| 18:00 | Reception | Bar 1, Oldtown Heidelberg, Kettengasse 6-8, phone +49-6221-180001 |
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End |
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Bus Departure: Heidelberg (Crowne Plaza) to MPIA |
| 8:45 | |
Registration |
| 9:15 | Hans-Walter Rix | Welcome |
Session 1 : Observational properties of NCs |
Chair: Torsten Böker |
| Time | Name | Presentation title and abstract |
| 9:25 | Patrick Cote | Detection of Nuclear Clusters along the Hubble Sequence |
| 9:55 | Roeland van der Marel | Nuclear Cluster masses and population properties |
| 10:25 | Rainer Schödel | The nuclear stellar cluster of the Milky Way |
| 10:45 | Coffee | |
| 11:15 | Bryan Miller | The Ages and Metallicities of dE Nuclei |
| 11:35 | Mina Koleva | Stellar populations in the nuclei of dwarf elliptical galaxies |
| 11:55 | Discussion (Moderator: T. Böcker) | Is there a single class of nuclear clusters over the HUBBLE sequence? |
| 12:30 | Lunch |
Session 2 : Formation scenarios |
Chair: Philippe Prugniel |
| Time | Name | Presentation title and abstract |
| 14:00 | Milos Milosavljevic | Formation Scenarios for Nuclear Star Clusters |
| 14:30 | Roberto Capuzzo Dolcetta | Super Star Cluster formation via globular cluster merging |
| 14:50 | Victor Debattista | Evolution of nuclear disks in N-body simulations |
| 15:10 | Markus Hartmann | Evolution and Formation of Nuclear Star Cluster |
| 15:30 | Coffee | |
| 16:00 | Carl Jakob Walcher | Yet another formation scenario for nuclear star clusters |
Session 3 : Relation to Bulges, Globular Clusters and UCDs |
Chair: Philippe Prugniel |
| Time | Name | Presentation title and abstract |
| 16:20 | Marcella Carollo | Disks, Bulges & NUclei |
| 16:50 | Michael Drinkwater | Are Ultra-compact Dwarf Galaxies isolated Globular Clusters or are they stripped Nuclear Star Clusters? |
| 17:20 | End of day | |
| 17:45 | Bus Departure: MPIA to Heidelberg (Crowne Plaza) |
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Bus Departure: Heidelberg (Crowne Plaza) to MPIA |
Session 3 : Relation to Bulges, Globular Clusters and UCDs |
Chair: Keiichi Wada [TBC] |
| Time | Name | Presentation title and abstract |
| 9:00 | Dean McLaughlin | Relation to Globular Clusters and Other Stellar Systems |
| 09:30 | Reynier Peletier | Properties of bulges of late-type spiral galaxies |
| 09:50 | Igor Chilingarian | Evolutionary connection between nuclei of dEN's and UCD's |
| 10:10 | Michael Hilker | Are UCDs isolated nuclei of disrupted galaxies? - Pros and cons. |
| 10:30 | Coffee | |
| 11:10 | Iskren Georgiev | Properties of Nuclear Globular Clusters in Dwarf Irregular Galaxies from broadband HST/ACS imaging |
| 11:30 | Markus Kissler-Patig | All globular clusters are nuclear, just some more so. |
| 11:50 | Discussion (Moderator: M. Drinkwater) | Crucial tests on the relation between NCs, GCs & UCDs |
| 12:30 | Lunch |
Session 4 : Dynamics and fueling of the nucleus |
Chair: Marcella Carollo |
| Time | Name | Presentation title and abstract |
| 14:00 | Eric Emsellem | Dynamics of the nuclear environment |
| 14:30 | Witold Maciejewski | Nuclear spirals: the dynamical link between the inner galaxy and its innermost parsecs |
| 14:50 | Eva Schinnerer | Fueling Nuclear Star Clusters |
| 15:10 | Paola di Matteo | Central Asymmetries in Galaxy Merger Remnants: Fueling Nuclear Star Cluster Formation |
| 15:30 | Coffee | |
| 16:10 | Luis Colina | Dissecting the nucleus of NGC 4303: identifying star clusters and AGN |
| 16:30 | Jesus Falcon-Barroso | The nuclei of spiral galaxies: relating circum-nuclear star formation and the AGN phenomenon |
| 16:50 | Marc Freitag | Stellar dynamics of dense clusters |
| 17:20 | Clovis Hopman | Resonant relaxation near massive black holes |
| 17:40 | End of day | |
| 18:15 | Bus Departure: MPIA to Conference Dinner | |
| 19:00 | Conference Dinner at 'Kulturbrauerei' |
| 8:30 | |
Bus Departure: Heidelberg (Crowne Plaza) to MPIA |
Session 4 : Dynamics and Fueling of the Nucleus - cont. |
Chair: Marcella Carollo |
| Time | Name | Presentation title and abstract |
| 09:00 | Pavel Kroupa | The nuclear IMF of stars |
| 09:30 | Steffen Mieske | Do nuclear star clusters have a different IMF than isolated globular clusters? |
| 09:50 | Hagai Perets | Dynamical evolution of the stellar disk(s) in the Galactic nuclear cluster | 10:10 | Sami Dib | The origin of the mass function of Starburst Stellar Clusters |
| 10:30 | Coffee | |
Session 5 : Observational relation or disjunction between BHs/AGN and NCs |
Chair: David Merritt |
| Time | Name | Presentation title and abstract |
| 11:00 | Jenny Greene | Relation between active galaxies and nuclear star clusters |
| 11:30 | Kaiichi Wada | Coevolution of AGNs and Nuclear Starbursts |
| 12:00 | Joe Shields | Recent Results on AGNs in Nuclear Star Clusters |
| 12:30 | Lunch | |
| 14:00 | Shobita Satyapal | Discovering AGNs in Low-Bulge Galaxies |
| 14:20 | Ryan Houghton | The Nuclear Star Cluster(s) in M83 |
| 14:40 | Alister Graham | NC/SMBH mass correlations with the host "bulge" |
| 15:00 | Coffee | |
| 15:30 | Peter Erwin | Nuclear Clusters, Supermassive Black Holes, and Bulges |
| 15:50 | Anil Seth | The Coincidence of Nuclear Clusters and AGN |
| 16:10 | Discussion (Moderator: D. Merritt) | Should we unify NCs and BHs into CMOs? |
| 17:10 | End of day | |
| 17:15 | Bus Departure: MPIA to Heidelberg (Crowne Plaza) |
Poster Session |
| Time | Name | Presentation title and abstract |
| P1 | Soo-Chang Rey | Ultraviolet Properties of Compact Objects in Nearby Galaxies |
| P2 | Suk Kim | Ultraviolet Properties of Dwarf Elliptical Galaxies in Virgo Cluster |
| P3 | Sebastian Haan | Feeding Galaxy Centers: Gas Inflow Rates in Nearby AGN Galaxies |
| P4 | Yanning Fu | To form Nuclear Clusters through sinking of Super Star Clusters |
| P5 | Philippe Prugniel | Young nuclei in dEs |
| P6 | Avon Huxor | A newly discovered massive and highly elliptical globular cluster found in NGC 6822 |
| P7 | Paolo Miocchi | Self-consistent N-body simulations of nuclear cluster formation via globular clusters merging |
| P8 | Ulf Löckman | Constraining the IMF of Stars in the Galactic Centre |
| P9 | Guido van der Wolk | Circumnuclear Dust in Radio Galaxies |
| P10 | Anna Pasquali | HST/ACS Grism Spectroscopy of Bulges in Late-Type Spirals at z = 1 |
| P11 | Anil Seth | The rotating Nuclear Star Cluster in NGC 4244 |
| P12 | Roberto Cid Fernandes | Nuclear Clusters in Low Luminosity AGN |