First Stars III - Conference Participants

First Stars III
July 16-20, 2007
Santa Fe, NM

Participants

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Brian O'Shea
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First Stars III

Conference Participants

Name Affiliation Talk or Poster title

Tom Abel KIPAC/Stanford The First Things In The Universe (Public talk) (T)

Kyungjihn Ahn U. Texas/Austin Does radiative feedback by the first stars promote or prevent second generation star formation? (T)

Fluctuating Hydrogen Molecule Dissociating Background During Cosmic Reionization (P1)

Simulating Reionization: Character and Observability (P2)

Marcelo Alvarez Stanford/KIPAC The growth of black hole remnants of primordial stars (P)

Martin Asplund Australian National University Primordial and pre-galactic origins of the lithium isotopes (T)

Sunghye Baek Paris Observatory none

Adriana Banu Texas A&M Study of the 12N(p,gamma)13O reaction in relation to Population III star evolution (P)

Tim Beers Michigan State Searches for the Most Metal-Poor Candidates from SDSS and SEGUE (T)

Mitch Begelman UC Boulder Formation and Growth of the First Supermassive Black Holes (T)

Ann Boesgaard Institute of Astronomy, U of Hawaii Beryllium in the Oldest Stars (P)

Volker Bromm UT Austin Simulations of star formation at very low metallicities (T)

Inese Brott U. Utrecht How Efficient is Rotational Mixing in Massive Stars? (P)

Greg Bryan Columbia Feedback effects on Pop III star formation (T)

Kent Budge LANL none

Simon Campbell Academia Sinica Taiwan Structural and nucleosynthetic evolution of metal-poor and metal-free low and intermediate-mass stars (T)

Hsaio-Wen Chen
U. Chicago High redshift GRBs (review) (T)

Christina Chiappini Geneva Obs. The impact of stellar rotation on our understanding of the earliest phases of the enrichment of the universe (T)

Emily Chouinard Michigan State/LANL none

Norbert Christlieb Uppsala University The Hamburg/ESO Survey, HE0107-5240, and the LAMOST project (T)

Candace Church UC Santa Cruz Multidimensional Simulations of Mixing in Zero-Metallicity Supernovae (P)

Benedetta Ciardi MPA Feedback from the first stars (review) (T)

Judy Cohen CalTech Progress report on the 0Z survey for extremely metal poor stars (T)

Stirling Colgate LANL The dynamics of galaxy and MBH formation: z < 3 (T)

John Cowan Univ. Oklahoma Abundance Signatures in Halo Stars: Clues to Nucleosynthesis in the First Stars (P)

Sergio Cristallo INAF Evolution and nucleosynthesis of low-mass metal-poor AGB models with C- and N-enhanced molecular opacities (T)

Douglas Duncan UC Boulder none

Sylvia Ekstrom Geneva Observatory Can very massive stars avoid Pair-Instability Supernovae? (T)

Michael Fall STScI Reionization by Early Stars and Galaxies: Theory and Observations (P)

Xiaohui Fan U of Arizona Cosmological reionization (T)

Elizabeth Fernandez UT Austin The Cosmic Near Infrared Background: Remnant Light from the Early Stars (P1)

Mass-to-light Ratio of Ly-alpha Emitters: Implications of Ly-alpha Surveys at Redshifts z=5.7, 6.5, 7, and 8.8 (P2)

Andrea Ferrara SISSA/ISAS Reionization signatures of first stars (review) (T)

Anna Frebel UT Austin Results from bright metal-poor stars from the Hamburg/ESO survey (T)

Katie Freese U. Michigan Dark matter and the first stars: a new phase of stellar evolution (P)

Alex Friedland LANL none

Pilar Gil-Pons Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya The final stages of intermediate mass primordial stars: the effects of overshooting (P)

Simon Glover AIP Chemistry of Pop III stars (T)

The First Stellar Cluster (P1)

The Influence of Metallicity on Star Formation in Protogalaxies (P2)

Jonay I. Gonzalez Hernandez Observatoire de Paris-Meudon The most-metal poor dwarfs of the binary CS 22876--032: Abundances and 3D effects (P)

Thomas Greif Univ. Heidelberg The First Supernova Explosions: Energetics, Feedback, and Chemical Enrichment (P)

Sanjib Gupta LANL none

Alexander Heger T-6/LANL none

Falk Herwig U. Keele Nucleosynthesis and mixing in the first generations of low- and intermediate-mass stars (T)

Fabio Iocco Stanford/KIPAC Turbulence in the First Stars (P1)

High Energy neutrino signals from the Epoch of Reionization (P2)

Inese Ivans Carnegie Institutes/Princeton Contributions from the First AGB Stars: Predicted Stellar Yields of Low-Metallicity Carbon-Enhanced AGB Stars, & Thermohaline Mixing (P1)

Envelope enrichment predictions for Barium stars confronted with high-resolution spectroscopic observations: a link with CEMPs stars (P2)

Danny Jacobs Montana State University none

Jarrett L. Johnson University of Texas at Austin Formation of metal-free protogalaxies (P)

Jennifer Johnson The Ohio State University Abundance ratios in carbon-enhanced metal-poor stars and the intermediate mass IMF (T)

Daniel Kasen Johns Hopkins Predicted light curves and spectra of the first stellar explosions (T)

Sasha Kashlinsky Goddard Space Flight Center Cosmic infrared background from early epochs - searching for signatures of first stars (T)

Brian Keating UC San Diego IR Background limits on the surface density of primordial galaxies above z of 8 (T)

Stefan Keller Australian National Observatory The Southern Sky Survey - A Survey for Extremely Metal-poor Stars (P)

Ji-Hoon Kim Stanford/KIPAC Galaxy Evolution on AMR (P)

Jeremy King Clemson University (P)

Yutaka Komiya Tohoku University The initial mass function of extremely metal-poor stars and the probe into the star-formation process of the Milky Way (T)

Andreas Korn Uppsala Astronomical Observatory, Uppsala University HE 1327-2326 -- stellar parameters, atomic diffusion and lithium abundance (P)

Savvas Koushiappas LANL none

Karl-Ludwig Kratz Otto-Hahn-Institut Nucleosynthesis Modes in the SN II High-Entropy-Wind Model (P)

Jiri Krticka Masaryk University The winds from hot Pop III stars (P)

Julie Krugler Michigan State University Revised Parameter Estimates for the Most Metal-poor Candidates in SDSS-I and SEGUE (P)

David Lai Santa Cruz A Search for Binary Stars at Low Metallicity (P)

John Lattanzio Monash none

Herbert Lau Cambridge IoA Explosive end of high mass primordial AGB stars -- Supernova type 1.5 (P)

Timothy Lawlor Penn State Delaware County New Single and Binary Stellar Evolution Models for Pop III Stars with Progenitor Mass of 10 Msun (P)

Hui Li LANL MHD modeling of explosions (T)

Siming Liu LANL none

Sara Lucatello INAF C-rich, very metal poor halo stars at low metallicity: the HERES sample (T)

Hans Ludwig Observatoire de Paris-Meudon Hydrodynamical model atmospheres of metal-poor stars (T)

Umberto Maio MPA Molecular and Metal Cooling in Structure Formation (P)

Allard Jan van Marle University of Delaware Continuum driven winds from super-Eddington stars (T)

Irene Toro Martinez Pomona College none

Thomas Masseron Ohio State Stellar nucleosynthesis in the Galactic history : the carbon stars (P)

Ian McGreer Columbia University 3D Simulations of Primordial Star Formation With HD Chemistry (P)

Chris McKee UC Berkeley Conference summary (T)

Jorge Melendez Australian National University Magnesium Isotopic Ratios in Halo Stars (P)

Andre Michaudon LANL none

Selma de Mink Utrecht University Radii of accreting Main Sequence stars at various metallicities (P1)
Binaries & Metallicity (P2)

Georges Meynet
Geneva Observatory Evolution of PopIII and very metal poor massive stars (T)

Peter Moller LANL Global Nuclear-Structure Calculations for Astrophysical Networks (P)

Lianne Muijres Sterrenkundig Instituut The effect of clumping on predictions of the mass-loss rate of early-type stars (P)

Takanori Nagakura NAO Japan/U. of Tokyo The evolution of supernovae remnants in the early universe (P)

Ken Nomoto U. Tokyo Nucleosynthesis in massive Pop III stars (T)

Michael Norman UC San Diego Pop III star formation (review) (T)

Takaya Nozawa U. Hokkaido Dust Evolution in Population III supernova remnants (P)

Brian O'Shea T-6, X-2/LANL none

Kaz Omukai NAO The formation of stars at very low metallicity (T)

Andrew Onifer LANL Population III Wolf-Rayet Stars in the CAK Regime (P)

Jan-Pieter Paardekooper Lieden Observatory First Light in the Primordial Gas (P)

Bryan Penprase Pomona College Elemental abundances in GRB afterglows and high-redshift DLAs (T)

Ana Elia Garcia Perez University of Hertfordshire Subaru observations of Li isotope abundances in metal-poor stars (P)

Matthew Pieri Universite Laval Feedback and its Feedback Effects on Feedback (T)

Marco Pignatari Keele University The weak s-process at low metallicity (P)

Onno Pols Astronomical Institute Utrecht Carbon-enhanced metal-poor stars: effects of binary evolution at low metallicity (T)

Francesca Primas ESO none

Yong-Zhong Qian U. Minnesota Nucleosynthesis in metal-free stars (review) (T)

Alexei Razoumov Saint Mary's University Radiative and mechanical feedback in first galaxies (P)

Darren Reed LANL Halo & galaxy clustering in the early universe (T)

Massimo Ricotti U. Maryland Effects of radiation backgrounds on the formation of Population III stars (T)

Gabriel Rockefeller LANL Three-dimensional simulations of Pop III star collapse (T)

Ian Roederer UT Austin Europium, Samarium, and Neodymium Isotopic Fractions in Metal-Poor Stars (P)

Silvia Rossi Instituto de Astronomia Geofisica
e Ciencias Atmosfericas Refined Estimates of Carbon Abundances for Carbon-Enhanced Metal-Poor Stars (P)

Stefania Salvadori SISSA/ISAS Cosmic stellar relics in the Galactic halo (P)

Wallace Sargent CalTech none

Daisuke Sato University of Tsukuba Radiation Transfer SPH Simulations of UV Feedback on Pop III Star Formation (P)

Luca Sbordone Obs. Paris The metal poor end of the Lithium plateau: Li abundance and Teff scales down to [Fe/H]=-3.5 (P)

Daniel Schaerer Geneva Observatory Emission line and ionizing properties of primeval galaxies (P)

Raffaella Schneider INAF Chemical feedback and the extinction of Pop III stars (T)

Simon Schuler NOAO/CTIO Flourine in a carbon-enhanced metal-poor star (T)

Min-Su Shin Princeton Cosmological H II Bubble Growth During Reionization (P)

Michael Shull UC Boulder Critical Metallicities for Second-Generation Stars (T)

Sam Skillman LANL/UC Boulder none

Britton Smith Penn State The Role of the First Metals in Forming the Second Stars (P)

Nathan Smith UC Berkeley Possible detection of a pair instability supernova in the modern universe, and implications for the first stars (T)

Chris Sneden University of Texas (Austin) Department of Astronomy Searches for Pop III stars (review, part 2) (T)

Jennifer Sobeck UT Austin A new study of copper abundances in metal-poor stars (T)

Metallicity Discrepancy between RGB and RHB Stars of the Globular Cluster M15 (P)

Douglas Spolyar UC Santa Cruz Dark matter and the first stars: a new phase of stellar evolution (P)

Massimo Stiavelli STScI Observing first stars with JWST (P)

Takuma Suda U. Tokyo Understanding the characterstics of EMP stars as probes for the early universe - stellar evolution of low- and intermediate-mass EMP stars (T)

Rebecca Surman Union College Nucleosynthesis in Outflows from Black Hole Accretion Disks (P)

Tamon Suwa University of Tsukuba High Resolution P3M-GRAPE-SPH Simulations of PopIII Star Formation (P)

Yudai Suwa University of Tokyo Gravitational Wave Background from Population III Stars (P)

Doug Swartz NASA/MSFC none

Jonathan Tan U. Florida Star formation at very low metallicities (review) (T)

Tom Theuns Durham University Lighting the Universe with filaments (P)

Roger Thompson U. of Arizona The near infrared background: resolved and identified (T)

Hy Trac Princeton Radiative transfer simulations of cosmic reionization with Pop II and Pop III stars (T)

Michele Trenti STScI The very first Pop III stars and their relation to bright z ~ 6 quasars (T)

Sachiko Tsuruta Montana State University Evolution of Very Massive Population III Stars (P)

Jason Tumlinson Yale Carbon-enhanced Metal-poor (CEMP) Stars and the CMB-dominated IMF of Early Pop II Stars (P)

Matthew Turk Stanford/KIPAC New results from high resolution AMR simulations of Pop III star formation (T)

Masayuki Umemura University of Tsukuba Formation and feedback of First Stars (T)

Kim Venn U. Victoria What and where are the lowest metallicity stars? (Review part I) (T)

Peng Wang Stanford/KIPAC Simulating stellar birth and death (P)

Daniel Whalen LANL HII regions from Population III stars (T)

John Wise Stanford/KIPAC How the first stars shaped the first galaxies (T)

Paul Woodward U. Minnesota TBD (P)

Stan Woosley Santa Cruz The Evolution and Explosion of Massive Stars with Very Low Metallicity (review) (T)

Hao Xu UCSD/LANL Cosmological AMR MHD module for Enzo (P)

Daisuke Yonetoku Kanazawa University Pop-III Star Formation Rate Inferred from Ep-Luminosity Relation of Gamma-Ray Bursts (P)

Sung-Chul Yoon Santa Cruz/Univ. Amsterdam Massive star evolution at very low metallicity including rotation and binary interaction (T)

Naoki Yoshida U. Nagoya SPH simulations of Pop III star formation (T)

Timothy Young U. North Dakota Population III Supernova Light Curves From Massive Stars In Binary Systems (T)

Fen Zhao Stanford/KIPAC The Biermann Battery and Early Structure Formation (P)

Note: T = talk, P = poster