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.
| 16:00 - 19:00 | Registration |
| 17:30 | Welcome Reception |
| 09:00 | Opening ceremony |
| 09:30 | Massimo Stiavelli (I) - Reionisation and first sources of light (ppt) |
| 10:00 | Ilian Iliev - Large-scale radiative transfer simulations of reionization: Models and Observability |
| 10:15 | Nobunari Kashikawa - The End of the Reionisation Epoch Probed by Ly-alpha Emitters at z=6.5 (ppt) |
| 10:30 | Coffee break |
| 11:00 | Joe Silk (I) - Galaxy Formation: the first 109 years |
| 11:30 | Andrew Bunker - Star-Forming Galaxies at redshift 6 (ppt) |
| 11:45 | Haojing Yan - The Stellar Masses and Star Formation Histories of Galaxies at z~6: Constraints from Spitzer GOODS Observations (ppt) |
| 12:00 | Rychard Bouwens - Galaxies at z~7: evidence for a substantial increase in the volume density of luminous systems to z~6 (ppt) |
| 12:15 | Brian Siana - The Escape Fraction of Lyman Continuum Photons at z~1 (ppt) |
| 12:30 | Poster Vertigo 1 |
| 12:50 | Lunch |
| 14:30 | Rachel Somerville (I) - Very High Redshift Galaxies: predictions from hierarchical models |
| 15:00 | Romeel Dave - Comparing Simulations of Galaxy Formation With Observations Across Cosmic Time (ppt) |
| 15:15 | Anton Koekemoer - Selecting Candidate AGN at or above Redshifts 7 from Deep Surveys |
| 15:30 | Eros Vanzella - LBGs from the VLT/FORS2 spectroscopic campaign in the GOODS-S field |
| 15:45 | Poster Vertigo 2 |
| 16:00 | Coffee break |
| 16:30 | Andrea Cimatti (R) - Review: Optical/NIR wavelengths (ppt) |
| 17:05 | Kim Nilsson - An on-going multi-wavelength survey of Lyman-alpha emitters at redshifts z~2-8.8 (pdf) |
| 17:20 | Daniel Schaerer - News from z~6-10 galaxy candidates found behind gravitational lensing clusters (pdf) |
| 17:35 | Aprajita Verma - Rest-Frame optical-UV properties of luminous high-redshift (z~5) LBGs: Young Galaxies in the Early Universe |
| 17:50 | David Elbaz - The reversal of the activity-density relation during structure formation in the distant universe (ppt) |
| 18:05 | Adriano 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 |
| 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 |
| 14:30 | Emanuele 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 |
| 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 |