Letters of Intent received in 2016

LoI 2018-1896
GA or Non-GA Symposium: Challenges in Panchromatic Modelling with Next Generation Facilities

Topics

1. Latest progress on the fundamental ingredients: stellar models, dust models (absorption and emission), gas models (atomic and ionic lines, SLEDS, etc.), AGN models.
2. Latest progress on modeling strategies: spectro-photometric models, combination with semi-analytic and hydrodynamical models, energy balance and radiation transfer models.
3. First galaxies: modeling extreme stellar populations observed with JWST.
4. Extending models towards X-rays: multi-lambda modeling with e-ROSITA and Athena.
5. Handling gigantic datasets: challenges to model the billions of galaxies observed with LSST.

Rationale

Modeling the panchromatic emission of galaxies has become a key tool
to measure their properties and understand how they evolve across
cosmic times. Next generation facilities present new and specific
challenges in this endeavor: LSST will provide us with an avalanche of
galaxies to model, the advent of e-ROSITA and the preparation for
Athena makes it ever more pressing to include X-ray emission into the
standard UV-to-radio panchromatic models, JWST will observe the first
galaxies with extreme stellar populations, etc. The aim of this
meeting is to gather theoreticians, modelers, and observers to present
and discuss the latest advances in the panchromatic modeling of
galaxies in order to address such challenges to ensure the we will be
able to fully exploit the exquisite datasets at our disposal in the
2020s. The location of the meeting is left open at this stage and can
take place in GA or non-GA settings. The prospective SOC is currently
made of Médéric Boquien (Chile, chair), Denis Burgarella (France),
Véronique Buat (France), Laure Ciesla (France), Ilse De Loose (United
Kingdom), Daniel Dale (United States), and Carlotta Gruppioni (Italy).