Extreme Star Formation in Dwarf Galaxies

  MCTP workshop, July 27-29, 2009

               PROGRAM

  All talks are 15 minutes + 15 minutes discussion

Sunday July 26

  6:00pm   opening reception in Rackham Building


Monday July 27

  8:30am   breakfast and registration in West Hall

  9:00am   Oleg Gnedin "Outline of the workshop"

  9:10am   Gordon Kane, MCTP Director "Welcome"

    Session: Ultrafaint dwarfs and dark matter substructure
    (chair: Oleg Gnedin)

  9:30am   Daniel Zucker "Faint but not Dull: The Life and Times of the Least Luminous Galaxies"

  10:00am  Andrey Kravtsov "CDM substructure and dwarf galactic satellites"

  10:30am  coffee break

  11:00am  Erik Tollerud "Hundreds of Milky Way Satellites and a new Scaling Relation for all Spheroidal Galaxies"

  11:30am  Stacy McGaugh "Baryonic Tully-Fisher relation"

  12:00pm  Michael Busha "Statistics of the distribution of the Milky Way's massive satellite population"

  12:30pm  lunch

    Session: Structure and kinematics of ultrafaint dwarfs
    (chair: Evan Skillman)

  2:00pm   Josh Simon "The Masses and Metallicities of the Least Luminous Galaxies"

  2:30pm   Gail Gutowski "The Enigmatic Willman 1 Object - Not a Prototype of the Least Luminous Ultra-Faints?"

  3:00pm   Quinn Minor "A method to improve velocity dispersion estimates of dwarf spheroidal galaxies by modeling the binary population"

  3:30pm   coffee break

  4:00pm   Jeff Carlin "Kinematics and Metallicities in the Bootes III Stellar Overdensity: a Disrupted Dwarf Galaxy?"

  4:30pm   Ricardo Munoz "Turning the tides on the new ultra-faint galaxies: Deep photometry of Coma Berenices and Ursa Major II"

  5:00pm   discussion of the day


Tuesday July 28

  8:30am   breakfast in West Hall

    Session: Star formation and dynamics
    (chair: Andrey Kravtsov)

  9:00am   Evan Skillman "Local Cosmology from Isolated Dwarfs"

  9:30am   Oleg Gnedin "Modeling Star Formation and Chemical Evolution in the Local Group dwarfs"

  10:00am  Ayesha Begum "Star formation in extremely faint dwarf galaxies"

  10:30am  coffee break

  11:00am  Matt Walker "The Masses of Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies"

  11:30am  Joe Wolf "Modeling mass independent of anisotropy: A comparison between Andromeda and Milky Way satellites"

  12:00pm  Stacy McGaugh "The core-cusp dilemma"

  12:30pm  lunch

    Session: Modeling star formation in simulations
    (chair: Eric Bell)

  2:30pm   Brian O'Shea "Supercomputers and SEGUE: comparing simulations of galactic chemical evolution to our galactic halo"

  3:00pm   Kostas Tassis "Using cosmological simulations to connect star formation in molecular clouds with observations on galactic scales"

  3:30pm   coffee break

  4:00pm   Greg Stinson "SPH Simulations of Isolated Dwarf Galaxies"

  4:30pm   Sarah Nickerson "Shedding Light on Missing Dark Matter Satellites"

  5:00pm   discussion of the day


Wednesday July 29

  8:30am   breakfast in West Hall

    Session: Lessons from other systems in the Local Group
    (chair: Sally Oey)

  9:00am   Karoline Gilbert "Dwarf Satellites of Andromeda: Past and Present"

  9:30am   Eric Bell "Assembling the Milky Way stellar halo"

  10:00am  Joel Lamb "SMC field O stars: A mode of sparse star formation?"

  10:30am  coffee break

  11:00am  Sasha Muratov "Probing High Redshift Star Formation with Cosmological Simulations - A Prescriptive Treatment"

  11:30am  Janet Colucci "Detailed Chemical Abundances in Local Group Globular Clusters from High Resolution Spectroscopy"

  12:00pm  Ana Matkovic "Ages, Metallicities and Abundances of Dwarf Early-Type Galaxies in the Coma Cluster"

  12:30pm  lunch

    Session: Indirect probes of dark matter substructure

  2:30pm   Marcel Zemp "Dark matter annihilation"

  3:00pm   Katie Freese "Dark Stars"

  3:30pm   coffee break

  4:00pm   panel discussion on future directions

  5:30pm   workshop ends

  7:00pm   conference dinner at The Earle