The Life and Times of Galaxies
A Celebration of Alan Dressler's career
September 9-12, 2014
Zion National Park, Utah
MONDAY Sep 8
17:00-18:30 WELCOME RECEPTION/ REGISTRATION
TUESDAY Sep 9
08:30-09:00 Gus Oemler - A History of Galaxy Evolution Studies
09:00-09:30 Gabrella de Lucia - A Theoretical Overview of Galaxy Evolution
09:30-10:00 Avishai Dekel - Cold/Hot Flows in Galaxies
10:00-10:30 COFFEE BREAK
10:30-11:00 Stephane Courteau - The Structure and Scaling Relations of Spiral Galaxies
11:00-11:30 Michele Cappellari - Scaling Relations and Environment
11:30-12:00 Matthew Colless - Fundamental Plane/Stellar Populations from Low-z Surveys
12:00-12:20 Benedetta Vulcani - The Relation Between the Galaxy Stellar Mass Function and the Mass of Its Hosting Halo
12:20-14:00 LUNCH
14:00-14:30 Roger Davies - Early-Type Galaxies in High Density Environments
14:30-15:00 Chung-Pei Ma - IFU Survey of Nearby Galaxies
15:00-15:30 Scott Trager - The Low-mass IMF in Early-type Galaxies
15:30-16:00 COFFEE BREAK
16:00-16:30 Janice Lee - Star Formation in the Low-z Universe
16:30-17:00 Hsiao-Wen Chen - Probing the Gas Content in Galaxies via Absorption-line Studies
17:00-17:30 Warrich Couch - E+A Galaxies
WEDNESDAY, Sep 10
08:30-09:00 Megan Donahue - AGN Feedback and the Cluster Environment
09:00-09:30 Mark Voit - The Physics of Galaxy Cluster Evolution
09:30-10:00 Michael McDonald - The Evolution of Cool Cores in Galaxy Clusters
10:00-10:30 COFFEE BREAK
10:30-11:00 Bianca Poggianti - Galaxies in Low-z Clusters and the Field
11:00-11:20 Louie Abramson - ICBS
11:20-11:50 Lori Lubin - Galaxy Clusters at Intermediate Redshift
11:50-12:20 Drew Newman - Passive galaxies in the Earliest Overdense Regions
12:20-01:00 LUNCH
Free Afternoon
THURSDAY Sep 11
08:30-09:00 Tod Lauer - Local Blackholes
09:00-09:30 Remco van den Bosch - The Extremities of the Local Black Hole Scaling Relations
09:30-10:00 Jenny Greene - Blackholes in the lowest mass galaxies
10:00-10:30 Rachel Somerville
10:30-11:00 COFFEE BREAK
11:00-11:30 Marc Postman - CLASH
11:30-12:00 Sandy Faber - CANDELS
12:00-12:30 Tommaso Treu - The Life and Times of Galaxies Through GLASS
12:30-14:00 LUNCH
14:00-14:30 Mike Gladders - Early Universe from Gravitational Lensing
14:30-15:00 Dan Kelson - CSI
15:00-15:30 Ivo Labbe - The Earliest Massive Galaxies
15:30-16:00 COFFEE BREAK
16:00-16:30 Matt Malkan - WISPs
16:30-16:50 Alaina Henry
18:30-21:00 BANQUET (speakers include Stephane Courteau, Todd Boroson, Tod Lauer, Sandra Faber, and George Lake)
FRIDAY Sep 12
09:00-09:30 Crystal Martin - Searches for the faintest LAEs
09:30-10:00 Karl Gebhardt - HETDEX
10:00-10:30 Daniel Stark - Early Star Forming Galaxies and Reionization
10:30-11:00 COFFEE BREAK
11:00-11:30 Marcia Reike - JWST
11:30-12:00 George Reike - Future infrared space missions
12:00-12:30 Pat Mccarthy - Galaxy Evolution studies with the next generation ground-based telescopes