Official Conference Photo
(or: Beyond the Edge of the Universe meets at the Edge of Continental Europe)
Official Conference Memories
Shortly after comet A3 makes an appearance at the conference dinner (kudos to Angelo George for the impressive photo), some astronomers, proving other colleagues wrong, show they can indeed measure accurate distances – in this case, guiding one of the social afternoon buses out of a tight situation… these will certainly remain in our memories for a long time!
And other not so random memories from our week in Sintra! The following images are a very incomplete collection, aimed at highlighting a few moments from the conference (apologies to the many colleagues that are not here).
Day 1: The conference started with a Bang (maybe not Big, but certainly not small…). As Pascal noted, “Something is happening at z>10” (no kidding…?) and we hit the road running (well, seating…) dwelling into its details. Pratika was not short for words on the young population of Supermassive Black Holes (borderline breaching our Code of Conduct!) while Alice focused on the burstiness of the earliest star-formation.
John, Ana, Andrea and Benedetta discussed other aspects of the very early Universe, while Marc took a walk on memory lane (that is worth a free glass of Port wine on the next Deep conference Marc, that’s a promise!).
Day 2: We went full force on AGN with Roberto, again highlighting the difficult time we are having with understanding these apparently overgrown young BHs (is this another case of overfed kids…?). Katherine helped us focus on passive galaxies at the earliest times (yes, we keep being surprised on how quickly they show up) and Benedetta brought us up-to-speed on the theory (and direct observations) of cosmic reionisation.
Things went quickly with AGN – Tulia finds many, many jetted quasars at high redshifts, and Bruno even stepped into the highest energies addressing the gamma-ray horizon!
Lucie addressed the spectroscopic identification of high-redshift populations of AGN, and then we were back at quenching from AGN activity from Omar and Giacomo (and other colleagues).
And the James brought smouldering (or mini-quenched) galaxies to the discussion…
And Ravi gets the award for the most informative diagram in the conference (nothing artificial about it!).
Conference dinner ended the day, for some relaxing discussions, under the light of the Sintra Castle and nearby the Sintra Palace.
Day 3: The third day focused on the earliest radio emission, with Nick setting the stage.
And Luca and Rodrigo followed up with more jetted quasars and new ways to calculate luminosity functions, respectively…
Wednesday afternoon included the exciting Sintra sightseeing! Here are some images of the Monserrate Park and Palace.
And then we were off to Cabo da Roca, the westernmost point in Continental Europe for a gorgeous sunset (and conference picture – see top of the page)!
Day 4: We went back to the early Universe on Thursday, with Masami, Adam and Seiji steering our discussions on early star, gas and dust formation and evolution.
Daniel choose the hard(er) route with exotic stellar populations, but Ranga-Ram gave us some motivation!
And then we went into the gas content in the first quasars, with Francesco, while Sophie brought us the latest in AGN ionization cones.
Day 5: On the last day of the conference, Vincenzo opened up with AGN outflows and jets, and how they shape the ISM.
Cassandra showed us the high-redshift X-ray population is more numerous than previously predicted, probably in agreement with JWST observations, and Ismael presented the exciting things to come with the Euclid Deep Fields.
And that brought us to the final discussion, led by Michele!
Perhaps opening the way for the future Deep Conference? See you all in 2033…?
