Fake Light Workshop

May 30, 2023, 8:30 AM → Jun 2, 2023, 6:00 PM America/New_York

17th Floor (Math for America)

With exciting new JWST data arriving every day, it is an ideal time to think about directly comparing galaxy formation models with JWST observations. This focused invitation-only workshop will bring together theorists who are working to predict JWST synthetic observables from hydrodynamical simulations and semi-analytic models, in addition to a few observers to provide guidance and motivation.

Recordings

Tuesday, May 30

8:30 AM Breakfast

Welcome / Logistics

Kassin – JWST: a guide for theorists

Ferguson – Interpreting JWST Surveys of the Early Universe

Tools: Part 1

1 Baes – Mocking the Universe with SKIRT

10:45 AM Coffee Break

2 Smith – COLT: Spatially- and spectrally resolved line emission from hydrodynamical simulations

3 Barrow – The Benefits of Generalized Radiative Transfer Modelling of the ISM in the Time Domain

4 Kapoor – TODDLERS: Time Evolution of Observables Including Dust Diagnostics and Line Emission from Hii Regions for the SKIRT Radiative Transfer Code

5 Lovell – Synthesizer: a modular, flexible and fast package for generating synthetic astrophysical spectra

1:00 PM Lunch

6 Fortuni – FORECAST: a flexible software to forward model cosmological simulations mimicking real observations

7 Trinca – Seeking the light from the Early Universe: a Cosmic Archaeology Tool

8 Discussion

3:30 PM Coffee Break / Move to 162

4:00 PM Reception

Wednesday, May 31

8:30 AM Breakfast

Tools: Part 2

9 Olmsted – The Galaxy Assembly and Interaction Neural Networks (GAINN) for high-redshift JWST observations

10 Iyer – Inference vs Forward Modeling with JWST: the power of physically motivated intermediate domains

Outflows and kinematics

11 Kassin – Semi-resolved winds

12 Gazagnes – Interpreting spectroscopic observations with RHD simulations

10:45 AM Coffee Break

13 Heckman – How Well do Models and Simulations Match the Observations of Galactic Winds?

14 Discussion

1:00 PM Lunch

15 Barrientos – Generating mock spectroscopy for simulated galaxies with SKIRT. An exploration of the biases in the recovered kinematics

Reionization

16 Vogelsberger – Thesan - RHD simulations of the early universe

17 Neyer – Connecting ionized bubble sizes to their environments in THESAN

18 Carr – Predicting LyC Escape at High Redshifts with MgII Emission

3:30 PM Coffee Break / Move to 160

4:00 PM Rooftop Collaboration

Thursday, June 1

8:30 AM Breakfast

First stars, galaxies, and black holes: Part 1

19 Venditti – A needle in a haystack? Catching Pop III stars in the Epoch of Reionization

20 Yajima – Formation of the first bright galaxies with population III stars and comparisons with JWST data

21 Gelli – Hunting quiescent low-mass galaxies in the Epoch of Reionization with JWST

22 Richardson – Investigating IMBHs in Metal-Poor, Highly Star Forming Dwarf Galaxies

23 Yung – What have we learned from JWST and what do we do next?

10:45 AM Coffee Break

24 Discussion

25 Berg – Observational Benchmarks of Chemical Evolution for the Next Generation of Simulations

1:00 PM Lunch

26 Ceverino – Generating mock JWST data from cosmological zoom-in simulations

27 Katz – Methods and Data Products from SPHINX Public Data Release v1 and RAMSES-RTZ

28 Garg – Theoretical strong line metallicity diagnostics for the JWST era

29 McClymont – Emission lines and the ISM: what do we really see?

30 Roy – Spatially-resolved mock line emission spectra of galaxies simulated in FIRE

3:40 PM Coffee Break / Move to 162

4:00 PM Rooftop Collaboration

Friday, June 2

8:30 AM Breakfast

31 Bolatto – Connecting simulations to observations in the mid-IR and longer wavelengths

32 Schneider – Dusty Galaxies in the Epoch of Reionization

33 Graziani – The assembly of dusty galaxies at z ≥ 4

34 Sommovigo – Fast and Furious: the dust enrichment of the early Universe

10:45 AM Coffee Break

35 Armus – JWST Observations of local LIRGs

36 Cochrane – TBD

37 Sun – Bursty Star Formation and Its Implications for Observations of High-Redshift Galaxies With JWST

38 Marshall – The BlueTides Mock Image Catalogue

1:00 PM Lunch

39 Chworowsky – Earlier and More Massive, the Surprising Diversity of Galaxies in the Early Universe

40 Discussion

3:30 PM Coffee Break / Move to 162

4:00 PM Rooftop Collaboration