Programme
Programme
Long talks will be in a 12' + 3' format
Short talks will be in a 4' + 1' format
Thursday January 6th
Welcome | 09:20-09:30
Session 1 | 09:30-11:00
Chair: John Peacock
Moderator: Mathilde Jauzac
LONG TALKS
Chittenden, Harry -- Predicting Galaxy Formation Histories From Dark Matter Halos In IllustrisTNG, With Machine Learning
Grove, Cameron -- Testing the Robustness of Simulations for the DESI Dark Time Survey
Phipps, Frederika -- Small but Mighty: The Formation of Globular Clusters in Cosmological Simulations
Evans, Tilly -- JWST predictions for Milky Way analogues
SHORT TALKS
Thomson, Fionagh -- Mock Observations & Real Simulations: do observations hold unwarranted dominance over simulations in deciding ‘what is real’ [in Extragalactic astronomy]?
Elliott, Edward -- Parameter calibration in galaxy formation models
Karamanis, Minas -- Robust Simulation-based Cosmological Inference
Chan, Tsang Keung -- Simulating disk halo interface in Milky Way-mass galaxies
Cui, Weiguang -- From the scatter to galaxy formation
Coffee break | 11:00-11:30
Session 2 | 11:30-13:00
Chair: Julie Wardlow
Moderator: Aidan Sedgewick
LONG TALKS
Birkin, Jack -- KAOSS: A KMOS survey of high-redshift dusty star-forming galaxies
Cornish, Thomas -- Exploring the environments of SMGs: a wide-field narrowband study
Amvrosiadis, Aristeidis -- The kinematics of massive dusty star-forming galaxies at high redshift
SHORT TALKS
Leung, Ho-Hin -- Linking galaxy quenching with gas-rich mergers by studying the chemical evolution of 15 MaNGA post-starburst galaxies
Short, Phil -- Understanding the Host Galaxies of Tidal Disruption Events
Ni, Qingling -- The relation between black-hole growth and host-galaxy compactness among star-forming galaxies
Sidhu, Manika -- Measuring obscured supermassive black hole growth in the early universe with the Keck Observatory
Rendell-Bhatti, Harry -- Half a million quasars over 65 years
Lunch break | 13:00-14:00
Session 3 | 14:00-15:30
Chair: John Stott
Moderator: Hannah Turner
LONG TALKS
Carnall, Adam -- Tracing the most massive galaxies back to the first billion years
Hamadouche, Massissilia -- The mass-size evolution of massive quiescent galaxies from z = 0.6 to z = 1.3
Donnan, Callum -- The role of the cosmic web in the scatter of the galaxy mass-metallicity relation
Moore, Sam -- Using DESI BGS to investigate environmental dependencies of galaxies
SHORT TALKS
Desmet, Pascale -- The progenitors of quiescent galaxies – investigating the ISM of z~4.5 SMGs
Sedgewick, Aidan -- The clustering properties of the reddest galaxies with UKIDSS-DXS
Sirks, Ellen -- Constraining dark matter self-interactions with galaxy cluster shapes
Luna, Margarita -- Differences in the dark matter halo density of mock integral field cubes and observations
Sorini, Daniele -- The impact of stellar and AGN feedback on the distribution of matter in the Universe
Coffee break | 15:30-16:00
Session 4 | 16:00-17:00
Chair: Guillaume Mahler
Moderator: Nency Patel
LONG TALKS
Lagattuta, David -- Probing central mass distributions with “exotic” cluster lenses
Niemiec, Anna -- Influence of the cluster environment on the galaxy/subhalo connection
Cerny, Catherine -- Probing the Inner Density Profile of Galaxy Clusters Using Strong Lensing and MUSE Spectroscopy
Turner, Hannah -- Kinematic and dynamical modelling of the “Jackpot” triple-source lens
Social event | 19:30-21:00
Friday January 7th
Session 5 | 09:30-11:00
Chair: Leah Morabito
Moderator: Jack Birkin
LONG TALKS
Appleby, Sarah -- The Circumgalactic Medium in Simba
Beckett, Alex -- Probing the z<1 circumgalactic medium using a background quasar triplet
Smith, Russell -- Poisson-fluctuation spectroscopy and resolved stellar spectroscopy in Centaurus A
Donald-McCann, Jamie -- matryoshka: Facilitating and Accelerating Power Spectra Analyses
SHORT TALKS
Yan-Chuan, Cai -- Intergalactic filaments spin
Gough, Alex -- Probing extended cosmologies with clustering statistics beyond the average
Giblin, Benjamin -- Beyond 2-point functions: Getting more cosmology from weak lensing
Harnois-Deraps, Joachim -- Dark energy in the non-linear regime
Poci, Adriano -- Exploring Dynamical Models of Strong Lens Galaxies
Coffee break | 11:00-11:30
Session 6 | 11:30-12:45
Chair: Keith Horne
Moderator: Victor Forouhar
LONG TALKS
Richings, Alex -- Unravelling the physics of multiphase AGN winds through emission line tracers
Petley, James -- How does radio emission connect to outflowing winds in quasars?
Thomas, Nicole -- Investigating the radio galaxy population with Simba and MIGHTEE
Wade, Heather -- Y-NBS: Probing the epoch of reionisation with the brightest distant Lya emitters
SHORT TALKS
Rosario, David -- Dust in the Wind: Testing a new paradigm of AGN feedback with JWST
Escott, Emmy -- Linking AGN radio properties to outflows
Husko, Filip -- Self-consistent jet feedback in hydrodynamical simulations of galaxy formation
Lunch break | 12:45-14:00
Session 7 | 14:00-15:30
Chair: Teresita Suarez
Moderator: Andreia Carrillo
LONG TALKS
Dougherty, Sean -- Investigating the role of mergers for triggering AGN in extragalactic surveys
Fawcett, Vicky -- Exploring the diversity in DESI quasars
Barlow-Hall, Cassandra -- Constraints on the X-ray Luminosity Function of AGN at high redshift, with ExSeSS
Andonie, Carolina -- Fundamental differences between obscured and unobscured IR quasars in the COSMOS field
SHORT TALKS
Kynoch, Daniel -- The origin of the near-infrared coronal lines in the active galaxy NGC 5548
Delaney, Jack -- The Extragalactic Serendipitous Swift Survey (ExSeSS): survey definition and measurements of the X-ray number counts
MacKenzie, Duncan -- Ultraluminous X-ray Sources: What fraction are neutron star accretors?
Patel, Nency -- Search for X-ray Dim Isolated Neutron Stars
Mitchell, Jake -- Studies of a new large X-ray/UV selected AGN sample.
Coffee break | 15:30-16:00
Session 8 | 16:00-16:45
Chair: Alkistis Pourtsidou
Moderator: Annagrazia Puglisi
LONG TALKS
Forouhar, Victor -- Constraining the nature of dark matter using the satellite system of the Milky Way
Oman, Kyle -- The diverse observed rotation curves of simulated dwarf galaxies with dark matter cusps and cores
Elbers, Willem -- Synergies in the neutrino sector