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Program (still tentative!)

We aim at short talks and lots of discussion during the talks and after them. Note that we have two sessions on Tuesday and Thursday
Monday, August 25, Afternoon: Substructure and Dwarf Galaxies (Chair: Dekel)
2:00-2:25 (25m)
James Bullock (UC Irvine)
A Characteristic Mass Scale for Milky Way Satellite Galaxies
2:25-2:40 (15m)
Erik Tollerud (UC Irvine)
Hundreds of Galactic Satellites? -- Luminosity Bias in the Mily Way
2:40-3:00 (20m)
Juerg Diemand (UC Santa Cruz)
CDM substructure
3:00-3:20 (20m)
Tobias Goerdt (HU Jerusalem)
Cusps, cores and dynamical friction
3:20
break

3:40-4:05 (25m)
Oleg Gnedin (U Michigan)
Formation of globular clusters and dwarf galaxies in the Local Group
4:05-4:20 (15m)
Evan Kirby (UC Santa Cruz)
Building the Metal-Poor Tail of the Milky Way from its Dwarf Satellites
4:20-4:35 (15m)
Kevin Schlaufman (UC Santa Cruz)
The Stellar Accretion History of the Milky Way Through Segue Observations of Halo Substructure
4:35-5:00
discussion

5:30
Pizza in ISB courtyard

Tuesday, August 26, Morning: BH's and AGN's (Chair: Primack)
10:00-10:25 (25m)
Rachel Somerville (STScI)
Update on Semi-Analytic Models of Galaxies, BH's and AGN
10:25-10:45 (20m)
Jackson Debuhj, Eliot Quataert, Chung-Pei Ma (UC Berkeley)
Black hole growth and feedback in galaxy mergers
10:45-11:00 (15m)
Christy Pierce (UC Santa Cruz)
AGN Host Galaxy Morphologies and Implications for the timing of Black Hole growth
11:00-11:15 (15m)
Mark Ammons (UC Santa Cruz)
Discovery of Young Stellar Populations in Strong AGN at z~1
11:15
break

11:40-12:00 (20m)
Amri Wandel (HU Jerusalem)
Spheroid-Black Hole relations in Active Galaxies
12:00-12:20 (20m)
Lexi Moustakas (JPL)
"Gravitational lensing and galactic environments", or "Red-Sequence Assembly Work"
12:20-12:40 (20m)
Aaron Romanowsky (UC Santa Cruz)
Kinematics and dark matter in galaxy halos
12:40-1:00
discussion

1:00
lunch

Tuesday, August 26th, Afternoon: Star Formation (Chair: Faber)
2:00-2:20 (20m)
Kai Noeske (Harvard)
Star formation histories of galaxies: problems of observations and theory, and new approaches
2:20-2:45 (25m)
Risa Wechsler (Stanford)
TBD SF histories via halo abundance matching
2:45-3:05 (20m)
Jenny Graves (UC Santa Cruz)
Dissecting the Red Sequence: Star Formation Histories and Structure of Early Type Galaxies
3:05
break

3:25-3:50 (25m)
Andi Burkert (Munich Obs.)
Puzzling processes in the ISM
3:50-4:10 (20m)
Mark Krumholtz (UC Santa Cruz)
The Atomic to Molecular Transition in Galaxies: A Missing Link in Star Formation
4:10-4:35 (25m)
Paco Prada (IAA Granada)
The SDSS DR6 Luminosity Function of Galaxies
4:35-5:00
discussion

5:30
Dinner at Joel Primack's House

Wednesday, August 26, Morning: Mergers (Chair: Somerville)
10:00-10:20 (20m)
Patrik Jonsson (UC Santa Cruz)
SED evolution of simulated galaxy mergers
10:20-10:40 (20m)
Jennifer Lotz (Arizona)
Morphology and SF tracers from Galaxy Merger Simulations
10:40-11:00 (20m)
Greg Novak (UC Santa Cruz)
Multiple Galaxy Mergers in Cosmological Context
11:00-11:20 (20m)
Sukanya Chakrabarti (Harvard)
The Photometric histories of Galaxies
11:20
break

11:40-11:55 (15m)
Matt Covington (UC Santa Cruz)
Connection between Tully-Fisher and Fundamental Plane
11:55-12:10 (15m)
Antonio J. Cuesta (IAA Granada)
The Mass of Virialized Dark Matter Haloes
12:10-12:25 (15m)
Kyle Stewart (UC Irvine)
Galaxy Merger Histories
12:25-12:40 (15m)
Chris Purcell (UC Irvine)
Mergers and Disk Survival
12:40-1:00
discussion

20:00
Shakespeare Santa Cruz - Bach at Leipzig

Thursday, August 28th, Morning: Gas Accretion (Chair: Dekel)
10:00-10:20 (20m)
Peter Johannson (Munich Obs.)
Gravitational energy input into gas in massive galaxies
10:20-10:35 (15m)
Elad Zinger (HU Jerusalem)
Gravitational heating via gas flows into clusters
10:35-10:50 (15m)
Christian Maulbetsch (MPIA)
Cooling in hydrodynamical simulations and semi-analytic models - a comparison
10:50-11:10 (20m)
Tesla Jeltema (UC Santa Cruz)
X-ray halos of galaxies in groups
11:10
break

11:30-11:55 (25m)
Priya Natarajan (Yale)
Self annihilating dark matter and galaxy formation
11:55-12:15 (20m)
Linda Tacconi (MPE)
High resolution CO observations of z=2 galaxies
12:15-12:35 (20m)
Kristen Shapiro (UC Berkeley)
Broad Ha Emission in High-Redshift Star-Forming Galaxies
12:35-1:00
discussion

1:00
lunch

Thursday, August 28th, Afternoon: Disk Formation (Chair: Primack)
2:00-2:25 (25m)
Avishai Dekel (HU Jerusalem)
Formation of galaxies at high redshift with cold flows
2:25-2:45 (20m)
Dusan Keres (Harvard)
Galaxy buildup by gas accretion
2:45-3:10 (25m)
Tom Quinn (U Washington)
The Formation and Evolution of Disk Galaxies
3:10-3:25 (15m)
Alyson Brooks (U Washington)
The Role of Cold Gas Accretion in the Early Growth of Galaxies
3:25
break
3:45-4:05 (20m)
Thorsten Naab (Munich Obs.)
The formation of massive star forming disks at high redshift
4:05-4:25 (20m)
Tobias Kaufmann (UC Irvine)
Galactic winds, cold clouds and galaxy formation
4:25-4:45 (20m)
Daniel Ceverino (NMSU)
Galaxy outflows "observed" in cosmological simulations
4:45-5:05 (20m)
Aaron Dutton (UC Santa Cruz)
Feedback and Disk Galaxy Scaling Relations
5:05-5:30
discussion

20:00
Shakespeare Santa Cruz - All's Well That Ends Well

Friday, August 29th, Morning: High Redshift (Chair: Faber)
10:00-10:25 (25m)
Art Wolfe (UC San Diego)
Bimodality in Damped Lyman alpha Systems


(If time) Direct Measurement of a magnetic field in a galaxy with z=0.7
10:25-10:45 (20m)
Jeff Cooke (UC Irvine)
The Observed HOD and Close Pair Fraction of Galaxies at z~3
10:45-11:05 (20m)
Rychard Bouwens (UC Santa Cruz)
The shape of the LF determined at z~4-8 from deep HST observations: A puzzle for theory?
11:05
break

11:30-11:55 (25m)
Nick Gnedin (U Chicago)
Escape of Ionizing Radiation from High Redshift Galaxies
11:55-12:15 (20m)
Serena Bertone (UC Santa Cruz)
Mapping the WHIM emission in soft X-rays and UV
12:15-12:30 (15m)
Rudy Gilmore (UC Santa Cruz)
UV background modeling
12:30-1:00
discussion