Wednesday 4 July

10:00am - 10:30am

Registration

10:30am - 12:00noon

Session 1

Chairperson: C. Conselice

C. Conselice

Introduction

David Carter

30min

Star Formation, Young Clusters and Dust in Mergers

Sven De Rijcke

15min

Post-starburst galaxies, or how mergers drive the evolution from blue to red systems

C. Moss

15min

Enhanced mergers in galaxy clusters and the origins of the cluster S0 population

Trevor Ponman

15min

The removal of HI in group galaxies through interactions

H. Khosroshahi

15min

Galaxy properties in fossil groups

12:00pm - 1:15pm

Lunch in C

1:15pm - 3:00pm

Session 2

Chairperson: Trevor Ponman

C. Tadhunter

15min

AGN triggering and feedback in major galaxy mergers

J. Holt

15min

Observations of AGN Feedback in Nearby Galaxies

Maria Angeles Martinez Carballo

15min

AGN population in Compact Groups Galaxies

Patricia Sanchez-Blazquez

15min

Kinematic and stellar population gradients as fingerprints of past mergers in elliptical galaxies

Duncan Forbes

30min

Constraints on Interactions and Mergers from Globular Cluster Systems

Antti Tamm

15min

Galactic Halos as Tracers of Mergers

3:00pm - 3:30pm

Coffee & Tea

3:30pm - 5:30pm

Session 3

Chairperson: Sven De Rijcke

Javier Rodriguez

15min

Star forming histories in Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxies

Johan Knapen

15min

Star formation in Galaxy Interactions and Mergers

Andreas Burkert

15min

Sauron's challenge of the major merger scenario

Olivier Le Fevre

30min

Evolution of the merging rate since z~1.2 from spectroscopically confirmed galaxy pairs in the VVDS

Hector Flores

15min

IMAGES: a unique view of the galaxy mass assembly since z=1

Lihwai Lin

15min

Galaxy Merger Rate Evolution for Dry Mergers, Wet Mergers, and Wet-Dry Mergers

7:00-7:30pm start

Meal

Thursday 5 July

9:00am -10:30am

Session 4

Chairperson: David Carter

Chris Conselice

15min

Galaxy Mergers at z > 1

Sugata Kaviraj

15min

A first UV study of E+A galaxies: efficiency of feedback and quenching as a function of galaxy mass

Stefano Andreon

15min

Ruling out mass evolution and mergers in cluster and group galaxies up to z=1.3

Boris Haussler

15min

Exploring the formation of elliptical galaxies

Bodo Ziegler

15min

Galaxy interactions in distant clusters seen with 2D velocity fields and structure and compared to SPH simulations

Jens Zuther

15min

NIR observations of late-stage merger QSOs in the context of ULIRG-to-QSO evolution

10:30am - 11:00am

Coffee

11:00am -12:30am

Session 5

Chairperson: Gary Mamon

Christian Theis

30min

The Challenge of Modelling Galaxy Interactions

Cesario Almeida

15min

The formation of spheroids in a hierarchical universe

Bruno Henriques

15min

The merging history of galaxies and the satellites problem in Semi-analytical models

Sadegh Khochfar

30min

Dry Mergers: What can be learned from them?

12:30pm - 1:30pm

Lunch

1:30pm – 3:00pm

Session 6

Chairperson: Christian Theis

Paola Di Matteo

30min

Star formation efficiency in galaxy interactions and mergers: a numerical study

Rosa Domingez-Tenreiro

20min

The Role of Wet vs Dry Mergers in Elliptical Formation: Clues from Cosmological Hydrodynamical Simulations

Ali Dariush

15min

Fossil groups in the Millennium Simulation

Andrew Cooper

20min

Modelling Halo Gas Reservoirs in Semi-Analytic Galaxy Formation

3:00pm - 3:35pm

Coffee & Tea

3:35pm - 4:45pm

Session 7

Chairperson: Sadegh Khochfar

Chanda Jog

15min

Sloshing in centres of galaxy mergers

Paul McMillan

20min

The haloes of merger remnants - Some results from N-body simulations

G. Mamon

15min

Dynamical and hydrodynamical evolution of galaxies within merging clusters

Carlo Nipoti

20min

Galaxy merging in modified Newtonian dynamics

4:45pm - 5:20pm

Discussion Session led by Frazer Pearce

05:20 pm

End of Workshop