Scientific Program Program & Abstract Book

 

December 4, Sunday
17:00 - 20:00 Registration and welcome cocktail


 

December 5, Monday
09:00 - 09:30 Registration
09:30 - 10:00 Opening ceremony
Section 1: Local Group vs. Nearby Groups - Chairman: Cesare Chiosi
10:00 - 10:50 Invited review: Eva Grebel
10:50 - 11:15 Doug Geisler: "Chemical Abundances in Local Group Dwarf Galaxies and their Impact on Formation of the Galactic Halo"
11:15 - 11:40 Evan Skillman: "Lessons from the Local Group Dwarfs"
11:40 - 12:05 Baerbel Koribalski: "Galaxies Groups in the Local Volume: An HI Perspective"
12:05 - 12:30 D.J. Pisano: "HI in Local Group analogs: what does it tell us about galaxy formation?"
12:30 - 14:30
Lunch
Section 2: Groups Searches and Surveys - Chairman: Eva Grebel
14:30 - 15:20 Invited review: Vince Eke
15:20 - 15:45 Allan Hornstrup: "Baryon budget in 2 keV galaxy groups"
15:45 - 16:10 Julio Saucedo: "Galaxy Groups in the 2dF in Terms of their Degree of Compactness and Isolation"
16:10 - 16:40 Coffee break / Poster session
16:40 - 17:05 Tomotsugu Goto: "Environmental Effects on Galaxy Evolution based on the Sloan Digital Sky Survey"
17:05 - 17:30 Emanuela Pompei: "The DPOSS II compact groups survey: looking back in time"
17:30 - 17:55 Gary Da Costa: "The stellar populations of dE galaxies in nearby groups"
17:55 - 18:20 Sergio Cellone: "The low-luminosity galaxy population in the NGC 5044 Group"



December 6, Tuesday
cont. Section 2: Groups Searches and Surveys - Chairman: Vince Eke
09:00 - 09:25 Duncan Forbes: "The Galaxy Evolution Multiwavelength Study (GEMS) project"
09:25 - 09:50 Steffen Mieske: "Ultra-compact dwarf galaxies in the NGC1023 galaxy group"
09:50 - 10:15 John Hibbard: "Spitzer Observations of Hickson Compact Groups"
10:15 - 10:40 Riccardo Giovanelli: "ALFALFA: the Arecibo Legacy Extragalactic HI Survey"
10:40 - 10:45 Movie (presented by Duncan Forbes): A 3D flythrough of a recent galaxy survey (6dFGS)
10:45 - 11:15 Coffee break / Poster session
Section 3: Evolution of Galaxies in Groups (observational) - Chairman: Gary da Costa
11:15 - 12:05 Invited review: Chris Conselice
12:05 - 12:30
Asantha Cooray: "Galaxy Properties in Groups: Conditional Luminosity Function Models"
12:30 - 12:55 Simon Kemp: "ESO 383-45: ram-pressure stripping or tidal merger remnant?"
12:55 - 14:30 Lunch
14:30 - 14:55 George Hau: "The influence of the group environment since z~0.5: Luminosity functions in spectroscopically-selected groups"
14:55 - 15:20 David Wilman: "The influence of the group environment since z~0.5: Morphologies and Star Formation"
15:20 - 15:45 Cesare Chiosi: "Formation and evolution of early-type galaxies. II. Models with quasi-cosmological initial"
15:45 - 16:15 Coffee break / Poster session
cont. Section 3: Evolution of Galaxies in Groups (observational) - Chairman: Chris Conselice
16:15 - 16:40 Dominik Bomans: "The dwarf galaxy population in Hickson Compact Groups"
16:40 - 17:05 María Angeles Martínez: "Low Luminosity AGNs in Hickson Compact Groups"
17:05 - 17:30 Marina Rejkuba: "Dwarf elliptical galaxies in Centaurus Group"
17:30 - 17:55 Ignacio Garcia de la Rosa: "Stellar Populations in Elliptical Galaxies of Compact Groups"
17:55 - 18:20 Henry Lee: "Chemical Evolution of Gas-Rich Dwarf Galaxies in Five Nearby Groups Within the Local Volume"
18:20 - 18:45


December 7, Wednesday
Section 4: Evolution of Galaxies in Groups (theoretical) - Chairman: Riccardo Giovanelli
09:00 - 09:50 Invited review: Gary Mamon
09:50 - 10:15 Chris Mihos: "Diffuse starlight and the evolution of groups and clusters of galaxies"
10:15 - 10:40 Craig Rudick: "Simulating Diffuse Light In Galaxy Clusters" (Movies and PDF)
10:40 - 11:05 Ole Moeller: "The mass distribution of groups from lensing"
11:15 - 20:00
Social event: Trip to Pomaire and Isla Negra


December 8, Thursday
Section 5: Evolution of Groups as Systems - Chairman: Stefano Borgani
09:00 - 09:50 Invited review: Ann Zabludoff
09:50 - 10:15 Sarah Brough: "The Eridanus Supergroup"
10:15 - 10:40 Florence Durret:"ClG J1205+4429, the most distant fossil group at z=0.59"
10:40 - 11:10 Coffee break / Poster session
11:10 - 11:35 Sonia Temporin: "Past and Future of CG J1720-67.8: Constraints from observations and models" (PDF file)
11:35 - 12:00
12:00 - 14:00 Lunch
cont. Section 5: Evolution of Groups as Systems - Chairman: Ann Zabludoff
14:00 - 14:25 Somak Raychaudhury: "The optical properties of nearby groups of galaxies"
14:25 - 14:50 Manolis Plionis: "The relation between Halo shapes, dynamics & environment"
14:50 - 15:15 Elizabeth Wehner: "II Zw 23 and Family: a group in Interaction"
15:15 - 15:45 Coffee break / Poster session
Section 6: Interstellar Medium and Intragroup medium - Chairman: Evan Skillman
15:45 - 16:35 Invited review: Trevor Ponman
16:35 - 17:00 Emily Freeland: "H I in Groups with varying Dynamical Age"
17:00 - 17:25 Virginia Kilborn: "Where is the neutral hydrogen in galaxy groups?"
17:25 - 17:50 Hector Bravo-Alfaro: "HI imaging of groups infalling to the cluster cores in A 1367 and A 85"
20:00 - 22:00 Closing dinner at Hotel Torremayor


December 9, Friday
cont. Section 6: Interstellar Medium and Intragroup medium - Chairman: Trevor Ponman
09:00 - 09:25 Jesper Rasmussen: "Metallicity structure in X-ray bright galaxy groups"
09:25 - 09:50 Fabio Gastaldello: "Temperature, mass and entropy of an X-ray sample of Galaxy Groups"
09:50 - 10:15 Ewan O’Sullivan: "An X-ray view of the cores of galaxy groups"
10:15 - 10:40 Suparna Roychowdhury: "Active Galaxies, thermal conduction and entropy of gas in galaxy groups and clusters"
10:40 - 11:05 Juan Cortés: "Stellar and Ionized gas Kinematics of Peculiar Virgo Cluster Galaxies"
11:05 - 11:35 Coffee break / Poster session
11:35 - 12:00 Lourdes Verdes-Montenegro: "ISM of galaxies in extremely different environments: isolated vs compact groups"
12:00 - 12:25 Tesla Jeltema: "X-ray-Selected, Moderate-Redshift Groups of Galaxies" 
12:25 - 12:50 Pasquale Mazzotta: "X-ray Properties of a Mass-Selected Group Catalog" 
12:50 - 14:00 Lunch
Section 7: Groups in a Cosmological context - Chairman: Chris Mihos
14:00 - 14:50 Invited review: Stefano Borgani
14:50 - 15:15 Heinz Andernach: "The Association of Compact Groups of Galaxies with Large-scale Structures"
15:15 - 15:40 Aaron Romanowsky: "Internal Dynamics of Galaxies and Groups"
(PDF file)
15:40 - 16:10 Coffee break / Poster session
Overview / Summary / Discussion
16:10 - 18:00 Invited review: Ken Freeman

 

 

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