Schedule
Schedule, all times are in HST
Sunday 29th of September
18:00-21:00 — Reception and early conference check-in
Monday 30th of September
09:00-09:30 — Cultural and Scientific Introduction
09:30-10:30 — Reionization and Metal Enrichment: Reionization History of the Universe
09:30-10:00 - George Becker - How Reionization Ends
10:00-10:25 - Sangeeta Malhotra - Probing Reionization with Lyman-alpha galaxies
10:25-10:30 - Yongda Zhu (remote) - Constraining the Timeline of Reionization Using IGM Damping Wing from Unbiased Locations
10:30-11:00 - Coffee Break
11:00-12:30 — Super Massive Black Holes: Luminous AGNs
11:00-11:30 - Jinyi Yang - JWST View of the Earliest Supermassive Black Holes and Their Hosts
11:30-11:45 - Madeline Marshall - The Extreme Local Environments of High-z Quasars
11:45-12:00 - Feige Wang - The Environment of the First Quasars
12:00-12:15 - Anniek Gloudemans - AGN in the First Gyr: What Radio Observations Can Teach Us
12:15-12:20 - Luca Ighina - Quasars and relativistic jets in the early Universe
12:20-12:25 - Thomas Connor - X-ray Insights Into the First Radio-Loud Quasars
12:25-12:30 - Weizhe Liu - Probing Quasar-driven Outflows in the First Gigayear(s) with JWST
12:30-14:00 — Lunch break
14:00-15:30 — Galaxies and Protoclusters: Surveys of the first galaxies
14:00-14:30 - Yuichi Harikane - Early Galaxy Formation Probed with Large Telescopes
14:30-14:55 - Derek McLeod - Wide-area searches for the very first galaxies with JWST
14:55-15:10 - Haojing Yan - A comprehensive study of candidate galaxies at z~12.7-24.7 using the public JWST data
15:10-15:25 - Takahiro Morishita - Finding Cosmic Beacons with JWST and Roman
15:25-15:30 - Joshua Roberson - Using gravitational lensing to probe for quintessential galaxies in the early Universe
15:30-16:00 - Coffee Break
16:00-17:30 — Super Massive Black Holes: Faint AGNs
16:00-16:25 - Masafusa Onoue - Probing the early growth history of supermassive black holes and host galaxies at z>6
16:25-16:40 - Dale Kocevski (remote) - Insights into Early SMBH Growth from JWST
16:40-16:55 - Kohei Inayoshi (remote) - Little Red Dots: Rapidly Growing Black Holes Reddened by Extended Dusty Flows
16:55-17:00 - Huanian Zhang - Machine Learning-based Search of High-redshift Quasars
17:00-17:20 - Paul Ho - Present and Future Developments at the JCMT and the SMA for the Study of High-Redshift Universe
17:20-17:40 — Super Massive Black Holes: Discussion
Tuesday 1st of October
09:00-10:25 — Super Massive Black Holes: Theory
09:00-09:25 - Tiago Costa - Supermassive black holes in the first Gyr: growth, environment & feedback
09:25-09:40 - Aklant Bhowmick (remote) - Signatures of black hole seeds in the first gigayear of cosmic evolution: Predictions from the BRAHMA cosmological simulations
09:40-09:55 - Dominika Durovcikova - Searching for extended emission in young quasars at high redshift
09:55-10:15 - Elena Sabbi - Shedding new light on the 1st Gyr(s) of the Universe with Gemini's new Capabilities
10:15-10:20 - Yi Kang - Inferring High-z Quasar Emission Properties with Transverse Proximity Effect
10:20-10:25 - Meriam Ezziati (remote) - The selection of high redshift quasars z>7
10:25-11:00 - Coffee Break and Group Photo
11:00-12:35 — Galaxies and Protoclusters: protoclusters and the environs of the first galaxies
11:00-11:25 - Ben Forrest - The Dawn of the Protocluster
11:25-11:40 - Denise Hung - Discovering Large-Scale Structure at 2 < z < 5 in the C3VO Survey
11:40-11:55 - Jackie Champagne - ASPIRE: Revealing the Rich Protocluster Environment around a z=6.6 Quasar with ALMA and JWST
11:55-12:10 - Jiamu Huang - Probing quasar and galaxy dark matter halo mass at z~6.6 with clustering analysis in JWST ASPIRE survey
12:10-12:15 - Harold A Peña-Herazo - Characterizing Galaxy Proto-Clusters in the Early Universe
12:15-12:20 - Seyedazim Hashemi - The role of environment in galaxy Lyman-alpha emission
12:20-12:25 - Ryan Tsiao - Spectroscopic Confirmation and Gas-phase Metallicity Analysis of a Protocluster at z~2.46
12:25-12:30 - Derek Sikorski - Growing the Seeds of Cosmic Dawn: Environmental Impact on Stellar Mass Assembly in the Hyperion Proto-Supercluster at z ~ 2.5
12:30-12:35 - Ekta Shah (remote) - The relationship between structure formation and black hole activity in the early Universe
12:35-14:00 — Lunch break
14:00-15:35 — Cosmic Noon and Local Analogues
14:00-14:15 - Mainak Singha - Hidden Powerhouses: Unveiling Low-Luminosity AGN in the local (z<0.5) reionization-era analogue galaxies
14:15-14:30 - Ali Ahmad Khostovan - The case of EELG1002: A low-z extreme, rare GMOS gem similar to typical z~6-10 galaxies
14:30-14:45 - Linhua Jiang (remote) - Constraints on the variation of the fine-structure constant at 3<z<10 with JWST emission-line galaxies
14:45-15:00 - Siwei Zou - Metal Enrichment and its complex environment
15:00-15:05 - Finn Giddings - Stellar Mass Growth via Mergers in the Hyperion Proto-supercluster (z~2.5)
15:05-15:10 - Paola Dimauro - Chasing the Intra-Cluster Light from low to high redshift
15:10-15:30 - Tesla Jeltema - Vera Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time
15:30-16:00 - Coffee Break
16:00-17:30 — Galaxies and Protoclusters: Properties of the first galaxies
16:00-16:15 - Kevin Hainline (remote) - Cosmic Dawn Revealed: The JADES View of Galaxies at z>10
16:15-16:30 - Lamiya Mowla - Formation of a low-mass galaxy from star clusters in a 600 Myr Universe
16:30-16:45 - Isak Wold - UNCOVERing the Faint-End of the z=7 [OIII] Luminosity Function with JWST's F410M Medium Bandpass Filter
16:45-17:00 - Souradeep Bhattacharya (remote) - Unveiling galaxy chemical enrichment mechanisms out to cosmic dawn with direct O & Ar abundances
17:00-17:05 - Tiger Hsiao - Star Clusters Observed in the Early Universe with JWST and Gravitational Lensing
17:05-17:25 - Jean-Gabriel Cuby - CFHT's contribution to the study of the Universe at high redshift
17:25-17:45 Galaxies and Protoclusters: Discussion
Wednesday 2nd of October
09:00-10:30 — Reionization and Metal Enrichment: Theory
09:00-09:25 - Rahul Kannan - Simulating Cosmic Reionization
09:25-09:40 - Hyunbae Park (remote) - Lyα as a Promising Probe of the Reionization Era
09:40-09:55 - Tomáš Šoltinský (remote) - Prospects of a statistical detection of the 21-cm forest and its potential to constrain the cosmic heating and reionization history
09:55-10:10 - Intae Jung - Challenging the Reionization Crisis: Probing Conditions for Lyman-Continuum Escape in the Reionization Epoch
10:10-10:25 - James Rhoads - The Reionization Explorer, REX
10:25-10:30 - Isaac Laseter - Efficient Ionizers with Low [OIII] Equivalent Widths: JADES Spectroscopy of a Peculiar High-z Population
10:30-11:00 - Coffee Break
11:00-12:30 — Reionization and Metal Enrichment: Chemical enrichment at high-z
11:00-11:25 - Rongmon Bordoloi (remote) - The EIGER Survey: Characterizing the Early Cosmic Ecosystems with JWST
11:25-11:40 - Jianghao Huyan (remote) - Chemical enrichment and element patterns in the first billion years after the big bang
11:40-11:55 - Emma Ryan-Weber (remote) - Probing Reionization with high-z metals
12:10-12:30 - John O'Meara - The future of high redshift studies with Keck
12:30-12:50 — Reionization and Metal Enrichment: Discussion
12:50-14:30 — Lunch break
14:30-15:30 — Panel discussion: Historical Context, Current Climate, and Future Outlook for Astronomy on Maunakea
Panelists: Jean-Gabriel Cuby (CFHT), Ka'iu Kimura (‘Imiloa), Rich Matsuda (Keck), Doug Simons (UH/IfA)
Session Chair/Discussion Facilitator: John O’Meara (Keck)
15:30-16:00 - Coffee Break
16:00-16:30 - David Andersen - Unlocking the Secrets of the First Gigayear(s) with the Thirty Meter Telescope
16:30-17:30 — Panel discussion: Community Engagement and Providing Local Pathways to STEAM Careers in Astronomy
Panelists: Yuko Kakazu (TMT), Mary Beth Laychak (CFHT), Fengchuan Liu (TMT), Leinani Lozi (Gemini/NSF NOIRLab), Nadine Manset (CFHT), Emily Peavy (Gemini/NSF NOIRLab)
Session Chair/Discussion Facilitator: Andy Adamson (Gemini/NSF NOIRLab)
Thursday 3rd of October
09:00-10:35 — Super Massive Black Holes: Obscured and 'red' AGNs
09:00-09:25 - Erini Lambrides - From Shadows to Light: Uncovering Elusive SMBH Growth at Cosmic Dawn
09:25-09:40 - Xiaojing Lin - Broad-line AGN at z=4−6 revealed by JWST/NIRCam WFSS: insights from the ASPIRE and CONGRESS program
09:40-09:55 - Hyewon Suh - Feeding hidden monsters: A super-Eddington accreting black hole ~1.5 Gyr after the Big Bang observed with JWST
09:55-10:10 - Minghao Yue - Stacking X-ray Observations of ''Little Red Dots'': Implications for their AGN Properties
10:10-10:55 - Coffee Break
10:55-12:30 — Galaxies and Protoclusters: Theory
10:55-11:20 - Sukyoung Yi - First Gyr of galaxy and cluster formation from NewCluster simulation
11:20-11:35 - Pratika Dayal (remote) - The emergence of galaxies in the first billion years: implications for reionization, cosmology and gravitational wave astronomy
11:35-11:50 - Seunghwan Lim - Are there too many z>5 Coma progenitors discovered with JWST?.
11:50-12:05 - Fernando Caro - The challenges on the estimation of merger rates and the selection of merger candidates in the reionization epoch
12:05-12:10 - Hossen Teimoorinia - From Simulation to Observation: AI Techniques for Purity in Astronomical Data Analysis
12:10-12:30 - Tae-Soo Pyo - The present and future developments of Subaru to study the high-redshift Universe
12:30-12:40 — Closing remarks
Schedule, all times are in HST
Sunday 29th of September
18:00-21:00 — Reception and early conference check-in
Monday 30th of September
09:00-09:30 — Cultural and Scientific Introduction
09:30-10:30 — Reionization and Metal Enrichment: Reionization History of the Universe
09:30-10:00 - George Becker - How Reionization Ends 10:00-10:25 - Sangeeta Malhotra - Probing Reionization with Lyman-alpha galaxies 10:25-10:30 - Yongda Zhu (remote) - Constraining the Timeline of Reionization Using IGM Damping Wing from Unbiased Locations
10:30-11:00 - Coffee Break
11:00-12:30 — Super Massive Black Holes: Luminous AGNs
11:00-11:30 - Jinyi Yang - JWST View of the Earliest Supermassive Black Holes and Their Hosts 11:30-11:45 - Madeline Marshall - The Extreme Local Environments of High-z Quasars 11:45-12:00 - Feige Wang - The Environment of the First Quasars 12:00-12:15 - Anniek Gloudemans - AGN in the First Gyr: What Radio Observations Can Teach Us 12:15-12:20 - Luca Ighina - Quasars and relativistic jets in the early Universe 12:20-12:25 - Thomas Connor - X-ray Insights Into the First Radio-Loud Quasars 12:25-12:30 - Weizhe Liu - Probing Quasar-driven Outflows in the First Gigayear(s) with JWST
12:30-14:00 — Lunch break
14:00-15:30 — Galaxies and Protoclusters: Surveys of the first galaxies
14:00-14:30 - Yuichi Harikane - Early Galaxy Formation Probed with Large Telescopes 14:30-14:55 - Derek McLeod - Wide-area searches for the very first galaxies with JWST 14:55-15:10 - Haojing Yan - A comprehensive study of candidate galaxies at z~12.7-24.7 using the public JWST data 15:10-15:25 - Takahiro Morishita - Finding Cosmic Beacons with JWST and Roman 15:25-15:30 - Joshua Roberson - Using gravitational lensing to probe for quintessential galaxies in the early Universe
15:30-16:00 - Coffee Break
16:00-17:30 — Super Massive Black Holes: Faint AGNs
16:00-16:25 - Masafusa Onoue - Probing the early growth history of supermassive black holes and host galaxies at z>6 16:25-16:40 - Dale Kocevski (remote) - Insights into Early SMBH Growth from JWST 16:40-16:55 - Kohei Inayoshi (remote) - Little Red Dots: Rapidly Growing Black Holes Reddened by Extended Dusty Flows 16:55-17:00 - Huanian Zhang - Machine Learning-based Search of High-redshift Quasars 17:00-17:20 - Paul Ho - Present and Future Developments at the JCMT and the SMA for the Study of High-Redshift Universe
17:20-17:40 — Super Massive Black Holes: Discussion
Tuesday 1st of October
09:00-10:25 — Super Massive Black Holes: Theory
09:00-09:25 - Tiago Costa - Supermassive black holes in the first Gyr: growth, environment & feedback 09:25-09:40 - Aklant Bhowmick (remote) - Signatures of black hole seeds in the first gigayear of cosmic evolution: Predictions from the BRAHMA cosmological simulations 09:40-09:55 - Dominika Durovcikova - Searching for extended emission in young quasars at high redshift 09:55-10:15 - Elena Sabbi - Shedding new light on the 1st Gyr(s) of the Universe with Gemini's new Capabilities 10:15-10:20 - Yi Kang - Inferring High-z Quasar Emission Properties with Transverse Proximity Effect 10:20-10:25 - Meriam Ezziati (remote) - The selection of high redshift quasars z>7
10:25-11:00 - Coffee Break and Group Photo
11:00-12:35 — Galaxies and Protoclusters: protoclusters and the environs of the first galaxies
11:00-11:25 - Ben Forrest - The Dawn of the Protocluster 11:25-11:40 - Denise Hung - Discovering Large-Scale Structure at 2 < z < 5 in the C3VO Survey 11:40-11:55 - Jackie Champagne - ASPIRE: Revealing the Rich Protocluster Environment around a z=6.6 Quasar with ALMA and JWST 11:55-12:10 - Jiamu Huang - Probing quasar and galaxy dark matter halo mass at z~6.6 with clustering analysis in JWST ASPIRE survey 12:10-12:15 - Harold A Peña-Herazo - Characterizing Galaxy Proto-Clusters in the Early Universe 12:15-12:20 - Seyedazim Hashemi - The role of environment in galaxy Lyman-alpha emission 12:20-12:25 - Ryan Tsiao - Spectroscopic Confirmation and Gas-phase Metallicity Analysis of a Protocluster at z~2.46 12:25-12:30 - Derek Sikorski - Growing the Seeds of Cosmic Dawn: Environmental Impact on Stellar Mass Assembly in the Hyperion Proto-Supercluster at z ~ 2.5 12:30-12:35 - Ekta Shah (remote) - The relationship between structure formation and black hole activity in the early Universe
12:35-14:00 — Lunch break
14:00-15:35 — Cosmic Noon and Local Analogues
14:00-14:15 - Mainak Singha - Hidden Powerhouses: Unveiling Low-Luminosity AGN in the local (z<0.5) reionization-era analogue galaxies 14:15-14:30 - Ali Ahmad Khostovan - The case of EELG1002: A low-z extreme, rare GMOS gem similar to typical z~6-10 galaxies 14:30-14:45 - Linhua Jiang (remote) - Constraints on the variation of the fine-structure constant at 3<z<10 with JWST emission-line galaxies 14:45-15:00 - Siwei Zou - Metal Enrichment and its complex environment 15:00-15:05 - Finn Giddings - Stellar Mass Growth via Mergers in the Hyperion Proto-supercluster (z~2.5) 15:05-15:10 - Paola Dimauro - Chasing the Intra-Cluster Light from low to high redshift 15:10-15:30 - Tesla Jeltema - Vera Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time
15:30-16:00 - Coffee Break
16:00-17:30 — Galaxies and Protoclusters: Properties of the first galaxies
16:00-16:15 - Kevin Hainline (remote) - Cosmic Dawn Revealed: The JADES View of Galaxies at z>10 16:15-16:30 - Lamiya Mowla - Formation of a low-mass galaxy from star clusters in a 600 Myr Universe 16:30-16:45 - Isak Wold - UNCOVERing the Faint-End of the z=7 [OIII] Luminosity Function with JWST's F410M Medium Bandpass Filter 16:45-17:00 - Souradeep Bhattacharya (remote) - Unveiling galaxy chemical enrichment mechanisms out to cosmic dawn with direct O & Ar abundances 17:00-17:05 - Tiger Hsiao - Star Clusters Observed in the Early Universe with JWST and Gravitational Lensing 17:05-17:25 - Jean-Gabriel Cuby - CFHT's contribution to the study of the Universe at high redshift
17:25-17:45 Galaxies and Protoclusters: Discussion
Wednesday 2nd of October
09:00-10:30 — Reionization and Metal Enrichment: Theory
09:00-09:25 - Rahul Kannan - Simulating Cosmic Reionization 09:25-09:40 - Hyunbae Park (remote) - Lyα as a Promising Probe of the Reionization Era 09:40-09:55 - Tomáš Šoltinský (remote) - Prospects of a statistical detection of the 21-cm forest and its potential to constrain the cosmic heating and reionization history 09:55-10:10 - Intae Jung - Challenging the Reionization Crisis: Probing Conditions for Lyman-Continuum Escape in the Reionization Epoch 10:10-10:25 - James Rhoads - The Reionization Explorer, REX 10:25-10:30 - Isaac Laseter - Efficient Ionizers with Low [OIII] Equivalent Widths: JADES Spectroscopy of a Peculiar High-z Population
10:30-11:00 - Coffee Break
11:00-12:30 — Reionization and Metal Enrichment: Chemical enrichment at high-z
11:00-11:25 - Rongmon Bordoloi (remote) - The EIGER Survey: Characterizing the Early Cosmic Ecosystems with JWST 11:25-11:40 - Jianghao Huyan (remote) - Chemical enrichment and element patterns in the first billion years after the big bang 11:40-11:55 - Emma Ryan-Weber (remote) - Probing Reionization with high-z metals 12:10-12:30 - John O'Meara - The future of high redshift studies with Keck
12:30-12:50 — Reionization and Metal Enrichment: Discussion
12:50-14:30 — Lunch break
14:30-15:30 — Panel discussion: Historical Context, Current Climate, and Future Outlook for Astronomy on Maunakea
Panelists: Jean-Gabriel Cuby (CFHT), Ka'iu Kimura (‘Imiloa), Rich Matsuda (Keck), Doug Simons (UH/IfA) Session Chair/Discussion Facilitator: John O’Meara (Keck)
15:30-16:00 - Coffee Break
16:00-16:30 - David Andersen - Unlocking the Secrets of the First Gigayear(s) with the Thirty Meter Telescope
16:30-17:30 — Panel discussion: Community Engagement and Providing Local Pathways to STEAM Careers in Astronomy
Panelists: Yuko Kakazu (TMT), Mary Beth Laychak (CFHT), Fengchuan Liu (TMT), Leinani Lozi (Gemini/NSF NOIRLab), Nadine Manset (CFHT), Emily Peavy (Gemini/NSF NOIRLab) Session Chair/Discussion Facilitator: Andy Adamson (Gemini/NSF NOIRLab)
Thursday 3rd of October
09:00-10:35 — Super Massive Black Holes: Obscured and 'red' AGNs
09:00-09:25 - Erini Lambrides - From Shadows to Light: Uncovering Elusive SMBH Growth at Cosmic Dawn 09:25-09:40 - Xiaojing Lin - Broad-line AGN at z=4−6 revealed by JWST/NIRCam WFSS: insights from the ASPIRE and CONGRESS program 09:40-09:55 - Hyewon Suh - Feeding hidden monsters: A super-Eddington accreting black hole ~1.5 Gyr after the Big Bang observed with JWST 09:55-10:10 - Minghao Yue - Stacking X-ray Observations of ''Little Red Dots'': Implications for their AGN Properties
10:10-10:55 - Coffee Break
10:55-12:30 — Galaxies and Protoclusters: Theory
10:55-11:20 - Sukyoung Yi - First Gyr of galaxy and cluster formation from NewCluster simulation 11:20-11:35 - Pratika Dayal (remote) - The emergence of galaxies in the first billion years: implications for reionization, cosmology and gravitational wave astronomy 11:35-11:50 - Seunghwan Lim - Are there too many z>5 Coma progenitors discovered with JWST?. 11:50-12:05 - Fernando Caro - The challenges on the estimation of merger rates and the selection of merger candidates in the reionization epoch 12:05-12:10 - Hossen Teimoorinia - From Simulation to Observation: AI Techniques for Purity in Astronomical Data Analysis 12:10-12:30 - Tae-Soo Pyo - The present and future developments of Subaru to study the high-redshift Universe