First Light to the Milky Way: Progress and Challenges in Galaxy Evolution
Richard Ellis (University of Oxford)

Through deep panchromatic surveys with ground and space-based observatories, much progress has been made in tracing the global history of star formation and mass assembly from redshift 6 to the present day. This has been accompanied by detailed predictions from extensive simulations which incorporate the effects of various forms of feedback. Challenges remain in understanding how and when the first galactic sources formed, in inter-relating the diversity of star forming, dusty and quiescent galaxies seen at most epochs, and in defining the processes which govern the subsequent growth of massive galaxies.