"Semi-analytic models - are we kidding ourselves?"

Final programme, with links to pdf/ppt files of slides

Tuesday June 24, 2008

10:30 - 11:00 Registration and coffee
11:00 - 11:15 Welcome and introduction: Trevor Ponman

11:15 - 13:00 Session 1, Chair: Habib Khosroshahi

• Richard Bower : "Semi-analytic models: pros and cons" (45 min) [pdf] [ppt]
• Malcolm Bremer : "The observational properties of z>5 star forming galaxies" (30 min)
• Cedric Lacey : "Properties of sub-mm galaxies: comparison of semi-analytical predictions with observations" (30 min) [pdf]

13:00 - 14:00 Lunch & Posters: School of Physics & Astronomy Library

14:00 - 15:45 Session 2, Chair: Mike Merrifield

• Sadegh Khochfar : "The star forming universe at z=2" (30 min)
• Juan Esteban Gonzalez : "The predicted power of semi-analytical models tested with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey" (30 min) [pdf] [ppt]
• Michele Cirasuolo : "Tracing the assembly history of galaxies" (15 min)
• Will Hartley : "Can the Millennium simulation semi-analytic models reproduce the UKIDSS UDS/SXDS field?" (15 min) [pdf]
• Ali Dariush : "Mass assembly and evolution of the luminosity gap in groups of galaxies" (15 min) [pdf] [ppt]

15:45 - 16:15 Coffee

16:15 - 17:30 Session 3, Chair: Chris Collins

• Joe Silk : "CDM and SAMS: problems and possible solutions" (30 min)
• Takashi Okamoto : "Modelling the suppression of galaxy formation due to a UV-background" (15 min) [pdf]
• Bruno Henriques : "Monte Carlo Markov Chain parameter estimation ien semi-analytic models of galaxy formation" (15 min) [pdf] [ppt]
• Eduard Salvador-Sole : "A new strategy with unavoidable parameters only" (15 min) [pdf] [ppt]

17:30 - 18:00 Discussion: Graham Smith

19:00 - 19:30 Start of Workshop meal

Wednesday June 25, 2008

09:00 - 10:30 Session 4, Chair: Jon Davies

• Eelco van Kampen : "Semi-analytical models explain everything!" (30 min) [pdf] [ppt]
• Andrew Pontzen : "DLAs in galaxy formation simulations" (15 min) [pdf]
• Claudia Lagos : "The Semi-Analytic Galaxies (SAG) model: results on galaxy and black hole population properties" (15 min) [pdf] [ppt]
• Chris Haines : "The different physical mechanisms that drive the star-formation histories of giant and dwarf galaxies" (30 min) [pdf] [ppt]

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee

11:00 - 12:30 Session 5, Chair: Omar Almaini

• Rhys Rhodes : "The STAGES clusters of galaxies - A challenge for semi-analytical models?" (15 min) [pdf] [ppt]
• Graham Smith : "Co-evolution of Brightest Cluster Galaxies and their host clusters" (15 min)
• Chris Collins : "Testing hierarchical assembly in the early universe using brightest cluster galaxies" (15 min)
• Daniel Thomas : "Chemical enrichment in semi-analytic models" (30 min) [pdf]
• Scott Trager : "Stellar populations and chemical evolution in semi-analytic models: confronting reality or exposing flaws?" (15 min) [pdf]

12:30 - 13:30 Lunch & Posters: School of Physics & Astronomy Library

13:30 - 15:15 Session 6, Chair: Scott Kay

• Romeel Dave : "Assessing basic assumptions in semi-analytic models with hydro simulations" (30 min) [pdf] [ppt]
• Frazer Pearce : "The core problem: can semi-analytic models handle X-rays?" (30 min) [pdf] [ppt]
• Alastair Sanderson : "X-ray observations of the intracluster medium: implications for semi-analytic models" (15 min) [pdf]
• Chris Short : "Simulations of galaxy clusters with feedback from semi-analytic models" (30 min) [pdf]

15:15 - 15:45 Discussion: Trevor Ponman

15:45 - 15:50 Closing remarks: Trevor Ponman