First Stars VII in NYC

Description

The “First Stars” conference series has brought together astronomers and astrophysicists working on the high-redshift universe roughly every four years since 2007. The seventh edition, First Stars VII, will be hosted in New York City by the Flatiron Institute 20-23 May 2024. The meeting will feature invited review talks, contributed talks and posters and will leave ample time for discussion. The scientific program will balance theory, observations, and numerical simulations.

Given the recent and emerging data from JWST and several other facilities, as well as major theoretical advances, First Stars VII will be especially timely, and we expect it to have a large impact on the field of high-redshift astrophysics and cosmology for years to come. The conference will cover the following topics:

(i) The abundance, properties, and fate of Population III stars, with a connection to near-field probes
(ii) The nature of the first galaxies
(iii) Pathways for massive black hole formation and growth and the first quasars
(iv) Reionization and heating of the early intergalactic medium (IGM)
(v) Chemical enrichment inside and outside galaxies
(vi) Gravitational waves as a window to high redshift
(vii) Connecting the high- and low-redshift universe
(viii) Outlook for First Stars VIII.

We expect observational probes to feature unusually heavily at the meeting, given data from several ground-breaking facilities.

Organizers

Scientific Organizing Committee (SOC):
Laura Blecha (University of Florida)
Sarah Bosman (MPIA)
Greg Bryan (Columbia University)
Christina Eilers (MIT)
Pratika Dayal (University of Groningen)
Anastasia Fialkov (Cambridge University)
Steven Finkelstein (UT Austin)
Anna Frebel (MIT)
Zoltan Haiman, chair (Columbia University)
Takashi Hosokawa (Kyoto University)
Kohei Inayoshi (Peking University)
Charlotte Mason (NBIA Copenhagen)
Melissa Ness (Columbia University)
Alberto Sesana (University of Milan)
Rachel Somerville (Flatiron Institute)
John Wise (Georgia Tech)

Local Organizing Committee (LOC):
Greg Bryan (Columbia University)
Zoltan Haiman (Columbia University)
Melissa Ness (Columbia University)
Rachel Somerville (Flatiron Institute)

History of the "First Stars" Conference Series

I.    1999 MPA Garching
II.   2003 Penn State (https://www.slac.stanford.edu/~tabel/II/)
III. 2007 Santa Fe (https://2sn.org/firststars/3/)
IV.   2012 Kyoto (http://tpweb2.phys.konan-u.ac.jp/~FirstStar4/)
V.    2016 Heidelberg  (http://www.lsw.uni-heidelberg.de/FirstStarsV/)
VI.   2020 Concepcion (http://www.astro.udec.cl/FirstStarsVI/)
VII. 2024 New York

Agenda - Monday, May 20

8:00am-8:45am: Breakfast
8:45am-9:00am: Event Logistics

Session: The nature of the first galaxies
(Chair: Steven Finkelstein)

9:00am-9:30am: Yuichi Harikane – Nature of the first galaxies
9:30am-11:30am: Contributed Talks

Avishai Dekel – Formation of the first galaxies by feedback-free starbursts
Elijah Visbal – Semi-analytic Models of the First Stars and Galaxies Calibrated with Hydrodynamical Cosmological Simulations
Laura Sommovigo – (One of )The sorrows of Ancient Galaxies: modeling dust

10:15am-10:45am: AM Coffee Break

Lily Whitler – Implications for early star formation and ionized bubble growth from the JADES UV luminosity function at z~9-15
Alessandra Venditti – A needle in a haystack? Catching Pop III stars in the Epoch of Reionization
Seiji Fujimoto – Early Galaxy Assembly Probed by IFU Trio of JWST+ALMA+MUSE: From Young Star Clusters to Dynamical Interplay at z=6

11:30am-12:00pm: Lightning Talks

Claire Williams – Lighting up faint galaxies at high redshift through the stream velocity
Derek McLeod – A census of z>10 galaxies from a suite of JWST ERO, ERS and Cycle-1 programs
Piyush Sharda – Population III IMF from radiation-chemo-magnetohydrodynamics simulations
Thomas Harvey – Massive Mysteries: Investigating stellar mass variation at high redshift using PEARLS, CEERS and JADES
Mabel Stephenson – Electron Densities in the First Galaxies: Understanding the Conditions of Early Star Formation

12:00pm-1:30pm: Lunch

Session: Chemical enrichment inside and outside galaxies
(Chair: Anastasia Fialkov)

1:30pm-2:00pm: Valentina D’Odorico – High-redshift metal enrichment with quasar absorption lines
2:00pm-2:45pm: Contributed Talks

Allison Strom – Studying Metal-poor Stellar Populations in High-redshift Galaxies with JWST and Keck
Ása Skúladóttir – Signatures of a Zero-Metallicity Hypernovae
Devesh Nandal – Deciphering the chemical footprint of massive and supermassive Pop III stars in the early Universe

2:45pm-3:15pm: PM Coffee Break
3:15pm-3:45pm: E-Posters
3:45pm-4:30pm: Contributed Talks (continued)

Jianghao Huyan – The evolution of metals in the cosmic dawn
Kaley Brauer – Simulating Early Chemical Enrichment and Formation of the First Galaxies
Xihan Ji – The exotic nebular emission in GN-z11: Evidence of peculiar chemical enrichment in the most distant AGN *REMOTE*

4:30pm-5:00pm: Lightning Talks

Akshara Viswanathan – Galactic archaeology of the old Milky Way using the most metal-poor stars
Martina Rossi – Ultra Faint Dwarf (UDF) Chronicles: Uncovering Pop III star descendants
Thomas Stanton – Enhanced O/Fe ratios in star-forming galaxies at cosmic noon
Sultan Hassan – PRFM: A plausible candidate to explain the abundance of high-z galaxies observed by JWST
Jennifer Mead – First Steps of Chemical Evolution in the First Galaxies

5:00pm-6:30pm: Reception
Location: 162 Rooftop (note building change)

Agenda - Tuesday, May 21

8:00am-9:00am: Breakfast

The nature of the first galaxies – insights from JWST
(Chair: Rachel Somerville)

9:00am-9:30am: Kohei Inayoshi – The Age of Discovery with JWST: Excavating the First Massive Black Holes and First Galaxies
9:30am-11:30am: Contributed Talks

Anna de Graaff – RUBIES: a complete census of the rare, extreme and red early Universe with JWST/NIRSpec
Christina Eilers – The clustering of luminous quasars at z~6
Fergus Cullen – Evidence for the emergence of dust-free galaxies at z > 10

10:15am-10:45am: AM Coffee Break

Hakim Atek – Unveiling the faintest and the brightest galaxies across 6<z<15 with JWST
Rebecca Larson – CEERS Spectroscopic Characterization of Galaxies and AGN in the Heart of Reionization
Volker Bromm – Lessons for First Star Formation from Early JWST Observations

11:30am-12:00pm: Lightning Talks

Hiroya Umeda – JWST Constraints on the Key Cosmic Reionization Parameters with Lyα Damping Wing Absorptions of Galaxies at z=7-12
Katherine Chworowsky – Evidence for a Shallow Evolution in the Volume Densities of Massive Galaxies at z=4 to 8 from CEERS
Casey Papovich – Evidence for extreme and busty star formation in galaxies in the epoch of reionization with JWST
Fabio Pacucci – Breaking Cosmic Scales: JWST’s Discovery of Unexpectedly Massive Black Holes
Ken Nagamine – Anomalous abundance ratios and the top-heavy IMF in the first galaxies

12:00pm-1:30pm: Lunch

Massive black hole formation and the emergence of the first quasars
(Chair: Takashi Hosokawa)

1:30pm-2:00pm: Kelly-Holley Bockelmann – Gravitational waves as a window to high redshift
2:00pm-2:45pm: Contributed Talks

Shingo Hirano – Formation efficiency of the first stars in the first galaxies
Daniel Whalen – The Turbulent Origins of the First Quasars
Elia Pizzati – High-z black holes in extreme environments: interpreting quasar clustering measurements with large-volume cosmological simulations

2:45pm-3:15pm: PM Coffee Break
3:15pm-3:45pm: E-Posters
3:45pm-4:30pm: Contributed Talks (continued)

Sunmyon Chon – Radiation Hydrodynamic Simulations of Supermassive Star Formation by Super-competitive Accretion
Phoebe Rae Upton Sanderbeck – The impact of reionization on supermassive black hole growth
Alice Young – Constraining super massive black hole seeding mechanisms using photometric variability at early times

4:30pm-5:00pm: Lightning Talks

Benedetta Mestichelli – Binary black hole mergers in Population III star clusters
Haojie Hu – Outflow Regulated Supercritical Growth of Seed BHs at Cosmic Dawn during early bulge formation
Matthew Scoggins – Diagnosing the massive-seed pathway to high-redshift black holes: statistics of the evolving black hole to host galaxy mass ratio
Vanesa Díaz – Magnetic field amplification in massive primordial halos: Influence of Lyman-Werner radiation
Alessandro Trinca – Light and Sound from the Cosmic Dawn: unveiling the growth of the first massive black holes

Agenda - Wednesday, May 22

8:00am-9:00am: Breakfast

Population III stars and their connection to near-field probes
(Chair: Kohei Inayoshi)

9:00am-9:30am: Anna Frebel – Population III stars: abundance, properties, fate, and connection to near-field probes

9:30am-11:30am: Contributed Talks

Anastasia Fialkov – Constraining Pop III stars with the hydrogen 21-cm signal
Dan Coe – Approaching the First Stars with JWST and Gravitational Lensing
James Trussler – Searching for Population III and nebular-dominated galaxies with JWST: Signatures of a top-heavy IMF in the early Universe

10:15am-10:45am: AM Coffee Break

Grace Telford – Extremely Metal-Poor O Stars in Nearby Galaxies as Analogs of Ionizing Photon Producers in the Early Universe
Stefania Salvadori – Near to Far-Field constraints on the first stars’ mass distribution
Takashi Hosokawa – Pop III (Supermassive) Star Formation with the First Emergence of Cold Accretion

11:30am-12:00pm: Lightning Talks

Hiroki Kawashimo – Unraveling the role of 12C(α,γ)16O rate for radioactive nickel synthesis in pair-instability supernovae
Kenji Eric Sadanari – Magnetohydrodynamic simulations of the first star formation: the effect of turbulent magnetic fields
Romain Lucchesi – Metal-poor stars in dwarf galaxies
Mihir Kulkarni – Role of the halo accretion history in the formation of Population III stars
Irene Vanni – First stars’ chemical fingerprints inside and outside galaxies

12:00pm-1:30pm: Lunch

Reionization and heating of the intergalactic medium
(Chair: Christina Eilers)

1:30pm-2:00pm: George Becker – Constraints on Reionization from Quasars and Galaxies
2:00pm-2:45pm: Contributed Talks

Alberto Saldana-Lopez – The Lyman-alpha and Continuum Origins Survey (LaCOS)
Andrei Mesinger – Is the timing of reionization a solved problem?
Emma Ryan-Weber – Reionization of the high-z CGM

2:45pm-3:15pm: PM Coffee Break
3:15pm-3:45pm: E-Posters
3:45pm-4:30pm: Contributed Talks (continued)

Kai-Feng Chen – Mapping Cosmic Dawn with HERA: Improved Constraints on IGM Heating and the First X-ray Sources
Hanjue Zhu – Probing the IGM-Galaxy Connection through Lyα Transmission during the EoR
Xiangyu Jin – Probing the connection between IGM transmission and galaxies during cosmic reionization

4:30pm-5:00pm: Lightning Talks

Paul Shapiro – New Results from The Cosmic Dawn (“CoDa”) Project: Simulating Reionization and Galaxy Formation
Joohyun Lee – The Inhomogeneous Rise of Metallicity During the Epoch of Reionization
Dominika Durovcikova – Chronicling the reionization history with 6 < z < 7 quasars
Mesut Çalışkan – Reconstructing patchy helium reionization using the cosmic microwave background and large scale structure
Rennan Barkana – 21-cm cosmology of the epoch of reionization, cosmic dawn, and the dark ages

Agenda - Thursday, May 23

8:00am-9:00am: Breakfast

Connecting the high- and low-redshift universe
(Chair: Anna Frebel)

9:00am-9:30am: Jenny Greene – Connecting the high- and low-redshift universe
9:30am-11:30am: Contributed Talks

Louise Welsh – Near-pristine DLAs and their chemistry
Kumail Zaidi – The stellar-to-halo mass relationship in the UDS and COSMOS fields out to z~5.
Myoungwon Jeon – The Impact of Patchy Reionization on Ultrafaint Dwarf Galaxies in the Local Group

10:15am-10:45am: AM Coffee Break

(WITHDREW) Pratik Gandhi – Near-far connection: insights into reionisation-era faint galaxies from the Local Group fossil record
Renjing Xie – Uncovering the origin of Galactic ancient accretion relics
Xiaowei Ou – Signatures of tidal disruption in the Hercules ultra-faint dwarf galaxy

11:30am-12:00pm: Lightning Talks

Ani Chiti – Signatures of Extragalactic First Stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud
(WITHDREW) Britton Smith – The Critical Metallicity and the Milky Way
Daisy Bissonette – The Metallicity Distribution of the Primitive Ultra-Faint Dwarf Galaxy Segue 1
Maddie Lucey – Constraining First Star Nucleosynthesis and the Early Universe with the Inner Milky Way
Tim Beers – Carbon-Enhanced Metal-Poor Stars as Tracers of the First Generation of Stars in the Universe

12:00pm-1:30pm: Lunch

The future – outlook for First Stars VIII
(Chair: Laura Blecha)

1:30pm-2:00pm: Rebecca Bernstein – Capabilities and Status of the ELTs
2:00pm-2:45pm: Contributed Talks

Andy Bunker – Probing the first galaxies with JWST
Kimi Kreilgaard – Inferring the distribution of the ionizing photon escape fraction and first results from the JWST BEACON survey
Maximilien Franco – An unprecedented view of galaxies during the EoR with COSMOS-Web

2:45pm-3:15pm: PM Coffee Break
3:15pm-3:45pm: E-Posters
3:45pm-4:30pm: Contributed Talks (continued)

Nozomu Tominaga – Narrow-band metal-poor star surveys with Subaru/Hyper Suprime Cam and Tomo-e Gozen Camera
Hannah Übler – Massive black holes during the first billion years with JWST and future prospects
Wei Leong – Roman+Rubin prediction for the first quasars

4:30-5:00pm – Lightning Talks

David Robinson – Exploring the Dependence of Gas Cooling and Heating Functions on the Incident Radiation Field with Machine Learning
Jo Verwohlt – Separating Dark Acoustic Oscillations from astrophysics in the first galaxies
Sahil Hegde – A semi-analytic model for Pop III star formation
Mitchell Karmen – A new window into the first black holes with JWST observations of high-redshift TDEs
Sanjana Curtis – Spectacular nucleosynthesis from early massive stars

Meeting Abstracts & Slides

Link to Meeting Abstracts (Google Doc)

Link to Meeting Slides (Dropbox)

Speakers can elect to remove their presentation at any time. Please contact Abigail Creem <[email protected]> to remove. Any speaker that requested not to be recorded, have also had their slides removed.

Invited Speakers

In Person

Akshara Viswanathan (Kapteyn Institute, University of Groningen)	Kimi Kreilgaard (Cosmic Dawn Center, NBI, University of Copenhagen)
Alberto Saldana-Lopez (Stockholm University)	Kohei Inayoshi (Peking University)
Alessandra Venditti (Sapienza University of Rome)	Laura Blecha (University of Florida)
Alessandro Trinca (INAF – Astronomical Observatory of Rome)	Laura Sommovigo (Flatiron Institute)
Alexa Morales (UT Austin)	Lily Whitler (University of Arizona)
Alice Luna (University of Chicago)	L. Y. Aaron Yung (Space Telescope Science Institute)
Alice Young (Stockholm University)	Louise Welsh (INAF Trieste)
Allison Strom (Northwestern University)	Luz Ángela (Universidad ECCI)
Amiel Sternberg (CCA)	Mabel Stephenson (University of Texas at Austin)
Anastasia Fialkov (IoA, Cambridge University)	Maddie Lucey (University of Pennsylvania)
Andrei Mesinger (Scuola Normale Superiore)	Madhurima Choudhury (Brown University)
Andy Bunker (University of Oxford)	Mana Ito (Tohoku University)
Ani Chiti (University of Chicago)	Mark Dickinson (NSF’s NOIRLab)
Ankita Bera (University of Maryland)	Marty Rossi (INAF Bologna)
Anna de Graaff (Max Planck Institute for Astronomy)	Matthew Scoggins (Columbia University)
Anna Frebel (MIT)	Maximilien Franco (The University of Texas at Austin)
Christina Eilers (MIT)	Meredith Neyer (MIT)
Anniek Gloudemans (NOIRLab / Gemini Observatory)	Mesut Caliskan (Johns Hopkins University)
Ása Skúladóttir (University of Florence, Italy)	Mihir Kulkarni (University of Toledo)
Avishai Dekel (The Hebrew University)	Minghao Yue (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Benedetta Mestichelli (Gran Sasso Science Institute)	Minsung Ko (Graduate Student, School of Space Research, Kyung Hee University)
Ben Lowe (The Australian National University)	Mitchell Karmen (Johns Hopkins University)
Beryl Hovis-Afflerbach (Northwestern University)	Mordecai-Mark Mac Low (American Museum of Natural History)
Boyuan Liu (Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge)	Kumail Zaidi (Tufts University)
Britton Smith (University of Edinburgh)	Myoungwon Jeon (Kyung Hee University)
Callum Donnan (University of Edinburgh)	Nash Sabti (Johns Hopkins University)
Casey Papovich (Texas A&M University)	Neha Anil Kumar (Johns Hopkins University)
Chris Lovell (University of Portsmouth)	Nicole Lloyd-Ronning (Los Alamos National Lab)
Claire Williams (UCLA)	Nozomu Tominaga (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan)
Daisy Bissonette (University of Chicago)	Grace Telford (Princeton University)
Dan Coe (Space Telescope Science Institute)	Paolo Molaro (INAF-OATs)
Daniel Whalen (ICG, Portsmouth)	Paul Shapiro (The University of Texas at Austin)
David Robinson (University of Michigan)	Phoebe R. Upton Sanderbeck (Los Alamos National Lab)
Derek Johannes McLeod (University of Edinburgh)	Piyush Sharda (Leiden University)
Devesh Nandal (University of Geneva)	Pratik Gandhi (UC Davis)
Dominika Durovcikova (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)	Qianfan Xing (National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Dyna Ibrahim (University of Hertfordshire)	rachel somerville (CCA)
Elia Pizzati (Leidn Observatory)	Rafeel Riaz (Centro de Investigación en Astronomía, Universidad Bernardo O’Higgins)
Eli Visbal (University of Toledo)	Raghunath Ghara (Haverford College)
Elka Rusta (Università degli Studi di Firenze)	Rebecca Bernstein (Carnegie Observatories)
Emma Chapman (University of Nottingham)	Rebecca Larson (The Rochester Institute of Technology)
Emma Ryan-Weber (Swinburne)	Renjing Xie (National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Eric Andersson (American Museum of Natural History)	Rennan Barkana (Tel Aviv University)
Ezra Huscher (New Mexico State University)	Romain Lucchesi (University of Florence)
Fabio Pacucci (Center for Astrophysics \| Harvard & Smithsonian)	Sahil Hegde (UCLA)
Feng Qikang (Peking University)	Saiyang Zhang (University of Texas, Austin)
Fergus Cullen (University of Edinburgh)	Samantha Hardin (Georgia Tech)
George Becker (University of California, Riverside)	Samir Kusmic (New Mexico State University)
Greg Bryan (Columbia University)	Sam Patrick (Edinburgh University)
Guilherme Limberg (Universidade de São Paulo)	Sanjana Curtis (UC Berkeley)
Haining Li (National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences)	Sarah Bosman (University of Heidelberg)
Hakim Atek (Institut d’astrophysique de Paris)	Seiji Fujimoto (UT Austin)
Hanjue Zhu (University of Chicago)	Selim Hotinli (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics)
Hannah Übler (Kavli Institute for Cosmology, University of Cambridge, UK)	Shingo Hirano (Kanagawa University)
Haojie Hu (KIAA/DoA, Peking University)	Shivani Shah (University of Florida)
Thomas Stanton (University of Edinburgh)	Simon Glover (Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Heidelberg)
Hector Afonso Cruz (Johns Hopkins University)	Snigdaa Sethuram (Georgia Tech)
Hiroki Kawashimo (The University of Tokyo)	Stefania Salvadori (Florence University)
Hiroko Okada (University of Hyogo)	Steven Finkelstein (UT Austin)
Hiroya Umeda (The University of Tokyo)	Sultan Hassan (NYU)
Huawei Zhang (Department of Astronomy, Peking University)	Sunmyon Chon (MPA)
Huiling Chen (Peking University, PhD)	Jeong (Kyung Hee University)
Ioanna Koutsouridou (University of Florence)	Takashi Hosokawa (Kyoto University)
Irene Vanni (University of Florence)	Takashi Moriya (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan)
Isaac Laseter (The University of Wisconsin – Madison and JADES)	Tom Harvey (University of Manchester)
Itsuki Ogami (SOKENDAI/NAOJ)	Thomas Nordlander (Australian National University)
Jackie Hewitt (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)	Timothy Beers (University of Notre Dame)
James Trussler (University of Manchester)	Tomoya Suzuguchi (Kyoto University)
James Gurian (Perimeter Institute)	Valentina D’Odorico (INAF – Trieste Astronomical Observatory)
James Sullivan (Columbia University)	Vanesa Diaz (Universität Hamburg)
Jarrett Johnson (Los Alamos National Laboratory)	Vasily Kokorev (UT Austin)
Jenna Samuel (The University of Texas at Austin)	Vasilii Pustovoit (Canadian Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics (CITA)/University of Toronto)
Jen Feron (University of Nottingham)	Volker Bromm (University of Texas at Austin)
Jennifer Mead (Columbia University)	Wei Leong (University of Arizona)
Jenny Greene (Princeton University)	Wenzer Qin (MIT)
Jianghao Huyan (University of South Carolina)	Xiangyu Jin (The University of Arizona)
Jo Verwohlt (Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen)	Xiaojing Lin (Steward Observatory)
Kelly Holley-Bockelmann (Vanderbilt University and Fisk University)	Xiaowei Ou (MIT)
John Wise (Georgia Tech)	Xihan Ji (University of Cambridge)
Joohyun Lee (UT Austin)	Yang Huang (University of Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Kai-Feng Chen (MIT)	Tiger Hsiao (JHU)
Kaley Brauer (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)	Yuichi Harikane (University of Tokyo)
Katherine Chworowsky (University of Texas at Austin)	Zhaozhou Li (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Kazutaka Kimura (Tohoku University)	Zoltan Haiman (Columbia University)
Kazu Omukai (Tohoku University)
Kenji Eric Sadanari (Tohoku University)
Ken Nagamine (Osaka University)

Virtual

Alessandro Lupi (University of Insubria)	Nanoom Lee (New York University)
Alexander Ji (University of Chicago)	Nick Kern (MIT)
Anke Ardern-Arentsen (Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge)	Nick Gnedin (Fermilab)
Balu Sreedhar (University of Melbourne)	Paulo Solar (Hamburg University)
Charlotte Ann Mason (DAWN)	Pratika Dayal (University of Groningen)
Daisuke Toyouchi (Osaka university)	Qin Han (University College London)
Evan Kirby (University of Notre Dame)	Rosie Wyse (Johns Hopkins University)
Floriane Leclercq (UT Austin)	Sabrina Berger (University of Melbourne)
Francesco D’Eugenio (University of Cambridge)	Sandro Tacchella (University of Cambridge)
Harley Katz (University of Oxford / University of Chicago)	Hyung (Kyung Hee University)
Hy Trac (Carnegie Mellon University)	Shivan Khullar (University of Toronto)
Hyunbae Park (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)	Silvia Bonoli (DIPC)
Irene Valderrama (DIPC)	Timo Kist (Leiden Observatory)
Felix Mirabel (iAFE-UBA-Argentina)	Tomáš Šoltinský (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research)
Koki Kakiichi (Cosmic Dawn Center, University of Copenhagen)	Vivienne Langen (CNRS / L2IT, Université Toulouse III Paul Sabatier)
Marco Dall’Amico (University of Padova)	Wenxiu Li (KIAA, Peking University)
Martin Sahlén (Uppsala University)	Zuyi Chen (Steward Observatory, University of Arizona)
Molly Wolfson (UCSB)