THE NEAR-IR BACKGROUND: FROM THE FIRST STARS TO THE PRESENT

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Registration

Participants

Travel and Lodging

Program

Monday

9:30-9:40 Welcome & Announcements

9:40-10:00 Eiichiro Komatsu: Overview talk [pdf]

Session 1: Mean Measurements, Foregrounds, and Surveys

10:00-10:30 Varoujan Gorjian: [pdf]
Spitzer Space Telescope and DIRBE Studies of the Near Infrared Background

10:30-11:00 Richard Arendt: [pdf]
CIB: The Study of Systematic Errors

11:00-11:30 Coffee Break

11:30-12:00 Toshio Matsumoto: [pdf]
Reanalysis of the excess brightness and fluctuation with IRTS data

12:00-12:30 Kohji Tsumura: [pdf]
Near Infrared Background Spectrum Obtained by AKARI

12:30-14:00 Lunch

14:00-14:30 Phillip Korngut: [pdf]
CIBER Estimates of the Absolute ZL Foreground Intensity through Fraunhofer Absorption Line Spectroscopy

14:30-15:00 Woong-Seob Jeong: [pdf]
Large Area Imaging Surveys of Near-Infrared Sky with Korean Compact Space Telescopes

15:00-15:30 Discussion

15:30-16:15 Poster Presentations & coffee

Session 2: EBL & Gamma Ray Measurements

16:15-16:45 Andrew Taylor: [pdf]
Extracting Information about EBL from gamma-ray Observations: the Uniqueness, Challenges and Prospects

16:45-17:15 Marco Ajello: [pdf]
The Gamma-ray Opacity of the Universe in the Fermi Era

17:15-17:45 Alberto Dominguez: [pdf]
Obtaining Galaxy Evolution and Cosmological Information from The Extragalactic Background Light

18:00 Welcome reception

Tuesday

Session 2 continued

9:30-10:00 Sean Scully: [pdf]
Closing in on the NIR Background and gamma-ray Opacities

10:00-10:30 Alex Kusenko: [pdf]
Understanding the Observed Blazar Spectra and Implications for Extragalactic Background Light

10:30-11:00 Coffee Break

11:00-11:30 Discussion

Session 3: Fluctuations

11:30-12:00 Ketron Mitchell-Wynne:
Infrared Background Anisotropies with Hubble

12:00-12:30 Andrea Ferrara: [pdf]
First black holes and the Near-IR Background

12:30-14:00 Lunch

14:00-14:30 Kari Helgason: [pdf]
Near-IR Background from Opposite Ends: First Stars or Local Halos?

14:30-15:00 Michael Zemcov: [pdf]
Near-IR Background Fluctuations Results from the Cosmic Infrared Background Experiment

15:00-15:30 Bin Yue: [pdf]
Cross-correlating the NIRB with High-z Galaxies

15:30-16:00 Coffee break

16:00-16:30 Discussion

Session 4: Cross-correlations and Multi-wavelength Studies

16:30-17:00 Nico Cappelluti: [pdf]
Cross-correlation of CIB and CXB Fluctuations: A New Piece of the Puzzle

17:00-17:30 Matthieu Bethermin: [pdf]
How is Obscured Star Formation Distributed into Dark Matter Halos at High-redshift: New Constraints from Planck and Herschel

19:30 Dinner at Aumeister Biergarten

Wednesday

Session 4 continued

9:30-10:00 Elizabeth Fernandez: [pdf]
The Near Infrared Background and its Cross-Correlations as a Window to Reionization

10:00-10:30 Fernando Atrio-Barandela: [pdf]
Probing the Pre-reionization Epoch by Cross-correlating Cosmic Microwave and Infrared Background Anisotropies

10:30-11:00 Coffee Break

11:00-11:30 Guenther Hasinger: [pdf]
New Chandra and Subaru Observations

11:30-12:00 Yanxia Li: [pdf]
Background Fluctuations in Spitzer and Chandra Images: Preliminary Data Processing and Analysis

12:00-12:30 Discussion

12:30-13:00 Kari Helgason & Elizabeth Fernandez: [pdf]
Workshop Summary