Letters of Intent received in 2024
LoI 2026-2219
High-z Galaxies and Black Holes: The JWST/ALMA/GRAVITY Frontier
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Date:
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21 September 2026 to 25 September 2026 |
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Category:
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In-person-Symposium
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Location:
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Puerto Natales, Chile
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Contact:
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Dominik Schleicher (dschleicher1406@gmail.com) |
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Coordinating division:
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Division J Galaxies and Cosmology |
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Other divisions:
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Co-Chairs of SOC:
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Rodrigo Herrera-Camus (Universidad de Concepcion) |
| Dominik Schleicher (Sapienza University of Rome) |
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Co-Chairs of LOC:
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Andrés Escala (Universidad de Chile) |
| Rodrigo Herrera-Camus (Universidad de Concepcion) |
Topics
1) Current state of black hole formation seed scenarios and their predictions for JWST, ALMA and GRAVITY
2) Future prospects to characterize supermassive black holes and probe their formation scenarios with JWST, ALMA, and VLT/GRAVITY
3) Multiwavelength observations of high-z galaxies and supermassive black holes
4) Black hole growth and their feedback in the high-z Universe, including Eddington-limited & super-Eddington accretion
5) Co-evolution of supermassive black holes and their host galaxies
6) Impact of feedback from supermassive black hole and stellar driven outflows in high-z galaxies and their impact on their evolution
7) Properties of massive stellar clusters in high-z galaxies and their impact on the multi-phase interstellar medium.
Rationale
The field of high-redshift galaxies and their supermassive black holes is currently undergoing a revolution due to the significant advances in relation to the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and the GRAVITY instrument of the Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI). With this symposium, we aim to establish a platform where these advances can be jointly presented and discussed and related to important theoretical / computational work in the context of galaxies, their supermassive black holes, their formation and evolution. The symposium will thus cover the general state of high-redshift galaxies and their supermassive black holes in the light of the multi-wavelength observations with the above-mentioned instruments, including the role of feedback, the properties of stellar clusters in high-redshift galaxies and the general state of different scenarios for supermassive black hole formation in the light of the observational constraints and results. We expect that the interactions at this conference can be key to bring together international experts on the above-mentioned topics, will help to assess the relation between observational results and previous theoretical work, as well as future facilities like the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), which will probe the centers of galaxies at even higher redshifts with unprecedented detail.