Scientific Program

Overcoming Great Barriers in Galactic Archaeology 5-8 May 2009

In association with the Astrophysical Institute, Potsdam, the Australian National University, and the University of Sydney

Scientific Program as of 1 May. (Session Chairs to be advised.)

Tuesday 5^th May

09:00 - 09:10 Welcome by Fred Watson, AAO, Chair, LOC

09:10 - 09:35 Introduction to the workshop by Matthias Steinmetz, AIP, Chair, SOC

Session 1: Formation and structure of the Milky Way Galaxy

09:35 - 10:10 Brad Gibson: The origin of the light distribution in disk galaxies (35 min)

10:10 - 10:45 Chiaki Kobayashi: Chemodynamical simulations of the Milky Way Galaxy (35 min)

10:45 - 11:15 Morning Tea

11:15 - 11:50 Ken Freeman: The formation of the Galactic Bulge with ARGOS (35 min)

11:50 - 12:25 Matthias Steinmetz: How massive is the Milky Way? (35 min)

12:25 - 14:30 Lunch

14:30 - 15:05 Heather Morrison: Age/abundance gradients in the Milky Way’s thick disk (35 min)

15:05 - 15:40 Daniela Carollo: Structure and kinematics of the stellar halo(s) and thick disk(s) of the Milky Way based on calibration stars from SDSS DR-7 (35 min)

15:40 - 16:10 Afternoon Tea

16:10 - 16:45 Michael Rich: The bulge radial velocity assay (35 min)

16:45 - 17:30 Discussion (45 min)

17:30 End of session

Wednesday 6^th May

Session 2: The stars of the Milky Way

09:00 - 09:55 Mike Bessell: Temperature scales of halo stars (55 min)

09:55 - 10:30 Tim Beers: Old wine in new bottles: A re-analysis of the abundances and kinematics of the Norris, Bessell & Pickels sample of ‘weak-metal’ stars (35 min)

10:30 - 11:00 Morning Tea

11:00 - 11:35 Sean Ryan: Lithium abundances and isotope ratios in halo dwarfs (35 min)

11:35 - 12:10 Martin Asplund: Is the Sun chemically unusual? (35 min)

12:10 - 14:30 Picnic Lunch

Session 3: Chemical properties of Milky Way Globular Clusters

14:30 - 15:05 David Yong: Globular clusters: chemical abundances and multiple populations (35 min)

15:05 - 15:40 Gary Da Costa: M22: A [Fe/H] abundance range revealed (35 min)

15:40 - 16:15 Amanda Karakas and John Lattanzio: Abundance anomalies in globular clusters and the role of AGB stars (35 min)

16:15 - 16:45 Afternoon Tea

16:45 - 17:20 Peter Cottrell: Surveying the s- and r-process elements in globular clusters using SALT, VLT and AAT (35 min)

17:20 - 18:00 Discussion (40 min)

18:00 End of session

Thursday 7^th May

Session 4: Properties of dwarf galaxies

09:00 - 09:55 John Norris: Abundances in the BOOTES 1 and SEGUE 1 systems (55 min)

09:55 - 10:30 Anna Frebel: Extremely metal-poor stars in ultra-faint dwarf galaxies (35 min)

10:30 - 11:00 Morning Tea

11:00 - 11: 35 Torgny Karlsson: Stellar relics, dwarf galaxies, and dark matter (35 min)

11:35 - 12:10 Nicholas Martin: Faint dwarf galaxies in the Local Group (35 min)

12:10 - 14:00 Lunch

Session 5: Substructure in the Milky Way and its Ilk

14:00 - 14:35 Dan Zucker: New stellar streams and faint satellites (35 min)

14:35 - 15:10 Mary Williams: Chasing the dragon: hunting stellar streams in the solar neighbourhood (35 min)

15:10 - 15:45 Elizabeth Wylie de Boer: Evidence of tidal debris from Omega Centauri in the Kapteyn moving group (35 min)

15:45 - 16:15 Afternoon Tea

16:15 - 16:50 Annette Ferguson: Star clusters in the halos of M31 and M33 (35 min)

16:50 - 17:30 Discussion (40 min)

17:30 End of session

19:30 Conference dinner and celebration honouring Mike Bessell and John Norris

(Pre-dinner drinks from 18.00)

Friday 8^th May

Session 6: Current and future surveys

09:00 - 09:35 Tomaz Zwitter: Present state and promises of the RAVE survey (35 min)

09:35 - 10:10 Fred Watson: RAVEing mad - the agony and the ecstasy of a million-star survey (35 min)

10:10 - 10:45 Stefan Keller: SkyMapper and galactic archaeology (35 min)

10:45 - 11:15 Morning Tea

11:15 - 11:50 Joss Bland-Hawthorn: HERMES: Reconstructing the Early Disk (35 min)

11:50 - 12:25 Anthony Horton: HERMES: A new instrument for galactic archaeology (35 min)

12:25 - 14:00 Lunch

14:00 – 14:35 Paul Harding: Recent results from SEGUE (35 min)

14:35 - 15:10 Norbert Christlieb: The LAMOST metal-poor star survey (35 min)

15.10 - 16:00 Discussion: Future prospects for galactic archaeology (50 min)

16:00 End of Workshop