DEX V Workshop 2008 Programme

Time Speaker Title
Wednesday
3rd September
   
     
11:00 - 11:30   Morning Coffee and Registration
     
11:30 - 12:50   Session 1 (Chair: Dave Alexander)
11:30 - 11:50 Avery Meiksin Properties of luminous red galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
11:50 - 12:10 Rita Tojeiro Exploring the local Universe with VESPA
12:10 - 12:30 Ben Panter Metallicities from the fossil record
12:30 - 12:50 Tim Rawle Stellar population gradients in early-type cluster galaxies with VIMOS IFU
     
12:50 - 14:00   Lunch
     
14:00 - 15:20   Session 2 (Chair: Ben Panter)
14:00 - 14:20 Russell Smith The MMT/Hectospec Survey of Dwarf Galaxies in Coma: Environment, Downsizing and Chemical Evolution  
14:20 - 14:40 Alastair Edge (TBC) Local galaxy clusters
14:40 - 15:00 Carlos Frenk The visibility of substructures in the halo of the Milky Way
15:00 - 15:20 Shaun Cole Formation of the metal-poor halo in Aquarius simulations
     
15:20 - 15:50   Afternoon coffee
     
15:50 - 17:10   Session 3 (Chair: Russell Smith)
15:50 - 16:10 John Peacock The GAMA survey: galaxy and mass assembly
16:10 - 16:30 Angela Mortier Sub-mm observations of a sequence of merging galaxies
16:30 - 16:50 Ray Sharples Origin of S0 Galaxies
     
     
From 19.30   Workshop dinner at Namaste Kathmandu
     
Thursday
4th September
   
     
09:30 - 10:50   Session 4 (Chair: Bret Lehmer)
09:30 - 09:50 Nicholas Rowell   The white dwarf luminosity function from SuperCOSMOS sky survey data
09:50 - 10:10 Dougal Mackey Multiple stellar populations in rich LMC star clusters
10:10 - 10:30 Mike Barker M33 as a Laboratory for Studying Disk Galaxy Evolution
10:30 - 10:50 Chris Evans EAGLE: A multi-IFU, near-IR spectrometer for the E-ELT
     
10:50 - 11:30   Morning coffee
     
11:30 - 12:50   Session 5 (Chair: Philip Best)
11:30 - 11:50 Chris Done Accretion flows and feedback
11:50 - 12:10 Martin Ward Coronal lines in AGN revisited: a new diagnostic of outflows?
12:10 - 12:30 Andy Goulding On a census of AGN activity in the local Universe
12:30 - 12:50 Richard Bower A combined model of galaxy formation and the ICM
     
12:50 - 14:00   Lunch
     
14:00 - 15:20   Session 6 (Chair: Dougal Mackey)
14:00 - 14:20 Jim Geach Distant cluster starbursts as the progenitors of local S0s?
14:20 - 14:40 Eduardo Ibar Disentangling the nature of the sub-mJy radio population
14:40 - 15:00 David Sobral The nature of star-forming galaxies at z=0.84: how much do they differ from local SF galaxies?
15:00 - 15:20 Kristen Coppin Testing the Evolutionary Link Between Submillimetre Galaxies and Quasars
     
15:20 - 17:00   Afternoon coffee and free time for discussion & collaboration
     

Note: Talk schedule is inclusive of question time.

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