Conference Program
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Sunday, July 31, 2016
5.00 - 7.00 pm
Opening Reception - The M Restaurant, Avalon, CA
Registration will be available at the Opening Reception
Monday, August 1, 2016
Registration available from 8am at the conference location: the Overlook Hall
Session 1 : Identifying Transitioning Galaxies and Secular Evolution I - chair: Gillian Wilson
9.00 - 9.30 am
9.30 - 10.00 am
Bianca Poggianti - Transitioning galaxies in clusters and beyond
10.00 - 10.20 am
David Koo - High Central Mass Density: Best Ticket to Cross the Blue to Red Bridge
10.20 - 10.40 am
Decker French - The death of galaxies: evolution through the post-starburst phase
10.40 - 11.00 am
Shoubaneh Hemmati - Resolving the Star Formation Quenching
11.00 - 11.30 am Coffee Break
11.30 - 12.00 pm
12.00 - 12.20 pm
Josh Argyle - A Bayesian’s perspective of galaxy growth via bulge evolution
12.20 - 12.40 pm
Crystal Martin - Quasars Probing Galaxies: Gas Accretion in Extended Galactic Disks?
12.40 - 1.00 pm
Jeffrey Rich - The Las Campanas PrISM Survey
1.00 - 2.30 pm Lunch Break
Session 2 : Identifying Transitioning Galaxies and Secular Evolution II - chair: Ute Lisenfeld
2.30 - 3.00 pm
Greg Snyder - Observing the Consequences of Quenching in Simulations
3.00 - 3.20 pm
3.20 - 3.40 pm
Marja Seidel - Bar-driven secular evolution in nearby galaxies
3.40 - 4.10 pm Poster Presentations
Alatalo, Ardila, Berti, Cerulo, Clements, Dai, Emerick, Farrah, Fillingham, Fuentes-Carrera, Glowacki
4.10 - 4.50 pm Coffee Break
4.50 - 5.20 pm
Alison Crocker - The role of secular evolution in galaxy transformation
5.20 - 5.40 pm
Timothy Davis - There and back again: pathways to and from the red-sequence for ISM rich ETGs
5.40 - 6.20 pm - Discussion (Katey Alatalo & Alan Dressler)
Tuesday, August 2, 2016
Session 3: Mergers and the Role of AGN in Galaxy Transformation I - chair: Phil Appleton
9.00 - 9.30 am
Jorge Moreno - Galaxy Mergers on FIRE
9.30 - 9.50 am
9.50 - 10.10 am
Junko Ueda - Does AGN and stellar feedback affect the molecular gas in merger remnants?
10.10 - 10.30 am
George Privon - Large Scale Outflows and Dense Outflows in low-z ULIRGs
10.30 - 11.00 am Poster Presentations
Häuβler, Hahn, Johnston, Jorgensen, Joshi, Mo, Old, Pawlik
11.00 - 11.30 am Coffee Break
11.30 - 12.00 pm
Ezequiel Treister - The Role of Major Mergers in (obscured) Black Hole Growth and Galaxy Evolution
12.00 - 12.20 pm
Kirsten Larson - Clumpy Star-formation in Local Luminous Infrared Galaxies
12.20 - 12.40 pm
12.40 - 1.00 pm
Rachael Beaton - Rethinking the Narrative of a Micro-Merger: Impacts on the Host Galaxy Morphology
1.00 - 2.30 pm Lunch Break + Conference Photo!
Session 4: Mergers and the Role of AGN in Galaxy Transformation II - chair: Tim Davis
2.30 - 3.00 pm
Phil Hopkins - What Doesn't Quench Star Formation? The Need for AGN
3.00 - 3.20 pm
Vivian U - A Near-Infrared View of Shocks in Nuclear Outflows
3.20 - 3.40 pm
Fred Hamann - Extreme Red Quasars in SDSS3-BOSS
3.40 - 4.10 pm Poster Presentations
Ramos-Martinez, Shih, Shivaei, Smith, Suess, Terrazas, Vayner, Wenger, Wiens
4.10 - 4.50 pm Coffee Break
4.50 - 5.10 pm
Lauranne Lanz - Star Formation Suppression due to AGN Feedback
5.10 - 5.30 pm
Duncan Farrah - Star Formation in Luminous Quasars at 2<z<3
5.30 - 5.50 pm
5.50 - 6.30 pm Discussion (Dave Sanders & Nick Scoville)
Wednesday, August 3, 2016
Free morning
Suggestions for activities include scuba diving, boat rides, island tours and hiking.
1.00 - 2.30 pm Lunch Break
Session 5: AGN Feedback and the Role of Environment - chair: Duncan Farrah
2.30 - 3.00 pm
Anne Medling - From Nuclear Outflows to Galactic Winds
3.00 - 3.20 pm
Dale Kocevski - Insights on the AGN-Galaxy Connection from CANDELS & X-UDS
3.20 - 3.40 pm
3.40 - 4.00 pm
Tanya Urrutia - The Close AGN Reference Survey
4.00 - 4.40 pm Coffee Break
4.40 - 5.00 pm
Simona Mei - Galaxy evolution in dense environments
5.00 - 5.20 pm
5.20 - 5.40 pm
5.40 - 6.00 pm
James Aird - Mapping the incidence and distribution of AGN accretion across the galaxy population
6.30 - 10 pm Banquet - @ the Descanso Beach Lawn Club
Thursday, August 4, 2016
Session 6: The Role of Environment in Galaxy Evolution I - chair: Lauranne Lanz
9.00 - 9.30 am
Gurtina Besla - Environment and the Evolution of Dwarf Galaxies
9.30 - 9.50 am
Jeremy Tinker - The Preferred Pathway to the Red Sequence
9.50 - 10.10 am
10.10 - 10.30 am
Behnam Darvish - Effects of local environment and stellar mass on galaxy quenching out to z ∼ 3
10.30 - 10.50 am
Federico Lelli - The evolutionary pathways of dwarf galaxies
11.00 - 11.30 am Coffee Break
11.30 - 12.00 pm
Sarah Gallagher - It's Complicated: Galaxy Evolution in Compact Groups
12.00 - 12.20 pm
Ute Lisenfeld - Suppression of star formation in Hickson Compact Groups
12.20 - 12.40 pm
Phil Appleton - Galaxy Evolution in Dense Group Environments: Clues from Warm Diffuse Gas
12.40 - 1.00 pm
Chao-Ling Hung - Connecting dusty starburst galaxies and proto galaxy clusters: a case study at z=2
1.00 - 2.30 pm Lunch Break
Session 7: The Role of Environment in Galaxy Evolution II - chair: Jorge Moreno
2.30 - 3.00 pm
Jeyhan Kartaltepe - The Morphologies of the Most Luminous galaxies in the Universe
3.00 - 3.20 pm
Andra Stroe - Giant cosmic tsunamis: the impact of galaxy cluster merger shocks on galaxy evolution
3.20 - 3.40 pm
Gillian Wilson - The Role of Environment in Transforming Galaxies Across Cosmic Time
3.40 - 4.10 pm
4.10 - 4.50 pm Coffee Break
4.50 - 5.10 pm
Allison Man - An emerging consensus on the merger rate of massive galaxies at z=0-3
5.10 - 5.30 pm
Jessica Rosenberg - The Evolution of HI in Galaxies as a Function of Environment
5.30 - 5.50 pm
5.50 - 6.30 pm Discussion (Mark Lacy)
Friday, August 5, 2016
Session 8: Tracing Galaxy Evolution into the High Redshift Universe I - chair: Mark Lacy
9.00 - 9.30 am
Mariska Kriek - Galaxy transformations at z~2
9.30 - 9.50 am
Kate Rowlands - The Preferred Pathway to the Red Sequence
9.50 - 10.10 am
Andreas Faisst - How to quench massive galaxies
10.10 - 10.30 am
10.30 - 10.50 am
10.50 - 11.30 am Coffee Break
11.30 - 12.00 pm
Gergely Popping - The gas content of galaxies over cosmic time
12.00 - 12.20 pm
Omar Almaini - Structural transformation and quenching in massive post-starburst galaxies
12.20 - 12.40 pm
Anna Sajina - Modelling dusty galaxies
12.40 - 1.00 pm
Pablo G. Pérez-González - How fast can the Universe make a massive quiescent galaxy?
1.00 - 2.30 pm Lunch Break
Session 9: Tracing Galaxy Evolution into the High Redshift Universe II - chair: Andrew Wetzel
2.30 - 3.00 pm
Alison Coil - AGN-driven Outflows and Galactic Conformity at z~1-2
3.00 - 3.20 pm
3.20 - 3.40 pm
3.40 - 4.20 pm Discussion (Jane Rigby)
4.20 - 5.00 pm Coffee Break & Awards Ceremony
