Program (link to pdf)
Review talks: 30 minutes +5 minutes for questions
Invited talks: 20 minutes + 5 minutes for questions
Contributed talks: 12 minutes + 3 minutes for questions.
Lunch and coffee breaks will be served at the Symposium venue and are included in the registration fee.
MONDAY:
Chair: A. Sills
8:30-9:30 Check-in at the Welcome Desk
9:30-10:00 Welcome
10:00-10:35 William Harris – Extragalactic young and old globular cluster systems
10:35-10:50 Jean Brodie – Latest results from the SLUGGS Survey
10:50-11:05 Duncan Forbes – Insights from Globular Clusters: Dwarfs to Giant Galaxies
11:05-11:35 coffee break
13:00-14:30 lunch
Chair: G. Parmentier
15:10-15:25 Andres Piatti – Two kinematically different Large Magellanic Cloud old globular cluster populations unveiled from Gaia DR2 data sets
15:25-16:00 1-min poster presentations
16:00-16:30 coffee break
16:30-16:45 Andrea Dupree – Spectroscopy of LMC Cluster Stars
16:45-17:20 Pascale Jablonka – Dwarf galaxies: formation and chemical evolution
17:20-17:35 Pavel Kroupa – A systematically varying stellar IMF from globular cluster and ultra-compact dwarf galaxy data and some implications thereof
17:35-17:50 Melvyn Davies – The Ecology of the Galactic Centre
TUESDAY:
Chair: W. Harris
09:30-9:55 Florent Renaud – Formation and evolution of globular clusters and globular cluster systems
09:55-10:20 Hui Li – Formation and evolution of Globular Clusters in Cosmological Simulations
10:20-10:35 Marta Reina-Campos –Dynamical evolution of stellar clusters in E-MOSAICS
10:35-11:15 coffee break
11:15-11:30 Mike Fall – Formation, Evolution, and Disruption of Star Clusters: A Synoptic Theory
11:30-12:05 Anil Seth – Nuclear Star Clusters
12:05-12:20 Karina Voggel – Using surviving nuclear star clusters and their hidden SMBHs as new tracers of galaxy assembly and SMBH formation
12:20-13:50 lunch
Chair: Y.-W. Lee
13:50-14:05 Mayte Alfaro Cuello – A deep view into the nucleus of the Sagittarius dwarf spheroidal galaxy: M54
14:05-14:40 Simon Portegies Zwart – Young massive clusters in the Milky Way and beyond
14:40-14:55 Eros Vanzella – Unveiling forming star clusters in the young universe
14:55-15:10 Michael Grudic – Connecting the ISM to Star Cluster Populations Across Cosmic TIme
15:10-15:25 Alison Sills – Formation of Globular Clusters in Radiation Hydrodynamics Simulations
15:25-15:40 Hosein Haghi – The dissolution rate of star clusters starting with a top-heavy IMF
15:40-16:10 coffee break
16:10-16:25 Susanne Pfalzner – Observations meets theory in clustered star formation
16:25-16:40 Michiko Fujii – Inter-cluster velocity structure of star cluster complexes
16:40-16:55 Tereza Jerabkova – Multiple bursts of star formation in young star clusters: The case of the Orion Nebula Cluster
16:55-17:10 Janet Drew – Tracing O-star runaways from the massive young clusters, NGC 3603 and Westerlund 2
17:10-17:45 Else Starkenburg – Galactic Archaeology
WEDNESDAY:
Chair: G. Da Costa
9:30- 10:05 Antonino Milone – Photometric studies of multiple stellar populations in Galactic globular clusters and in the young and intermediate-age massive clusters in the Magellanic Clouds
10:05-10:40 Raffaele G. Gratton – Spectroscopic studies of stellar populations in globular clusters and field stars: implications for globular cluster and MW halo formation
10:40-11:15 coffee break
11:15-11:35 Anna F. Marino – Spectroscopic observations of Multiple Stellar Populations in Star Clusters
11:35-11:50 Francesca D’Antona – “Status update” for the AGB scenario for multiple populations in Globular Clusters
11:50-12:05 Young-Wook Lee – Multiple populations in globular clusters: New insights from chemical evolution & horizontal-branch models
12:05:12:20 Christian Johnson – Light Element Discontinuities in the Globular Cluster NGC 6402 (M14)
12:20-12:35 Chul Chung – Globular Cluster – Bulge Connection: Population Synthesis models with Multiple Populations
12:35-13:35 lunch
Chair: A. Bragaglia
13:35-13:50 Francesco Calura – Hydrodynamic simulations of second generation star formation in a young globular cluster
13:50-14:05 Mattia Libralato – Internal kinematics of multiple stellar populations in globular clusters: current state of the art, issues, and a way out.
14:05-14:20 Emanuele Dalessandro – Unexpected kinematics of multiple populations in globular clusters
14:20-14:35 Enrico Vesperini – Dynamical Evolution of Multiple-Population Globular Clusters
14:35-15:05 coffee break & poster viewing
15:05-15:25
Mark Gieles – Supermassive stars as the origin of multiple populations in globular clusters (+ some contribution from C. Charbonnel)
15:25-15:40 Silvia Martocchia – Age as a Major Factor in the Onset of Multiple Populations in Stellar Clusters
15:40-15:55 Steve Zepf – Evidence for Ubiquity of Multiple Populations from Far-Ultraviolet Observations of Extragalactic GCs
15:55-16:10 Paul Goudfroji – The Impact of Multiple Populations in Globular Clusters to the UV Upturn and Element Abundance Ratios in Massive Early-Type Galaxies
16:10-16:25 Soeren Larsen – Chemical composition of globular clusters in dwarf galaxies
THURSDAY:
Chair: M. Davies
9:30-9:45 Long Wang – The strong impact of IMFs on the survival of globular clusters
9:45-10:00 Alessandra Mastrobuono-Battisti – The amazing life of a globular cluster: tidal interactions and mergers in the Galactic disc and nuclear star cluster
10:00-10:15 Mirek Giersz – MOCCA-SURVEY Database I: Dissolution of tidally filling star clusters harboring BH subsystem
10:15-10:40 Anna Lisa Varri – Phase space complexity of star clusters: fresh observables for old and new questions
10:40-11:05 Sebastian Kamann – Black holes and rotation: Internal kinematics of star clusters with MUSE
11:05-11:35 coffee break
11:35-11:50 Laura Watkins – Imprints of Evolution on the Internal Kinematics of Globular Clusters
11:50-12:05 Paolo Bianchini – Globular clusters in the era of precision astrometry
12:05-12:20 Maria Tiongco – Kinematical Evolution of Globular Clusters
12:20-12:35 Antonio Sollima – The eye of Gaia on globular cluster dynamics
12:35-13:45 lunch
Chair: E. Vesperini
13:45-14:10 Davide Massari – Gaia results for star clusters and dwarf galaxies in the Milky Way
14:10-14:25 Alice Zocchi – Rotating globular clusters in the Gaia era
14:25-15:00 Fred Rasio [presented by K. Kremer]- The role of black holes in globular cluster dynamics and gravitational-wave source formation
15:00-15:15 David Pooley – Neutron Star Merger Products in Galactic Globular Clusters
15:15-15:30 Sara Rastello – BLACK HOLE BINARIES IN YOUNG STAR CLUSTERS: A dynamical view!
15:30-16:00 coffee break
16:00-16:35 Maureen van den Berg – X-ray sources in Galactic star clusters
16:35-16:50 Abbas Askar – Why Black Holes Matter in Globular Clusters: Dynamical Consequences and Observational Signatures
17:50-17:25 M. Ishigaki – Chemical tagging with supernova yield models as a tool to link field stars to their birth clusters
***Conference dinner***
FRIDAY:
Chair: M. Giersz
9:30-9:55 Francesco Ferraro – Exotic stellar populations, blue stragglers and cluster dynamics
9:55-10:10 Claire Ye – Millisecond Pulsars and Black Holes in Globular Clusters
10:10-10:25 Ugo N. Di Carlo – Young Star Clusters: a Nursery of Merging Binary Black Holes
10:25-10:40 Holger Baumgardt – On the presence of stellar-mass and intermediate mass black holes in globular clusters
10:40-11:20 coffee break
11:55-12:10 Eduardo Balbinot – Multiple stellar populations in the stellar stream GD1 using Gaia
12:10-12:25 Pete Kuzma – Searching Gaia for Extended Structure in Globular Clusters
12:25-13:45 lunch
Chair: M. Fuji
13:45-14:20 V. Hill – The innovation of large multi-element high-resolution spectroscopic surveys
14:20-14:35 Ricardo Schiavon – The Contribution of Globular Clusters and Dwarfs as Building Blocks of the Galactic Halo from APOGEE and Gaia
14:35-14:50 David Nataf – The Relationship Between Globular Cluster Parameters and Abundance Variations, and Application to Former Globular Cluster Stars in the Field
14:50 Conference Wrap Up and Goodbye
coffee break and poster collection