First Stars VII in NYC
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Description
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Organizers
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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
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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
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Agenda - Wednesday, May 22
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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
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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
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Participants
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)