Massimo Stiavelli

Title: Observing the epoch of reionization with the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes

Abstract: I will review recent observational results on the highest redshift objects discovered with 
the Wide Field Camera 3  on the Hubble Space Telescope. After discussing the implications of these 
discoveries for the reionization of Hydrogen and the early evolution of galaxies I will give an 
overview of theoretical results on the first galaxies and discuss their observability with Hubble's successor: 
the James Webb Space Telescope. I will end by presenting a status of the Webb Telescope.