28. May, Mon.
17.00-19.00		Registration in the AIfA
29. May, Tue.
08.00-09.30		Registration in the AIfA
09.30-09.50	Opening
		Talks
09.50-10.15	T.C. Beers Phys/Astron MSU	The nature of the galactic halo as revealed by SDSS/SEGUE
10.15-10.30	D. Carollo INAF Obs Turin	The dichotomy of the galactic halo of the Milky Way
10.30-11.00	A. Robin Obs Besançon	The spheroid shape from deep multicolor surveys
11.00-11.30	Coffee/Tea
11.30-12.00	K. Vivas CI Astron Merida	The QUEST RR Lyrae survey and halo substructure
12.00-12.20	H. Morrison Case Western	The outer halo in the SEGUE database
12.20-12.40	M. Altmann Astro U de Chile	HB stars - a powerful tool to study the Milky Way halo
12.40-14.30	Lunch
14.30-14.50	J.T.A. de Jong MPIA Heidelberg	Studying Milky Way structure using stellar populations
14.50-15.20	B.D. Savage U Wisc Madison	The properties of transition temperature gas in the galactic halo
15.20-15.40	D. Valls-Gabaud Obs de Paris	The nature of diffuse ionized gas in galactic haloes
15.40-16.00	L.M. Haffner U Wisc Madison	Physical conditions of the plasma in the Milky Way Halo: Results from WHAM
16.00-16.30	Coffee/Tea
16.30-16.50	J. Kerp AIfA Bonn	X-ray emission of high-velocity clouds
16.50-17.10	R. Shelton U Georgia	Observing between the shadows in order to determine the halo's O VI intensity
17.10-17.30	L. Dedes AIfA Bonn	Halo HI clumps outside the solar circle
17.30-18.00	C. Thom U Chicago	Distances to the high-velocity clouds
30. May, Wed.
09.00-09.30	F.J. Lockman NRAO Greenbank	HI between the disk and the halo of the Milky Way
09.30-09.50	P.M.W. Kalberla AIfA Bonn	The large scale HI distribution in the Milky Way disk and halo
09.50-10.10	S. Stanimirovic U Wisc Madison	Small-scale structure of the Galactic disk/halo interface region
10.10-10.30	P. Richter Astro U Potsdam	Small-scale structure in the Milky Way's circumgalactic gas
10.30-11.00	Coffee/Tea
11.00-11.20		Discussion Gas
11.20-11.50	S. Moehler ESO	New twists along the blue horizontal branches of globular clusters
11.50-12.20	P. Bonifacio Obs de Paris	The sign of four and three: Be and Li in the Halo Globular Clusters
12.20-12.40	M. Spite Obs de Paris	Na, Mg and Al abundance in extremely metal-poor galactic stars
12.40-14.30	Lunch
14.20-14.40	M. Hilker ESO	CN and CH line strengths of genuine halo globular clusters versus accreted globular clusters
14.40-15.00	N. Christlieb Uppsala U	News on HE 0107-5240 and on future surveys
15.00-15.30	A. Frebel McDonald Obs	Bright metal-poor stars from the Hamburg/ESO survey
15.30-16.00	J.E. Norris ANU	The "gap" star HE 0557-4840 - Ultra-metal-poor and carbon-rich
16.00-16.30	Coffee/Tea
16.30-16.50		Discussion Metal-poor stars
16.50-17.20	D. Reimers Hamburger Stw	On the mass loss of red-giant stars - Alpha Sco and the Antares nebula
17.20-17.50	K.S. de Boer AIfA Bonn	How much does halo red-giant mass loss contribute to the gas falling toward the MW disk?
19.30	evening	Concert   Herschel
	Johannes Geffert Musikhochschule	William Herschel and other composers Sonatas (Piano, Violin, Cello)
	Köln	"Stucksaal" in the "Poppelsdorfer Schloss"
31. May, Thu.
09.00-09.30	W. Brown SAO	Hypervelocity stars ejected from the galactic centre
09.30-10.00	U. Heber Bamberg U Erlangen	Hyper-velocity stars
10.00-10.30	H. Baumgardt AIfA Bonn	On the origin of the hyper-velocity stars in the galactic halo
10.30-11.00	Coffee/Tea
11.00-11.20	R.-D. Scholz AI Potsdam	Galactic halo ultracool subdwarfs crossing the Solar neighbourhood
11.20-11.50	R.P. van der Marel  STScI	The Magellanic Clouds and Stream as probes of the Milky Way Halo
11.50-12.10	D. Martinez-Delgado IAC	Tracing tidal streams in the Galactic Halo
12.10-12.40	E.K. Grebel ARI Heidelberg	The extended galactic halo: The role of satellites
12.40-14.30	Lunch
14.30-14.50	P. Guhathakurta UCO/Lick Obs	The stellar halo and dwarf satellites of the Andromeda spiral galaxy
14.50-15.10	Z. Zhu Nanjing Univ	A clear kinematical evidence of a weak elliptical distortion of the Milky Way potential
15.10-15.40	P. Kroupa AIfA Bonn	The origin of dSph satellite galaxies
15.40-	free
20.00	Conf. Dinner	at Rheinhotel Dreesen
01. June, Fri.
09.00-09.30	R. Ibata Obs Strasbourg	The large-scale structure of the stellar halos of Andromeda and Triangulum
09.30-09.50	S.C. Chapman IoA Cambridge	Mass and substructure in the stellar halo of M31 and comparisons with the Milky Way
09.50-10.10	D.L.R. Trethewey IoA Cambridge	Kinematic and metallicity analysis of RGB stars in the M31 halo/giant stream
10.10-10.30	J. Peñarrubia U Victoria	The cold dark matter halos of Local Group dwarf spheroidals
10.30-11.00	Coffee/Tea
11.00-11.30	A. McConnachie U Victoria	Contrasting the Milky Way and M31 dwarf satellite systems
11.30-11.50	Y.-W. Lee Yonsei U/Yale U	Globular clusters with extended horizontal-branch as remaining cores of disrupted building blocks
11.50-12.20	H.J. Newberg Rensselaer PI	The relationship between tidal debris and the smooth component of the Milky Way stellar spheroid
12.20-12.40	N. Martin MPIA Heidelberg	A spectroscopic survey of faint Galactic satellites: searching for the least massive dwarf galaxies
12.40-14.30	Lunch
14.30-15.00	M. Fellhauer IoA Cambridge	Modelling UMa II as the progenitor of the Orphan Stream
15.00-15.20		Discussion Satellites
15.20-15.40	J.I. Read U Zürich	Dark matter in the thick disc: do thick discs form through dry mergers?
15.40-16.00	A. Helmi Kapteyn Astr Inst	Mergers, the Galactic thick disk and the stellar halo
16.00-16.30	Coffee/Tea
16.30-17.00	D. McLaughlin U Leicester	The globular cluster luminosity function
17.00-17.20	G. Parmentier U Liège/AIfA	The origin of the universal globular cluster mass function
17.20-17.50	G. Hensler U Wien	The evolution of high-velocity clouds in the hot halo gas
02. June, Sat.
09.00-09.30	D.B. Zucker IoA Cambridge	Properties of the least luminous galaxies in the nearby universe: Implications for galaxy formation
09.30-09.50	D.I. Casetti-Dinescu Yale	Space motions of globular clusters: New results and halo-formation implications
09.50-10.10	M.I. Wilkinson U Leicester	Local group dwarf spheroidal galaxies as cosmological probes
10.10-10.30	B. Moore U Zürich	Dark matter in the galactic halo
10.30-11.00	Coffee/Tea
11.00-11.20	S.C. Keller MSSO	The Southern Sky Survey
11.20-11.40	B. Gibson U C Lancashire	Chemodynamical modelling of the Milky Way's halo
11.40-12.10	M. Steinmetz AI Potsdam	The formation of the old stellar halo of the Milky Way
12.10-12.30		Discussion
	Closing
	Responsible author:	Posters
1	N.M. McClure-Griffiths ATNF/CSIRO	The Parkes galactic all-sky survey of HI in the halo
2	R.J. Reynolds U Wisc Madison	The detection of diffuse interstellar [OII] emission and confirmation that variations in [NII]/H-alpha trace variations in temperature
3	A. Maller NY C Techn	Connecting the hot gas halo and high velocity clouds with galaxy formation
4	D.J. Bomans Ruhr Uni Bochum	Galactic halo gas toward the Large Magellanic Cloud
5	F. Bensch AIfA Bonn	Molecular gas in intermediate-velocity clouds
6	Y. Pidopryhora JIVE	The Ophiuchus Superbubble: A gigantic disk-halo transition phenomenon
7	M. Altmann Astro U de Chile	Pencil-beam studies of low mass main sequence stars in the MUSYC survey
8	S.C. Keller Mt Stromlo Obs	Halo structure traced in the southern Edgeworth Kuiper Belt object survey
9	P. Re Fiorentin MPIA Heidelberg	Halo substructures traced by BHB and RR Lyrae in SDSS
10	A. Tillich Bamberg U Erlangen	New candidate hyper-velocity stars
11	D. Rastegaev SpAO	Speckle interferometric survey of metal-poor possibly double stars with the 6-m telescope
12	S. Zaggia INAF U Padua	Hunting for metal-poor stars in Sloan fields
13	J.I. Gonzales  Hernandez Obs. de Paris	The most metal poor dwarfs of the binary CS 22876--032: Abundances and 3D effects
14	M.G. Petr-Gotzens ESO	Near-infrared observations of the enigmatic object IRAS 19312+1950
15	T.C. Beers Astro MSU	The most metal-poor candidates from SDSS/SEGUE
16	A. Marcolini U C Lancashire	About the chemical evolution of Omega Centauri
17	T. Schörck Hamburger Stw	Metallicity distribution function of the galactic halo
18	N. Behara Obs de Paris	Stellar effective temperatures derived from the analysis of Balmer line profiles in 3D metal-poor models
19	O.M. Kurtanidze Abastumani Obs	The carbon star population of the halo
20	H. Hirsch Bamberg U Erlangen	Hot subdwarf O stars
21	M.-Y. Chou U Virginia	Metallicity gradients and chemical fingerprinting of the Milky Way's halo streams
22	L. Watkins IoA Cambridge	Variability in SDSS Stripe 82
23	D.I. Casetti-Dinescu Yale	Space motions of stars in tidal streams: Survey description and results
24	M. Niederste- Ostholt IoA Cambridge	Tidal tails in the globular cluster Segue 1
25	M. Valluri U Chicago	Are coherent tidal streams consistent with dark matter substructure?
26	J. Pflamm- Altenburg AIfA Bonn	Determination of SFRs of dwarf galaxies
27	N. Sambhus U Basel	Dynamics of dwarf satellites
28	M. Metz AIfA Bonn	The spatial distribution and kinematical properties of the MW and M31 satellite galaxies
29	A. Koch UCLA	Chemical abundances in the Carina dwarf spheroidal galaxy
30	A. Koch UCLA	Kinematics of remote Galactic dwarf spheroidal galaxies
31	K. Gilbert UC Santa Cruz	Substructure along M31's southeast minor axis and its relationship to the giant southern stream
32	S.C. Chapman IoA Cambridge	A kinematic survey of the new faint satellites of M31: And11, And12, And13, EC4
33	Y. Momany U Padua	Comparing the stellar and gaseous warp in the Milky Way disk
34	A. Gualandris Rochester I Tec	A hypervelocity star from the Large Magellanic Cloud
35	A. Ruzicka AI AS Praha	Magellanic Clouds in interaction - Evolutionary search for good models
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37	K. Smith MPIA Heidelberg	Automated classification of Gaia sources
38	C. Tiede MPIA Heidelberg	Astrophysical parameter estimation from Gaia: Comparative results of different machine learning methods
39	D. Carollo INAF Obs Turin	The dichotomy of the galactic halo of the Milky Way
40	X. Xue MPIA Heidelberg	Constraining the mass of the Milky Way halo
41	B. Willman SAO	Stellar halo formation and predictions for Milky Way surveys
42	R. Casas-Miranda U Nat Colombia	dSph-like galaxies of a Milky Way like galaxy and their dark matter content -- A numerical study