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Program



Monday

Tuesday

Wednes.

Thurs.

Friday

Satur.

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednes.

Thurs.

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29/12

30/12

31/12

1/1

2/1

3/1

4/1

5/1

6/1

7/1

8/1

09:00-10:30

Primack1

Primack2

Loeb1

Loeb2

Loeb3

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Rix1

Rix2

Rix3

vdBosch1

vdBosch2

11:00-12:30

Turner1

Turner2

Turner3

Faber1

Faber2

sea

White2

White3

Primack3

Dekel1

Dekel2

14:00-15:30

Lahav1

Lahav2

Lahav3

Maoz1

White1

&

Faber3

tour

Maoz2

Tegmark2

Tegmark3

16:00-17:30

tutorial1

tutorial2

tutorial3

tutorial4



msada

Tegmark1

tour

tutorial6

tutorial7

tutorial8

18:00-19:00

Shaviv

Rabinovici

seminars

seminars



tour

tutorial5

tour

seminars

Barkana





reception

museum

NY party







pub lect

lec din



ws dinner




























Lecture slides (pdf) and filmed lectures (quicktime) are in the home pages of the lecturers, under Reading Material.

Monday, December 29
09:00-10:30
Joel Primack (1)
standard cosmological model: formalism & historical perspective
10:30-11:00
coffee

11:00-12:30
Michael Turner (1)
inflation: basics of slow roll, generic predictions, testing, beyond
12:30-14:00
lunch

14:00-15:30
Ofer Lahav (1)
gravitational instability: linear, spherical collapse, Zel'dovich approximation
15:30-16:00
coffee

16:00-17:30
Primack, Turner, Lahav
tutorial (1)
17:30-18:00
coffee

18:00-18:45
Nir Shaviv
studying galactic dynamics using meteorites and geology
19:00-20:00
reception

Tuesday, December 30
09:00-10:30
Joel Primack (2)
introductory summary of current issues in galaxy formation
10:30-11:00
coffee

11:00-12:30
Michael Turner (2)
dark energy/cosmic acceleration: evidence, models, probing, beyond
12:30-14:00
lunch

14:00-15:30
Ofer Lahav (2)
statistics of fluctuations: Pk, xi(r) & advanced measures of clustering, Gaussian fields, biasing schemes
15:30-16:00
coffee

16:00-17:30
Primack, Turner, Lahav
tutorial (2)
17:30-18:00
coffee

18:00-18:45
Eliezer Rabinovici
string theory for pedestrians
19:30-22:00
Israel Museum

Wednesday, December 31
09:00-10:30
Avi Loeb (1)
cosmological reionization and the first stars
10:30-11:00
coffee

11:00-12:30
Michael Turner (3)
dark matter: nonbaryonic, particles, testing, exotic possibilities
12:30-14:00
lunch

14:00-15:30
Ofer Lahav (3)
results from 2dF (& other probes): cosmological parameters, clustering, biasing, galaxy classification
15:30-16:00
coffee

16:00-17:30
Loeb, Turner, Lahav
tutorial (3)
17:30-18:00
coffee

18:00-18:45
Participants
short seminars
20:30-24:00
New-Year party
at Almora. Pickup: IAS 20:00, Park Plaza 20:15
Thursday, January 1
09:00-10:30
Avi Loeb (2)
gamma-ray bursts as probes, massive black holes
10:30-11:00
coffee

11:00-12:30
Sandy Faber (1)
basic galaxy properties
12:30-14:00
lunch

14:00-15:30
Dan Maoz (1)
Active Galactic Nuclei: observations, accretion physics
15:30-16:00
coffee

16:00-17:30
Loeb, Faber, Maoz
tutorial (4)
17:30-18:00
coffee

18:00-19:00
Participants
short seminars



Firday, January 2
09:00-10:30
Avi Loeb (3)
massive black holes
10:30-11:00
coffee

11:00-12:30
Sandy Faber (2)
mergers (gas aspects), star formation
12:30-14:00
lunch

14:00-15:30
Simon White (1)
clustering (DM): Press Schechter, mergers, substructure, tidal stripping, dynamical friction, tidal torques



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Saturday, January 3



07:00-18:00
Massada Tour
Pickup: Park Plaza 07:00, Mishkanot Sha'ananim 07:00



Sunday, January 4 (chair: Ofer Lahav)
09:00-10:30
Hans-Walter Rix (1)
galactic dynamics: disk stability, bars & spiral armas, max disk, spheroids
10:30-11:00
coffee

11:00-12:30
Simon White (2)
simulations: methods (examples: core structure and feedback), results
12:30-14:00
lunch

14:00-15:30
Sandy Faber (3)
galaxies to z~1
15:30-16:00
coffee

16:00-17:30
Max Tegmark (1)
Cosmic Microwave Background: theory
17:30-18:00
coffee

18:00-19:40
Rix, White, Faber, Teg
tutorial (5)
19:00-21:00
Faber, Loeb
Public Lectures (Feldman Hall): the big bang, first stars and black holes
Monday, January 5 (chair: Frank van den Bosch)
09:00-10:30
Han-Walter Rix (2)
methods of finding and measuring z>2 objects
10:30-11:00
coffee

11:00-12:30
Simon White (3)
galaxy properties from SDSS
12:30-18:00
Jerusalem Tour













20:00
Lecturers dinner
at Darna
Tuesday, January 6 (chair: Sandy Faber)
09:00-10:30
Hans-Walter Rix (3)
redshift evolution of the dynamical structure of galaxies
10:30-11:00
coffee

11:00-12:30
Joel Primack (3)
Semi-Analytic Modeling of galaxies at high z
12:30-14:00
lunch

14:00-15:30
Dan Maoz (2)
gravitational lensing: theory, microlensing, quasars, strong, weak
15:30-16:00
coffee

16:00-17:40
White, Rix, Pri, Maoz
tutorial (6)
17:40-18:00
coffee

18:00-19:30
Participants
short seminars



Wednesday, January 7 (chair: Hans-Walter Rix)
09:00-10:30
Frank van d Bosch (1)
Semi-Analytic Modeling: trees, cooling, mergers, star formation, feedback, overview, HOD
10:30-11:00
coffee

11:00-12:30
Avishai Dekel (1)
feedback effects, the Fundamental Line of dwarf galaxies
12:30-14:00
lunch

14:00-15:30
Max Tegmark (2)
CMB and the cosmological parameters
15:30-16:00
coffee

16:00-17:30
vdB, Dekel, Tegmark
tutorial (7)
17:30-18:00
coffee

18:00-18:45
Rennan Barkana
Statistics of galaxy formation and the nature of reionization
20:30-24:00
school dinner
at Taverna. Pickup: IAS 20:00, Park Plaza 20:15
Thursday, January 8 (chair: Simon White)
09:00-10:30
Frank van d Bosch (2)
Formation of Disk Galaxies: standard model, origin of Tully-Fisher, the angular-momentum problem
10:30-11:00
coffee

11:00-12:30
Avishai Dekel (2)
cold flows vs shock heating, possible solutions to the halo structure and angular momentum
12:30-14:00
lunch

14:00-15:30
Max Tegmark (3)
large-scale structure and cosmological parameters from SDSS and other probes (ly-alpha, lensing, SN)
15:30-16:00
coffee

16:00-17:30
vdB, Dekel, Tegmark
tutorial (8)

end of school














Seminars, Wednesday, December 31
18:00-18:20
Shmuel Balberg
magnetic fields on galactic scales
18:20-18:30
Yuval Birnboim
cold flows vs shock heating in proto-galaxies
18:30-18:40
Dusan Keres
how do Galaxies get their Gas?
18:40-18:50
Thomas J. Cox
Simulations of galaxy collisions
18:50-19:00
Claudio Dalla Vecchia
Simulations of AGN feedback in clusters
Seminars, Thursday, January 1
18:00-18:10
Savvas Koushiappas
Massive black holes from low spin material
18:10-18:20
Carl Jakob Walcher
Nuclear star clusters in pure disk galaxies
18:20-18:30
Mark Krumholz
Fragmentation vs accretion as the origin of the IMF
18:30-18:40
Eric Hayashi
Dark matter halos and LSB galaxy rotation curves
18:40-18:50
Itai Arad
Phase-space density and substructure in dark halos
18:50-19:00
Ji Hoon Kim
Star formation history of LSBs
19:00-19:10
Lauren MacArthur
Stellar populations in spiral galaxies
Seminars, Tuesday, January 6
18:00-18:10
Eran Ofek
Gravitational lenses and the galaxy mass evolution
18:10-18:20
Laura Parker
Weak Lensing in CNOC2 Galaxy Groups
18:20-18:30
Roderik Overzier
Proto-clusters at high reedshift
18:30-18:40
Nicolas Bouche
Clustering of LBGs around z~3 damped absorbers
18:40-19:50
Sanjib Sharma
Angular momentum distribution of halos in simulations
18:50-19:00
Elena D'Onghia
The angular momentum problem in CDM halos
19:00-19:10
Leonid Chuzhoy
dark matter-gas interaction in cooling flows
19:10-19:20
Kai Noeske
Star formation in dwarf galaxies
19:20-19:30
Darren Croton
Evolution of the milkyway and local group