17–21 Aug 2009
AlbaNova University Centre
Europe/Stockholm timezone

Scientific Programme

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Scientific Programme


Monday August 17

11:00 Registration

14:00 - 14:10 Welcome and Introduction
Session 1  <style type="text/css"> &amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;!-- @page { size: 8.5in 11in; margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } --&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;</style>Detecting the 21cm signal from the epoch of reionization
14:10 - 15:00 Ger de Bruyn - <style type="text/css"> &amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;!-- @page { size: 8.5in 11in; margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } --&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;</style>LOFAR and the search for EoR signals (Slides)
15:00 - 15:30 Gianni Bernardi - Foregrounds for EoR experiments: Observational results with the WSRT (Slides)
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16:10 - 17:00 Miguel Morales -
Reionization with the MWA (Slides)

5:00 pm Welcome reception


Tuesday August 18

  9:00 -   9:30 Leon Koopmans -
LOFAR: finding an EoR needle in a 1500 Pbyte haystack (Slides)
  9:30 - 10:00 Saleem Zaroubi - Power spectrum analysis of the LOFAR EoR data (Slides)
Session 2 Simulating reionization and its 21cm signal
10:00 - 10:30 Benoit Semelin - Simulating the 21 cm signal in absorption during the early EoR (Slides)
10:30 - 11:10 Break
11:10 - 11:30
Ilian Iliev - Cosmological reionization simulations: all halos great and small (Slides)
11:30 - 12:00
Rajat Thomas - Cosmological reionization simulations for LOFAR (Slides)
12:00 - 12:30 Andrei Mesinger-
Fast simulations of the high redshift 21cm signal (Slides)
12:30 - 13:40 Lunch (restaurant Entré)
13:40 - 14:10 Marcelo Alvarez - The large scale structure of the high redshift 21-cm background (Slides)
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14:10 - 15:00 Nobunari Kashikawa - High-z galaxies at the reionization epoch (Slides)
15:00 - 15:30 Ikuru Iwata - Detections of ionizing radiation from high-z galaxies (Slides)

5 pm Tour of Stockholm City Hall, followed by conference dinner at Stadshuskällaren.

Wednesday August 19

  9:00 -   9:50 Matt Jarvis – AGN in the epoch of reionization from multi-wavelength surveys (Slides)
  9:50 - 10:20 Samantha Hickey - Constraints on star forming galaxies at z>6.5 (Slides)
10:20 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 11:30 Mitesh Patel - Probing reionization with UKIDSS(Slides)
11:30 - 12:00 Praktika Dayal -Probing reionization with Lyman alpha emitters (Slides)
12:00 - 12:30 Göran Östlin - Observational constraints on the Lyman alpha escape fraction from galaxies (Slides)
12:30 -            lunch (restaurant Entré)
Afternoon off

Thursday August 20

  9:00 -  9:30 Toru Yamada - WISH [Wide-field Imaging Surveyor for High-redshift] upon the first galaxies (Slides)
 9:30  - 10:20 Adam Lidz - Probing reionization with the 21 cm galaxy cross-power spectrum (Slides)
10:20 - 11:00 Break
Session 4 CMB and the epoch of reionization
11:00 - 11:50 Antony Lewis – CMB studies with PLANCK (Slides)
11:50 - 12:40 Gil Holder – Fingerprints in the CMB from reionization (Slides)
12:40 - 14:00 Lunch (restaurant Entré)
14:00 - 14:50 Jochen Weller - Reconstructing the reionization history with the cosmic microwave background (Slides)
14:50 - 15:20 Jose Diego - CMB secondary anisotropies from re-ionization (Slides)
15:20 - 16:00 Break
16:00 - 16:50 Ilian Iliev - The kSZ effect and reionization (Slides)

Friday August 21

 9:00 - 9:30 Hiroyuki Tashiro - The cross-correlation between CMB and 21-cm fluctuations during the epoch of reionization (Slides)
 9:30 - 10:00 Vibor Jelic - Cross-correlation study between the cosmological 21-cm signal and the kinetic Sunyaev- Zel’dovich effect (Slides)
10:00 - 10:30 Jonathan Pritchard - Constraining reionization using 21 cm experiments in combination with CMB and Lyman alpha forest data (Slides)
10:30 - 11:10 Break
Session 5 Backgrounds and other probes for the epoch of reionization
11:10 - 12:00 Asantha Cooray - Cosmic Infrared Background and the Search for Reionization EBL
12:00 - 12:40 Final Discussion

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