DEX XII 2016
The Devil is in the Detail

DEX XII: Programme of Talks


A list of abstracts is available here.

Time Speaker Title
Wednesday
6th January
10:40 - 11:00 Coffee
11:00 - 11:05 Welcome
11:05 - 12:45 Session 1: Large Scale Structure and Gravity 1
(Chair: Matthieu Schaller)

Marius Cautun Galactic alignments in EAGLE

Alexander Smith A lightcone catalogue from MXXL

Yan-Chuan Cai Redshift-Space distortions around voids

Jiaxin Han The Milky Way halo mass from steady-state dynamics: shall we expect an accurate measurement?

Andrew Robertson Constraining dark matter self-interaction cross-sections with colliding clusters

Michael Wilson VIPERS: Clipping the wings of non-linear structure

Discussion lead by Eric Tittley
12:45 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 15:10 Session 2: Instrumentation and Stellar Populations
(Chair: Ami Choi)

Chris Evans From EAGLE to MOSAIC: an update on plans for a MOS for the E-ELT

Tim Morris Prototyping for the E-ELT: the CANARY tomographic AO system

Richard Massey First flight of the Balloon-borne Imaging Telescope

Russell Smith A non-universal IMF in giant elliptical galaxies?

Padraig Alton The stellar initial mass function: radial variations in early-type galaxies?

Lee Patrick Dynamics of the young massive cluster NGC2100 using KMOS spectra of red supergiant stars

Discussion lead by Dave Alexander
15:10 - 15:35 Coffee
15:35 - 16:45 Session 3: Compact Objects
(Chair: Bryan Gillis)

David Nisbet The fundamental plane of black hole activity

Alastair Bruce Ships that pass in the night...

Benjamin Giblin Inferring the timescales of compact object binary mergers using short gamma-ray bursts

Jaime Salcido Music from the heavens; gravitational waves from SMBH mergers in the EAGLE simulations

Discussion lead by Shaun Cole
16:45 - 16:55 Short break
16:55 - 17:40 Session 4: Feeding and Feedback 1
(Chair: James Simpson)

David Rosario The Herschel perspective on the co-evolution of galaxies and SMBHs

Flora Stanley The SFRs of optically-selected QSOs and the importance of accounting for the FIR AGN contamination

Stuart McAlpine AGN feedback and the connection to star-formation in the EAGLE simulations



From 19:00 Workshop dinner at Finbarrs Restaurant
Thursday
7th January
09:00 - 10:10 Session 4 (cont): Feeding and Feedback 1
(Chair: James Simpson)

Alastair Edge Cold gas in cluster cores - fuelling AGN feedback

Bitten Gullberg The mysterious morphology of MRC0943-242 as revealed by ALMA and MUSE

Nathan Bourne Revealing the obscured history of galaxy evolution with SCUBA2-CLS

Julie Wardlow Lensing and Herschel unveil extreme star formation at z>2

Discussion lead by Peder Norberg



10:10 - 10:35 Coffee
10:35 - 12:00
Session 5: Census of Galaxies, Quasars and the IGM
(Chair: Victoria Bruce)

Alice Mortlock Exploiting the combination of large datasets: the stellar mass and luminosity function

Derek McLeod The z=9-10 galaxy population in the Hubble Frontier Fields and CLASH surveys

Joao Ferreira Emission line galaxies in CANDELS: Hi, [OI] and [OII] equivalent width distributions from panchromatic broad-band photometry from 0 < z < 5

Adam Carnall Selection of the highest-redshift quasars in optical surveys

William Cowley Blending bias confuses the dark matter halo masses of bright submillimetre galaxies

Discussion lead by Andy Taylor
12:00 - 13:00
Lunch
13:00 - 14:40 Session 6: Large Scale Structure and Gravity 2
(Chair: Nuala McCullagh)

Ami Choi Cosmology with the RCS Lensing Survey

Lee Stothert Galaxy groups in the PAU survey

Wojciech Hellwing Cosmic velocity fields as probes of the nature of gravity

Claudio Llinares Oscillations in scalar fields - can we use them to detect modified gravity?

David Edwards The phase space of a cosmological scalar field

Ruari Mackenzie The CMB Cold Spot: A Spectroscopic View

Discussion lead by Andy Lawrence
14:40 - 15:05
Coffee
15:05 - 16:20 Session 7: Feeding and Feedback 2
(Chair: Chris Harrison)

Michal Michalowski Massive stars formed in atomic hydrogen reservoirs

Stephanie Bartle MISSING: Have you seen the photons?

James Trayford Colour by numbers: modelling observables for numerically-simulated galaxies

Tim Green A photometric census of "activity" in brightest cluster galaxies

Discussion lead by Catherine Heymans
16:20 - 16:30
Summary and closing remarks

Talk lengths are 12mins + 3mins for questions