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DFG Priority Programme 1177


"Witnesses of Cosmic History:  Formation and evolution of black holes, galaxies and their environment"

Past conferences, workshops & summer schools
Organized by the Priority Programme
Connected and supported by the Priority Programme
The kick-off meeting for the third period of the Priority Programme took place from 21.-23.5.09 at the Physikzentrum in Bad Honnef. The programme of the meeting can be found here.
Topic: "Black Holes and Galaxy Evolution"
The Summer School "Black Holes and Galaxy Evolution" took place from 4.8.-8.8.2008 at the Physikzentrum in Bad Honnef. The school was aimed towards students in upper level university classes or in their beginning years of graduate studies who have an education in astrophysics. The topics of the school can be found here.
The kick-off meeting for the second period of the Priority Programme took place 9th-12th October at the Seminaris Kongresspark (link).
Programme of the meeting
Tuesdayfrom 15.00 on Arrival
19.00 DINNER
Wednesday 9.00 Welcome and Introduction
9:15 Metal enrichment of the intra-cluster medium Schindler, Sabine
9.40 Investigating the fraction of Cool Core Clusters at High Redshift Santos, Joana
10:05 Interactions between Active Galactic Nuclei and the Intracluster Medium Brueggen, Marcus
10:30 COFFEE BREAK
11:00 APEX SZ cluster observations Kneissl, Ruediger
11:25 Recent results from the APEX-SZ survey Basu, kaustuv Moni
11:50 Detecting SMBHs in low-mass bulges and pseudobulges with SINFONI Nowak, Nina
12:15 Windows on the High Redshift Universe Maselli, Antonella
12:40 LUNCH
14:30 Reionization and 21cm observations Ciardi, Benedetta
14:55 The nature of sub-mm galaxies van Kampen, Eelco
15:20 Towards a kinematic model of the Local Group Brunthaler, Andreas
15:45 The early evolution of tidal dwarf galaxies Recchi, Simone
16:10 COFFEE BREAK
16:40 First results on intragroup light in compact groups Da Rocha, Cristiano
17:05 Extended emission line regions around low-redshift quasars Bernd Husemann
17:30 Satellite galaxies in the Local Group -- spatial and kinematical properties Metz, Manuel
17:55 Tracing Intermediate-Mass Black Holes in the Galactic Centre Loekmann, Ulf
19:00 DINNER
Thursday 9:00 AGN activity in galaxy clusters: A viable solution to the cooling flow problem? Mittal, Rupal
9:25 Bias and scatter of weak lensing and X-ray cluster masses Zhang, Yu-Ying
9:50 Ray-tracing through the Millennium Simulation Hilbert, Stefan
10:15 First Weak Lensing Results from the Millennium Simulation Hartlap, Jan
10:40 COFFEE BREAK
11:10 Morphological image analysis with shapelets Melchior, Peter
11:35 Spatially-Resolved Dynamics, Morphologies, and Star Formation Properties of z~2 Galaxies and Constraints on their Assembly and Evolution Forster Schreiber, Natascha M.
12:00 Formation of Disk Galaxies: First results of a resolution study Piontek, Franziska
12:25 The co-existence of pseudobulges and classical bulges, and their relation to black holes Erwin, Peter
12:50 LUNCH
14:30 Hydrodynamical Processes during Galactic Disc Formation: The Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability Junk, Veronika
14:55 Kinematics of Distant Spiral Galaxies Kutdemir, Elif
15.20 2D velocity fields of simulated interacting disc galaxies Kapferer, Wolfgang
15:45 Galaxy kinematics in Abell 1835 Fuchs, Burkhard
16:10 COFFEE BREAK
16:40 Discussion about the Priority Program
19:00 DINNER
Friday 9:00 Ram pressure stripping of disk galaxies along orbits in clusters Roediger, Elke
9:25 Elliptical Formation Processes and Projected Properties of Simulated Merger Remnants Jesseit, Roland
9:50 Weighing dark matter halos at z=3 with precision measurements of LBG clustering Hildebrandt, Hendrik
10:15 The determination of star formation rates of dwarf galaxies Pflamm-Altenburg, Jan
10:40 COFFEE BREAK
11:10 Black hole and bulge masses of low-redshift quasars Wisotzki, Lutz
11:35 The structural parameters of bulges, bars and disks in the local Universe Gadotti, Dimitri
12:00 CO-evolution of supermassive black holes and galactic nuclei Fiestas, Jose
12:25 The IGIMF notion and a revision of star-formation rates based on H-alpha measurements Kroupa, Pavel
12:50 LUNCH
14:30 RAVE : a status report Siebert, Arnaud
14:55 RAVE project: The age-velocity-metallicity relation and the star formation history in the nearby disk Borja, Anguiano
15:20 Chemical abundances from RAVE spectra Boeche, Corrado
15:45 Final comments
16:00 Coffee and end of meeting
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Topic: "Evolution of galaxies and their large-scale environment"
The school took place from 3.7 - 7.7.2006 and was aimed towards students in upper level university classes or in their beginning years of graduate studies who have an education in astrophysics. 60 students participated in the summer school coming even from Bejing and the west coast of the US. Everybody enjoyed this event, it was a real highlight in the framework of the Priority Programme. The combination of interesting and entertaining lectures combined with fruitful discussions and nice trips to the Rhine river assured that the Priority Programme will again organize a summer school in 2008. Thanks again to all the participants and especially to the lecturers!!
Programme of the summer school
Monday9:00 - 12:30 The properties of galaxies H.W. Rix
14:00 - 18:00 The large-scale structure of the Universe V. Springel
Tuesday 9:00 - 12:30 Standard homogeneous cosmology M. Bartelmann
14:00 - 18:00 The properties of galaxy clusters H. Böhringer
Wednesday 9:00 - 12:30 Theory of galaxy formation and evolution M. Steinmetz
14:00 - 18:00 EXCURSION
Thursday 9:00 - 12:30 The intergalactic medium and its galaxy P. Richter
14:00 - 18:00 Galaxy evolution confronted with observationsT R. Somerville
Friday 9:00 - 12:30 Galactic dynamics R. Bender
14:00 - 18:00 Gravitational lensing S. Seitz
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Sunday, 4.9.2005


Arrival

19:00 Dinner


Monday, 5.9.2005


9:00 Welcome and Introduction

9:15 Sabine Schindler (Institut fuer Astrophysik Uni Innsbruck):
Interacting galaxies in clusters

10:00 Thomas Kronberger (Institut fuer Astrophysik Uni Innsbruck):
Star formation rates and kinematics in interacting galaxies

10:15 Marcus Brueggen (Astrophysics Group International University Bremen):
AGN Feedback in Galaxy Clusters

10:45 Coffee Break

11:15 Elke Roediger (Astrophysics Group International University Bremen):
Ram pressure stripping of disk galaxies

11:30 Matthias Steinmetz (Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam):
Unraveling the formation history of the Galaxy with RAVE

12:15 Thomas Reiprich (IAEF Uni Bonn):
Complete XMM-Newton and Chandra Follow-Up of a Local X-Ray Flux-Limited Galaxy Cluster Sample

12:45 Lunch

14:30 Daniel Hudson (IAEF Uni Bonn):
X-ray Detection of the Proto-Massive Black Hole Binary at the center of Abell 400

15:15 Axel Schwope (Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam):
A distant cluster survey with XMM-Newton

16:00 Coffee Break

16:30 Discussion about the Priority Program; Part I

19:00 Dinner


Tuesday, 6.9.2005


9:00 Hendrik Hildebrandt (IAEF Uni Bonn):
ESO Deep public survey

9:30 Thomas Erben (IAEF Uni Bonn):
Bonn Wide Field Imaging expertise center

10:00 Simon White (MPA Garching):
Millenium Simulation

10:20 Stefan Hilbert (MPA Garching)

10:45 Coffee Break

11:15 Roberto Saglia (MPE Garching):
OmegaCAM, and the Kilo Degree Survey (KIDS)

11:45 Joerg Dietrich (IAEF Uni Bonn):
Weak Lensing Cluster Search on Deep Public XMM-Newton Fields

12:15 David Butler (MPIA Heidelberg):
Structures of the Outer Galactic Disk: the Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy Candidate

12:45 Lunch

14:15 Nina Nowak (MPE Garching):
SINFONI observations of NGC 4486a

14:45 Burkhard Fuchs (Astronomisches Rechen-Institut Uni Heidelberg):
Discovery of a new cold star stream in the Thick Disk of the Milky Way

15.15 Roland Jesseit (University Observatory Munich):
Orbital Structure of Merger Remnants and photometric and kinematic features of Elliptical Galaxies

15:45 Coffee Break

16:15 Peter Erwin (MPE Garching):
Bars and Pseudobulges

17:00 Tour of the Kloster Irsee

19:00 Dinner

20:30 Discussion about the Priority Program; Part II


Wednesday, 7.9.2005


9:00 Guinevere Kauffmann (MPA Garching):
Gas infall and stochastic star formation in galaxies in the nearby Universe

9:30 Dimitri Gadotti (MPA Garching):
Quantitative morphology of well-resolved nearby galaxies

10:00 Holger Baumgardt (Sternwarte Uni Bonn):
Dynamical modeling of massive black holes

10:35 Coffee Break

11.15 Eric Bell (MPIA Heidelberg):
Evolution of red-sequence galaxies

11:45 Benedetta Ciardi (MPA Garching):
Simulations of cosmic reionization

12:15 Antonella Maselli (MPA Garching):
Radiative Transfer induced Fluctuations in the UVB

12:45 Lunch

14:00 Thorsten Naab (University Observatory Munich):
Galaxy mergers and the formation of elliptical galaxies

14:30 Dominikus Heinzeller (ITA, Uni Heidelberg):
Eddington limit in AGN accretion disks

15:15 Final comments

15:45 Coffee Break

16:15 End of meeting


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