Program

The conference venue is the Union Building (UNB) on the University of Texas campus, at the corner of 24th and Guadalupe.

Talks will be held in the Santa Rita Room
Posters will be in the adjacent Lone Star Room
Buffet lunch will be served in the adjacent Quadrangle Room

In order to allow discussion, we request that speakers adhere to the alloted time:

Invited talks = 20 min. oral presentation + 10 min. discussion
Contributed talks (C) = 15 min. oral presentation + 5 min. discussion

DAY 1 (TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 11)
7.45-9.00	Registration + Poster Setup
(Session 1) Overview: Galaxy assembly in LCDM Cosmogonies
9.00-9.10	*Welcome*
9.10-9.30	Shardha Jogee: Opening Remarks/Conference Overview
9.30-10.00	Julio Navarro: Hierarchical assembly of disks and spheroids
10.00-10.30	Andreas Burkert: Challenges of modeling galactic disks
10.30-11.00	Coffee Break + Poster Viewing
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 + Poster viewing
2.00-2.30	Andrey Kravtsov: Substructure problem: star formation in dwarf galaxies.
2.30-3.00	Piero Madau: Missing satellite problem
(Session 2) Secular evolution
3.00-3.30	Isaac Shlosman: Growing disks inside assembling dark matter halos
3.30-4.00	Coffee Break + Poster Viewing
4.00-4.30	Francoise Combes: Secular evolution and assembly of bulges
4.30-5.00	Kelly Foyle: Measuring the mean secular evolution rate in present-day spirals
5.00-5.30	Poster Summaries
5.30-7.30	Welcome Reception (hors d'oeuvres + drinks near poster area)
7.40	Shuttle drop off participants at downtown hotels (Radisson and Extended Stay)
DAY 2 (WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12)
(Session 3) Disk/Bulge Assembly, Star Formation, and Merger History
9.00-9.30	Tom Brown: Star formation history and evolution of the bulge and halo in M31 and M33
9.30-10.00	Mario Juric: Properties of the disk, halo, and bulge of the Milky Way based on SDSS
10.00-10.30	Jesus Falcon Barroso: Kinematics and age-metallicity diagnostics of bulges from SAURON
10.30-11.00	Coffee Break + Poster Viewing
11.00-11.20 (C)	David Fisher: Characterization of pseudobulges and their star formation
11.20-11.40 (C)	Tim Weinzirl: Properties and origin of bulges in high mass spirals
11.45-12.15	Sadegh Khochfar: Merger history of galaxies in the context of disk+bulge formation
12.15-2.00	Buffet Lunch + Poster Viewing
2.00-2.30	James Bullock: Galaxy merger history in the context of halo-bulge formation
2.30-3.00	Shardha Jogee: Galaxy mergers and their impact over 7 Gyr
3.00-3.30	Marc Balcells: Galaxy Bulges: structure and colors out to z~1
3.30-4.00	Coffee Break + Poster Viewing
4.00-4.30	T. J. Cox: Impact of minor mergers
4.30-4.50 (C)	Aday Robaina: Star formation rate in galaxy mergers
4.50-5.30	Poster Summaries
5.30-6.45	Science Happy Hour (finger food/drinks near poster area)
6.55	Shuttle drop off participants at downtown hotels (Radisson and Extended Stay)
DAY 3 (THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13)
(Session 3 - continued) Disk/Bulge Assembly, Star Formation, and Merger History
9.00-9.30	David Schiminovich: GALEX Observations of Disks and Bulges
9.30-10.00	Genevieve Graves: Scaling relations for early-ype galaxies based on SDDS
10.00-10.30	Aaron Dutton: Scaling relations for spiral/star-forming galaxies
10.30-11.00	Coffee Break + Poster Viewing
11.00-11.30	Francois Hammer: Kinematics of galaxies out to z~1 with FLAMES/GIRAFFE on VLT
11.30-12.00	Kristen L. Shapiro: Kinematics of galaxies out to z~2 with SINFONI on VLT)
12.00-12.30	Bruce Elmegreen: Bulge formation by the coalescence of giant clumps in primordial disk galaxies
12.30-2.00	Buffet Lunch + Poster viewing
2.00-2.30	John Kormendy: Structure and evolution of elliptical and spheroidal galaxies
2.30-3.00	Christopher Conselice: Galaxy structures and the merger rate to z ~ 3 in the HUDF
3.00-3.30	Emanuel Daddi: Formation of Massive Galaxies at z~2: Role of Accretion and AGN
3.30-4.00	Coffee Break + Poster Viewing
4.00-4.30	Andrew Blain: Submillimeter galaxies
4.30-5.00	Naveen Reddy: Multiwavelength luminosity function(s) of z~2 galaxies
5.00-5.30	Poster Summaries
5.40	Shuttle drop off participants at downtown hotels (Radisson and Extended Stay)
7.30	Shuttle pick up participants for conference dinner
8.00	Conference dinner at Fonda San Miguel
DAY 4 (FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14)
(Session 4) AGN and Star Formation Activity: Triggers and Feedback
9.00-9.30	Philip Hopkins: Mergers/quasars
9.30-10.00	Christy Tremonti: Empirical evidence for AGN feedback
10.00-10.30	Yuval Birnboim: Galaxy quenching by gravitational heating
10.30-11.00	Coffee Break + Poster Viewing
11.00-11.30	Daniel Ceverino (*TBC): high resolution simulations of SN feedback*
11.30-12.00	Milos Milosavljevic: Nuclear star clusters in disk dominated galaxies
12.00-12.30	Kai Noeske: Star formation history and stellar mass growth out to z~1
12.30-2.00	Buffet Lunch + Poster Viewing
2.00-2.30	Karl Gebhardt: Black holes and bulges
2.30-3.00	David Alexander: The Obscured growth of black holes in distant massive galaxies
3.00-3.30	Gregory Shields: Black hole-bulge relationship for QSOs at high redshift
3.30-4.00	Coffee Break + Poster Viewing
4.00-4.45	*Workshop summary and discussion*
5.15	Shuttle drop off participants at downtown hotels (Radisson and Extended Stay)
6.00	Shuttle pick up participants for free ride to the Salt Lick (Texas BBQ in the Hill Country)