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Continuing the JWST Revolution: Understanding Early Galaxy Formation

01 - 26 June 2026

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

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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 Ouchi_Slides.pdf
11:15 - 11:30	Break
11:30 - 11:45	Talk - "Spectroscopic view of early galaxy formation with JWST and ALMA" Joris Witstok Witstok_Slides.pdf
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 Zitrin_Slides.pdf
12:00 - 12:15	Discussion
12:15 - 15:00	Lunch + Free Time
15:00 - 15:30	Afternoon Coffee

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 Dayal_Slides.pdf
11:00 - 11:15	Break
11:15 - 11:30	Talk - "Astraeus Simulations with a Variable IMF at Cosmic Dawn" Anne Hutter Hutter_Slides.pdf
11:30 - 11:45	Talk - "Inferring the history of reionization from LyA-emitting galaxies" Samuel Gagnon-Hartman Gagnon-Hartman_Slides.pdf
12:00 - 12:15	Discussion
12:15 - 15:00	Lunch + Free Time
15:00 - 15:15	Afternoon Coffee

Time	Session
9:30 - 10:00	Morning Coffee
10:00 - 11:00	Morning Review Talk + Discussion: Overview of Reionization Laura Keating Keating_Slides.pdf
11:00 - 11:15	Break
11:15 - 11:30	The UNICORN Project Steven Finkelstein
11:30 - 11:45	Probing reionization with Lyman-alpha in emission and absorption Martin Haehnelt Haehnelt_Slides.pdf
11:45 - 12:00	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

Time	Session
9:30 - 10:00	Morning Coffee
10:00 - 11:00	Morning Review Talk + Discussion: The Quest for Cosmic Dawn: JWST Insights Into The Formation and Evolution of the Earliest Galaxies Guido Roberts-Borsani RobertsBorsani_Slides.pdf
11:00 - 11:15	Break
11:15 - 11:30	Cosmic Reionization History and Its Cosmological Implications Yuta Kageura Kageura_Slides.pdf
11:30 - 11:45	Towards a 3D view of Reionisation and its Sources Romain Meyer Meyer_Slides.pdf
11:45 - 12:00	Epoch of Reionization through Cosmic Microscope Marusa Bradac
12:00 - 12:15	Discussion
13:00 - 15:00	Discussion & Networking: Beergarden
15:00 - 15:30	Afternoon Coffee

Time	Session
9:30 - 10:00	Morning Coffee
10:00 - 11:00	Morning Review Talk + Discussion: Detailed Lyman alpha predictions/modeling & applications to reionization (including many lessons from low redshifts) Matt Hayes Hayes_Slides.pdf
11:00 - 11:15	Break
11:15 - 11:30	What's beyond super-early galaxies? Andrea Ferrara Ferrara_Slides.pdf
11:30 - 11:45	Ionization States and Nebular Dust Attenuation Curves at High Redshift from JWST Spectroscopy Naveen Reddy Reddy_Slides.pdf
11:45 - 12:00	The Escape of Lyman Radiation Through the Windows and Walls of Porous Anisotropic Gas Silvia Almada Monter
12:00 - 12:15	Discussion
12:15 - 15:00	Lunch + Free Time
15:00 - 15:30	Afternoon Coffee

Time	Session
9:30 - 9:45	Morning Coffee
9:45 - 9:50	Introduction - "Who Is Who"
9:50 - 10:50	Morning Review Talk + Discussion - The massive black hole assembly puzzle Marta Volonteri Volonteri_Slides.pdf
10:50 - 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	The dawn of quiescent galaxies Rachel Bezanson Bezanson_Slides.pdf
12:00 - 12:15	Discussion
12:15 - 15:00	Lunch + Free Time
15:00 - 15:30	Afternoon Coffee

Time	Session
9:30 - 9:45	Morning Coffee
9:45 - 10:45	Morning Review Talk + Discussion: An Overview of LRDs Jorryt Matthee Matthee_Slides.pdf
10:45 - 11:15	Break
11:15 - 11:30	The Halos of Erigeneia Karl Glazebrook
11:30 - 11:45	Evolution of Massive Quiescent Galaxies in COLIBRE Themiya Nanayakkara Nanayakkara_Slides.pdf
11:45 - 12:00	Talk 3
12:00 - 12:15	Discussion
12:15 - 15:00	Lunch + Free Time
15:00 - 15:30	Afternoon Coffee

Time	Session
9:30 - 9:45	Morning Coffee
9:45 - 10:45	Morning Review Talk + Discussion: Bursty Star Formation and the Galaxy-Halo Connection at Cosmic Dawn Sandro Tacchella Tacchella_Slides.pdf
10:45 - 11:15	Break
11:15 - 11:30	Multiwavelength mapping of galaxies that drive cosmic reionisation Aniket Bhagwat
11:30 - 11:45	Dynamical constraints on galaxy evolution in the 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang Lilian Lee Lee_Slides.pdf
11:45 - 12:00	Chemical enrichment and ionizing spectra in high-redshift galaxies Alex Cameron
12:00 - 12:15	Discussion
12:15 - 15:00	Lunch + Free Time
15:00 - 15:30	Afternoon Coffee
16:00 - 18:00	Discussion & Networking: Wine & Cheese

Time	Session
9:30 - 9:45	Morning Coffee
9:45 - 10:45	Morning Review Talk + Discussion: TBD: Observations of Reionization Laura Pentericci
10:45 - 11:15	Break
11:15 - 11:30	Probing the Early Growth of Black Holes through “Little Red Dots”: From the Distant to Local Universe Xiaojing Ling Lin_Slides.pdf
11:30 - 11:45	Emission-Line and Continuum Luminosities of LRDs and Their Connection to Type 1 AGN Hiroto Yanagisawa
11:45 - 12:00	Linking Galaxy Evolution and the 21-cm Signal: Joint Machine Learning Constraints on the Epoch of Reionization Abhirup Datta Datta_Slides.pdf
12:00 - 12:15	Discussion
12:15 - 14:00	Lunch + Free Time
14:00 - 15:00	Discussion on Clumpy Galaxies
15:00 - 15:30	Afternoon Coffee

Time	Session
9:30 - 9:45	Morning Coffee
9:45 - 10:45	Morning Review Talk + Discussion: Cosmic chemical enrichment and constraints on the First stars and BHs Chiaki Kobayashi Kobayashi_Slides.pdf
10:45 - 11:15	Break
11:15 - 11:30	BoRG-JWST Spectroscopic Analogs of UV-Bright Galaxies at z > 10 Sofia Rojas Ruiz Rojas_Slides.pdf
11:30 - 11:45	The High Redshift Frontier with JWST Andrew Bunker Bunker_Slides.pdf
11:45 - 12:00	Talk 3
12:00 - 12:15	Discussion
12:15 - 14:00	Lunch + Free Time
14:00 - 15:00	Afternoon Discussion on SMS & GC (in meeting room downstairs) Lee Lilian
15:00 - 15:30	Afternoon Coffee

Time	Session
9:30 - 9:45	Morning Coffee
9:45 - 9:55	MIAPbP Welcome Talk
9:55 - 10:00	Introduction - "Who Is Who"
10:00 - 11:00	Morning Review Talk + Discussion: TBD: Observational Constraints on Metal Build-up in the Universe Valentina D´ Odorico
11:00 - 11:30	Break
11:30 - 11:45	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	B-band Luminosity Functions and Brown Dwarf Contamination during the EoR Nicha Leethochawalit
12:00 - 12:15	Discussion
12:15 - 15:00	Lunch + Free Time
15:00 - 15:30	Afternoon Coffee

Time	Session
9:30 - 9:45	Morning Coffee
9:45 - 10:45	Morning Review Talk + Discussion: Early Metal Build-up and PopIII (TBC) Raffaella Schneider
10:45 - 11:15	Break
11:15 - 11:30	Demographics of star clusters in the first billion years of the Universe Angela Adamo
11:30 - 11:45	Uncovering the First Stars in Metal-poor Galaxies with JWST Elka Rusta
11:45 - 12:00	Galactic baryon budget and multiphase gas cycling Celine Peroux Peroux_Slides.pdf
12:00 - 12:15	Discussion
12:15 - 14:00	Lunch + Free Time
14:00 - 15:00	Afternoon Discussion on LRDs/AGN
15:00 - 15:30	Afternoon Coffee

Time	Session
9:30 - 9:45	Morning Coffee
9:45 - 10:45	Morning Review Talk + Discussion: Interpreting high-redshift spectroscpic observations with next-generation cosmological simulations Harley Katz
10:45 - 11:15	Break
11:15 - 11:30	Emission-line Diagnostics at z >= 2: A Probe of the Ionizing Spectrum and alpha Enhancement Beyond Cosmic Noon Leonardo Clarke
11:30 - 11:45	Rapid Star Formation, Chemical Enrichment and Quenching at Cosmic Dawn Lucas Kimmig
11:45 - 12:00	Build-up of Massive Galaxies + Structures from z~14 using observations from ALMA + JWST Rychard Bouwens
12:00 - 12:15	Discussion
12:15 - 14:00	Lunch + Free Time
14:00 - 15:00	Afternoon Discussion - (very) low metallicity stellar populations and their observational features Silvia Al
15:00 - 15:30	Afternoon Coffee
17:00 - 19:00	Discussion & Networking: BBQ

Time	Session
9:30 - 9:45	Morning Coffee
9:45 - 10:45	Morning Review Talk + Discussion: "Physical Properties of Early Galaxies and Supermassive Black Holes Revealed with the JWST" Yuichi Harikane
10:45 - 11:15	Break
11:15 - 11:30	Galaxy ISM absorption at z~7: outflows, inflows, and ionizing escape Tucker Jones
11:30 - 11:45	Unprecedented Constraints on Gas Flows at High-Redshift Using Deep JWST/NIRSpec Observations Alice Shapley
11:45 - 12:00	Chemical enrichment of high-z galaxies: latest results from JWST and future perspectives Mirko Curti
12:00 - 12:15	Discussion
12:15 - 15:00	Lunch + Free Time
15:00 - 15:30	Afternoon Coffee

Time	Session
9:30 - 9:45	Morning Coffee
9:45 - 10:45	Morning Review Talk + Discussion: New Insights into Cosmic Dawn from JWST imaging and ultra-deep spectroscopy Charlotte Mason
10:45 - 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 "N-emitters: physical properties, possible scenarios and links with other objects (galaxies, LRDs, Globular clusters)" Daniel Schaerer
11:45 - 12:00	Talk 3
12:00 - 12:15	Discussion
12:15 - 15:00	Lunch + Free Time
15:00 - 15:30	Afternoon Coffee

Time	Session
9:30 - 9:45	Morning Coffee
9:45 - 9:55	MIAPbP Welcome Talk
9:55 - 10:00	Introduction - "Who Is Who"
10:00 - 11:00	Morning Review Talk + Discussion: Next Generation Simulations (TBC) Enrico Garaldi
11:00 - 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

Time	Session
9:30 - 9:45	Morning Coffee
9:45 - 10:45	Morning Review Talk + Discussion: Lensing and the Future of Highz Observations Eros Vanzella
10:45 - 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

Time	Session
9:30 - 9:45	Morning Coffee
9:45 - 10:45	Morning Review Talk + Discussion: Interpreting next-generation observations with multi-tracer, concordance simulations Andrei Mesinger
10:45 - 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
17:00 - 19:00	Discussion & Networking: Beergarden

Time	Session
9:30 - 9:45	Morning Coffee
9:45 - 10:45	Morning Review Talk + Discussion: Reionisation: recent progress and future prospects Sarah Bosman
10:45 - 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 "Emergence of overmassive Black Holes and LRDs in the early univers" Sunmyon Chon
12:00 - 12:15	Discussion
12:15 - 15:00	Lunch + Free Time
17:00 - 19:00	Discussion and Networking

Time	Session
9:30 - 9:45	Morning Coffee
9:45 - 10:45	Morning Review Talk + Discussion Michele Cirasuolo
10:45 - 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 "MOSAIC : The multi-object spectrograph on the ELT" Nicolas Laporte
11:45 - 12:00	Talk "Mapping Red Populations with JWST: Dusty Galaxies, Quiescent Galaxies, and Little Red Dots" Amy Barger
12:00 - 12:15	Discussion
12:15 - 15:00	Lunch + Free Time
15:00 - 15:30	Afternoon Coffee