2008 Beijing Summer School and Workshop

Beijing, China, July 1 - 11, 2008

Programme

Topics

Programme

A summer school and a workshop will be held at the Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Peking University, Beijing, 1 - 11 July 2008. The acamdemic avtivities will include:
1) A summer school from Tuesday July 1 to Tuesday July 8
2) A workshop from Wednesday July 9 to Friday July 11
3) Evening lectures delivered by honorable guests,
Profs. Jian-sheng Chen, Da-run Xiong, Jia-lu Zhang and You-yuan Zhou

The workshop will consist of a series of (invited) short talks, each of 20min duration plus 10min discussion. Each day, there will be an hour-long session set aside for general discussion.

The summer school will focus on the various physical and astrophysical processes, theoretical and numerical tools as well as observational techniques relevant for revealing the cosmic reionization history. It will consist of 14 lectures, each of three hour duration (two hour lecture plus one hour interactive activities -- exercises, discussions), delivered by national and international experts of the field.

Important dates

The deadline of pre-registration for the summer school and the workshop is March 15, 2008.
The deadline of submission of abstracts of contributed talks for the workshop is April 15, 2008.
The deadline of final registration for the summer school and for the workshop is May 15, 2008.
The deadline of submission of abstracts of invited talks and accepted contributed talks for the workshop is June 15, 2008.

Topics

1) An introduction of observational cosmology: Observations and theoretical framework
2) Theory of structure formation
3) Theory of photoionized gaseous nebulae
4) Radiative transfer and numerical simulations
5) The reioniztion of hydrogen -- observational probes:
a) CMB and polarization;
b) High redshift QSOs and galaxies;
c) Ly alpha emitters;
d) H I 21cm;
e) IR background;
f) Gravitational lensing
6) Properties of first generation stars, cosmic abundances, extremely metal poor stars
7) Feedback from the first stars and galaxies (UV radiation, metals, kinetic energy)
8) Dust grains and molecules at high redshifts
9) IGM evolution at intermediate redshifts (elemental enrichment, the UV radiation field, He II reionization)
10) Observational facilities, current and planned, in particular the roles Chinese facilities such as LAMOST and FAST can play in the study of cosmic reionization

Summer school program

June 30 (Monday)
14:00 - 18:00	Registration
Venue: ShaoYuan	Bld #7, Peking University Chitai International Center

18:00	Dinner
Venue: Yan Yuan	hall, Shao Yuan Bld #7, Peking University Chitai International Center

July 1 (Tuesday)
Venue: Room 301,	No.2 Teaching Building

08:30 - 11:30	Zuhui Fan	Cosmology Basics
14:00 - 17:00	Yipeng Jing	Physical properties of dark matter halos (PDF1, PDF2)

July 2 (Wednseday)
08:30 - 11:30	Xiaowei Liu	Theory of photoionization and radiative transfer (PDF)
14:00 - 17:00	Xuelei Chen	Dark matter and dark energy (PDF)

July 3 (Thursday)
08:30 - 11:30	Xiangping Wu	Radio Detection of the Epoch of Reionization (PDF)
14:00 - 17:00	Yaoquan Chu	The survey for Large Scale Structure in the Universe (PDF)

July 4 (Friday)
08:30 - 11:30	Houjun Mo	Galaxy formation: processes and framework (PDF1, PDF2)

July 5 (Saturday)	free

July 6 (Sunday)
08:30 - 11:30	Xiaohui Fan	The Gunn-Peterson Effect and Observational Constraints of Reionization History (PDF)
14:00 - 17:00	Andrew Bunker	Star Formation in the First Billion Years (PDF)

July 7 (Monday)
08:30 - 11:30	Andrea Ferrara	Theory of cosmic reionization (PDF)
14:00 - 17:00	Chris Carilli	Observations of the HI 21cm signal from the neutral IGM during cosmic reionization, and beyond (PDF)

July 8 (Tuesday)
08:30 - 11:30	Peng Oh	The Physics of Early Galaxy Formation (PDF)

Workshop program

July 8
14:00 - 18:00	Registration (Shao Yuan)
Venue: ShaoYuan	Bld #7 Peking University Chiatai International Center

18:00	Dinner
Venue: Hong Ya	hall, Shao Yuan Bld #7 Peking University Chiatai International Center

July 9
08:20 - 08:30	Welcome

Session 1: First Galaxies and Quasars (Chair: Licai Deng )

08:30 - 09:00	Tim Beers	The Most Metal-Poor Stars in The Galaxy (PPT)

09:00 - 09:30	Yong-Zhong Qian	Abundances in metal-poor stars and chemical evolution of the early universe (PDF)

09:30 - 10:00	Michale Rauch	Searches for Typical Galaxies at High Redshift (PDF)

10:00 - 10:30		coffe break

10:30 - 11:00	Yipeng Jing	The connection between galaxy mergers, starbursts, and AGN activities (PPT)

11:00 - 11:30	Andy Bunker	Star formation in the first billion years (PPT)

11:30 - 12:00	Junxian Wang	The large area Lyman alpha survey (PPT)

12:00 - 12:30	Jaron Kurk	Probing the QSO populations at z~6 over two order of magnitude (PDF)

12:30 - 14:00		lunch

Session 1: Continued (Chair: Andrew J. Bunker)

14:00 - 14:30	Linhua Jiang	Evolution of the quasar population at z~6 (PDF)

14:30 - 15:00	Ran Wang	Warm dust in the most distant quasars (PPT)

15:00 - 15:30	Xuebing Wu	Black hole - bulge relation of high redshift quasars (PPT)

15:30 - 16:00	Li-Xin Li	Star Formation at High z: Implications for GRBs and the Cosmic Metallicity Evolution (PDF)

16:00 - 17:30		coffee break and tour of the KIAA building

18:00		banquet

Venue:		Bai Restaurant

July 10

Session 2: History of Reionization (Chair: Michael Rauch)

08:30 - 09:00	Peng Oh	Lessons for Hydrogen Reionization from Helium Reionization (PDF)

09:00 - 09:30	Zoltan Haiman	Feedback Processes Regulating Cosmological Reionization and the Growth of Supermassive Black Holes at High-Redshift (PPT)

09:30 - 10:00	Marcelo Alvarez	The Characteristic Scales and Topology of Reionization and its Connection to the Present Day Universe (PDF)

10:00 - 10:30	Naoki Yoshida	The First Sources of Light (PDF)

10:30 - 11:00		coffee break

11:00 - 11:30	Kazuaki Ota	Probing Reionization and Galaxy Evolution by High Redshift Lyman-alpha Emitters (PPT)

11:30 - 12:00	Mark Dijkstra	Lyman Alpha Emitting Galaxies as Probe into the High-Redshift Universe (PDF)

12:00 - 12:30	Shuangnan Zhang	A Cosmology Independent Calibration of Gamma-Ray Burst Luminosity Relations and the Hubble Diagram (PPT) + HMXT (PPT)

12:30 - 14:00	lunch

Session 2: Continued (Chair: Chris Carilli)

14:00 - 14:30	Jordi Miralda-Escude	Sources of Reionization (PPT)

14:30 - 15:00	Haojing Yan	Galaxies as the Major Sources of Reionization (PPT)

15:00 - 15:30	Gil Holder	Reionization signatures in the microwave background (PDF)

15:30 - 16:00	Junhui Fan	Brightness temperature for a sample of radio sources (PPT)

16:00 - 16:30		coffee break

16:30 - 17:30		open discussion (PPT)

18:00		dinner

July 11

Session 3: Future Probes and Facilities (Chair: Yu Gao)

08:30 - 09:00	Yaoquan Chu	The progress of LAMOST Project (PPT)

09:00 - 09:30	Sebastian Jester	The Pan-STARRS high-z quasar search (PDF)

09:00 - 10:00	Rogier Windhorst	How can the James Webb Space Telescope measure First Light, Reionization, and Galaxy Assembly (PDf)

10:00 - 10:30		coffee break

10:30 - 11:00	Chris Carilli	Gas, dust, and star formation in the first galaxies (PPT)

11:00 - 11:30	Xuelei Chen	Dark Age, First star, Reionization (PDF)

11:30 - 12:00	Tzu-Ching Chang	The GMRT EoR Experiment: Limitsonpolarized foregrounds (PDF)

12:00 - 13:30		lunch

Session 3: Continued (Chair: Rogier Windhorst)

13:30 - 14:00	Xiaohui Fan	The Epoch of Reionization and the ELTs (PPT)

14:00 - 14:30	Xiaowei Liu	WSO/UV (PDF)

14:30 - 15:00		coffee break

15:00 - 16:00		open discussion

16:00 - 16:30	Andrea Ferrara	Summary

18:00		dinnner

Summer school participants

Name	Institute
Sarah Elizabeth Bryan	Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics, University of Manchester, UK

Andrew John Bunker	Anglo-Australian Observatory, Australian

Hongbing Cai	Center of Astrophysics at USTC, China

Yixian Cao	Univ. of Science and Technology Beijing, China

Zhu Chen	SHAO, China

Weiguang Cui	SHAO, China

Pratika Dayal	SISSA/ISAS, Italy

Ran Ding	Physics Dept., Shanghai Normal Univ., China

Xiaohui Fan	University of Arizona, USA

Guanwen Fang	Center of Astrophysics at USTC, China

Xuan Fang	Dept. of Astronomy, Peking Univ., China

Andrea Ferrara	SISSA/ISAS, Italy

Martina Friedrich	Dept.of Astronomy, Univ. of Stockholm, Sweden

Jian Fu	SHAO, China

Yan Gong	NAOC, China

Zhiyuan Gong	Purple Mountain Observatory, China

Wenbiao Han	SHAO, China

Jingmeng Hao	Center of Astrophysics at USTC, China

Lei Hao	University of Texas at Austin / McDonald Observatory, USA

Yanqin He	Center of Astrophysics at USTC, China

Ligang Hou	NAOC, China

Feng Huang	NAOC, China

Fabio Iocco	INAF-Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri, Italy

Sebastian Jester	Max-Planck-Institute for Astronomy, Germany

Tuo Ji	Center of Astrophysics at USTC, China

Linhua Jian	Dept. of Astronomy, U. of Arizona, USA

Yipeng Jing	Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, China

Therese Jones	Penn State U., USA

Yong-Yeon Keum	Department of Physics, National Taiwan University, China

Jong Tze Kian	National Space Agency, Malaysia

Jaron Kurk	Max-Planck-Institute for Astronomy, Germany

Tian Lan	Astronomy Dept., Beijing Normal Univ., China

Ho Bun Lau	KIAA-PKU, China

Wolung Lee	National Taiwan Normal Univ., China

Li-xin Li	KIAA-PKU, China

Ming Li	Astronomy Dept. Nanjing Univ., China

Shuo Li	Dept. of Astronomy, Peking Univ., China

Yuan Li	Purple Mountain Observatory

Zhaoyu Li	Dept. of Astronomy, Peking Univ., China

Chengze Liu	SHAO, China

Jiayi Liu	Dept. of Astronomy, Peking Univ., China

Lei Liu	SHAO, China

Teng Liu	Center of Astrophysics at USTC, China

Xiwei Liu	Department of Physics, Huazhong Normal University, China

Xiaowei Liu	PKU, China

Xuewen Liu	Purple Mountain Observatory

Wei Liu	NAOC, China

Wentao Luo	SHAO, China

Bin Ma	Purple Mountain Observatory, China

Bo Ma	Astronomy Dept. Nanjing Univ., China

Jie Ma	Beijing Normal University, China

Yinzhe Ma	Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics China

Yewei Mao	Center of Astrophysics at USTC, China

Hou-jun Mo	University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA

Siang Peng Oh	UCSB, USA

Surya Pachhai	Central Department of Physics, Tribhuwan University, Nepal

Xiaoying Pang	Joint Center for Astrophysics, Shanghai Normal Univ., China

Chang Peng	Center of Astrophysics at USTC, China

Zhiyuan Ren	Dept. of Astronomy, Peking Univ., China

Annoshiravan Roozrokh	Iran

Meng Su	Astronomy Dept., Harvard University, USA

Ying Tan	Center of Astrophysics at USTC, China

Roger Leiton-Thompson	Astronomy Department, University of Concepcion, Chile

Haijun Tian	NAOC, China

Hong Tu	Purple Mountain Observatory

Caihong Wang	SHAO, China

Fayin Wang	Astronomy Dept. Nanjing Univ., China

Jianguo Wang	Yunnan Observatory, China

Lingzhi Wang	Astronomy Dept., Beijing Normal Univ., China

Ran Wang	Dept. of Astronomy, Peking Univ., China

Xin Wang	Deptartment of Astronomy, Nanjing University, China

Yougang Wang	NAOC, China

Xuebing Wu	Dept. of Astronomy, Peking Univ., China

Ting Xiao	Center of Astrophysics at USTC, China

Dandan Xu	Jodrell Bank Observatory, University of Manchester, UK

Jia Xu	National Taiwan Normal Univ., China

Shengnian Xu	Center of Astrophysics at USTC, China

Yidong Xu	Dept. of Astronomy, Peking Univ., China

Zhou Xu	Purple Mountain Observatory

Rongrong Xue	Purple Mountain Observatory, China

Changshuo Yan	Insititute of High Energy Physics, China

Haojing Yan	Observatories of the Carnegie Institution, USA

Heling Yan	Dept. of Astronomy, Peking Univ., China

Guilin Yang	NAOC, China

Jianghe Yang	Hunan U. of Arts and Science, China

Xiaofeng Yang	SHAO, China

Xiaohu Yang	SHAO, China

Jun Yin	SHAO, China

Heng Yu	Beijing Normal University, China

Qingjuan Yu	UCSC, USA

Yu Yu	SHAO, China

Bin Yue	NAOC, China

Haibo Yuan	Deptartment of Astronomy, Peking University, China

Tayyaba Zafar	Dark Cosmology Center, Niels Bohr Institute University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Shaohua Zhang	Center of Astrophysics at USTC, China

Shuo Zhang	Dept.of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua Univ., China

Wen Zhao	School of Physics and Astronomy, Cardiff University, UK

Zhenya Zheng	Center of Astrophysics at USTC, China

Jie Zhou	NAOC, China

Zhimin Zhou	NAOC, China

Weishan Zhu	Purple Mountain Observatory

Workshop participants

Name	Institute
Marcelo Alvarez	KIPAC, Stanford University, USA

Tim Beers	Michigan State University, USA

Andrew J Bunker	Anglo-Australian Observatory

Hongbing Cai	Center of Astrophysics at USTC, China

Chris Carilli	National Radio Astronomy Observatory, USA

Gang Chen	Tianjin Normal U., China

Xuelei Chen	National Astronomical Observatories, China

Yaoquan Chu	University of Science and Technology of China

Pratika Dayal	Iternational School for Advanced Studies(SISSA/ISAS), Italy

Mark Dijkstra	CfA, USA

Jordi Miralda-Escude	The Institute of Space Science in Barcelona, Spain

Junhui Fan	Center of Astrophysics, Guangzhou U., China

Xiaohui Fan	University of Arizona, USA

Longlong Feng	University of Science and Technology of China

Andrea Ferrara	SISSA, Italy

Simona Gallerani	Institute of Physics, Eotvos U., Hungary

Jianheng Guo	Yunnan Observatory, China

Zoltan Haiman	Columbia., USA

Gil Holder	McGill University, Canada

Fabio Iocco	INAF-Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri, Italy

Sebastian Jester	Max-Planck-Institute for Astronomy, Germany

Linhua Jiang	U. of Arizona, USA

Zhenglu Jiang	Zhongshan U., China

Yipeng Jing	Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, China

Therese Jones	Penn State U., USA

Xi Kang	Max-Planck-Institute for Astronomy, Germany

Jong Tze Kian	National Space Agency, Malaysia

Yong-Yeon Keum	Department of Physics, National Taiwan University, China

Xu Kong	Center of Astrophysics at USTC, China

Jaron Kurk	Max-Planck-Institute for Astronomy, Germany

Ho Bun Lau	KIAA-PKU, China

Wolung Lee	National Taiwan Normal Univ., China

Li-xin Li	KIAA, PKU

Xiaowei Liu	PKU, China

Weipeng Lin	SHAO, China

Yi Liu	Guangzhou U., China

Antonella Maselli	MPA, Germany

Pat McCarthy	Observatories of the Carnegie Institution, USA

Siang Peng Oh	UCSB, USA

Kazuaki Ota	Riken, Japan

Jun Pan	Purple Mountain Observatory, China

Yong-Zhong Qian	University of Minnesota, USA

Yiping Qin	Guangzhou U., China

Michael Rauch	Observatories of the Carnegie Institution, USA

Meng Su	Astronomy Dept., Harvard University, USA

Marcos Valdes	International School for Advanced Studies(SISSA/ISAS), Italy

Hongguang Wang	Guangzhou U., USA

Junxian Wang	University of Science and Technology of China

Yougang Wang	NAOC China

Rogier Windhorst	Arizona State University, USA

Xuebing Wu	Dept. of Astronomy, Peking U., China

Haojing Yan	Observatories of the Carnegie Institution, USA

Jianghe Yang	Hunan U. of Arts and Science, China

Xiaohu Yang	SHAO, China

Naoki Yoshida	Nagoya U., Japan

Qingjuan Yu	UCSC, USA

Tayyaba Zafar	Dark Cosmology Center, U. of Copenhagen, Denmark

Jingyi Zhang	Guangzhou U., China

Jiangshui Zhang	Guangzhou U., China

Shuang-Nan Zhang	Tsinghua University, China

Yong Zhang	dept.of Phy., U. of Hong Kong, China

Wen Zhao	Cardiff U., UK

Visa information

Participants requiring assistance on entrance visa to China, please send the following infomation to zhangn@ kiaa.pku.edu.cn. An official invitation letter for visa application will be sent to you.
1) Full name
2) Gender
3) Passport Number
4) Place to apply for Chinese visa
5) Issuance date & place
6) Issuance authority
7) Expiration date
8) Nationality
9) Date and place of birth
10) Occupation and position
11) Arrival and departure dates
12) A short resume

Scientific Organizing Committee	Local Organizing Committee

Chris Carilli (NRAO, USA)	Guo-xuan Dong (NSFC, China)
Xue-lei Chen (NAOC, China)	Jing-xin Hao (CAS, China)
Li-cai Deng (NAOC, China)	Jia-li Wang (NAOC, China)
Xiao-hui Fan (U. of Arizona, USA, co-chair)	Sui-jian Xue (NAOC, China, Chair)
Andrea Ferrara (SISSA, Italy)	Jie Yao (PKU, China)
Zoltan Haiman (Columbia U., USA)	Ning Zhang (PKU, China)
Xiao-wei Liu (PKU, China, co-chair)
Shu-de Mao (U. of Manchester, UK)
Peng Oh (UCSB, USA)
Hou-jun Mo (UMass, USA)
Max Pettini (U. of Cambridge, UK)
Ting-gui Wang (USTC, China)
Xiang-ping Wu (NAOC, China)
Xue-bing Wu (PKU, China)
Xu Zhou (NAOC, China)

Programme

Important dates

Topics

Summer school program

Workshop program

July 8

July 9

Session 1: First Galaxies and Quasars (Chair: Licai Deng )

Session 1: Continued (Chair: Andrew J. Bunker)

July 10

Session 2: History of Reionization (Chair: Michael Rauch)

Session 2: Continued (Chair: Chris Carilli)

July 11

Session 3: Future Probes and Facilities (Chair: Yu Gao)

Session 3: Continued (Chair: Rogier Windhorst)

Summer school participants

Name

Institute

Workshop participants

Name

Institute

Visa information

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