Program

5 April 2012

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Tuesday 10 April 2012
12:30 - 14:30 LUNCH
Session 1 - Introduction
Chair: Laura Watkins
14:30 - 14:45 Opening
14:45 - 15:45 Business cards
15:45 - 16:15 BREAK
16:15 - 16:40 Glenn van de Ven Overview of dynamical modelling
16:40 - 17:05 Hans-Walter Rix What data can do for you
17:05 - 17:30 James Binney What models can do for you
18:30 - DINNER

Wednesday 11 April 2012
Session 2 - Discrete Data: incompleteness and selection effects
Chair: Ortwin Gerhard
09:00 - 09:25 Gerry Gilmore Discrete surveys: past, present and future
09:25 - 09:50 Matt Walker Radial velocity data for Milky Way dSphs
09:50 - 10:15 Nicolas Martin Beware your tracers - Musings from the PAndAS View on the M31 satellite system
10:15 - 10:45 BREAK
10:45 - 11:10 Andrea Bellini HST proper motions for globular clusters
11:10 - 11:35 Ken Freeman Galactic Bulge: new data
11:35 - 12:10 Discussion Moderator: Walter Dehnen
Including slide contributions from:
Melissa Ness The ARGOS Milky Way bulge survey
12:30 - 14:30 LUNCH
Session 3 - Modelling approaches: speed versus accuracy
Chair: Amina Helmi
14:30 - 14:55 Remco van den Bosch Schwarzschild modelling
14:55 - 15:20 Paul McMillan Torus modelling
15:20 - 15:45 Inma Martinez-Valpuesta Made-to-measure/N-body methods
15:45 - 16:15 BREAK
16:15 - 16:40 Michele Cappellari Jeans models of 260 galaxies with MCMC
16:40 - 17:05 Matteo Barnabé CAULDRON: combining lensing and dynamics
17:05 - 17:45 Discussion Moderator: Hans-Walter Rix
Including slide contributions from:
James Binney Why base models on action and how to do it?
Alberto Nardin Constructing a DF for the solar neighbourhood based on approximations of the third integral of motion
18:30 - DINNER

Thursday 12 April 2012
Session 4 - Inference: the challenges of fitting models to data
Chair: John Magorrian
09:00 - 09:25 Laura Watkins Making the best of the data: discrete modelling of Omega Centauri
09:25 - 09:50 Walter Dehnen Orthogonal basis function and line-of-sight velocity
09:50 - 10:15 Nicola Amorisco Line profiles from discrete kinematic data
10:15 - 10:45 BREAK
10:45 - 11:10 David Nidever Exploring the Galactic bulge/bar with APOGEE and APOGEE-South
11:10 - 11:35 Jo Bovy APOGEE constraints on the MW rotation curve
11:35 - 12:15 Discussion Moderator: Gerry Gilmore
Including slide contributions from:
Alex Büdenbender From vertical to axisymmetric modelling in the solar neighbourhood
Matt Walker A method for measuring slopes of mass profiles of dwarf spheroidal galaxies
12:30 - 14:30 LUNCH
Session 5 - Results 1: versatile dynamics
Chair: Inma Martinez-Valpuesta
14:30 - 14:55 John Magorrian Lessons from the Galactic center
14:55 - 15:20 Ewa Łokas Hints and insights from the simulations of tidal stirring of dGs
15:20 - 15:45 Lucia Morganti Parameter estimation with NMAGIC particle models and the dark matter halo of the intermediate luminosity elliptical galaxy NGC 4494
15:45 - 16:15 BREAK
16:15 - 16:40 Victor Debattista Radial migration
16:40 - 17:05 Teresa Antoja Kinematic groups in distant disc regions with RAVE
17:05 - 17:45 Discussion Moderator: Wyn Evans
Including slide contributions from:
Amina Helmi Too big to fail
Michele Cappellari The variation of the IMF in early-type galaxies
18:30 - DINNER

Friday 13 April 2012
Session 6 - Results 2: cores or cusps?
Chair: Remco van den Bosch
09:00 - 09:25 Wyn Evans A core dump
09:25 - 09:50 Josh Adams Cusped models not ruled out
09:50 - 10:15 Maarten Breddels Orbital based dynamical models of the Sculptor galaxy
10:15 - 10:45 BREAK
10:45 - 11:10 John Jardel Measuring dark matter profiles non-parametrically in dSphs
11:10 - 11:35 Jorge Peñarrubia Measuring the Milky Way potential without dynamical models
11:35 - 12:05 Discussion Moderator: Amina Helmi
12:30 - 14:30 LUNCH
Session 7 - Next steps
Chair: Glenn van de Ven
14:30 - 14:55 Aaron Romanowsky Recovering substructure
14:55 - 15:20 Anthony Brown Early Gaia data releases and thoughts on data access facilities
15:20 - 15:45 Mark den Brok Discrete dynamical models with chemical tagging
15:45 - 16:15 BREAK
16:15 - 16:40 Ortwin Gerhard What next in dynamical modelling?
16:40 - 17:20 Discussion Moderator: Ken Freeman
17:20 - 17:35 Closing
18:30 - DINNER