Early Galaxies and Infant Black Holes - Formation and Growth at Cosmic Dawn
Programme
MONDAY 12 OCTOBER - Palazzo Corsini - Via della Lungara, 10
8:45-9:30 Registration
(10 min) Roberto Antonelli (President of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei) — Welcome Address on behalf of the Accademia
(15 min) Piero Madau, Francesca Matteucci — Opening Remarks and General Information
Session 1 — First Stars and the Earliest Stellar Systems (chair: Garth Illingworth)
(review 30 min) Pascal Oesch (Univ. Geneva & DAWN Copenhagen) — The First Chapters of Galaxy Build-up Revealed by JWST
(20+5 min) Stefania Salvadori (Univ. Florence / Arcetri) — Uncovering the First Stars through Living Relics and Direct Detection
(20+5 min) Volker Bromm (Univ. Texas at Austin) — Lessons from JWST for the Formation of the First Stars and Black Holes
11:15 – 11:45 — Coffee Break
(20+5min) James Dunlop (Univ. Edinburgh) — Charting the Emergence of the First Galaxies with JWST
(20+5 min) Andrea Ferrara (SNS Pisa) — The Beautiful Confusion. Super-Early Galaxies seen by the James Webb Space Telescope
(20+5 min) Seiji Fujimoto (Univ. Toronto) — First-Year Results from VENUS on Early Galaxies and Black Holes
13:00 – 14:30 — Lunch
Session 2 — Early Chemical and Dust Enrichment; Abundance Patterns (Chair: Andrea Cimatti)
(review 30min) Mirko Curti (INAF OAS) — Chemical enrichment of high-z galaxies: latest results from JWST
(20+5min) Danielle Berg (Univ. Texas at Austin) — A Race Against the Clock: The Rapid Enrichment of Early Galaxies
(20+5 min) Irene Shivaei (CAB, CSIC Madrid) — Dust enrichment in early galaxies: an observer’s view
(20+5 min) Valentina D’Odorico (INAF Trieste) — Early chemical enrichment investigated with quasar absorption spectra
16:15 – 16:45 — Coffee Break
(20+5 min) Karina Caputi (Kapteyn Institute, Groningen) — The Dusty Metal-Poor Phase of Early Galaxy Growth
(20+5 min) Francesca D’Antona (INAF OAR) — Populations in Globular and Nuclear Star Clusters, N-loud high-redshift AGN, and Little Red Dots
(20+5 min) Francesca Matteucci (Univ. Trieste and INAF) — A possible interpretation of the high N/O ratio in high-z galaxies
18:00 Aperitif Reception (Palazzo Corsini)
TUESDAY 13 OCTOBER - Palazzo Corsini - Via della Lungara, 10
9:15 Start
Session 3 — Massive Black Holes, AGNs, Accretion Flows (Chair: Andrea Comastri)
(review 30 min) Frank Eisenhauer (MPE Garching) — Galactic Center and Active Galactic Nuclei at highest resolution
(20+5 min) Dominika Wylezalek (Heidelberg Univ.) — Quasars at Cosmic Noon
(20+5 min) Joseph Hennawi (UCSB / Leiden) — Euclid X JWST: New Results on Supermassive Black Hole Growth at z ~ 7-8
(20+5 min) Mitchell Begelman (Univ. Colorado Boulder) — The Quasi-star Channel of Supermassive Black Hole Formation
11:00 – 11:30 — Coffee Break
(20+5 min) Piero Madau (UCSC-Univ. Milan) — Growing infant black holes
(20+5 min) Raffaella Schneider (Sapienza Univ. Roma) — The birth and early growth of black hole seeds in the first galaxies
(20+5 min) John Regan (Maynooth Univ.) — Seeding Massive Black Holes at Cosmic Dawn
12:45 – 14:15 — Lunch
Session 4 — Little Red and Blue Dots and JWST AGN Candidates (Chair: Raffaella Schneider)
(review 30 min) Dale Kocevski (Colby College) — Insights into Early Black Hole Growth with JWST
(20+5 min) Xihan Ji (Univ. Cambridge) — Insights into gas-obscured black holes with Little Red Dots
(20+5 min) Jorryt Matthee (ISTA Austria) — Observations of Little Red Dots
(20+5 min) Erini Lambrides (NASA-Goddard) — Uncovering the Extreme Growth of JWST Discovered Accreting MBHs
16:00 – 16:30 — Coffee Break
(20+5 min) Francesco D’Eugenio (Univ. Cambridge) — Emission-line properties of Little Red Dots
(20+5 min) Lukas Furtak (Univ. Texas at Austin) — Investigating JWST LRD AGN with gravitational lensing — VENUS sample
(20+5 min) David Elbaz (CEA Paris-Saclay) — The Mystery of the ‘Little Red Dots’: A Distinct Class?
18:00 Visit at Villa Farnesina - Only for participants who registered for this event
WEDNESDAY 14 OCTOBER - Palazzo Corsini - Via della Lungara, 10
9:15 Start
Session 5 — Cosmic Reionization: Sources, Escape Fractions, and IGM (Chair: Marco Castellano)
(review 30min) Laura Keating (Univ. Edinburgh) — Insights into reionization sources from the IGM thermal history
(20+5 min) Martin Haehnelt (Univ. Cambridge) — Probing Reionization and dark matter with Lyman-α in emission and absorption
(20+5 min) Laura Pentericci (INAF OAR) — Sources of reionization: ionizing photon production and escape
(20+5 min) Benedetta Ciardi (MPA Garching) — How is the escape of ionizing photons influenced by feedback?
11:00 – 11:30 — Coffee Break
(20+5 min) Charlotte Mason (DAWN, Univ. Copenhagen) — New insights into early galaxies and reionization from ultra-deep spectroscopy
(20+5 min) Hakim Atek (IAP Paris) — The galaxies that reionized the Universe
(20+5 min) Marusa Bradac (University of Ljubljana) — Early Galaxies and Black Holes under Cosmic Microscope
12:45 – 14:15 — Lunch
Session 5b — IGM, Lyman-α, Metal Enrichment + Star cluster: (Chair: Mauro Giavalisco)
(20+5 min) Girish Kulkarni (TIFR) — Probing reionization using Lyman-alpha emitters
(20+5 min) Sarah Bosman (Univ. Heidelberg) — Reionisation and early metal enrichment with quasar absorption lines
(20+5 min) Emanuele Spitoni (Oss. Trieste - INAF) — Evidence for Gas Refuelling in Star-Forming Galaxies: The Evolution of the MZR in the JWST Era
(20+5 min) Andrey Kravtsov (Univ. Chicago) — Efficiency of cluster formation during early galaxy evolution
15:55 – 16:30 — Coffee Break
16:30– 19:30 (Free)
19:30 — Social Dinner at Ristorante La Scala in Trastevere (Piazza della Scala, 58/61, 00153 Roma)
THURSDAY 15 OCTOBER - Palazzina dell’Auditorio – Via della Lungara, 230 (same entrance gate as Villa Farnesina, opposite Palazzo Corsini)
9:15 Start
Session 6 — Galaxy Formation at Cosmic Dawn (Chair: Monica Colpi)
(review 30 min) Debora Sijacki (IoA & KICC, Univ. Cambridge) — Stellar and Black Hole Feedback in Galaxy Formation Simulations at Cosmic Dawn
(20+5 min) Annalisa Pillepich (MPIA Heidelberg) — Cosmological simulations during the EoR with multi-phase ISM and sub-parsec resolution
(20+5 min) Sophie Koudmani (Univ. Hertfordshire) — How to raise a supermassive BH: AESOPICA simulations
(20+5 min) Andrea Maccio (NYUAD) — Galaxy formation at high redshift: the HELLO project
11:00 – 11:30 — Coffee Break
(20+5 min) Lucio Mayer (Univ. Zurich) — Self-gravitating gas flows at cosmic dawn: clusters, over-massive BHs and LRDs
(20+5 min) Dan Stark (UC Berkeley) — Deep JWST Spectroscopy of Early Galaxies and AGN
(20+5 min) Tommaso Treu (UCLA) — Cosmic dawn through the looking glass
12:45 – 14:15 — Lunch
Session 7 — Multiwavelength View: X-ray, Rest-UV/Optical, and Spectroscopy (Chair: Paola Santini)
(20+5 min) Elena Gallo (Univ. Michigan) — One in Four: Black Hole Occupation in the Dwarf-Galaxy Regime
(20+5 min) Fabio Vito (INAF OAS Bologna) — The X-ray view of accreting SMBHs at Cosmic Dawn
(20+5 min) Manuela Bischetti (Univ. Pisa) — A multi-wavelength picture of early BH and galaxy growth
15:30 – 16:00 — Coffee Break
(20+5 min) Luis Ho (KIAA, Peking Univ.) — Black Hole–Galaxy Coevolution at Cosmic Dawn
(20+5 min) Pablo G. Pérez-González (CAB, CSIC-INTA) — What’s a galaxy? Definitions when galaxies exist at z~25
(30-40 min) Discussion- Leaders: A. Fontana, J. Matthee, F. Pacucci, P. , Santini
FRIDAY 16 OCTOBER - Palazzina dell’Auditorio – Via della Lungara, 230 (same entrance gate as Villa Farnesina, opposite Palazzo Corsini)
9:15 Start
Session 8 — High-z Galaxy Populations: Statistics, Morphology, and Clusters (Chair: Adriano Fontana)
(20+5 min) Masami Ouchi (NAOJ / Univ. Tokyo) — Uncovering the Cosmic Dawn: New Horizons with JWST and Beyond
(20+5 min) Yuichi Harikane (Univ. Tokyo) — Statistical and Physical Properties of Early Galaxies Revealed with JWST
(20+5 min) Sandro Tacchella (Univ. Cambridge) — From Bursts to Balance: The Emergence of Self-Regulated Galaxies at Cosmic Dawn
(20+5 min) Caitlin Casey (UC Santa Barbara) — Results from ZENITH: the brightest most distant galaxies at cosmic dawn
10:55 – 11:30 — Coffee Break
Session 9 — Early galaxies and black holes highlights and Summary (Chair: Massimo Della Valle)
(20+5 min) Stefano Carniani (SNS Pisa) — A shining cosmic dawn
(20+5 min) Mark Dickinson (NSF NOIRLab) — Exploring the EoR with JWST CAPERS spectroscopy
(20+5 min) Fabio Pacucci (SNS-Pisa) — The Cosmic Dance of the Little Red Dots
(30 min) Richard Ellis (UCL) — Conference summary
13:15 - Lunch