THE FIRST STARS II Current Program: (*) indicates confirmed invited speakers Wednesday May 28th: Reception at the Atherton Hotel Lobby 18:00 - 20:00 Thursday May 29th: 8:10 Coffee and breakfast in the meeting room 8:30 - Registration 9:00 - 9:15 Welcome (Meszaros, Abel) Session I: The big picture. (chair Ostriker) 9:15 - 9:50 * Martin Rees (IoA) Cosmological Implications of the First Stars 9:50 - 10:25 * Avi Loeb (CfA) How will we find the first luminous objects in the universe? [ppt] Coffee break 10:55 - 11:30 * Mike Norman (UCSD) Numerical Simulations of First Structure Formation [ppt] 11:30 - 12:00 * Andrea Ferrara (SISSA) Metal Enrichment from the First Stars 12:00 - 12:30 * Zoltan Haiman (NYU) Observable Consequences of the First Luminous Objects ppt] LUNCH Session II: The quest for population III (chair Wall Sargent) 14:15 - 14:40 * Mike Santos (Caltech) Finding low luminosity high-z sources today 14:40 - 15:05 * Daniel Schaerer (CNRS/INSU) Expected observable signatures of primordial starbursts [ppt] 15:05 - 15:30 * Tim Beers (MSU) Finding the lowest metallicity stars known [ppt] 15:30 - 15:55 * Norbert Christlieb (Hamburg) Properties of the lowest metalicity stars known Tea break 16:20 - 16:45 * Volker Bromm (CfA) The First Stars & High Redshift Gamma Ray Bursts [ppt] 16:45 - 17:10 * Kaz Omukai (Oxford) Formation of First Stars by Accretion [ppt] 17:10 - 17:30 Jonathan Tan (Princeton) Accretion Physics of Primordial Proto-Stars [ppt] 17:30 - 18:10 Discussion session (Ostriker, Loeb, Ferrara) Friday 30th of May: Session III: Nucleosynthesis, Abundance Patterns (chair Tim Beers) 8:10 Coffee and breakfast in the meeting room 8:30 - 9:05 * Alexander Heger (Chicago) Nucleosynthesis in massive primordial stars [pdf] [real] 9:05 - 9:35 * Ken Nomoto (Tokyo) Observed abundance patterns and their relation to the first generation of stars [ppt] [real] 9:35 - 10:05 * Y-Z Qian (Minnesota) Abundances in Metal-Poor Stars: Implications for the Origin of the Heavy Elements and Cosmology [real] 10:05 - 10:35 * Vanessa Hill (Paris) Can we see abundance patterns of single supernovae? [real] Coffee Break 11:05 - 11:35 * Achim Weiss (MPA) The relation between the extremely metal-poor and the first stars? [pdf] [real] 11:35 - 12:05 Jerry Wasserburg (Caltech) The Prompt Inventory and "Metals " in the IGM and Damped Lyman Alpha Systems 12:05 - 12:30 Jon Fulbright Draco 119 and the origin of neutron-capture elements in the very early universe [ppt] LUNCH Session IV: Extragalactic constraints (chair Andrea Ferrara) 14:15 - 14:40 * Eline Tolstoy (Groningen) Extragalactic low metallicity stars [ppt] [real] 14:40 - 15:05 * Wall Sargent (Caltech) Abundances in the IGM and galactic halos 15:05 - 15:30 * Kurt Adelberger (CfA) High redshift star forming galaxies and the IGM 15:30 - 15:55 * Francesca Primas (ESO) Relating abundances of PoPII stars with DLAs [ppt] [real] Tea Break 16:25 - 16:50 Joop Schaye (IAS) The distribution of metals in the intergalactic medium [ppt] 16:50 - 17:15 Aparna Venkatesan (Boulder) The Duration of Metal-Free Star Formation And Associated Consequences [pdf] [real] 17:15 - 17:40 Peng Oh (Caltech) Observational and Physical Signatures of High Redshift Supernovae 17:40 - 18:15 Discussion Session (Wasserburg, *Beers, Schaerer) 19:30 Reception at the Atherton Hotel Lobby 20:00 - Conference Banquet Saturday 31st of May: Session V: More links to PoPIII (chair Tom Abel) 8:30 Coffee and breakfast in the meeting room 9:00 - 9:30 * Naoki Yoshida Numerical simulations and semi-analytic model of pre-galactic object formation [ppt] [real] 9:30 - 10:00 * Nick Gnedin (Boulder) Simulating Hydrogen Reionization [ppt] [real] 10:00 - 10:30 * Xiaohui Fan (Arizona) High z-quasars and ionization state of the IGM [ppt] [real] Coffee Break 11:00 - 11:25 Niel Brandt X-rays from the First Massive Black Holes: Current Status and Future Prospects [real] 11:25 - 11:50 Ruben Salvaterra (SISSA) First Stars and the Infrared Background [ppt] [real] 11:50 - 12:30 Tim Beers & Wal Sargent Conference Summary and Outlook - Observations [real] 12:30 - 13:00 Jerry Ostriker Conference Summary and Outlook - Theory [real] 19:30 - Informal after Dinner Party at Tom Abel's house