JWST 2015 - ESA/ESTEC - JWST
exploring the universe with jwst
49th 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
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).
Exoplanets
Chair: Thomas Greene
- Direct Imaging - Beth Biller
- Constraints on Exoplanetary Model Parameters from MIRI Direct Imaging Observations - Camilla Danielski
- Giant Planets - Ian Crossfield
Thursday 15 October 2015
First Light and Reionisation
Chair: Stephen Wilkins
- JWST and Gravitational Lensing to Probe the Epoch of Reionization - Hakim Atek
- Modeling Reionization Sources in the JWST Era - Nick Gnedin
- The Nature of the Galaxies that Reionised the Universe - Tom Theuns
- First Galaxies, Globular Clusters and Ultra-faint Dwarfs with JWST - Massimo Ricotti
Exoplanets
Chair: Mark Clampin
- Transiting Temperate Terrestrials - Nicolas Cowan
- Characterizing Potentially Habitable Planets with JWST - Victoria Meadows
Exoplanets
Chair: Aki Roberge
- Probing Transiting Exoplanet Atmospheres with JWST - Jean-Michel Desert
- Characterizing Transiting Exoplanet Atmospheres with JWST Spectra - Thomas Greene
- Characterizing Exoplanets With NIRCam - Charles Beichman
- Exoplanet Studies with NIRISS - René Doyon
- Exoplanets with MIRI - Pierre-Olivier Lagage
Friday 16 October 2015
Formation and Evolution of Stars and Planets (09:00 - 10:30)
Chair: George Rieke
- Insights into Planetary Systems through JWST Imaging of Debris Disks - Mark Wyatt
- Observing Core Formation and Metamorphism in Extrasolar Asteroids using JWST - Bernard de Vries
- Peering into the Physics of Brown Dwarfs: Spectroscopy with JWST/NIRSpec - Catarina Alves de Oliveira
- Probing the Origin and Nature of the Dust in the Ejecta and in the Medium around Core Collapse Supernovae - Eli Dwek
Galaxy Assembly
Chair: Martin Ward
- Beyond the Activity Peak - Richard Bouwens
- Fundamental Constraints on the Properties of Star-forming Galaxies from z~4 to 10 with the JWST - Daniel Schaerer
- New z>2 Clusters Unveiled by Planck, Herschel & Spitzer - Prospects for JWST (& Euclid) for High-z Clusters - Herve Dole
- MIRI Spectroscopy of the Epoch of Galaxy Assembly - Luis Colina
- Observing the Distant Universe with the Integral Field Unit of NIRSpec - Santiago Arribas
POSTERS
Exoplanets
- Investigating Exoplanet Phase Curves with CHEOPS and JWST - A. Garcia Munoz
- High Pressure Experiments to Probe the Interior of Rocky Exoplanets - K. Hakim
First Light Epoch
- Galaxies Reionising the Universe: Light from the First Objects - M. Trebitsch
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Lyman Break Galaxies in the Epoch of JWST - S. Lorenzoni
Galaxy Assembly
- The Evolving Morphology of the Cluster Red Sequence - M. Bremer
- Strangers Among Us: Massive, Evolved, Highly-obscured Galaxies at z > 1 - G. Brammer
- Spectroscopic Confirmation and Detailed Studies of the Properties of Very Massive Galaxies in the First 2 Gyr of Cosmic History - D. Marchesini
- Identifying and Characterizing the Dusty AGN Population with JWST - H. Messias
- A complete Census of Herschel Sources in the Hubble Frontier Fields - T. Rawle
Stars and Planets
- Star Formation in the Local Group - G. De Marchi
- Predicted Ratios for Mid-IR Atomic Hydrogen Lines of Embedded Accreting Young Stars - W. Fischer
- LBV and WR Nebulae in and beyond our Galaxy - K. Weis
- JWST Observations of the End Stages of Stellar Evolution - R. Iping
- Evolved Stars in Nearby Galaxies: Sources of Dust - K. Justtanont
Solar System
- Gravitation Astrometric Tests in the Solar System with JWST - M. Gai
- Opportunities for Observations in the Solar System with the James Webb Space Telescope - S. Milam
- Water on Asteroids? A Spitzer-IRS Search, to be continued with MIRI - M. Mueller
JWST Mission
- Event-Driven Operations on the James Webb Space Telescope - E. Barker
- Multi-Object Spectroscopy with the James Webb Space Telescope's Near Infrared Spectrograph: Observing Resolved Stellar Populations - K. Gilbert
- A Demonstration of the NIRSpec Micro-Shutter Array Planning Software: Observing High Redshift Galaxies in the HUDF with JWST - D. Karakla
- The Galaxy Velocity Function to z=1 - S. Kassin, STScI
- Spectroscopy with JWST/NIRSpec: Calibration and Data Products - J. Muzerolle
- The JWST NIRSpec Calibration Pipeline - C. Pavlovsky
- User Information in the 21st Century: Faster, Better Science - D. Soderblom
- Integral Field Spectroscopy of Embedded Galactic Protostars - T. Beck
- Preparing NIRSpec observations: NIRSpec Pre-Imaging using archival HST and simulated JWST/NIRCam data - L. Ubeda and T. Beck