Program


Recordings of all the talks can be found here: Online Talks


(C) = 15+5min, (I) = 25+5min

Day 1 - September 11, 2017
08:30 – 09:00 Coffee, Snacks and Registration
09:00 – 09:10 Welcome
09:10 – 09:40 (I) Karl Glazebrook (Swinburne) – Quiescent or not? The population of red nuggets at z~4
09:40 – 10:00 (C) Iary Davidzon (Caltech) – The star formation efficiency in satellite galaxies up to redshift 6
10:00 – 10:20 (C) Garry Foran (Swinburne) – Lyman-α as a diagnostic for galaxy kinematics and large-scale structure
10:20 – 10:40 (C) Jeff Cooke (Swinburne) – Direct detection of Lyman continuum flux from z ~ 3-4 Lyman continuum galaxies
10:40 – 11:10 Coffee
11:10 – 11:40 (I) Virginia Kilborn (Swinburne) – Tracing the gaseous surrounds of nearby galaxies
11:40 – 12:00 (C) Rebecca Allen (Swinburne) – Could current accretion explain the gas-rich nature of DYNAMO galaxies?
12:00 – 12:20 (C) Matt Orr (Caltech) – Does Star Formation Make Galaxies Puffy? Feedback and Line of Sight Velocity Dispersions
12:20 – 12:40 (C) Vikram Ravi (Caltech) – Measuring the distribution of gas in galactic halos with fast radio bursts
12:40 – 13:40 Lunch
13:40 – 14:10 (I) Judith Cohen (Caltech) – The Outer Halo of the Milky Way as Probed by RR Lyr From the PTF
14:10 – 14:30 (C) Nina Hernitschek (Caltech) – The Geometry of Sagittarius Stream from Pan-STARRS1 3pi RR Lyrae
14:30 – 14:50 (C) Robyn Sanderson (Caltech) – Reconstructing and deconstructing the Galactic halo
14:50 – 15:10 (C) Harish Vedantham (Caltech) – Radio-wave scattering by cold fragments in galactic halos
15:10 – 15:40 Coffee
15:40 – 16:00 (C) Kung-Yi Su (Caltech) – Discrete Effects in Stellar Feedback: Individual Supernovae, Hypernovae, and IMF Sampling in Dwarf Galaxies
16:00 – 16:20 (C) Coral Wheeler (Caltech) – It's all small stuff: simulating dwarf galaxies at the high-resolution limit
16:20 – 16:40 (C) David Cook (Caltech) – Census of the Local Universe (CLU): A 3pi Galaxy Survey Out to 200 Mpc
16:40 – 17:00 (C) Davide Gerosa(Caltech) – Empty galaxies to constrain black-hole superkicks

Day 2 - September 12, 2017
08:30 – 09:00 Coffee, Snacks and Registration
09:00 – 09:30 (I) Evan Kirby (Caltech) – The Diversity of Metallicity Distributions of Local Group Dwarf Galaxies
09:30 – 09:50 (C) Nicha Leethochawalit(Caltech) – The stellar mass-stellar metallicity relationship (MZR) at z=0.4
09:50 – 10:10 (C) Nick Scoville (Caltech) – Evolution of the ISM and accretion in high-redshift galaxies
10:10 – 10:30 (C) Ivanna Escala (Caltech) – The impact of turbulent metal diffusion on the chemical evolution of
Local Group dwarf galaxies
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee
11:00 – 11:30 (I) Emma Ryan-Weber (Swinburne) – Galaxy-Absorber Pairs at Redshift 4 to 6
11:30 – 11:50 (C) Stephanie Pointon (Swinburne) – The Impact of the Group Environment on the OVI CGM
11:50 – 12:10 (C) Nikki Nielsen (Swinburne) – The Evolution of MgII CGM Kinematics Over 10 Billion Years
12:10 – 12:30 (C) Cameron Hummels (Caltech) – "Resolving" the Problems of the Circumgalactic Medium
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 14:00 (I) Chuck Steidel (Caltech) – Reconciling (and Using) the Stellar and Nebular Spectra of High Redshift Galaxies
14:00 – 14:20 (C) Dusan Keres (UCSD) – Gas flow in FIRE simulations
14:20 – 14:40 (C) Darren Croton (Swinburne) – Easily build custom mock galaxy catalogues using the Theoretical Astrophysical Observatory
14:40 – 15:00 - 7x2 min Flash talks - Amber Roberts, Jeffrey Cooke, Evan Kirby, Eric Moseley, Denise Schmitz, Guochao (Jason) Sun
15:00 – 15:30 Coffee
15:30 – 15:50 (C) Shea Garrison-Kimmel (Caltech) – Morphological drivers of MW-mass galaxies: Insights from the FIRE simulations
15:50 – 16:10 (C) Astrid Lamberts (Caltech) – Forming GW150914: The right place at the right time
16:10 – 16:30 (C) Xiangcheng Ma (Caltech) – Simulating galaxies at the epoch of reionization with FIRE
16:30 – 16:50 (C) Glenn Kacprzak (Swinburne) – The Kinematic connection between highly ionized circumgalactic gas and their host galaxies
16:50 –17:00 closing remarks
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Last Updated: Sep 22 2017