Programme
Monday, 11th May
19:00 - 20:30 Welcome reception at the Mercure Hotel
Tuesday, 12th May
SECTION I: Galaxy formation in a LCDM Universe: the formation of discs and spheroids
09:30 - 10:05 Cattaneo: Open problems in galaxy formation
10:05 - 10:40 Bower: The flip-side of galaxy formation
Coffee
11:10 - 10:45 Katz: Dichotomies of galaxy formation
11:45 - 12:20 Dekel: Galaxy formation at high redshift driven by cold streams
12:20 - 12:40 Ceverino: Fragmentation of galactic disks and formation of compact spheroids at high redshift in cosmological simulations
Lunch
14:30 - 14:50 Bourneaud: Disc and spheroid formation in the cosmological context
14:50 - 15:25 Teyssier: Gas accretion and disc formation
15:25 - 15:45 Scannapieco: The formation of galactic discs in a LCDM universe
15:45 - 16:05 Piontek: A systematic study of feedback physics in disc galaxy formation
Tea
16:35 - 16:55 Sales: The mass and angular momentum of simulated galaxies
16:55 - 17:15 Nipoti: Is the galactic hot gas thermally unstable?
17:15 - 17:45 Discussion
Wednesday, 13th May
SECTION II: Galaxy formation in a LCDM Universe: substructures
09:30 - 10:05 Klypin: Dwarf galaxies and satellites
10:05 - 10:25 Kazantzidis: Cold-dark-matter substructure and galactic discs
10:25 - 10:45 Maccio': Properties of Milky Way satellites in the LCDM universe
Coffee
11:15 - 11:35 Tikhonov: Dwarf galaxies in the Local Volume: the LCDM overabundance problem
11:35 - 11:55 Gottloeber: Warm dark matter: a possible solution to the overabundance of dwarfs in the local Universe?
11:55 - 12:30 Steinmetz: How massive is the Milky Way?
12:30 - 12:50 Forero: The Milky Way from a semi-analytic point of view
Lunch
14:30 - 15:00 Discussion
SECTION III: Observations of the formation and mass assembly of galaxies: from the high redshift Universe to local clusters
15:00 - 15:35 Genzel: Secular Galaxy Evolution and Bulge Formation at z~2
15:35 - 15:55 Santini: How do galaxies accrete their mass? Star-forming and quiescent galaxies at high redshift
Tea
16:25 - 17:00 Le Fevre: VVDS ultradeep results
17:00 - 17:20 Tresse: SFR and mass assembly derived from deep surveys
17:20 - 17:40 Contini: Probing the dynamics and mass assembly of high-redshift galaxies with MASSIV
17:40 - 18:00 Mori: Evolution of Lyman-alpha Emitters, Lyman-break Galaxies and Elliptical Galaxies
Thursday, 14th May
09:30 - 09:50 Epinat: Evidence for strong dynamic evolution in disk galaxies through the last 11 Gyr from the GHASP local sample
09:50 - 10:25 Mei: Evolution of the colour - magnitude relation since z~1
10:25 - 11:00 Nandra: Constraints on the AGN/galaxy co-evolution from the AEGIS survey
Coffee
11:30 - 11:50 Weinmann: The evolution of galaxies in clusters
11:50 - 12:10 Smith Castelli: Open questions in the Antlia cluster
12:10 - 12:40 Discussion
19:30 Conference Dinner at the restaurant Il Teatro
Friday, 15th May
SECTION IV: Giant ellipticals and clusters
09:30 - 10:05 Ostriker: The formation of elliptical galaxies as a two-stage process
10:05 - 10:25 Naab: The cosmological formation of elliptical galaxies
10:25 - 10:45 Johansson: Gravitational heating helps make massive galaxies red and dead
Coffee
11:15 - 11:35 Thomas: The puzzling formation history of early type galaxies
11:35 - 12:10 Babul: Modelling jet/wind outflows from AGN
12:10 - 12:30 Dettmar: Stellar feedback by cosmic-ray driven galactic winds
Lunch
14:25 - 15:00 Maraston: Stellar evolution and galaxy formation
15:00 - 15:20 Tonini: The first galaxy formation model including the TP-AGB stellar phase: basic revision of the mass vs. luminosity relation
15:20 - 15:55 Devriendt: Downsizing of DM haloes and the problem of Alpha/Fe enhancement of elliptical galaxies
Tea
16:25 - 16:45 Dubois:Cosmological magnetic fields within galaxy formation
16:45 - 17:15 Discussion
