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Sunday 16
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17:00 - 19:00 Registration and Welcome Reception at ETH Main Building
Monday 17
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8:00 - 8:45 Registration
8:45 - 9:00 "Opening remarks and logistics"
Session I: Open Questions on Disk Galaxy Formation [Chair: N. Katz]
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9:00 - 9:30 J. Silk "Challenges in Disk Galaxy Formation"
9:30 - 10:00 J. Navarro "Disk Galaxy Formation in Hierarchical
Universes: Theoretical Issues"
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee & Posters
10:30 - 11:00 A. Burkert "Star Formation in a Turbulent ISM"
Session II: From Molecular Clouds to Stars [Chair: K. Wada]
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11:00 - 11:30 B. Elmegreen "Timescales for Cloud and Star Formation"
11:30 - 12:00 J. Tan "The Physics of the Schmidt-Kennicutt Relation"
12:00 - 12:30 T. Mouschovias "The Role of Magnetic Fields in Star Formation:
Myths vs. Reality"
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
Session II: continues [Chair: R. Kennicutt]
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14:00 - 14:30 P. Kroupa "Integrated Galactic Initial Mass
Functions (IGIMFs) and Implications"
14:30 - 15:00 R. Klein "The Formation of Massive Stars"
15:00 - 15:30 R. Klessen "Modeling Star Cluster Formation"
15:30 - 16:00 A. Nordlund "The IMF of Early Star Formation"
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee & Posters
16:30 - 16:50 S. Dib "The Properties of Clumps and Cores in
Molecular Clouds"
16:50 - 17:00 I. Iliev "Dynamical HII Region Evolution in Turbulent
Molecular Clouds"
17:00 - 17:10 M. Gritschneder "Ionisation and Triggered Star formation"
17:10 - 17:20 S. Walch "Formation and Evolution of Protostellar Disks
around Low-Mass Stars"
17:20 - 17:30 T. Hayfield “Modelling Turbulence in Molecular Clouds
with SPH"
17:30 - 18:30 Discussion led by J. Silk
Tuesday 18
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Session III: From Disk Galaxies to Molecular Clouds [Chair: B. Elmegreen]
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9:00 - 9:30 R. Kennicutt "Star Formation Rates:
Recipes and Physical Insights"
9:30 - 10:00 A. Leroy "Results from The HI Nearby Galaxy Survey"
10:00 - 10:20 P. Papadopoulos “Tracing the H2 Gas Phases in Galaxies:
an Observational Update”
10:20 - 10:30 P. Saha “Using Lensing to Constrain the IMF”
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee & Posters
11:00 - 11:30 K. Wada "Modeling 3-D ISM in Galactic Disks using
Grid and Particle-Based Simulations"
11:30 - 12:00 C. Dobbs "Galactic-Scale Models of Molecular
Cloud Formation"
12:00 - 12:30 M. De Avillez "Non-Equilibrium Ionization Modeling of the ISM
and the Disk-Halo Interaction in Galaxies"
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
Session III: continues [Chair: T. Mouschovias]
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14:00 - 14:30 A. Slyz “Lessons on ISM Modelling from Kiloparsec
Scale Simulations”
14:30 - 14:50 E. Tasker "Effects of the ISM Model in Global
Galaxy Disc Simulations"
14:50 - 15:10 T. Theuns "Including Molecular Clouds in Simulations
of Galaxy Formation"
15:10 - 15:40 I. Pelupessy "The Molecular Gas Phase in
Dwarf Galaxy Simulations"
15:40 - 16:00 D. Narayanan "The Role of Feedback from Starbursts and AGN
on the Molecular ISM in Galaxies"
16:00-16:30 Coffee & Posters
16:30 - 18:00 Discussion led by A. Burkert
Wednesday 19
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Session IV: Algorithms and General Modeling Issues [Chair: A. Nordlund]
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9:00 - 9:30 V. Springel "Simulating Feedback in Galaxy Formation"
9:30 - 10:00 T. Quinn "Sne Feedback in Galaxy Models"
10:00 - 10:30 R. Teyssier "Star formation in Cosmological Simulations:
from Small to Large Scales"
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee & Posters
11:00 - 11:30 F. Miniati "Algorithms for Stiff Sources and
Cosmic-Ray Hydrodynamics"
11:30 - 12:00 J. Wadsley "SPH Simulations of Star Formation"
12:00 - 12:20 C. Dalla Vecchia “On the Relationship between Schmidt and
Kennicutt-Schmidt Laws"
12:20 - 12:30 B. Jungwiert "Algorithms for Secular Stellar Mass-Loss in
N-body Models of Galaxy Evolution"
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
Session IV: continues [Chair: A. Slyz]
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14:00 - 14:20 M. Hanasz “Molecular Cloud Formation by a Combined
Action of Cooling, Parker and Jeans
Instabilities in Galactic Disks"
14:20 - 14:30 H. Kotarba “Numerical Simulations of Disks, Gravitational
Instabilities and the Amplification of Magnetic
Fields in SPH Codes"
14:30 - 14:40 E. Merlin "Multiphase Description of the Interstellar Medium,
Star Formation, and Energy Feedback"
14:40 - 14:50 P. Monaco "A Sub-Grid Model for Stellar Feedback
in Galaxy Formation"
14:50 - 15:00 M. Giovalli "Different Sub-Grid Star Formation and Feedback
Models in a Tree+SPH Numerical Code"
15:00 - 15:10 O. Agertz "Fundamental Differences Between SPH
and Grid Methods"
15:10 - 15:20 J. Read "SPH: Why Accurate Gradients Matter"
15:20 - 15:30 V. Junk "Kelvin Helmholtz Instability in SPH: Effects of
Viscosity and Surface Tension"
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee & Posters
16:00 - 17:30 Discussion led by R. Klein and N. Katz
19:30 - Social Dinner at Dozentenfoyer and ZuriLive concert
Thursday 20
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Session V: Applications to Galaxy Formation [Chair: J. Navarro]
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9:00 - 9:30 N. Katz "Birth of the Cool"
9:30 - 10:00 A. Dekel “Shutdown of Star Formation in Galaxies"
10:00 - 10:30 F. Governato "The Formation of Disk Galaxies
in a LCDM Cosmology"
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee & Posters
11:00 - 11:30 A. Ferrara "The Wuthering Life of Baryons in Dwarfs Galaxies"
11:30 - 12:00 K. Tassis "Are Galactic Winds Shaping the Properties
of Dwarf Galaxies?"
12:00 - 12:30 R. Dave' "Constraints on Outflows from
Galaxy Formation Simulations"
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
Session V: continues [Chair: R. Teyssier]
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14:00 - 14:30 J. Schaye "First Results from OWLS: the OverWhelmingly
Large Simulations Project"
14:30 - 15:00 G. Yepes "Testing Subgrid Physics Modelling in
Cosmological Simulations of the Local Universe"
15:00 - 15:20 M. Hoeft "Radiative Feedback and Gas Accretion
in Dwarf Galaxies"
15:20 - 15:30 E. Ripamonti "Metal Poor Stars in Dwarf Spheroidals:
Numerical Simulations"
15:30 - 15:50 S. Nayakshin "Extreme Star Formation in the inner parsec
of the Galaxy"
15:50 - 16:00 M. Haas "The Importance of Dust for the Galaxy
Luminosity Function"
16:00 - 16:10 T. Kaufmann "Extended Hot Halos, High-Velocity Clouds and
the Missing Baryon Problem"
16:10 - 16:30 Coffee & Posters
16:30 - 18:00 Discussion led by B. Moore, E. D’Onghia & L. Mayer
Friday 21
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Session VI: Summary and Final Remarks [Chair: C. Dobbs]
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9:30 - 9:50 R. Kennicutt "Star Formation"
9:50 - 10:10 J. Stadel "Algorithms"
10:10 - 10:30 M. Carollo "Galaxy Formation: Observational Perspective"
10:30 - 10:50 G. Lake "Galaxy Formation: Theoretical Perspective"
10:50 - 11:20 Coffee
11:20 - 12:20 Open discussion led by M. Carollo, G. Lake, J. Stadel
12:20 - 12:25 “Closing”](Program_files/shapeimage_2.png)
