Nearly Normal Galaxies in a ΛCDM Universe

August 8 - 12, 2005
UC Santa Cruz

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PROGRAM

FINAL SCHEDULE

Sunday 7 August

14:00 - 22:00
Registration and Continuous Reception (in Porter)

Monday 8 August (DAY 1)

1. DARK MATTER & DARK ENERGY

9:00 - 9:10
Stéphane Courteau Opening Remarks (mostly images - 50MB)
9:10 - 9:30
Anthony Aguirre Session Leader
9:30 - 9:55
Kim Griest Baryonic DM
9:55 - 10:10
Ann Hornschemeier Dark Energy, BH & Feedback in X-Ray
10:10 - 10:20
  Discussion
10:20 - 10:50
COFFEE/TEA BREAK
10:50 - 11:15
Lev Kofman Inflation and Branes
11:15 - 11:40
Joe Silk Dark Matter
11:40 - 11:55
Bernard Sadoulet Particle Dark Matter Searches
11:55 - 12:10
Marc Davis The Perspective of 1985
12:10 - 12:20
  Discussion
12:20 - 14:20
LUNCH

2. CLUSTERS & LARGE-SCALE STRUCTURE

14:20 - 14:40
Alan Dressler Session Leader
14:40 - 15:05
Ofer Lahav LSS at Low Redshift
15:05 - 15:30
Jeff Newman LSS in DEEP2
15:30 - 15:45
Lori Lubin High-Redshift Clusters
15:45 - 15:55
  Discussion
15:55 - 16:25
COFFEE/TEA BREAK
16:25 - 16:45
Marc Postman Evolution of Morphologies in Clusters
16:45 - 17:10
Andrey Kravtsov Cluster Dynamics
17:10 - 17:35
Frank van den Bosch HOD and Clustering
17:35 - 17:50
Risa Wechsler HOD from SDSS Clusters
17:50 - 18:00
  Discussion
18:00 - 20:00
DINNER
20:00 - 22:00
RECEPTION (Baskin Visual Arts Center)

 

Tuesday 9 August (DAY 2)

3. GALACTIC DISKS

8:30 - 8:40
John Kormendy Session Leader
8:40 - 9:05
Stéphane Courteau Global Properties of Disk Galaxies
9:05 - 9:20
Lauren MacArthur Bulge and Disk Population Gradients
9:20 - 9:35
Jon Holtzman Bulge Stellar Populations
9:35 - 10:00
Francoise Combes Bulge Formation
10:00 - 10:10
  Discussion
10:10 - 10:40
COFFEE/TEA BREAK
10:40 - 11:05
Mathias Steinmetz Disk Formation
11:05 - 11:30
James Bullock Angular Momentum & Galaxy Formation
11:30 - 11:45
Nicole Vogt Evolutionary History of Disk Galaxies
11:45 - 12:10
Anne Metevier Disk Galaxy Evolution from DEEP2
12:10 - 12:20
  Discussion
12:20 - 12:30
GROUP PHOTO
12:30 - 14:00
BBQ LUNCH

4. GALACTIC SPHEROIDS

14:00 - 14:10
Scott Trager Session Leader
14:10 - 14:35
Eric Bell Early-Type Galaxy Evolution
14:35 - 15:00
Pieter van Dokkum Elliptical Galaxies by Recent Red Mergers
15:00 - 15:15
Mariangela Bernardi The Most Massive Galaxies in the Universe
15:15 - 15:35
David Burstein Formation of SOs
15:35 - 15:45
  Discussion
15:45 - 16:15
COFFEE/TEA BREAK
16:15 - 16:40
Guy Worthey Chemical Abundance Ratios in Spheroids
16:40 - 17:00
Daniel Thomas Stellar Population Models
17:00 - 17:15
Javier Gorgas Stellar Populations of Elliptical Galaxies
17:15 - 17:30

Ricardo Schiavon

Stellar Population Synthesis in DEEP2 Galaxies
17:30 - 17:50
T.J. Cox Galaxy Mergers
17:50 - 18:00
  Discussion
18:00 - 20:00
DINNER
20:00 - 22:00
Joel Primack
Nancy Abrams

PUBLIC LECTURE: The View from the Center of the Universe

Introduction by Sandra Faber
Panel includes: Abrams, Primack, Faber, Blumenthal
(Classroom Unit 2)

 

Wednesday 10 August (DAY 3)

5. STAR FORMATION & FEEDBACK

8:30 - 8:40
Andi Burkert Session Leader
8:40 - 9:05
Daniella Calzetti Local Star Formation as Seen by Spitzer
9:05 - 9:20
Casey Papovich Spitzer View of Massive Galaxies at z~1-3
9:20 - 9:45
Tim Heckman Starbursts
9:45 - 10:00
Jennifer Lotz Morphology of Mergers at z<1
10:00 - 10:10
  Discussion
10:10 - 10:40
COFFEE/TEA BREAK
10:40 - 11:05
Scott Chapman SCUBA Sources
11:05 - 11:20
Laurence Tresse Cosmic SFR from VVDS and Galex
11:20 - 11:45
Crystal Martin Galactic Outflows
11:45 - 12:10
Volker Springel Feedback in Simulations
12:10 - 12:20
  Discussion
12:20 - 14:00
LUNCH

6. GLOBAL PROPERTIES & FORMATION SCENARIOS

14:00 - 14:10
Mike Fall Session Leader
14:10 - 14:35
Guinevere Kauffmann Stochastic Star Formation in SDSS Galaxies
14:35 - 15:00
Marijn Franx Global Relations z~1
15:00 - 15:25
Simon White Large-Scale Simulation of Galaxy/AGN Pops.
15:25 - 15:40
Romeel Davé Simulations of Galaxy Formation
15:40 - 15:50
  Discussion
15:50 - 16:20
COFFEE/TEA BREAK
16:20 - 16:45
Avishai Dekel Origin of Bi-Modality in Galaxy Properties
16:45 - 17:10
Rachel Somerville Massive Galaxies at Low and High Redshift
17:10 - 17:35
Roger Davies SAURON survey: Stellar Pops and the FP
17:35 - 17:50
Chris Kochanek

Galaxies for the Ages

17:50 - 18:00
  Discussion
18:00 - 20:00
DINNER

EVENING SESSION: FUTURE INSTRUMENTATION & TELESCOPE PROJECTS

20:00 - 20:10
Garth Illingworth Session Leader
20:10 - 20:30
Jerry Nelson From Keck to TMT
20:30 - 20:50
Claire Max Adaptive Optics
20:50 - 21:05
COFFEE/TEA BREAK
21:05 - 21:25
Tony Tyson LSST/Search for Dark Energy
21:25 - 21:45
Steve Shectman Giant Magellan Telescope
21:45 - 22:00
Jesus Gonzalez GTMex

 

Thursday 11 August (DAY 4)

7. DWARF GALAXIES & HALO SUBSTRUCTURE

8:30 - 8:40
Jay Gallagher Session Leader
8:40 - 9:05
Anatoly Klypin Halo Substructure in Simulations
9:05 - 9:30
Kathryn Johnston

Stellar Halos and Satellite Systems in ΛCDM

9:30 - 9:45
Donald Lynden-Bell High Velocity Clouds
9:45 - 10:00
Raja GuhaThakurta The Extended Stellar Halo of Andromeda
10:00 - 10:10
  Discussion
10:10 - 10:40
COFFEE/TEA BREAK
10:40 - 11:05
Doug Lin Theory of Dwarf Galaxies
11:05 - 11:30
Eva Grebel SF History of the Local Group
11:30 - 11:55
Jean Brodie Globular Clusters
11:55 - 12:10
Rafael Guzman Blue Compact Galaxies
12:10 - 12:25
Sheila Kannappan Gas Fraction & Morph. in Red/Blue Seqs.
12:25 - 12:35
  Discussion
12:25 - 14:20
LUNCH

8. DARK MATTER HALOS

14:20 - 14:30
Ken Freeman Session Leader
14:30 - 14:55
Rob Swaters Dark Matter Distribution in Spirals
14:55 - 15:20
Julio Navarro Inner Profile of Halos
15:20 - 15:45
Francisco Prada Dark Matter Halos in Isolated Galaxies
15:45 - 16:00
Aaron Romanowsky Dark Matter in Early-Type Galaxy Halos
16:00 - 16:10
  Discussion
16:10 - 16:40
COFFEE/TEA BREAK
16:40 - 17:05
Ricardo Flores Halo Shapes
17:05 - 17:20
Brent Tully Group of Dwarfs: Pools of Mostly Dark
17:20 - 17:35
Leo Blitz Naked Dark Matter Mini-Halos in the MW
17:35 - 17:50
Chung-Pei Ma DM Substructures and Cores of E Galaxies
17:50 - 18:00
 

Discussion

19:15 - 23:00
BANQUET Dekel

 

Friday 12 August (DAY 5)

9. FIRST OBJECTS & THE IGM AT HIGH z

8:30 - 8:40
Art Wolfe Session Leader
8:40 - 9:05
Chuck Steidel Galaxies and the IGM at z=2-6
9:05 - 9:20
Garth Illingworth High-z Galaxies fro ACS GTO
9:20 - 9:45
Mark Dickinson High-Redshift Galaxy Assembly from GOODS
9:45 - 10:10
David Weinberg Gas Accretion & Galaxy Formation
10:10 - 10:20
  Discussion
10:20 - 10:50
COFFEE/TEA BREAK
10:50 - 11:15
Jason X. Prochaska Absorption Systems at High Redshift
11:15 - 11:40
Piero Madau The Dawn of Galaxies (Reionization/BH)
11:40 - 11:55
Marta Volonteri Massive BHs: the Early Universe to Today
11:55 - 12:10
Aaron Barth The Smallest Black Holes in Galaxy Nuclei
12:10 - 12:20
  Discussion
12:20 - 14:00
LUNCH
12:30 - 13:30
MEDIA AVAILABILITY

10. MASSIVE BLACK HOLES / AGNs

14:00 - 14:10
Doug Richstone Session Leader
14:10 - 14:35
Hans-Walter Rix Nearly Normal Nearby Nuclei
14:35 - 15:00
Tod Lauer Black Holes and the Centers of Galaxies
15:00 - 15:15
Michael Strauss

Exploration of AGN from z=0 To 6.4

15:15 - 15:40
Lars Hernquist Quasars & Their Implications
15:40 - 15:50
  Discussion
15:50 - 16:20
COFFEE/TEA BREAK

CONFERENCE SUMMARY & PROSPECTS FOR THE FUTURE

16:20 - 16:50
Sandy Faber The Formation of Early-Type Galaxies
16:50 - 17:20
Joel Primack Galaxies and Dark Matter
17:20 - 17:50
George Blumenthal Perspectives on Cosmology
17:50 - 18:00
Avishai Dekel Concluding Remarks
18:00 - 19:00
BBQ DINNER
19:00 - 20:00
FAREWELL RECEPTION
19:45
SHAKESPEARE SANTA CRUZ