The 7th Birmingham Extragalactic Workshop

Constructing Clusters

June 28-29, 2004

Monday 28 June

 

10:30am - 11:00am

Registration/Coffee at the West lecture theatre/library

 

11:00am - 12:00noon

Session 1

Chairperson: Trevor Ponman

Laurence Jones

Introduction

Roger Davies

30min

The stellar content of clusters

Vince Eke

30min

2PIGGs in space: comparing models with data

 

12:00pm - 1:15pm

Lunch in Staff House

 

1:15pm - 3:00pm

Session 2

Chairperson: Steve Rawlings

Richard Bower

30min

Galaxy evolution in groups: the origin of the cluster population

Rowena Malbon

15min

Growth of Elliptical Galaxies and Black Holes in Clusters

Steven Bamford

15min

Forming S0 galaxies in clusters

Laurence Jones

15min

Cluster galaxies and cluster structure at z=0.8

Matthew Page

15min

Proto-clusters of SCUBA galaxies

Matthew Jarvis

15min

Lyman-alpha emitters around a radio galaxy at z=2.92 detected using VIMOS integral field spectroscopy

 

3:00pm - 3:30pm

Coffee & Tea

 

3:30pm - 4:50pm

Session 3

Chairperson: Somak Raychaudhury

Alfonso Aragon-Salamanca

30min

Recent results from the ESO distant cluster survey

Siegfried Falter

15min

HIROCS - multi-color survey for galaxy clusters at high redshift 

Kathy Romer

20min

XCS: Results from the first 150 square degrees

Kathy Romer

15min

ACBAR and other Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect Surveys

 

4:50pm - 5:20pm

Discussion Session led by Frazer Pearce



7:00-7:30pm start

Meal at Shapla Balti

 

 

Tuesday 29 June

 

9:00am -10:30am

Session 4

Chairperson: Ian Stevens

Scott Kay

30min

Constructing clusters via simulations

David Rowley

15min

Simulations of accreting clusters

Meghan Gray

15min

Assembling a supercluster: a redshift survey of the A901/902 complex

Jeremy Sanders

15min

The complex substructure of Abell 2204

Irini Sakelliou

15min

X-ray cluster mergers

 

10:30am - 11:00am

Coffee

 

11:00am -12:20am

Session 5

Chairperson: Peter Thomas

Andy Fabian

30min

X-ray properties of clusters

Gabriel Pratt

15min

Dark matter and entropy in clusters: insights from XMM observations

Elena Belsole

20min

What the temperature distribution tells us about cluster construction

Ben Maughan

15min

Cluster scaling relations: do clusters evolve self-similarly?

 

12:20pm - 1:30pm

Lunch in Staff House

 

1:30pm – 3:15pm

Session 6

Chairperson: Steve Maddox

Steve Rawlings

30min

On the profound influence of jets on cluster formation

Parimal Patel

15min

Making Monsters - the origin of Brightest Cluster Galaxies

Habib Khosroshahi

15min

Fossil groups of galaxies

Malcolm Bremer

15min

New surveys for clusters at z>1

Somak Raychaudhury

15min

Forming clusters in a collapsing supercluster filament

Harald Ebeling

15min

MACSJ0717.5+3745: a massive merging and accreting cluster at z=0.55

 

3:15pm - 3:35pm

Discussion Session led by Steve Allen

 

03:40:00 pm

End of Workshop