Name: Intergalactic Interactions: A Higgs Centre Workshop on the Intergalactic Medium
Start: 2013-06-24T08:00:00+01:00
End: 2013-06-28T18:00:00+01:00
Location: Royal Observatory, Edinburgh

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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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

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