Intergalactic Interactions: A Higgs Centre Workshop on the Intergalactic Medium
from
Monday, 24 June 2013 (08:00)
to
Friday, 28 June 2013 (18:00)
Monday, 24 June 2013
09:15
09:15 - 09:30
Room: Lecture Theatre
09:30
09:30 - 11:10
Room: Lecture Theatre
Contributions
09:30
Lyman Limit Systems throughout cosmic history
-
John O'Meara
(
Saint Michael's College
)
10:10
The fundamental plane of DLAs
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Marcel Neeleman
(
UCSD
)
10:40
The cosmic neutral hydrogen distribution and its connection to galactic ecosystems
-
Ali Rahmati
(
Leiden Observatory
)
11:10
Coffee/Tea Break
Coffee/Tea Break
11:10 - 11:40
Room: Stobie Room
11:40
11:40 - 12:50
Room: Lecture Theatre
Contributions
11:40
Lyman limit systems and the circumgalactic medium at z~2-3
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Michele Fumagalli
(
Carnegie Observatories/Princeton University
)
12:20
The Lyα forest flux PDF from BOSS
-
Khee-Gan Lee
(
MPIA
)
12:50
Lunch
Lunch
12:50 - 14:20
Room: Stobie Room
14:20
14:20 - 16:10
Room: Lecture Theatre
Contributions
14:20
News on the very local CGM and IGM
-
Philipp Richter
(
University of Potsdam
)
15:00
Are metals in the IGM out of equilibrium?
-
Benjamin Oppenheimer
(
Leiden University
)
15:40
Probing gas infall and outflow in the vicinity of high redshift galaxies
-
Richard Bielby
(
Durham University
)
16:10
Coffee/Tea Break
Coffee/Tea Break
16:10 - 16:40
Room: Stobie Room
16:40
16:40 - 17:40
Room: Lecture Theatre
Contributions
16:40
Stacking Lyα forest absorbers in the SDSS-III/ BOSS DR9 quasar survey
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Matthew Pieri
(
ICG, Portsmouth
)
17:10
The distribution of metals in the circumgalactic medium around z ~ 2.4 galaxies in the Keck Baryonic Structure Survey
-
Monica Turner
(
Leiden Observatory
)
Tuesday, 25 June 2013
09:30
09:30 - 11:20
Room: Lecture Theatre
Contributions
09:30
Detailed observations of the He II reionization epoch
-
David Syphers
(
University of Colorado, Boulder
)
10:10
Toward the beginning of the reionization of intergalactic helium
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Wei Zheng
(
Johns Hopkins University
)
10:40
Mapping the inside-out morphology of HeII reionization over 800 million years of cosmic time
-
Gabor Worseck
(
Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie
)
11:20
Coffee/Tea Break
Coffee/Tea Break
11:20 - 11:50
Room: Stobie Room
11:50
11:50 - 13:00
Room: Lecture Theatre
Contributions
11:50
Intensity fluctuations in the HI and HeII Lyα forests
-
Matthew McQuinn
(
UC Berkeley
)
12:30
The effect of fluctuations on the helium-ionizing background
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Frederick Davies
(
UCLA
)
13:00
Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 14:30
Room: Stobie Room
14:30
14:30 - 15:00
Room: Lecture Theatre
Contributions
14:30
Cosmic UV background fluctuations traced by metal ions at the epoch of helium re-ionisation
-
Luca Graziani
(
Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics - MPA Garching
)
15:00
15:00 - 15:30
Room: Lecture Theatre
15:30
Coffee/Tea Break
Coffee/Tea Break
15:30 - 16:00
Room: Stobie Room
16:00
16:00 - 17:10
Room: Lecture Theatre
Contributions
16:00
Illuminating the cosmic web with quasar-induced Lyα emission
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Sebastiano Cantalupo
(
UCSC
)
16:40
On the possible break in the metallicity evolution of DLAs at z ~ 5
-
Marc Rafelski
(
IPAC (Caltech)
)
Wednesday, 26 June 2013
09:30
09:30 - 11:30
Room: Lecture Theatre
Contributions
09:30
Cosmology with the Lyα forest
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Jordi Miralda-Escudé
(
ICREA, Barcelona
)
10:10
BAO results from BOSS and cosmological implications
-
Nicolás Busca
(
Laboratoire AstroParticules Cosmologie - CNRS
)
10:50
Measurements of cross-correlations of the Lyα forest with DLAs and quasars from BOSS
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Andreu Font-Ribera
(
University of Zurich
)
11:30
Coffee/Tea Break
Coffee/Tea Break
11:30 - 12:00
Room: Stobie Room
12:00
12:00 - 13:50
Room: Lecture Theatre
Contributions
12:00
Using the IGM to measure the coldness of cold dark matter
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Matteo Viel
(
INAF
)
12:40
Lyα forest statistics
-
Tom Theuns
(
Durham University
)
13:20
Precision measures of the primordial deuterium abundance
-
Ryan Cooke
(
UC Santa Cruz
)
13:50
Lunch
Lunch
13:50 - 15:20
Room: Stobie Room
19:30
Workshop Dinner
Workshop Dinner
19:30 - 21:30
Room: Rainy Hall
Thursday, 27 June 2013
09:30
09:30 - 11:15
Room: Lecture Theatre
Contributions
09:30
The unchanging circumgalactic medium over the past 11 billion years
-
Hsiao-Wen Chen
(
The University of Chicago
)
10:10
HST COS and STIS observations of gaseous galaxy halos
-
John Stocke
(
CASA, U. of Colorado
)
10:45
Near-field cosmology results from the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph
-
Charles Danforth
(
University of Colorado
)
11:15
Coffee/Tea Break
Coffee/Tea Break
11:15 - 11:45
Room: Stobie Room
11:45
11:45 - 12:45
Room: Lecture Theatre
Contributions
11:45
Mapping metals in the circumgalactic medium at z~2.5
-
Neil Crighton
(
MPIA
)
12:15
On the connection between the IGM and galaxies at z < 1
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Nicolas Tejos
(
Durham University
)
12:45
Lunch
Lunch
12:45 - 14:15
Room: Stobie Room
14:15
14:15 - 15:55
Room: Lecture Theatre
Contributions
14:15
New measurements of the galaxy ionizing emissivity in the post-reionization epoch
-
George Becker
(
University of Cambridge
)
14:55
The IGM thermal history down to z ~ 3.5: A new curvature measurement
-
Elisa Boera
(
Swinburne University
)
15:25
Measuring the Jeans scale of the IGM with close quasar pairs
-
Alberto Rorai
(
Max Planck Institute for Astronomy - Heidelberg
)
15:55
Coffee/Tea Break
Coffee/Tea Break
15:55 - 16:25
Room: Lecture Theatre
16:25
16:25 - 17:25
Room: Lecture Theatre
Contributions
16:25
Inhomogeneous He II reionization and the implications for the intergalactic medium
-
Keri Dixon
(
University of Sussex
)
16:55
The imprint of inhomogeneous HeII reionization on the HI and HeII Lyα forest
-
Michele Compostella
(
Argelander Institute for Astronomy, Bonn
)
Friday, 28 June 2013
09:30
09:30 - 10:40
Room: Lecture Theatre
Contributions
09:30
Cold accretion, hot feedback and the bimodal metallicity distribution in the circumgalactic medium of galaxies at z < 1
-
Todd Tripp
(
University of Massachusetts
)
10:10
Metals and gas in the circumgalactic medium of distant galaxies
-
Varsha Kulkarni
(
University of South Carolina
)
10:40
Coffee/Tea Break
Coffee/Tea Break
10:40 - 11:10
Room: Stobie Room
11:10
11:10 - 12:30
Room: Lecture Theatre
Contributions
11:10
The circumgalactic medium in high resolution, zoom-in simulations: A test of stellar feedback, galactic outflows and cold streams
-
Sijing Shen
(
University of California, Santa Cruz
)
11:50
The First Billion Years simulations: galactic outflows and metal enrichment
-
Claudio Dalla Vecchia
(
MPE
)
12:30
12:30 - 12:45
Room: Lecture Theatre
12:45
Lunch
Lunch
12:45 - 14:15
Room: Stobie Room