Monday, July 9, 2018

Time Event  
09:00 - 10:30 Registration and Introduction (Amphitheatre Gastaut)  
09:30 - 09:45 › Conference Welcome - Matthew Pieri, Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille  
09:45 - 10:00 › Welcome to Aix-Marseille University - Denis Bertin, Aix Marseille Université  
10:00 - 10:30 › Observations and simulations of the intergalactic medium - Joop Schaye, Leiden Observatory  
10:30 - 11:00 Finding the cosmic web and the baryons (Amphitheatre Gastaut) - Lise Christensen  
10:30 - 11:00 › A Synopsis of the Missing Baryons and the Highly Ionized Circumgalactic Medium: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly - Todd Tripp, UMass Amherst  
11:00 - 11:20 Lightening Talks (Amphitheatre Gastaut) - Ignasi Pérez-Ràfols  
11:00 - 11:04 › Origins, distribution and kinematics of circumgalactic O VI around z ~ 0 L* galaxies in cosmological zoom-in simulations - Andri K Spilker, Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Oslo  
11:04 - 11:08 › The CGM of nearby galaxies and the second halo - Huanian Zhang, University of Arizona  
11:08 - 11:12 › Interacting galaxies on FIRE-2: The connection between enhanced star formation and interstellar gas content - Michael Bueno, Haverford College, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics  
11:12 - 11:16 › Metal Absorbers in the Local Universe - Benjamin Rosenwasser, University of Wisconsin-Madison [Madison]  
11:16 - 11:20 › Fluorescent emission from dark haloes - Calvin Sykes, Department of Physics [Durham]  
11:20 - 11:50 Coffee break (Salle des Voutes)  
11:50 - 12:50 Finding the cosmic web and the baryons (Amphitheatre Gastaut) - Lise Christensen  
11:50 - 12:10 › Characterizing WHIM in Simulations - Micah Brush, UC Berkeley  
12:10 - 12:30 › Assessing the Ne VIII Absorber Population at z~0.8 via Agnostic Stacking - Stephan Frank, The Ohio State University  
12:30 - 12:50 › New insights to the Ne VIII- and O VI-traced multiphase CGM from CASBaH - Joe Burchett, UC-Santa Cruz  
12:50 - 14:10 Organised Lunch (Salle des Voutes and Pharo gardens)  
14:10 - 15:40 Finding the cosmic web and the baryons (Amphitheatre Gastaut) - Cecile Gry  
14:10 - 14:30 › Revealing missing baryons in the cosmic web using the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect - Yan-Chuan Cai, Institute for Astronomy, University of Edinburgh  
14:30 - 14:50 › Gas contents in the local Universe from Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effects - Seunghwan Lim, UMass Amherst  
14:50 - 15:20 › Probing the multi-scale cosmic web with Lyman-alpha forest tomography: forecasts for future surveys - Clotilde Laigle, University of Oxford  
15:20 - 15:40 › Mapping the z~2 Cosmic Web with IGM Tomographic Mapping - Khee-Gan Lee, Kavli IPMU  
15:40 - 16:00 Lightening Talks (Amphitheatre Gastaut) - Celine Peroux  
15:40 - 15:44 › Unbound warm/hot gas in filaments and superclusters - Hideki Tanimura, Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale  
15:44 - 15:48 › Chemodynamics of Dwarf Galaxies under Ram-pressure - Hugo Martel, Université Laval  
15:48 - 15:52 › The Origins of HI Gas in Isolated Early-Type Galaxies - Trisha Ashley, NASA Ames Research Center  
15:52 - 15:56 › Unexpected Detection of a Cool Gas Reservoir in the Hot Halos of LRGs - Michelle Berg, University of Notre Dame  
15:56 - 16:00 › The Circumgalactic Medium of Massive Quiescent Galaxies at z~0.5 - Fakhri Zahedy, The University of Chicago  
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee break (Salle des Voutes)  
16:30 - 17:50 Finding the cosmic web and the baryons (Amphitheatre Gastaut) - Cecile Gry  
16:30 - 17:00 › Unveiling the cosmic web by mapping large-scale IGM filaments in emission - Marta Silva, Kapteyn Astronomical Institute  
17:00 - 17:20 › Connecting the Dots: Stacking the Cosmic Web in Ly-alpha emission with MUSE and EAGLE - Sofia Gallego, Department of Physics, ETH Zurich  
17:20 - 17:50 › Discussion: The future of the cosmic web tomography and the baryon detection - (Chair Joop Schaye)  

Tuesday, July 10, 2018

Time Event  
08:50 - 10:10 Circumgalactic medium: observers meet simulators (Amphitheatre Gastaut) - Palle Moller  
08:50 - 09:20 › The warm-hot circumgalactic medium of galaxies - Smita Mathur, Ohio State University  
09:20 - 09:40 › The abundance, distribution, and physical nature of highly ionized oxygen OVI, OVII, and OVIII in IllustrisTNG - Dylan Nelson, Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics  
09:40 - 10:10 › Probing the flow of gas between the CGM and galaxies with emission mapping - Chris Martin, California Institute of Technology  
10:10 - 10:30 Coffee break (Salle des Voutes)  
10:30 - 12:40 Circumgalactic medium: observers meet simulators (Amphitheatre Gastaut) - Palle Moller  
10:30 - 10:50 › CGM emission predictions from cosmological zoom-in simulations - Ramona Augustin, ESO  
10:50 - 11:20 › The Answer is Blowing in the Wind: pc-scale structure in the CGM - Max Gronke, UC, Santa Barbara  
11:20 - 11:40 › The Importance of Small-Scale Structure in the CGM: Simulations of FIRE and FOGGIE - Cameron Hummels, Caltech  
11:40 - 12:00 › New insights into the high-redshift circum-galactic medium from gravitational-arc tomography - Sebastian Lopez, Universidad de Chile  
12:00 - 12:20 › Global properties of circumgalactic medium at high-redshift: A spectroscopic study of strong Lyman-α forest absorbers - Debopam Som, LAM  
12:20 - 12:40 › Turbulence in the Circumgalactic Medium - Evan Scannapieco, Arizona State University  
12:40 - 15:30 Free afternoon (self-organised lunch)  
15:30 - 19:00 Boat cruise in the Calanques - (See Social Events page)  

Wednesday, July 11, 2018

Time Event  
09:30 - 10:40 Circumgalactic medium: observers meet simulators (Amphitheatre Gastaut) - Martin Zwaan  
09:30 - 10:00 › Observations of Gas Flows around Galaxies and their Chemical Enrichment - Varsha Kulkarni, University of South Carolina  
10:00 - 10:20 › Introducing the COS CGM Legacy Survey: Metallicity of the Circumgalactic Medium at z<1 - Nicolas Lehner, University of Notre Dame  
10:20 - 10:40 › The environments and wind-driving capabilities of Mg II absorbing galaxies at z>0.7 - Britt Lundgren, University of North Carolina Asheville  
10:40 - 11:00 Lightening Talks (Amphitheatre Gastaut) - Debopam Som  
10:40 - 10:44 › Huge intra-group ionised gas structure in a z~0.7 group - Benoît Epinat, Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille, Institut de recherche en astrophysique et planétologie  
10:44 - 10:48 › Galaxy-Gas Kinematics in the OVI Circumgalactic Medium - Glenn Kacprzak, Swinburne University of Technology  
10:48 - 10:52 › Cold Molecular Gas in Starburst Galaxies - Michael Bueno, Haverford College  
10:52 - 10:56 › Galactic wind properties using background quasar with MUSE and UVES. - Ilane Schroetter, Institut de recherche en astrophysique et planétologie, Galaxies, Etoiles, Physique, Instrumentation  
10:56 - 11:00 › Measuring magnetic fields in the circumgalactic medium of intervening galaxies - Sui Ann Mao, Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy  
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break (Salle des Voutes)  
11:30 - 12:50 Circumgalactic medium: observers meet simulators (Amphitheatre Gastaut) - Martin Zwaan  
11:30 - 11:50 › A survey of moclecular gas in HI-Absorption-Selected Systems - Anne Klitsch, ESO  
11:50 - 12:10 › Quantifying the Azimuthal Angle Distribution of Metallicity in the CGM - Stephanie Pointon, Swinburne University of Technology  
12:10 - 12:30 › Evolution of MgII CGM Kinematics Over 10 Billion Years - Nikki Nielsen, Swinburne Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing  
12:30 - 12:50 › Morphology and metallicity evolution of the circumgalactic medium - Ting-Wen Lan, Kavli IPMU  
12:50 - 14:10 Organised Lunch (Salle des Voutes and Pharo gardens)  
14:10 - 15:20 Circumgalactic medium: observers meet simulators (Amphitheatre Gastaut) - Nikki Nielsen  
14:10 - 14:40 › Simulations of gas flows - Rob Crain, Liverpool John Moores University  
14:40 - 15:00 › Gaseous halos around galaxies in FIRE simulations - Dusan Keres, University of California [San Diego]  
15:00 - 15:20 › The physical conditions of gas flows observed with MUSE and ALMA - Celine Peroux, Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille  
15:20 - 15:40 Lightening Talks - Sean Morrison  
15:20 - 15:24 › Transitioning HI-H2 clouds at high redshift - Adarsh Ranjan, Institut dÁstrophysique de Paris  
15:24 - 15:28 › Abundance and kinematics of the CGM as observed with MUSE. - Aleksandra Hamanowicz, European Southern Observatory  
15:28 - 15:32 › Damped absorbers and their galactic environments - Nils Henrik Pehlivan Rhodin, Dark Cosmology Centre, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen  
15:32 - 15:36 › Photometric Selection of Lyman Continuum Emitting Galaxy Candidates - Robert Bassett, Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing [Swinburne]  
15:36 - 15:40 › Probing the Circumgalactic and Intergalactic Medium during the Epoch of Reionization with Lyman-alpha Emitting Galaxies - Raphael Sadoun, ICCUB  
15:40 - 16:10 Coffee break (Salle des Voutes)  
16:10 - 17:40 Circumgalactic medium: observers meet simulators (Amphitheatre Gastaut) - Nikki Nielsen  
16:10 - 16:30 › Measuring gas accretion on halo scales - A MEGAFLOW accretion study - Johannes Zabl, IRAP (Toulouse)  
16:30 - 16:50 › Connecting the CGM from strong absorbers with galaxy dark-matter halos - Lise Christensen, DARK Cosmology Centre  
16:50 - 17:10 › CGM studies using QSO-galaxy and QSO-QSO pairs - Hadi Rahmani, Observatoire de Paris  
17:10 - 17:40 › Discussion: What do CGM observers and simulators need from one another for further progress? - (Chair Celine Peroux)  

Thursday, July 12, 2018

Time Event  
09:00 - 10:30 IGM (re-)ionization properties meets source population studies (Amphitheatre Gastaut) - Elisa Boera  
09:00 - 09:30 › Probing the Two Epochs of Reionization in Absorption: Status and Issues - Gabor Worseck, University of Potsdam  
09:30 - 09:50 › Probing reionization with Lyman-alpha and 21cm emission/absorption - Martin Haehnelt, University of Cambridge  
09:50 - 10:10 › The unforeseen IGM – constraining Cosmic Reionization through quirks of the inter-galactic medium - Enrico Garaldi, Bonn Universität  
10:10 - 10:30 › Diffuse Emission Halos as a Probe of Ionizing Escape Fraction and Sources during Reionization - Lluis Mas Ribas, University of Oslo  
10:30 - 10:50 Lightening Talks (Amphitheatre Gastaut) - Michael Blomqvist  
10:30 - 10:34 › Observational constraints and key-parameters of the EoR - Adelie Gorce, Institut dástrophysique spatiale, Imperial College London  
10:34 - 10:38 › Measuring the Reionization History with Quasar Damping Wings - Frederick Davies, UCSB  
10:38 - 10:42 › Mapping Quasar Light Echos in Three Dimensions with Lya Forest Tomography - Joe Hennawi, Physics Department [Santa Barbara]  
10:42 - 10:46 › Estimation of the temperature-density relation in the intergalactic medium at z~2-4 via Lyα forest - Ksenia Telikova, Ioffe Institute, 26 Politeknicheskaya st., St. Petersburg, 194021, Russia  
10:46 - 10:50 › A New Statistical Method for Measuring the Temperature-Density Relation in the IGM using the b-N Distribution - Hector Hiss, Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie  
10:50 - 11:20 Coffee break (Salle des Voutes)  
11:20 - 13:00 IGM (re-)ionization properties meets source population studies (Amphitheatre Gastaut) - Elisa Boera  
11:20 - 11:50 › The cosmic ionizing background then and now - Haardt Francesco, Universitá degli Studi dell'Insubria  
11:50 - 12:10 › Measuring large-scale UV background inhomogeneities with the HeII forest and metals - Sean Morrison, Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille  
12:10 - 12:40 › Production and escape of Lyman photons from galaxies - Anne Verhamme, Université de Genève  
12:40 - 13:00 › Constraints on HI photoionization rate and escape fraction at z < 0.5 from Ly-alpha forest - Prakash Gaikwad, Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics  
13:00 - 14:20 Organised Lunch (Salle des Voutes and Pharo gardens)  
14:20 - 15:50 IGM (re-)ionization properties meets source population studies (Amphitheatre Gastaut) - Martin Haehnelt  
14:20 - 14:40 › On the Role of Galaxies and AGN in Reionizing the IGM: Keck Spectroscopy of z>5 Galaxies in QSO fields - Koki Kakiichi, University College, London  
14:40 - 15:10 › Ionisation and the thermal history of the Intergalactic Medium - James Bolton, University of Nottingham  
15:10 - 15:30 › New HI Reionization Constraints from the High-z Lyman-alpha Forest - Jose Onorbe, Institute for Astronomy, University of Edinburgh  
15:30 - 15:50 › Tracking down reionization using the IGM thermal history - Elisa Boera, University of California [Riverside]  
15:50 - 16:10 Coffee break (Salle des Voutes)  
16:10 - 16:40 IGM (re-)ionization properties meets source population studies (Amphitheatre Gastaut) - Dusan Keres  
16:10 - 16:40 › Discussion: Further challenges for the forward and backward modelling of the of the UVB? - (Chair Dusan Keres)  
16:40 - 17:30 Intergalactic Medium Cosmology meets Intergalactic Medium properties (Amphitheatre Gastaut) - Martin Haehnelt  
16:40 - 17:10 › Measuring small-scale structure in the intergalactic medium to constrain cosmology - Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille, CEA-Saclay  
17:10 - 17:30 › Probing the IGM during Reionization with line cross-correlations - Caroline Heneka, Scuola Normale Superiore (SNS), Pisa  
19:00 - 20:00 Banquet  

Friday, July 13, 2018

Time Event  
09:00 - 10:40 Intergalactic Medium Cosmology meets Intergalactic Medium properties (Amphitheatre Gastaut) - Sebastian Lopez  
09:00 - 09:30 › The IGM as a biased tracer of large-scale fluctuations: the transmission and the absorber bias factors - Jordi Miralda-Escude, Institut de Ciencies del Cosmos  
09:30 - 09:50 › Classifying Damped Lyman Alpha Systems (DLAs) with their metal lines, a new window to the high redshift cosmos - Andreu Arinyo i Prats, Institut de Ciencies del Cosmos, Universitat de Barcelona  
09:50 - 10:20 › Measuring baryon acoustic oscillations using the distribution of intergalactic gas - Michael Blomqvist, Laboratoire dÁstrophysique de Marseille  
10:20 - 10:40 › Three-point correlation function of the Lyman-alpha forest - Suk Sien Tie, The Ohio State University  
10:40 - 11:00 Coffee break (Salle des Voutes)  
11:00 - 13:00 Intergalactic Medium Cosmology meets Intergalactic Medium properties (Amphitheatre Gastaut) - Sebastian Lopez  
11:00 - 11:30 › The Thermal History of the Universe - Joe Hennawi, Physics Department [Santa Barbara]  
11:30 - 11:50 › WDM and Lya-forest: the importance of thermal history - Antonella Garzilli, Niels Bohr Institute & University of Copenhagen  
11:50 - 12:10 › Small scale structure of the IGM: A Dark Matter Tale - Vid Irsic, University of Washington  
12:10 - 12:30 › The prospects for IGM cosmology in future surveys - Matthew Pieri, Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille  
12:30 - 13:00 › Discussion: What can IGM/CGM scientists do for IGM cosmologists and vice versa for further progress? - (Chair Mat Pieri)