Island Universes - Science Program

Monday, July 4, 2005
1. Properties of Stellar Disks Chair: Eline Tolstoy
8:30- 8:45 15 Roelof de Jong Welcome
8:45- 9:25 30+10 Ken Freeman Stellar Disks (Review)
9:25- 9:55 20+10 Daniel Christlein Disentangling Luminosity, Morphology, Star Formation, and Environment in Galaxy Evolution
9:55-10:15 15+ 5 Paul Allen Structural Properties of Disk Galaxies in the Local Universe
10:15-10:50

Coffee / tea
10:50-11:20 20+10 Julianne Dalcanton Observational Constraints on Thick Disks (Invited)
11:20-11:45 17+ 8 Benne Holwerda Opacity of Spiral Galaxy Disks
11:45-12:10 17+ 8 Dave Burstein The Nitrogen Conundra for Old Stellar Populations
12:10-12:30 15+ 5 Bhasker Moorthy Bulges Of Spiral Galaxies: Stellar Populations, Structure And Kinematics



Lunch
2. Kinematics and Dynamics of Disk Galaxies Chair: Renzo Sancisi
2:00- 2:40 30+10 James Binney Kinematics and Dynamics of Disk Galaxies (Review)
2:40- 3:10 20+10 Enrico Corsini On the relation between circular velocity and central velocity dispersion in high and low surface brightness galaxies
3:10- 3:30 15+ 5 Annapurni Subramaniam Counterrotating Core In The LMC: Accretion Or Merger?
3:30- 4:05
  Coffee / tea
4:05- 4:35 20+10 Erwin de Blok Rotation curves and the dark matter distribution in disk galaxies (Invited)
4:35- 5:05 20+10 Marc Verheijen The Disk Mass Project: breaking the disk-halo degeneracy
5:05- 5:25 15+ 5 Mike Disney A Dark Disc Galaxy in the Virgo Cluster Imaged at 21 cm
5:25- 5:45 15+ 5 Roelof de Jong Stellar mass-to-light ratios and rotation curves
 
7:00

Dinner
 
Tuesday, July 5, 2005
3. Bars, Spiral Structure, and Secular Evolution in Disk Galaxies Chair: Stéphane Courteau
8:30- 9:10 30+10 Bruce Elmegreen Bars, Spiral structure, and Secular Evolution in Disk Galaxies (Review)
9:10- 9:40 20+10 Johan Knapen Barred galaxies and galaxy evolution (Invited)
9:40-10:10 20+10 Martin Bureau Three-Dimensional Structure of Bars and Disk/Bulge Secular Evolution
10:10-10:30 20
Poster discussion I
10:30-11:00

Coffee / tea
11:00-11:30 20+10 Jerry Sellwood Disks, bars and halos (Invited)
11:30-12:00 20+10 Lia Athanassoula Existence and properties of a bar in the inner halo of barred galaxies
12:00-12:30 20+10 Jesus Falcon-Barroso On the relation between stars and gas of Sa galaxies in the SAURON survey



Lunch
4. The Outskirts and Environment of Disk Galaxies Chair: Roelof de Jong
2:00- 2:40 30+10 James Bullock Stellar Halos in a Cosmological Context (Review)
2:40- 3:10 20+10 Annette Ferguson The Resolved Stellar Populations in the Outskirts of M31 and M33 (Invited)
3:10- 3:40 20+10 Raja Guhathakurta Properties of M31's Extended Stellar Halo and a Comparison to its Bulge and Disk
3:40- 4:15

Coffee / tea
4:15- 4:45 20+10 Kim Venn A Comparison of the Chemistry of Stars in the Galaxy and the Local Group Dwarfs (Invited)
4:45- 5:15 20+10 Michael Pohlen The outer disks of galaxies: To be or not to be truncated?
5:15- 5:45 20+10 Isabel Pérez Martín Truncation of stellar disks in galaxies at z ~ 1
 
7:00

Dinner
 
Wednesday, July 6, 2005
4. The Outskirts and Environment of Disk Galaxies (continued) Chair: Jacqueline van Gorkom
8:30- 9:00 20+10 Dennis Zaritsky The Outer Banks of Galaxy Disks
9:00- 9:25 17+ 8 Filippo Fraternali Extra-planar gas in spiral galaxies
9:25- 9:50 17+ 8 Ralf-Jürgen Dettmar Gaseous galactic halos and the disk-halo interaction in spiral galaxies
9:50-10:20 20+10 Donald Lynden-Bell Geometrodynamical distances to high velocity cloud streams
10:20-10:50

Coffee / tea
5. Interstellar Matter Chair: Albert Bosma
10:50-11:30 30+10 Mike Dopita Star Formation, Interstellar Physics and the Pan-spectral Energy Distribution of Gas-rich Galaxies (Review)
11:30-12:00 20+10 Michael Regan SINGS Observations of Spiral Galaxies: Evidence for Secular Evolution (Invited)
12:00-12:30 20+10 Lynn Matthews The Molecular ISM of Low Surface Brightness Spiral Galaxies
12:30- 1:00 20+10 Matthew Bershady The Kinematics and Physical Conditions of Warm Ionized Gas in Spiral Disks



Packed lunch
 
7:15 Barbecue at The Beach Pavillion 'De Branding', Midsland aan Zee
 
Thursday, July 7, 2005
6. (Evolution of) Star Formation in Galactic Disks Chair: Debra Elmegreen
8:30- 9:10 30+10 Rob Kennicutt The Multiwavelength View of Star-Forming Disks Revealed (Review)
9:10- 9:40 20+10 Eric Murphy An Initial Look at the FIR-Radio Correlation within Galaxy Disks using Spitzer
9:40-10:10 20+10 João Alves The Origin of the Stellar IMF
10:10-10:35 25
Poster discussion II
10:35-11:10

Coffee / tea
11:10-11:40 20+10 Richard de Grijs Modes of star formation along the Hubble Sequence and beyond (Invited)
11:40-12:10 20+10 Ian Bonnell Spiral shock triggering of star formation
12:10-12:40 20+10 Lisa Kewley The Metallicity History of Disk Galaxies: Evolution between 0<z<3 (Invited)



Lunch
7. Disk Galaxies through Cosmic Time Chair: David Koo
2:00- 2:40 30+10 Bob Abraham Disks at high redshifts: what we see, when do we see it, and what don't we see? (Review)
2:40- 3:10 20+10 Eric Bell Eight billion years of disk galaxy evolution (Invited)
3:10- 3:30 15+ 5 Ignacio Trujillo The size evolution of galaxies since z~3: combining SDSS, GEMS and FIRES
3:30- 4:00

Coffee / tea
4:00- 4:20 15+ 5 Amanda Bauer Specific Star Formation Rates to z=1.5
4:20- 4:50 20+10 Max Pettini Galaxy populations at high redshifts: The connection to today's disk galaxies (Invited)
4:50- 5:10 15+ 5 Martin Zwaan Local Galaxies as Damped Lyman Alpha Analogs
5:10- 5:40 20+10 Mike Fall Damped Lyman-Alpha Systems and Disk Galaxies
 
7:00

Dinner
 
Friday, July 8, 2005
7. Disk Galaxies through Cosmic Time (continued) Chair: David Koo
8:30- 8:55 17+ 8 Nicole Vogt Evolutionary History of Disk Galaxies
8:55- 9:15 15+ 5 Sussan Kassin Rotation Curves of Disk Galaxies at Low and High Redshift
8. Formation Models of Disk Galaxies Chair: Colin Norman
9:15- 9:55 30+10 Joe Silk Analytical models of star formation: from disks to starbursts (Review)
9:55-10:25 20+10 Jesper Sommer-Larsen Recent results on numerical simulations of disk galaxy formation (Invited)
10:25-11:00

Coffee / tea
11:00-11:30 20+10 Chris Brook Thick Disks in CDM cosmology
11:30-12:00 20+10 Fabio Governato The evolution of disk galaxies over cosmic ages: the effects of feedback
Conference Summary
12:00-12:30 20+10 Tim de Zeeuw
12:30-12:35 5 Piet van der Kruit



Lunch

15 September 2005