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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