Program

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

Talks and poster sessions will be held in the Santa Rita 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 = 30 min.
Contributed talks (C) = 12 min. oral presentation + 3 min. discussion= 15 min.

DAY 1 (TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 11)
8.00-9.00	Registration + Poster Setup
(Session 1) Overview: Galaxy Assembly in LCDM Cosmogonies: Mergers, Cold streams, and Secular Modes
9.00-9.15	*Dean Mary Ann Rankin & Chair Neal Evans: Welcome*
9.15-9.40	Shardha Jogee: Opening Remarks/Conference Overview
9.40-10.10	Andreas Burkert: Challenges of modeling galactic disks
10.10-10.40	Romeel Dave: Galaxy Growth: Mergers, Accretion, and Feedback
10.40-11.00	Coffee Break + Poster Viewing
11.00-11.30	Avishai Dekel: Early massive galaxy formation by cold streams
11.30-12.00	Andrey Kravtsov: Substructure problem: star formation in dwarf galaxies.
12.00-12.30	Piero Madau: Missing satellite problem
12.30-2.00	Buffet Lunch + Poster viewing
2.00-2.30	George Rhee: Kinematics of LSB & Dwarfs: Implications for LCDM models
2.30-3.00	Isaac Shlosman: Growing disks inside assembling dark matter halos
3.00-3.30	Francoise Combes: Secular evolution and assembly of bulges
3.30-4.00	Coffee Break + Poster Viewing
4.00-4.30	Kelly Foyle: Measuring the mean secular evolution rate in present-day spirals
4.30-4.45 (C)	Irina Marinova: Local Barred Disks in the Field and Dense Environments: Implications for Galaxy Evolution
4.45-5.00 (C)	David Fisher: Characterization of pseudobulges and their star formation
5.30-7.30	Welcome Reception (hors d'oeuvres + drinks)
7.40	Shuttle drop off participants at downtown hotels (Radisson and Extended Stay)
DAY 2 (WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12)
(Session 2) Disk/Bulge Assembly, Star Formation, and Merger History
9.00-9.30	Mario Juric: Properties of the disk, halo, and bulge of the Milky Way based on SDSS
9.30-10.00	Tom Brown: Star formation hbr>
10.00-10.30	Jesus Falcon Barroso: Kinematics and age-metallicity diagnostics of bulges from SAURON
10.30-11.00	Coffee Break + Poster Viewing
11.00-11.30	Marc Balcells: Galaxy Bulges: structure and colors out to z~1
11.30-12.00	Sadegh Khochfar: Merger history of galaxies in the context of disk+bulge formation
12.00-12.30	Shardha Jogee: Galaxy mergers and their impact on SF over 7 Gyr
12.30-2.00	Buffet Lunch + Poster Viewing
2.00-2.30	T. J. Cox: Impact of minor mergers
2.30-3.00	Julio Navarro: Simulations of Disk Galaxies at z~2
3.00-3.30	Fabio Governato: Simulations of disk formation
3.30-4.00	Coffee Break + Poster Viewing
4.00-4.30	Karl Gebhardt: Black holes and bulges
4.30-4.45 (C)	Tim Weinzirl: Properties and origin of bulges in high mass spirals
4.45-5.00 (C)	Kyle Stewart: Merger Histories of LCDM Galaxies: Disk Survivability and the Deposition of Cold Gas via Mergers
5.00-5.15 (C)	Aday Robaina: Less than 15% of star formation in massive galaxies is triggered by major interactions
5.15-5.30 (C)	Carlos L-Sanjuan: Too few to be relevant: major merger statistics in 0 < z < 1
5.15-6.45	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 2 - 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	Emanuel Daddi: The molecular gas reservoirs of large disk galaxies at z=1.5
2.30-3.00	John Kormendy: Structure and evolution of elliptical and spheroidal galaxies
3.00-3.30	Christopher Conselice: Galaxy structures and the merger rate to z ~ 3 in the HUDF
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
5.00-5.15 (C)	Shy Genel: Mergers and Mass Accretion Rates in Galaxy Assembly: The Millennium Simulation Compared to Observations of z~2 Galaxies
5.15-5.30 (C)	Rosalind Skelton: The effect of dry merging on galaxy evolution
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 3) 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: 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	David Alexander: The Obscured growth of black holes in distant massive galaxies
2.30-3.00	Gregory Shields: Black hole-bulge relationship for QSOs at high redshift
3.00-3.15 (C)	Lei Hao: Bars Central Starbursts and AGN -- A Quantitative Reexamination
3.15-3.30 (C)	Jesper Rasmussen: The environmental impact of galaxy evolution: Tracing AGN and supernova feedback through cosmic time
3.30-4.00	Coffee Break + Poster Viewing
4.00-5.00	Julio Navarro: 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)