Workshop on Cosmology from Baryons at High Redshift

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Workshop on Cosmology from Baryons at High Redshift | (smr 2598)

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Monday, 18 August 2014
- 08:30 - 16:15
  - 08:30 REGISTRATION FORMALITIES (new arrivals only) 55'
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outside the Main Lecture Hall - reception area
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  - 09:25 OPENING & WELCOME by the Organizers 5'
  - 09:30 Large-Scale Structure with BOSS Lyman Alpha absorption spectra: IGM, quasars, DLAs and metal line systems 45'
    
    Speaker: Jordi MIRALDA-ESCUDE' (ICREA, U. Barcelona)
  - 10:15 Cross correlation of Mgll absorption and galaxies in BOSS 30'
    
    Speaker: Ignasi PEREZ RAFOLS (U. Barcelona)
  - 10:45 COFFEE BREAK 30' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Terrace )
  - 11:15 Cosmology with the Lyman-alpha forest 45'
    
    Speaker: Anze SLOSAR (BNL, USA)
  - 12:00 The Lyman-alpha forest linear power spectrum and the cosmic ionizing background 30'
    
    Speaker: Satya A.M.J. GONTCHO A GONTCHO (U. Barcelona)
  - 12:30 LUNCH BREAK 1h30' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Cafeteria )
  - 14:00 The thermal and ionization state of baryons on cosmological scales 45'
    
    Speaker: James S. BOLTON (Nottingham)
  - 14:45 The broadening in the Lyman-alpha forest 30'
    
    Speaker: Antonella GARZILLI (Leiden)
  - 15:15 Constraints on magnetic fields from the Lyman-alpha forest 30'
    
    Speaker: Tina KAHNIASHVILI (Georgia)
  - 15:45 The Lyman-beta forest 30'
    
    Speaker: Vid IRSIC (ICTP)
Tuesday, 19 August 2014
- 09:30 - 16:00
  - 09:30 Helium reionization and the incidence of extended He III regions at redshift z~3.4 45'
    
    Speaker: Cristiano PORCIANI (AlfA, Bonn)
  - 10:15 Extragalactic background light: Implications on Helium reionization and progagation of high energy gamma-rays 30'
    
    Speaker: Vikram K. KHAIRE (IUCAA, India)
  - 10:45 COFFEE BREAK 30' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Terrace )
  - 11:15 Evolution of galaxies over cosmic time: the Eagle simulations 45'
    
    Speaker: Tom THEUNS (Durham)
  - 12:00 Radiative hydrodynamic simulation of reionization 45'
    
    Speaker: Romeel DAVE' (Western Cape)
  - 12:45 LUNCH BREAK 1h30' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Cafeteria )
  - 14:15 Simulating Reionization and the Cosmic Dawn 45'
    
    Speaker: Andrei MESINGER (SNS)
  - 15:00 F2Ray: Simulating the cosmic reionization more efficiently and robustly 30'
    
    Speaker: Yi MAO (IAP, Paris)
  - 15:30 21 cm signal from cosmic dawn: imprints of spin temperature fluctuations and peculiar velocities 30'
    
    Speaker: Raghunath GHARA (TIFR, India)
Wednesday, 20 August 2014
- 09:30 - 22:30
  - 09:30 How to Search for Islands of Neutral Hydrogen in the z~5-6 IGM 45'
    
    Speaker: Adam LIDZ (Pennsylvania)
  - 10:15 Modeling the neutral hydrogen distribution in the post-reionization Universe: intensity mapping 30'
    
    Speaker: Francisco VILLAESCUSA NAVARRO (INAF, Trieste)
  - 10:45 GROUP PHOTO and COFFEE BREAK 30' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Terrace )
  - 11:15 High redshift sources responsible for reionization 45'
    
    Speaker: Stefano CRISTIANI (INAF)
  - 12:00 Probing reionization with Lyman-alpha emitters 45'
    
    Speaker: Martin HAEHNELT (Cambridge)
  - 12:45 LUNCH BREAK 1h15' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Cafeteria )
  - 14:00 Probing the Epoch of Reionization with 21 cm experiments: The LOFAR case 45'
    
    Speaker: Saleem ZAROUBI (Groningen)
  - 14:45 Cosmology with the 21 cm signal 45'
    
    Speaker: Mario DOS SANTOS (UWC)
  - 15:30 HERA/PAPER 30'
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Talk to be presented by Adam LIDZ
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    Speaker: James AGUIRRE (UPenn)
  - 19:30 SOCIAL DINNER to be held at the RIVIERA HOTEL - RISTORANTE 'LE TERRAZZE' (within walking distance - please bring your name badge with you) 3h0'
Thursday, 21 August 2014
- 09:30 - 12:45
  - 09:30 Metal enrichment of the intergalactic medium in the reionization epoch 45'
    
    Speaker: Andrea FERRARA (SNS)
  - 10:15 The environment of highly ionized metal absorption systems at the end of hydrogen reionization 30'
    
    Speaker: Gonzalo DIAZ (Swinburne)
  - 10:45 COFFEE BREAK 30' ( Leonardo da Vinci Building Terrace )
  - 11:15 A Connection Between Star Formation Rate and Dark Matter Halos at z~6 30'
    
    Speaker: Felipe L. GOMEZ CORTES (ULA, Bogota)
  - 11:45 Constraints on cold dark matter coldness and neutrinos from the Lyman-alpha forest 45'
    
    Speaker: Matteo VIEL (INAF)
  - 12:30 CLOSING SESSION 15'