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Sunday afternoon 18:00-20:00 Registration and welcome aperitif at "Ex stabilimento Florio" (conference venue)

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Monday session: Birth of massive galaxies and SMBH

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• 8:30-8:55 Registration

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• 08:55-09:25 Welcome by local authorithies

• 9:25-9:45 introductory talk by Alvio Renzini (invited)

• 09:45-10:10 Robert Feldmann (invited), review on the first phase of galaxy formation

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• 10:10-10:40 2 contributed talks

  • Nir Mandelker, Instabilities in cold streams feeding massive galaxies at high redshift

  • Dave Kocevski, Elevated Black Hole Growth in the Progenitors of Massive Red Nuggets at z=2 and Future Prospects with JWST.

    

• 10:40-11:05 coffee break

 

• 11:05-11:30 Dominik Riechers (invited), review on the ISM properties of high redshift galaxies

 

• 11:30-12:00 2 contributed talks

  • Daizhong Liu, The Evolution of Gas Fraction and Dust Properties in Massive, Dusty Galaxies since Redshift 6 with ALMA+NOEMA Surveys

  • Nick Scoville, The evolution of galaxy cold gas content since redshift 5

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• 12:00-15:45 brunch and break

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• 15:45-16:10 Raffaella Schneider (invited): “Titans in the early Universe: the early growth of the first quasars”

• 16:10-16:40 2 contributed talks

  • Fabrizio Arrigoni-Battaia, The build-up of monsters: unveiling the circum-galactic medium of high-z quasars

  • Daniel Whalen, The Formation of the First Quasars in the Universe

 

• 16:40-17:00 coffee break

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• 17:00-17:45 3 contributed talks

  • David Elbaz, Hidden starbursts among apparently "normal" massive star-forming galaxies from z=2 to 4 and the true shape of the early cosmic star-formation history

  • Smaran Deshmukh, The Spitzer matching survey of the Ultra-VISTA ultra-deep stripes (SMUVS): the evolution of dusty and non-dusty galaxies with stellar mass at z=2-6

  • Iary Davidzon, Massive galaxy beasts and where to find them (in the early Universe

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• 17:45-18:10 M. Volonteri (invited), review of AGN-host galaxy connection and early phase

• 18:10-18:40 2 contributed talks

  • Takuma Izumi, Exploring star-formation properties and co-evolution in z > 6 galaxies hosting less-biased low-luminosity quasars with ALMA

  • Dave Sanders, The Evolution of Massive Galaxies at 3 < z < 7

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Tuesday session: Life and relationship of massive galaxies

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• 09:00-09:25 Claudia Maraston (invited), review on the properties of local massive galaxies

 

• 09:25-10:10 3 contributed talks

  • Stefano Zibetti, Internal scaling relations of stellar population properties in present-day massive galaxies

  • Caroline Bertemenes, Cross-calibrating CO- and dust-based gas masses and assessing the dynamical mass budget in Stripe82

  • Helena Domínguez Sánchez, Implication of IMF gradients of ETGs as revealed by MaNGA

 

• 10:10-10:40 coffee break

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• 10:40-11:05 Davor Krainovic (invited), review on dynamics of massive local galaxies

 

• 11:05-11:50 3 contributed talks

• • Carlo Nipoti, The second phase of massive early-type galaxy formation

  • Adriana Gargiulo, The build-up of dense and normal massive passive galaxies

  • Christopher Haines, VIPERS: The decline and fall of the most massive star-forming galaxies since z~1

 

• 11:50-15:45 brunch & break

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• 15:45-16:10 Sirio Belli (invited), review on properties of high redshift massive passive galaxies

 

• 16:10-17:10 4 contributed talks

  • Annalisa Citro, The build up of compact bulges along and across the MS

  • Sperello di Serego Alighieri, The evolution of size and dynamics for early-type galaxies

  • Jeyhan Kartaltepe, Quantifying the Role of Galaxy Mergers on Galaxy Evolution

  • Laura Morselli, Star formation activity distribution in galaxies: evolution and implications on quenching

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·       16:10-17:30 coffee break

 

• 17:30-18:30 4 contributed talks

  • Alessandro Marconi, The black hole mass - galaxy mass relation at high z

  • Federica Duras, AGN/galaxy coevolution in the widest dynamical range ever

  • Maximilien Franco, GOODS-ALMA: 1.1mm galaxy survey - First results

  • Carlos Gimez-Guijarro, High-redshift starbursts as progenitors of massive galaxies

 

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Wednesday session: Environments at different epochs

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• 09:00-09:25 Megan Donahue (invited), review on the properties of massive cluster galaxies

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• 09:25-10:40 5 contributed talks

  • Rosemary Coogan, Merger driven star-formation activity in Cl J1449+0856 at z=1.99 as seen by ALMA and JVLA

  • Stefano Andreon, The cosmic epoch dependence of environmental effects on size evolution of red-sequence early-type galaxies

  • Alice Concas, The impact of the environment on the gas reservoir and star formation in local massive galaxies.

  • Amata Mercurio,  The galaxy populations from the core to the outskirts in the CLASH-VLT survey: RXJ2248.

  • Sarah Leslie, The evolution and environmental dependence of the sSFR of galaxies out to z~5.

 

 

• 10:40-11:10 coffee  

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• 11:10-11:35 Bram  Venemans (invited), review on the environment of high redshift massive radio galaxies

 

• 11:35-12:50 5 contributed talks

  • Taddy Kodama, GRACIAS-ALMA: Molecular gas in massive galaxies and its environmental dependence at the cosmic noon

  • Simona Mei, Compactification, mergers and quenching in CARLA clusters and proto-clusters at z>1.5

  • Viola Allevato, Probing Clustering of X-ray AGN using Chandra COSMOS Legacy

  • Manuela Magliocchetti, Hosts and environments of radio-active AGN

  • Andrea Travascio, BGC assembly and AGN census in the central region of the most massive galaxy cluster at z=1.6

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• Free afternoon

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Thursday session: Inflow and Outflows and physical processes  in massive galaxies

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• 09:00-9:25 Chris Harrison (invited), review on the impact of AGN feedback on massive galaxy evolution

• 9:25-10:25 4 contributed talk

  • Giacomo Venturi, The interplay between outflows and star formation in active galaxies from the MAGNUM survey

  • Federica Loiacono, AGN feedback and ionized gas kinematics in a z~2 massive galaxy

  • Federico Lelli, Dynamics of neutral and ionized gas in a massive galaxy at z=2.6

  • Matthew Lehnert, The impact of radio jets on massive galaxies: Feedback on galaxy to halo scales

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• 10:25-10:45 coffee break

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• 10:45-11:45 4 contributed talks

  • Manuela Bischetti, Ionised outflows in z~6 QSOs are there. Investigating AGN-feedback and host galaxy properties in very luminous high-redshift QSOs

  • Stefano Carniani, AGN-driven outflows in the early Universe

  • Dan Maoz, A high production efficiency of type-Ia supernovae in massive galaxies

  • Margherita Talia, ALMA view of a massive spheroid progenitor: a compact rotating core of molecular gas in an AGN host at z=2.226

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• 11:45-15:45 brunch & break

 

• 15:45-16:45 Special simulation session

  • Bruno Heriques (Millennium)

  • Annalisa Pillepich (Illustris)

  • Rhea-Silvia Remus (Magneticum)

  • Claudio della Vecchia (Eagle)

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16:45-17:10 coffee break

 

• 17:10-17:35 Emanuele Daddi (invited), review on the quenching processes in high redshift massive galaxies

 

• 17:35-18:35 4 contributed talks

  • Hooshang Nayyeri, A Photometric and Spectroscopic Study of Massive Quenching Galaxies at z>3: Role of Outflow and Environment

  • Casey Papovich, Measuring the Star-Formation Histories of Quiescent Massive Galaxies at z~1

  • Paola Santini, ALMA confirmation of z~3-5 passive galaxy candidates

  • Emiliano Merlin, Chasing Passive galaxies in the early Universe, a critical analysis in the Candels field

 

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Conference dinner at 20:30 at "Ex stabilimento florio", conference venue

 

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Friday session: The fate of massive galaxies

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• 09:00-09:25 Yingjie Peng (invited), review on the quenching processes of local massive galaxies

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• 09:25-10:25 4 contributed talks

  • Salvatore Quai, The assembly history of massive galaxies: a test for the models of their formation

  • Omar Almaini, Structural transformation and quenching in massive post-starburst galaxies

  • Giacomo Girelli, Very massive, very old, very passive galaxies at high redshifts

  • Po-Feng Wu, Massive galaxies at z~1: Stellar Ages and Star-Formation Histories from the LEGA-C Survey.

 

• 10:25-10:50 coffee  

 

• 10:50-11:15   Matt Jarvis (invited), review on new prospects and facilities

• 11:15 - 12:00 3 contributed talks

  • Allison Man, Strongly-lensed massive quiescent galaxies at z~2: what quenched their star formation?

  • Elisabeth McGrath, The Prevalence of Massive Quiescent Disks in the Early Universe

  • Marcin Sawicki, Dead Monsters: Ultra-Massive Quiescent Galaxies at High Redshift

 

• 12:00-12:45 Summary talk, Piero Madau & Adriano Fontana

• 12:45-13:00 Conclusion

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    Concluding lunch

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