All talks will be held in the ballroom on the second floor of the La Fonda hotel. Posters will also be in the ballroom. The reception (Sunday) and the banquet (Thursday) will be held at La Terraza, which is on the third floor of the La Fonda hotel. A continental breakfast will be provided every morning outside of the ballroom. Conference participants are on their own for lunch - please consult Salman Habib's restaurant listing or ask one of the conference organizers for lunch suggestions. Wednesday afternoon will be free - consult the activities page or one of the local organizers for suggestions.

Talk format: Each morning and afternoon session will be a combination of "review," "directed," and "contributed" talks, all organized around a particular subject (if at all possible). The review talks will be 30 minutes long and will be followed by 15 minutes of questions and discussion. The "directed" talks will be 20 minutes long and will be followed by 10 minutes of questions/discussion, and contributed talks will be 10 or 15 minutes long with 5 minutes of questions/discussion. PDF or powerpoint versions of all talks will be posted after the talk takes place.

Poster information: All posters will be displayed in the ballroom. They can be set up on Sunday during the reception or Monday morning during registration. Posters must be taken down by 1:00 p.m. on Friday. Due to limited space, we request that posters be no more than 36 inches wide by 44 inches high. Participants will be asked to provide a pdf or postscript version of their poster.

Please click on talk titles to see an abstract!

Sunday July 15

18:00-20:00	Reception (La Terraza at the La Fonda)

Monday July 16

Time	Speaker	Title
07:30	Continental breakfast / registration (ballroom)
08:30	Thomas Bowles New Mexico Governor Science Advisor	New Mexico and conference welcome
08:40	O'Shea/Heger/Abel	Conference details and welcome
Session I: Formation and IMF of the first stars       (session chair: Brian O'Shea)
08:50	Michael Norman	Pop III star formation [review talk]
9:35	John Wise	How the first stars shaped the first galaxies
10:05	Simon Glover	Chemistry of Population III stars
10:35	Coffee Break
11:05	Matthew Turk	New results from high resolution AMR simulations of Pop III star formation
Session II: Star formation at very low metallicities       (session chair: Dan Whalen)
11:25	Jonathan Tan	Star formation at very low metallicities [review talk]
12:10	Lunch (on your own)
14:00	Volker Bromm	Simulations of star formation at very low metallicities
14:30	Kaz Omukai	The formation of stars at very low metallicity
15:00	Michael Shull	Critical Metallicities for Second-Generation Stars
15:20	Coffee Break
Session III: Searches for Pop III and very low metallicity stars and observed abundance patterns       (session chair: Raffaella Schneider)
15:50	Kim Venn	What and where are the lowest metallicity stars?
16:25	Tim Beers	Searches for the Most Metal-Poor Candidates from SDSS and SEGUE
16:55	Chris Sneden	Review Talk, Part II
17:30	Break for dinner

 

19:30-20:30	The First Things in the Universe (Public talk) - Tom Abel (Stanford University) Flyer

Tuesday July 17

Time	Speaker	Title
07:30	Continental breakfast / registration (ballroom)
Session III, Continued: Searches for Pop III and very low metallicity stars and observed abundance patterns       (session chair: Raffaella Schneider)
08:30	Norbert Christlieb	The Hamburg/ESO Survey, HE0107-5240, and the LAMOST project
09:00	Anna Frebel	Results from bright metal-poor stars from the Hamburg/ESO survey
09:15	Judy Cohen	Progress report on the 0Z survey for extremely metal poor stars
09:30	Jennifer Johnson	Abundance ratios in carbon-enhanced metal-poor stars and the intermediate mass IMF
09:45	Sara Lucatello	C-rich, very metal poor halo stars at low metallicity: the HERES sample
10:00	Simon Schuler	Flourine in a carbon-enhanced metal-poor star
10:15	Coffee Break
10:45	Jennifer Sobeck	A new study of copper abundances in metal-poor stars
11:00	Yutaka Komiya	The initial mass function of extremely metal-poor stars and the probe into the star-formation process of the Milky Way
11:15	Nathan Smith	Possible detection of a pair instability supernova in the modern universe, and implications for the first stars
11:30	Timothy Young	Population III Supernova Light Curves From Massive Stars In Binary Systems
11:45	Daniel Kasen	Predicted light curves and spectra of the first stellar explosions
12:00	Lunch (on your own)
Session IV: Stellar evolution and explosions at very low metallicities       (session chair: John Lattanzio)
13:45	Stan Woosley	The Evolution and Explosion of Massive Stars with Very Low Metallicity [review talk]
14:30	Sung-Chul Yoon	Massive star evolution at very low metallicity including rotation and binary interaction
15:00	Georges Meynet	Evolution of PopIII and very metal poor massive stars
15:30	Coffee Break
16:00	Sylvia Ekstrom	Can very massive stars avoid Pair-Instability Supernovae?
16:15	Onno Pols	Carbon-enhanced metal-poor stars: effects of binary evolution at low metallicity
16:30	Takuma Suda	Understanding the characterstics of EMP stars as probes for the early universe - stellar evolution of low- and intermediate-mass EMP stars
16:45	Hans Ludwig	Hydrodynamical model atmospheres of metal-poor stars
17:00	Allard Jan van Marle	Continuum driven winds from super-Eddington stars
17:15	Cristina Chiappini	The impact of stellar rotation on our understanding of the earliest phases of the enrichment of the universe
17:30	Break for dinner

 

19:00-20:00	Discovering our Extraordinary Place in the Cosmos - Joel Primack, UC Santa Cruz (location: Great Hall, St. John's College

Wednesday July 18

Time	Speaker	Title
07:30	Continental breakfast / registration (ballroom)
Session V: Nucleosynthesis in metal-free and metal-poor stars       (session chair: Chris Sneden)
08:30	Yong-Zhong Qian	Review Talk
09:15	Ken Nomoto	Nucleosynthesis in massive PopIII stars
09:45	Falk Herwig	Nucleosynthesis and mixing in the first generations of low- and intermediate-mass stars
10:05	Paul Woodward	Computing entrainment at a convective boundary using the PPB advection scheme
10:25	Coffee Break (note - shorter than usual)
10:45	Martin Asplund	Primordial and pre-galactic origins of the lithium isotopes
11:05	Sergio Cristallo	Evolution and nucleosynthesis of low-mass metal-poor AGB models with C- and N-enhanced molecular opacities
11:25	Simon Campbell	Structural and nucleosynthetic evolution of metal-poor and metal-free low and intermediate-mass stars
11:45	Break for afternoon -- trip to Tent Rocks, sightseeing in Santa Fe

Thursday July 19

Time	Speaker	Title
07:30	Continental breakfast / registration (ballroom)
Session VI: Feedback from the first stars and galaxies and its influence on structure formation       (session chair: Simon Glover)
08:30	Benedetta Ciardi	Feedback from the first stars [review talk]
09:15	Daniel Whalen	HII regions from Population III stars
09:45	Massimo Ricotti	Effects of radiation backgrounds on the formation of Population III stars
10:15	Coffee Break
10:45	Greg Bryan	Feedback effects on Pop III star formation
11:15	Raffaela Schneider	Chemical feedback and the extinction of Pop III stars
11:35	Masayuki Umemura	FIRST Project: Formation and Feedback of First Stars
11:55	Naoki Yoshida	SPH simulations of Pop III star formation
12:15	Lunch (on your own)
Session VII: Early feedback processes: ionization and IGM abundance patterns       (session chair: Volker Bromm)
14:00	Andrea Ferrara	Reionization signatures of first stars [review talk]
14:45	Xiaohui Fan	Cosmological reionization
15:15	Matthew Pieri	Feedback and its Feedback Effect on Feedback
15:30	Sasha Kashlinsky	Cosmic infrared background from early epochs - searching for signatures of first stars
15:45	Rodger Thompson	The near infrared background: resolved and identified
16:00	Coffee Break
16:30	Brian Keating	The CIBER Experiment: Probing the IR Background
16:45	Kyungjihn Ahn	Does radiative feedback by the first stars promote or prevent second generation star formation?
17:00	Darren Reed	Halo & galaxy clustering in the early universe
17:15	Hy Trac	Radiative transfer simulations of cosmic reionization with Pop II and Pop III stars
17:30	Break
19:00	Conference banquet (La Terraza)

Friday July 20

Time	Speaker	Title
07:30	Continental breakfast / registration (ballroom)
Session VIII: High redshift GRBs and quasars       (session chair: Yong-Zhong Qian)
08:30	Hsiao-Wen Chen	Review Talk
09:15	Mitch Begelman	Formation and Growth of the First Supermassive Black Holes
09:45	Stirling Colgate	The hydrodynamics of galaxy and MBH formation: z<3
10:05	Gabriel Rockefeller	Three-dimensional simulations of Pop III star collapse
10:25	Coffee Break
10:55	Hui Li	MHD modeling of explosions
11:15	Bryan Penprase	Elemental abundances in GRB afterglows and high-redshift DLAs
11:35	Michele Trenti	The very first Pop III stars and their relation to bright z ~ 6 quasars
11:55	Chris McKee	Conference summary
12:25	O'Shea/Heger/Abel	Final comments
12:45	Conference ends

Saturday July 21

Trip to Bandelier