Young and Bright:
Understanding High Redshift Structures
September 12-16, 2011
Potsdam (Germany)



Statement in support of the James Webb Space Telescope

Read the full statement here.

Rationale

The search for high-z galaxies is now entering its maturity, with thousands of sources having being found at z>4. However, both observationally and theoretically, the nature of these sources, their dust enrichment and their impact on the intergalactic medium remain open to debate. The goal of this meeting will be, first, to reach a consensus on our understanding of these objects that have already been observed, and secondly, to summarize the advances expected when state of the art instruments including HST, MUSE, JWST and ALMA come together online.

Main Sessions

Program

Monday, September 12, 2011
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Friday, September 16, 2011

Confirmed Invited Speakers

Rychard Bouwens (Leiden)
Cristina Chiappini (AIP)
Françoise Combes (Obs. Paris)
Lennox Cowie (IfA, Hawaii)
Eli Dwek (NASA)
James Dunlop (Edinburgh)
Andrea Ferrara (SNS-Pisa)
Martin Haehnelt (Cambridge)
Roberto Maiolino (INAF, Roma)
Sangeeta Malhotra (Arizona State U.)
Patrick Petitjean (IAP, Paris)
Daniel Schaerer (Obs. Geneve)
Rogier Windhorst (Arizona State U.)
Lutz Wisotzki (AIP)

Participants

As of August 31, 2011.

1. Atek, Hakim, SSC - Caltech, USA
2. Bomans, Dominik, Astr. Inst. Ruhr-U. Bochum, Germany
3. Bonilla-Tobar, Maria del Pilar, AIP, Germany
4. Bunker, Andrew, U. Oxford, UK
5. Caruana, Joseph, U. Oxford, UK
6. Castellano, Marco, INAF - Astr. Obs. Rome, Italy
7. Christensen, Lise, TUM, Germany
8. Clark, Paul, ITA, U. Heidelberg, Germany
9. Combes, Françoise Obs. Paris, France
10. Cowie, Lennox, IfA, U of Hawaii, USA
11. Dayal, Pratika, AIP, Germany
12. Dwek, Eli, NASA Goddard, USA
13. Dunlop, James, U. Edinburgh, UK
14. Duval, Florent, Stockholm U. / Oskar Klein Centre, Sweden
15. Giese, Nadine, U. Potsdam, Germany
16. Graziani, Luca, MPA, Germany
17. Forero-Romero, Jaime, AIP, Germany
18. Gonzalez, Valentino, UCSC, USA
19. Gonzalez-Perez, Violeta, Durham U., UK
20. Gottloeber, Stefan, AIP, Germany
21. Grey, William, Arizona State U., USA
22. Habe, Asao, Hokkaido U., Japan
23. Haehnelt, Martin, Cambridge U., UK
24. Hathi, Nimish, Carnegie Obs, USA
25. Hayes, Matthew, CNRS/IRAP, Toulouse, France
26. Hess, Steffen, AIP, Germany
27. Hutter, AnneAIP, Germany
28. Iliev, Ilian, U. Sussex, UK
29. Khochfar, Sadegh, MPE, Germany
30. Kitaura, Francisco, AIP, Germany
31. Krause, Fabian, U. Potsdam, Germany
32. Lehners, Jean-Luc, MPI fuer Gravitationsphysik, Germany
33. Laursen, Peter, Oskar Klein Centre, Sweden
34. Libeskind, Noam, AIP, Germany
35. Lorenzoni, Silvio, U. Oxford, UK
36. Maio, Umberto, MPE, Germany
37. Maiolino, Roberto, INAF-Roma, Italy
38. Malhotra, Sangheeta, Arizona State U., USA
39. Mirabel, Felix, CEA, France - CONICET, Argentina
40. Muecket, Jan, AIP, Germany
41. Mueller, Volker, AIP, Germany
42. Munoz-Cuartas, Juan, AIP, Germany
43. Nuza, Sebastian, AIP, Germany
44. Ocvirk, Pierre Obs. Astr. Strasbourg, France
45. Oesch, Pascal, UCSC, USA
46. Orsi, Alvaro, U. Catolica, Chile
47. Oteo, Ivan, IAC, Spain
48. Petitjean, Patrick, IAP, France
49. Rydberg, Claes-Erik Stockholm U., Sweden
50. Schaerer, Daniel, Obs Geneve, Switzerland
51. Schramm, Malte, IPMU Tokyo, Japan
52. Sommariva, Veronica, INAF - Obs. Astr. Arcetri, Italy
53. Songaila, Antoinette, IfA, U. of Hawaii, USA
54. Sowgat, Muzahid, IUCAA, India
55. Steinmetz, Matthias, AIP, Germany
56. Suarez, Isabel, AIP, Germany
57. Troncoso, Paulina, INAF-Roma, Italy
58. Vanzella, Eros, INAF - Trieste Astr. Obs., Italy
59. Verhamme, Anne, CRAL, France
60. Wechakama, Mannenate, AIP, Germany
61. Whalen, Daniel, LANL, USA
62. Wilkins, Stephen, U. Oxford, UK
63. Windhorst, Rogier Arizona State U., USA
64. Wisotzki, Lutz, AIP, Germany
65. Worseck, Gabor, UCO/Lick Obs, USA
66. Yamasawa, Daisuke, Hokkaido U., Japan
67. Yan, Haojing, U. of Missouri, USA
68. Yang, Yujin, MPIA, Germany
69. Zackrisson, Erik, Stockholm Obs., Sweden
70. Zinn, Peter-Christian, Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Germany
71. Östlin, Göran, Stockholm U. / Oskar Klein Centre, Sweden


SOC

Richard Ellis (Caltech)
Eric Emsellem (ESO)
Andrea Ferrara (SNS-Pisa)
Simon Lilly (ETH)
Avi Loeb (Harvard)
Rogier Windhorst (ASU)
Lutz Wisotzki (AIP)

Important Dates

Registration opens: March 1, 2011
Registration closes: May 31, 2011
Final Program Announcement: June 15, 2011
Fees Payment Deadline (Confirmation of Participation) : July 31, 2011
Meeting starts: September 12, 2011

Registration, Abstract Submission and Fees

Registration is now closed.

The conference fee is 250 Euro and will cover the conference materials, the coffe breaks and a get-together on one evening. Details on the money transfer will be given soon.

Students are waived out of the fee.

We will limit the number of participants to 60. The inscriptions will be treated on a first-come-first-served basis. Priority will be given to participants submitting oral contributions.

Lodging

We have reserved a number of rooms in the Mercure Hotel Potsdam City (official site). We kindly ask to fill in the accommodation form and return it no later than August 12th 2011 directly to the Mercure Hotel.

LOC

Cornelia Biering
Pratika Dayal
Jaime Forero-Romero
Stefan Gottlöber
Volker Müller
Matthias Steinmetz

Venue

Lecture hall
Telegrafenberg Haus H
D-14473 Potsdam
Germany

How to get there

Contact

Jaime Forero-Romero: jforero at aip dot de




Tue Sep 20 14:21:47 CEST 2011