Cosmological Reionization

Feb.16, 2010 (Tuesday)

9:15	9:30	Welcome
9:30	10:05	George Becker	What We're Learning About Reionization from IGM Enrichment?
10:05	10:40	R. Srianand	Probing high-z galaxy formation and evolution with quasar absorption lines
10:40	11:10	Tea/Coffee Break
11:10	11:30	Alex Peter Calverley	Measurements of the UVB using the proximity effect at z > 5
11:30	11:50	Sowgat Muzahid	Probing the High Redshift IGM through OVI absorption
11:50	12:25	Tomonori Totani	Probing Reionization by Gamma-Ray Bursts
12:25	12:45	Simona Gallerani	Constraining reionization through quasars and gamma-ray bursts absorption spectra
12:45	14:00	Lunch
14:00	14:35	James Bolton	Reionization and the Lyman-alpha forest
14:35	15:10	Claude-Andre Faucher-Giguere	The Cosmic Ionizing Background
15:10	15:30	Sebastiano Cantalupo	Quasar proximity regions in Ly-alpha emission and absorption during Reionization
15:30	15:50	Antonella Maselli	Applying the Apparent Shrinking Criterion to new Quasar Spectra: Tentative Measurement of Neutral Hydrogen at z~6.4
15:50	16:10	Gabor Worseck	Probing HeII reionization with GALEX-selected quasar sightlines in the HST/COS era
16:10	16:40	Tea/Coffee Break
16:40	17:15	Gil Holder	CMB constraints on reionization scenarios
17:15	17:35	Marian Douspis	Planck and the EoR
17:35	18:25	Patrick Petitjean	Discussion
18:25	Tea/Coffee

Feb.17, 2010 (Wednesday)

9:15	9:50	Frank Briggs	Upcoming instruments to probe reionization
9:50	10:25	Ue Li Pen	Status of search for redshifted 21cm emission from the epoch of reionization
10:25	11:00	Ravi Subrahmanyan	Status of EoR monopole measurement
11:00	11:30	Tea/Coffee Break
11:30	11:50	Prasun Dutta	Using visibility correlation in measuring power spectrum and bispectrum of HI intensity fluctuation
11:50	12:25	Masami Ouchi	High Redshift Galaxies as Probes of Reionization
12:45	14:00	Lunch
14:00	14:35	Rychard Bouwens	Galaxy Build-up and Evolution at z>=7: Early results from ultra-deep WFC3/IR observations of the HUDF and ERS fields
14:35	14:55	Pratika Dayal	Probing the interplay between high-redshift galaxy evolution and reionization using Lyman Alpha Emitters
14:55	15:30	Stuart Wyithe	Semi-Analytic Models of Hydrogen Reionization
15:30	16:00	Tea/Coffee Break
16:00	16:35	Andrea Ferrara	Sources of ionizing photons: First galaxies, stars, black holes
16:35	16:55	Sourav Mitra	On Formation rates of dark matter haloes
16:55	17:45	K. Subramanian	Discussion
17:45	Tea/Coffee

Feb.18, 2010 (Thursday)

9:15	9:50	Benedetta Ciardi	Feedback effects in the high redshift universe
9:50	10:25	Garrelt Mellema	Simulating cosmological H reionization
10:25	10:45	Ilian Iliev	Early Cosmological Structures and their Radiative Feedback
10:45	11:15	Tea/Coffee Break
11:15	11:50	Tom Theuns	Galaxy formation at z>6
11:50	12:25	Ben Oppenheimer	Chemically Enriching the Reionization-Epoch IGM: What, When, and How?
12:25	12:45	K. Subramanian	Cosmic ray driven outflows from high redshift galaxies
12:45	14:00	Lunch
14:00	14:20	Mathieu Langer	Generation of magnetic fields during reionization
14:20	14:40	Carmelo Evoli	The turbulent InterGalactic Medium
14:40	15:00	Elizabeth Fernandez	Escape Fraction from Early Galaxies
15:00	15:20	Jan-Pieter Paardekooper	The escape fraction from high redshift dwarf galaxies
15:20	15:40	Saumyadip Samui	Semi-analytical model of high redshift galaxy luminosity functions
15:40	16:10	Tea/Coffee Break
16:10	16:30	Girish Kulkarni	Reionization and the environments of high-redshift QSOs
16:30	16:50	Jakob van Bethlehem	Different luminosity recipes in reionization simulations
16:50	17:40	Andrea Ferrara	Discussion
17:40	Tea/Coffee
18:00	Presentation by NVidia
19:30	Banquet

Feb.19, 2010 (Friday)

9:15	9:50	Tirthankar Roy Choudhury	Observational Constraints on Reionization
9:50	10:25	Patrick Petitjean	Cold gas at high redshift: The ISM of high-z galaxies
10:25	10:55	Tea/Coffee Break
10:55	11:30	Jayaram Chengalur	Searching for HI emission from distant galaxies
11:30	11:50	Tapomoy Guha Sarkar	Cross-Correlation Studies Using Redshifted 21cm Radiation from the Post-Reionization epoch
11:50	12:10	Sanjay Pandey	Statistical Analysis of Redshifted Neutral Hydrogen
12:10	12:30	Abhik Ghosh	Towards detecting the 21cm HI signal from z=1.32 with GMRT observation
12:30	14:00	Lunch
14:00	14:40	Anna Raiter	Observational characteristics of stellar sources of (re)ionizing radiation
14:20	14:40	Katherine Mack	Exotic Physics in the Dark Ages
14:40	15:00	Marcos Valdes	Constraining DM through 21cm observations
15:00	15:20	Chael Kruip	The influence of Helium and dust on reionization
15:20	15:50	Tea/Coffee Break
15:50	16:25	J. S. Bagla	Probing the high redshift universe with the hyperfine transition of ³HeII
16:25	16:45	Claudia Scoccola	Carbon monoxide line emission as a CMB foreground
16:45	17:35	Garrelt Mellema	Discussion
17:35	Tea/Coffee

Feb.20, 2010 (Saturday)

9:15	9:50	Sivarani Thirupathi	Metal poor stars and the origin of carbon in the early Universe: Implications on the early IMF
9:50	10:25	Somnath Bharadwaj	EoR Detection Strategies
10:25	10:55	Tea/Coffee Break
10:55	11:15	Kanan Datta	Matched filter search for ionized bubbles in redshifted 21-cm maps
11:15	11:35	Suman Majumdar	Detectibility of Anisotropic HII Bubbles Using Matched Filter Technique
11:35	12:05	Ravi Subrahmanyan	Conference Summary: An Observer's Perspective
12:05	12:35	Stuart Wyithe	Conference Summary: A Theorist's Perspective
12:35	Closing Remarks
13:00	Lunch