The abstracts can be found here, and a list of the participants can be found here.

30 minute talk = 25 + 5 minutes
15 minute talk = 12 + 3 minutes

Thursday 21st September

  • 10:00 - 10:45   Registration/Poster Set Up and Coffee
  • 10:45 - 11:00   Welcome and Introduction by Graham Smith
  • 11:00 - 11:30   Chris Haines: A survey of X-ray groups being accreted by massive galaxy clusters
  • 11:30 - 12:00   Dominique Eckert: Building a galaxy cluster through continuous accretion of group-scale systems
  • 12:00 - 12:30   Mathilde Jauzac: Hubble Frontier Fields : An Extraordinary View into Galaxy Cluster Evolution
  • 12:30 - 14:00   Lunch
  • 14:00 - 14:30   Chris Collins: Recovering the Intracluster light from LSST Data
  • 14:30 - 14:45   Matteo Bianconi: LoCuSS: Pre-processing in galaxy groups falling in to massive galaxy clusters at z=0.2
  • 14:45 - 15:00   Boris Deshev: The passive core of the "Train Wreck" cluster, Abell 520
  • 15:00 - 15:15   Jacob Crossett: Do large groups cause a more rapid quenching of star formation?
  • 15:15 - 15:30   Mike Hudson: Does size matter? The link between stellar mass, galaxy size and dark matter halo mass from weak gravitation lensing
  • 15:30 - 16:00   Coffee Break
  • 16:00 - 16:15   Arya Farahi: Constraining the shape of Mass Function
  • 16:15 - 16:45   Alexis Finoguenov: eROSITA and Influence on mergers on cosmological modeling of galaxy clusters
  • 16:45 - 17:00   Poster Session
  • 17:00 - 18:00   Discussion Session
  • 18:00 Dinner

Friday 22nd September

  • 09:30 - 10:00   Debora Sijacki: Galaxy formation simulations: "sub-grid" vs. physics
  • 10:00 - 10:30   Emanuele Paolo Farina: The birth of the giants: Where do the first quasars form?
  • 10:30 - 10:45   Alberto Sesana: Supermassive Black Hole Binary Mergers and Pulsar Timing Arrays
  • 10:45 - 11:00   Hannah Middleton: Inference on properties of massive black hole binaries with pulsar timing array searches for gravitational waves
  • 11:00 - 11:30   Coffee Break
  • 11:30 - 12:00   Lucio Mayer: Merger timescales of massive black holes in hierarchical galaxy formation
  • 12:00 - 12:30   Richard Massey: Constraining SIDM with colliding clusters
  • 12:30 - 14:00   Lunch
  • 14:00 - 14:30   Chris Conselice: Using Deep NIR Imaging to Probe the History of Galaxy Mergers
  • 14:30 - 14:45   Philip Grylls: Modelling the growth of massive galaxies via mergers: A Semi Empirical approach
  • 14:45 - 15:00   Stuart McAlpine: Major mergers and the triggering of black hole growth
  • 15:00 - 15:15   Clare Wethers: A Merger History? The Star-Forming Hosts of Luminous, Dust-Obscured Quasars at z~2
  • 15:15 - 15:30   Charutha Krishnan: Enhancement of AGN activity in a protocluster at z=1.6
  • 15:30 - 16:00   Coffee Break
  • 16:00 - 16:30   Sugata Kaviraj: Unveiling the low surface brightness Universe: the fundamental but unexplored role of minor mergers in galaxy evolution
  • 16:30 - 16:45   Chris Skipper: Identifying galaxy mergers through spatially-offset radio AGN
  • 16:45 - 17:15   Discussion Session
  • 17:15 Closing Remarks and End Workshop

Poster Session

  • Kate Furnell: The Influence of Environment on the Evolution of Brightest Cluster Galaxies
  • Yjan Gordon: Are Low Excitation Radio Galaxies Fuelled by Minor-Mergers?
  • Tim Hewlett: Supermassive black holes: the role of galaxy mergers through cosmic time
  • Jordan Penney: The Environments of Luminous Infra-Red Radio-WISE Selected Galaxies
  • Jonny Pierce: Morphological signatures of merger-based triggering in intermediate radio powered AGNs

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