Program
| Monday November 18, 2013 | |
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| 08:00~09:00 | Registration |
| Conference Opening | |
| Chair: Nimesh Patel | |
| 09:00~09:15 | Welcome address Paul Ho (ASIAA) |
| 09:15~09:30 | Conference Photo |
| 1. Observational constraints on dust properties | |
| 09:30~10:10 | Review The physical and compositional properties of dust: what do we really know? Anthony Jones (Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale (IAS)) |
| 10:10~10:50 | Review Modeling Cosmic Dust: How to Use Optical "Constants" Angela Speck (University of Missouri) |
| 10:50~11:20 | Coffee Break |
| Chair: Darach Watson | |
| 11:20~11:40 | Dust Grain Alignment in the Interstellar Medium John Vaillancourt (USRA/SOFIA) |
| 11:40~12:00 | Dust Polarization and Magnetic Field in Star formation Ya-Wen Tang (ASIAA) |
| 12:00~12:40 | Review Depletions of Elements from the Gas Phase: A Guide on Dust Compositions Edward Jenkins (Princeton University Observatory) |
| 12:40~13:40 | Lunch |
| Chair: Lisa Young | |
| 13:40~14:00 | The X-ray side of the absorption by interstellar dust in the Milky Way Elisa Costantini (SRON, Netherlands Institute for Space Research) |
| 14:00~14:20 | Constraints on dust composition in the Magellanic Clouds from gas-phase zinc, silicon, chromium, and iron abundances Kirill Tchernyshyov (Johns Hopkins University) |
| 2. High-z dust | |
| 14:20~15:00 | Review Sources of Dust in the Early Universe Christa Gall (NASA/GSFC, DARK/NBI) |
| 15:00~15:30 | Coffee Break |
| 15:30~16:30 | Poster Session |
| Chair: Lei Hao | |
| 16:30~16:50 | Connecting Dust and Galaxy Properties at High Redshift Daniel Perley (Caltech) |
| 16:50~17:10 | The extinction law at high redshift Simona Gallerani (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa) |
| 17:10~17:30 | The dust budget crisis in high-redshift submillimetre galaxies Kate Rowlands (University of St Andrews) |
| 17:30~17:50 | Dust in the first quasars as a powerful probe of galaxy/BH co-evolution Rosa Valiante (INAF-Observatory of Rome) |
| 18:00~19:00 | Opening Reception |
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