Conference Programme (02 October 2006)

Review (R) talks will present a summary of the results of deep surveys on a given wavelength domain, while Invited (I) talks are dedicated to specific topics. Both will set the stage for the regular contributions of the conference.


Monday 9 October 2006

16:00 - 19:00 Registration
17:30 Welcome Reception

Tuesday 10 October 2006

09:00Opening ceremony
09:30Massimo Stiavelli (I) - Reionisation and first sources of light (ppt)
10:00Ilian Iliev - Large-scale radiative transfer simulations of reionization: Models and Observability
10:15Nobunari Kashikawa - The End of the Reionisation Epoch Probed by Ly-alpha Emitters at z=6.5 (ppt)
10:30 Coffee break
11:00Joe Silk (I) - Galaxy Formation: the first 109 years
11:30Andrew Bunker - Star-Forming Galaxies at redshift 6 (ppt)
11:45Haojing Yan - The Stellar Masses and Star Formation Histories of Galaxies at z~6: Constraints from Spitzer GOODS Observations (ppt)
12:00Rychard Bouwens - Galaxies at z~7: evidence for a substantial increase in the volume density of luminous systems to z~6 (ppt)
12:15Brian Siana - The Escape Fraction of Lyman Continuum Photons at z~1 (ppt)
12:30 Poster Vertigo 1
12:50 Lunch
14:30Rachel Somerville (I) - Very High Redshift Galaxies: predictions from hierarchical models
15:00Romeel Dave - Comparing Simulations of Galaxy Formation With Observations Across Cosmic Time (ppt)
15:15Anton Koekemoer - Selecting Candidate AGN at or above Redshifts 7 from Deep Surveys
15:30Eros Vanzella - LBGs from the VLT/FORS2 spectroscopic campaign in the GOODS-S field
15:45 Poster Vertigo 2
16:00 Coffee break
16:30Andrea Cimatti (R) - Review: Optical/NIR wavelengths (ppt)
17:05Kim Nilsson - An on-going multi-wavelength survey of Lyman-alpha emitters at redshifts z~2-8.8 (pdf)
17:20Daniel Schaerer - News from z~6-10 galaxy candidates found behind gravitational lensing clusters (pdf)
17:35Aprajita Verma - Rest-Frame optical-UV properties of luminous high-redshift (z~5) LBGs: Young Galaxies in the Early Universe
17:50David Elbaz - The reversal of the activity-density relation during structure formation in the distant universe (ppt)
18:05Adriano Fontana - What can we learn from ultradeep galaxy surveys? (ppt)
18:20 Poster Vertigo 3
18:40 End Day 1

Wednesday 11 October 2006

09:00 Neil Brandt (R) - Review: X-ray wavelengths (pdf)
09:35 Cristian Vignali - The obscured quasar population from optical, mid-infrared, and X-ray surveys
09:50 Jennifer Donley - Detecting Obscured AGN in the Distant Universe with Spitzer (pdf)
10:05 Chris Simpson - Results from the Subaru/XMM-Newton Deep Field (ppt)
10:20 Fabio Fontanot - The Luminosity Function of high-redshift QSOs (ppt)
10:35 Coffee break
11:05 David Alexander (I) - The Obscured Black-Hole Growth Phase of Distant Star-Forming Galaxies
11:35 Andrea Comastri - The sources of X-ray background (ppt)
11:50 Tom Dwelly - Charting the obscured AGN population with deep XMM-Newton observations (pdf)
12:05 Vincenzo Mainieri - Multi-wavelength studies of obscured AGN in the CDF-S (ppt)
12:20 Antonis Georgakakis - Quantifying the role of environment in triggering AGN activity (ppt)
12:35 Poster Vertigo 4
12:55 Lunch
14:30 Buses depart for tour of Sintra,Cabo da Roca and Coastline

Thursday 12 October 2006

09:00 James Condon (R) - Review: Radio wavelengths (ppt)
09:35 Tom Muxlow - The statistical properties of the very weak radio source population in the GOODS/ACS HDF-N region (ppt)
09:50 Paolo Padovani - The MicroJy Radio Source Population: the VLA-CDFS View (ppt)
10:05 Michael Garret - Detecting high-z, intrinsically faint radio sources via cluster lensing (ppt)
10:20 Ilana Klamer - Radio SEDs of high-redshift radio galaxies (ppt)
10:35 Coffee break
11:05 Laura Pentericci (I) - Proto-clusters and high-z radio galaxies (ppt)
11:35 Ray Norris - ATLAS: Deep radio observations of six square degrees (ppt)
11:50 Ishwara Chenakkod - Results from GMRT 150 MHz radio observations (ppt)
12:05 Jose Afonso - Deep ATCA and GMRT observations of the CDFS (ppt)
12:20 Matt Jarvis - Science with the next generation of radio surveys from LOFAR to the SKA (ppt)
12:35 Poster Vertigo 5
12:55 Lunch
14:30Emanuele Daddi (I) - Massive Galaxies in the Early Universe
15:00 Eelco van Kampen - The first massive galaxies (ppt)
15:15 Giulia Rodighiero - Near-IR dark objects: massive galaxies at z>4 (ppt)
15:30 Olivier Le Fevre - The VIMOS VLT Deep Survey: Clustering and mass evolution from z~2 (ppt)
15:45 Poster Vertigo 6
16:00 Coffee break
16:30 Alvio Renzini (I) - Challenges to hierarchical models from massive galaxies
17:00 Ross McLure - Massive galaxies at z>5 in the UKIDSS Ultra-deep survey (ppt)
17:15 Tommy Wiklind - A population of massive and evolved galaxies at high redshift (ppt)
17:30 Rob Ivison (R) - Review: FIR/Sub-mm wavelengths
18:05 Evanthia Hatziminaoglou - Extragalactic Science with Herschel-SPIRE
18:20 End Day 3
19:00 Conference Dinner

Friday 13 October 2006

09:00 Ranga-Ram Chary (R) - Review: MIR wavelengths (pdf)
09:35 Alexandra Pope - Infrared spectral energy distributions of submillimetre galaxies (ppt)
09:50 Nick Seymour - The Massive Hosts of Radio Galaxies Across Cosmic Time
10:05 Duncan Farrah - Distant IR-luminous Galaxies and large-scale structure from the SWIRE survey
10:20 Michelle Doherty - The Lyfe Cycle of Massive Red Galaxies (ppt)
10:35 Coffee break
11:05 Andrew Hopkins (I) - Star Formation History (pdf)
11:35 Marcin Sawicki - The long faint tail of the z>2 galaxy population: very faint star-forming galaxies in the Keck Deep Fields and beyond (ppt)
11:50 Naveen Reddy - Spectroscopic Determination of the UV Luminosity Functions from z=1.4-3.5 (ppt)
12:05 Kai Noeske - AEGIS: History and modes of star formation in field galaxies since z=1.4 (ppt)
12:20 Ann Hornschemeier - Deep X-ray and UV Surveys of Galaxies with Chandra, XMM-Newton, and GALEX
12:35 Veronique Buat - Do we see the same universe in far-infrared and in far-ultraviolet? (ppt)
12:50 Lunch
14:30 Lisa Kewley (I) - The Metallicity History of Star Forming Galaxies (ppt)
15:00 Celine Peroux - Neutral Gas and Metals from z=4.0 to z=0.5 (ppt)
15:15 Varsha Kulkarni - Chemical Composition of Damped Lyman-alpha Galaxies (ppt)
15:30 Stefan Noll - The Evolution of Galaxy Dust Properties for 1>z>2.5 (pdf)
15:45 Coffee break
16:15 Jennifer Lotz (I) - The Evolution of the Galaxy Merger Rate (pdf)
16:45 Susan Kassin - Stellar Mass Tully-Fisher to z=2
17:00 Natasha Forster Schreiber - SINS: the high-redshift galaxy Spectroscopic Imaging survey in the Near-IR with SINFONI
17:15 Michael Cooper - New Results from the DEEP2 Galaxy Redshift Survey: The Role of Environment in Galaxy Evolution from z~1 to z~0
17:30 Simon Driver - The evolution of the luminosity-size relation and the colour-structure bimodality from z=0 to z=1 (ppt)
17:45 Swara Ravindranath - Morphological Diversities among the High Redshift Galaxies in GOODS (ppt)
18:00 Final Remarks
18:30 End Meeting