The Globular Clusters -- Dwarf Galaxies Connection

MCTP workshop, August 27-29, 2007

               PROGRAM

  All talks are 15 minutes + 10 minutes discussion

Sunday August 26

  6:00 - 10:00pm  reception in Michigan League


Monday August 27

  8:30am  breakfast and registration in West Hall

  9:00am  Gordon Kane, MCTP "Welcome"

  9:05am  Oleg Gnedin "Outline of the workshop"

    Session: Dark and luminous structure of DGs and GCs
    (chair: Rebecca Bernstein)

  9:15am  Gerry Gilmore "The systematic properties of globular clusters and dwarf galaxies"

  9:40am  Matthew Walker "Kinematics of Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies"

  10:05am Stacy McGaugh "Scaling Relations in Dim Galaxies" 

  10:30am  coffee break

  11:00am  Eva Grebel "Globular clusters: The Dwarf Galaxy Contribution"

  11:25am  Sergey Koposov "Completeness estimates of SDSS searches for MW satellites"

  11:50am  Beth Willman "Can DEIMOS spectroscopy of W1 be used to distinguish a GC from a dwarf galaxy scenario?"

  12:15pm  Louie Strigari "The Mass Function of Milky Way Satellites"

  12:40pm  discussion

           lunch

    Session: Demographics of DGs and GCs
    (chair: Harry Ferguson)

  2:00pm  Marla Geha "Ultra-Low Luminosity Dwarf Galaxies: Kinematics"

  2:25pm  Josh Simon "Ultra-Low Luminosity Dwarf Galaxies: Missing Satellite Problem"

  2:50pm  Gurtina Besla "The Orbital Evolution of the Magellanic Clouds and Implications for the Formation of the Magellanic Stream"

  3:15pm  discussion

          coffee break

  4:00pm  Jana Grcevich "HI in Local Group Dwarf Galaxies"

  4:25pm  Barry Rothberg "On the Origin of the Mass-Metallicity Relation for Metal-Poor Globular Clusters"

  4:50pm  Matias Gomez "Structural parameters for confirmed globular clusters in NGC 5128"

  5:15pm  discussion


Tuesday August 28

  8:30am  breakfast in West Hall

    Session: Properties of GCs in DGs
    (chair: Bill Harris)

  9:00am  Mario Mateo "Clusters in Dwarfs -- An Overview"

  9:25am  Harry Ferguson "Dwarf Elliptical Galaxies in the Coma Cluster from the HST Treasury Survey"

  9:50am  Jay Strader "Spectroscopy of GCs in Virgo dEs"

  10:15am  Thomas Puzia "Globular Clusters in Dwarf Galaxies in and outside the Local Group"

  10:40am  coffee break

  11:10am  Iskren Georgiev "Old Globular Clusters in Dwarf Irregular Galaxies"

  11:35am  Eric Peng "Globular Clusters in Dwarf Elliptical Galaxies"

  12:00pm  Nicolas Martin "An LBT view of the faint Canes Venatici I, Hercules and Leo T dwarf galaxies" 

  12:25pm  discussion

           lunch

    Session: Formation and evolution of GCs and DGs
    (chair: Raja Guhathakurta)

  2:00pm  Jay Gallagher "Starbursts and Dwarf Galaxies: What's Gone with the Winds?"

  2:25pm  James Bullock "Dwarf Galaxy Density Structure and Star Formation"

  2:50pm  Chris Orban "Modeling Star Formation Histories of Local Group Dwarfs"

  3:15pm  Brant Robertson "The Role of Molecular Cooling Processes in Dwarf Galaxy Formation and Evolution"

  3:40pm  discussion

          coffee break

  4:20pm  Nick Gnedin "Local Group Dwarf Spheroidals as Fossils of Reionization"

  4:45pm  Mia Bovill "Ultra-faint dwarfs as fossils of the First Galaxies"

  5:10pm  Steve Zepf "A Possible New Test of the M_BH - Sigma relation at Globular Cluster Masses"

  5:35pm  discussion


Wednesday August 29

  8:30am  breakfast in West Hall

    Session: Stellar populations and element abundances in GCs and DGs
    (chair: Sally Oey)

  9:00am  Rosemary Wyse "Chemical Evolution in Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies"

  9:25am  Janet Colucci "Measuring Chemical Abundances and Horizontal Branch Morphology of Extragalactic Globular Clusters using High Resolution Spectroscopy"

  9:50am  Evan Kirby "Iron and Alpha in Extragalactic Red Giants With Low Resolution Spectra"

  10:15am Andrea Marcolini "Modeling the chemical evolution of Omega Centauri using three-dimensional hydrodynamical simulations"

  10:40am  coffee break

  11:10am  Javier Alonso-Garcia "Uncloaking globular clusters of the inner Galaxy"

  11:35am  Charles Kuehn "Variable Stars in Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies, SDSS Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies, and Globular Clusters"

  12:00pm  Ricardo Munoz "Modeling the Tidal Tails of the Carina Dwarf Spheroidal" 

  12:25pm  discussion

           lunch

    Session: The role of interaction in shaping the properties of GCs and DGs
    (chair: Mary Putman)

  2:00pm  Raja Guhathakurta "Dwarf Satellites as Building Blocks of M31's Stellar Halo"

  2:25pm  Jorge Penarrubia "Properties and tidal evolution of the Local Group dwarf galaxies"

  2:50pm  Alan McConnachie "The M31 satellites and the presence of multiple dynamical components in dwarf galaxies"

  3:15pm  Monica Valluri "Probing the dark matter distribution in the Milky Way with tidal streams"

  3:40pm  discussion

          coffee break

  4:15pm  panel discussion on future directions

  5:30pm  workshop ends

  6:00 - 10:00pm  conference dinner at Dominick's