The Milky Way and the Local Group -
Now and in the
Gaia Era
Talks
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Session I. Gaia Overview
- Prusti: Gaia Mission Overview
- Brown: Gaia Science Overview
- Klioner: Gaia and Fundamental Physics
Session II. Other Astrometric Missions
- Gouda: JASMINE Projects: Series of Infrared Space Astrometry Missions
- Yamada: Nano-JASMINE, Mission Status and Data Analysis
- Unwin: The SIM Lite Astrometric Observatory
- Olling: An Era of Precision Astrophysics: Connecting Stars, Galaxies and the Universe
Session III: The Magellanic Clouds
- Cioni: AGB Stars and the Evolution of Galaxies
- Gallagher: An ACS View of the Star Formation History of the Small Magellanic Cloud
- Besla: Constraints on the Orbit of the Magellanic Clouds
- Mastropietro: Modeling a High-Velocity LMC. The Formation of the Magellanic Stream
- Milanova: The Evolution of the Planetary Nebulae Ensembles in Local Group Galaxies
Session VI: Stellar Spectroscopy and Photometry with Gaia
- Korn: The Gaia Stellar Library
- Heiter: Critical Observational Tests of Stellar Atmosphere Models for Gaia and Beyond
- Gebran: Chemically Peculiar A/F Stars in Open Clusters of the Milky Way - Results and Needs
- Recio-Blanco: Automated Stellar Parametrization With MATISSE
- Wyrzykowski: Real-Time Photometric Monitoring With Gaia Science Alerts
- V. Simon: Cataclysmic Variables: Statistical Properties of Their Long-term Light Curves, Their Physical Justification, and Importance for Gaia
Session V: The Andromeda System
- McConnachie: The Pan-Andromeda Archaeological Survey: Galaxy Formation in the Near-Field
- Guhathakurta: Andromeda and Its Dwarf Satellites: Mapping the Progressive Stages of Hierarchical Galaxy Formation
- Collins: The Thick Disk in M31
- Hou: The Milky Way and M31: A Tale of Two Disks
- Magrini: The Abundance Distribution in M33: Hints from Planetary Nebulae and HII Regions
Session VI: Modeling Milky Way Halos
- Navarro: Dark and Stellar Halos
- Cooper: Aquarius: High Resolution Simulations of Milky Way Stellar Haloes
- Scannapieco: Formation of Milky Way-Type Galaxies in Cosmological Hydrodynamical Simulations
- Zolotov: The Dual Origin of Stellar Halos
Session VII: The Andromeda Stream
- Ferguson: Stellar Substructure and Star Clusters in the Halo of M31
- Fardal: Dynamical Models of Andromeda's Giant Southern Stream
- Mori: The Once and Future Andromeda Stream
- Gilbert: Stellar Halo Formation in a Hierarchical Universe: Lessons from our Sister Galaxy Andromeda
Session VIII: Using and Operating Gaia
- Shaya: Probing Dark Matter Properties by Dynamics of the Galaxy and the Local Group
- O'Mullane: Operating Gaia
- Jordan: First Look Assuring the Quality of the Gaia Data
- Hambly: CCDs in Space: the Gaia Radiation Damage Challenge
Session IX: Gaia Techniques
- Prod'homme: Radiation Damage Effects on Gaia CCDs, Modelling to Mitigate the Threat
- Lindegren: Calculating the Gaia Astrometric Catalogue: Principles, Expected Results and Operational Aspects
- Bombrun: A Conjugate Gradient Scheme to Compute the Global Astrometric Solution for Gaia
- Risquez: Gaia Attitude Model
- Hudec: Astrophysics with Low Dispersion Spectra: The Prospects for ESA’s Gaia
Session X: Structure of the Galactic Halo
- Helmi: Structure, kinematics and history of the Galactic halo
- Carollo: The Dichotomy of the Galactic Halo
- Cacciari: Monitoring the Structure of the Galactic Halo in the Anti-center Direction with BHB and RR Lyrae Stars
- Altmann: Chemo-Kinematic Tracing of Old Populations Using HBA Stars
- de Propris: Mapping the Galactic Halo with Blue Horizontal Branch Stars
Session XI: Combining Astrometric Surveys
- Vicente: CdC-SF Catalogue: Proper Motions Based on Photographic Plates “Carte du Ciel”
- Röser: Combining USNO-B1.0 with 2MASS - a Playground for Gaia
- Spagna: A New Kinematic Survey (from SDSS-DR7 and GSC-II) to Study the Stellar Populations in the Milky Way
- Holl: Spatial Correlations in the Gaia Catalogue
- Eyer: A Comparison of the Gaia and LSST Surveys
- Czekaj: Preliminary Comparison of Tycho-2 Proper Motions With A Galaxy Model
Session XII: The Halo's Chemical Composition
- Beers: Chemistry of the Galactic Halos
- Frebel: Galactic Archaeology with the Milky Way Stellar Halo
- Ishigaki: Chemical Abundances of the Milky Way Outer Halo Stars
- Trenti: Extremely-Metal Poor Stars in the Milky Way: A Second Generation Formed After Reionization
- Scholz: The Coolest Halo Subdwarfs - the Oldest Brown Dwarfs?
Session XIII: Globular Clusters
- Marin-Franch: The Ages of Milky Way Globular Clusters and the Formation of the Halo
- D’Antona: Abundance Anomalies and Multiple Stellar Populations in Globular Clusters
- Da Costa: M22: A [Fe/H] Abundance Range Revealed
- Martell: CN-Strong Stars in the Galactic Halo
Session XIV: Streams in the Galactic Halo
- Newberg: Tidal Streams in the Galactic Spheroid
- Schlaufman: The Stellar Accretion History of the Milky Way Through Cold Halo Substructure
- Fliri: SDSS Analysis of Galactic Stellar Streams
- Xue: Mapping the Milky Way's Dark Matter and Stellar Halo
Session XV: Hipparchos and Current Surveys: Results and Prospects
- Nordström: The Geneva-Copenhagen Survey and the Impact of Hipparcos on Understanding the Milky Way
- Rockosi: The Milky Way in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and SEGUE
- Steinmetz: Exploring the Local Milky Way with RAVE
- Brunthaler: Mapping the Milky Way and the Local Group with VLBI Astrometry
- Benjamin: Galactic Cartography with Spitzer/GLIMPSE: Bars, Spirals, and Rings
Session XVI: Milky Way Evolution Models
- Robin: Structure and Evolution of the Milky Way from the Besançon Model
- Girardi: Modelling the Milky Way With TRILEGAL
- Spitoni: Effects of Galactic Fountains and Metal Cooling in the Chemical Evolution of the Milky Way
- Bien: Purely Gravitational Models of Disk/Bulge/Halo Galaxies, With Special Emphasis on the Milky Way
Session XVII: The Next Generation of Ground-based Spectroscopic Surveys
- X. Liu: LEGUE – The LAMOST Experiment for Galactic Understanding and Evolution
- Chen: Galactic Disk Survey Using LAMOST
- Battaglia: Intermediate Resolution Spectroscopy of Resolved Stellar Populations for Galaxies in the Local Group and Beyond Using the European Extremely Large Telescope
Session XVIII: Constraints on Orbits and on the Shape of Galactic Halo
- Jin: Fitting Orbits to Streams in the Galactic Halo
- Koposov: How Round? Constraining the Milky Way's Dark Matter Halo With a 6-Dimensional Map of the GD-1 Stellar Stream
- Willett: Simultaneous Orbit Fitting of Two Stellar Streams: Constraining the Galactic Dark Matter Halo
- Lux: How Well Does Backwards Orbit Integration Trace the Orbits of Satellites?
Session XIX: The Next Generation of Ground-based Photometric and Astrometric Surveys
- Keller: SkyMapper's Southern Sky Survey: a Sky Survey Optimized for Stellar Astrophysics
- Rix: PanSTARRS Maps the Milky Way
- Hempel: The VISTA Variable Survey in the Via Lactea
Session XX: More on Dynamical Modelling
- Gomez: On the Identification of Substructure in Phase-Space Using Orbital Frequencies
- van de Ven: Dynamical Modeling Using Schwarzschild's Orbit-Superposition Method
- Dehnen: Dynamical Modelling via Made-to-Measure
Session XXI: The Thin and Thick Disk: Abundances and Gradients
- Feltzing: The Galactic Thick and Thin Disk
- Morrison: Age/Abundance Gradients in the Milky Way's Thick Disk
- Fuhrmann: Galaxy Formation - the Fossil Record of Nearby Stars
- Venn: Stellar Populations in WLM and the Formation of Dwarf Galaxies With Disks
- Maciel: Abundance Gradients in the Milky Way: the Problem of Distances
- Lemasle: New Determination of the Galactic Abundance Gradient Using Cepheid Variable Stars
- Boeche: Chemical Gradients in the Milky Way from the RAVE Chemical Abundances Catalogue
- C. Liu: Mapping Variations in the Stellar Metallicity Distributions Across the Milky Way
Session XXII: Star Formation Histories of Local Group Dwarf Galaxies
- Gallart: High-Precision Star Formation Histories of Local Group Galaxies
- Monelli: The ACS LCID Project: Star Formation Histories of Isolated Galaxies in the Local Group
- Hidalgo: Star Formation History Gradients in Dwarf Galaxies of the Local Group
- Clementini: Stellar Archaeology in the Milky Way and Andromeda Halos
- Pasetto: Isolated and Interacting Dwarf Galaxies: Dark Matter and Star Formation Processes
- Jablonka: The Formation and Evolution of the Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies
Session XXIII: Open Clusters as Tracers of the Galactic Disk
- Schilbach: Integrated Photometric Parameters and Luminosity Functions of Galactic Open Clusters
- Pfalzner: Universality of Young Cluster Sequences in the Milky Way - and How Is It Elsewhere?
- Bragaglia: Open Clusters as Tracers of the Galactic Disk
- Carraro: Stellar Populations in the Third Quadrant of the Milky Way
Session XXIV: Faint Dwarf Spheroidals
- Martin: Faint Dwarf Galaxies in the Local Group
- Okamoto: The Stellar Populations and Spatial Distributions of Ultra-faint DSphs
- Salvadori: The Faintest Milky Way Satellites: What Are They?
- Peñarrubia: The Tidal Origin of the Ultra-faint Dwarf Galaxy Population
- Macciò: The Luminosity Function of Milky Way Satellites in a LCDM Universe
Session XXV: Kinematics of the Solar Neighborhood
- Fuchs/Rix: The Kinematics of Late-Type Stars in the Solar Cylinder Studied with SDSS Data
- Anguiano: RAVE: The Age-Metallicity-Velocity Relation in the Nearby Disk
- Larsen: Mapping the Asymmetric Thick Disk - the Hercules Thick Disk Cloud
Session XXVI: Dwarf Spheroidal Chemistry
- Koch: All Quiet in the Outer Halo - Chemical Abundances in DSphs and Outer Halo Globular Clusters
- Hill: Chemical Abundances and the Enrichment History of Local Group Dwarf Galaxies
- Cohen: The Chemical Evolution of the Draco and the UMi dSph Galaxies
- Starkenburg: The Search for Extremely Low-Metallicity Stars in Dwarf Galaxies Using the NIR Ca II Triplet
- Cescutti: Chemical Evolution Models in the Local Group
Session XXVII: Models of the Galactic Disk
- Just: The Local Milky Way Disk Model in Comparison with SDSS and RAVE Data
- Moster: Can Gas Prevent the Destruction of Thin Stellar Discs by Minor Mergers?
- Schönrich: Explaining the Thin and the Thick Disc in One Model
- Read: Heated Versus Accreted Thick Disks in LCDM
Session XXVIII: Milky Way Satellite Cosmology
- Frenk: Simulations of the Milky Way Satellites
- Carlberg: The Problem of Dark Substructures
- D'Onghia: Resonant Stripping and the Origin of Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies
- Y.-S. Li: Milky Way Satellites in a Cosmological Context
Session XXIX: Overdensities and Substructure
- Juric: The Milky Way Tomography with SDSS: Decoding The Rosetta Stone of Galaxy Formation
- Minchev: Solar Neighborhood Velocity Streams Induced by Recent Bar Growth
- Duffau: The Virgo Stellar Stream
- Antoja: Connecting Moving Groups to the Non-Axisymmetric Milky Way Structure
- Bovy: The Velocity Distribution of Nearby Stars from Hipparcos Data: The Significance of the Moving Groups
- Williams: Stellar Streams in RAVE
- Klement: Stellar Halo Streams in the Solar Neighborhood
- Garbari: Limits on the Local Density of Dark Matter
- Niederste-Ostholt: Re-assembling the Sagittarius Dwarf Galaxy
Session XXX: How Massive Are Dwarf Spheroidals?
- Gilmore: Constraints on Dark Matter in Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies
- J. Simon: The Masses of the Least Luminous Galaxies
- Adén: The Ultra-faint Hercules Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy - Mass, Rotation and Tidal Stripping
- Lokas: Mass Modelling of Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies
Session XXXI: The Galactic Bulge
- Rich: The Galactic Bulge
- Origlia: The Chemistry of the Galactic Bulge from Infrared Spectroscopy
- Groenewegen/Blommaert: The Galactic Bulge AGB Population
- Matsunaga: The Distance to the Galactic Center Based on a Near-Infrared Survey of Miras
Session XXXII: What Do we Need to Do to Prepare Ourselves for the Gaia Data?
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