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Program (PDF)
Sunday 8 November
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| 20:00 - 22:00 | WELCOMING COCKTAIL AND REGISTRATION |
Monday 9 November
Tuesday 10 November
| Time | Title | Speaker |
| Morning session: Chair - George Miley | ||
| 09:00 - 09:40 | Optically Selected Galaxy Clusters: from the SDSS to RCS | Mike Gladders (Invited talk) |
| 09:40 - 10:00 | Red sequence and environment: implications for the star formation history in protoclusters | Hernán Muriel |
| 10:00 - 10:20 | The CFHTLS Strong Lensing Legacy Survey: a window on groups scale lenses | Remi Cabanac |
| 10:20 - 10:40 | Spectrophotometric properties of cluster galaxies: galaxy evolution and cluster structure at z > 0.8 | Ricardo Demarco |
| 10:40 - 11:00 | Mass-size relation for early-type galaxies at z>1 | Anand Raichoor |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | COFFEE BREAK AND POSTER VIEWING |
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| 11:30 - 11:50 | Probing the innermost density profile in the lens galaxy group SL2SJ02140-0532 | Tomás Verdugo |
| 11:50 - 12:10 | Weak lensing detection of a filamentary structure near the massive cluster MACSJ0717 | Mathilde Jauzac |
| 12:10 - 12:30 | RCS-Spec: galaxy evolution in distant clusters | Renbin Yan |
| 12:30 - 12:50 | Morphological and photometric study of the galaxy population in XMMJ2235-2557 at z=1.39 | Carolina Núñez |
| 13:00 - 15:00 | LUNCH |
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| Afternoon session: Chair - Felipe Barrientos | ||
| 15:00 - 15:40 | The Infrared View of High-z Clusters | Mark Brodwin (Invited talk) |
| 15:40 - 16:00 | The mass and size evolution of brightest cluster galaxies since z=1.5 | John Stott |
| 16:00 - 16:20 | Clustering of red galaxies around the z=1.53 quasar 3C 270.1 | Frank Heymann |
| 16:20 - 16:40 | The SpARCS z > 1 cluster survey | Gillian Wilson |
| 16:40 - 17:10 | COFFEE BREAK AND POSTER VIEWING |
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| 17:10 - 17:30 | The GCLASS survey | Adam Muzzin |
| 17:30 - 17:50 | The cluster of galaxies JKCS041 at z~1.9 and cluster scale relations | Stefano Andreon |
| 17:50 - 18:10 | The growth of the red sequence in clusters since z~1 | Roberto Muñoz |
| 18:10 - 18:30 | Ly-alpha blobs: signposts of clustering in the early universe | Povilas Palunas |
Wednesday 11 November
| Time | Title | Speaker |
| Morning session: Chair - Gus Evrard | ||
| 09:00 - 09:40 | The X-ray View of High-z Clusters | Kathy Romer (Invited talk) |
| 09:40 - 10:00 | An x-ray to infrared view of the young cluster RX J1257.2+4738 at z=0.866 | Florence Durret |
| 10:00 - 10:20 | New high-z X-ray clusters from the XMM-Newton Distant Cluster Project | Rene Fassbender |
| 10:20 - 10:40 | The Planck cluster catalog: S-Z and x-ray expected properties | Antoine Chamballu |
| 10:40 - 11:00 | Characterizing the image of SPT AGN in SZE cluster finding | Jeeseon Song |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | COFFEE BREAK AND POSTER VIEWING |
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| 11:30 - 11:50 | Quasars and galaxy clusters – where are the connections? | Ilona Soechting |
| 11:50 - 12:10 | Finding galaxy clusters at z>1 embedded in large quasar group complexes | Luis Campusano |
| 12:10 - 12:30 | z~1 galaxy clusters around quasar pairs | Eduardo Cypriano |
| 12:30 - 12:50 | The environments of z ~ 1 3C radio sources | Craig Harrison |
| 13:00 - 15:00 | LUNCH |
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| Afternoon session: Chair - Marc Huertas-Company | ||
| 15:00 - 15:40 | Radio Sources as Probes of Clusters in the Early Universe | George Miley (Invited talk) |
| 15:40 - 16:00 | Cluster progenitors: radio-selected galaxy overdensities at z ~ 2.4 | Nina Hatch |
| 16:00 - 16:20 | Probing high redshift galaxy clusters at z ~ 1.5 using radio galaxies | Audrey Galametz |
| 16:20 - 16:40 | H-alpha emitters in a forming cluster at z=1.6 in the GMASS field | Jaron Kurk |
| 16:40 - | COFFEE BREAK AND POSTER VIEWING |
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| 20:00 | CONFERENCE DINNER |
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Thursday 12 November
| Time | Title | Speaker |
| Morning session: Chair - Gus Evrard | ||
| 09:00 - 09:40 | Panoramic Views of Cluster Evolution since z=3 with Subaru | Tadayuki Kodama (Invited talk) |
| 09:40 - 10:00 | The role of environment in the morphological transformation of galaxies in 9 rich intermediate redshift clusters | Marc Huertas-Company |
| 10:00 - 10:20 | Probing stellar populations and structural evolution in the early universe: star formation histories and sizes of massive early type galaxies in field, groups and clusters | Alessandro Rettura |
| 10:20 - 10:40 | The very massive central galaxy in the nearby Abell 3287 cluster | Percy Gomez |
| 10:40 - 11:00 | Star formation histories of z ~ 1 cluster early-type galaxies | Raphael Gobat |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | COFFEE BREAK AND POSTER VIEWING |
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| 11:30 - 11:50 | The star formation history of the XMMU J2235.3-2557 galaxy cluster at z=1.4 | Ruth Grutzbauch |
| 11:50 - 12:10 | Growing up in the city: galaxy populations in a protocluster at z~3 | Ernst Kuiper |
| 12:10 - 12:30 | Galaxy clustering at the very highest redshift | Luke Davies |
| 12:30 - 12:50 | Cosmology with galaxy cluster counts in weak-lensing surveys | Matteo Maturi |
| 13:00 - 15:00 | LUNCH |
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| Afternoon session: Chair - Michael West | ||
| 15:00 - 15:40 | The Agony and the Ecstasy: Cluster Cosmology in the Data-rich Era | Gus Evrard (Invited talk) |
| 15:40 - 16:00 | Using Type Ia Supernovae in Distant Galaxy Clusters as a Dark Energy Probe | Chris Lidman |
| 16:00 - 16:20 | Precision cosmology from future galaxy cluster surveys | Hao-Yi Wu |
| 16:20 - 16:40 | Dark matter and dark energy with strong lensing in galaxy clusters | Eric Jullo |
| 16:40 - 17:00 | Marceau Limousin | |
CONFERENCE END |
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Posters
• Heather Andrews: Unveiling cold baryons in high redshift cluster galaxies
• Pablo Araya Melo: Identifying Shocks in the Cosmic Spine
• Ricardo Bustos: Prospectives with ALMA Band 1
• Mauricio Carrasco: Gravitational lensing in clusters of the RCS
• Georgina Coldwell: Triplet of quasars at high redshifts: environmental analysis
• Hector Cuevas: Photometric and spectral properties of low x-ray galaxy clusters
• Arjen de Hoon: Discovery of a X-Ray Selected Strong Lensing Cluster at z=1.08
• Jorge Diaz: Unveiling the end of star formation in u*- selected massive galaxies
• Erica Ellingson: Chandra observations of the optical/IR-selected z=1.34 cluster SpaRcs ES1-351
• Ashley Faloon: A spectroscopic survey of the z=0.9 supercluster RCS231953+00
• Percy Gomez: Flamingos-2: Gemini's new instrument for studying high-z galaxy clusters
• Rodrigo Holanda: On the distance duality and the geometry of the galaxy clusters
• Katsuki Kousai: Spectroscopic LBG survey in SSA22
• Jaron Kurk: H-alpha emitters in a forming cluster at z=1.6 in the GMASS field
• Veronica Motta: Spectroscopic follow-up of lensing groups in the CFHTL Strong Lensing Legacy Survey
• José Luis Nilo Castellón: Photometric and spectral properties of low x-ray galaxy clusters
• Allison Noble: Submillimeter imaging of high-redshift galaxy clusters
• Fernando Selman: Anti-hierarchical evolution in the line of sight toward RXJ0054-2823
• Jeeseon Song: Analyzing cluster finders with realistic mock catalogs
• Jorge Diaz Tello: Unveiling the End of Star Formation in *u-selected Massive Galaxies
• Ignacio Toledo: Diffuse light component in a medium cluster at redshift 0.3
• Yuji Yang: Extended Lyman Alpha nebulae: tracer for high-z proto-cluster?