CANDELS Workshop 2017

Agenda

A detailed listing of presenters and talks can be found below.
You can click on each talk title to download the slides in PDF form.




Friday August 4, 2017

All presentations will be held in the Interdisciplinary Sciences Building, Room 102.

Time Session
8:30 - 9:00 Registration
9:00 - 10:15 Morning Session 1

Harry Ferguson (25 min): State of CANDELS in 2017
Andi Burkert (15 min): Falling rotation curves and the mass and angular momentum budget of z=2 galaxies
Raymond Simons (15 min): Using Hydro-Simulations to Interpret Observed Kinematic Maps of Star-Forming Galaxies
10:15 - 10:45 Morning Coffee Break
10:45 - 12:00 Morning Session 2

Sandra Faber (15 min): Structure Within the Ridgeline of Quenched SDSS
Francesco Belfiore (15 min): Tracing inside-out quenching in massive galaxies: a z~0 perspective from MaNGA
Daniel Ceverino (15 min): Simulations of high-z elongated galaxies
Fangzhou Jiang (15 min): (No) correlation between galaxy and halo spin
12:00 - 1:00 Lunch
1:00 - 2:30 Afternoon Session 1

Guillermo Barro (15 min): GOODS-N Multi-wavelength catalog
Boris Haeussler (15 min): Multi-band GalfitM Catalogues
Shoubaneh Hemmati (15 min): Physical Properties of Galaxies visualized and measured by Neural Network SOMs
Marc Huertas-Company (15 min): Two Morphology Catalogs in CANDELS
2:30 - 3:00 Afternoon Coffee Break
3:00 - Afternoon Session 2

Lucas and Ferguson (60 min): A Users Guide to CANDELS Close-out Data
General discussion (TBD): How to access CANDELS team data in future
Faber and Ferguson (TBD): CANDELS management in future

Saturday August 5, 2017

All presentations will be held in the Interdisciplinary Sciences Building, Room 102.

Time Session
9:00 - 10:30 Morning Session 1

Susan Kassin (15 min): Dust in Galaxies at Intermediate to High Redshift
Elizabeth McGrath (15 min): The Prevalence of Massive Quiescent Disks in the Early Universe
Lei Hao (15 min): China Lijiang IFU
Sandro Tacchella (15 min): Spatially resolved stellar mass growth in galaxies at z~2
Lin Lin (15 min): Bar-induced Central Star Formation Enhancement as Revealed by CALIFA
10:30 - 11:00 Morning Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:15P Morning Session 2

Zheng Cai (15 min): Giant Lyman Alpha Nebulae in Most Massive Overdensities
Tommy Wiklind (15 min): Evolution of the gas mass fraction with CANDELS and ALMA
Jonathan Freundlich (15 min): Scaling relations involving cold gas in high-z galaxies
Vicente Estrada-Carpenter (15 min): Constraining Metallicity and Age for Massive Quiescent Galaxies in a Redshift Range of 1<z<1.75
Mauro Giavalisco (15 min): Galaxy structural transformations during star formation and after quenching
12:15 - 1:45 Lunch
1:45 - 3:15 Afternoon Session 1

Fengshan Liu (15 min): CANDELS-VAPC: HST Multi-aperture Photometric Catalogs
Yicheng Guo (15 min): Environmental Quenching of Dwarf Galaxies
Avishai Dekel (20 min): Violent Disk Instability: Clump Formation and Survival
Steve Finkelstein (15 min): Lessons learned about writing JWST proposals
3:15-3:45 Afternoon Coffee Break
3:45 - 5:00 Afternoon Session 2

Sharon Lapiner (15 min): Transition of galaxy properties during compaction to blue nuggets
Joel Primack (20 min): The Evolving Galaxy-Halo Connection
Qing Liu and Xinyi Tong (15 min): Stellar population properties from SED Fitting
Bahram Mobasher and general discussion (60 min): The Future of SED Fitting
6:00 - 9:30 Conference Dinner

Sunday August 6, 2017

All presentations will be held in the Interdisciplinary Sciences Building, Room 102.

Time Session
9:00 - 10:30 Morning Session 1

Hassen Yesuf (15 min): Weak winds in AGN host galaxies at z~1
Tao Wang (15 min): The prevalence of X-ray AGNs in quiescent galaxies at z~2
Kirpal Nandra (25 min): AGN evolution from X-ray surveys in CANDELS and beyond
Dale Kocevski (15 min): The Connection between Central Density, Black Hole Growth and Galaxy Quenching
10:30 - 11:00 Morning Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:30 Morning Session 2

Casey Papovich (15 min): Environmental quenching to z<2 from CANDELS and ZFOURGE
Viraj Pandya (15 min): The Nature of Massive Transition Galaxies in CANDELS, GAMA, and Cosmological Simulations
Kameswara Bharadwaj Mantha (15 min): Are Galaxy Major Mergers Frequent at Early Cosmic Time?: Data-Theory Tension, Plausible Selection Bias, and Future with SAMs
Daniel McIntosh (15 min): Two Additional Approaches for Major Merging History Constraints with CANDELS
David Koo (45 min): AAS Plenary talk on CANDELS (PowerPoint)

Meeting information

The CANDELS workshop is located on the University of California, Santa Cruz Campus. Click here for directions to campus. Once on campus, the following maps may be useful


Google Map with locations
Driving map from base of campus
Walking map from Core West to ISB

There are a number of lodging options in the City of Santa Cruz, some of which provide discounts for UCSC affiliates.

Parking for the CANDELS workshop will be at the Core West parking structure on UCSC Campus. Please see the maps sections for more details


A parking permit is required for the Friday session, and can be purchased through the registration website. Parking is free on weekends.


Parking passes can be picked up on the second floor of the Core West parking lot from 8 to 10 am, Friday Aug. 4. To pick up parking passes at other times, please use a temporary parking space at the end of Red Hill Rd next to ISB. Once parked, come into the ISB building and find the organizers to pick it up. If you are unable to find us, please call the organizers at 831-471-7439.


The Conference Dinner is from 6 - 9:30 PM at the Cowell College Provost's House. It is an informal buffet. Children are welcome.


Conference Dinner Map

Light snacks will be provided on all three days, and lunch on Friday and Saturday. The conference dinner is on Saturday.


For other meals, Santa Cruz has a lively restaurant scene. There are many restaurants downtown, please check Yelp for recommendations. Restaurants near the wharf or the harbor offer beautiful views of the ocean. See Yelp for recommendations.

Santa Cruz is a lively and fascinating tourist destination with lots to do. Please see the following links for example attractions:

Santa Cruz City Attractions
Trip Advisor: Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz.org Attractions
Trip Advisor: Monterey