12th - 16th September 2022

What matter(s) around galaxies 2022:

Connecting the dots between the CGM and the larger-scale environment

The Alps, Italy

Join us for a discussion of the circumgalactic medium and its relationship to galaxies and the wider environment!

The meeting will address the following key questions:

1. What is the interplay between the CGM and galaxies as a function of redshift?

2. How does the galaxy environment influence the properties and the evolution of the multiphase CGM?

3. What is the impact of the CGM and surrounding environment on the future (star formation / nuclear) activity of galaxies?

The full scientific rationale can be found here.

Organising commitee:

Michele Fumagalli

Alejandro Benitez Llambay

Sebastiano Cantalupo

Rajeshwari Dutta

Matteo Fossati

Emma Lofthouse

Alessia Longobardi

Louise Welsh

The organisers are committed to providing a friendly and safe environment where diversity and inclusivity are valued. We ask all participants to read and abide by the code of conduct and covid-19 regulations which can be found here.


On-site participants

Valentina Abril-Melgarejo (Space Telescope Science Institute)

Andrea Afruni (Universidad de Chile)

Fabrizio Arrigoni Battaia (MPA)

Ramona Augustin (Space Telescope Science Institute)

Bernhard Baumschlger (Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Oslo)

Michelle Berg (University of Texas at Austin)

Alejandro Benitez-Llambay (Università Milano-Bicocca)

Akos Bogdan (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)

Sanchayeeta Borthakur (Arizona State University)

Alessandro Boselli (Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille)

Nicolas Bouché (Center of Research in Astrophysics of Lyon)

Edward Buie II (Vassar College)

James Bullock (University of California, Irvine)

Iryna Butsky (California Institute of Technology)

Chris Byrohl (Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics Heidelberg)

Sebastiano Cantalupo (Università Milano-Bicocca)

Barbara Catinella (ICRAR/University of Western Australia)

Kartick Chandra Sarkar (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)

Zhengyi Chen (Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias)

Hsiao-Wen Chen (The University of Chicago)

Mandy Chen (The University of Chicago)

Ting-Yun Cheng (Durham University)

Luca Cortese (International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research - The University of Western Australia)

Benjamin Darwin Oppenheimer (University of Colorado, Boulder)

Rebecca Davies (Swinburne University of Technology)

Jonathan Davies (University College London)

Stephanie de Beer (Università Milano-Bicocca)

Erwin de Blok (ASTRON/Kapteyn/UCT)

Avishai Dekel (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Daniel DeFelippis (CEA Paris-Saclay)

Florence Durret (Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris)

Alankar Dutta (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India)

Rajeshwari Dutta (Università Milano-Bicocca)

Emanuele Paolo Farina (GEMINI Observatory/NOIRLab)

Claude-Andre Faucher-Giguere (Northwestern University)

Drummond Fielding (Center for Computational Astrophysics)

Matteo Fossati (Università Milano-Bicocca)

Andrew Fox (STScI)

Filippo Fraternali (University of Groningen)

Michele Fumagalli (Università Milano-Bicocca)

Marta Galbiati (Università Milano-Bicocca)

Sofia Gallego (Caltech)

Ritali Ghosh (Indian Institute of Science)

Max Gronke (MPA)

Thales Gutcke (Princeton University)

Zachary Hafen (UC Irvine)

Evan Haze Nuñez (Caltech)

Timothy Heckman (Johns Hopkins University)

Georg Herzog (University Milano-Bicocca)

Kelley Hess (Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía)

Chris Howk (U. Notre Dame)

Cameron Hummels (Caltech)

Alessandro Ignesti (INAF-OaPD)

Sean Johnson (University of Michigan)

Nissim Kanekar (National Centre for Radio Astrophysics, Pune, India)

Laura Keating (Leibniz-Institut für Astrophysik Potsdam)

Christina Konstantopoulou (University of Geneva)

Claire Kopenhafer (Michigan State University)

Titouan Lazeyras (Università Milano-Bicocca)

Khee-Gan Lee (Kavli IPMU)

Nicolas Lehner (University of Notre Dame)

Cassandra Lochhaas (Space Telescope Science Institute)

Emma Lofthouse (Università Milano-Bicocca)

Deborah Lokhorst (NRC Herzberg Astronomy & Astrophysics Research Centre)

Alessia Longobardi (Università Milano-Bicocca)

Maja Lujan Niemeyer (MPA)

Priscilla Holguin Luna (New Mexico State University)

Roberto Maiolino (Kavli Institute for Cosmology, Cambridge)

Nir Mandelker (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Jose Manuel Perez-Martinez (Tohoku University)

Christopher Martin (California Institute of Technology)

Sapna Mishra (IUCAA)

Sowgat Muzahid (Inter-University Centre for Astronomy & Astrophysics)

Joseph Neil Burchett (New Mexico State University)

Dylan Nelson (Heidelberg University)

Dustin Nguyen (The Ohio State University)

Nikki Nielsen (Swinburne University of Technology)

Stephanie O'Neil (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Peng Oh (UCSB)

Giorgia Peluso (INAF-OaPD)

Antonio Pensabene (Università Milano-Bicocca)

Celine Peroux (ESO)

Matthew Pieri (Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille)

Annalisa Pillepich (Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg)

Marc Rafelski (STScI)

Mitchell Revalski (Space Telescope Science Institute)

Martin Rey (University of Oxford)

Philipp Richter (University of Potsdam)

Eric Rohr (Max Planck Institut für Astronomie)

Manami Roy (Raman Research Institute/Flatiron Institute)

Sambit Roychowdhury (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet, Munich)

Sriram Sankar (South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO))

Amy Sardone (Ohio State University)

Evan Scannapieco (Arizona State University)

Joop Schaye (Leiden Observatory)

Alice Schimek (Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Oslo)

Alice Shapley (UCLA)

Aurora Simionescu (SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research)

Chuck Steidel (Caltech)

Jonathan Stern (Tel Aviv University)

Ming Sun (University of Alabama in Huntsville)

Stephanie Tonnesen (CCA, Flatiron Institute)

Andrea Travascio (Università Milano-Bicocca)

Anne Verhamme (UNIGE)

Mark Voit (Michigan State University)

Ann-Christine Vossberg (Physics Departement, UCSB)

Benedetta Vulcani (INAF-OaPD)

Adam Watts (ICRAR - UWA)

Louise Welsh (Università Milano-Bicocca)

Simon Weng (ESO/University of Sydney)

Ariel Werle (INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova)

Matthew Wilde (University of Washington)

Xiaohan Wu (Harvard University)

J. Xavier Prochaska (UC Santa Cruz)

Zun Yi Brent Tan (University of California, Santa Barbara)

Alejandra Yrupe Fresco Arrom (Max Planck for Extraterrestrial Physics)

Tsun Hin Navin Tsung (University of California, Santa Barbara)

Freeke van de Voort (Cardiff University)

Frank van den Bosch (Yale University)

Wuji Wang (Center for Astronomy of Heidelberg University)

Fakhri Zahedy (Carnegie Observatories)

Siwei Zou (Tsinghua University)

On-line participants


Matthew Abruzzo (Columbia University)

Lorenzo Amati (INAF - OAS Bologna)

Abhijeet Anand (MPA)

Pratyush Anshul (Universidad de Chile)

Andrei Antipov (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem )

Sarah Appleby (Edinburgh)

Mohammadreza Ayromlou (Heidelberg University)

Tania Barone (Swinburne University of Technology)

Alex Beckett (Durham University)

Apurba Bera (Inter-university Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics )

Julia Blue Bird (NRAO)

Yuval Birnboim (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Erin Boettcher (University of Maryland and NASA GSFC)

Rongmon Bordoloi (NC State University)

Joey Braspenning (Leiden Observatory)

Joel Bregman (University of Michigan)

Chad Bustard (Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics)

Corentin Cadiou (University College London)

Zheng Cai (Tsinghua University)

Chris Carr (Columbia University)

Urmila Chadayammuri (Center for Astrophysics - Harvard & Smithsonian)

Seery Chen (University of Toronto)

Aline Chu (Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris)

Mitali Damle (University of Potsdam)

Hitesh Kishore Das (Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Garching, Germany)

Annalisa De Cia (University of Geneva)

Davide Decataldo (University of Oslo)

Darko Donevski (1. NCBJ, Astrophysics Group, Warsaw; 2. SISSA, Trieste)

Christopher Dupuis (Arizona State University)

Saili Dutta (NCRA-TIFR, Pune, India)

Rasha Samir Eldaly (National Research Institute of Astronomy and Geophysics)

Dario Fadda (USRA)

Yakov Faerman (University of Washington)

Ryan Farber (Max Planck Institut fur Astrophysik)

Antonia Fernández-Figueroa (Swinburne University of Technology)

Brian Fleming (University of Colorado Boulder)

Adriano Fontana (INAF-OAR)

Omry Ginzburg (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Romana Grossová (University of Prague)

Labanya Kumar Guha (Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune, India)

Anjali Gupta (Columbus State Community College)

Thales Gutcke (Princeton University)

Francois Hammer (Paris Observatory)

Farhanul Hasan (New Mexico State University)

Priyanka Jalan (Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences)

Ranita Jana (Tel Aviv University)

Iris Jermann (University of Geneva)

Suoqing Ji (Shanghai Astronomical Observatory)

Comparat Johan (MPE, Garching)

Gareth Jones (University of Oxford)

Ravi Joshi (Indian Institute of Astrophysics)

Junais (National Centre for Nuclear Research, Warsaw, Poland)

Balpreet Kaur (National Centre for Radio Astrophysics-TIFR, India)

Prachi Khatri (Argelander Institute for Astronomy, University of Bonn)

Anne Klitsch (DARK, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen)

Ronaldo Laishram (Tohoku University)

Ivanna Langan (European Southern Observatory (Garching))

Floriane Leclercq (University of Texas at Austin)

Matthew Lehnert (Centre de Recherche Astrophysique de Lyon)

Qi Li (Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics)

Zhaozhou Li (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Vale Gonzalez Lobos (Max Planck Institute Astrophysics)

Sebastian Lopez (U. de Chile)

Ruari Mackenzie (ETH Zurich)

CHERREY Maxime (CRAL (Lyon - France))

Nicole Melso (University of Arizona)

Francois Mernier (European Space Agency (ESA))

Michał Michałowski (Astronomical Observatory Institute, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland)

Antariksha Mitra (Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra)

Anjana Mohandasan (University of Padova )

Koketso Mophahlane (Rhodes University)

Rahul Musale (University of Pune)

Kentaro Nagamine (Osaka University)

Hasti Nateghi (Swinburne University of Technology)

Padraic Odesse (McMaster University)

SIVASISH PAUL (RKMVERI, West Bengal, India)

Viraj Pandya (Columbia University)

Gabriele Parimbelli (Università Roma Tre)

Imad Pasha (Yale Univerity)

Petitjean (Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris)

Gabriele Ponti (INAF Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera)

Nikolaus Prusinski (California Institute of Technology)

Thomas Quinn (University of Washington)

Adarsh Ranjan (Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute, Daejeon, ROK)

GB Raghavkrishna (Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda College (Autonomous))

Tanita Ramburuth-Hurt (University of Geneva)

Rahul Ramesh (Institut für Theoretische Astrophysik (ITA), Heidelberg)

Michael Rauch (Carnegie Observatories)

Andrei Ristea (International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR))

Benjamin Rosenwasser (University of Toledo)

Gregory Rudnick (University of Kansas)

Vida Saeedzadeh (University of Victoria)

Kelly Sanderson (New Mexico State University)

Claudia Scarlata (University of Minnesota)

Jan Scholtz (KICC, Cambridge)

Ahmed Shaban (North Carolina State University)

Sijing Shen (University of Oslo)

Jingjing Shi (Kavli IPMU)

Malgorzata Siudek (IFAE, Barcelona)

Manuel Solimano (Universidad Diego Portales)

Bryson Stemock (New Mexico State University)

Clayton Strawn (UCSC)

Toni Tuominen (Tartu Observatory, University of Tartu)

Hideki Umehata (Nagoya University)

Lourdes Verdes-Montenegro (Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (CSIC))

Pieter van Dokkum (Yale University)

Simone Veronese (ASTRON & Kapteyn Astronomical Institute)

Bart Wakker (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Haifeng Wang (GEPI, Paris observatory )

Yanbin YANG (CNRS/Paris Observatory)

Tianyi Yang (University of Edinburgh)

Suk-Jin Yoon (Yonsei University, Korea)

Huanian Zhang (Huazhong University of Science and Technology)

YI Zhang (Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics)

Yong Zheng (University of California, Berkeley)

Chen Zorea (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Location

Champoluc, Aosta Valley,

Northern Italy.

Venue: Centro SPA Monterosa

Find out more about logistics here


Stay in the loop

FInal list of participants and programme announced. Registration is now closed.

For inquiries, please contact the organising committee at gas2022@unimib.it

This conference has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme: FEEDGALAXIES (Grant agreement No. 757535). This event is organized by members of the Department of Physics at the University of Milano-Bicocca.