November 12-14, 2014 | New Haven, CT
7:45 & 8:15 AM | Shuttle Bus Downtown Hotels to Greenberg Center | |
8:00 AM | Breakfast served at Greenberg Conference Center | |
9:00 AM | Opening Remarks | Pieter van Dokkum and Meg Urry |
The Distant Universe (Session Chair: Gus Evrard) | ||
9:15 AM | Matt Mountain | Introduction |
9:25 AM | Jennifer Lotz | The Frontier Fields: Past, Present and Future (pdf) |
9:45 AM | Anton Koekemoer | The HST Frontier Fields: Science Data Products, and First Data Releases (pdf) |
10:00 AM | Priyamvada Natarajan | Cosmology with cluster-lenses: first results from HFF (pdf) |
10:20 AM | Coffee Break | |
The Distant Universe (cont.) (Session Chair: Priyamvada Natarajan) | ||
10:50 AM | James Bullock | Did faint galaxies reionize the universe? (pdf) |
11:10 AM | Pascal Oesch | Probing Galaxy Build-up at the Cosmic Dawn in the Frontier Field Era (pdf) |
11:30 AM | Dan Coe | High-Redshift Predictions and Early Results from the Frontier Fields (pdf) |
11:50 AM | Wei Zheng | The Role of Cosmic Lenses in the Search for Most Distant Galaxies (pdf) |
12:05 PM | Poster Presentations | |
12:40 PM | Welcome | Tamar Gendler, Dean of the Faculty at Yale |
12:50 PM | Lunch break | |
The Distant Universe (cont.) (Session Chair: Dan Coe) | ||
2:20 PM | Hakim Atek | Probing the Epoch of Reionization with the Hubble Frontier Fields Clusters (pdf) |
2:35 PM | Rachael Livermore | Uncovering the first galaxies in the Frontier Fields (pdf) |
2:50 PM | Steve Finkelstein | The Blank Field Luminosity Function: Constraints on the Faint-End Slope with CANDELS+HUDF+HFF Parallels (pdf) |
3:05 PM | Rychard Bouwens | Galaxies in the z=4-8 Universe: How observations from the new Hubble Frontier Fields Program add to the knowledge already gained from the HUDF (pdf) |
3:20 PM | Kuang-Han Huang | Reionization-Era Galaxies in Deep IRAC Images: Lessons from SURFS UP (pdf) |
3:35 PM | Austin Hoag | Focusing the Frontier Fields with SWUnited (pdf) |
3:50 PM | Coffee Break | |
The Distant Universe (cont.) (Session Chair: Jennifer Lotz) | ||
4:20 PM | Ryota Kawamata | The sizes of z ~ 6-8 lensed galaxies from the data of Abell 2744 (pdf) |
4:35 PM | Nicolas Laporte | Combining HST, Spitzer, VLT, ALMA and Magellan data to explore the boundaries of the Universe (pdf) |
4:50 PM | Kasper Schmidt | HST Grism Spectroscopy of the HFF with GLASS: Lyα emitters at z > 6 (pdf) |
5:05 PM | Tucker Jones | GLASS: spatially resolved spectroscopy of lensed galaxies in the HFF (pdf) |
5:20 PM | Panel Discussion | Current status: Lotz, Postman, Capak, Evrard |
6:05 PM | Adjourn | |
6:05 PM | Poster Viewing | Rooms 18 and 19, Greenberg Center |
6:35 PM | Drinks | Upper Lobby, Greenberg Center |
7:00 PM | Workshop Dinner | Formal Dining Room, Greenberg Center |
8:40 PM | After Dinner Talk | Matt Mountain |
9:00 & 9:30 PM | Shuttle Bus from Greenberg Center to Downtown Hotels |
7:45 & 8:15 AM | Shuttle Bus Downtown Hotels to Greenberg Center | ||
8:00 AM | Breakfast served at Greenberg Conference Center | ||
The Distant Universe (cont.) (Session Chair: Jean-Paul Kneib) | |||
9:00 AM | Johan Richard | Spectroscopic surveys in the Frontier Field clusters (pdf) | |
9:20 AM | Wouter Karman | MUSE integral-field spectroscopic observations towards the Frontier Fields Cluster Abell S1063 (pdf) | |
9:35 AM | Brian Siana | Finding and Understanding Dwarf Galaxies at the Peak Epoch of Star Formation (pdf) | |
9:55 AM | Franz Erik Bauer | A view of Abell 2744 through mm-tinted glasses (pdf) | |
10:15 AM | Steven Rodney | Supernovae and Explosive Transients in the Frontier Fields (pdf) | |
10:35 AM | Coffee Break | ||
Cluster Masses, Gases, and Clashes (Session Chair: Marc Postman) | |||
11:05 AM | Mathilde Jauzac | Hubble Frontier Fields : Mass modeling and estimation of two of the most massive lenses down to the percent precision (pdf) | |
11:25 AM | Keren Sharon | Lessons learned from modeling the HFF: on the importance of constraints and assumptions for model uncertainties (pdf) | |
11:45 AM | Adi Zitrin | Light-Traces-Mass vs. Analytical Lens Modeling: the effect on the mass, shear and magnification maps, and on the high-z luminosity function (pdf) | |
12:05 PM | Anna Monna | Constraining the galaxy mass content in the core of clusters like A383: the impact of using velocity dispersion measurements (pdf) | |
12:20 PM | Mireia Montes | Intra-Cluster Light at the Frontier: Abell 2744 (pdf) | |
12:35 PM | Lunch break | ||
Cluster Masses, Gases, and Clashes (cont.) (Session Chair: Stella Steiz) | |||
2:05 PM | Christine Jones-Forman | (Chandra observations of the 6 FF clusters) (pdf) | |
2:25 PM | Georgiana Ogrean | A Multiwavelength View of the HST Frontier Cluster MACSJ0416.1-2403 (pdf) | |
2:40 PM | Felipe Andrade-Santos | Chandra and JVLA observations of the HST Frontier Cluster MACSJ0717 (pdf) | |
2:55 PM | Jack Sayers | A measurement of the velocity sub-structure in MACS J0717.5 using the kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect (pdf) | |
3:10 PM | Julian Merten | New wide-field optical imaging and Bolocam SZ data for Abell 2744 (pdf) | |
3:25 PM | Coffee Break | ||
Theory / Future Work on the Full Frontier Fields Datasets (Session Chair: Neta Bahcall) | |||
3:55 PM | Matthieu Schaller | The mass and internal structure of halos in a LCDM simulation including the effects of baryons. (pdf) | |
4:10 PM | Chervin Laporte | The re-distribution of matter in the cores of galaxy clusters (pdf) | |
4:25 PM | Camille Avestruz | Testing Observations of Galaxy Cluster Outskirts with Cosmological Simulations (pdf) | |
4:40 PM | Rogier Windhorst | (JWST lensing) (pdf) | |
5:00 PM | Jean-Paul Kneib | The challenges of the Hubble Frontier Field Initiative (pdf) | |
5:20 PM | Panel Discussion | Future prospects: Bahcall, Mountain, Seitz, Windhorst | |
6:05 PM | Adjourn | ||
6:15 & 6:45 PM | Shuttle Bus from Greenberg Center to Downtown Hotels |
7:45 & 8:15 AM | Shuttle Bus Downtown Hotels to Greenberg Center | |
8:00 AM | Breakfast served at Leitner Planetarium (next door to Greenberg Conference Center) | |
Gravitational Lens Modeling (Session Chair: Priyamvada Natarajan and Dan Coe) | ||
9:00 AM | Liliya Williams | Cluster Mass Reconstruction using GRALE, form-free genetic algorith based method (pdf) |
9:15 AM | Traci Johnson | Focusing cosmic telescopes: modeling the strong lensing in Frontier Fields clusters and simulations (pdf) |
9:30 AM | Jose Maria Diego | Free-form solutions for the HFF (pdf) |
9:45 AM | Daniel Lam | WSLAP+: free-form modeling of A2744 mass distribution |
10:00 AM | Anson D'Aloisio | The Effect of Large-Scale Structure on the Magnification of High-Redshift Sources by Cluster-Lenses (pdf) |
10:15 AM | Coffee Break | |
Gravitational Lens Modeling (cont.) | ||
10:45 AM | Eric Jullo | High precision cluster lensing modeling (pdf) |
11:05 AM | Massimo Meneghetti | The FF Lens Modeling Comparison Project (pdf) |
11:25 AM | Discussion | |
12:10 PM | Closing Remarks | |
12:30 PM | Adjourn | |
12:40 PM | New Haven Pizza Lunch | |
1:40 PM | Shuttle Bus from Greenberg Center to Downtown Hotels |