WE Heraeus-EAS Early Career Researchers in Astronomy Workshop (HERA 2023)

Feb 27, 2023, 10:00 AM → Mar 3, 2023, 6:00 PM Europe/Berlin

The EAS starts a new and unique workshop series, funded by the Wilhelm and Else Heraeus foundation, the HERA workshops. This workshop series will provide an environment where early career scientists are trained to interact, design research projects, develop a broad perspective and start international collaborations.

The first workshop in this series will take place in the week of February 27th - March 3rd 2023 at the Max-Planck-Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Garching, near Munich, Germany.  It will be organized by the ORIGINS cluster of excellence. The topic will be “Galaxy evolution across cosmic time”. The EAS invites early-career European scientists (less than 5 years after their PhD), working in the field of galaxy evolution to apply for the workshop.

The participants will receive plenty of time to present their research, start collaborations with local scientists and the 5 invited senior review speakers and visit the Munich/Garching science centers, including the ORIGINS facilities, the Max-Planck-Institutes for Astrophysics and Extraterrestrial Physics, the European Southern Observatory and its Supernova Planetarium, the University of Munich and the Technical University as well as the Wendelstein Observatory in the Bavarian Alps. There is no registration fee and the WE Heraeus Foundation will reimburse the local expenses of all participants.

Four days will begin with a lecture from a distinguished senior scientist. Planned lectures are:

Mon, 27. Feb: Dr. Steffan Gillessen (MPE) "The supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy and Sgr A*" and Dr. Natascha Foerster-Schreiber (MPE) "Galaxy evolution across cosmic time" 

Tue, 28. Feb: Prof. Andrea Ferrara, U. Pisa "Epoch of Reionization"

Thu, 02. Mar: Prof. Shaun M. Cole, U. Durham, "Large-scale structure formation/evolution and the galaxy-dark matter connection" 

Fri, 03. Mar: Prof. Stefanie Walch-Gassner, U. Köln, "Physics of the turbulent interstellar medium" 

Daytime-Food-locations-for-HERA.pdf

HERA2023-All-Days-Agenda-web.pdf

MPE-map.pdf

Monday, February 27

10:00 AM → 12:00 PM Arrivals & Registration

12:00 PM → 1:00 PM Lunch Break

1:00 PM → 1:30 PM Welcome

Speakers: Andreas Burkert (LMU), Prof. Matthias Steinmetz (Leibniz-Institut für Astrophysik Potsdam)

1:30 PM → 2:15 PM Lecture "The supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy and Sgr A*"

Speaker: Stefan Gillessen (MPE)

2:15 PM → 2:45 PM Discussion and Coffee break

2:45 PM → 3:30 PM Lecture: "Galaxy evolution across cosmic time"

Speaker: Natascha Foerster Schreiber (MPE)

3:30 PM → 4:00 PM Discussion and Coffee Break

4:00 PM → 4:30 PM Chemo-dynamical and arc-like features revealed by Gaia DR3 actions

Speaker: Pedro Alonso Palicio (Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur)

PA_Palicio_Talk.pdf

4:30 PM → 5:00 PM The correlations between galaxy evolution and large scale structure

Speaker: Mohammadreza Ayromlou (Heidelberg University)

5:00 PM → 5:30 PM Stellar populations in SDSS and TNG50: tracing past merger events from galaxy centers

Speaker: Alina Boecker (Max-Planck-Institute for Astronomy)

hera_workshop_boecker.pdf

5:30 PM → 6:00 PM Reproducing the unusual tail of D100 using hydrodynamical simulations.

Speaker: Claire Cashmore (University of Hull)

6:00 PM → 6:30 PM Unveiling the low surface brightness Universe: The HERON Coma Cluster Project

Speaker: Javier Román (Kateyn Astronomical Institute - University of Groningen)

javier-roman-HERA2023.pdf

6:30 PM → 8:30 PM Bavarian Buffet Dinner

Tuesday, February 28

9:00 AM → 11:00 AM Lecture: Epoch of Reionizatiion

Speaker: Prof. Andrea Ferrara (Scuola Normale Superiore Pisa)

FERRARA_Highz ISM Lectures.pdf

9:45 AM → 10:15 AM Coffee and Tea Break

11:00 AM → 11:30 AM Chemical evolution of the Universe and its consequences for gravitational wave astrophysics

Speaker: Martyna Chruslinska (Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics)

11:30 AM → 12:00 PM Galaxy evolution in the local universe

Speaker: Cressida Cleland (University of Birmingham)

12:00 PM → 1:30 PM Lunch Break

1:30 PM → 2:00 PM Molecular gas kinematics in local early-type galaxies with ALMA

Speaker: Ilaria Ruffa (Cardiff University/INAF-IRA)

IRuffa_HERA_talk.pdf

2:00 PM → 2:30 PM The assembly of dusty galaxies at z ≥ 4 : the build-up of stellar mass and its scaling relations with hints from JWST data

Speaker: Claudia Di Cesare (Sapienza University of Rome)

HERA2023-ClaudiaDiCesare.pdf

2:30 PM → 3:00 PM The Molecular CGM: Entrainment or Thermal Instability?

Speaker: Ryan Farber (MPA)

3:00 PM → 3:30 PM Coffee & Tea Break

3:30 PM → 4:00 PM The role of the star cluster environment in the dynamical evolution of stars and planets

Speaker: Francesco Maria Flammini Dotti (University of Heidelberg)

4:00 PM → 4:30 PM The HI discs of galaxies as tracers of the baryonic physics of galaxy evolution

Speaker: Jindra Gensior (Institute for Computational Science, University of Zurich)

Gensior_HERA2023-compressed.pdf

4:30 PM → 5:00 PM Searching for dual AGN and its effect on the galaxy merger systems

Speaker: Rubinur Khatun (University of Oslo)

Rubinur-HERA23_Feb27_MPE.pdf

5:00 PM → 5:30 PM Star-forming early-type galaxies & quiescent late-type galaxies in the local Universe

Speaker: Evangelos-Dimitrios Paspaliaris (National Observatory of Athens & Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)

hera2023-presentation-paspaliaris.pdf

Wednesday, March 1

9:00 AM → 9:30 AM Properties of DM Halos of Light-cone N-body Simulations

Speaker: Maria Chira (Aristotle Univeristy of Thessaloniki & National Obs. of Athens)

Hera Workshop_Chira.pdf

9:30 AM → 10:00 AM On the baryon-driven contraction of dark matter halos

Speaker: Pengfei Li (Leibniz-Institute for Astrophysics at Potsdam)

Compression_Li-pdf.pdf

10:00 AM → 10:30 AM The complex nature of the ISM in local and high-z star-forming galaxies

Speaker: Manuel Behrendt (LMU)

10:30 AM → 11:00 AM Coffee and Tea Break

11:00 AM → 11:30 AM Extremely relativistic tidal disruption events by supermassive black holes

Speaker: Taeho Ryu (The Max-Planck Institute for Astrophysics)

11:30 AM → 12:00 PM Comparison of the observed properties of Milky Way satellites on and off the Vast Polar Structure

Speaker: Salvatore Taibi (Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP))

12:00 PM → 12:30 PM Can spirals help the Milky Way 'breathe'? - a quest with simulations & Gaia mission

Speaker: Soumavo Ghosh (Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie, Heidelberg)

ghosh_talk.pdf

12:30 PM → 2:00 PM Lunch Break

2:00 PM → 2:30 PM Cannibalism Caught in the Act -- on the Frequency of Occurrence of Multiple Cores in Brightest Cluster Galaxies

Speaker: Yun-Hsin Hsu (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich)

Yun-Hsin_BCG.pdf

2:30 PM → 3:00 PM TOP200: Survey and calatogue of dense cores in the 200 brightest Planck compact sources

Speaker: András Péter Joó (Eötvös Loránd University)

3:00 PM → 3:30 PM Strong evidence of ram-pressure stripping in low surface brightness galaxies of the Virgo cluster

Speaker: Junais (National Centre for Nuclear Reaserch (NCBJ), Warsaw)

Junais_HERA-workshop Garching 01-March 2023.pdf

3:30 PM → 4:00 PM Coffee and Tea Break

4:00 PM → 4:30 PM Anomalous Cepheids: what we know so far and why are they interesting

Speaker: Monika I. Jurkovic (Astronomical Observatory of Belgrade)

4:30 PM → 5:00 PM The infalling elliptical galaxy NGC 4552: Chemical composition of the hot atmosphere

Speaker: Sinancan Kara (Bogazici University)

Thursday, March 2

8:30 AM → 10:30 AM Lecture: Large-scale structure formation/evolution and the galaxy-dark matter connection

Speaker: Shaun Cole (U. Durham)

Shaun-Cole-Lecture.pdf

9:15 AM → 9:45 AM Tea & Coffee Break

11:00 AM → 12:30 PM Group Bus to Wendelstein Gondel in Bayrischzell

12:45 PM → 1:15 PM Cable Car to Wendelstein Mountain Top Observatory

1:15 PM → 1:30 PM Group 1: Elevator to Observatory

1:15 PM → 2:15 PM Group 2: Wendelstein Restaurant

1:30 PM → 2:15 PM Group 1 : Observatory Tour

2:15 PM → 2:30 PM Group 1: Elevator to Restaurant, Group 2: Elevator to Observatory

2:30 PM → 3:30 PM Group 1: Wendelstein Restaurant

2:30 PM → 3:15 PM Group 2: Observatory Tour

3:15 PM → 3:30 PM Group 2: Elevator to Restaurant

3:30 PM → 4:00 PM Cable Car down the Mountain

4:00 PM → 5:30 PM Group bus back to Munich/Garching

Friday, March 3

9:00 AM → 11:00 AM Lecture: Physics of the turbulent interstellar medium

Speaker: Stefanie Walch-Gassner (U. Köln)

9:45 AM → 10:15 AM Coffee and Tea Break

11:00 AM → 12:00 PM Self-Tour of ESO Supernova Exhibition

12:00 PM → 1:00 PM ESO Planetarium Show: Europe to the Stars

1:00 PM → 2:30 PM Lunch Break

2:30 PM → 3:00 PM Lighting up the dark side of the Universe: new insights on the galaxy build-up through the ALPINE survey

Speaker: Michael Romano (National Centre for Nuclear Research)

3:00 PM → 3:30 PM The measurement of galaxy population properties with forward-modelling

Speaker: Luca Tortorelli (USM Muenchen)

3:30 PM → 4:00 PM Observations of intergalactic gas with the DESI survey

Speaker: Michael Walther (LMU Munich)

4:00 PM → 4:30 PM Coffee and Tea Break

4:30 PM → 5:00 PM Investigating the Galactic metallicity gradient with asteroseismic ages

Speaker: Emma Willett (University of Birmingham)

Willet-HERA_2302.pdf

5:00 PM → 5:30 PM The relation between black-hole growth and host-galaxy compactness among star-forming galaxies

Speaker: Qingling Ni (MPE)