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| Wednesday 6th January |
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| 10:40 - 11:00 | Coffee | |
| 11:00 - 11:05 | Welcome | |
| 11:05 - 12:45 | Session 1: Large Scale Structure and Gravity 1 (Chair: Matthieu Schaller) |
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Marius Cautun | Galactic alignments in EAGLE |
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Alexander Smith | A lightcone catalogue from MXXL |
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Yan-Chuan Cai | Redshift-Space distortions around voids |
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Jiaxin Han | The Milky Way halo mass from steady-state dynamics: shall we expect an accurate measurement? |
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Andrew Robertson | Constraining dark matter self-interaction cross-sections with colliding clusters |
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Michael Wilson | VIPERS: Clipping the wings of non-linear structure |
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Discussion lead by Eric Tittley | |
| 12:45 - 13:30 | Lunch | |
| 13:30 - 15:10 | Session 2: Instrumentation and Stellar Populations (Chair: Ami Choi) |
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Chris Evans | From EAGLE to MOSAIC: an update on plans for a MOS for the E-ELT |
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Tim Morris | Prototyping for the E-ELT: the CANARY tomographic AO system |
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Richard Massey | First flight of the Balloon-borne Imaging Telescope |
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Russell Smith | A non-universal IMF in giant elliptical galaxies? |
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Padraig Alton | The stellar initial mass function: radial variations in early-type galaxies? |
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Lee Patrick | Dynamics of the young massive cluster NGC2100 using KMOS spectra of red supergiant stars |
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Discussion lead by Dave Alexander | |
| 15:10 - 15:35 | Coffee | |
| 15:35 - 16:45 | Session 3: Compact Objects (Chair: Bryan Gillis) |
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David Nisbet | The fundamental plane of black hole activity |
| Alastair Bruce | Ships that pass in the night... | |
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Benjamin Giblin | Inferring the timescales of compact object binary mergers using short gamma-ray bursts |
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Jaime Salcido | Music from the heavens; gravitational waves from SMBH mergers in the EAGLE simulations |
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Discussion lead by Shaun Cole | |
| 16:45 - 16:55 | Short break | |
| 16:55 - 17:40 | Session 4: Feeding and Feedback 1 (Chair: James Simpson) |
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David Rosario | The Herschel perspective on the co-evolution of galaxies and SMBHs |
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Flora Stanley | The SFRs of optically-selected QSOs and the importance of accounting for the FIR AGN contamination |
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Stuart McAlpine | AGN feedback and the connection to star-formation in the EAGLE simulations |
| From 19:00 | Workshop dinner at Finbarrs Restaurant | |
| Thursday 7th January |
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| 09:00 - 10:10 | Session 4 (cont): Feeding and Feedback 1 (Chair: James Simpson) |
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Alastair Edge | Cold gas in cluster cores - fuelling AGN feedback |
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Bitten Gullberg | The mysterious morphology of MRC0943-242 as revealed by ALMA and MUSE |
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Nathan Bourne | Revealing the obscured history of galaxy evolution with SCUBA2-CLS |
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Julie Wardlow | Lensing and Herschel unveil extreme star formation at z>2 |
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Discussion lead by Peder Norberg | |
| 10:10 - 10:35 | Coffee | |
| 10:35 - 12:00 |
Session 5: Census of Galaxies, Quasars and the IGM (Chair: Victoria Bruce) |
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Alice Mortlock | Exploiting the combination of large datasets: the stellar mass and luminosity function |
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Derek McLeod | The z=9-10 galaxy population in the Hubble Frontier Fields and CLASH surveys |
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Joao Ferreira | Emission line galaxies in CANDELS: Hi, [OI] and [OII] equivalent width distributions from panchromatic broad-band photometry from 0 < z < 5 |
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Adam Carnall | Selection of the highest-redshift quasars in optical surveys |
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William Cowley | Blending bias confuses the dark matter halo masses of bright submillimetre galaxies |
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Discussion lead by Andy Taylor | |
| 12:00 - 13:00 |
Lunch | |
| 13:00 - 14:40 | Session 6: Large Scale Structure and Gravity 2 (Chair: Nuala McCullagh) |
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Ami Choi | Cosmology with the RCS Lensing Survey |
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Lee Stothert | Galaxy groups in the PAU survey |
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Wojciech Hellwing | Cosmic velocity fields as probes of the nature of gravity |
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Claudio Llinares | Oscillations in scalar fields - can we use them to detect modified gravity? |
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David Edwards | The phase space of a cosmological scalar field |
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Ruari Mackenzie | The CMB Cold Spot: A Spectroscopic View |
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Discussion lead by Andy Lawrence | |
| 14:40 - 15:05 |
Coffee | |
| 15:05 - 16:20 | Session 7: Feeding and Feedback 2 (Chair: Chris Harrison) |
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Michal Michalowski | Massive stars formed in atomic hydrogen reservoirs |
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Stephanie Bartle | MISSING: Have you seen the photons? |
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James Trayford | Colour by numbers: modelling observables for numerically-simulated galaxies |
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Tim Green | A photometric census of "activity" in brightest cluster galaxies |
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Discussion lead by Catherine Heymans | |
| 16:20 - 16:30 |
Summary and closing remarks | |
Talk lengths are 12mins + 3mins for questions