Scientific Programme
Registrations, Posters set up, Welcome cocktail: April 12 (Sunday), 16:00-20:00 (ESO Office)
Program Overview
- Day 1, April 13
- Day 2, April 14
- Day 3, April 15
- Day 4, April 16
- Day 5, April 17
- Poster contributions
(CT) Contributed talk / (IT) Invited Speaker / (KN) Keynote Speaker
| Day 1, Monday 13 April 2015 | |||
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| 09:00 | Steffen & Andreas | Welcome address | |
| 09:20 | Tim de Zeeuw | Welcome remarks |
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| 09:50 | Jorge Peñarrubia (KN) |
Dynamical modelling of dwarf galaxies | |
| 10:20 | Chervin Laporte (CT) |
Under the sword of Damocles: regeneration of dark matter cusps at the smallest galactic scales in CDM | |
| 10:40 | Coffee | ||
| 11:20 | Michelle Collins (KN) |
The internal dynamics of dwarf spheroidal galaxies: an observational point of view |
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| 11:50 | Jeff Carlin (CT) |
The LAMOST view of Galactic halo substructure | |
| 12:10 | Giacomo Beccari (CT) |
The StEllar Counterparts of COmpact high velocity clouds (SECCO) survey | |
| 12:30 | Eduardo Balbinot (CT) |
The LMC structure from early Dark Energy Survey data | |
| 12:50 | DES News | ||
| 13:00 | Lunch | ||
| 14:30 | Erik Tollerud (IT) |
Search for Local Volume Dwarf galaxies in HI | |
| 14:50 | Thorsten Lisker (IT) |
Low-mass galaxies in different environments of the local universe | |
| 15:10 | Coral Wheeler (CT) |
It's the little things: ultra-faint satellites of isolated dwarf galaxies | |
| 15:30 | Denija Crnojevic (CT) |
Discovering new faint satellites and streams beyond the Local Group: the PISCeS survey | |
| 15:50 | Coffee | ||
| 16:30 | Else Starkenburg (IT) |
The satellites of the Milky Way and a LambdaCDM Universe | |
| 16:50 | Rachael Beaton (CT) |
Caught in the Act of Quenching? Local Volume Dwarf Satellites with On-Going Star Formation | |
| 17:10 | Benjamin Hendricks (CT) |
Do Globular Clusters Share the Chemical Enrichment History of their Host Galaxy? | |
| 17:30 | Ryan Leaman (CT) |
Uncovering the accretion history of the MW using star clusters and dwarf galaxies | |
| 17:50 | Thomas de Boer (CT) | The Star Formation History of the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy and streams | |
| Day 2, Tuesday 14 April 2015 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 09:00 | Pavel Kroupa (KN) |
Are all satellite galaxies tidal dwarfs? | |
| 09:30 | Pierre Alain Duc (IT) |
Tidal dwarf galaxies within stellar streams | |
| 09:50 | Sylvia Ploeckinger (CT) |
The destiny of tidal dwarf galaxies | |
| 10:10 | Marcel Pawlowski (CT) |
Can we tell the planes' truth? On the suggested origins of co-orbiting planes of satellite galaxies | |
| 10:40 | Coffee | ||
| 11:20 | Rodrigo Ibata (KN) |
Tidal tails and satellite orientations in M31 | |
| 11:50 | Noam Libeskind (IT) |
Planes of dwarf galaxies and the cosmic web in the local universe | |
| 12:10 | Karoline Gilbert (IT) |
M31 satellites and stellar streams from SPLASH | |
| 12:30 | Tobias Goerdt (CT) |
The co-planarity of satellite galaxies delivered by randomly aligned cold mode accretion streams | |
| 13:00 | Lunch | ||
| 14:30 | Vasily Belokurov (KN) |
Streams and satellites of the Milky Way | |
| 15:00 | Tony Sohn (CT) |
HST Proper Motions of Satellites and Streams | |
| 15:20 | Blair Conn (CT) | A PanSTARRS view on Monoceros | |
| 15:50 | Coffee | ||
| 16:30 | Gurtina Besla (KN) |
Streams and the Magellanic Clouds | |
| 17:00 | Kathy Vivas (CT) |
The Virgo Overdensity as seen by RR Lyrae stars | |
| 17:20 | Poster Session |
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| Day 3, Wednesday 15 April 2015 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 09:00 | Steve Majewski (KN) |
Historical review on tidal tails in the MW | |
| 09:30 | Carl Grillmair (IT) |
Stellar Streams in the Galactic halo | |
| 09:50 | Giovanni Carraro (CT) | Signatures of streams and accretion in the outer MW disk | |
| 10:10 | Heidi Newberg (CT) |
Rings and Radial Waves in the Disk of the Milky Way | |
| 10:40 | Coffee | ||
| 11:20 | Amina Helmi (KN) | Dynamics of tidal tails | |
| 11:50 | Jo Bovy (IT) | Action-angle modeling of tidal streams | |
| 12:10 | Robyn Sanderson (CT) |
Inferring the Galactic gravitational potential with Gaia and friends | |
| 12:30 | Raymond Carlberg (CT) |
Dynamics of stellar streams | |
| 13:00 | Lunch | ||
| Day 4, Thursday 16 April 2015 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 09:00 | Aaron Romanowsky (KN) |
Tidal streams outside the Local Group | |
| 09:30 | Edouard Bernard (CT) | The nature and origin of substructure in the outskirts of M31 | |
| 09:50 | Carolin Wittmann (CT) |
A search for tidal features around stellar systems in nearby galaxy clusters | |
| 10:10 | Michael West (CT) |
Remnant Globular Cluster Streams in Galaxy Halos | |
| 10:40 | Coffee | ||
| 11:20 | Sarah Pearson (CT) |
Tidal Stream Morphology as an Indicator of Dark Matter Halo Geometry: the Case of Palomar 5 | |
| 11:40 | Andreas Küpper (CT) |
Globular Cluster Streams as Galactic High-Precision Scales | |
| 12:00 | Iskren Georgiev (CT) |
Deep HST observations of Palomar 5 and its tidal tails | |
| 12:20 | Denis Erkal (CT) |
The Three Phases of Gap Growth in Tidal Streams | |
| 12:40 | Mark Gieles (CT) |
Initial globular cluster population = final globular cluster population + cold streams | |
| 13:00 | Lunch | ||
| 14:30 | Oleg Gnedin (KN) |
Formation of star clusters and dwarf galaxies | |
| 15:00 | Michael Fellhauer (CT) |
Modelling the faint dSph galaxies of the Milky Way | |
| 15:20 | Filippo Contenta (CT) |
Faint stellar system in the outer Milky Way halo | |
| 15:40 | Paolo Bianchini (CT) |
Testing the formation of extended star clusters through satellite accretion | |
| 16:00 |
Coffee | ||
| 16:40 |
Jay Strader (KN) |
Star Clusters vs. Galaxies: The Observational View | |
| 17:10 |
Dougal Mackey (KN) |
Filling up the mass-size plane of low-mass stellar systems in M31 | |
| 17:40 |
Jean Brodie (IT) |
Filling up the mass-size plane outside of the Local Group | |
| 18:30 | Conference barbecue at ESO premises | ||
| Day 5, Friday 17 April 2015 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 09:00 | Michael Hilker (KN) |
Ultra-compact dwarf galaxies as remnants of tidal disruption processes | |
| 09:30 | Duncan Forbes (IT) |
New Insights for Ultra Compact Dwarfs | |
| 09:50 | Matthias Frank (CT) |
Telling star clusters from galaxies in the "ultra-compact dwarf'' regime | |
| 10:10 | Karina Voggel (CT) |
The Origins of the Ultra Compact Dwarfs in the Halo of NGC1399 | |
| 10:40 | Coffee | ||
| 11:20 | Anil Seth (KN) |
Massive Black Holes in Dwarf Galaxies and Star Clusters | |
| 11:50 | Mark Norris (IT) |
Aiming to Understand Compact Stellar Systems | |
| 12:10 | Adrien Guerou (CT) |
Compact dwarf galaxies with the GMOS-IFU and NGVS: testing the continuity hypothesis | |
| 12:30 | Florent Renaud (CT) |
The common origin of star clusters and UCDs: a numerical perspective | |
| 12:50 | Concluding remarks |
Steffen & Andreas | |
| 13:00 | Lunch | ||