The Galaxy-IGM interplay in the first billion years of the Universe
IFPU
19-23 May 2025
The first billion years of the Universe recently surged as the new frontier in our investigation of structure formation, thanks to a vast array of instruments that are starting unveiling this period of time. Within a decade, they will provide the first comprehensive picture of this era. This will unlock the possibility to study the interplay between the first stars and galaxies and the diffuse inter-galactic medium (IGM) between them. The proposed workshop will bring together a small and diverse group of experts at all career stages with the double goal to (i) critically discuss the compatibility of the latest observations with our theoretical models, (ii) assess strengths and shortcomings of current approaches to its study, and (iii) design a common strategy to push forward our understanding of the meso-scales between galaxies (including their circum-galactic gas) and the large-scale IGM.
Meeting website: https://sites.google.com/view/galaxiesxigm
Organisers:
- Enrico Garaldi (IFPU)
- Valentina D’Odorico (Observatory of Trieste)
Participants:
- Nick Gnedin (Fermilab)
- Sarah Bosman (University of Heidelberg)
- Martin Haehnelt (University of Cambridge)
- Christopher Cain (Arizona State University)
- Laura Keating (University of Edinburgh)
- Giulia Pruto (University of Edinburgh)
- Xiangyu Jin (the University of Arizona)
- Benedetta Ciardi (Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics)
- Ewald Puchwein (Leibniz-Institut für Astrophysik Potsdam, AIP)
- Daichi Kashino (NAOJ)
- Louise Welsh (Durham University)
- Koki Kakiichi (Cosmic DAWN Center, University of Copenhagen)
- Aniket Bhagwat (Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics)
- Girish Kulkarni (TIFR Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Mumbai)
- Enrico Garaldi (University of Tokyo)