Galaxy Formation, An International Conference, Durham, UK, 18-22 July 2011

ORAL PRESENTATIONS

• Monday, 18 July
• Tuesday, 19 July
• Wednesday, 20 July
• Thursday, 21 July
• Friday, 22 July

MONDAY, 18 JULY

Welcome and Introduction

VC Higgins	Opening remarks \| PDF
Frenk	Conference introduction \| PDF

Plenary Session: Galaxy Formation Across Cosmic Time

Kennicutt	Galaxy-wide star formation processes \| PDF
White	The formation and evolution of the galaxy population \| PDF
Kauffmann	Clues to galaxy formation from local populations \| PDF
Lilly	Late galaxy evolution (z<2) \| PDF
Elbaz	Star formation at intermediate redshift \| PDF
Schaye	SPH simulations of the formation and evolution of galaxies \| PDF

Parallel Session 1: Galactic Structure and Evolution

Ellison	Gas flows in galaxies: mergers versus bars \| PDF
Sanchez-Blazquez	Quantifying the mixing due to bars \| PDF
Aragon-Salamanca	Transforming spirals into S0s \| PDF
Pontzen	Flattening dark matter cusps with supernova feedback: a physical model \| PDF
Weijmans	Mapping dark and stellar haloes with integral-field spectrography \| PDF
Primack	The Bolshoi cosmological simulations and their implications \| PDF
Hudson	Galaxy evolution from weak lensing with CFHTLenS \| PDF
Padilla	Clustering and number density selection of high-z galaxy descendants \| PDF
Vazdekis	Alpha-enhanced stellar populations models for studying massive galaxies \| PDF

Parallel Session 2: Mass Assembly and Galaxy Growth

Robotham	The GAMA Galaxy Group Catalogue: Probing the Universe one halo at a time \| PDF
Peng	The simplicity of galaxy evolution and the environment quenching in SDSS \| PDF
Tinker	Are galaxy growth and halo growth correlated? \| PDF
Loveday	Galaxy luminosity function: dependence on halo mass \| PDF
Guo	Environmental dependence on Herschel-ATLAS galaxies \| PDF
Vulcani	The evolution of the galaxy mass assembly and star formation activity from z=1 to z=0 as a function of environment \| PDF
Tal	Mass growth and mergers: direct observations of the luminosity function of LRG satellites out to z=0.7 \| PDF
Franx	The emergence of the red sequence \| PDF
Gilbank	From dwarfs to giants: the history of star formation since z~1 \| PDF

TUESDAY, 19 JULY

Plenary Session: Local Group and Local Galaxies

Helmi	Clues to galaxy formation from the Milky Way and Local Group perspective \| PDF
Frenk	The satellites of the Milky Way as a probe of the nature of dark matter \| PDF
Rix	Dissecting the Milky Way’s stellar disks \| PDF
Combes	Secular evolution of galaxies \| PDF

Parallel Session 1: Local Group

Cooper	Galactic stellar haloes in the CDM model \| PDF
Martinez Delgado	Stellar tidal streams in nearby galaxies: mapping the minor merger rate in the local Universe with small telescopes
D'Onghia	Substructure depletion in the Milky Way halo by the disk
Kobayashi	Chemodynamical simulations of the Milky Way Galaxy \| PDF
Besla	The implications of a first infall scenario on the star formation histories and kinematics of the Magellanic Clouds \| PDF
Okamoto	The stellar populations of ultra faint dwarf galaxies \| PDF
N. Martin	Insights on the Andromeda satellite system: a deep view of the faintest of galaxies and what they can tell us about their host \| PDF
Penarrubia	Measuring the distribution of dark matter in dwarf spheroidal galaxies \| PDF
Kuzio de Naray	LSB galaxies and their dark matter halos \| PDF

Parallel Session 2: Star Formation and Gas

Verheijen	Gas in galaxies - an HI perspective \| PDF
Catinella	Cold gas in massive galaxies: Results from the GALEX Arecibo SDSS Survey \| PDF
Saintonge	The non-universality of the molecular gas depletion timescale in massive galaxies \| PDF
Geach	The evolution of the molecular gas fraction of star-forming galaxies \| PDF
Lagos	Cosmic evolution of star formation and the gas content of galaxies \| PDF
Cortese	The role of the cluster environment on the star formation cycle of galaxies \| PDF
Rawle	Exploring star formation in clusters with the Herschel Space Observatory \| PDF
Tran	Star Formation in galaxy clusters over the past 10 billion years \| PDF
Lotz	Caught in the act - the assembly of massive cluster galaxies at z=1.62 \| PDF

WEDNESDAY, 20 JULY

Plenary Session: Galaxy Evolution and Feedback

Mayer	SPH simulations of the formation of individual galaxies \| PDF
Genzel	The middle ages of galaxy evolution (z=2-3) \| PDF
Tacconi	Atomic and molecular gas in galaxies \| PDF
Weinberg	Connecting galaxies to dark matter halos: HOD, CLF, SHAM, and all that \| PDF
McNamara	Supermassive black holes and mechanical feedback \| PDF
McCarthy	The intracluster/intragroup medium \| PDF

Parallel Session 1: Structure of Early-Type Galaxies

Colless	Structure, dynamics and stellar populations in early-type galaxies \| PDF
Emsellem	The stellar angular momentum of nearby early-type galaxies: a paradigm shift \| PDF
Cappellari	A new look at galaxy scaling relations \| PDF
Vegetti	Quantifying mass substructure in early-type galaxies \| PDF

Parallel Session 2: Cosmological Growth of Disk Galaxies

Sales	The rise and fall of disks in cosmological simulations \| PDF
MacArthur	Spiral galaxy formation based on detailed spectroscopic studies \| PDF
Miller	The assembly history of disk galaxies: Evolution in the Tully-Fisher relation to z~1.3 \| PDF
van der Wel	The majority of compact massive galaxies at z~2 are disk dominated \| PDF

THURSDAY, 21 JULY

Plenary Session: Flows In and Out of Galaxies

C. Martin	Gas outflow and inflow in z < 1.5 galaxies \| PDF
Steidel	Gas-phase outflows and accretion during the peak epoch of galaxy formation \| PDF
Prochaska	The IGM-galaxy connection \| PDF
Dave	The metal enrichment of the intergalactic medium \| PDF

Parallel Session 1: Evolution of Star-Forming Galaxies from the Peak Epoch

Lacey	A unified model of galaxy evolution in the IR and UV \| PDF
van de Voort	What's causing the drop in the cosmic star formation rate below redshift 2? \| PDF
Thomas	The Millennium Gas Simulation \| PDF
Wardlow	A detailed study of infrared-luminous galaxies at high redshift \| PDF
Kodama	MAHALO-Subaru: Mapping star-formation at the peak epoch of galaxy formation \| PDF
Glazebrook	Turbulence and star-formation - chicken or egg? \| PDF
Forster Schreiber	The growth of galaxies at z ~ 2: Insights from resolved kinematics, morphologies, star formation, and metallicities \| PDF
van Dokkum	3D-HST: a large spectroscopic survey of the z=1-3 Universe with HST \| PDF
Cresci	AMAZE and LSD: Metallicity evolution of galaxies in the early Universe \| PDF

Parallel Session 2: Gas in Galaxies and Halos

Rudie	Mapping the circumgalactic medium of high-redshift galaxies
Haehnelt	Probing galactic winds from DLA/LLS host galaxies with spatially extended Lyman-alpha emission \| PDF
Oppenheimer	How outflows feed galaxy growth \| PDF
Prescott	Caught in the Cosmic Web: Testing theoretical models of giant Lya nebulae \| PDF
Crain	Theoretical and observational insight into the hot side of galaxy formation \| PDF
Sarzi	The origin of the X-ray halos of early-type galaxies \| PDF
Fanidakis	Unravelling the properties of active galaxies in hierarchical cosmologies \| PDF
Kocevski	Investigating the AGN - merger connection at z~2 with CANDELS \| PDF
Novak	Black hole fueling and AGN feedback: Toward a deeper physical understanding \| PDF

FRIDAY, 22 JULY

Plenary Session: Black Holes and the High-z Frontier

Heckman	The galaxy-AGN connection in the local Universe \| PDF
Alexander	AGN in the distant galaxy population \| PDF
Hopkins	The role of mergers and AGN in the form & evolution of the galaxy population \| PDF
Mortlock	The discovery of a luminous redshift 7.1 quasar \| PDF
Abel	The first stars and black holes \| PDF
Bouwens	The first galaxies (z>5) \| PDF

Parallel Session 1: The First Galaxies

Wise	From the first stars to dwarf galaxies \| PDF
Dunlop	Galaxies at z = 6 - 10, and cosmic reionization \| PDF
Papovich	The star formation histories of distant galaxies and implications for gas accretion \| PDF

Parallel Session 2: Black Hole-Galaxy Co-Evolution

Mullaney	The Herschel-GOODS view of the build up of SMBH and galaxy mass since z~3 \| PDF
Bennert	The black-hole mass scaling relations of active galaxies: From the local Universe out to a lookback time of 10 Gyrs \| PDF
Schawinski	HST-WFC3/IR reveals the z~2 Universe: secular black hole growth and first glimpses of seed black holes \| PDF

Conference Summary

Conroy, Ellison, Hickox

Conference Summary | PDF