Programme Timetable
Programme Timings
Printable version: timetable.pdf
Talk lengths for each type of talk are:
- R (Review)- 20 minutes for the presentation with 10 minutes for questions
- H (Highlight) - 15 minutes for the presentation with 5 minutes for questions
- C (Contributed) - 12 minutes for the presentation with 3 minutes for questions
Monday (Sept 16) |
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CMB, Early Universe & Precision Cosmology |
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09:00-09:15 | Introduction by Roberto Maiolino & George Efstathiou |
09:15-09:45 | Can LCDM survive another decade: Marc Kamionkowski (R) PDF |
09:45-10:15 | What is the future of inflationary theory: Andrei Linde (R) PDF |
10:15-10:30 |
Nonlinear dynamics of cosmological fields: Mustafa Amin (C) PDF |
10:30-11:00 |
Coffee break |
11:00-11:15 | All possible symmetries of cosmological correlators: Enrico Pajer (C) |
11:15-11:30 | The search for inflationary B-modes: latest results from BICEP/Keck: Clem Pryke (C) PDF |
11:30-12:00 | Tensions with LCDM: George Efstathiou (R) PDF |
12:00-12:15 | The Inconsistent Universe: problems with KiDS, or with LambaCDM?: Benjamin Joachimi (C) PDF |
12:15-12:45 |
POSTER SESSION PDF |
12:45-14:00 |
Lunch |
14:00-14:30 | Fundamental physics from CMB: next steps: David Spergel (R) PDF |
14:30-14:45 | Cosmic growth, gravitational waves, and CMB: Eric Linder (C) PDF |
14:45-15:05 | Update on standard siren science: Daniel Holz (H) PDF |
15:05-15:20 | Measuring the Hubble constant with a gravitational wave black-hole merger and the Dark Energy Survey: Antonella Palmese (C) PDF |
15:20-15:35 |
Towards a direct measurement of cosmic dynamics: Ryan Cooke (C) PDF |
15:35-16:00 |
Tea break |
16:00-16:30 | Synergy between next generation CMB and LSS probes of cosmology: Jo Dunkley (R) PDF |
16:30-16:50 | Pushing to small scales with galaxy and CMB survey cross-correlations: Eric Baxter (H) PDF |
16:50-17:05 | Baryonic processes from thermal and kinetic SZ: Stefania Amodeo (C) PDF |
17:05-17:20 |
Correlating the CMB to observations of the low z universe with a full forward model: a robust probabilistic analysis based on BOSS and Planck dataset: Guilhem Lavaux (C) PDF |
18:00-20:00 | Welcome reception |
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Tuesday (Sept 17) |
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LSS & Precision Cosmology |
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09:00-09:30 | Future of galaxy surveys: Will Percival (R) PDF |
09:30-10:00 | Emulating the Universe: Hiranya Peiris (R) PDF |
10:00-10:15 | The BAHAMAS project: emulating the observable Universe: Ian McCarthy (C) PDF |
10:15-10:30 |
Probing cosmology and fundamental physics with counts-in cells: Cora Uhlemann (C) PDF |
10:30-11:00 |
Coffee break & Symposium Photo |
11:00-11:30 | Relating galaxies to mass distribution: methods, issues and challenges: Risa Wechsler (R) PDF |
11:30-12:00 | From cosmological data analysis to fast Bayesian methods and machine learning: Uros Seljak (R) PDF |
12:00-12:15 | Inflation and dark energy from high redshift surveys: Simone Ferraro (C) PDF |
12:15-12:30 |
Relics of cosmic reionization in the high redshift Lyman-alpha forest and their impact on dark matter constraints: Ewald Puchwein (C) PDF |
12:30-14:00 |
Lunch |
14:00-14:15 | Fuzzy dark matter from intergalactic medium: Vid Irsic (C) PDF |
14:15-14:30 | Massive neutrinos and scale-dependent galaxy bias: Sunny Vagnozzi (C) PDF |
14:30-15:00 | Weak lensing: state-of-the-art and future prospects: Rachel Mandelbaum (R) PDF |
15:00-15:20 | Cosmology with weak gravitational lensing: challenges and opportunities: Elisa Chisari (H) PDF |
15:20-15:35 |
KiDS-VIKING-450: Cosmic shear tomography with optical+infrared data: Hendrik Hildebrandt (C) PDF |
15:35-16:00 |
Tea break |
16:00-16:15 | Cosmological parameter constraints from weak gravitational lensing tomography and overlapping redshift-space galaxy clustering: Shahab Joudaki (C) PDF |
16:15-16:30 | Constraining dark matter models with strong gravitational lensing: Guilia Despali (C) PDF |
16:30-16:50 | The landscape of galaxy cluster cosmology: Steven Allen (H) PDF |
16:50-17:05 | Multiwavelength galaxy cluster cosmology with the South Pole Telescope and the Dark Energy Survey: Sebastian Bocquet (C) PDF |
17:05-17:20 | Quantitatively defining consistent relaxed galaxy cluster samples for precision cosmology with impending surveys: David Barnes (C) PDF |
19:00-20:00 | Public talk: Martin Rees, PDF Roger Blandford PDF and David Spergel PDF (Lady Mitchell Hall) |
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Wednesday (Sept 18) |
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Reionization & IGM |
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09:00-09:30 | The quest for cosmic dawn: Richard Ellis (R) PDF |
09:30-10:00 | Sources of reionization and the changing neutrality of the intergalactic medium: Piero Madau (R) PDF |
10:00-10:15 | Reionization sources of Lyman continuum photons from quasars and O-stars: Michael Shull (C) PDF |
10:15-10:30 |
Reionization and the thermal history of the IGM: Anson D'Aloisio (C) PDF |
10:30-11:00 |
Coffee break |
11:00-11:20 | The intergalactic medium as a cosmological probe: Matteo Viel (H) PDF |
11:20-11:40 | Islands of neutral hydrogen below redshift 5.5: Laura Keating (H) PDF |
11:40-12:00 | Exploring early galaxies and cosmic structures with Subaru, HST, and ALMA: Masami Ouchi (H) PDF |
12:00-12:15 | What can galaxies tell us about reionisation?: Charlotte Mason (C) PDF |
12:15-12:30 |
The search for AGN in the epoch of reionisation: Nicolas Laporte (C) PDF |
12:30-14:00 |
Lunch |
14:00-14:15 | The gas structure and radiation field of the first galaxies: Andrea Pallottini (C) PDF |
14:15-14:30 | Gaseous cosmological structures and metagalactic ultra-violet background: Avery Meiksin (C) PDF |
14:30-14:45 | Probing the epoch of reionisation with cross-correlations of high-redshift galaxies and the IGM transmission: Romain Meyer (C) PDF |
14:45-15:00 | Intensity mapping tomography; method and application to data: Yi-Kuan Chiang (C) PDF |
15:00-15:30 |
POSTER SESSION PDF |
15:30-16:00 |
Tea break |
16:00-16:30 | Progress in 21cm hydrogen line measurements of the epoch of reionization and the cosmic dawn: Jacqueline Hewitt (R) PDF |
16:30-17:00 | Unveiling cosmic dawn: Anastasia Fialkov (R) PDF |
17:00-17:20 | Cosmic evolution of metals and baryons: Celine Peroux (H) PDF |
17:20-17:35 | A Bayesian approach to recovering the power spectrum of the epoch of reionization with HERA: Peter Sims (C) PDF |
18:45 (drinks) 19:30 (dinner) | Conference dinner |
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Thursday (Sept 19) |
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Galaxies & SMBHs |
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09:00-09:30 | Outstanding problems in galaxy formation: Simon White (R) PDF |
09:30-10:00 | Evolution of galaxies from z = 2 to z = 0 from an observational perspective: Reinhard Genzel (R) PDF |
10:00-10:15 | An ALMA view of galaxies in the epoch of reionisation: Renske Smit (C) PDF |
10:15-10:30 |
Simulating the properties of the first galaxies: insights for Hubble, ALMA, and JWST: Harley Katz (C) PDF |
10:30-11:00 |
Coffee break |
11:00-11:30 | Future prospects for galaxy formation simulations: Volker Springel (R) PDF |
11:30-11:50 | The three causes of low-mass halo assembly bias: Andrey Kravtsov (H) PDF |
11:50-12:05 | The splashback radius as a physical halo boundary: Benedikt Diemer (C) PDF |
12:05-12:25 |
The origin of the golden mass of galaxies and black holes: Avishai Dekel (H) PDF |
12:25-14:00 |
Lunch |
14:00-14:30 | Key open questions within the landscape of current and future galaxy spectroscopic surveys at high redshift: Alice Shapley (R) PDF |
14:30-14:50 | Star formation and feedback in the multi-phase ISM: Stefanie Walch (H) PDF |
14:50-15:05 | The connection between local and global star formation in galaxies: Vadim Semenov (C) PDF |
15:05-15:20 |
Detailed modelling of star formation in a galactic context and its impact on the efficiency of stellar feedback: Matthew Smith (C) PDF |
15:20-15:50 |
Tea break |
15:50-16:20 | The long term vision of gravitational wave astrophysics: Alberto Sesana (R) PDF |
16:20-16:40 | The most distant quasars: Xiaohui Fan (H) PDF |
16:40-16:55 | Evidence for quasar evolution in the first billion years: Sarah Bosman (C) PDF |
16:55-17:10 | The tale of angular momentum transport in self-gravitating disks: new insights on protogalaxies, massive black hole seeds and super-Eddington accretion: Lucio Mayer (C) PDF |
17:10-17:25 | Downsizing of star formation: weighing dark matter haloes hosting clustered infrared background sources: Kirsten Hall (C) PDF |
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Friday (Sept 20) |
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Galaxies & SMBHs |
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09:00-09:30 | Accretion dynamics of binary black holes approaching merger: Manuella Campanelli (R) PDF |
09:30-10:00 |
New perspectives onto the Universe in the era of multi-messenger astronomy: present status and challenges: Samaya Nissanke (R) PDF |
10:00-10:15 | Gravitational Waves from Neutron-Star Mergers: Implications for Nuclear Physics and Cosmology: Michalis Agathos (C) PDF |
10:15-10:30 |
Post-Newtonian dynamical modelling of super-massive black holes in global large-scale simulations: Peter Johansson (C) PDF |
10:30-11:00 |
Coffee break |
11:00-11:15 | AGN jet feedback in realistic cluster environments: Martin Bourne (C) PDF |
11:15-11:30 | Is star formation quenching governed by global, environmental, or local phenomena?: Asa Bluck (C) PDF |
11:30-12:30 | Conference Summary: |
Chair: Roger Blandford; co-chairs: Jo Dunkley, Alice Shapley, Ofer Lahav, Carlos Frenk | |
12:30-14:00 | Lunch & End of the Symposium |