Slide 1Star-Forming Galaxies and the IGM in the z=1.5-2.5 Redshift Desert C. Steidel, D. Erb, N. Reddy (Caltech) A. Shapley (Berkeley) M. Pettini (IoA, Cambridge) K. Adelberger…

Slide 1 New Results from Ground-Based Transit Spectroscopy Observations Jacob Bean Harvard-Smithsonian CfA University of Chicago Slide 2 A new technique for ground-based…

Massive Young Stars in the Galaxy Melvin Hoare University of Leeds UK Outline Introduction Massive YSOs High resolution observations The RMS Survey Galaxy-wide survey for…

Galaxy Formation: What are we missing? C. Steidel (Caltech) Some Questions: How efficient is galaxy formation as a function of time, environment, mass? Do we understand gas…

Galaxy Formation: What are we missing? C. Steidel (Caltech) Some Questions: How efficient is galaxy formation as a function of time, environment, mass? Do we understand gas…

Surveys of the Galactic Plane for Massive Young Stellar Objects Stuart Lumsden University of Leeds Massive Young Stellar Objects Typical characteristics: Luminous (>104…

A Multiwavelength View of Powerful High-Redshift AGN Ohad Shemmer Penn State University ‘Active Galactic Nuclei: From Atoms to Black Holes’, Tel Aviv, February 22, 2006…