5th Heidelberg Astronomy Summer School:

First Stars & Cosmic Reionization

September 6th - 10th, 2010

Preliminary program (as of June 20)

Invited lecturers: Volker Bromm

Naoki Yoshida

Andrea Ferrara

Saleem Zaroubi

Time Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

09:00-10:00 Yoshida (2) Yoshida (3) Bromm (3) Yoshida (4)

10:00-11:00 Ferrara (2) Zaroubi (2) Zaroubi (3) Science Talk

11:00-11:30 Coffee Break

11:30-12:30 Bromm (2) Ferrara (3) Problems (2) Bromm (4)

12:30-14:00 Lunch

14:00-15:00 Yoshida (1) Zaroubi (1) Ferrara (4) Science Talk

15:00-15:30 Coffee Break Coffee Break

Questions
15:30-16:30 Ferrara (1) Questions Excursion Zaroubi (4)
Science Talk
16:30-17:30 Bromm (1) Problems (1)
Problems (3)
17:30-18:30 Questions

Excursion & BBQ

Pub Evening

Lecture Lecture 1 Lecture 2 Lecture 3 Lecture 4

topics

First galaxies – Star formation inside

Assembly of the first Signature of the first
Volker Bromm cosmological context the first galaxies,
galaxies galaxies for JWST
and basic principles stellar archeology

Feedback on Feedback on
The intergalactic Reionisation: Theory
Andrea Ferrara cosmological scales 1: cosmological scales 2:
medium and sources
Mechanical Radiative & chemical

Physics & chemistry of Simulating the Toward the formation

Structure formation in
Naoki Yoshida primordial star formation of of the first galaxies
the early universe
formation primordial stars and black holes

Observational probes The 21 cm transition What could we learn

of reionization and physics in the context Current & future 21 from the expected
Saleem Zaroubi
how they currently of reionization (spin cm experiments data about the
constrain reionization temperature history) Universe?