Workshop Program
 
June 17, 2013 - Monday
 Intro. Cosmological Context.Chair: Andrey Kravtsov
9:00 AM - 9:40 AMDavid H. Weinberg, Ohio State University
Overview
9:40 AM - 10:00 AMDiscussion
10:00 AM - 10:30 AMCoffee break
10:30 AM - 10:50 AMNikhil Padmanabhan, Yale University
Constraints from the Baryonic Acoustic Oscillations
10:55 AM - 11:15 AMFrancisco Prada, Instituto de Fisica Teorica UAM, CSIC
Cosmology from Al-Andalus to BOSS
11:20 AM - 11:40 AMAnatoly Klypin, NMSU
LSS simulations for cosmology
11:45 AM - 12:05 PMGustavo Yepes, U. Autonoma, Madrid
JUBILEE: a suite of large LSS simulations
12:10 PM - 12:30 PMDiscussion
12:30 PM - 2:00 PMLunch
 Cosmic web of galaxies: Galaxy clustering and EnvironmentChair: David Weinberg
2:00 PM - 2:20 PMIdit Zehavi, Case Western Reserve University
Galaxy Clustering in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
2:25 PM - 2:45 PMAaron D Bray, Harvard University
The Luminosity and Color Dependence of Galaxy Clustering since z ~ 1 in PRIMUS
2:50 PM - 3:10 PMMehmet Alpaslan, University of St Andrews, University of Western Australia
Filaments and large scale structure in the Galaxy and Mass Assembly survey
3:15 PM - 3:30 PMDiscussion
3:30 PM - 4:00 PMCoffee break
4:00 PM - 4:20 PMManodeep Sinha, Vanderbilt University
Towards an Accurate Relation between Galaxies and their host Dark Matter Halos
4:25 PM - 4:45 PMRamin A Skibba, University of California, San Diego
Quantifying the Cosmic Web: Measures of Galaxy Environment
4:50 PM - 5:10 PMNoam I Libeskind, Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics
Cosmic vorticity and the origin halo spins
5:15 PM - 5:30 PMDiscussion
5:30 PM - 6:30 PMInformal interaction
 
June 18, 2013 - Tuesday
 Halos within the Cosmic Web: galaxy-halo connection.Chair: Charlie Conroy
9:00 AM - 9:20 AMMartha Haynes, Cornell University
The ALFALFA Census of Gas-Bearing Galaxies at z=0
9:25 AM - 9:45 AMBenjamin P Moster, MPA, Garching
Connecting galaxies and dark matter haloes: star formation and gas accretion
9:50 AM - 10:10 AMPeter Behroozi, Stanford University
Star formation in individual galaxies
10:15 AM - 10:30 AMDiscussion
10:30 AM - 11:00 AMCoffee break
11:00 AM - 11:20 AMPieter van Dokkum, Yale
The growth of Milky Way-like galaxies since z~2.5
11:25 AM - 11:45 AMDouglas F Watson, KICP/U. of Chicago
The strikingly similar relation between satellite and central galaxies and their dark matter halos since z=2
11:50 AM - 12:10 PMSurhud More, Kavli IPMU
Pseudo-evolution of the halo mass-stellar mass relation
12:15 PM - 12:30 PMDiscussion
12:30 PM - 2:00 PMLunch
 Halo-Galaxy Connection (cont.)Chair: Andreas Berlind
2:00 PM - 2:20 PMCharlie Conroy, University of California, Santa Cruz
Satellite Galaxies in Hierarchical Universe
2:25 PM - 2:45 PMAndrew Hearin, Fermilab
The Dark Side of Galaxy Color
2:50 PM - 3:10 PMTomer Tal, UC Santa Cruz
The non-evolving galaxy distributions in groups since z=1.6
3:15 PM - 3:35 PMGuillermo Barro, University of California Santa Cruz
The progenitors of compact quiescent galaxies at z~2
3:40 PM - 3:55 PMDiscussion
3:55 PM - 4:20 PMCoffee break
4:20 PM - 5:30 PMPanel discussion: Cosmic web - historical perspectives
Chair and moderator: Sergei Shandarin
5:30 PM - 6:30 PMInformal interaction
 
June 19, 2013 - Wednesday
 Galaxy-halo connection: backreaction of baryons on halosChair: Marla Geha
9:00 AM - 9:20 AMEmmanouil Papastergis, Cornell University
Testing the LambdaCDM halo mass function with the ALFALFA 21cm survey
9:25 AM - 9:45 AMOleg Gnedin, University of Michigan
How baryons shape dark matter
9:50 AM - 10:10 AMReina Reyes, KICP
Is LambdaCDM consistent with the Tully-Fisher Relation?
10:15 AM - 10:30 AMDiscussion
10:30 AM - 11:00 AMCoffee break
11:00 AM - 11:20 AMMonica Valluri, University of Michigan
The effect of baryons on the orbital properties and shapes of dark matter halos
11:25 AM - 11:45 AMMarco Velliscig, Leiden Observatory
What shapes the halo mass function? The effects of baryonic physics on the total mass and mass profile of haloes
11:50 AM - 12:10 PMStefan Gottloeber, Leibniz-Institute for Astrophysics (AIP)
Constrained Simulations of the Local Universe
12:15 PM - 12:30 PMDiscussion
12:40 PMLunch
 Local Group within the Cosmic Web: Near-field cosmologyChair: Piero Madau
2:00 PM - 2:20 PMMichael Boylan-Kolchin, UC Irvine
Dark matter in the Milky Way and its satellites
2:25 PM - 2:45 PMMatthew Walker, CfA, Harvard
Galactic Dynamics as a Test of Cold Dark Matter
2:50 PM - 3:10 PMAmina Helmi, Kapteyn Institute, Groningen
Dynamical models of dSph in the Local Group
3:15 PM - 3:30 PMDiscussion
3:30 PM - 4:00 PMCoffee break
4:00 PM - 4:20 PMMarla Geha, Yale
The Stellar Content of Milky Way Ultra-Faint Dwarf Galaxies
4:25 PM - 4:45 PMAlyson Brooks, U Wisconsin, Madison
The Influence of Baryons in Interpreting our Cosmological Model
4:50 PM - 5:10 PMKenza Arraki, NMSU
Effects of baryon removal on the structure of dwarf spheroidal galaxies
5:15 PM - 5:30 PMDiscussion
6:30 PMPink Martini concert in the Millenium Park
 
June 20, 2013 - Thursday
 Understanding co-evolution of galaxies and halos within cosmic webChair: Matthias Steinmetz
9:00 AM - 9:20 AMPiero Madau, UC Santa Cruz
The baryon cycle of dwarf galaxies
9:25 AM - 9:45 AMAleks Diamond-Stanic, UC San Diego
Probing Gas Flows in the Cosmic Web with Background Galaxies
9:50 AM - 10:10 AMDaniel Ceverino, Universidad Autonoma Madrid
Early formation of galaxies in cosmological simulations
10:15 AM - 10:30 AMDiscussion
10:30 AM - 11:00 AMCoffee break
11:00 AM - 11:20 AMFabio Governato, University of Washington
Shining Light on on the Properties of Dark Matter: Coupling Baryon and Dark Matter Physics in Galaxy Formation Models
11:25 AM - 11:45 AMOscar Agertz, KICP
Towards realistic model of stellar feedback
11:50 AM - 12:10 PMSebastian Trujillo-Gomez, NMSU
Stellar mass assembly in galaxies with realistic star formation and feedback
12:15 PM - 12:30 PMDiscussion
12:30 PM - 2:00 PMLunch
 UNDERSTANDING CO-EVOLUTION OF GALAXIES AND HALOS WITHIN COSMIC WEB (CONT.)Chair: Fabio Governato
2:00 PM - 2:20 PMAndrey Doroshkevich, ASC FIAN
Formation of the first galaxies and reionisation of the Universe
2:25 PM - 2:45 PMCraig M Booth, University of Chicago
Cosmic rays in a cosmological context: the physics of galactic superwinds
2:50 PM - 3:10 PMJoel R Primack, UCSC
Assembling Galaxies of Resolved Anatomy (AGORA) Simulation Comparison Project
3:15 PM - 3:30 PMDiscussion of feedback/wind implementations
3:30 PM - 4:00 PMCoffee break
 Milky Way within the cosmic webChair: Fabio Governato
4:00 PM - 4:20 PMMatthias Steinmetz, Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP)
The Wobbly Galaxy: kinematics north and south with RAVE
4:25 PM - 4:45 PMAlis Deason, UC Santa Cruz
The Cold and Broken Milky Way Stellar Halo
4:50 PM - 5:10 PMJo Bovy, Institute for Advanced Study
New measurements of the structure and dynamics of the Milky Way's disk
5:15 PM - 5:45 PMConcluding discussion
6:00 PM - 9:00 PMReception/conference dinner on campus
9:00 PM - 9:00 PMConclusion of the workshop