Galaxy Mergers:
From the Local Universe to the Red Sequence
Schedule

Conference Schedule

DAY 1

08:45  Matt Mountain    -  Opening Remarks from the Director
09:00  Brad Whitmore    -  Mergers in the Local Universe (INVITED)
09:40  Eric Bell        -  Red Sequence & Blue Cloud from z~1 (INVITED)

10:20 Coffee/Tea in Poster Room (Cafe Con.)

10:50  Scott Trager      -  Stellar Populations on the Local Red Sequence (INVITED)
11:30  Sheila Kannappan  -  E/S0 Galaxies on the Blue Color-Mass Sequence at z=0
12:00  Ricardo Schiavon  -  Constraining the Star Formation History of Early-Type Galaxies

12:30 Lunch

14:00  Mike Fall         -  Life Cycles of Star Clusters in Mergers & Other Galaxies
14:40  Joshua Barnes     -  Numerical Simulations of Mergers (INVITED)

15:20 Coffee/Tea in Poster Room (Cafe Con.)

16:00  Jennifer Lotz     -  Constraining Merger Morphologies & Timescales with Simulations
16:30  Sadegh Khochfar   -  The Role of Dissipation in the Formation of Ellipticals by
                            Mergers (INVITED)
17:10  Thorsten Naab     -  Nearby Mergers: Ellipticals in Formation?

18:15 Reception

DAY 2

09:00  Barry Rothberg    -  The Dynamical Properties of Mergers (INVITED)
09:40  Gregory Novak     -  Structure and Kinematics of Galaxy Merger Simulation Remnants
                            Compared to Integral Field Unit Data
10:10  Mathieu Puech     -  Galaxy Kinematics at z~0.6

10:40 Coffee/Tea in Poster Room (Cafe Con.)

11:10  Paul Goudfrooij   -  Dissipative Merging & the Star Formation History of Early-Type
                            Galaxies
11:40  Kristen Woodley   -  The Merger History of Centaurus A: New Evidence from Halo
                            & Group Dynamics
12:10  Lisa Kewley       -  Metallicity: A Smoking Gun for Gas Flows in Mergers

12:40 Lunch

14:00  Avishai Dekel     -  Mergers and Elliptical Galaxies (INVITED)
14:40  David Rupke       -  Massive Gas-Rich Mergers in the Context of Chemical Evolution
15:10  Phil Hopkins      -  Quasars, Mergers, & The Blue/Red Galaxy Transition

15:40 Coffee/Teea in Poster Room (Cafe Con.)

16:10  Pieter van Dokkum -  Direct Observations of Dry Mergers at Intermediate &
                            Low Redshift (INVITED)
16:50  Daniel McIntosh   -  The Fate of Massive Blue Galaxies: Food for a Growing
                            Red Sequence?
17:20  Claudia Scarlata  -  The Redshift Evolution of Early-Type Galaxies in COSMOS:
                            Is there a need for Dry Mergers?

DAY 3

09:00  Yuexing Li        -  Formation of Massive Galaxies & Luminous Quasars at z~6 from
                            Hierarchical Mergers 
09:30  Nicole Homeier    -  Starbursts, AGN & Quiescent Star-Formation in High Redshift
                            Galaxy Clusters
10:00  Michael Cooper    -  The Role of Environment in the Build-Up of the Red Seqeunce

10:30 Coffee/Tea in Poster Room (Cafe Con.)

11:00  Morad Masjedia    -  Buildup of Massive Red Galaxies at z~0.3
11:30  Marc Balcells     -  Red Sequence, Satellite Accretion, & Growth of Galaxy Bulges
12:00  Hibbard, Hogg     -  Panel Discussion

12:30 Conference End