MINI-WORKSHOP ON GALAXY FORMATION
UC SANTA CRUZ, ISB-221, August 2-6, 2004
Monday, Aug 2, 11:00-14:30 (chair: Dekel)
ELLIPTICALS
Sandy Faber - Morphology of galaxies in the red sequence (10)
David Koo - Bulge colors at z ~ 0.8: field vs cluster (15)
Nick Konidaris - OII emission in red galaxies (15)
Cristopher Willmer - Luminosity-function evolution (15)
Ben Weiner - Evolution of Tully-Fisher and color bimodality (15)
Lunch on location
MERGERS
Lihwai Lin - Close galaxy pairs (15)
Jennifer Lotz - Characterizing galaxy morphology (20)
TJ Cox - Galaxy merger simulations (25)
Patrik Jonsson - Stars and dust in galaxy merger simulations (20)
Nick Jhirad - Merger remnant properties (10)
18:00 Pizza at ISB plaza
Tuesday, Aug 3, 11:00-14:30 (chair: Primack)
DISK GALAXIES
Drew Phillips/Jason Melbourne - Metallicity & luminosity evolution
of disks (20)
Yuval Birnboim - Shock heating versus cold flows (20)
Avishai Dekel - The origin of the bimodality in galaxy properties (25)
Lunch on location
Doug Lin - Multi-phase galaxy formation (25)
James Bullock - multi-phase galaxy formation (25)
Brant Robertson - Formation of disk galaxies in hydro simulations (20)
Leo Blitz - The role of pressure on star fromation in galaxies (25)
Wednesday, Aug 4, 11:00-14:30 (Chair: Bullock)
DWARF GALAXIES AND STAR CLUSTERS
Josh Simon - Density profiles in dwarf galaxies (20)
Kai Noeske - Star bursts in dwarf galaxies (15)
Jean Brodie - Extragalactic globular clusters (25)
Kenji Bekki - Origin of ultra-compact dwarf galaxies (25)
Lunch on location
Bill Mathews - Absence of dwarf galaxies at high redshift (25)
Alberto Bolatto - Molecular gas and star formation in dwarfs (15)
IGM
Anthony Aguirre - Evolution of metallicity in the IGM (25)
Gabe Prochter - MgII systems at z~2 (15)
17:30 party at Joel's house
Thursday, Aug 5, 11:00-14:30 (Chair: Flores)
CLUSTERS
Andrey Kravtsov - Galaxies in clusters (25)
Risa Wechsler - Clusters in SDSS (25)
Andrew Zentner - Physical modeling of galaxy clustering (25)
Eliot Quataert - Feedback From Momentum-Driven Winds (25)
Lunch on location
BLACK HOLES
Sandy Faber - Cores of galaxies with black holes (25)
Joe Miller - The AGN-galaxy connection (25)
Mike Boylan-Kolchin - Recoiling black holes in galactic centers (15)
Michael Kuhlen - Simulation of the first quasar (15)
Chris Fragile - Simulations of SN feedback in disk galaxies (15)
18:00 Wine & Cheese at ISB plaza
Friday, Aug 6, 11:00-14:30 (Chair: Faber)
DARK HALOS
Joel Primack - Gamma rays and dark matter (25)
Ricardo Flores/Brandon Allgood - Measuring dark-halo shapes (25)
Amr El-Zant - Origin and persistence of density cusps (25)
Lunch on location
Avishai Dekel - Phase-space structure of dark halos (10)
Ben Metcalf - Halo substructure and lensing (25)
HIGH REDSHIFT
Garth Illingworth - Galaxies at z=6-7 (15)
Jason Prochska - Update on Damped Lyman Alpha systems (15)
Concluding Discussion (15)