DEX XIII with St Andrews and Lancaster
Programme
The full workshop programme is now available below. The workshop will start at 11:00 on Monday 9th January 2017 and will finish around 16:30 on Tuesday 10th January. The workshop dinner will take place on Monday evening.
| Monday 9th January 2017 | |||
| 10:40 - 11:00 | Coffee/Tea | ||
| 11:00 - 11:10 | Welcome | ||
| 11:10 - 12:30 | Theme 1: Simulations & Reionization (Chair: Catherine Heymans) |
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| long talks: | Matthieu Schaller [slides] |
Durham | EAGLE model limitations |
| James Trayford [slides] |
Durham | Resolving problems: Testing property estimation techniques using mock observations of virtual galaxies at different resolutions. | |
| Sergio Santos [slides] |
Lancaster | The Lyman-alpha luminosity function at z = 5.7 - 6.6 and the steep drop of the faint end: implications for reionization | |
| short talks: | Chris Duckworth [slides] |
St Andrews | Galaxy kinematics as a test of halo assembly bias |
| Shegy Parsa [slides] |
Edinburgh | No strong evidence of AGN contribution to the cosmic hydrogen reionization | |
| Sara Perez Sanchez | Lisbon/Lancaster | The largest Lyman-alpha survey at z~5: the most luminous Lyman-alpha emitters after re-ionisation | |
| 12:30 - 13:30 | Lunch: Stobie Room | ||
| 12:30 - 14:45 | Theme 2: Dark Matter (Chair: Nuala McCullagh) |
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| long talks: | Andrew Robertson [slides] |
Durham | What does the Bullet Cluster tell us about Self-Interacting Dark Matter? |
| Wojtek Hellwing [slides] |
Portsmouth/Durham | MG Millennium simulations - a new precision era in modified gravity research | |
| short talks: | Alejandro Benitez Llambay [slides] |
Durham | Dark 'RELHICs' in the Local Group |
| Bert Vandenbroucke [slides] |
St Andrews | The ionization structure of forming dwarf galaxies | |
| David Copeland [slides] |
Edinburgh | Assessing the impact of baryonic feedback in cosmological parameter estimation | |
| Meng Yang [slides] |
St Andrews | Dynamical disc masses of MaNGA galaxies | |
| Coffee/Tea | |||
| 15:15 - 16:15 | Theme 3: Galaxy Evolution (Chair: Vivienne Wild) |
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| long talks: | Kate Rowlands [slides] |
St Andrews | The mechanisms for quiescent galaxy formation at z<1 |
| Joao Calhau [slides] |
Lancaster | The growth of typical star-forming galaxies and their super massive black holes across cosmic time since z~2 | |
| Rachel Cochrane [slides] |
Edinburgh | The luminosity-dependent clustering of H-alpha emitters from z~0.8 to z~2.23 with HiZELS | |
| Coffee/Tea | |||
| 16:30 - 17:30 | Theme 3: Galaxy Evolution (continued) (Chair: Vivienne Wild) |
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| long talk: | Richard Bielby [slides] |
Durham | Probing galaxy groups with Absorption Line Systems |
| short talk: | Josh Argyle [slides] |
St Andrews | Quantifying Galaxy structure through Bayesian hierarchical modeling |
| Discussion | |||
| 19:00 | Conference Dinner: Blonde, 75 St Leonards St, EH8 9QR | ||
| http://blonderestaurant.co.uk/ | |||
| Tuesday 10th January 2017 | |||
| 08:40 - 09:00 | Coffee/Tea | ||
| 09:00 - 10:15 | Theme 4: Surveys, LSS & Cosmology (Chair: Nic Ross) |
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| long talks: | Alexandra Amon [slides] |
Edinburgh | KiDS galaxy-galaxy lensing with low and high resolution data |
| Benjamin Giblin [slides] |
Edinburgh | Enhanced cosmic shear analysis with the Kilo Degree Survey | |
| Mathilde Jauzac [slides] |
Durham | Hubble Frontiers Fields : A new Era for Gravitational Lensing & Cosmology | |
| short talks: | Marika Asgari [slides] |
Edinburgh | Systematics and weak lensing |
| Vasiliy Demchenko [slides] |
Edinburgh | Mapping the Matter Distribution of Cosmic Voids with Weak Lensing | |
| 10:15 - 10:45 | Coffee/Tea | ||
| 10:45 - 12:15 | Theme 4: Surveys, LSS & Cosmology (continued) (Chair: Alastair Edge) |
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| long talk: | Maria Manolopoulou [slides] |
Edinburgh | The XCS second data release and the clusters in the SDSS area |
| short talks: | Dominic Bates [slides] |
St Andrews | Clustering Redshifts & Measuring Survey Completeness |
| Alexander Smith [slides] |
Durham | A Lightcone Catalogue from MXXL | |
| Lee Stothert [slides] |
Durham | Mocking the PAU Survey | |
| Joey Faulkner [slides] |
Edinburgh | Learning the Universe: Using GRSPINN to predict Large Scale Structure | |
| Discussion | |||
| 12:15 - 13:30 | Lunch: Stobie Room | ||
| 13:30 - 14:45 | Theme 5: AGN, Dust & Gas (Chair: Andy Lawrence) |
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| long talks: | Bitten Gullberg [slides] |
Durham | High resolution ALMA imaging of SMGs |
| Elizabeth Cooke [slides] |
Durham | CII line search for SMGs at high redshift in the UDS | |
| Fangxia An [slides] |
Durham | Extinction Correction Significantly Influences the Estimate of Ly-alpha Escape Fraction | |
| short talks: | Julie Wardlow [slides] |
Durham | The ISM in high-z submillimetre galaxies as probed by PACS spectroscopy |
| Jan Scholtz [slides] |
Durham | Subtle impact of AGN feedback in high redshift galaxies | |
| Tim Hewlett [slides] |
St Andrews | Major mergers, minor players: luminous AGN through cosmic time | |
| 14:45 - 15:15 | Coffee/Tea | ||
| 15:15 - 16:30 | Theme 5: AGN, Dust & Gas (continued) (Chair: Andy Lawrence) |
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| long talks: | David Homan [slides] |
Edinburgh | Variability in broad line emission from AGN on long timescales |
| Lizelke Klindt [slides] |
Durham | Resolving the mystery of unclassified extragalactic Fermi-LAT sources | |
| short talk: | David Starkey [slides] |
St Andrews | Wiggles and dots: Resolving unresolvable accretion disks in Active Galactic Nuclei |
| Discussion | |||
| 16:30 | End of conference | ||
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