1:00 PM: Pickup at Dublin Airport
5:00 PM: Arrival
5:30 PM: Welcome Reception
6:30 PM: Dinner
TUESDAY, MAY 12
Where metals are now & how we model them.
7:45–9:00 AM: Breakfast
9:00 — Kim Venn — Chemistries in faintest, metal-poor Milky Way structures.
9:20 — Gail Zasowski — Chemical evolution & value of metal-rich stars.
9:40 — James Johnson — Why Galactic chemical evolution is actually about hydrogen.
10:00 — Evan Kirby — Galactic chemical evolution, Subaru PFS.
10:20 — Karoline Gilbert — Stellar abundances in Andromeda: disks to dwarfs.
10:40–11:20: Coffee/Tea Break
11:20 — Bonni Choi — Gas recycling and metallicity in the Galactic inner halo.
11:40 — Mia de los Reyes — Chemical evolution models of Milky Way satellites.
12:00 — Filippo Fraternali — Gas accretion properties from metallicity gradients.
12:20 — Rob Yates — Matching chemistry across stars, ISM, CGM.
12:40–1:40: Lunch
1:40 — Zhuyun Zhuang — Gas-phase and stellar metallicity of dwarf galaxies.
2:00 — Anna Wright — Metals in dwarf galaxy outskirts.
2:20 — Bart Wakker — Metallicities of Galactic high-velocity clouds.
2:40 — Grace Telford — Local view of stellar feedback across cosmic time.
3:00 PM onwards: Free time
5:00–5:45 PM: Discussion
6:30 PM: Dinner
Chemical evolution from cosmic dawn to cosmic noon.
7:45–9:00 AM: Breakfast
9:00 — Simona Di Stefano — IGM metal enrichment through cosmic time.
9:20 — Valentina D'Odorico — Metal enrichment in the early universe with QSO spectroscopy.
9:40 — Saloni Deepak — Bridging the gap at cosmic noon — metals in the CGM.
10:00 —Nicolas Lehner — Extremely metal-poor gas & metal mixing over cosmic time.
10:20 — Freeke van de Voort — Metal mixing and heavy elements in cosmological simulations.
10:40–11:20: Coffee/Tea Break
11:20 — Francesco Belfiore — Metallicities from cosmic noon to dawn with JWST.
11:40 — Louise Welsh — Metal-poor DLAs at cosmic noon.
12:00 — Claude-André Faucher-Giguère — Burst cycles and chemical evolution of high-z galaxies.
12:20 — Molly Peeples — Gas and metal flows at the edges of galaxy gas disks.
12:40–1:40: Lunch
1:40 — Jens-Kristian Krogager — Chemical enrichment at cosmic noon with 4MOST.
2:00 — Evan Nunez-Cravin — Properties of unbound metals in z~2.3 CGM.
2:20 — Maria Koller — Drivers of gas-phase metallicity across cosmic time.
2:40 PM onwards: Coffee/Tea Break and Free time
4:00–4:45 PM: Discussion
5:30 PM: Bus departure to Clifden
6:00 PM: Dinner in Clifden
8:30 PM & 11:15 PM: Bus departures back to Kylemore (note departure times are tentative)
Metal flows across different scales.
7:45–9:00 AM: Breakfast
9:00 — Jonathan Stern — Implications of CGM turbulence for chemical evolution.
9:20 — Stephanie Ho — Kinematics and angular momentum of multiphase CGM.
9:40 — Philipp Richter — How CBLAs distort CGM metallicity measurements — insights from TNG50.
10:00 — Glenn Kacprzak — CGM viewed through lensing, kinematics, and geometry.
10:20 — Cassi Lochhaas — Simulation predictions for metal cycle with CGM emission.
10:40–11:20: Coffee/Tea Break
11:20 — Andy Fox — Dark Matter Minihalos and M94 Cloud-9.
11:40 — Matthew Hayes — Wind-driven outflows/metal abundances in z~6 galaxies.
12:00 — Cameron Hummels — Predictions for Line Emission from the Circumgalactic Medium.
12:40 PM onwards: Lunch + Free afternoon
2:00 PM: Guided Tour of the Abbey
3:30 PM: Coffee/Tea Break
4:00–4:45 PM: Discussion
5:00 PM: Peter Gallagher — The historic astronomical observatories of Ireland.
6:30 PM: Dinner
FRIDAY, MAY 15
7:45–9:00 AM: Breakfast
09:30 AM: Hike + Sheep Farm visit
4:00 PM: Coffee/Tea Break
4:30 PM: Closing Discussion
[15 min] Discussion groups present ~3 min summaries of what was discussed, open questions, etc. (more details later)
[40 min] Slido poll — what people learned, Next Big Questions, what the next workshop should focus on — Led by Gail Zasowski and Evan Kirby
[5 min] SOC close with personal takeaways/highlights
SATURDAY, MAY 16
Breakfast (probably take-away breakfast for most, TBD)
5 AM: Early Bus Departure
8 AM: Late Bus Departure
Note: All talks are 15 minutes + 5 minutes Q&A (20 minutes total)