Scientific Programme

REGISTRATION: April 3, 17:00-20:00
WELCOMING COCKTAIL: April 3, 18:00-20:00

Program Overview

Monday, April 4: Internal Dynamics of Compact Stellar Systems
Tuesday, April 5: Internal Dynamics of Dwarf Galaxies
Wednesday, April 6: Black Holes in Low-Mass Stellar Systems
Thursday, April 7: Low-Mass Stellar Systems as Tracers (I) The Dwarf Galaxy - Star Cluster Interface (II)
Friday, April 8: The Dwarf Galaxy - Star Cluster Interface
Poster contributions

Monday: Internal Dynamics of Compact Stellar Systems
08:40 - 09:00	Steffen Mieske	Welcome
09:00 - 09:30	Andres Jordan (k)	The observed mass function of globular clusters	*PDF*
09:30 - 10:00	Bruce Elmegreen (k)	On the origin of the globular cluster mass function	*PDF*
10:00 - 10:20	Paul Goudfrooij (c)	New clues to the evolution of the globular cluster mass function	*PDF*
10:20 - 10:40	Mark Gieles (c)	The mass-radius relation of hot stellar systems	*PDF*
10:40 - 11:10	COFFEE
11:10 - 11:40	Søren Larsen (k)	The observed mass function of young star clusters	*PDF*
11:40 - 12:00	Jorge Penarrubia (i)	Tidal disruption of globular clusters in dwarf galaxies	*PDF*
12:00 - 12:20	Anna Lisa Varri (c)	Tides, rotation, and anisotropy: new self-consistent nonspherical models for GCs	*PDF*
12:20 - 12:40	Rory Smith & Michael Fellhauer (c)	Hierarchical merging - what makes a star cluster survive gas expulsion	*PDF*
12:40 - 13:00	Linda Smith (c)	The Formation and Gas Dynamics of the Young SMC Clusters NGC 346	PDF PPT
13:00 - 14:30	LUNCH
14:30 - 14:50	Andrea Stolte (i)	Dynamics of young starburst clusters in the galactic centre and the spiral arms	*PDF*
14:50 - 15:20	Riccardo Scarpa (k)	Testing Newtonian dynamics with globular clusters
15:20 - 15:40	Antonio Sollima (c)	Velocity dispersion profiles of GCs: tidal effects, modified gravity and structural evolution	*PDF*
15:40 - 16:10	COFFEE
16:10 - 16:40	Douglas Heggie (i)	Dynamic evolutionary modelling of globular star clusters	*PDF*
16:40 - 17:00	Nate Bastian (i)	Dynamical masses and the fundamental plane of massive stellar clusters	*PDF*
17:00 - 17:20	Richard Lane (c)	Velocity Dispersions of Galactic GCs Testing Gravity?	*PDF*
17:20 - 17:40	Jay Strader (c)	Mass-to-Light ratios of globular clusters in the Local Group	*PDF*
18:00	A walk in the park / informal discussion

Tuesday: Internal Dynamics of Dwarf Galaxies
09:00 - 09:30	Marla Geha (k)	Observations of ’ultra-faint’ dwarf spheroidal kinematics	*PDF*
09:30 - 10:00	Matthew Walker (k)	Observations of ’classical’ dwarf spheroidal kinematics	*PDF*
10:00 - 10:20	James Bullock (c)	Stealth galaxies and mass bias; the Milky Way dwarf spheroidal population	*PDF*
10:20 - 10:40	Erik Tollerud (c)	Kinematics of faint M31 dSphs from the SPLASH Survey	*PDF*
10:40 - 11:10	COFFEE
11:10 - 11:40	Pierre-Alain Duc (k)	Internal dynamics of tidal dwarf galaxies	*PDF*
11:40 - 12:00	Gary Mamon (i)	Joint mass and anisotropy modeling of dwarf spheroidals	*PDF*
12:00 - 12:20	Mark Wilkinson (i)	Dynamical modelling of dwarf spheroidals	*PDF*
12:20 - 12:40	Stefano Pasetto (c)	Orbit analysis of the dwarf galaxies with an application to Carina	*PDF*
12:40 - 13:00	Simone Zaggia (c)	The stellar kinematics of the Phoenix dwarf galaxy	*PDF*
13:00 - 14:30	LUNCH
14:30 - 14:50	Ewa Lokas (i)	The tidal stirring model and its application to the Sagittarius dwarf	*PDF*
14:50 - 15:10	Mia Bovill (c)	Reionization Fossils, Ghost Halos and the Missing Bright Satellites	*PDF*
15:10 - 15:30	Joe Wolf (i)	Implications for LCDM based on dynamic modeling of local group dSphs
15:30 - 16:00	COFFEE
16:00 - 16:30	Pavel Kroupa (k)	Local Group galaxies as critical tests of the contemporary cosmological model and its failure	*PDF*
16:30 - 16:50	Marcel Pawlowski (c)	The Disc of Satellites: The origin of counter-rotating tidal debris	*PDF*
16:50 - 17:10	Gerhard Hensler (c)	Early evolution of Milky Way satellites in a LCDM universe
17:15 - 18:15	DISCUSSION I (Chair: Mark Wilkinson)		*PDF*

Wednesday: Black Holes in Low-Mass Stellar Systems
09:00 - 09:30	Jay Anderson (k)	HST proper motions at the centers of globular clusters	*PDF* *PPT*
09:30 - 10:00	Holger Baumgardt (k)	Dynamical evolution of star clusters containing massive black holes
10:00 - 10:20	Behrang Jalali (c)	Intermediate Mass Black hole in the star cluster Omega Centauri	*PDF*
10:20 - 10:40	Nora Luetzgendorf (c)	Does the globular cluster NGC 6388 host an intermediate-mass black hole?	*PDF*
10:40 - 11:10	COFFEE
11:10 - 11:30	Eva Noyola (i)	Dynamical search for IMBHs in galactic globular clusters	*PDF*
11:30 - 11:50	Nadine Neumayer (i)	Nuclear star clusters and black holes	*PDF*
12:00 - 13:00	POSTER SESSION
FREE AFTERNOON

Thursday I: Low-Mass Stellar Systems as Tracers
09:00 - 09:30	Patrick Cote (k)	The role of galaxy interactions in the formation and evolution of GC systems
09:30 - 10:00	Tom Richtler (k)	The dynamics of globular cluster systems	*PDF*
10:00 - 10:20	Diederik Kruijssen (c)	The formation and destruction of star cluster populations in galaxy mergers	*PDF*
10:20 - 10:40	Sarah Bird (c)	Distribution of globular clusters after a merger	*PDF*
10:40 - 11:10	COFFEE
11:10 - 11:40	Andreas Kuepper (k)	Finding tidal tails of star clusters	*PDF*
11:40 - 12:00	Florent Renaud (c)	Star clusters in complex tidal fields	*PDF*
12:00 - 12:20	Ruben Sanchez-Janssen (c)	Globular cluster systems as tracers of environmental effects on Virgo early-type dwarfs	*PDF*
12:20 - 12:40	Aaron Romanowsky (c)	The Origins of Globular Clusters and Ultra-compact Dwarfs around Massive Ellipticals	*PDF* *PPT*
12:40 - 13:00	Avon Huxor (i)	The accretion history of the halo of M31 as probed by its globular cluster population	*PDF* *PPT*
13:00 - 14:30	LUNCH
14:30 - 14:50	Jean Brodie (c)	The Two-Phase Paradigm for assembling galaxies and their globular cluster systems	*PDF*
14:50 - 15:10	Vincenzo Pota (c)	A survey of globular cluster kinematics in early-type galaxies	*PDF*
15:10 - 15:30	Ingo Misgeld (c)	Early-type stellar systems in nearby clusters	*PDF*
15:30 - 16:00	COFFEE
Thursday II: The Dwarf Galaxy - Star Cluster Interface
16:00 - 16:30	Michael Hilker (k)	Internal dynamics of UCDs I	*PDF* *PPT*
16:30 - 16:50	Matthias Frank (c)	Internal dynamics of UCDs II	*PDF*
16:50 - 17:10	Claudia Bruens (c)	A parametric study on the formation of ECs and UCDs by merged star cluster complexes	*PDF*
17:10 - 17:30	Mark Norris (c)	The dynamics of field/group environment UCDs	*PDF*
17:30 - 18:15	DISCUSSION II (Chair: Steffen Mieske)
19:30 - 23:00	Conference Dinner

Friday: The Dwarf Galaxy - Star Cluster Interface
09:00 - 09:20	Duncan Forbes (i)	The dwarf galaxy - Ultra Compact Dwarf - globular cluster connection	*PDF*
09:20 - 09:40	Gary da Costa (c)	Dynamics of the outskirts of Omega Centauri	*PDF*
09:40 - 10:00	Kristin Woodley (c)	Exploring the Globular-Cluster-Ultra-Compact Dwarf Transition	*PDF*
10:00 - 10:20	Paulina Assmann (c)	The formation of dwarf spheroidal galaxies	*PDF*
10:20 - 10:50	COFFEE
10:50 - 11:10	Jarrod Hurley (c)	Models of faint galaxy production through star cluster evolution	*PDF* *PPT*
11:10 - 11:30	Iskren Georgiev (c)	Spectroscopic analysis of nuclear and bright globular clusters in nearby dwarf galaxies	*PDF*
11:30 - 11:50	Michelle Collins (c)	Cold halos and extended clusters - the peculiarities of low mass systems in the outskirts of M31
12:00 - 13:00	Gerard Gilmore	CONFERENCE SUMMARY and FINAL DISCUSSION	*PDF*