| Monday June 14 | Tuesday June 15 | Wednesday June 16 | Thursday June 17 | Friday June 18 |
Monday June 14 2010
| 8:30 | Registration |
| 9:15 | Welcome |
First stars
| 9:30 | Eline Tolstoy, Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, University of Groningen Evolution of Nearby Dwarf Galaxies (I) |
| 10:05 | Else Starkenburg, Kapteyn Astronomical Institute The search for extremely low-metallicity stars in dwarf galaxies using the NIR Ca II triplet |
| 10:30 | Evan Kirby, Calteche The Elemental Abundance Distributions of Milky Way Satellite Galaxies |
10h55: Coffee break
| 11:40 | Martin Tafelmeyer, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne Chasing the most metal-poor stars in the Local Group dwarf Spheroidal galaxies |
| 12:05 | Giuliana Fiorentino, Kapteyn Institute Variable stars in Dwarf Galaxies: key-tools to constrain distances and stellar content |
12h30: Lunch
Star Formation history and Chemical enrichment
| 14:30 | Sebastian Hidalgo, University of La Laguna & Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias The LCID project: star formation history of isolated, Local Group dwarf galaxies |
| 14:55 | Matteo Monelli, Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias The star formation histories of the Magellanic Clouds |
| 15:20 | David L Nidever, University of Virginia Revealing the Stellar Periphery of the Small Magellanic Cloud |
| 15:45 | Denija Crnojevic, Astronomisches Rechen Institut Dwarf galaxies beyond our doorstep: the Centaurus A group |
16h10: Coffee break and Poster viewing
BCDs
| 17:10 | Daniel Kunth, CNRS The interplay between massive stars, WR stars and HI-HII chemical enrichment in star-forming galaxies (I) |
| 17:45 | Bethan James, Space Telescope Science Institute Investigating the Chemical Homogeneity of Low-Metallicity Blue Compact Dwarf Galaxies Using Integral Field Spectroscopy |
| 18:10 | Alexei Moiseev, Special Astrophysical Observatory What controls the gas random motions in dwarf galaxies? |
| 18:35 | Michael Rauch High Redshift Dwarf Galaxies from Lyman alpha Emission and Absorption |
19h10: Welcome cocktail
Tuesday June 15 2010
ISM and star formation
| 9:00 | Evan Skillman Gas and Star Formation in Dwarf Galaxies (I) |
| 9:35 | Jayaram Chengalur, NCRA/TIFR FIGGS: The Faint Irregular Galaxy GMRT Survey |
| 10:00 | Suzanne Madden, SAp, CEA, Saclay The Dust and Gas properties of Low Metallicity Dwarf Galaxies as Viewed by the Herschel Space Observatory |
10h25: Coffee break and poster viewing
Dwarf ellipticals
| 11:30 | Thorsten Lisker Early-type dwarf galaxies: origin, characteristics, cosmological relevance (I) |
| 12:05 | Mina Koleva, IAC/CRAL Population gradients in diffuse elliptical galaxies |
12h30: Lunch
| 14:30 | Elisa Toloba, UCM (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) The origin of dwarf early-type galaxies in the Virgo cluster |
| 14:55 | Samantha Jane Penny, University of Nottingham The effect of local environment on cluster dwarf galaxies |
Globular clusters, UCDs cEs
| 15:20 | uncan Forbes, Swinburne University The Dwarf galaxy - Ultra Compact Dwarf - Globular Cluster connection |
| 15:45 | Michael Hilker, ESO A census of ultra-compact dwarf galaxies in nearby galaxy clusters |
| 16:10 | Kristin Chiboucas, Gemini Observatory UCDs in the Coma Cluster |
16h35: Coffee break
| 17:20 | Alister William Graham, Swinburne University Central massive objects in dwarf galaxies |
| 17:45 | M.E. Sharina, Special Astrophysical Observatory RAS Observational properties of globular clusters in dwarf galaxies |
| 18:10 | Thomas H. Puzia, Herzberg Institute of Astrophyics Chemodynamics of Compact Stellar Systems in NGC 5128 |
| 18:35 | Myung Gyoon Lee, Seoul National University Wandering Globular Clusters: the First Dwarf Galaxies in the Universe? |
Wednesday June 16 2010
Distribution and luminosity function of dwarfs
| 9:00 | Brent Tully, University of Hawaii The Galaxy Luminosity Function in Groups (I) |
| 9:35 | Dmitry Makarov, Special Astrophysical Observatory of RAS Groups of dwarf galaxies in the Local Supercluster |
| 10:00 | Arna M Karick, Liverpool John Moores University The HST/ACS Coma Cluster Treasury Survey: The nature of dwarf galaxies deep in the heart of Coma |
| 10:25 | Russell Smith, University of Durham Ages and element abundances on the faint red sequence |
10h50: Coffee break
Satellites, streams, ultra-faint galaxies
| 11:30 | Eva K. Grebel, University of Heidelberg Satellites in the Local Group and other nearby groups (I) |
| 12:05 | Jason Kalirai, STScI The SPLASH Survey: Comparing Internal Kinematics, Abundances, and Dynamical Masses of Milky Way and M31 dSphs |
12h30: Lunch
16h10: Coffee break and Poster viewing
| 17:10 | Adam Ruzicka, Institut f. Astronomie, Univ. Wien Local kinematics in the solar neighborhood and the formation of the Magellanic Stream |
| 17:35 | Gurtina Besla, Harvard-Smithsonian CfA The Formation of the Magellanic Stream |
| 18:00 | Pierre-Alain Duc, Laboratoire AIM, CEA Paris Saclay Ultra faint dwarf galaxies in the Next General Virgo cluster Survey |
Thursday June 17 2010
Models of formation and evolution
| 9:00 | Lucio Mayer, University of Zurich The formation and morphological evolution of dwarf galaxies in a hierarchical Universe (I) |
| 9:35 | Gerhard Hensler, Institute of Astronomy, University of Vienna The morphological origin of dwarf galaxies (I) |
| 10:10 | Yves Revaz, EPFL Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies : from observations to models and vice versa |
10h35: Coffee break
| 11:20 | Joss Bland-Hawthorn, University of Sydney/University of Oxford The smallest galaxies in the Local Group |
| 11:45 | Sven De Rijcke, Ghent University The anisotropy of cluster dwarf galaxy populations |
| 12:10 | Isabel Franco-Rico, Astronomisches Rechen Institut A stellar population picture of galaxy harassment |
12h35: Lunch
14h00: Free afternoon
20h00: Conference diner
Friday June 18 2010
Cosmology and Dark matter
| 9:00 | Matthew Walker, Institute of Astronomy Dark Matter in Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies (I) |
| 9:35 | Stefan Gottloeber, Astrophysical Institute Potsdam The CLUES-project: Constrained Local UniversE Simulations |
| 10:00 | Jorge Penarrubia, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge The impact of dark matter cusps and cores on the dSph population |
10h25: Coffee break
| 11:10 | Gary Mamon, IAP, France Predicting which dwarfs are young and which are old |
| 11:35 | Sam Geen, Oxford Astrophysics The role of feedback in Milky Way satellite galaxy formation using high resolution simulations |
| 12:00 | Qi Guo From dwarf Spheroidals to cDs: simulating the full galaxy population in a LCDM cosmology |
12h25: Lunch
Dwarf galaxy studies in the future
| 14:00 | Julianne Dalcanton Dwarf galaxy studies in the future (I) |
| 14:35 | Beth Willman, Haverford College Searches for resolved ultra-faint galaxies in the next decade |
| 15:00 | Giuseppina Battaglia, ESO Garching Spectroscopy of resolved stellar populations in dwarf galaxies with the European Extremely Large Telescope |
| 15:25 | Roland Bacon, CRAL-Observatoire de Lyon MUSE: Observation of dwarf galaxies |
15h50: Coffee break
Summary
| 16:20 | S. White |
