Back to the Galaxy II (Conference)Coordinators: Andrew Benson, Juna Kollmeier, Matthias SteinmetzScientific Advisors: Leo Blitz, James Bullock, Andrea Ghez, Andrew Gould, Amina Helmi, Piero Madau, Francesca Matteucci, Rosemary WyseSeptember 29, 2008 - October 3, 2008 |
Monday, September 29, 2008 |
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State of the Union
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| 8:50am | David Gross (KITP Director) |
Welcome |
| 9:00am | Scott Tremaine (IAS) |
A Pessimists View of Galactic Structure II |
| 9:45am | Jason Tumlinson (STScI) |
Galactic Archaeology, JWST, During the Epoch of First Light [abstract] |
| 10:30am | MORNING BREAK | |
| 11:00am | Matthias Steinmetz (AIP) |
Galactic Archeology in the Era of Mega Surveys [abstract] |
| 11:45am | Jelte de Jong (MPIA) |
A New Sparse Map of the Outer Disk of the Milky Way [abstract] |
| 12:30pm | LUNCH | |
Stellar Dynamics
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| 2:00pm | Rosemary Wyse (JHU) |
Stellar Populations in the Galaxy and What Their Properties Tell Us |
| 2:45pm | Amina Helmi (Univ. Gronigen) |
The Galaxy, Its Stellar Halo and Its Satellites: Insights from a Hybrid Approach [abstract] |
| 3:30pm | AFTERNOON BREAK | |
| 4:00pm | Chris Brook (Univ. Washington) |
Bulgeless Disks in Hydrodynamic Cosmological Simulations [abstract] |
| 4:45pm | Puragra Guhathakurta (UCSC) |
The Extended Stellar Halo of the Andromeda Spiral Galaxy and its Dwarf Satellites: Results from the SPLASH Survey [abstract] |
| 5:30pm | SHUTTLE TO BWSCI | |
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Tuesday, September 30, 2008 |
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ISM
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| 9:00am | Leo Blitz (UC Berkeley) |
Neutral Gas in the Milky Way: Some Things We've Learned (and Some We'd Still Like to Know) [abstract] |
| 9:45am | Martin Weinberg (UMass) |
Warps and Wiggles: The History of the Milky Way as Revealed by Gas |
| 10:30am | MORNING BREAK | |
| 11:00am | Brant Robertson (Univ. Chicago, KIPC) |
Dying Embers: Gas Consumption in the Milky Way [abstract] |
| 11:45am | Mark Krumholz (UCSC) |
The Secret Lives of Molecular Clouds [abstract] |
| 12:30pm | LUNCH BREAK | |
Abundances
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| 2:00pm | Francesca Matteucci (Trieste Obs.) |
Modelling the Chemical Evolution of the Milky Way [abstract] |
| 2:45pm | R. Michael Rich (UCLA) |
The Bulge Radial Velocity Assay |
| 3:30pm | AFTERNOON BREAK | |
| 4:00pm | Judy Cohen (Caltech) |
The Galactic Halo as seen by the Hamburg/ESO Survey [abstract] |
| 4:45pm | Heather Morrison (Case) |
Are the Most Metal Poor Stars also the First Stars? [abstract] |
| 5:30pm | Andreas Koch (UCLA/OCIW) |
Small-Scale Chemical Evolution in Small-Scale Dwarf Spheroidals |
| 6:15pm | RECEPTION | KITP Courtyard |
| 7:00pm | SPECIAL EVENTS DINNER | |
| 8:30pm | SHUTTLE TO BWSCI | |
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Wednesday, October 01, 2008 |
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The Neighbors
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| 9:00am | Oleg Gnedin (Univ. Michigan) |
Star Formation Histories of Dwarf Satellite Galaxies: Models and Observations [abstract] |
| 9:45am | Marla Geha (Yale) |
Properties of the Ultra-Faint Milky Way dSphs |
| 10:30am | MORNING BREAK | |
| 11:00am | Josh Simon (Caltech) |
Chemical Abundances in the Least Evolved Dwarf Galaxies [abstract] |
| 11:45am | Martin Smith (Univ. Cambridge) |
Finding Fossils on our Doorstep - Using the Milky Way as a Testbed for Galaxy Formation [abstract] |
| 12:30pm | LUNCH BREAK | |
| 2:00pm | FREE AFTERNOON | Shuttle to Las Cumbres Observatory tour Shuttle from LCOGT to KITP and BWSCI 3:30pm |
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Thursday, October 02, 2008 |
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Galactic Structure: Smooth and Clumpy
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| 9:00am | Kathryn Johnston (Columbia) |
Modeling the Milky Way in a Hierarchical Universe |
| 9:45am | James Bullock (UC Irvine) |
Dwarf Galaxies: How Dark and How Many? |
| 10:30am | MORNING BREAK | |
| 11:00am | Piero Madau (UCSC) |
The Via Lactea Project: A Glimpse into the Invisible World of Dark Matter |
| 11:20am | Mike Kuhlen (IAS) |
The Gamma-ray Signal from Galactic Dark Matter Substructure [abstract] |
| 11:45am | Carlos Frenk (Durham) |
A Blueprint for Detecting Supersymmetric Dark Matter Particles in the Galactic Halo [abstract] |
| 12:05pm | Julio Navarro (Victoria) |
The Innermost Structure of Dark Matter Halos |
| 12:30pm | LUNCH BREAK | |
Surveys
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| 2:00pm | Heidi-Jo Newberg (RPI) |
Galactic Structure from SEGUE and LAMOST |
| 2:45pm | Mario Juric (IAS) |
The SDSS View of the Milky Way: Mapping the Density, Metallicity and Kinematics of the Galaxy [abstract] |
| 3:30pm | AFTERNOON BREAK | |
| 4:00pm | Scientific Highlights (Various Speakers) |
Session Chair: Joss Bland-Hawthorn (Univ. Sydney) |
| 5:30pm | RECEPTION | KITP Courtyard |
| 6:30pm | SPECIAL EVENTS DINNER | |
| 8:30pm | SHUTTLE TO BWSCI | |
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Friday, October 03, 2008 |
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Hot Topics
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| 9:00am | Andrea Ghez (UCLA) |
The Galactic Center |
| 9:45am | Warren Brown (Harvard, CfA) |
Probing the Milky Way with Hypervelocity Stars |
| 10:30am | MORNING BREAK | |
| 11:00am | Bernard Sadoulet (UC Berkeley) |
The Direct Detection of Dark Matter |
| 11:45am | James Binney (Univ. Oxford) |
An Introduction to Torus Dynamics as a Way of Modelling the Milky Way |
| 12:30pm | LUNCH BREAK | |
Afternoon Session Chair: Matthias Steinmetz (AIP)
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| 2:00pm | Andrew Gould (OSU) |
Microlensing: A Probe of the Galactic Planet Distribution |
| 2:45pm | Hans-Walter Rix (MPIA) |
Back to the Main Point: Is Studying the Milky Way Just Fun, or Important to Rest of Astrophysics? |
| 3:30pm | CONFERENCE END | Shuttle Available to BWSCI, SB Airport, SB Airbus *See Jocelyn to Sign Up |
ABSTRACTS/POSTER PRESENTATIONS |
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| Julio Chaname (STScI) |
Dark Matter in Local Group Dwarf Elliptical Galaxies [abstract] | |
| Jun-Hwan Choi (UNLV) |
The Dynamics of Satellite Disruptions in Cold Dark Matter Halo [abstract] | |
| Edoardo Colavitti (Univ. Trieste) |
Constraints on the Gas Accretion history of the Milky Way from Chemical Abundances [abstract] | |
| Andrew Cooper (Durham) |
Building the Milky Way Halo with Aquarius [abstract] | |
| Michiko Fuji (CfCA, Tokyo) |
Trojan Stars in the Galactic Center [abstract] | |
| Facundo Gomez (Kaptyen Inst.) |
Identifying Substructure through Orbital Frequencies | |
| Jana Grcevich (Univ. Michigan) |
HI in Local Group Dwarfs and Stripping by the Galactic Halo [abstract] | |
| Jennifer Johnson (Ohio State) |
New Perspective on the Bulge from Observations of Microlensed Dwarf Stars [abstract] | |
| Rainer Klement (MPIA) |
Discovery of New Kinematic Stellar Streams in the Solar Neighborhood [abstract] | |
| Sergey Koposov (MPIA) |
A Quantitative Explanation of the Observed Population of Milky Way Satellite Galaxies [abstract] | |
| Claire Lackner (Princeton) |
Phase Space Clumps as Probes of Milky Way Mergers: Chemical Compositions of Newly Discovered Low-Alpha Stars [abstract] | |
| Douglas Marshall (Univ. Laval) |
Distribution and Characteristics of Infrared Dark Clouds using Genetic Forward Modelling [abstract] | |
| Paul McMillian (Univ. of Oxford) |
Disassembling the Galaxy [abstract] | |
| Martin Niederste-Ostholt (Univ. Cambridge) |
Investigation of Possible Extra-Tidal Stars around Segue 1 [abstract] | |
| Annie Robin (Inst. Utinam) |
New Results on the Galactic Warp from a Stellar Population Synthesis Model [abstract] | |
| Rok Roskar (Univ. Washington) |
Implications of Stellar Migration for the Properties of Galactic Disks [abstract] | |
| Laura Sales (KAI) |
Disk Galaxies at z=2 in the OWLS Simulations | |
| Kevin Schlaufman (UCSC) |
Cold Inner-Halo Substructure in the SEGUE Radial Velocity Database [abstract] | |
| Sanjib Sharma (Columbia) |
Group Finding in Multi-Dimensional Data-Sets: Method and Application to Galactic Archeology [abstract] | |
| Tammy Smecker-Hane (UC Irvine) |
A Rapid Start to Star Formation in the Leo I dSph Galaxy [abstract] | |
| Erik Tollerud (UC Irvine) |
Hundreds of Milky Way Satellites? [abstract] | |
| Joseph Wolf (UC Irvine) |
Mass Models of M31 Satellites [abstract] | |
| Simone Zaggia (INAF, Italy) |
The Outer Galactic Halo in the Direction of the Chandra Deep Field South [abstract] | |
| Adi Zolotov (NYU) |
The Dual Origin of a Simulated Milky Way Halo [abstract] | |
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