GALAXY MERGERS

an EARA Workshop

January 22 - 23, 2001
at the Instituto de Astrofísica Canarias

 

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Monday, 22 January
 
 PROGRAM (updated 12/01/01)
09:30           Welcome 

Overview
 
09:45          Rachel Somerville (IOA)  Theoretical implications of mergers

Observational Diagnostics
 
10:15          Linda Sparke  (Wisconsin) Polar rings (review) 
10:45          Juan Carlos Vega (IAC)  Gas and stellar peculiar kinematics in bulges
11:15          Nicola Caon (IAC)  Peculiar kinematics of gas-rich ellipticals

11:45                  Coffee Break 
 
 
12:15          Ben Metcalfe (IoA) On constraining the number of dark satellite galaxies using strong gravitational lenses
12:45          Hans Deeg (IAC)  Survey of tidal dwarfs
13:15          Begoña García Lorenzo (ING) Stellar and Ionized Gas Kinematics in the Interacting Seyfert 1.9 Galaxy NGC 2992

13:45                   Lunch Break 
 
15:30          Philip Kendall (IoA)  Infall of a gas-rich satellite onto an elliptical
16:00          David Carter (Liverpool-JMU) Shell galaxies
16:30          Marc Balcells (IAC)  Neutral hydrogen in shell galaxies
17:00          Alfonso L. Aguerri (Basel)  The Virgo ICM PN Survey

17:30                  Coffee Break 
 
 
Milky Way  
18:00          Amina Helmi (MPA)  Substructure in the halo and the Sagittarius dwarf
18:30          Antonio Aparicio (IAC) Dwarf Spheroidal tidal tails: Draco, Ursa Minor, and the Sagittarius northern stream
19:00          P. Hammersley (GTC)/
                    M. López-Corredoira (IAC)
The Milky Way bar and bulge from NIR photometric surveys
19:30          End of Monday sessions    
20:30                       Dinner     
 
Tuesday, 23 January
 
Merger rate, merger cross sections
09:00          Gary Mamon (IAP)  Galaxy merger rates in groups and clusters
09:30          Hugues Mathis (MPA)  A model for the merging history of the Local Universe

Mergers and the Hubble sequence
 
10:00         Marc Balcells (IAC)  Growth of bulges and thick disks by minor mergers 
10:30          César González (Groningen)  E-E mergers and the Fundamental Plane
11:00          Peter Erwin (IAC)  Bars, double bars. Bar/bulge diagnostics
11:30                     Cofee Break

Merging at high redshift
12:00          Rachel Somerville (IOA)  Hydrodynamic simulations of starbursts in galaxy mergers at low and high redshifts
12:30          Casiana Munoz-Tuñón  (IAC) Nuclear starburst hydrodynamics
13:00          Andrew Bunker (IoA) Galaxies at high redshifts: morphologies, mergers and mysteries
13:30          Dario Fadda (IAC)  Bright starburst at z=1-1.5

14:00                      Lunch 
 
16:00          Lexi Moustakas (Oxford)  Spatial clustering of EROs: constraints on the formation and evolution of early type galaxies
16:30          Inti Pelupessy (Leiden) Collisions of Galaxies in the Early Universe
17:00          Héctor Flores (Saclai) Sampling galaxy formation using multi-wavelength surveys
17:30              Closing discussion
18:00              End of Workshop
 

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