Sunday, July 19, 2009
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| 7:00 p.m. | 10:00 p.m. | Registration and Poster Set-up: Millenium Centre, Outside of Room 237C |
| 8:00 p.m. | 10:00 p.m. | Opening Reception: Millenium Centre, Room 237C. A cash bar will be available. |
Monday, July 20, 2009
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| 8:30 a.m. | 9:30 a.m. | Breakfast (137B Auditorium Hallway) and Poster Set-up |
| Session I: Overview (Moderator: B. Smith) | ||
9:30 a.m. |
9:40 a.m. | A Welcome from the ETSU Vice Provost for Research |
| Dr. William Duncan | ||
9:40 a.m. |
9:55 a.m. | Opening Remarks from meeting chair Beverly J. Smith, |
| East Tennessee State University, U.S.A. | ||
9:55 a.m. |
10:35 a.m. | Keynote Talk: Unveiling Galaxy Interactions: |
| Watching the Tides Roll | ||
| Bill Keel, University of Alabama, U.S.A. | ||
10:35 a.m. |
10:55 a.m. | Contributed Talk: What Good Are Ring Galaxies? |
| James L. Higdon, Georgia Southern University, U.S.A. | ||
10:55 a.m. |
11:15 a.m. | Morning Break with Poster Viewing |
| Session II: Overview (Continued) (Moderator: B. Smith) | ||
11:15 a.m. |
11:55 a.m. | Keynote Talk: M81 and Related Systems: |
| High Impact Collisions with Small Companions | ||
| Jay Gallagher, University of Wisconsin-Madison, U.S.A. | ||
11:55 a.m. |
1:30 p.m. | Lunch (Millennium Centre, Room 220) |
| Session III: Individual Systems (Moderator: B. Keel) | ||
1:30 p.m. |
1:50 p.m. | Contributed Talk: The Collisional Ring Galaxy NGC 922 |
| Anne Pellerin, Texas A&M University, U.S.A. | ||
1:50 p.m. |
2:10 p.m. | Contributed Talk: The Magellanic Stream to Halo Interface: |
| Processes that Shape our Nearest Tidal Tail | ||
| Lou Nigra, University of Wisconsin-Madison, U.S.A. | ||
2:10 p.m. |
2:30 p.m. | Contributed Talk: Molecular Gas in the Early Stage |
| of Interacting Galaxies: | ||
| the NGC 4567/4568 Pair | ||
| Hiroyuki Kaneko, National Astronomical Observatory, Japan | ||
| 2:30 p.m. | 2:50 p.m. | Contributed Talk: Dwarf Detachment and Globular |
| Cluster Formation in Arp 305 | ||
| Mark Hancock, University of California Riverside, U.S.A. | ||
2:50 p.m. |
3:20 p.m. | Afternoon Break with Poster Viewing |
Monday, July 20, 2009 (Continued)
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| Session IV: Galaxy Groups and Clusters (Moderator: M. Giroux) | ||
| 3:20 p.m. | 3:50 p.m. | Contributed Talk: Modes of Star Formation in the |
| Interacting Compact Galaxy | ||
| Group HCG 31 | ||
| Sarah Gallagher, University of Western Ontario, Canada | ||
| 3:50 p.m. | 4:10 p.m. | Contributed Talk: Environmentally Altered Star Formation |
| in Virgo Cluster Galaxies | ||
| Jeff Kenney, Yale University, U.S.A. | ||
| 4:10 p.m. | 4:30 p.m. | Contributed Talk: Megaparsec-Scale Triggers |
| for Star Formation: Groups, Clusters, | ||
| and Filaments in the Horologium-Reticulum | ||
| Supercluster | ||
| Matthew Fleenor, Roanoke College, U.S.A. | ||
6:00 p.m. |
Dinner | |
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
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| 8:30 a.m. | 9:30 a.m. | Breakfast (137B Auditorium Hallway) |
| Session V: Star Cluster Formation and Destruction (Moderator: N. Bastian) | ||
9:30 a.m. |
10:10 a.m. | Keynote Talk: Overview of HST Results on Star |
| Cluster Formation and Destruction | ||
| Linda Smith, Space Telescope Science Institute, U.S.A. | ||
10:10 a.m. |
10:30 a.m. | Contributed Talk: Basic Tools for Studies on the |
| Formation and Disruption of Star Clusters | ||
| Mark Gieles, European Southern Observatory, Chile | ||
10:30 a.m. |
10:50 a.m. | Morning Break and Poster Viewing |
| Session VI: Star Cluster Formation and Destruction (Continued) | ||
| (Moderator: N. Bastian) | ||
10:50 a.m. |
11:10 a.m. | Contributed Talk: Tidal Tails in Merging Galaxies: |
| Formation of Compact Stellar Structures | ||
| Brendan Mullan, Pennsylvania State University, U.S.A. | ||
11:10 a.m. |
11:30 a.m. | Contributed Talk: Cluster Formation in Tidal Tails |
| and Intergalactic Space | ||
| Iraklis Konstantopoulos, University College London, UK | ||
11:30 a.m. |
11:50 a.m. | Contributed Talk: Galaxy Mergers and Star Clusters: |
| an HST Perspective | ||
| Rupali Chandar, University of Toledo, U.S.A. | ||
11:50 a.m. |
1:30 p.m. | Lunch (Millennium Centre, Room 220) |
| Session VII: Numerical Modeling (Moderator: C. Struck) | ||
1:30 p.m. |
2:10 p.m. | Keynote Talk: Gas Dynamics, Star Cluster |
| Formation, and Tidal Dwarf Galaxies | ||
| in Interacting Galaxy Models | ||
| Frederic Bournaud, CEA Saclay, France | ||
2:10 p.m. |
2:30 p.m. | Contributed Talk: Shock-Induced Starburst and Star |
| Cluster Formation in Colliding Galaxies | ||
| Takayuki Saitoh, National Astronomical Observatory, Japan | ||
2:30 p.m. |
2:50 p.m. | Contributed Talk: Star Formation History |
| in Merging Galaxies | ||
| Li-Hsin Chien, Institute for Astronomy, Univ of Hawaii, U.S.A. | ||
2:50 p.m. |
3:20 p.m. | Afternoon Break and Poster Viewing |
Tuesday, July 21, 2009 (Continued)
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| Session VIII: Numerical Modeling (Continued) (Moderator: C. Struck) | ||
3:20 p.m. |
3:40 p.m. | Contributed Talk: Simulations of 'Galaxy Wars' |
| Covering More than | ||
| Ten Orders of Magnitude | ||
| Diederik Kruijssen, Utrecht Univ/Leiden Univ, | ||
| the Netherlands | ||
3:40 p.m. |
4:00 p.m. | Contributed Talk: Modelling Kinematics and Stellar |
| Populations of Galaxy Mergers | ||
| in the Horizon GalMer Project | ||
| Igor Chilingarian, Observatoire de Paris, France | ||
4:00 p.m. |
4:20 p.m. | Contributed Talk: Substructure Formation Induced |
| by Gravitational Tides? | ||
| Florent Renaud, Institute of Astronomy, Vienna (Austria) | ||
| & Observatoire de Strasbourg (France) | ||
4:20 p.m. |
4:40 p.m. | Contributed Talk: The Origin of Andromeda's |
| Giant Southern Stream | ||
| Mark Fardal, University of Massachusetts, U.S.A. | ||
4:40 p.m. |
5:00 p.m. | Contributed Talk: Tasking Citizen Scientists from |
| Galaxy Zoo to Model Galaxy Collisions | ||
| John Wallin, George Mason University, U.S.A. | ||
6:00 p.m. |
Dinner | |
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
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| 8:30 a.m. | 9:30 a.m. | Breakfast (137B Auditorium Hallway) |
Session IX: Surveys of Pre-Merger Pairs (Moderator: M. Hancock) |
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9:30 a.m. |
9:50 a.m. | Contributed Talk: Tidal Dwarf Galaxies, Accretion |
| Tails, and `Beads on a String' | ||
| in the Spirals, Bridges, and Tails | ||
| Interacting Galaxy Sample | ||
| Beverly Smith, East Tennessee State University, U.S.A. | ||
9:50 a.m. |
10:10 a.m. | Contributed Talk: ULXs in Interacting Galaxies |
| Douglas Swartz, NASA/MSFC, U.S.A. | ||
10:10 a.m. |
10:30 a.m. | Contributed Talk: Isolating Triggered Star Formation: |
| Using Large Samples of Galaxies | ||
| to Track the Effects of Interactions | ||
| Betsy Barton, University of California, Irvine, U.S.A. | ||
10:30 a.m. |
10:50 a.m. | Morning Break and Poster Viewing |
| Session X: Surveys of Pre-Merger Pairs (Continued) (Moderator: M. Hancock) | ||
10:50 a.m. |
11:10 a.m. | Contributed Talk: Star Formation and the ISM |
| in Nearby Tidal Streams (SAINTS) | ||
| Sarah Higdon, Georgia Southern University | ||
11:10 a.m. |
11:30 a.m. | Contributed Talk: Star Formation Beyond |
| Typical Thresholds | ||
| Jessica Werk, Univ of Michigan/Columbia Univ, U.S.A. | ||
11:30 a.m. |
12:40 p.m. | Lunch (Millennium Centre, Room 220) |
Wednesday, July 22, 2009 (Continued)
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| Session XI: Mergers (Moderator: J. Kenney) | ||
12:40 p.m. |
1:20 p.m. | Keynote Talk: The Role of Interactions and Mergers |
| in Galaxy Bimodality | ||
| Dan McIntosh, University of Missouri-Kansas City, U.S.A. | ||
1:20 p.m. |
1:40 p.m. | Contributed Talk: Star Formation in Unequal-Mass |
| Mergers | ||
| Eva Juette, AIRUB, Germany | ||
1:40 p.m. |
2:00 p.m. | Contributed Talk: Star Formation and Dynamics of |
| Luminous Infrared Galaxies | ||
| with Adaptive Optics | ||
| Petri Vaisanen, South African Astronomical Observatory, | ||
| South Africa | ||
| 2:00 p.m. | 2:20 p.m. | Contributed Talk: VLT / VIMOS Integral Field |
| Spectroscopy of a Representative | ||
| Sample of Local (U)LIRGs | ||
| Santiago Arribas, IEM-CSIC, Spain | ||
| 2:20 p.m. | 2:50 p.m. | Afternoon Break with Poster Viewing |
Session XII: More on Mergers and Future Prospects (Moderator: J. Kenney) |
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| 2:50 p.m. | 3:30 p.m. | Keynote Talk: Interaction-Triggered Star Formation |
| in Distant Galaxies and the Role | ||
| of Mergers in Galaxy Evolution | ||
| Lihwai Lin, Academia Sinica Institute, Taiwan | ||
| 3:30 p.m. | 4:30 p.m. | Concluding Discussion - Future Prospects |
| Discussion Led by Curt Struck (Iowa State), | ||
| Nathan Bastian (Cambridge University), | ||
| and James Higdon (Georgia Southern University) | ||
4:30 p.m. |
6:00 p.m. | Concluding Break and Poster ``Take-Down'' |
6:00 p.m. |
Dinner | |
Thursday, July 23, 2009
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| 9:00 a.m. | 12:00 p.m. | Field Trip to the Gray Fossil Site |
| (Meet in front of hotel where transportation will be | ||
| provided to the fossil site. We will be met by | ||
| guides who will conduct the tour of | ||
| the site and the Museum.) |