GH 2001 CONFERENCE SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME

Sunday: Welcome

• 18:00 Registration at Hotel Colonial
• 20:00 Welcome Cocktail at Hotel Colonial

Monday : General properties of discs, dark matter, bulges, evolution

• 08:00-08:45 Registration at Centro de Convenciones

Session Chair : E. Athanassoula

• 08:45-09:15 Opening of the conference
• 09:15-10:00 K.C. Freeman - Optical structure of disks (Review paper)
• 10:00-10:15 M. Pohlen - Radial structures of galactic disks
• 10:15-10:30 I.D. Karachentsev - Global properties of disks from the Flat Galaxy Catalog

• 10:30-11:00 Coffee and poster viewing

• 11:00-11:45 A. Bosma - Dark matter in spiral galaxies (Review paper)
• 11:45-12:00 T. Kranz - On the stellar mass density within spiral galaxy disks
• 12:00-12:15 D. Andersen - The Intrinsic Ellipticity of Spiral Disks
• 12:15-12:30 A.A. El-Zant - The coupling between the Baryonic and dark matter components in galaxies

• 12:30-14:30 Lunch and poster viewing

Session Chair : P. Teuben

• 14:30-14:45 M. Bershady - WIYN Integral-Field Kinematics of Disk Galaxies
• 14:45-15:15 F. Masset - On the spiral Structure of NGC 2915 (Invited paper)
• 15:15-15:30 E. Brinks - Bloated Dwarfs: The Thickness of the HI disks in Irregular Galaxies
• 15:30-16:00 J.S. Young - Global Interstellar Gas Masses and Gas Surface Densities in Spiral Galaxies (Invited paper)

• 16:00-16:30 Tea and poster viewing

• 16:30-17:15 M. Bureau - Structure, kinematics and dynamics of bulges (Review paper)
• 17:15-17:30 M. Balcells - Evolution of galaxy bulges
• 17:30-18:15 R. Abraham - Disc galaxy evolution (Review paper)

Tuesday : Our Galaxy, Bars

Session Chair : L. Sparke

• 09:00-09:45 W. Dehnen - The Milky Way (Review paper)
• 09:45-10:00 A. Just - The local star formation history of the Galaxy
• 10:00-10:15 R. Fux - The 3D structure of the Galactic bulge from the MACHO red clump stars

• 10:15-10:45 Coffee and poster viewing

• 10:45-11:30 E. Athanassoula - Secular evolution of barred galaxies. Theory (Review paper)
• 11:30-11:45 V. Debattista - Bar dynamical friction and disk galaxy dark matter content
• 11:45-12:00 M. Das - Mass Concentration and Bar Dissolution in Spiral Galaxies
• 12:00-12:30 P. Patsis - Morphology of 3D bars (Invited paper)

• 12:30-14:30 Lunch and poster viewing

Session Chair : I. Shlosman

• 14:30-15:15 M. Merrifield - Secular evolution in barred galaxies. Observations (Review paper)
• 15:15-15:45 R. Buta - The Connection between Star Formation and Resonant Dynamics in Early-Type Disk Galaxies (Invited paper)
• 15:45-16:00 I. Puerari - The gravitational torque of bars
• 16:00-16:15 J. Gerssen - Pattern speeds of bars

• 16:15-16:45 Tea and poster viewing

• 16:45-17:30 M. Regan - Gas kinematics in barred and spiral galaxies (Review paper)
• 17:30-18:15 P. Teuben - Velocity Fields of Disk Galaxies (Review paper)

Wednesday : Central regions in galaxies (at INAOE - Tonantzintla)

Session Chair : J. Franco

• 09:00-09:45 I. Shlosman - Dynamical Evolution of Central Kpc in Barred Galaxies (Review paper)
• 09:45-10:15 S. Huettemeister - The properties of the dense interstellar medium in the central regions of starburst and normal galaxies (Invited paper)
• 10:15-10:30 W. Maciejewski - Gas morphology and dynamics in the central kpc: embedded bars and nuclear spirals

• 10:30-11:00 Coffee

• 11:00-11:30 E. Emsellem - Density waves in the central kpc of galaxies: the role of nuclear spirals, bars and m=1 modes (Invited paper)
• 11:30-11:45 K. Sheth - Comparing Molecular Gas and Star Formation Properties in the Central Regions of Barred and Unbarred Spirals
• 11:45-12:00 C.G. Mundell - The Gaseous Properties of Seyfert Host Galaxies
• 12:00-12:15 P. Erwin - Nested Bars, Inner Disks, and Nuclear Rings in Barred Galaxies

• 12:15-13:45 Lunch

• 13:45 Excursion to Cacaxtla

Thursday : Spiral structure problems, magnetic fields

Session Chair : H. Dottori

• 09:00-09:45 J. Sellwood - Recurring, transient spiral patterns and scattering (Review paper)
• 09:45-10:15 C. Hunter - Instabilities and modes of collisionless stellar disks (Invited paper)
• 10:15-10:30 S.L. Berman - Simulations of stellar and gaseous morphologies in spiral galaxies

• 10:30-11:00 Coffee and poster viewing

• 11:00-11:30 P. Grosbol - Spiral Structure observed in the Near-Infrared (Invited paper)
• 11:30-11:45 M. Thomasson - Spiral shapes and mass distribution in five grand design galaxies
• 11:45-12:00 T. Wong - Dynamical influences on star formation in spiral galaxies
• 12:00-12:15 J.H. Knapen - Arm vs. interarm star formation processes in disk galaxies
• 12:15-12:30 N. Shane - Star Formation along the Hubble Sequence: Results from a new Halpha Galaxy Survey

• 12:30-14:30 Lunch and poster viewing

Session Chair : A. Bosma

• 14:30-15:15 R. Beck - Magnetic fields in spiral arms and bars (Review paper)
• 15:15-15:45 J. Franco - Magnetic fields and spiral structure (Invited paper)
• 15:45-16:15 M. Tagger - The role of the magnetic field in the lopsided structures in the Galactic Center region (Invited paper)

• 16:15-16:45 Tea and poster viewing

• 16:45-17:30 L. Sparke - Off-Plane Gas and Galaxy Discs (Review paper)
• 17:30-17:45 E. Schinnerer - The molecular gas distribution in polar ring galaxies

• 17:45-18:15 First poster session : 5 min/poster for 6 selected posters

• 20:00 Conference Dinner at Hotel Camino Real

Friday : disc formation, LMC, minor mergers, panel, summary

Session Chair : M. Merrifield

• 10:00-10:30 M. Fall - Formation of Galactic Disks (Invited paper)
• 10:30-11:00 J. Navarro - Numerical Simulations of Disk Galaxy Formation (Invited paper)
• 11:00-11:30 A. Dekel - Disk Formation in CDM: Crises and Resolutions (Invited paper)
• 11:30-12:00 V. Avila-Reese - Formation and evolution of galactic disks (Invited paper)

• 12:00-12:30 Second poster session : 5 min/poster for 6 selected posters

• 12:30-14:30 Lunch and poster viewing

Session Chair : K.C. Freeman

• 14:30-15:15 H.A. Dottori - Dynamical and chemical evolution of the LMC disk (Review paper)
• 15:15-16:00 R. Ibata - The effect of minor mergers on spiral galaxies (Review paper)
• 16:00-16:45 E. Athanassoula, A. Bosma, K.C. Freeman, J. Navarro, H.-W. Rix, J. Sellwood - Panel discussion on maximum/sub-maximum discs

• 16:45-17:15 Tea and poster viewing

• 17:15-17:45 H.-W. Rix - Summary and future prospects

• 17:45-18:00 Closing the conference