SIMBA Collaboration Meeting

May 1, 2023, 9:00 AM → May 5, 2023, 4:00 PM America/New_York

Ingrid Daubechies Auditorium/2-IDA (162 5th Avenue)

The Simba simulation suite and associated projects such as CAMELS and the 300 Cluster Comparison project have provided novel and state-of-the-art additions to the pantheon of current galaxy formation models. Since its release in 2019, it has been used for a wide range of studies from massive galaxies today to early galaxies seen with JWST, from exploring cold gas in HI and H2 seen at long wavelengths to hot gas in massive halos seen in the X-ray, and from large-scale cosmology to the interstellar medium.

This Simba Team workshop aims to bring together the wide range of astrophysicists working with Simba and affiliated simulations, for both observational and theoretical projects. The goal is to share results and ongoing work with the Simba simulations, coordinate existing projects, and make plans and spur collaborations for future work. We would like to promote the exchange of ideas, tools, and knowledge between subgroups working on different aspects of galaxy formation and cosmology.

If you are interested, please register for the workshop. There is no workshop registration fee and breakfast/lunch/coffee breaks are generously provided by the Flatiron Institute. Other travel costs are to be borne by the participants. The workshop will begin the morning of Monday May 1, 2023 and end at lunchtime on Thursday May 4. Workshop participants are welcome to stay the rest of the week to explore more collaborations with other attendees and/or CCA folks.

Monday, May 1

9:00 AM → 10:00 AM Breakfast

10:00 AM → 12:55 PM Morning Session

Convener: Doug Rennehan (CCA)

10:00 AM Welcome & Simba status report

Speaker: Romeel Davé (University of Edinburgh)

Dave.pptx

10:20 AM Powderday: Usage and applications

Speaker: Desika Narayanan (University of Florida)

Narayanan.key

10:45 AM Coffee Break

11:30 AM The interplay of dual black hole accretion and feedback modes in SIMBA

Speaker: Daniel Angles-Alcazar (University of Connecticut)

Angles-Alcazar.pdf

11:55 AM Exploring the link between feedback and galaxy star formation history

Speaker: Kartheik Iyer (Columbia University)

Iyer.pdf

12:20 PM The impact of feedback on haloes and large-scale structure

Speaker: Daniele Sorini (Durham University)

Sorini.pdf

12:55 PM → 2:00 PM Lunch

2:00 PM → 5:00 PM Afternoon Session

Convener: Daniel Anglés-Alcázar (UCONN)

2:00 PM Simulating Galaxy Groups and their Massive Central Galaxies

Speaker: Arif Babul (University of Victoria)

Babul.key

2:25 PM Group X-ray scaling relations and mass bias in SIMBA

Speaker: Fred Jennings (University of Edinburgh)

Jennings.key

2:50 PM ISM evolution in the SIMBA cosmological simulation: galaxies in cluster environment **REMOTE**

Speaker: Guiliano Lorenzon (National Center For Nuclear Research (NCBJ))

Lorenzon.pptx

3:15 PM Coffee Break

3:45 PM Characterizing AGN Feedback Processes at z~1 with SIMBA

Speaker: Skylar Grayson (Arizona State University)

Grayson.pptx

4:10 PM Probing the impact of AGN feedback on gas distribution with SIMBA and IllustrisTNG

Speaker: Tianyi Yang (University of Edinburgh)

Tianyi_Yang.key

4:35 PM AGN feedback effects on the low redshift Lyman-alpha forest

Speaker: Megan Tillman (Rutgers University)

Tillman.key

5:30 PM → 7:00 PM Reception

Tuesday, May 2

8:30 AM → 9:30 AM Breakfast

9:30 AM → 12:55 PM Morning Session

Convener: Desika Narayanan (University of Florida)

9:30 AM CAMELS

Speaker: Paco Villaescusa-Navarro (Flatiron Institute)

Villaescusa_Navarro.pptx

9:55 AM Modelling the Cosmology and Astrophysics Dependent Galaxy-Halo Relationship using Normalizing Flows and the CAMEL Simulations **REMOTE**

Speaker: Chris Lovell (University of Portsmouth)

10:20 AM Using CNN to Predict Galaxy Properties

Speaker: Jinoo Kim (University of Toronto)

Kim.pptx

10:45 AM Coffee Break

11:30 AM Cosmic Sands: The Origin of High-z Dusty Galaxies

Speaker: Sidney Lower (University of Florida)

Lower.pptx

11:55 AM The rapid evolution of galaxies' ISM in the metric of cosmic web **REMOTE**

Speaker: Darko Donevski (NCBJ / SISSA)

DONEVSKI.pdf

12:20 PM Improved Dust and H2 Modelling in SIMBA **REMOTE**

Speaker: Ewan Jones (University of Edinburgh)

JONES.pdf

12:55 PM → 2:00 PM Lunch

2:00 PM → 4:35 PM Afternoon Session

Convener: Neal Katz (University of Massachusetts)

2:00 PM Zoomed-in simulations with SIMBA

Speaker: Weiguang Cui (IfA, University of Edinburgh)

Weiguang.pptx

2:25 PM Charting the redshift evolution of metallicity indicators using SIMBA

Speaker: Prerak Garg (University of Florida)

Garg.pdf

2:50 PM SIMBA predicts exotic H2 gas-to-dust ratios in quiescent galaxies

Speaker: Kate Whitaker (UMass Amherst)

Whitaker.pdf

3:15 PM Coffee Break

3:45 PM Cosmic Evolution of Atomic and Molecular Gas within Dark Matter Halos

Speakers: Kexin Liu (Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy and Sciences), Wenlin Ma (Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy and Sciences)

KexinLiu_WenlinMa.pdf

4:10 PM The History of Dust-obscured Star Formation

Speaker: Dhruv Zimmerman (University of Florida)

Zimmerman.pptx

4:35 PM → 6:03 PM Analysis tools presentations and group discussion

CAESAR (Romeel/Desika), swiftsimio (Josh), MOXHA (Fred), PyMSZ (Weiguang), Daniele (profiles, pygad), SIMBA/Rockstar (Kevin)

5:00 PM → 5:15 PM GROUP PHOTO

All in person attendees who wish to join a group photo, please remain or convene in the auditorium. Our in-house photographer will be organizing the photo for the CCA website and to share among the SIMBA collaboration.

Wednesday, May 3

8:30 AM → 9:30 AM Breakfast

9:30 AM → 12:55 PM Morning Session

Convener: Arif Babul (University of Victoria)

9:30 AM The Physically Evolved Wind Model

Speaker: Neal Katz (University of Massachusetts)

Katz.pdf

9:55 AM Absorption lines of wind particles in simulations

Speaker: Lisiyuan Yang (UMass Amherst)

YANG.key

10:20 AM Revealing the subtle differences in the stellar-to-halo mass relationship between different models through subhalo tracking

Speaker: Austen Gabrielpillai (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center / Catholic University of America)

gabrielpillai.pptx

10:45 AM Coffee Break

11:30 AM Radio galaxies in Simba and comparisons to MIGHTEE **REMOTE**

Speaker: Nicole Thomas (Durham University)

11:55 AM Physical properties of JWST galaxies via machine learning **REMOTE**

Speaker: Qingyang Li (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

QingyangLi.key

12:20 PM The evolution of early quenched galaxies in Simba **REMOTE**

Speaker: Jakub Szpila (University of Edinburgh)

SZPILA.pptx

12:55 PM → 2:00 PM Lunch

2:00 PM → 4:00 PM Afternoon Session

Convener: rachel somerville (CCA)

2:00 PM Introduction to Simba-C: an updated chemical enrichment model

Speaker: Renier Hough (North-West University Potchefstroom Campus, South Africa)

Hough.pdf

2:25 PM Kiara

Speaker: Romeel Davé (University of Edinburgh)

DAVE_Kiara.pptx

2:50 PM Zoom Simulations with SWIFT **REMOTE**

Speaker: Will Roper (University of Sussex)

3:15 PM Coffee Break

3:45 PM Ongoing and future projects discussion – Romeel Davé et al.

Thursday, May 4

9:00 AM → 10:00 AM Breakfast

10:00 AM → 12:30 PM Breakout Sessions

12:30 PM → 2:00 PM Lunch

2:00 PM → 5:00 PM Move to 7th Floor Classroom

For those wishing to stay after lunch you are welcome to use the 7th Floor Classroom (courtesy of CCB) for the remainder of the day.

3:00 PM → 3:30 PM **Must clear floor for FI Seminar**

Speaker: Lisa Brown (CCB)
Title: My History of Computer Vision: From Early Neural Nets to Boosting to Activity Recognition

Friday, May 5

10:00 AM → 4:00 PM Small Group Collaboration

Attendees are welcome to sit in (1) CCA's 5th & 6th Floors common areas, (2) Office 502 w/ first-come-first-serve visitor seating, (3) the 11th floor dining room. Additional registration is needed to visit this day. Attendance was collected on the RSVP. If you are unsure or wish to join Friday, please email the event contact, Abigail Creem.