PROGRAM
SUNDAY 14
8:00 PM at Hotel Camino Real ---- WELCOME COCKTAIL
MONDAY 15
9:00 - 9:30 Opening Ceremony
Morning Session
9:30 - 10:05 Dick Bond: The Cosmic Microwave Background
10:05 - 10:40 Paul Shapiro: Reionization of the Universe and Its Feedback Effect on Galaxy Formation
10:40 - 11:10 Coffee and posters
11:10 - 11:30 Joop Schaye: Constraining reionization using the thermal history of the baryons.
11:30 - 12:05 Greg Bryan: Simulating the Structure of Galaxy Formation
12:05 - 12:25 Enzo Branchini: Measuring Galaxy Biasing Function From PSCz Survey
12:25 - 12:45 Tom Abel: Three dimensional radiative transfer for studying the reionization of the Universe
12:45 - 13:05 Pepe Franco: Photoionized Regions
13:05 - 15:00 Lunch
Afternoon Session
15:00 - 15:20 Enrique Gaztanaga: Large Scale Structure in the weakly non-linear regime.
15:20 - 15:40 Francesco Miniati: Acceleration of Cosmic
Rays at Large Scale Shocks and their Cosmological
Implications for Structure Formation in the Universe.
15:40 - 16:15 Neal Katz: Simulations of galaxy formation in CDM models.
16:15 - 16:35 Adriano Fontana: High z evolution of optically and IR--selected galaxies: a comparison with CDM scenarios.
16:35 - 16:55 Vladimir Avila-Reese: Dark Matter Halos and Disk Galaxy Evolution.
16:55 - 17:40 Coffee and posters
17:00 - 18:00 Robert Braun: Compact HVCs: Galactic Building Blocks in the Current Epoch
18:00 - 18:20 Fabio Governato: The morphological evolution of galaxy satellites.
18:20 - 18:55 Andrea Ferrara: Dust and metal production in the early universe
18:55 - 19:15 Sandra Savaglio: Metallicity evolution and dust properties in the Universe through the study of Damped Lyman--alpha systems
TUESDAY 16
Morning Session
9:00 - 9:35 Alex Lazarian: Magnetic Feedback: The Evolution of Magnetic Fields
9:35 - 10:10 Steve Shore: Feedback Processes, Star Formation, and Galactic Evolution
10:10 - 10:30 Antonio Parravano: The FUV Radiation Field and the Two Phase Structure of the Interstellar Medium.
10:30 - 10:50 Coffee and Posters
10:50 - 11:25 Guillermo Tenorio-Tagle: Superbubles and Galaxy Evolution.
11:25 - 11:45 Nicola Caon: Gaseous and stellar kinematics in gas-rich early-type galaxies.
11:45 - 12:05 Dmitri Pogosyan: Velocity Modification of HI Power Spectrum
12:05 - 12:25 Luc Binette: A Low Metallicity Gas Shell around the radio galaxy 0943-242 at z=2.92
12:25 - 12:45 Xavier Hernandez: Initial angular momentum distribution in forming galaxies and correlations between present day structural parameters
12:45 - 13:05 Shardha Jogee: Making Nuclear Starbursts: Clues from a Molecular Gas Survey
13:05 - 15:00 Lunch
Afternoon Session
15:00 - 15:35 Roberto Terlevich: Chemodynamical Evolution
15:35 - 16:10 Gerhard Hensler: Chemodynamical Evolution of Dwarf Irregular Galaxies and the Effect of Gas Infall
16:10 - 16:30 Horacio Dottori: Dynamical and Chemical Evolution of the LMC
16:30 - 17:10 Coffee and posters
17:10 - 17:30 Simone Recchi: Chemical And Dynamical Evolution In Gas Rich Dwarf Galaxies
17:30 - 18:05 Angeles Diaz: Chemical abundances in star forming regions
18:05 - 18:25 Leticia Carigi: Carbon and oxygen Galactic Abundance Gradients Predicted by Chemical Evolution Models
18:25 - 18:45 Marc Azzopardi: Carbon star luminosity function: a possible test to gauge parent system metalicity.
WEDNESDAY 17
Morning Session
9:00 - 9:35 Jorge Melnick: The IMF of starburst systems
9:35 - 9:55 Alessandro Boselli: The history of star formation in normal late-type galaxies
9:55 - 10:15 Marie Treyer: Star-Formation In the Local Universe
10:15 - 10:35 Francois Legrand: Continuous low star formation rate in dwarf galaxies
10:35 - 10:55 Coffee and posters
10:55 - 11:15 Karen O'Neil: The Morphology, Color and Gas Content of Low Surface Brightness Galaxies
11:15 - 11:35 Lexi Moustakas: Cosmological and Star Formation Constraints Using Infrared-Excess Galaxies
11:35 - 12:10 Jack Sulentic: Induced Star Formation in Compact Groups
12:10 - 12:45 Felix Mirabel: Merger driven galaxies
12:45 - 13:05 Elias Brinks: A Bird's eye View of Ocular Galaxies
THURSDAY 18
Morning Session
9:00 - 9:35 Howard K.C. Yee: Star Formation and Galaxy Environment
9:35 - 9:55 Ignacio Ferreras: Probing The Evolution Of Early-Type Cluster Galaxies Through Chemical Enrichment
9:55 - 10:15 David Schade: Galaxy Evolution: The Cluster-Field Connection
10:15 - 10:35 Alejandro Terlevich: Stellar populations and the colour magnitude relation in Coma.
10:35 - 11:10 Coffee and posters
11:10 - 11:45 Omar Lopez-Cruz: Elliptical galaxies and the Enrichment of the ICM
11:45 - 12:05 Michael Gladders: The Toronto Red-Sequence Cluster Survey: First Results
12:05 - 12:25 Nicola Menci: X-ray Galaxy Clusters and the Cosmic Star Formation Rate
12:25 - 12:45 Mark Voit: Cosmological Constrains from X-ray Cluster Evolution
12:45 - 13:05 Deborah Dultzin-Hacyan: A model to explain periodic & cuasi-periodic X-ray variability in AGN
13:05 - 15:00 Lunch
Afternoon Session
15:00 - 15:35 David Elbaz: ISOCAM Deep Surveys
15:35 - 15:55 Hector Flores: Deep 7 and 15 micron survey:
Spectrophotometry, Morphology and Spectral Energy
Distribution of ISO sources
15:55 - 16:15 Tomasso Treu: Observational constraints on the formation of elliptical galaxies: a NICMOS-optical survey
16:15 - 16:50: Rachel Somerville: Merging in a Hierarchical Universe: Implications for LBGs, AGN, and DLAS
16:50 - 17:20 Coffee and posters
17:20 - 17:55 David Hughes: Submillimetre and Millimetre Wavelength Surveys and the History of Star Formation at High-Redshift
17:55 - 18:15 James Lowenthal: Detailed Characteristics of Starforming Galaxies at z~3
18:15 - 18:35 Gabriela Mallen-Ornelas: Internal Kinematics of Blue Field Galaxies to z=0.7
8:00 PM at Restaurante Meson del Molino --- CONFERENCE DINNER
FRIDAY 19
Morning Session
10:30 - 10:50 Paul Francis: What do High Redshift Galaxy Clusters Look Like?
10:50 - 11:10 Sara Ellison: Metals in the Lyman Alpha Forest.
11:10 - 11:30 Stephanie Cote: Ly alpha absorbers associated with very nearby galaxies
11:30 - 12:10 Coffee and posters
11:10 - 12:45 Susan Lamb: Galaxy Collisions and Star Formation
12:45 - 13:05 Claudia Moeller: Models of Spectral Galaxy Evolution including the Effects of Dust
13:05 - 15:00 Lunch
Afternoon Session
15:00 - 15:20 Jarle Brinchmann: The masses and evolution of galaxies from z=0 to z=1
15:20 - 15:40 Chris Moss: The dependence of tidally-induced circumnuclear starburst emission on cluster density
15:40 - 16:00 Alex Lazarian: Grain alignment and polarization
16:00 - 16:20 Poster presentations
16:20 - 17:45 Coffee and posters
17:45 - 17:30 Panel Discussion