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Scientific Program
- Day 1
- Monday, 9 July, Morning
- 08:30-09:00 * poster set-up and viewing *
- 09:00-09:10 BÓ?rbel Koribalski - Conference welcome
- 09:10-09:50 Brent Tully (I) - The Local Velocity Anomaly
- 09:50-10:10 RenÓ?e C. Kraan-Korteweg - Outlining the Local Void with the Parkes HI ZOA and Galactic Bulge survey
- 10:10-10:30 Matthew Colless - The context of the Local Volume: structures and motions in the nearby universe
- **Coffee Break**
- 11:00-11:40 Igor Karachentsev (I) - Mining the Local Volume
- 11:40-12:00 Anton Tikhonov - Minivoids in the Local Volume
- 12:00-12:20 Guilhem Lavaux - Using Local Volume data to constrain dark matter dynamics
- 12:20-12:30 * Short Poster Presentations (1 min., 1 slide) *
- Monday, 9 July, Afternoon
- 13:30-14:00 * poster viewing *
- 14:00-14:20 BÓ?rbel Koribalski - The Local Volume HI Survey (LVHIS)
- 14:20-14:35 Nic Bonne - Investigating Dark Matter and MOND in Local Volume Galaxies
- 14:35-14:50 Emma Kirby - Deepest Near-IR Surface Photometry of Galaxies in the Local Sphere of Influence
- 14:50-15:10 Angel R. Lopez-Sanchez - Ionized and neutral gas in the starburst galaxy NGC 5253
- 15:10-15:30 Tom Oosterloo - The low-mass end of the HI mass function
- **Coffee Break**
- 16:00-16:20 Ayesha Begum - FIGGS: Faint Irregular Galaxies GMRT Survey
- 16:20-16:40 Jayaram Chengalur - Gas Rich Galaxies from the FIGGS Survey
- 16:40-17:00 Eric Wilcots - Evolution of the ISM in Star-Forming Galaxies
- 17:00-17:20 Amanda Kepley - Magnetic Fields in Irregular Galaxies
- 17:20-17:40 Lister Staveley-Smith - Future MIRANdA Studies of the Local Volume
- 12:00-12:20 Guilhem Lavaux - Using Local Volume data to constrain dark matter dynamics
- Day 2
- Tuesday, 10 July, Morning
- 08:30-09:00 * poster viewing *
- 09:00-09:20 Daniel Dale - An Ultraviolet-to-Radio Broadband Spectral Atlas of Nearby Galaxies
- 09:20-19:40 Caroline Bot - Diagnostic values of fine structure line emission in galaxies
- 09:40-10:00 Helene Roussel - Warm molecular hydrogen in nearby galaxies: excitation mechanisms and link with dust heating
- 10:00-10:20 Alberto Bolatto - Molecular Gas, Cloud Properties, and Star Formation in Dwarf Galaxies
- 10:20-10:30 * Short Poster Presentations (1 min., 1 slide) *
- **Coffee Break**
- 11:00-11:40 Fabian Walter (I) - The HI Nearby Galaxy Survey (THINGS)
- 11:40-12:00 Frank Bigiel - A THINGS View on Star Formation in Nearby Galaxies
- 12:00-12:30 David Thilker - The GALEX view of ongoing disk formation in the Local Volume
- Tuesday, 10 July, Afternoon
- 13:30-14:00 * poster viewing *
- 14:00-14:40 Julienne Dalcanton (I) - 10 Months of ANGST: The ACS Nearby Galaxy Survey
- 14:40-15:00 Gary S. Da Costa - HST/ACS Observations of Early-Type Dwarfs in Nearby Groups
- 15:00-15:20 Anil Seth - Resolving the Outer Disks and Halos of Nearby Galaxies
- 15:20-15:30 * Short Poster Presentations (1 min., 1 slide) *
- **Coffee Break**
- 16:00-16:40 Evan Skillman (I) - The Recent Star Formation Histories of Nearby Galaxies
- 16:40-17:00 Alessandra Aloisi - New HST/ACS Insights into the Evolution of Extremely Metal-Poor Blue Compact Dwarf Galaxies
- 17:00-17:20 Igor Drozdovsky - Matching the Local and Cosmic Star Formation Histories
- 17:20-17:40 Henry Lee - On local mass-metallicity relations spanning over 6 decades in galaxy mass
- Day 3
- Wednesday, 11 July, Morning
- 08:30-09:00 * poster viewing *
- 09:00-09:20 JÓÌrgen Ott - Dense Molecular Gas in Southern Nearby Starburst and Active Galaxies
- 09:20-09:40 Toshikazu Onishi - NANTEN2 project: CO and CI Survey of the Local Group
- 09:40-10:00 Robin Ciardullo - The Mass-to-Light Ratio of Spiral Disks
- 10:00-10:20 Eizabeth Wehner - The Surprisingly Abnormal Halo of the Normal Elliptical Galaxy, NGC 3379
- 10:20-10:30 * Short Poster Presentations (1 min., 1 slide) *
- **Coffee Break in the Terrace Room **
- 11:00-11:20 Tom Jarrett - Infrared Study of SNR Evolution in NGC6946
- 11:20-11:40 Kristine Spekkens - Modeling Non-Circular Motions in Disk Galaxies: a Bar in NGC2976
- 11:40-12:00 Marc Hitchfeld - Local star formation laws in M51
- 12:00-12:20 Kristin Woodley - The Kinematics and Ages of the Nearby Elliptical, NGC 5128
- 12:20-12:40 Davor Krajnovic - Integral-field spectroscopy of the Centaurus A nucleus
- 12:40-12:45 David Barnes - Visualising the Local Volume - Part I.
- ** 13:00-15:00 Stand-up Buffet Lunch in the Terrace Room **
- ** 16:00-18:00 Visit to the Sydney Observatory, incl. a talk by David Barnes in the 3D theatre **
- 16:30-16:45 David Barnes - Visualising the Local Volume - Part II.
- 16:45-17:00 repeat
- Day 4
- Thursday, 12 July, Morning
- 08:30-09:00 * poster viewing *
- 09:00-09:20 Helmut Jerjen - Testing Cold Dark Matter Theory - The Stromlo Missing Satellites Survey
- 09:20-09:30 Shane Walsh - Bootes II - A Retrospective
- 09:30-09:50 Sergey Koposov - Observational constraints on the "Missing Satellite" problem from SDSS
- 09:50-10:10 Julio Chaname - Modeling Discrete Velocity Data: Characterizing the Dark Halos of Local Group dE Galaxies
- 10:10-10:30 Slawomir Piatek - Space Motions of Draco, Fornax, and Sagittarius Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies
- **Coffee Break **
- 11:00-11:20 Steven Majewski - Stellar Halos of the Local Group
- 11:20-11:40 Miguel A. Urbaneja - Extragalactic Stellar Astronomy
- 11:40-12:00 Matthew Coleman - Photometry of New Milky Way dSphs: First Results From The Large Binocular Telescope
- 12:00-12:20 Andreas Brunthaler - Towards a kinematics model of the Local Group
- 12:20-12:30 * Short Poster Presentations (1 min., 1 slide) *
- Thursday, 12 July, Afternoon
- 13:30-14:00 * poster viewing *
- 14:00-14:40 Mike Irwin (I) - Surveying the M31 system
- 14:40-15:00 Alan McConnachie - Contrasting the Milky Way and M31 dwarf galaxy populations"
- 15:00-15:20 Geraint Lewis - Strangers in the Night: AndXII and its first passage through the Local Group
- 15:20-15:30 * Short Poster Presentations (1 min., 1 slide) *
- **Coffee Break**
- 16:00-16:20 Karoline Gilbert - Substructure along M31's Southeast Minor Axis and Its Relationship to the Giant Southern Stream
- 16:20-16:40 Heather Morrison - Star Clusters in M31
- 16:40-17:00 Jason Kalirai - A Spectroscopic Survey of M31 Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies
- 17:00-17:20 Raja Guhathakurta - The Surface Brightness Profile and Metallicity of M31's Extended Stellar Halo
- 17:20-17:40 Robert Braun - HI in the M31 sub-group
- **18:30 Conference Dinner (Harbour Cruise)**
- Day 5
- Friday, 13 July, Morning
- 08:30-09:00 * poster viewing *
- 09:00-09:20 Joss Bland-Hawthorn - How do galaxies get their gas?
- 09:20-09:40 Tobias Westmeier - The relics of structure formation: Extra-planar gas and high-velocity clouds around the Andromeda Galaxy
- 09:40-10:00 Felix J. Lockman - HVCs as Satellites of the Milky Way: the Case of Complex H and Smith's Cloud
- 10:00-10:20 Vasily Belokurov - The Hercules-Aquila Cloud
- 10:20-10:30 * Short Poster Presentations (1 min., 1 slide) *
- **Coffee Break**
- 11:00-11:20 Chiara Mastropietro - Streams and disrupting satellite galaxies in the Milky Way halo
- 11:20-11:40 David Nidever - The Source of the Magellanic Stream and Its Leading Arm
- 11:40-12:00 Kenji Bekki - Formation and evolution of the Small Magellanic Cloud
- 12:00-12:20 Yasuo Fukui - HI vs. CO in the LMC
- 12:20-12:30 * Short Poster Presentations (1 min., 1 slide) *
- Friday, 13 July, Afternoon
- 13:30-14:00 * poster viewing *
- 14:00-14:20 Margaret Meixner - Spitzer Survey of the Large Magellanic Cloud: Surveying the Agents of a Galaxy's Evolution (SAGE); Project Overview
- 14:20-14:40 Maria-Rosa Cioni - Metallicity and mean age across M33
- **Coffee Break**
- 15:20-15:40 Thijs van der Hulst - From Gas to Galaxies
- 15:40-17:00 Summary & Open Discussion
Baerbel Koribalski 2007-07-06
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