Discs in Galaxies 2016 - Scientific Programme
REGISTRATION: Monday July 11, 12:00-13:30
Program Overview
- Day 1, Monday July 11
 - Day 2, Tuesday July 12
 - Day 3, Wednesday July 13
 - Day 4, Thursday July 14
 - Day 5, Friday July 15
 
| Day 3, Wednesday July 13th, 2016 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Chair - Linda Tacconi | ||
| 08:30-09:00 | Evolution of High-z Disks: Theoretical perspective | Avishay Dekel (I) | 
| 09:00-09:20 | The fate of giant star-forming clumps DOI 10.5281/zenodo.61545  | 
Robert Feldmann | 
| 09:20-09:40 | Disc assembly as seen by the SIGMA survey DOI 10.5281/zenodo.61600  | 
Susan Kassin | 
| 09:40-10:00 | The build up of low-mass discs revealed by deep MUSE observations | Nicolas Bouché | 
| 10:00-10:30 | Coffee/Tea break | |
| 10:30-11:00 | Discs in Early Quiescent Galaxies  | 
Andrew (Drew) Newman (I) | 
| 11:00-11:20 | The nature of star-forming disc galaxies in proto-clusters  | 
Tadayuki Kodama | 
| 11:20-12:00 | Panel discussion | |
| END of Session II | ||
| 12:00-13:30 | Lunch | |
| Session III - The Milky Way and Local Group | ||
| Chair - Bruce Elmegreen | ||
| 13:30-14:10 | Galaxy Evolution at High Resolution: the New View of the Milky Way's Disc  | 
Jo Bovy (R) | 
| 14:10-14:40 | The Most Detailed View of Astrophysics in a Spiral Disc: Lessons from the Panchromatic Hubble Andromeda Treasury  | 
Julianne Dalcanton (I) | 
| 14:40-15:00 | Morphology & kinematics of neutral hydrogen in the vicinity of z~0 galaxies with Milky Way masses: a study with Illustris simulations DOI 10.5281/zenodo.61599  | 
Guinevere Kauffmann | 
| 15:00-15:20 | New Insight into the History & Evolution of M31's Disc  | 
Edouard Bernard | 
| 15:20-15:50 | Coffee/Tea break | |
| 15:50-16:20 | Chemical abundance distributions in the Milky Way disk and their origin | Maria Bergemann (I) | 
| 16:20-16:40 | 
C, N and α-element abundances determine the formation sequence of the Galactic thin and thick discs DOI 10.5281/zenodo.61547  | 
Gerry Gilmore | 
| 16:40-17:00 | The chemodynamical evolution of the Milky Way disc DOI 10.5281/zenodo.61598  | 
Andreas Just | 
| 17:00 | END of Day 3 | |
| 19:00 | Conference Dinner | |
| Day 4, Thursday July 14th, 2016 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Chair - Eva Schinnerer | ||
| 09:00-09:30 | Satellites of the Milky Way’s Siblings | Risa Wechsler (I) | 
| 09:30-09:50 | Dynamic modelling of the inner Galactic barred disc DOI 10.5281/zenodo.61553  | 
Matthieu Portail | 
| 09:50-10:10 | Action-based dynamical modelling for the Milky Way disc DOI 10.5281/zenodo.61542  | 
Wilma Trick | 
| 10:10-10:30 | Gravitational scattering in the Galactic disc and the old high altitude open clusters DOI 10.5281/zenodo.61558  | 
Bengt Gustafsson | 
| 10:30-11:00 | Coffee/Tea break | |
| 11:00-11:20 | The Milky Way disc in its extragalactic context DOI 10.5281/zenodo.61556  | 
Jeffrey Newman | 
| 11:20-12:00 | Panel discussion | |
| END of Session III | ||
| 12:00-13:30 | Lunch | |
| Session IV - Interfacing Theory with Observations | ||
| Chair - Risa Wechsler (TBC) | ||
| 13:30-14:10 | Disc Galaxies: Building Blocks of the Universe  | 
Richard Bower (R) | 
| 14:10-14:30 | Formation and evolution of Milky Way sized galaxies in high resolution cosmological zoom simulations DOI 10.5281/zenodo.61555  | 
Robert Grand | 
| 14:30-14:50 | Stellar radial migration in discs: quantification of churning & blurring DOI 10.5281/zenodo.61592  | 
Anaelle Hallé | 
| 14:50-15:10 | 
Dissecting disc and bulges with SAMI and Romulus DOI 10.5281/zenodo.61544  | 
Dan Taranu | 
| 15:10-15:40 | Coffee/Tea break | |
| 15:40-16:10 | Disc Dynamics in the Early Universe: instabilities, giant clumps, feedback & outflows  | 
Frédéric Bournaud (I) | 
| 16:10-16:30 | The quiescent growth of galactic discs DOI 10.5281/zenodo.61536  | 
James Binney | 
| 16:30-16:50 | Role of gas in supporting global spiral structure in galaxies  | 
Chanda Jog | 
| 16:50-17:10 | The distribution of atomic hydrogen in simulated galaxies: morphologies, profiles & HI holes DOI 10.5281/zenodo.61528  | 
Yannick Bahe | 
| 17:10-17:40 | Star Formation Regulated by Disc Dynamics  | 
Florent Renaud (I) | 
| 17:40 | END of Day 4 | |
| Day 5, Friday July 15th, 2016 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Chair - James Binney | ||
| 09:00-09:30 | Star formation and feedback in simulated galactic discs | Stefanie (Steffi) Walch (I) | 
| 09:30-09:50 | Using hydro simulations to interpret observed kinematic maps of star-forming galaxies DOI 10.5281/zenodo.61549  | 
Raymond Simons | 
| 09:50-10:10 | Ex-situ discs with Eris and Illustris | Annalisa Pillepich | 
| 10:10-10:30 | Survival of pure disc galaxies over the last 8 billion years DOI 10.5281/zenodo.61551  | 
Sonali Sachdeva | 
| 10:30-11:00 | Coffee/Tea break | |
| 11:00-11:20 | Understanding the baryonic cycle: confronting galaxy physics with the mass-metallicity relation and dust content over cosmic time DOI 10.5281/zenodo.61554  | 
Gergö Popping | 
| 11:20-11:50 | Galactic winds and the angular momentum of simulated disc galaxies  | 
Shy Genel (I) | 
| 11:50 - 12:30 | Concluding Panel Discussion | 
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| 12:30 | END OF CONFERENCE | |
