Miracles of the Early Universe Meeting II

20th-22nd May 2026

Geneva, Switzerland

A three-day meeting aimed at expanding the community's interpretation of some of the lesser-understood “miracles” that have been unveiled by JWST in recent years. This includes, but is not limited to topics such as the formation and evolution of early massive black holes, the ISM and CGM properties of high-redshift galaxies, the drivers of cosmic reionisation and the processes dictating the stochastic star-formation histories of primeval galaxies.

Travel to the Meeting Venue

From Geneva: Take the train from Geneva Cornavin to Versoix. Then follow the instructions from Versoix.

From Versoix: Take the 55 bus from Versoix Gare to Observatoire de Genève.

All times, routes and tickets are available at https://www.sbb.ch/en.

Note that travel passes are complimentary with hotel bookings in Geneva, so purchasing transport to and from your hotel and Ecogia is not necessary, however, for those without a hotel, the above SBB link is the easiest way to purchase tickets.

Location

Observatoire de Genève

The meeting will take place in the Astrotech meeting room at Observatoire de Genève.

The adjacent map will take you to the entrance of the building.

www.mescavesouvertes.ch

Cave Ouvertes

The workshop coincides with the popular Cave Ouvertes weekend (23rd-24th May). For those staying for Saturday 23rd May, we will be visiting vineyards just east of Lausanne in Lavaux.

We will depart from Geneva Cornavin at 10:39 on Saturday morning. Transportation to the Lavaux region is mostly included in the Caves Ouvertes ticket. However, you do still need to buy a ticket to outside the Geneva canton, i.e. a ticket from Geneva Cornavin to Coppet (~12.80 CHF return ticket).

The ticket for Caves Ouvertes can be bought online up until the day before the event. The ticket is 40 CHF and is available at https://www.mescavesouvertes.ch/en; we will give further details on Friday.

We will walk from Saint-Saphorin to Cully, a ~6 km walk, stopping at 20 vineyards along the way. Note that you need to bring cash in order to buy lunch along the route.

Finally, note that the weather is forecast to be 28 degrees with few clouds, and therefore you should bring adequate sunscreen and water.

Schedule

Schedule: Miracles of the early Universe II

Meeting attendees

Confirmed attendees

Yoshi Asada

Hakim Atek

Jake Bennett

Danielle Berg

Aniket Bhagwat

Matilde Brazzini

Cristian Carvajal

John Chisholm

Nicholas Choustikov

Alba Covelo Paz

Lola Danhaive

Maya Debski

Callum Donnan

Robert Feldman

Yoshinobu Fudamoto

Rashmi Gottumukkala

Michelle Jecmen

Damien Korber

Sebastian Ljung

Federica Loiacono

Tobias Looser

Yilun Ma

Rui Marques-Chaves

Sara Mascia

Giovanni Mazzolari

Will McClymont

Derek McLeod

Corentin Meuwly

Romain Meyer

Ilona Morel

Lorenzo Napolitano

Ivan Nikolić

Katherine Ormerod

Clara Pollock

Alexandre Pozzi

Giulia Pruto

Songnan Qi

Lucie Rowland

Charlotte Simmonds

Thomas Stanton

Mabel Stephenson

Alberto Torralba

Andrea Weibel

Lily Whitler

Joris Witstok

Mengyuan Xiao

Yi Xu

Orangisers

Callum Witten (co-chair)

Emma Giovinazzo (co-chair)

Pascal Oesch

Registration Fee

The registration fee will be 200 CHF, and is payable either by bank transfer now, or by card or cash on the first day of the meeting. The fee includes lunches and coffee breaks, a wine and cheese event on Wednesday 20th May and a meeting dinner on Friday 22nd May.

Accommodation

We recommend that participants consider Airbnbs and hotels in Geneva. While hotels are typically expensive in Geneva, Airbnbs are often more affordable.

The meeting location can be accessed by a 10 minute bus journey (55 bus) from Versoix.

The meeting location can also be accessed from central Geneva (Cornavin station) in 30 minutes, via a 15 minute train followed by the same bus as above. As such, hotels near Léman Express stations (e.g. Cornavin or Lancy) are strongly recommended.

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