Monday, September 29, 2008
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State of the Union
Morning Session Chair: Andrew Benson (Caltech)
[Talks are 30 min + 15 min Discussion]
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8:50am |
David Gross
(KITP Director)
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Welcome [Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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9:00am |
Scott Tremaine
(IAS)
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A Pessimist's View of Galactic Structure II [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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9:45am |
Jason Tumlinson
(STScI)
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Galactic Archaeology, JWST, During the Epoch of First Light[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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10:30am |
MORNING BREAK |
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11:00am |
Matthias Steinmetz
(AIP)
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Galactic Archeology in the Era of Mega Surveys[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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11:45am |
Jelte de Jong
(MPIA)
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A New Sparse Map of the Outer Disk of the Milky Way[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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12:30pm |
LUNCH |
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Stellar Dynamics
Afternoon Session Chair: Andrew Gould (OSU)
[Talks are 30 min + 15 min Discussion]
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2:00pm |
Rosemary Wyse
(JHU)
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Stellar Populations in the Galaxy and What Their Properties
Tell Us [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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2:45pm |
Amina Helmi
(Univ. Gronigen)
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The Galaxy, Its Stellar Halo and Its Satellites:
Insights from a Hybrid Approach[Slides][Podcast][Vid][Aud][Cam] |
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3:30pm |
AFTERNOON BREAK |
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4:00pm |
Chris Brook
(Univ. Washington)
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Bulgeless Disks in Hydrodynamic Cosmological Simulations[Slides][Podcast][Vid][Aud][Cam] |
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4:45pm |
Puragra Guhathakurta
(UCSC)
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The Extended Stellar Halo of the Andromeda Spiral Galaxy and its Dwarf Satellites: Results from the SPLASH Survey[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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5:30pm |
SHUTTLE TO BWSCI |
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Tuesday, September 30, 2008
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ISM
Morning Session Chair: Juna Kollmeier (Carnegie Obs.)
[Talks are 30 min + 15 min Discussion]
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9:00am |
Leo Blitz
(UC Berkeley)
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Neutral Gas in the Milky Way: Some Things We've Learned (and Some We'd Still Like to Know)[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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9:45am |
Martin Weinberg
(UMass)
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Warps and Wiggles: The History of the Milky Way as Revealed by Gas [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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10:30am |
MORNING BREAK |
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11:00am |
Brant Robertson
(Univ. Chicago, KIPC)
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Dying Embers: Gas Consumption in the Milky Way[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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11:45am |
Mark Krumholz
(UCSC)
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The Secret Lives of Molecular Clouds[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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12:30pm |
LUNCH BREAK |
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Abundances
Afternoon Session Chair: Martin Asplund (MPA, Garching)
[Talks are 30 min + 15 min Discussion]
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2:00pm |
Francesca Matteucci
(Trieste Obs.)
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Modelling the Chemical Evolution of the Milky Way[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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2:45pm |
R. Michael Rich
(UCLA)
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The Bulge Radial Velocity Assay [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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3:30pm |
AFTERNOON BREAK |
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4:00pm |
Judy Cohen
(Caltech)
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The Galactic Halo as seen by the Hamburg/ESO Survey[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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4:45pm |
Heather Morrison
(Case)
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Are the Most Metal Poor Stars also the First Stars?[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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5:30pm |
Andreas Koch
(UCLA/OCIW)
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Small-Scale Chemical Evolution in Small-Scale Dwarf Spheroidals [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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6:15pm |
RECEPTION |
KITP Courtyard |
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7:00pm |
SPECIAL EVENTS DINNER |
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8:30pm |
SHUTTLE TO BWSCI |
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Wednesday, October 01, 2008
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The Neighbors
Morning Session Chair: Beth Willman (Haverford College)
[Talks are 30 min + 15 min Discussion]
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9:00am |
Oleg Gnedin
(Univ. Michigan)
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Star Formation Histories of Dwarf Satellite Galaxies: Models and Observations[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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9:45am |
Marla Geha
(Yale)
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Properties of the Ultra-Faint Milky Way dSphs [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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10:30am |
MORNING BREAK |
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11:00am |
Josh Simon
(Caltech)
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Chemical Abundances in the Least Evolved Dwarf Galaxies[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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11:45am |
Martin Smith
(Univ. Cambridge)
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Finding Fossils on our Doorstep - Using the Milky Way as a Testbed for Galaxy Formation[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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12:30pm |
LUNCH BREAK |
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2:00pm |
FREE AFTERNOON |
Shuttle to Las Cumbres Observatory tour
Shuttle from LCOGT to KITP and BWSCI 3:30pm
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Thursday, October 02, 2008
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Galactic Structure: Smooth and Clumpy
Morning Session Chair: Andrey Kravtsov (Chicago)
[Talks are 30 min + 15 min Discussion/20 min Talk + 5 min Discussion at end]
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9:00am |
Kathryn Johnston
(Columbia)
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Modeling the Milky Way in a Hierarchical Universe [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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9:45am |
James Bullock
(UC Irvine)
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Dwarf Galaxies: How Dark and How Many? [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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10:30am |
MORNING BREAK |
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11:00am |
Piero Madau
(UCSC)
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The Via Lactea Project: A Glimpse into the Invisible World of Dark Matter [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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11:20am |
Mike Kuhlen
(IAS)
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The Gamma-ray Signal from Galactic Dark Matter Substructure[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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11:45am |
Julio Navarro
(Victoria)
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The Innermost Structure of Dark Matter Halos [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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12:05pm |
Carlos Frenk
(Durham)
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A Blueprint for Detecting Supersymmetric Dark Matter Particles in the Galactic Halo[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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12:30pm |
LUNCH BREAK |
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Surveys
Afternoon Session Chair: Constance Rockosi (UCSC)
[Talks are 30 min + 15 min Discussion]
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2:00pm |
Heidi-Jo Newberg
(RPI)
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Galactic Structure from SEGUE and LAMOST [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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2:45pm |
Mario Juric
(IAS)
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The SDSS View of the Milky Way: Mapping the Density, Metallicity and Kinematics of the Galaxy[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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3:30pm |
AFTERNOON BREAK |
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4:00pm |
Scientific Highlights
(Various Speakers)
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Session Chair: Joss Bland-Hawthorn (Univ. Sydney) [Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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5:30pm |
RECEPTION |
KITP Courtyard |
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6:30pm |
SPECIAL EVENTS DINNER |
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8:30pm |
SHUTTLE TO BWSCI |
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Friday, October 03, 2008
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Hot Topics
Morning Session Chair: Louie Strigari (KIPAC/Stanford)
[Talks are 30 min + 15 min Discussion]
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9:00am |
Andrea Ghez
(UCLA)
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The Galactic Center [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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9:45am |
Warren Brown
(Harvard, CfA)
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Probing the Milky Way with Hypervelocity Stars [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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10:30am |
MORNING BREAK |
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11:00am |
Bernard Sadoulet
(UC Berkeley)
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The Direct Detection of Dark Matter [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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11:45am |
James Binney
(Univ. Oxford)
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An Introduction to Torus Dynamics as a Way of Modelling the Milky Way [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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12:30pm |
LUNCH BREAK |
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Afternoon Session Chair: Matthias Steinmetz (AIP)
[Talks are 30 min + 15 min Discussion]
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2:00pm |
Andrew Gould
(OSU)
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Microlensing: A Probe of the Galactic Planet Distribution [Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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2:45pm |
Hans-Walter Rix
(MPIA)
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Back to the Main Point: Is Studying the Milky Way Just Fun, or
Important to Rest of Astrophysics? [Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
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Acknowledgements to the KITP Staff |
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3:30pm |
CONFERENCE END |
Shuttle Available to BWSCI, SB Airport, SB Airbus *See Jocelyn to Sign Up |
ABSTRACTS/POSTER PRESENTATIONS
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Julio Chaname
(STScI)
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Dark Matter in Local Group Dwarf Elliptical Galaxies[Poster] |
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Jun-Hwan Choi
(UNLV)
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The Dynamics of Satellite Disruptions in Cold Dark Matter Halo[Poster] |
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Edoardo Colavitti
(Univ. Trieste)
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Constraints on the Gas Accretion history of the Milky Way from Chemical Abundances[Poster] |
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Andrew Cooper
(Durham)
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Building the Milky Way Halo with Aquarius[Poster] |
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Michiko Fujii
(CfCA, Tokyo)
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Trojan Stars in the Galactic Center[Poster] |
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Facundo Gomez
(Kaptyen Inst.)
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Identifying Substructure through Orbital Frequencies [Poster] |
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Jana Grcevich
(Univ. Michigan)
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HI in Local Group Dwarfs and Stripping by the Galactic Halo[Poster] |
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Jennifer Johnson
(Ohio State)
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New Perspective on the Bulge from Observations of Microlensed Dwarf Stars |
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Rainer Klement
(MPIA)
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Discovery of New Kinematic Stellar Streams in the Solar Neighborhood[Poster] |
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Sergey Koposov
(MPIA)
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A Quantitative Explanation of the Observed Population of Milky Way
Satellite Galaxies[Poster] |
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Claire Lackner
(Princeton)
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Phase Space Clumps as Probes of Milky Way Mergers: Chemical Compositions of Newly Discovered Low-Alpha Stars[Poster] |
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Douglas Marshall
(Univ. Laval)
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Distribution and Characteristics of Infrared Dark Clouds using Genetic Forward Modelling |
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Paul McMillan
(Univ. of Oxford)
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Disassembling the Galaxy[Poster] |
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Martin Niederste-Ostholt
(Univ. Cambridge)
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Investigation of Possible Extra-Tidal Stars around Segue 1[Poster] |
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Annie Robin
(Inst. Utinam)
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New Results on the Galactic Warp from a Stellar Population Synthesis Model[Poster] |
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Rok Roskar
(Univ. Washington)
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Implications of Stellar Migration for the Properties of Galactic Disks |
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Laura Sales
(KAI)
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Disk Galaxies at z=2 in the OWLS Simulations [Poster] |
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Kevin Schlaufman
(UCSC)
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Cold Inner-Halo Substructure in the SEGUE Radial Velocity Database[Poster] |
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Sanjib Sharma
(Columbia)
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Group Finding in Multi-Dimensional Data-Sets: Method
and Application to Galactic Archeology[Poster] |
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Tammy Smecker-Hane
(UC Irvine)
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A Rapid Start to Star Formation in the Leo I dSph Galaxy[Poster] |
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Erik Tollerud
(UC Irvine)
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Hundreds of Milky Way Satellites?[Poster] |
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Joseph Wolf
(UC Irvine)
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Mass Models of M31 Satellites[Poster] |
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Simone Zaggia
(INAF, Italy)
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The Outer Galactic Halo in the Direction of the Chandra Deep Field South[Poster] |
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Adi Zolotov
(NYU)
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The Dual Origin of a Simulated Milky Way Halo[Poster] |
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