Probing Early Structure Formation with Mass, Light and Chemistry
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Minneapolis, October 6-9, 2005Cowles Auditorium, Hubert H. Humphrey Center, West Bank Campus
9:00 - 9:30 a.m. REGISTRATION 9:30 -10:00 JOE SILK
The First Stars: What Were Their Masses? 10:00 - 10:30 VOLKER BROMM The First Stars and Their Impact on Cosmology 10:30 - 11:00 COFFEE BREAK 11:00-11:30 ALEXANDER HEGER Life and Death of the First Stars 1130 -12:00 KEN NOMOTO Nucleosynthesis in the First Supernovae 12:00 - 2:00 p.m. LUNCH BREAK Thursday, October 6, Afternoon 2:00 - 2:30 p.m. UE-LI PEN Observational Search for Reionization 2:30 - 3:00 ALAN KOGUT Reionization, Structure Formation, and the CMB 3:00 - 3:30 NICK GNEDIN Local Group Dwarfs and Reionization - Is There a Link? 3:30 - 4:00 COFFEE BREAK 4:00 - 4:30 YANNICK MELLIER Cosmological Weak Lensing with the CFHTLS 4:30 - 5:00 THOMAS ERBEN Observational Aspects in Weak Lensing Studies of the Dark Matter Distribution in our Universe Friday, October 7, Morning 9:00 - 9:30 a.m. PATRICK PETITJEAN Metals at High Redshift 9:30 - 10:00 ANTOINETTE SONGAILA Putting Metals into the IGM 10:00 - 10:30 ERIC GAWISER Constraints on Early Structure Formation from z=3 Protogalaxies 10:30-11:00 COFFEE BREAK 11:00 - 11:30 JOOP SCHAYE Metals in the Intergalactic Medium 11:30 -12:00 ROBERT SIMCOE Observational Signatures of Galaxy Formation Feedback in High Redshift IGM 12:00 - 2:00 p.m. LUNCH BREAK Friday, October 7, Afternoon 2:00 - 2:30 p.m. PETER MESZAROS Gamma Ray Bursts in a Cosmological Context 2:30 - 3:00 MIKE SHULL Critical Metallicity of Primordial Gas Enriched by the First Stars 3:00 - 3:30 COFFEE BREAK 3:30 - 4:00 EVAN SCANNAPIECO The Sources of Intergalactic Metals 4:00 - 4:30 G. J. WASSERBURG Metal Enrichment of the IGM and Production of Massive Black Holes 4:30 - 5:00 JIM TRURAN Abundance Constraints on Early Chemical Evolution Saturday, October 8, Morning 9:30 - 10:00 a.m. TIMOTHY BEERS The Frequency of Low Metallicity Stars in the Galaxy, and Present and Future Surveys 10:00 - 10:30 PIERCARLO BONIFACIO Abundances in Halo Stars, with Special Focus on the Abundances of Lithium & Beryllium 10:30-11:00 COFFEE BREAK 11:00 - 11:30 FREDERIC DAIGNE Hierarchical Growth and Cosmic Star Formation: Enrichment, Outflows and Supernova Rates 11:30 -12:00 APARNA VENKATESAN Using Ultra-Metal-Poor Halo Stars to Constrain Reionization and First Stars IMF 12:00 - 12:30 p.m. JASON TUMLINSON Constraining the IMF of the First Stars and Their Contributions to Reionization Using Galactic Chemical Evolution 12:30 - 2:30 LUNCH BREAK Saturday, October 8, Afternoon 2:30 - 3:00 p.m. BRIAN FIELDS Probing Baryonic Structure Formation with Light Elements and Gamma-Rays 3:00 - 3:30 LEN COWIE z = 6.5 Star Formation Rates and Reionization 3:30 - 4:00 COFFEE BREAK 4:00 - 4:45 DAVID CALDWELL Progress in Searching for Most of the Mass of the Universe SOCIAL HOUR AND CONFERENCE DINNER Sunday, October 9, Morning 9:30 - 10:00 a.m. LUCIO MAYER The Hierarchical Assembly of the Local Group of Galaxies 10:00 - 10:30 JAMES BULLOCK Cosmology in the Near Field 10:30 - 11:00 S. PENG OH Spectral Line Signatures of Early Galaxy Formation 11:00 - 11:30 p.m. CONCLUDING REMARKS Evan Skillman
TBA TBA *** The POSTER SESSION will run throughout the entire workshop. TBA