A workshop jointly sponsored with
May 18-20, 2011
Cambridge MA USA
Workshop Schedule
All sessions will take place in Phillips Auditorium, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden St., Cambridge, MA 02138.
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Wednesday, May 18, 2011 Phillips Auditorium
Chair for morning sessions: Hossein Sadeghpour
8:55–9:00am
Welcome
Avi Loeb, ITC & Hossein Sadeghpour, ITAMP
9:00–9:40am
Overview
Avi Loeb, ITC
Session I: Hydrogen Recombination
9:40–10:20am
Signals from
the Cosmological Recombination Epoch
Jens Chluba, CITA
10:20–10:50am
Break
10:50–11:30am
Excitation
and Quenching of Atomic Hydrogen
Bernard Zygelman, Univeristy of Nevada, Las Vegas
11:30–11:50pm
Alex Dalgarno, CfA
11:50–12:30
Calibration of 21-cm global spectrum experiments.
Jeff Peterson, Carnegie Mellon Univ.
12:00–2:00pm
Lunch
Chair for afternoon sessions: Avi Loeb
2:00–2:40pm
Atomic
Collisions for the Primordial Recombination
Hossein Sadeghpour, ITAMP
Session II: First Stars
2:40–3:20pm
The Clustered
Formation of Population III Stars
Simon Glover, Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics,
Heidelberg
3:20–4:00pm
4:00–4:40pm
Gas in the First
Generation of Galaxies
Smadar Naoz, Northwestern University
4:40–5:20pm
Exploring the
Early Universe with Extremely Metal-Poor Stars
Anna Frebel, CfA
Thursday, May 19, 2011 Phillips Auditorium
Chair for morning sessions: Anna Frebel
Session III: 21-cm Theory
9:00-9:40am
Constraining the Dawn of Cosmic Structure and the
Epoch of Reionization with the 21-cm Line
Jonathan Pritchard, ITC
9:40-10:20am
Early
Galaxies and 21-cm Observations
Rennan Barkana, Tel Aviv University
10:20-10:50am
Break
Session IV: 21-cm Observation
10:50-11:30am
The Murchison
Widefield Array: Status and First Probes of the EoR Deep Fields with
the Prototype Array
Jacqueline Hewitt, MIT
11:30-12:10pm
Experiment to
Detect the Global EoR Signature (EDGES): Overview and Early Results
Judd Bowman, Arizona State University
12:10-1:10pm
Lunch Break in Pratt Conference Room
(sandwiches will be provided for Thursday's lunch)
Chair for afternoon sessions: Judd Bowman
1:10-1:50pm
21-cm
Cosmology in Theory and Practice
Max Tegmark, MIT
1:50-2:30pm
Search
for
Cosmological
Hydrogen
Reionization
at
GMRT
Ue-Li Pen, CITA
2:30-3:00pm
Adrian Liu, MIT
5:00–7:00pm
Friday, May 20, 2011 Phillips Auditorium
Chair for morning sessions: Jim Babb
Session IV: 21-cm Observation (continued)
9:00-9:40am
Experiment to
Detect the Global EoR Step (EDGES): Challenges in Calibration
Alan Rogers, MIT
9:40-10:20am
Reionization
and Cosmology with 21-cm Fluctuations
Miguel Morales, University of Washington
10:20-11:00am
Break
Session V: Molecules/Dust
11:00-11:40am
H2
Formation in the Early Universe: Modern Day Measurements of Chemistry
Long Ago
Daniel Wolf Savin, Columbia University
11:40-12:20pm
Three-Body
Recombination of Light Atoms
Brett Esry, Kansas State University
12:20-1:50pm
Chair for afternoon sessions: Jonathan Pritchard
1:50-2:30pm
GSM2:
Realistic
2D
Simulations
of
Point
Sources
Angelica de Oliveira-Costa, ITC
2:30-3:10pm
The Case for
HeII Reionization Ending at z=3
Matt McQuinn, University of California, Berkeley
3:10-3:50pm
Break
3:50-4:30pm
Constraining
the Epoch of Reionization with Lyman Alpha Emitting Galaxies
Mark Dijkstra, Max Planck Institute for
Astrophysics, Garching
4:30-5:10pm
The Effect of
Distortion Photons on Atomic and Molecular Abundances in the
Recombination Era
Phillip Stancil, University of Georgia`
J. Pritchard and A. Loeb, Nature, 468, 772 (2010)