Confirmed Invited Speakers (30+10min.)
- Julianne Dalcanton - "10 Months of ANGST: The ACS Nearby Galaxy Survey"
- Mike Irwin - "Surveying the M31 system"
- Igor Karachentsev - "Mining the Local Volume"
- Evan Skillman - "The Recent Star Formation Histories of Nearby Galaxies"
- Brent Tully - "The Local Velocity Anomaly"
- Fabian Walter - "The HI Nearby Galaxy Survey (THINGS)"
Contributed talks (15+5min):
- Alessandra Aloisi: New HST/ACS Insights into the Evolution of Extremely Metal-Poor Blue Compact Dwarf Galaxies
- David G. Barnes and Chris J. Fluke: Visualising the Local Volume
- Ayesha Begum, Jayaram N. Chengalur and Igor Karachentsev: FIGGS: Faint Irregular Galaxies GMRT Survey
- Kenji Bekki: Formation and evolution of the Small Magellanic Cloud
- Vasily Belokurov: The Hercules-Aquila Cloud
- Frank Bigiel: A THINGS View on Star Formation in Nearby Galaxies
- Joss Bland-Hawthorn: How do galaxies get their gas?
- Alberto Bolatto: Molecular Gas, Cloud Properties, and Star Formation in Dwarf Galaxies
- Nicolas Bonne: Investigating Dark Matter and MOND in Local Volume Galaxies
- Caroline Bot: Diagnostig value of fine structure line emission in galaxies
- Robert Braun: HI in the M31 sub-group
- Andreas Brunthaler: Towards a kinematic model of the Local Group
- Julio Chaname, Roeland van der Marel, and Jan Kleyna: Modeling Discrete Velocity Data: Characterizing the Dark Halos of Local Group dE Galaxies
- Jayaram Chengalur: Gas rich galaxies from the FIGGS survey
- Robin Ciardullo and K.A. Herrmann: The Mass-to-Light Ratio of Spiral Disks
- Maria-Rosa Cioni: Metallicity and mean age across M33
- Matthew Coleman: Photometry of New Milky Way dSphs: First Results From The Large Binocular Telescope
- Matthew Colless: The context of the Local Volume: structures and motions in the nearby Universe
- Gary S. Da Costa: HST/ACS Observations of Early-Type Dwarfs in Nearby Groups
- Daniel Dale: An Ultraviolet-to-Radio Broadband Spectral Atlas of Nearby Galaxies
- Igor Drozdovsky and the LCID team: Matching the Local and Cosmic Star Formation Histories
- Yasuo Fukui: HI vs. CO in the LMC
- Karoline Gilbert: Substructure Along M31's Southeast Minor Axis and Its Relationship to the Giant Southern Stream
- Raja Guhathakurta: The Surface Brightness Profile and Metallicity of M31's Extended Stellar Halo
- Paul Harding and Heather Morrison: Star Clusters in M31: from young disk objects to old stream clusters
- Marc Hitschfeld, Carsten Kramer, K.F. Schuster, S. Garcia-Burillo, and J. Stutzki: Local gravitational stability in the disk of M51
- Tom Jarrett: Infrared Study of SNR Evolution in NGC6946
- Helmut Jerjen: Testing Cold Dark Matter Theory - The Stromlo Missing Satellites Survey
- Jason Kalirai, P. Guhathakurta, M. Geha, E. Kirby, K. Gilbert, and S. Majewski: A Spectroscopic Survey of M31 Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies
- Amanda Kepley: Magnetic Fields in Irregular Galaxies
- Emma Kirby: Deepest Near-IR Surface Photometry of Galaxies in the Local Sphere of Influence
- Sergey Koposov: Observational constraints on the "missing satellite" problem from SDSS
- Baerbel S. Koribalski: The Local Volume HI Survey (LVHIS)
- Renee C. Kraan-Korteweg: Outlining the Local Void with the Parkes HI ZOA and Galactic Bulge survey
- Davor Krajnovic: Integral-field spectroscopy of Centaurus A nucleus
- Guilhem Lavaux and Brent Tully: Using Local Volume data to constrain dark matter dynamics
- Henry Lee: On local mass-metallicity relations spanning over 6 decades in galaxy mass
- Geraint Lewis: Strangers in the Night: AndXII and its first passage through the Local Group
- Felix J Lockman: High Velocity Clouds as Satellites of the Milky Way: the Case of Complex H and Smith's Cloud
- Angel R. Lopez-Sanchez, Cesar Esteban, Baerbel Koribalski and Jorge Garcia-Rojas: Ionized and neutral gas in the starburst galaxy NGC 5253
- Steven Majewski: Stellar Halos of the Local Group
- Chiara Mastropietro: Streams and disrupting satellite galaxies in the Milky Way halo
- Alan W. McConnachie, Mike Irwin, Nobuo Arimoto, Julio Navarro, Rodrigo Ibata, Scott Chapman, Geraint Lewis, Annette Ferguson, Nial Tanvir: Dwarf galaxies as probes of galaxy evolution: the comparative properties of the satellites of M31 and the Milky Way
- Margaret Meixner and the SAGE Team: Spitzer Survey of the Large Magellanic Cloud: Surveying the Agents of a Galaxy's Evolution (SAGE); Project Overview
- David Nidever: The Source of the Magellanic Stream and Its Leading Arm
- Toshikazu Onishi, Norikazu Mizuno, Akira Mizuno, Yasuo Fukui and the NANTEN2 consortium: NANTEN2 project: CO and CI Survey of the Local Group
- Tom Oosterloo, Katarina Kovac, Marc Verheijen, Thijs van der Hulst: The low-mass end of the HI mass function
- Juergen Ott, Christian Henkel, Axel Weiss, and Fabian Walter: Dense Molecular Gas in Southern Nearby Starburst and Active Galaxies
- Slawomir Piatek: Space Motion of Draco, Fornax, and Sagittarius Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies
- Helene Roussel (MPIA) & SINGS team: Warm molecular hydrogen in nearby galaxies: excitation mechanisms and link with dust heating
- Anil Seth, Roelof de Jong, and the GHOSTS team: Resolving the Outer Disks and Halos of Nearby Galaxies
- Ed Shaya: Least Action Solutions of the Local Volume: Solving for Masses and Local Group Dynamics
- Kristine Spekkens: Modeling Non-Circular Motions in Disk Galaxies: a Bar in NGC2976
- Lister Staveley-Smith: Future ASKAP Studies of the Local Volume
- David Thilker: The GALEX view of ongoing disk formation in the Local Volume
- Anton V. Tikhonov and Igor D. Karachentsev: Minivoids in Local Volume
- Miguel A. Urbaneja, Rolf P. Kudritzki and F. Bresolin: Extragalactic Stellar Astronomy
- Thijs van der Hulst: From Gas to Galaxies
- Shane Walsh: Bootes II - A Retrospective
- Elizabeth Wehner: The Surprisingly Abnormal Halo of the Normal Elliptical Galaxy, NGC 3379
- Tobias Westmeier: The relics of structure formation: Extra-planar gas and high-velocity clouds around the Andromeda Galaxy
- Eric Wilcots: Evolution of the ISM in Star-Forming Galaxies
- Kristin Woodley: The Kinematics and Ages of the Nearby Elliptical, NGC 5128
Posters (+ very short presentation: 1 slide, 1 minute):
- Choong Ngeow: Large Magellanic Cloud Distance from Cepheid Variables using Least Squares Solutions
- Luis Alberto Martinez: Constrained simulations of the Local Universe
- Wim van Driel: NIBLES: an HI census of SDSS galaxies in the Local Volume
- Benjamin Winkel: The Effelsberg HI Survey
- Ivy Wong: NOIRCAT: The optical/NIR counterpart catalogue to Northern HIPASS
- Matthew Whiting:
Astronomers - Do you know where your galaxies are?
Tuesday 10:20-10:30h:
- Laura Chomiuk: Supernova Remnant Populations in Nearby Star-Forming Galaxies
- Marc Hitschfeld, M. Aravena, C. Kramer, F. Bertoldi, and J. Stutzki: CO 4-3 and CI 1-0 in Circinus and NGC4945
- Julio Saucedo-Morales, Pablo Loera-Gonzalez and Alfredo Santillin: Isolated and Compact Groups of Galaxies in the SDSS
- Chandreyee Sengupta, Ramesh Balasubramanyam, and K. S. Dwarakanath: HI in nearby X-ray bright groups
- Warren Reid:
Planetary nebulae in the LMC
Tuesday 15:20-15:30h:
- Francesca Annibali, et al.: Starbursts in the Local Universe: the Star Formation History of NGC 4449
- Annie Hughes: The HI gas associated with molecular clouds in the inner LMC
- Akiko Kawamura: Study of molecular clouds and star formation in the Magellanic Clouds
- Janine van Eymeren: Fabry-Perot interferometry of two nearby irregular dwarf galaxies
- Suk-Jin Yoon:
Early-type Galaxies in the Local Volume seen with GALEX
Wednesday 10:20-10:30h:
- Ilana Feain: A long overdue synthesis image of Centaurus A
- Eva Manthey and Tom Oosterloo: The complex HI structure of IC 10
- Satoko Sawada-Satoh: Structure and kinematics of CO (J=2-1) emission in the central region of NGC 4258
- Patrick A. Woudt, R.C. Kraan-Korteweg, U. Fritze-von Alvensleben:
Galaxy transformation in action? - The spiral galaxy WKK6176
Thursday 12:20-12:30h:
- Yaroslav Chumak: Numerical simulations of the Local Group of galaxies in connection with the antigravity of Einstein - Gliner's vacuum
- Blair Conn: Surveying the Monoceros Ring: Locations, Velocities and a Contentious dwarf
- Yutaka Komiyama: Wide-field imaging survey of Leo II dwarf spheroidal galaxy: stellar content and distribution
- Adam Ruzicka, Jan Palous, and Christian Theis: Magellanic Clouds in Interaction - Evolutionary Search for Good Models
- Patrick Tisserand:
SkyMapper and the Southern Sky Survey
Thursday 15:20-15:30h:
- Sui Ann Mao et al.: The Global Structure of the Vertical Magnetic Field of the Milky Way
- Kazufumi Torii et al. Magnetic Floatation Loops in the Galactic Center
- Hiroyuki Nakanishi: Kiso Outer Galaxy Survey: Stellar Radial Distribution of the Galaxy
- Carlton Pryor: What We Have Learned from the Space Velocities of the Satellite Galaxies of the Milky Way
- Mikito Tanaka: The origin of the giant stellar stream of M31
- Rachel Beaton: ...
Friday 10:20-10:30h:
- Nadya Ben Bekhti: High-velocity gas in the halo of the Milky Way
- Yoji Mizuno: The results of sub-mm observation in Large Magellanic Clouds with NANTEN2 telescope
- Tetsuhiro Minamidani:
An observational study of the GMCs in the Magellanic Clouds
- Jason Harris: Surveying the Agents of a Galaxy's Evolution (SAGE)
- Lynn Redding Carlson et al.: Star Formation in SMC Young Cluster NGC 602: Spatial and Temporal Distribution
Friday 12:20-12:30h:
- Gurtina Besla, et al.: The Formation of the Magellanic Stream
- Deanna Matthews: High resolution observations of the Magellanic Stream
- Ingrid Meschin: The outer stellar populations in LMC in millimeter and submillimeter wavelengths
- Sundar Srinivasan:
The infrared excesses of LMC AGB stars
Further posters
- Caroline Bot: Density and Heating in Nearby Galaxies
- Slawomir Piatek: Proper Motion of the LMC and SMC: a Re-Analysis of the Kallivayalil et al. data
- Igor Drozdovsky and the LCID team: The Stellar Structures around Disk Galaxies
- Heath Jones, Mike Read, Will Saunders, Matthew Colless, and the 6dFGS Team The 6dF Galaxy Survey Final Data Release
- Heath Jones,Bruce Peterson, Matthew Colless & Will Saunders Luminosity and Stellar Mass Functions from the 6dFGS
- Angel R. Lopez-Sanchez and Cesar Esteban: Interactions and star formation activity in Wolf-Rayet galaxies
- Angel R. Lopez-Sanchez, Cesar Esteban and Baerbel Koribalski: Interactions and starburst activity in galaxy groups
- Se-Heon Oh, W.J.G de Blok, Fabian Walter, and Elias Brinks: Dark matter density profiles of THINGS dwarf galaxies
- Juergen Ott, Evan Skillman, Julianne Dalcanton, Fabian Walter, Andrew West, and Baerbel Koribalski Star Formation History and ISM Feedback in Nearby Galaxies: A VLA Large Project
Poster presenters are encouraged to bring A4 copies of their poster for distribution to interested participants (we are happy to link these to the titles listed below).
Monday 12:20-12:30h: