The 4th Birmingham Extragalactic Workshop - 1st Announcement

"The Role of Feedback in Galaxy Evolution"

Date June 11-12th 2001

We are planning an informal 2-day workshop on the Role of Feedback in
Galaxy Evolution. Further details of the scientific topic are given
below. This informal workshop, involving ~50 participants, will be the
4th in the series of Birmingham extragalactic workshops. The format will
include a mixture of 15 and 30 minute talks, leaving plenty of time for
discussion.

The meeting will start at 11:00am on June 11th and conclude at around
4:00pm on the 12th, so that only one overnight stay in Birmingham is
required. Please let us know if you would like to attend (an email form
is attached below). If you are interested in giving a talk, let us have
a title.

The basic workshop fee will be 30 pounds per participant. This includes
two lunches and a traditional Birmingham gastronomic feast (Balti) on
the Monday evening.  

Accommodation for the Monday night is available in local hotels/B+Bs,
and a list will be provided to those attending.

Please reply by Friday May 4th to Ian Stevens (irs@star.sr.bham.ac.uk)
so that a preliminary programme can be constructed. Please pass this
message on to anyone else you think may be interested.

We look forward to seeing you at the workshop.

Ian Stevens
Trevor Ponman

*****************************************************************

           The 4th Birmingham Extragalactic Workshop 
           -----------------------------------------

            The Role of Feedback in Galaxy Evolution
           ------------------------------------------

The liberation of energy resulting from the formation and evolution of
stars in galaxies, leads directly to modification of the galaxy
formation and evolution processes, particularly where the star formation
rate is high, as in starburst galaxies. Where massive black holes form
in dense galaxy cores, the release of accretion energy can, in
principle, also have a significant impact.

It is clear that such processes are crucial to an understanding of
galaxy evolution, and allowing for feedback is widely regarded in the
computational cosmology community as the most important challenge facing
the realistic modelling of galaxy formation. However, the complexity of
the processes involved necessitates approximate measures, motivated by
observation.

The aim of this workshop is to help this process along by bringing
together observers and modellers to talk about the issues associated
with feedback, evidence for feedback at work, consequences of feedback,
and measures of feedback efficiencies. One aspect of this workshop will
be to aim to cover a broad range of size scales, including detailed
study of feedback processes in nearby systems, such as massive stars or
star clusters, the starburst phenomena in nearby galaxies and the high
redshift Universe, as well as the consequences of feedback for the
intergalactic medium.

Likely speakers from outside Birmingham at this early stage include:

C. Clarke, S. Cole, P. Crowther, F. Pearce, A. Pedlar, M. Pettini,
M. Rowan-Robinson, P. Thomas.

****************************************************************

Please send this form to Ian Stevens (irs@star.sr.bham.ac.uk) by May 4th.

The 4th Birmingham Extragalactic Workshop

"The Role of Feedback in Galaxy Evolution"


Name:-

Institute:-

I would like to attend the Workshop on June 11 and 12th

I would like to give a talk entitled:-
(Delete if not applicable)

Preferred duration [15min/30min]: 

***************************************************************