JWST 2015 - ESA/ESTEC - JWST

exploring the universe with jwst

49^th ESLAB symposium

ESA/ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands, 12-16 October 2015

The main goal of this first JWST conference was to bring together scientists to present, highlight and discuss scientific programs that will be made possible by JWST. It covered a broad range of scientific topics, organized in the following categories:

The end of the "dark ages": first light and reionisation.

The assembly of galaxies.

The formation and evolution of stars and planets.

Planetary systems and the origins of life (exoplanets).

Our Solar system.

PRESENTATIONS

Monday 12 October 2015

Formal Welcome- Arvind Parmar

JWST Mission Introductory Talks

Chair: Jonathan Gardner

Keynote Talk: The JWST Mission - John Mather
Status of the JWST Science Instrument Payload - Matthew Greenhouse
Status of the JWST Observatory - Mark Clampin
The Science Timeline for JWST - Neill Reid
Preparation for Scientific Operation in Europe - Marco Sirianni

First Light and Reionisation

Chair: Peter Jakobsen

New Constraints on Cosmic Reionization - Brant Robertson
Spectroscopic Studies of Galaxies in the Reionization Era - Richard Ellis
Constraining the Escape of Ionizing Photons from Galaxies at z>6 - Erik Zackrisson
HST Observations of Escaping Lyman Continuum Radiation from Galaxies and Weak AGN at 2.3<z<5: (How) Did they Reionize the Universe, and what JWST must do next - Rogier Windhorst

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Formation and Evolution of Stars and Planets

Chair: Jason Kalirai

PMS Stars and Stellar Populations - Kevin Luhman
Probing the Embedded Phase of Star Formation with JWST spectroscopy - Ewine van Dishoeck
Star Formation Studies in the Magellanic Clouds with JWST - Margaret Meixner
Organic Material in Circumstellar Media - Jeronimo Bernard-Salas
Mapping the Distribution of Solid Icy Material in Star Forming Regions - Helen Fraser

Tuesday 13 October 2015

Galaxy Assembly

Chair: Gillian Wright

Unveiling the Peak of Galaxy Assembly - Jennifer Lotz
Warm Molecular Hydrogen at High Redshift with JWST - Pierre Guillard
The Luminous Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Emission Features: Applications to High Redshift Galaxies and Active Galactic Nuclei - Heath Shipley
Modeling and Interpreting the Spectral Energy Distribution of Galaxies in the era of NIRSpec-JWST - Jacopo Chevallard

Our Solar System

Chair: Pierre Drossart

Giant planet systems - Heidi Hammel
Titan Science With the James Webb Space Telescope - Conor Nixon
Studies of Tenuous Atmospheres, Comets and Trans-neptunian Objects with JWST - Emmanuel Lellouch
Rocks and Ice: Asteroid Science with JWST - George Sonneborn
JWST Observations of Stellar Occultations by Solar System Bodies and Rings - Emmanuel Lellouch on behalf of P. Santos-Sanz

From the First Light Epoch to the Peak of Galaxy Assembly

Chair: John Mather NASA/GSFC

First Light Observations with JWST: Lessons from Ultra-Deep HST and Spitzer/IRAC Observations - Pascal Oesch
Galaxy Assembly with Gravitational Lensing and with JWST - Jane Rigby
Optimizing JWST Distant-Galaxy Studies - Henry Ferguson

From the First Light Epoch to the Peak of Galaxy Assembly

Chair: Malcom Longair

JWST Deep Imaging with MIRI: A mid-IR View of the Reionization Epoch - Hans Ulrik Nørgaard
Galaxy Formation and Evolution with JWST's NIRISS Instrument - Chris Willot
Galaxies within the Epoch of Reionization with JWST-NIRSpec - Andrew Bunker
Observing Galaxy Assembly with NIRSPEC/JWST - Marijn Franx
NIRCam Capabilities for Observing the Epoch of Galaxy Assembly - Marcia Rieke

Discussion session

Formation and Evolution of Stars and Planets - Chairs: Catarina Alves de Oliveira, Inga Kamp, and Rachel Osten

Wednesday 14 October 2015

Galaxy Assembly

Chair: Roger Davies

How will JWST help us to understand the physics of galaxy formation? - Rachel Somerville
Observing Galaxy Assembly in Simulations - Greg Snyder
Nearby and low Redshift Galaxies - Andreas Burkert
Exploring Resolved Populations in Local Volume Galaxies with JWST - Annette Ferguson
JWST Observations of Nearby Galaxies: Rationale and Outputs - Martin Ward

Formation and Evolution of Stars and Planets

Chair: Oliver Krause

The Formation of Super Stellar Clusters - Francois Boulanger
Constraining Planet Formation with JWST- Ilaria Pascucci
Protoplanetary Disks with JWST/MIRI - Inga Kamp

Discussion session

From the First Light Epoch to the Peak of Galaxy Assembly: Survey Strategies for JWST - Chairs: James Dunlop, Steven Finkelstein, Olivier Lefèvre and Stephen Wilkins

Following the discussion that took place during the meeting, the four chairs of the session wrote a white paper "The case for a James Webb Space Telescope extragalactic key project" that can be retrieved here (astro-ph).