferreras Near and Far: Comparing local and High- redshift Disk Galaxies to Contrain their Star Formation Histories
09:50 20' J. Dalcanton Constraints on Galaxy Formation from Edge-On Disks
10:10 15'
Questions and Discussion
10:25 30'
Coffee Break
10:55 20' R. Sancisi HI holes, HI halos and gas infall
11:15 20' R. Giovanelli On Scaling Relations for Spiral Galaxies
11:35 10' S. Kannappan Forming Young Bulges within Exisiting Disks: Statistical Evidence for External Drivers
11:45 20' M. Carollo Dense Disks and Small Bulges
12:05 30'
Questions and Discussion



Thursday afternoon, August 21, 2003
7. How does a Dense Environment Affect Galaxies?
Times min. Speaker Title
14:00 30' S. White Introduction to Session
14:30 20' C. Baugh Disentangling the high redshift universe
14:50 10' S. Gottloeber Formation and Evolution of DM Halos in Different Environment
15:00 20' D. Zaritsky A Case Study of Galaxy Evolution in a locally dense Environment
15:20 20' G. Fabbiano The X-ray emission of galaxies
15:40 15'
Questions and Discussion
15:55 30'
Coffee Break
16:25 20' A. Zabludoff The Roles of Environment in Galaxy Evolution
16:45 10' M. Arnaboldi PRGS and the TF Relations: Implications for the DH Shape
16:55 10' P. Norberg On the Existence of Extended Dark Matter Halos around Galaxies
17:05 20' J. van Gorkom The fate of cold gas in cluster galaxies
17:25 20' P. McCarthy Old Galaxies at z > 1
17:45 30'
Questions and Discussion



Friday morning, August 22, 2003
8. How do Baryons and Dark Matter Interact?
Times min. Speaker Title
08:30 30' B. Moore Introduction
09:00 20' A. Klypin Cusps, dynamical friction, and resonances
09:20 10' B. Metcalf A Spectroscopic Gravitational Lensing and Limits on the Dark Matter Substructure
09:30 10' E. D'Onghia The Angular Momentum Problem in CDM Halos
09:40 10' C. Keeton Galaxy Masses with Strong Lensing
09:50 10' J. Diemand Resolving the Inner Structure of CDM Clusters
10:00 20' C. Porciani The Halo Occupation Distribution of 2dF Galaxies
10:20 15'
Questions and Discussion
10:35 25'
Coffee Break
11:00 20' R. de Jong Properties of Dark Matter Halos in Disk Galaxies
11:20 20' J. Sellwood A Dynamical Friction and Halo Densities
11:40 20' N. Katz How Galaxies Get Their Gas
12:00 30'
Questions and Discussion



Friday afternoon, August 22, 2003
9. Session Summaries
Times min. Speaker Title
13:45 30' J. Silk Session 4 -
How do galaxies grow?
14:15 30' T. de Zeeuw Session 5 -
When/how are fundamental scaling relations set?
14:45 30' K. Freeman Session 6 -
What is the underlying physics of disk formation?
15:15 30' S. Tremaine Session 7 -
How does a sense environment affect galaxies?
15:45 15'
Coffee Break
16:00 30' R. Ellis Session 8 -
How do baryons and dark matter interact?
16:30 30' C. Norman Session 3 -
How does metallicit of the Universe develop?
17:00 30' P. Madau Session 1 -
When and where was First Light?
17:30 30' S. Lilly Session 2 -
When did reionization occur and what did it?


Times
Farewell
18:00
Farewell Cheese & Wine, infront of Audi Max
20:00
End of Conference

* Late registration on Monday 08:00 - 12:00 in front of Audi Max.
Then daily from 08:00 - 09:00 in the Conference office Main Building F33.5