Welcome to the 2019 BUFFALO Collaboration Meeting

Tuesday 5th - Fri 8th February, 2019

Majorie Barrick Museum of Art, University of Nevada Las Vegas

 

BUFFALO is a Hubble Space Telescope Large Program to survey massive clusters of galaxies from the six well-studied Frontier Fields. The primary goal of the survey is to enhance our understanding of the formation and assembly of the most massive and most luminous galaxies in the universe, and how they grew in connection with their dark matter halos. This requires investigating the astrophysics of dark matter iself, as well as cluster gas and dynamics to constrain how and when these galaxies formed. BUFFALO will also provide targets for the upcoming James Webb Space Telescope. Our highly international team consists of nearly 100 astronomers expert in relevant aspects of theory, simulation, and observation.

Collaboration Meetings are to be held twice yearly, with the aim of cultivating an interconnected community of astronomers and ultimately to accelerate possible scientific breakthroughs. The BUFFALO 2019 Meeting will take place in Las Vegas, USA. The venue, the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art at the University of Nevada Las Vegas, will host the meeting. The schedule includes seven presentation sessions spead over four days, as well as a conference dinner and an excursion to Death Valley National Park.  

 

SOC Members

Ana Acebron, Iary Davidzon, Mathilde Jauzac, Vasily Kokorev, Guillaume Mahler, Anna Niemiec, Jason Steffen, Charles Steinhardt, John Weaver