XXVth IAP Colloquium

XXVth IAP Annual Colloquium

"THE LYMAN ALPHA UNIVERSE"
6-10 July 2009, Paris

PROGRAMME

There are three types of presentations :

Invited Review (IR) 45 mn
Invited Talk (IT) 30mn
Oral contribution (OT) 15mn

All times include questions

We will provide a PC and MAC laptop for the presentations. Participants are requested to bring their presentation on a USB key and load it on the laptop beforehand.

Posters will be displayed during the entire conference and presented during the poster review on Wednesday 8.

Monday 6 july 2009
08:00	Continental Breakfast in the lobby of the IAP
09:30	KUNTH D. Welcome
Topic 1: Local Starbursts
09:40	MAS-HESSE M.	Local Lyman alpha emitters	IR
10:25	ÖSTLIN G.	Lyman alpha imaging of starbursts in the local Universe	IT
10:55	Mallery R.	Lyman Alpha Emitters at z~0.3 in COSMOS and AEGIS
11:10	Scarlata C.	Stellar and Nebular Properties of Ly-a Emitters at Low Redshift
11:25	Coffee Break
Topic 2: Lyman-alpha emitters, Lyman Break Galaxies
12:00	SHAPLEY A.	Relation between Lyman alpha emitters, LBGs and related objects.	IR
12:45	HU E.	Looking High and Low --Unifying studies of Lyman Alpha Galaxies at High and Low Redshift	IT
13:15 - 15:00 Lunch break
15:00	Finkelstein S.	Evolution of Lyman Alpha Galaxies Over ~ 9 Gyr of Cosmic Time
15:15	Nilsson K.	Observations of the Lyman-alpha Universe at z ~ 2
15:30	Reddy N.	Number Density Evolution and Dust Properties of LAEs at z>~2
15:45	Hayes M.	DoubleBlind:A super deep Lyman-alpha and H-alpha survey at z=2.2
16:00	Sawicki M.	Stellar and halo masses of z~2 galaxies: SFR dependence on stellar mass and the shut-down of star formation in the most massive halos
16:15	Gronwall C.	Physical Properties of Ly-alpha Emitters at z=3.1
16:30	Coffee Break
17:00	Francke H.	Clustering properties of z=3.1 LAEs in MUSYC
17:15	Vanzella E.	Spectroscopic Observations of Lyman-Break Galaxies/Emitters at Redshift ~ 4, 5 and 6 in the GOODS-South Field
17:30	Ono Y.	Stellar Populations of Lyman Alpha Emitters at z=3-4 investigated by the Deep Large Area Surveys in the Subaru-SXDS/UKIDSS-UDS Field
17:45	Stark D.	The Evolution of LAEs and LBGs at z=3-8
18:00

Tuesday 7 july 2009
08:30	Continental Breakfast in the lobby of the IAP
09:00	Le Fèvre O.	VVDS: LF and SFR from 200 spectroscopically faint LAE with 2<z<6.6
09:15	Capak P.	The mass and continuum luminosity function of Ly-alpha emitters at z=5.7
09:30	Dressler A.	Slope of the Faint-end Luminosity Function at z=5.75
09:45	Malhotra S.	Redshift Evolution of Lyman-alpha galaxies
Topic 3: Other Lyman alpha sources (Lya blobs, sub-mm galaxies, radio galaxies, AGN)
10:00	YAMADA T.	Relation between Lyman alpha Blobs and their connection with sub-mm sources and AGNs	IR
10:45	FOSBURY R.	Radiogalaxies as Lyman alpha emitters	IT
11:15	Coffee Break
11:45	Dijkstra M	A Model for Lya Blobs
12:00	Matsuda Y.	A Panoramic Search for Lyman-alpha Blobs at z=3
12:15	Raiter A.	High redshift nebulae ionized by very hot stars.
12:30	Milvang-Jensen B.	Lyman alpha emission from GRB host galaxies
12:45-14:45 Lunch break
Topic 4: Lyman-alpha absorption systems
14:45	RAUCH M	DLAs, faint Lya emitters and the IGM	IR
15:30	Pontzen A.	DLAs,GRB-DLAs and Implications for Galaxy Formation
15:45	Barnes L.	Lya emission and radiative transfer in DLAs
16:00	Noterdaeme P.	The distribution and evolution of neutral gas in the Universe from damped Lyman alpha systems
16:15	Break
16:30 - 18:00 IAP medal ceremony and collation

Wednesday 8 july 2009
08:30	Continental Breakfast in the lobby of the IAP
09:00	Peroux C.	H-alpha emission detections of Damped Lyman-alpha Absorbers with VLT/SINFONI.
Topic 5: Searches for the highest redshift galaxies (z>6)
09:15	KNEIB J.P.	Searches of Ly-alpha emitters beyond z~6	IT
09:45	Bunker A.	Lyman-alpha from galaxies at redshift 6
10:00	Venemans B.	A Ly-alpha Narrow Band Survey at z=7.7 with WIRCam/CFHT
10:15	Ota K.	New Deeper Surveys of z=7 Ly-alpha Emitters in the Subaru Deep Fields: Implications for Galaxy Evolution and Reionization
10:30	Bouwens R.	UV LF and Dust Evolution in LBG selections to z~8: An Important Context for understanding and interpreting the evolution of LAE galaxies
10:45	Illingworth G.	Cosmic Star Formation and Stellar Mass Density to z~7-8: Star Formation in the Reionization Epoch
11:00	Coffee Break
POSTER REVIEW
11:30	PETITJEAN P.	Topic 1 - 4
12:15	COWIE L	Topic 5 - 8
13:00 FREE AFTERNOON

Thursday 9 july 2009
08:30	Continental Breakfast in the lobby of the IAP
Topic 6: Cosmic reionisation, cosmological uses of Lyman-alpha, Lyman continuum escape
09:00	FERRARA A.	How do Lyman alpha emitters constrain reionisation	IR
09:45	CEN R.	From Lyman Alpha Forest to Lyman Alpha Emitters: Probing Cosmological Reionization	IT
10:15	Siana B.	Strong Evidence for an Evolving Escape Fraction
10:30	Coffee Break
11:00	Cantalupo S.	Ly-alpha emission from the high-redshift IGM
11:15	Dall Aglio Aldo	The high redshift evolution of the cosmic UV background photoionisation rate
11:30	Mesinger A.	Challenges in Interpreting Lyman-alpha Absorption at High-Redshifts
11:45	Iliev, I.	Effects of Reionization on Ly-a Emitter Observability
12:00	Rhoads J.	The 2009 View of Lyman Alpha at z>6
12:15	Weinberg D.	SDSS-III/BOSS: observing BAO with the Ly-alpha forest
12:30 - 14:30 Lunch Break
Topic 7: Lyman-alpha and UV radiation transfer modelling in galaxies and at cosmological scales
14:30	DEKEL A.	Cold Streams as Lyman alpha absorbers and emitters	IT
15:00	SCHAERER D.	Lyman-alpha and UV radiation transfer modeling in galaxies	IR
15:45	Lacey C.	Semi-analytical modelling of LAE evolution
16:00	Laursen P.	Lya escape from simulated galaxies including effects of dust
16:15	Coffee Break
16:45	Verhamme A.	Lya radiation transfer effects in simulated galaxies
17:00	NAGAMINE K.	Modelling from number counts, semi analytical approaches of LAEs/LBGs	IR
17:45	Mori M.	Formation and Evolution of Lyman-alpha Emitters
18:00

Friday 10 july 2009
08:30	Continental Breakfast in the lobby of the IAP
09:00	Kobayashi, M.	Semi-Analytic Model for high-z LAEs
09:15	Orsi A.	The Clustering of Ly-alpha emitters in a LCDM Universe
Topic 8: Future instruments and surveys
09:30	CUBY J-G.	Investigating Lyman-alpha emitters with ELTs	IT
10:00	Hammer F.	Properties of z=0.65 starbursts and future studies with E-ELT
10:15
10:30	Coffee Break
11:00	DENNEFELD M	Current UV projects in SPACE	IT
11:30	Gomez De Castro A.I.	Lyman alpha surveys with the WSO-UV
11:45	Guiderdoni B.	Investigating Lyman-alpha emitters with MUSE....
12:00	Cepa J.	OSIRIS: surveying the lyman-alpha universe from z = 7 to 2
12:15	Hill G.	Ly-alpha Emitters from the HETDEX Survey
12:30 CONCLUDING remarks: Taniguchi Y.
13:00	END of conference

Posters list

For the poster session, we request each concerned participant to send us a one slide summary in PDF format before June 22nd to col2009@iap.fr (subject: POSTER TOPIC number).This file will be used to prepare the poster session.

Contact : Chrystelle MASSIN - ( col2009@iap.fr )