Format
DAWN Cake Talks are weekly talks focusing on DAWN's science, given at the Cosmic Dawn Center and/or online, and with a typical duration of 20 minutes + 10 mins questions, and, of course, are accompanied by cake for those attending in-person. The talks are planned one semester ahead.
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Schedule
History
Clicking a hyperlinked title will take you to a recording of the talk. For DAWNers, a link to a folder with all recorded talks can be found on the internal links page.
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 26 Oct | Joshiwa van Marrewijk | XLSSC 122 caught in the act of growing up |
| 12 Oct | Cecilia Bacchini | The volumetric star formation law |
| 12 Oct | Jens-Kristian Krogager | An unbiased Gaia-selected quasar survey with the upcoming 4MOST spectrograph at the ESO-VISTA survey telescope |
| 5 Oct | Mireia Montes | A new era of Intracluster Light studies with JWST |
| 28 Sep | Koki Kakiichi | Mapping the Cosmic Web: Photometric IGM Tomography and Its Implications for Reionization |
| 21 Sep | Martin Rey | From light to physics — Direct predictions of emission lines in galaxy formation simulations |
| 17 Jul | Hiddo Algera | The dust properties of galaxies in the early Universe |
| 6 Jul | Aleksandra Hamanowicz | METAL-Z – measuring dust depletion in the low metallicity environments |
| 29 Jun | Moire Prescott | Lighting Up the Gas Reservoir Outside Galaxies |
| 22 Jun | Julian Muñoz | What is JWST telling us about high-redshift galaxies and cosmology? |
| 22 Jun | Balu Sreedhar | Simulations of the epoch of reionisation |
| 15 Jun | Jack Birkin | KMOS and JWST IFU studies of z~1-4 dusty star-forming galaxies |
| 25 May | Maxime Trebitsch | Studying the sources of reionisation with low-z galaxies |
| 11 May | Kiana Kade | Understanding the environment and ISM of massive galaxies at high-z through emission line studies - the case of BRI0952-0115 and AzTEC-3 |
| 27 Apr | Anand Utsav Kapoor | TODDLERS: Time evolution of Observables including Dust Diagnostics and Line Emission from Regions containing young Stars |
| 20 Apr | Ryan Endsley | New Insight from JWST on the Properties of Dwarf Reionization-Era Galaxies |
| 23 Mar | Yuxiang Qin | Gotta Catch ’Em All! – modelling I 12 star-forming galaxies from JWST |
| 30 Mar | Matus Rybak | Full of Orions? Dissecting dusty galaxies in the early Universe |
| 16 Mar | Jan Scholtz | AGN Feedback in and around galaxies |
| 09 Mar | Zhihui Li | Unveiling the Circumgalactic Medium of High-z Galaxies with Spatially-Resolved Lyα Radiative Transfer Modeling |
| 09 Mar | Luca Di Mascolo | Tracing the inception of the cluster era |
| 02 Mar | Zhihui Li | Unveiling the Circumgalactic Medium of High-z Galaxies with Spatially-Resolved Lyα Radiative Transfer Modeling |
| 23 Feb | Daisy Shearer | Inclusive Pedagogy and curricula |
| 16 Feb | Caitlin Doughty | Convergence of the simulated Lyman alpha forest at z>5 |
| 09 Feb | Matilde Mingozzi | A UV-toolkit of Interstellar Medium Diagnostics to Interpret the Galaxies in the Reionization Era |
| 26 Jan | Carlo Cannarozzo | Charting the Back-in-Time Evolution of the Stellar Mass–Velocity Dispersion Relation for Early-Type Galaxies |
| 24 Jan | Anne Klitsch | From academia to industry - The beginning of a journey |
| 19 Jan | Meriem Behiri | Surfing long waves to discover dusty treasures on unexplored SHORES |
| 12 Jan | Ivan Kostyuk | Ly continuum photon escape fractions during cosmic reionization in the TNG50 simulation |
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 15 Dec | Kate Whitaker | My personal journey as an academic mama: Lessons in not only surviving, but thriving |
| 08 Dec | Vicente Estrada-Carpenter | Studying the Spatially Resolved Stellar Populations of High Redshift Galaxies using JWST NIRISSGrism Data |
| 01 Dec | Victoria Fawcett | Why is colour special? Fundamental differences between red and blue quasars |
| 24 Nov | Kathryn Ross | Balancing the Equation: Thriving vs Surviving as a Minority in STEM |
| 22 Nov | Thomas Reynolds | Tidal disruption events |
| 17 Nov | Stephanie Ho | Understanding the Galaxy Ecosystem: Gas Flow in The Circumgalactic Medium |
| 10 Nov | Carlos Gómez Guijarro | Understanding the role of compact star formation in galaxy evolution |
| 03 Nov | Mitali Damle | There is always more than meets the eye: The circumgalactic medium |
| 27 Sep | Fabian Walter | On peer-review refereeing |
| 22 Sep | Marshall Perrin | JWST: from First Photons to First Science |
| 22 Sep | Michele Ginolfi | A swarm of galaxies revealed around a hot dust-obscured hyper-luminous galaxy |
| 01 Sep | Thomas Cleveland | Constraints and Predictions on Alternatives to Dark Energy |
| 01 Sep | Ethan Garcia | Unlocking Star Formation in Galactic Photometry |
| 24 Aug | Riley Tam | Evidence for Inside-Out Growth in Galaxy Simulations |
| 24 Aug | Adele | Probing CDM interactions in high-[latex]z[/latex] galaxy clustering with BUFFALO |
| 23 Aug | Gould | The formation and quenching of the first massive galaxies |
| Jul 21 | Chandra Shekhar Murmu | Probing the High-Redshift Universe with Galaxy Line-Intensity Mapping |
| Jul 21 | Anshuman Tripathi | Extraction of HI 21cm signal from Low Frequency Radio Observations using ANN |
| Jun 30 | Sam Cutler | The Resolved Star-Formation Histories of [latex]z\sim 2[/latex] Galaxies |
| Jun 30 | Ezra Huscher | The Case of the Missing Carbon IV |
| Jun 16 | Sarah Bodansky | Surveying the Dust Masses of Star-Forming Galaxies with the LMT/TolTEC |
| Jun 16 | Mahsa Kohandel | Dynamically “cold” disks at the Epoch of Reionization |
| Jun 9 | Søren Staal | Analysing the morphology of high-z galaxies with FLARES and JWST |
| Jun 9 | Chiara Circosta | Looking for observational signatures of feedback from active galactic nuclei |
| Jun 2 | Lucia Perez | Constraints on the Epoch of Reionization with the Void Probability Function of Lyman-Alpha Emitters |
| May 26 | Daniela Huppenkothen | Rethinking Academic Hiring: Experiences from Three Years of Hiring for a Postdoctoral Fellowship |
| May 19 | Unnikrishnan Sureshkumar | Correlations between galaxy properties and environment in the cosmic structure |
| May 12 | Patty Bolan | The Who, What, and When of Reionization: Constraints on the Timeline and Sources |
| 11 May | Lise Christensen + Claudia Lagos | Circumgalactic gas + the Shark semi-analytical model |
| May 5 | Anna-Christina Eilers | The Growth of Supermassive Black Holes |
| Apr 28 | Sara Lucatello | Unconscious bias in academia (and elsewhere): what is it, what does it do and what we can do about it |
| Apr 7 | Joris Witstok | Uncovering the physics of star formation in the Epoch of Reionization with [CII] 158 μm and [OIII] 88 μm |
| Mar 31 | Frank Baaijens | Female academics are too scarce. So their applications are going to the top of the pile |
| Mar 24 | Taylor Hutchison | Peering through the Cosmic Fog: What Powers the UV in Galaxies During Reionization? |
| Mar 17 | Rahul Kannan | First results from the THESAN project: Predictions for multi-tracer line intensity mapping in the Epoch of Reionization |
| Mar 10 | Ben Keller | Empirically-Motivated Feedback in Galaxy Evolution |
| Feb 17 | Anne Hutter | Astraeus: a framework to simulate early galaxies and reionization |
| Feb 3 | Rohan Naidu | Solving Reionization with Resolved Lyman-alpha |
| Jan 27 | Leonard Burtsche | Astronomy and the climate crisis |
| Jan 20 | Adélaïde Claeyssens | The Lensed Lyman-Alpha MUSE Arc Sample (LLAMAS) : UV and Lyman-alpha morphological properties of high redshift Lyman-alpha emitters |
| Jan 13 | Enrico Garaldi | A fierce new challenge: simultaneously understanding first galaxy formation, reionization and their connection |
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 28 Oct | Aaron Wilkinson | How do post-starburst galaxies occupy halos? |
| 21 Oct | Kasper Elm Heintz | Measuring the HI gas mass of galaxies in the early Universe with gamma-bursts |
| 12 Oct | Martin Sparre | Multiphase gas flows in the circumgalatic medium of galaxies |
| 30 Sep | Gabe Brammer | Chronicle of a Death Foretold: A Predicted 20-year Time Delay for a Lensed Ia Supernova at z=1.95 |
| 16 Sep | Arianna Long | Missing Giants: The Impact of Dust-Obscuration on Stellar Mass Assembly Through Cosmic Time |
| 9 Sep | Alkistis Pourtsidou | HI constraints from cross-correlations of intensity maps with optical galaxies |
| 26 Aug | Axel Widman | Weighing the Galactic disk using phase-space spirals |
| 19 Aug | Julia Homa | Groundtruthing Rotation Curve Models of Galaxies at z=2 |
| 19 Aug | Michael Messere | Searching for Starburst-Driven Ionized Gas Outflows at z~1.5 Main-Sequence Galaxies with KMOS |
| 19 Aug | Casey Carlisle | Star Formation Histories of Galaxies in COSMOS2020 |
| 19 Aug | Zoe Kearney | Exploring high O[III]/C[II] line ratios in the early universe |
| 19 Aug | Hollis Akins | ALMA reveals extended gas and dust emission around the z = 7.13 galaxy A1689-zD1 |
| 12 Aug | John | Directly probing the quasar accretion disc with multi-epoch photometry |
| 5 Aug | Charles Steinhardt | The Power of Dimensionality Reduction |
| 22 Jul | Bryan Scott | Astrophysics and Cosmology with Intensity Mapping |
| 15 Jul | Rebecca Larson | Islands of Reionization - A Potential Ionized Bubble Powered by an Overdensity at z=8.7 |
| 1 Jul | Sidney lower | Improving Galaxy SED Modeling Techniques with Cosmological Simulations |
| 24 Jun | Seiji Fujimoto | ALMA Lensing Cluster Survey: A Sub-kpc View of [CII] emission from a Sub-L* Galaxy in the epoch of reionization |
| 24 Jun | Thomas Greve | Galaxy Clusters - Emergence and Prominence |
| 17 Jun | Francesca Rizzo | High-resolution dynamical studies of star-forming galaxies across cosmic time |
| 10 Jun | Steven Gillman | The Fundamental Properties of z=1-2 Star-Forming Galaxies |
| 10 Jun | Kate Gould | Galaxy quenching: from local post-starbursts to the first dead giants at z~4 |
| 27 May | Kevin Harrington | PASSAGES: A Multi-J CO and [CI] line study of single dish observations of the lensed Planck selected starbursts at cosmic noon |
| 20 May | Maria Maistro | Is most published research wrong? |
| 15 Apr | Sirio Belli | Molecular gas in high-redshift quiescent galaxies |
| 8 Apr | Fabio Vito | The furthest QSOs in the X-rays |
| 18 Mar | Tony Mroczkowski | Towards an Atacama Large Aperture Submillimeter Array (AtLAST) |
| 11 Mar | Jorryt Matthee | The X-SHOOTER Lyman-alpha survey at z=2 |
| 4 Mar | Hannah Stacey | 100-pc resolution of z~2 quasar host galaxies with ALMA: witnessing the formation of compact spheroids |
| 25 Feb | Vasily Kokorev | The Evolving Interstellar Medium of Star-Forming Galaxies |
| 11 Feb | Sam Cutler | Diagnosing DASH: A Morphological Catalog for the COSMOS-DASH Survey |
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 4 Feb | Takahiro Morishita | (G)old mining in high-redshift galaxies: Application of SED fitting in the era of JWST |
| 14 Jan | Lukas Furtak | low-mass SMF from clusters |
| 10 Dec | Francesca Rizzo | A strong gravitational lensing view on the dynamical properties of high-redshift dusty star-forming galaxies |
| 3 Dec | Gergo Popping | TNG50 dust continuum sizes |
| 26 Nov | John Weaver | COSMOS2020 |
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 22 Aug | Kate Gould | Searching for strongly lensed quiescent galaxies at z>2 in the COSMOS and XMM-LSS fields |
| 22 Aug | Vince Estrada-Carpenter | Stellar Population Properties of Massive Quiescent Galaxies Derived from Deep Hubble Space Telescope Grism Data |
| 19 Jun | Dennits Zaritsky | The Circumgalactic Medium and the Galaxy Evolution Loophole |
| 19 Jun | Darshan Kakkad | SUPER survey: Ionized outflows and their impact on host galaxies with near-infrared IFU observations |
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