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The Lyman-alpha Emitter Workshop
Scientific Program
Program Schedule
Workshop will take place in the OSU Physics Research Building (PRB)
Room 4138
191 W. Woodruff Ave. Columbus, Ohio 43210
A person was assigned to coordinate the discussion in each session (and we assume that you accept the assignment). The discussion in each session is not limited to the topics listed below.
**Talk presentations are now linked to the titles below.
| Monday April 26, 2010 | |||
| Time | Speaker | Activity | Discussion Topic |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:30- 8:50 | Coffee/Breakfast | ||
| 8:50- 9:00 | Haojing Yan | Opening Remarks | |
| 9:00- 9:40 | Eric Gawiser | LAEs: Their Place in the High-redshift Zoo and Present-day Descendants | |
| 9:40- 10:20 | James Rhoads | Observational Prospects for z >5.7 LAEs and Reionization Tests | |
| 10:20-11:10 | AstroCoffee (McPherson - Astronomy Dept) | ||
| 11:10-11:50 | Masami Ouchi | Lya Emitters at High Redshifts: View from Subaru | |
| 11:50-12:30 | (Eric Gawiser) | Discussion Session I | definition of LAEs, LAE survey design, selection effect of LAEs, connections to LBGs, ... |
| 12:30- 1:30 | Lunch | ||
| 1:30- 2:10 | Alice Shapley | The Relationship between Lya Emission and Stellar Populations in Star-forming Galaxies at z~3 | |
| 2:10- 2:50 | Zheng Zheng | Radiative Transfer Modeling of Lya Emitters | |
| 2:50- 3:30 | Mark Dijkstra | Outflows and the Detectability of Lya Emission from High-Redshift Galaxies | |
| 3:30- 4:00 | Coffee | ||
| 4:00- 4:40 | (Zheng Zheng) | Discussion Session II | LAE models, model tests with observational data, polarization, ... |
| Tuesday April 27, 2010 | |||
| Time | Speaker | Activity | Discussion Topic |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:30- 9:00 | Coffee/Breakfast | ||
| 9:00- 9:40 | Haojing Yan | Magellan High-z LAE Survey | |
| 9:40- 10:20 | Esther Hu | z=6.5 LAEs: do they differ from those at lower redshift? | |
| 10:20-11:10 | AstroCoffee (McPherson - Astronomy Dept) | ||
| 11:10-11:50 | Matt McQuinn | Observing Reionization with LAEs, LAEs and 21cm Surveys | |
| 11:50-12:30 | (Masami Ouchi) | Discussion Session III | evolution of LAE properties (LFs, EWs, line shapes, ...), clustering, reionization constraints, ... |
| 12:30- 1:30 | Lunch | ||
| 1:30- 2:10 | Renyue Cen | LAEs and Dark Energy / Reionization | |
| 2:10- 2:50 | (Alice Shapley) | Discussion Session IV | stellar population, top-heavy IMF, role of dust, Lya blobs, ... |
| 2:50- 3:20 | Coffee | ||
| 3:20- 4:00 | (Esther Hu & James Rhoads) | Final Discussion / Summary | how we can make progress on different issues |
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