David Sobral

Title: The Star-formation History of the Universe and its Drivers in the Last 11 Gyrs

Abstract: The HiZELS Survey is exploiting narrow-band filters in the J, H and K bands on WFCAM/UKIRT to undertake deep & wide extragalactic
surveys for line emitters. HiZELS is primarily targeting the redshifted H-alpha emission line at z=0.84 (J), z=1.47(H) and z=2.23(K) over volumes of >10^6 Mpc^3, and, with the addition of a perfectly matched [OII] Subaru narrow-band survey, is resulting in samples of ~1000 high-z emitters at each epoch. By taking advantage of such large and well-defined samples, obtained over the best well-studied fields, we have not only measured the detailed evolution of the H-alpha (and [OII]) luminosity function and the star formation history of the Universe up to z>2, for the first time, but, more importantly, by conducting detailed morphological, dust, clustering, environmental and mass studies (and quantifying/identifying key inter-dependences) we have made significant progress in understanding the main drivers of galaxy formation and evolution.