Scientific Programme

 

Welcome cocktail and Registration: March 22 (Sunday) , 17:00 - 20:00 (ESO Office)

Program Overview

Day 1, Monday 23 March 2015
08:00 Coffee & pastries, poster set-up, registration (open throughout morning)
Welcome and announcements
8:50
 Catherine Vlahakis
Opening Remarks
9:00
 Pierre Cox, ALMA Director
Welcome Address
High-z I (N. Scoville)
09:10
 Rob Ivison (I)
Galaxies at high redshift: a submm continuum perspective
09:40
 Kirsten Knudsen (C)
Probing normal starburst at high-z: ALMA observations of lensed SMGs		 PDF
10:00
 Andrzej Soltan (C)
AGN - field galaxies association at high redshifts		 PDF
10:20
 Lukas Lindroos (C)
Measuring sizes of distant faint galaxies		 PDF
10:40
 Coffee  break & Poster Session
 
High-z II (K. Knudsen)
  
11:10
 Brant Robertson (I)
Early Galaxy Formation and Evolution Through the Eyes of New Facilities		 PDF
11:40
 Elizabeth Stanway (C)
Interpreting star formation in galaxies across cosmic time with binary
population synthesis models		 PDF
12:00
 Marco Viero (C)
A Census of the Cosmic Infrared Background        
 PDF
12:20 Alasdair Thompson (C)
The ISM in z~2.5 starbursting galaxies: dust, synchrotron emission and cold molecular		 PPT
12:40
 Anita Zanella (C)
The birth of a giant star forming clump in a disk galaxy at redshift z = 2		 PDF
13:00
 Lunch in the ESO gardens
 
High-z III (K. Menendez-Delmestre)
  
14:40
 Poster talks (first group)  
15:00
 Jacqueline Hodge (I)
Galaxies at high-redshift: Insights from molecular line emission		 PDF
15:30
 Manuel Aravena (C)
Resolved CO observations of lensed dusty star-forming galaxies out to z<6		 PDF
15:50
 Chelsea Sharon (C)
Dissecting Molecular Gas and Star Formation in the Strongly Lensed z~2 Galaxy SDSS J0901+1814		 PDF
16:10 Coffee  break and Poster Session
 
17:00 Francesco Valentino (C)
Anatomy of an X-ray detected cluster at z = 2: low metallicities and enhanced specific star formation rates in star-forming galaxies.		 PDF
17:20
 Loic Le Tiran (C)
Stirring Up the Gas: Star Formation and Powering High Pressures in galaxies 10 Billion Years Ago		 PDF - MP4
17:40 End
  
Day 2, Tuesday 24 March 2015
ISM, Star Formation & Environment (A. Leroy)
09:10 Nelson Padilla (C)
Effects of the stochastic growth of angular momentum on the star formation rate		  
09:30 Guillermo Blanc (C)
A Bayesian Approach towards Measuring the Physical Conditions of Ionized Star Forming Regions.		 PPT
 - MP4 (no audio!)
09:50 Di Li (C)
"Dark'' Gas and "Late-Teen'' Galaxies		  
10:10 Poster talks (second group)  
10:30
 Coffee break & poster session
 
Starbursts & Mergers (S. Aalto)  
11:30 Enrica Bellocchi (C)
Characterization of molecular emission lines detected in three local star-forming galaxies using far-IR Herschel/HIFI and sub-mm APEX data		 PDF
11:50
 Nick Scoville (C)
Dust and High Excitation Lines in Arp 220 at 0.25 - 0.5'' res.		  
12:10 Cristina Romero-Canizales (C)
Dissecting a rare triple galaxy merger: radio and mm-observations toward the Bird		 PDF
12:30
 Excursion & lunch (buses depart at 12:40)
  
Day 3, Wednesday 25 March 2015
Star Formation (G. Blanc)
09:00
 Toshikazu Onishi (I)
Star Formation in the Large Magellanic Cloud: Tracing an Evolution of Giant Molecular Clouds		 PDF
09:30 Kathryn Grasha (C)
The Clustering of Young Stellar Clusters in Nearby Galaxies		 PDF
09:50
 Jonathan Smoker (C)
Small and time-variable structures in the interstellar medium of the Milky Way		 PDF
10:10 Sarolta Zahorecz (C)
Massive star formation properties in the Galactic disk		 PDF
10:30
 Monica Rubio (C)
ALMA studies of the Magellanic Bridge		 PDF
10:50
 Coffee break and Poster Session
Star Formation - Molecular Gas Connection (F. Combes)
11:30
 Adam Leroy (I)
Physical Conditions in the ISM and the Star Formation-H2 Connection		 PDF
12:00
 Karin Sandstrom (I)
More than just CO: The Molecular Gas - SF Connection in the ALMA Era		  
12:30
 Barry Madore (C)
The Schmidt Law Decoded and Explained		 PDF
12:50
 Thiago Goncalves (C)
A 100pc view of the interplay between the ISM and stars in dense star-forming galaxies		  
13:10
 Lunch in the ESO gardens
Galactic Nuclei I (M. Bureau)
14:50
 Francoise Combes (I)
Gas flows in galactic nuclei
 PPT - MP4
15:20
 Emily Freeland (C)
An AGN-blown Nuclear Bubble Triggers Star Formation in a Nearby Face-on Analogue to Our Own Milky Way		 PDF
15:40
 Santiago Garcia-Burillo (I)
Galactic inflows / outflows: Observational constraints		 PDF
16:10
 Coffee break & Poster Session
Galactic Nuclei II (E. Mills)
16:40
 Anna Ciurlo (C)
Molecular gas in the center of the Galaxy		 PDF
17:00
 Susanne Aalto (I)
Physical conditions and chemistry in starbursts and obscured nuclei
 PPT
17:30
 Luis Colina (C)
Dissecting Luminous Infrared Galaxies through Multi-wavelength integral field spectroscopy		 PPT
17:50 End
18:45 Conference Dinner (in the ESO gardens)
Day 4, Thursday 26 March 2015
Nearby Galaxies I (T. Goncalves)
09:20
 Sharon Meidt (I)
Beyond the classic archetype: the relation between spiral structure and star formation in galaxies		 PDF
09:50
 Sebastien Viaene (C)
Andromeda in all colours: Dust scaling relations at sub-kpc resolution		 PDF
10:10
 Ioannis Bagetakos (C)
A multi-wavelength view of the ISM in Nearby Galaxies		 PPT
10:30
 Michael Opitsch (C)
The unusual morphology and kinematics of the gas in the bulge region of M31		 PDF
10:50
 Coffee break and Poster Session
Nearby Galaxies II (S. Garcia-Burillo)
11:20
 Karin Menendez-Delmestre (C)
A Local Reference For Bar Morphology Studies In The Distant Universe		 PDF
11:40
 Stephanie Greis (C)
Local Analogues to high-redshift (z~5) Lyman Break Galaxies - what we can learn from their spectral energy distributions		 PDF
12:00
 Martin Bureau (I)
Molecular Gas in Early-­type Galaxies and the Quest for Supermassive Black Hole Masses		 MP4
12:30 Linda Watson (C)
The Connection between Molecular Gas and Star Formation in Extended Ultraviolet (XUV) Disk Galaxies		 PDF
12:50
 Lunch in the ESO gardens
Galaxy Groups & Clusters (J. Cortes)
14:30
 Jeff Kenney (C)
Molecular Cloud Decoupling and Magnetic Binding during Strong Ram
Pressure Stripping of the Coma Spiral NGC 4921		 PPT
14:50
 Chris Haines (C)
Dissecting ram-pressure stripping through integral-field spectroscopy of cluster spirals		 PPT
15:10
 Hernan Muriel (C)
Galaxy properties in the infall region of groups of galaxies		 PDF
15:30 Omar Lopez-Cruz (C)
Seyfert's Sextet: Timing the Disruption of Galaxies and the Formation of the Intragroup Medium		 PPT
15:50 Emanuela Pompei (C)
Intracluster light at z~0.5: the MUSE and CFHT view		 PDF
16:10
 Coffee break
16:40
 Conference summary
Pierre Cox, ALMA Director
Day 5, Friday 27 March 2015
ALMA proposal workshop (C. Vlahakis)
09:30
 ALMA Cycle 3 capabilities and beyond
Daniel Espada (JAO)
10:00 - 12:30
 Proposal Discussion Groups (by topic)
12:30
 Lunch in the ESO gardens
13:45
 Departure for ALMA Visit

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