June 10, 2013 - Monday
| Session 1: Next Generation Facilities & Surveys | |
| Michael S Turner, KICP, University of Chicago Welcome from KICP | |
| Wendy L Freedman, Carnegie Observatories Welcome from GMTO | |
| Richard G. Kron, University of Chicago Logistics | |
| Patrick J McCarthy, GMTO Status of the Giant Magellan Telescope Project | |
| Josh Frieman, Fermilab/U. Chicago Imaging Surveys [PDF, 48.01 MB] | |
| Nikhil Padmanabhan, Yale University The Next Generation Spectroscopy Surveys | |
| COFFEE BREAK | |
| Alan Dressler, Carnegie Observatories Studying galaxy evolution with GMT plus other powerful new facilities [PDF, 17.58 MB] | |
| Jonathan P. Gardner, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Status of the James Webb Space Telescope Project [PDF, 7.8 MB] | |
| LUNCH BREAK | |
| Session 2: First Light & Reionization | |
| Gordon J Stacey, Cornell University The CCAT Telescope [PDF, 2.19 MB] | |
| Nick Gnedin, Fermilab First Light and Reionization [PDF, 0.78 MB] | |
| Marc Postman, Space Telescope Science Institute High Redshift Galaxies in CLASH [PDF, 8.02 MB] | |
| COFFEE BREAK | |
| James S Dunlop, University of Edinburgh Observational Studies of First Light and Reionization | |
| Haojing Yan, University of Missouri-Columbia The Most Luminous Galaxies at z>7 from the Recent HST Surveys | |
| Steven Finkelstein, University of Texas at Austin Spectroscopy in the Distant Universe | |
| Ke-Jung Chen, University of Minnesota Energetic Supernovae from the Cosmic Dawn |
June 11, 2013 - Tuesday
| Session 3: Galaxy Assembly & Evolution | |
| Rachel Somerville, Rutgers University Insights and Puzzles in Galaxy Formation | |
| Henry C. Ferguson, Space Telescope Science Institute An Empirical View of Galaxy Evolution | |
| Eric Bell, University of Michigan TBD | |
| Casey Papovich, Texas A&M The Assembly of Andromeda and Milky-Way-type galaxies, prospects for GMT | |
| COFFEE BREAK | |
| Michael J Pierce, University of Wyoming Quantifying the Assembly History of Galaxies with GMT [PDF, 4.22 MB] | |
| Ilsang Yoon, George Mason University Bayesian Inference of Galaxy Structure in the Era of Large Surveys | |
| Ryan F. Quadri, Carnegie Observatories The Buildup of the Red Sequence with Cosmic Time | |
| Stefi Baum, RIT Keeping the Embers Burning - Star Formation Amidst AGN Feedback in Clusters | |
| LUNCH BREAK | |
| Session 4: Intergalactic & Circumgalactic Matter | |
| Juna Kollmeier, Carnegie Observatories Gas, Galaxy formation, and the GMT | |
| Hsiao-Wen Chen, University of Chicago Interstellar Medium in Distant Galaxies | |
| Robert A Simcoe, MIT The Role of GMT for Studies of Intergalactic Matter in the Early Universe | |
| Isak Wold, University of Wisconsin Evolution of Lya Emitting Galaxies: Insights From a Flux-Limited GALEX Sample at z~1 | |
| COFFEE BREAK | |
| Debopam Som, University of South Carolina Magellan Spectroscopy of Sub-Damped Lyman-alpha QSO Absorbers at 2 < z < 3 | |
| Varsha P. Kulkarni, University of South Carolina Metals and Stars in Quasar Absorber Galaxies | |
| Jeffrey A Newman, University of Pittsburgh Photometric Redshift Calibration with Extremely Large Telescopes [PDF, 2.44 MB] | |
| DINNER at the ADLER PLANETARIUM 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM Hors d'oeuvres Reception 7:00 PM - 7:30 PM Presentation: 'Cosmic Wonder' 7:30 PM - Seated Dinner, Dessert and after dinner remarks immediately following dinner |
June 12, 2013 - Wednesday
| Session 5: Galaxies & Fundamental Physics | |
| Risa Wechsler, Stanford University Probing the Dark Universe with Galaxies | |
| Mike D Gladders, Chicago Cluster Lenses | |
| Maxim Eingorn, North Carolina Central University Gravitational potentials and dynamics of galaxies against the cosmological background [PDF, 0.65 MB] | |
| Andrey Kravtsov, University of Chicago Size-virial relation of galaxies and its evolution | |
| Rogier A. Windhorst, Arizona State University Galaxy Assembly and AGN Growth with the Hubble WFC3 and with JWST [PDF, 5.27 MB] | |
| COFFEE BREAK | |
| Marla Geha, Yale University Ultra-Faint Dwarf Galaxies | |
| Matthew G Walker, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Galactic Dynamics and the Nature of Dark Matter | |
| Andreas J Korn, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Uppsala University, Sweden Observing BBN: trouble in precision-cosmology paradise? | |
| LUNCH BREAK | |
| Session 5: Galaxies & Fundamental Physics (continued) | |
| Chris E Lidman, Australian Astronomical Observatory Constraining dark energy with the rest-frame near-IR Type Ia supernovae Hubble diagram [PDF, 0.73 MB] | |
| Jian-Min Wang, Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences Super-Eddington accreting massive black holes as long-lived cosmological standards | |
| Branislav Vlahovic, North Carolina Central University Is inflation really necessary in a closed Universe? [PDF, 2.44 MB] | |
| Albert Stebbins, Fermilab What Can You Learn From Redshift Drift? | |
| Nicholas B Suntzeff, Texas A&M University Conference Summary |
