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Neutral hydrogen (HI) plays an essential role in the evolution of galaxies, connecting star formation, environment, and morphology through a complex and dynamic gas cycle. With the next generation radio facilities, including the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), we can observe HI at cosmological distances, which until now has been missing from the extragalactic multi-wavelength census. Now that several new facilities have begun survey operations, we propose to bring together the observational and theoretical communities working with HI to share the latest results, and discuss areas of overlapping interest. This session has the following goals, including:

1. Focus on the physics that can be extracted from HI data
2. Different techniques for observing HI
3. The evolution of HI with cosmic time
4. Facilitate discussion on how to fully exploit the newly available information in current and upcoming surveys.

Programme

• Direct detection of HI in galaxies
• Statistical methods of HI detection
• HI in a cosmological context
• HI in multiwavelength observing programmes
• The interface between observations and simulations

Invited speakers

• Barbara Catinella (ICRAR/UWA)
• Gabriella De Lucia (INAF)
• Kyle Oman (Durham)
• Richard Shaw (UBC)

Scientific organisers

Natasha Maddox, co-chair
Anastasia Ponomareva, co-chair
Elizabeth Adams
Bradley Frank
Marta Spinelli

Contact

Please contact any of the co-chairs for more information:
natasha.maddox  @  gmail.com
anastasia.ponomareva  @  physics.ox.ac.uk