Program

The venue for the scientific program will be the Texas Union Building (map).

  • Talks will be held in the Santa Rita Room
  • Posters will be in the adjacent Lone Star Room
  • Buffet lunch will be in the adjacent Quadrangle Room
DAY 1 (TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 11)
7.30-9.00
 		Registration
(Session 1) Overview: Galaxy assembly in hierarchical models
9.00-9.30
 		Welcome + opening remarks
9.30-10.00
 		Julio Navarro: Hierarchical assembly of disks and spheroids
10.00-10.30
 		Andi Burkert: Challenges of modeling galactic disks
10.30-11.00
 		Coffee break and posters
11.00-11.30
 		Fabio Governato: Simulations of disk formation
11.30-12.00
 		Romeel Dave: Galaxy Merger Histories in Simulations
12.00-12.30
 		Avishai Dekel: Early Massive Galaxy Formation by Cold Streams
12.30-2.00
 		Buffet lunch on site + poster viewing
(Session 2) Substructure problem
2.00-2.30
 		Josh Simon (TBC): Substructure problem from observational point of view
2.30-3.00
 		Andrey Kravtsov: Substructure problem/efficiency of SF in small mass dwarf galaxies
3.00-3.30
 		Piero Madau: Missing satellite/substructure problem
3.30-4.00
 		Coffee break and posters
(Session 3) Secular evolution
4.00-4.30
 		Francoise Combes: Secular assembly of bulges (classical vs disky vs boxy/peanut bulge)
4.30-5.00
 		Isaac Shlosman: Growing Disks Inside Assembling Dark Matter Halos
5.00-5.20
 		C**** Irina Marinova (UT): Bars in field and clusters
5.30-7.30
 		Welcome Reception (Open bar; finger food; wine + cheese near poster area)
7.30
 		Shuttle drop off participants at 2 hotels
DAY 2 (WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12)
(Session 4) Disk, Spheroids and Merger History at z~0 to 1
9.00-9.30
 		Tom Brown: Star formation history and evolution of the bulge and halo in M31, M33
9.30-10.00
 		Mario Juric: Properties of the disk, halo, and bulge of the Milky Way based on SDSS data
10.00-10.30
 		Jesus Falcon Barroso: Kinematics and age-metallicity diagnostics of bulges from SAURON
10.30-11.00
 		Coffee break and posters
11.00-11.20
 		C**** David Fisher (UT): SF in pseudo-bulges
11.20-11.40
 		C**** Tim Weinzirl (UT): Constraints on the Origin of Bulges in High Mass Spirals (arXiv:0807.0040)
11.45-12.15
 		Sadegh Khochfar: Merger history of galaxies in the context of disk+bulge formation
12.30-2.00
 		Buffet lunch on site + poster viewing
2.00-3.00
 		James Bullock: Galaxy merger history in the context of halo-bulge formation
2.30-3.00
 		Shardha Jogee: Galaxy mergers and their impact out to z~1
3.00-3.20
 		C**** Aday Robaina (MPA): SFR enhancement in mergers
3.30-4.00
 		Coffee break and posters
4.00-4.30
 		Marc Balcells: Galaxy Bulges: structure and colors from z=1 to z=0
4.30-5.00
 		T. J. Cox: Impact of minor mergers on galaxies
5.00-5.30
 		Kelly Foyle: Mean secular evolution rate present-DAY spirals
5.30-6.45
 		Science Social (Open bar, finger food near poster area)
6.45
 		Shuttle drop off participants at 2 hotels
DAY 3 (THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13)
(Session 5) Disk, Spheroids, and Merger History out to z~3
9.00-9.30
 		David Schiminovich: GALEX Observations of Disks and Bulges
9.30-10.00
 		Genevieve Graves: Scaling relations for early type galaxies based on SDDS data
10.00-10.30
 		John Kormendy: Scaling relations for spheroids and disks
10.30-11.00
 		Coffee break and posters
11.00-11.30
 		Kai Noeske: Star formation history and stellar mass growth out to z~1
11.30-12.00
 		Francois Hammer: Kinematics of galaxies out to z~1 with FLAMES/GIRAFFE at the VLT
12.00-12.30
 		Kristen L. Shapiro: Kinematics of galaxies out to z~2 (Session INS survey with SINFONI on the ESO VLT)
12.30-2.00
 		buffet lunch on-site + poster viewing
2.00-2.20
 		C**** David Law (UCLA): Kinematics of galaxies out to z~2-3 with Keck/OSIRIS
2.20-2.50
 		Bruce Elmegreen: Bulge formation by the coalescence of giant clumps in primordial disk galaxies
2.50-3.20
 		Christopher Conselice: Galaxy structures and the merger rate to z ~ 3 in the HUDF
3.30-4.00
 		Coffee break and posters
4.00-4.30
 		Andrew Blain: Submillimeter galaxies
4.30-5.00
 		Naveen Reddy: Multiwavelength luminosity function(s) of z~2 galaxies
5.00-5.20
 		David Alexander: The Obscured Growth of Black Holes in Distant Massive Galaxies
5.30-6.00
 		Shuttle drop off at 2 hotels
7.00-7.30
 		Coach-shuttle pick up for conference dinner
8.00
 		Conference dinner
DAY 4 (THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14)
(Session 6) Mergers, AGN and Feedback
9.00-9.30
 		Philip Hopkins: Mergers/Quasars
9.30-10.00
 		Rachel Somerville: Major merger remnants, BH fundamental plane, and impact on AGN activity
10.00-10.30
 		Yuval Birnboim: Galaxy quenching by gravitational heating
10.30-11.00
 		Coffee break and posters
11.00-11.30
 		Emanuel Daddi: Formation of Massive Galaxies at z~2: Role of Accretion and AGN
11.30-12.00
 		Karl Gebhardt: Black holes and bulges
12.00-12.30
 		Milos Milosavljevic:
12.30-2.00
 		Buffet lunch on-site + poster viewing
2.00-3.00
 		Christy Tremonti: Empirical evidence for AGN feedback
2.30-2.50
 		C**** Lei Hao (UT): Bars and AGN
2.50-3.10
 		C**** Kyle Stewart (UC Irvine): Galaxy merger history
3.10-3.30
 		C**** Aaron Dutton (UCSC): Scaling relations for spiral/star-forming galaxie
3.30-4.00
 		Coffee break and posters
4.00-5.00
 		Conference summary and discussion
5.00-5.30
 		Shuttle drop off participants at 2 hotels
6.30-7.00
 		Coach-shuttle pick up at hotel for sponsored social event (Trip to local Texas BBQ specialty)








16 September 2008