Continuing the JWST Revolution: Understanding Early Galaxy Formation

01 - 26 June 2026

Pascal Oesch, Richard Ellis, Benedetta Ciardi, Adriano Fontana, Alice Shapley

Week 1
Mon 01/06/2026
Time Session
9:30 - 10:00

Morning Coffee

10:00 - 10:10

Welcome to MIAPbP

10:10 - 10:15

Introduction - "Who Is Who"

10:15 - 11:15

Morning Review Talk + Discussion: Observations of the First Galaxies and the Sources of Reionization

Masami Ouchi

11:15 - 11:30

Break

11:30 - 11:45

Talk - "Spectroscopic view of early galaxy formation with JWST and ALMA"

Joris Witstok

11:45 - 12:00

Talk "Strongly lensed dots with JWST: From galaxies to star clusters, black holes, supernovae, and individual stars at high redshifts"

Adi Zitrin

12:00 - 12:15

Discussion

12:15 - 15:00

Lunch + Free Time

15:00 - 15:30

Afternoon Coffee

Tue 02/06/2026
Time Session
9:30 - 10:00

Morning Coffee

10:00 - 11:00

Morning Review Talk + Discussion: Simulations of Galaxies (and BHs) During Reionization

Pratika Dayal

11:00 - 11:15

Break

11:15 - 11:30

Talk - "Astraeus Simulations with a Variable IMF at Cosmic Dawn"

Anne Hutter

11:30 - 11:45

Talk - "The Escape of Lyman Radiation Through the Windows and Walls of Porous Anisotropic Gas "

Silvia Al

11:45 - 12:00

Talk - "Inferring the history of reionization from LyA-emitting galaxies"

Samuel Gagnon-Hartman

12:00 - 12:15

Discussion

12:15 - 15:00

Lunch + Free Time

15:00 - 15:15

Afternoon Coffee

Wed 03/06/2026
Time Session
9:30 - 10:00

Morning Coffee

10:00 - 11:00

Morning Review Talk + Discussion: Overview of Reionization

Laura Keating

11:00 - 11:15

Break

11:15 - 11:30

Talk - "The UNICORN Project"

Steven Finkelstein

11:30 - 11:45

Talk - "Probing reionization with Lyman-alpha in emission and absorption"

Martin Haehnelt

11:45 - 12:00

Talk - "Modelling Synthetic Spectra with Emission Lines of High-Redshift Galaxies"

Michaela Hirschmann

12:00 - 12:15

Discussion

12:15 - 15:00

Lunch + Free Time

15:00 - 15:30

Afternoon Coffee

Thu 04/06/2026
Time Session
9:30 - 10:00

Morning Coffee

10:00 - 11:00

Morning Review Talk + Discussion: TBC: Observations of Early Galaxies

Guido Roberts-Borsani

11:00 - 11:15

Break

11:15 - 11:30

Talk - "Cosmic Reionization History and Its Cosmological Implications"

Yuta Kageura

11:30 - 11:45

Talk - "Towards a 3D view of Reionisation and its Sources"

Romain Meyer

11:45 - 12:00

Talk - "Epoch of Reionization through Cosmic Microscope"

Marusa Bradac

12:00 - 12:15

Discussion

12:15 - 15:00

Lunch + Free Time

15:00 - 15:30

Afternoon Coffee

17:00 - 19:00

Discussion & Networking: Wine & Cheese

Fri 05/06/2026
Time Session
9:30 - 10:00

Morning Coffee

10:00 - 11:00

Morning Review Talk + Discussion: More Observations of Early Galaxies

Matt Hayes

11:00 - 11:15

Break

11:15 - 11:30

Talk - "No Blue without Red: Evolutionary Properties of Super-Early Galaxies"

Andrea Ferrara

11:30 - 11:45

Talk - "Ionization States and Nebular Dust Attenuation Curves at High Redshift from JWST Spectroscopy"

Naveen Reddy

11:45 - 12:00

Talk 3

12:00 - 12:15

Discussion

12:15 - 15:00

Lunch + Free Time

15:00 - 15:30

Afternoon Coffee

Week 2
Mon 08/06/2026
Time Session
9:30 - 10:00

Morning Coffee

10:00 - 10:10

MIAPbP Welcome Talk

10:10 - 10:15

Introduction - "Who Is Who"

10:15 - 11:15

Morning Review Talk + Discussion TBD: Theoretical Aspects of Early Black Hole Assembly

Marta De Volonteri

11:15 - 11:30

Break

11:30 - 11:45

Talk - "Grow fast, die young: The early universe’s galaxy formation recipe"

Akash Vani

11:45 - 12:00

Talk 2

12:00 - 12:15

Discussion

12:15 - 15:00

Lunch + Free Time

15:00 - 15:30

Afternoon Coffee

Tue 09/06/2026
Time Session
9:30 - 10:00

Morning Coffee

10:00 - 11:00

Morning Review Talk + Discussion: An Overview of LRDs

Jorryt Matthee

11:00 - 11:15

Break

11:15 - 11:30

Talk - "Probing the Early Growth of Black Holes through “Little Red Dots”: From the Distant to Local Universe"

Xiaojing Li

11:30 - 11:45

Talk - "The Halos of Erigeneia"

Karl Glazebrook

11:45 - 12:00

Talk 3

12:00 - 12:15

Discussion

12:15 - 15:00

Lunch + Free Time

15:00 - 15:30

Afternoon Coffee

Wed 10/06/2026
Time Session
9:30 - 10:00

Morning Coffee

10:00 - 11:00

Break

11:00 - 11:15

Morning Review Talk + Discussion: Bursty Star Formation and the Galaxy-Halo Connection at Cosmic Dawn

Sandro Tacchella

11:15 - 11:30

Talk - "Protoclusters in the First Billion Years: Overabundance, Diversity and Early Evolution"

Callum Witten

11:30 - 11:45

Talk - "Multiwavelength mapping of galaxies that drive cosmic reionisation"

Aniket Bhagwat

11:45 - 12:00

Talk 3

12:00 - 12:15

Discussion

12:15 - 15:00

Lunch + Free Time

15:00 - 15:30

Afternoon Coffee

Thu 11/06/2026
Time Session
9:30 - 10:00

Morning Coffee

10:00 - 11:00

Morning Review Talk + Discussion: TBD: Observations of Reionization

Laura Pentericci

11:00 - 11:15

Break

11:15 - 11:30

Talk - "Dynamical constraints on galaxy evolution in the 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang"

Lee Lilian

11:30 - 11:45

Talk 2

11:45 - 12:00

Talk 3

12:00 - 12:15

Discussion

12:15 - 15:00

Lunch + Free Time

15:00 - 15:30

Afternoon Coffee

Fri 12/06/2026
Time Session
9:30 - 10:00

Morning Coffee

10:00 - 11:00

Morning Review Talk + Discussion: Cosmic chemical enrichment and constraints on the First stars and BHs

Chiaki Kobayashi

11:00 - 11:15

Break

11:15 - 11:30

Talk - "oRG-JWST Spectroscopic Analogs of UV-Bright Galaxies at z > 10"

Sofia Rojas Ruiz

11:30 - 11:45

Talk 2

11:45 - 12:00

Talk 3

12:00 - 12:15

Discussion

12:15 - 15:00

Lunch + Free Time

15:00 - 15:30

Afternoon Coffee

Week 3
Mon 15/06/2026
Time Session
9:30 - 10:00

Morning Coffee

10:00 - 10:10

MIAPbP Welcome Talk

10:10 - 10:15

Introduction - "Who Is Who"

10:15 - 11:15

Morning Review Talk + Discussion: Early Metal Build-up and PopIII (TBC)

Raffaella Schneider

11:15 - 11:30

Break

11:30 - 11:45

Talk - "Very high-z broad line AGNs, transition between LRDs and SFGs, high-z dust attenuation curve, redshift-metallicity dependent IMF and UVLF, and future GREX-PLUS"

Akio Inoue

11:45 - 12:00

Talk 2

12:00 - 12:15

Discussion

12:15 - 15:00

Lunch + Free Time

15:00 - 15:30

Afternoon Coffee

Tue 16/06/2026
Time Session
9:30 - 10:00

Morning Coffee

10:00 - 11:00

Morning Review Talk + Discussion: TBD: Observational Constraints on Metal Build-up in the Universe

Valentina D´ Odorico

11:00 - 11:15

Break

11:15 - 11:30

Talk - "Demographics of star clusters in the first billion years of the Universe"

Angela Adamo

11:30 - 11:45

Talk - " Uncovering the First Stars in Metal-poor Galaxies with JWST"

Elka Rusta

11:45 - 12:00

Talk 3

12:00 - 12:15

Discussion

12:15 - 15:00

Lunch + Free Time

15:00 - 15:30

Afternoon Coffee

Wed 17/06/2026
Time Session
9:30 - 10:00

Morning Coffee

10:00 - 11:00

Morning Review Talk + Discussion: Interpreting high-redshift spectroscpic observations with next-generation cosmological simulations

Harley Katz

11:00 - 11:15

Break

11:15 - 11:30

Talk - "Emission-line Diagnostics at z >= 2: A Probe of the Ionizing Spectrum and alpha Enhancement Beyond Cosmic Noon"

Leonardo Clarke

11:30 - 11:45

Talk - "Rapid Star Formation, Chemical Enrichment and Quenching at Cosmic Dawn"

Lucas Kimming

11:45 - 12:00

Talk 3

12:00 - 12:15

Discussion

12:15 - 15:00

Lunch + Free Time

15:00 - 15:30

Afternoon Coffee

Thu 18/06/2026
Time Session
9:30 - 10:00

Morning Coffee

10:00 - 11:00

Morning Review Talk + Discussion: "Physical Properties of Early Galaxies and Supermassive Black Holes Revealed with the JWST"

Yuichi Harikane

11:00 - 11:15

Break

11:15 - 11:30

Talk - "Galaxy ISM absorption at z~7: outflows, inflows, and ionizing escape"

Tucker Jones

11:30 - 11:45

Talk - "Chemical enrichment of high-z galaxies: latest results from JWST and future perspectives "

Mirko Curti

11:45 - 12:00

Talk 3

12:00 - 12:15

Discussion

12:15 - 15:00

Lunch + Free Time

15:00 - 15:30

Afternoon Coffee

Fri 19/06/2026
Time Session
9:30 - 10:00

Morning Coffee

10:00 - 11:00

Morning Review Talk + Discussion: TBD

Charlotte Mason

11:00 - 11:15

Break

11:15 - 11:30

Talk - ".Massive Stars at very Low metallicity: Atmospheres, Winds, Spectra, Evolution 2. Population Synthesis Full Spectral Fitting and the Properties of young and Old Stars in Galaxies"

Rolf Kudritzki

11:30 - 11:45

Talk 2

11:45 - 12:00

Talk 3

12:00 - 12:15

Discussion

12:15 - 15:00

Lunch + Free Time

15:00 - 15:30

Afternoon Coffee

Week 4
Mon 22/06/2026
Time Session
9:30 - 10:00

Morning Coffee

10:00 - 10:10

MIAPbP Welcome Talk

10:10 - 10:15

Introduction - "Who Is Who"

10:15 - 11:15

Morning Review Talk + Discussion: Next Generation Simulations (TBC)

Enrico Garaldi

11:15 - 11:30

Break

11:30 - 11:45

Talk - "From Blue Monsters to Dusty Descendents"

Laura Sommovigo

11:45 - 12:00

Talk 2

12:00 - 12:15

Discussion

12:15 - 15:00

Lunch + Free Time

15:00 - 15:30

Afternoon Coffee

Tue 23/06/2026
Time Session
9:30 - 10:00

Morning Coffee

10:00 - 11:00

Morning Review Talk + Discussion: Lensing and the Future of Highz Observations

Eros Vanzella

11:00 - 11:15

Break

11:15 - 11:30

Talk - "Probing the Earliest Stages of Galaxy Evolution: are we Reaching the Limits of Current Telescopes?"

Karina Caputi

11:30 - 11:45

Talk - "Galaxy Overdensities at z ~ 8: Insights from JWST and ALMA into Rapid Early Assembly"

Yoshinobu Fudamoto

11:45 - 12:00

Talk 3

12:00 - 12:15

Discussion

12:15 - 15:00

Lunch + Free Time

15:00 - 15:30

Afternoon Coffee

Wed 24/06/2026
Time Session
9:30 - 10:00

Morning Coffee

10:00 - 11:00

Morning Review Talk + Discussion: Interpreting next-generation observations with multi-tracer, concordance simulations

Andrei Mesinger

11:00 - 11:15

Break

11:15 - 11:30

Talk - "The impact of bursty star formation in the first galaxies"

Viola Gelli

11:30 - 11:45

Talk - "A Spectroscopic Census of the Most Massive Galaxies in the Early Universe"

Mengyuan Xiao

11:45 - 12:00

Talk 3

12:00 - 12:15

Discussion

12:15 - 15:00

Lunch + Free Time

15:00 - 15:30

Afternoon Coffee

Thu 25/06/2026
Time Session
9:30 - 10:00

Morning Coffee

10:00 - 11:00

Morning Review Talk + Discussion: Reionisation: recent progress and future prospects

Sarah Bosman

11:00 - 11:15

Break

11:15 - 11:30

Talk - "The nature of star-formation in the first galaxies as revealed by JWST spectroscopy"

Donnan Callum

11:30 - 11:45

Talk - "Unveil the radio emission of LRD (and its nature) with the SKAO"

Giovanni Mazzolari

11:45 - 12:00

Talk 3

12:00 - 12:15

Discussion

12:15 - 15:00

Lunch + Free Time

17:00 - 19:00

Discussion and Networking

Fri 26/06/2026
Time Session
9:30 - 10:00

Morning Coffee

10:00 - 11:00

Morning Review Talk + Discussion

Michele Cirasuolo

11:00 - 11:15

Break

11:15 - 11:30

Talk - "Mapping Red Populations with JWST: Dusty Galaxies, Quiescent Galaxies, and Little Red Dots"

Amy Barger

11:30 - 11:45

Talk 2

11:45 - 12:00

Talk 3

12:00 - 12:15

Discussion

12:15 - 15:00

Lunch + Free Time

15:00 - 15:30

Afternoon Coffee

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