4th UC Irvine Center for Cosmology Workshop: Galaxy Formation as Revealed by Cosmic Gas








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4th UC Irvine Center for Cosmology Workshop:
 Galaxy Formation and Evolution as Revealed by Cosmic Gas

Agenda
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April 17th, Thursday

7:15 Breakfast buffet
8:30 James Bullock Opening remark
8:35 Virginia Trimble When Space Was Empty: The Discoveries of Interplanetary Interstellar and Intergalactic Gas and Dust
Morning Session 1: Galaxy Formation & Evolution (Review I) (Chair: James Bullock)
8:50 Avishai Dekel The Role of Cold Flows in Galaxy Formation and in Quenching
9:15 Joss Bland-Hawthorn Gas accretion onto galaxies
9:40 Lucio Mayer The formation of realistic disk galaxies in the LCDM model
10:05 Nicholas White The Constellation-X Observatory
10:25 Ann Hornschemeier Tracing the Energetics of the Universe with Constellation-X: Example Scientific Investigations
10:45 Coffee break
Morning Session 2: Milky Way & Spirals (I) (Chair: Ariyeh Maller)
11:10 Kenneth Sembach Interactions of High Velocity Clouds and the Galactic Corona
11:35 Tobias Kaufmann Simulating the Gaseous Halos of Galaxies
11:50 Taotao Fang Hot gas around the Milky Way
12:05 Mary Putman Feeding the Hot Halo or Galactic Disk?
12:30 Josh Peek The ongoing formation of the Milky Way Galaxy
12:45 Lunch
Afternoon Session 1: Milky Way & Spirals (II) (Chair: Daniel Wang)
2:00  Leo Blitz What the Distribution of Milky Way Gas Tells Us About Galaxy Evolution?
2:25 Blair Savage The Properties of Transition Temperature Gas in the Milky Way Thick Disk
2:50 Tobias Westmeier The relics of structure formation: high-velocity clouds around M31 and other galaxies
3:05 Sukanya Chakrabarti The Role of Gas in the Structure & Evolution of Spiral Galaxies
3:20 Chris Howk Are Highly Ionized High Velocity Clouds Extragalactic?
3:35 Chris Brook The Role of Cold Flows and Shock Heating in Disk Galaxy Formation
3:50 Coffee break
Afternoon Session 2: Inflow and Outflow (Chair: Avishai Dekel)
4:20 David Strickland Hot metals in and around starburst galaxies and what they tell us about galactic winds
4:45 Ariyeh Maller Inflows and Outflows
5:05 Sheila Kannappan Evidence for Frequent Small Gas Inflow Events in Most Galaxies & a Breakdown for the Most Gas-Poor Galaxies
5:25 Dawn Erb Gas Inflow and Outflow in High Redshift Galaxies
5:40 Benjamin Weiner Outflows from starforming galaxies at z > 1 in DEEP2
5:55 Kate Rubin Cool gas outflows in galaxies at 0.8 < z < 1.5 in GOODS-N
6:10 End

April 18th, Friday

7:30 Breakfast buffet
Morning Session 1: Galaxy Formation & Evolution (Review II) (Chair: Mary Putman)
8:30 Daniel Wang Stellar Feedback and Galaxy Evolution
8:55  Anatoly Klypin Galaxy formation: how small scale-physics of ISM affects large-scale gas in galaxies
9:20 Romeel Davé The Wide-Ranging Impact of Galactic Outflows From Dwarfs to Clusters
9:45 Andrew Baker ALMA as a probe of cold gas within and beyond the Galaxy
10:05 Ronald Polidan Advanced Observatory Concepts to Study Galaxy Formation and Evolution
10:25 Coffee break / Poster session
Morning Session 2: Halo and Quasar Absorbers (I) (Chair: Elizabeth Barton)
10:50 Chris Churchill Using Galaxy Halos to Constrain Galaxy Formation Physics
11:15 Smita Mathur Searching for Needles in a Haystack (OVI Absorbers at High Redshift)
11:40 Jeremy Tinker Connecting Qausar Absorbers with their Dark Matter Halos
11:55 Glenn Kacprzak Extended Halo Gas and Galaxy Kinematics in The L-CDM Paradigm
12:10 Matthew Pieri Searching For A Metal Floor To The Universe Using SDSS QSOs
12:25 Orly Gnat Time-Dependent Ionization in Radiatively Cooling Gas Clouds and in Post-Shock Cooling Layers
12:40 Lunch
Afternoon Session 1: Halo and Quasar Absorbers (II) (Chair: Chris Churchill)
2:00 Hsiao-wen Chen The Baryon Content of Dark Matter Halos: Empirical Constraints from
2:25 Elizabeth Barton MgII Absorption in the z~0.1 Universe
2:40 Jessica Evans Evolution of MgII-Selected Galactic Halos
2:55 Brice Menard Constraining MgII absorbers with the SDSS
3:10 Sanchayeeta Borthakur A Lyman Alpha Absorber Study Using STIS Spectra Combined with SDSS-2dF Galaxy Catalogs
3:25 Coffee break / Poster session
Afternoon Session 2: Gas in Group and Cluster Environment (Chair: David Buote)
4:00 Andy Fabian The enrichment of hot gas in clusters of galaxies
4:25 Trevor Ponman Abundances in intragroup gas
4:50 Philip Humphrey Metals in the Hot ISM of Early-Type Galaxies
5:05 Daisuke Kawata Studies of the Intra-Group Medium with the Virtual Group Catalog
5:20 Jesper Rasmussen Galaxy-IGM interactions in compact groups
5:35 Break / Poster session
5:50 Panel Discussion
7:00 Reception / drinks and hors d'oeuvres /   
8:30 End

April 19th, Saturday

7:30 Breakfast buffet
Morning Session 1: Cosmic Gas: WHIM and Galaxies (Chair: Jason Prochaska)
8:30 Renyue Cen The Warm-Hot Intergalactic Medium
8:55 Andrew Benson Modeling Galaxy Formation and the Evolution of Cosmic Gas
9:20 John Stocke The Local Lyman Alpha Forest as Revealed by HST
9:45 James Green New Instrumentation to Study Cosmic Gas
10:05 Supriya Chakrabarti Tunable, Narrow-band Imaging: A New Measurement Approach for Studying Cosmic Gas
10:25 Coffee break / Poster session
Morning Session 2: WHIM Observation and Simulation (Chair: Taotao Fang)
10:45 Todd Tripp Probing Cosmic Gas with High-Resolution Spectroscopy of Low-Redshift QSO Absorber
11:10 Fabrizio Nicastro The WHIM in the X-Ray: current evidence and future prospects
11:35 Luca Zappacosta Tentative WHIM evidence in the Sculptor Wall
11:50 Serena Bertone Predictions for the observability of X-ray line emission from the WHIM
12:05 Christopher Thom Do the OVI absorbers trace WHIM gas?
12:20 Emily Freeland Bent-Double Radio Sources as Probes of the Intragroup Medium
12:35 Lunch
Afternoon Session 1: High-z Gas in Absorption (Chair: Virginia Trimble)
1:50 Chuck Steidel Gas Flows and Feedback in High Redshift Galaxies
2:15 Arthur Wolfe Direct Measurement of a Magnetic Field in a Galaxy at z=0.692
2:35 Brant Robertson Molecular Hydrogen and Global Star Formation Relations in Galaxies
2:50 Claude-André Faucher-Giguère Evolution of the IGM at z<4.2: Implications for Cosmic Star Formation and Quasar Activity
3:05 Regina Jorgenson Understanding Physical Conditions in High Redshift Galaxies through Neutral Carbon Absorption Lines
3:20 Coffee Break / Poster session
Afternoon Session 2: High-z Gas in Emission (Chair: Jeff Cooke)
3:40 Michael Rauch A synthesis of Lya emitters and absorbers
4:05 Juna Kollmeier The Lyman-alpha Glow of High-Redshift Structure
4:20 Peter Laursen Lyman alpha Scattering in Young Galaxies and the Intergalactic Medium
4:35 Moire Prescott Exploring Sites of Galaxy Formation: A Large Lya Nebula at z~2.7
Afternoon Session 3: Conference Summary
4:50 Jason Prochaska Conference summary
5:15 End

Posters (Friday and Saturday only):

Jun-Hwan Choi Effects of metal cooling on galaxies in z=3
Katie Chynoweth New HI Clouds in the M81/M82 Group
Asantha Cooray Dark Universe Explorer
Atahualpa Flores Estrella Distribution of Dark Matter in Irregular Galaxies
Fulai Guo The quenching of global thermal instability by AGN feedback in clusters of galaxies
Janice Hester Stripping Strangulation or Something In-Between
Tae Song Lee Cross Correlation between Lybreak Galaxies and Damped Ly$\alpha$ Systems in Cosmological SPH Simulations
Nicolas Lehner Highly-ionized gas and feedbacks in a z~2.4 DLA proto-galaxy
Shikui Tang Stellar Feedback from Galactic Bulges





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