 Sunday 27 July |
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| 15:00-19:00 |
Keele Hall |
Registration |
| 18:00-19:30 |
Keele Hall |
Dinner |
| 19:30-21:00 |
Keele Hall |
Welcome reception |
| Monday 28 July |
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The structure and dynamics of the Magellanic System
(I) |
| 9:00-9:10 |
Vice Chancellor Dame Janet Finch |
Opening |
| 9:10-9:40 |
Jason Harris |
The distribution of stars in the Magellanic System |
| 9:40-10:00 |
Nate Bastian |
The spatial evolution of stellar structures in the LMC/SMC |
| 10:00-10:20 |
Steven Majewski |
Exploring Very Extended Stellar Populations of the Magellanic Clouds |
| 10:20-10:40 | Pierre North |
New distance and depth estimates from observations of eclipsing binaries in
the SMC |
| 10:40-11:10 |
Poster area |
Coffee |
| 11:10-11:30 |
Subramaniam Annapurni |
Estimation of thickness of the LMC and SMC disks |
| 11:30-12:00 |
Basilio Santiago |
The star clusters of the Magellanic System |
| 12:00-12:30 |
Roeland van der Marel |
The kinematical structure of the Magellanic System |
| 12:30-14:00 |
Comus restaurant |
Lunch |
| 14:00-14:20 |
Nitya Kallivayalil |
New Results on the Proper Motions of the Magellanic Clouds: Orbits,
Internal Kinematics, and Distance |
| 14:20-14:40 |
Gurtina Besla |
The Formation of the Magellanic Stream |
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Surveys of the Magellanic Clouds |
| 14:40-15:00 |
Margaret Meixner |
Measuring the Lifecycle of Baryonic Matter in the Large Magellanic Cloud
with SAGE-LMC |
| 15:00-15:20 |
Yoshifusa Ita |
AKARI IRC survey of the Large Magellanic Cloud |
| 15:20-15:40 |
John Dickel |
Radio continuum Surveys of the Magellanic Clouds at 4.8 and 8.6 GHz |
| 15:40-16:10 |
Poster area |
Coffee |
| 16:10-16:40 |
Scott Gaudi |
Verdict on dark matter from microlensing surveys |
| 16:40-17:10 |
Yael Naze |
X-ray stellar populations in the Large Magellanic Cloud |
| 17:10-17:30 |
Frank Haberl |
The XMM-Newton view of the Small Magellanic Cloud |
| 17:30-17:50 |
Igor Soszynski |
OGLE-III Catalog of Variable Stars - first results |
| 17:50-18:10 |
Warren Reid |
Significant new Planetary nebulae discoveries as powerful probes of the
LMC |
| 18:10-19:30 |
Comus restaurant |
Dinner |
| 20:00 |
Keele Hall gardens |
Open-air Shakespeare play "Othello" |
| Tuesday 29 July |
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The structure and dynamics of the Magellanic System
(II) |
| 9:00-9:30 |
Kenji Bekki |
Models for the dynamical evolution of the Magellanic System |
| 9:30-9:50 |
Chiara Mastropietro |
New models for the dynamical evolution of the Magellanic System |
| 9:50-10:10 |
Joss Bland-Hawthorn |
A new view of Galactic accretion: the shock cascade along the Magellanic
Stream |
| 10:10-10:30 |
Snezana Stanimirovic |
The many streams of the Magellanic Stream |
| 10:30-11:00 |
Poster area |
Coffee |
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The properties of the interstellar
medium |
| 11:00-11:30 |
Francois Boulanger |
Dust life cycle and Dust/Gas correlation in the Magellanic
Clouds |
| 11:30-11:50 |
Caroline Bot |
Tracing the cold molecular gas reservoir through dust emission in the
SMC |
| 11:50-12:10 |
Adam Leroy |
The State of the Molecular Gas in the Small Magellanic Cloud |
| 12:10-12:30 |
Karin Sandstrom |
The Spitzer Spectroscopic Survey of the Small Magellanic Cloud: Polycyclic
Aromatic Hydrocarbon Emission from SMC Star-Forming Regions |
| 12:30-14:00 |
Comus restaurant |
Lunch |
| 14:00-14:30 |
You-Hua Chu |
The violent interstellar medium of the Magellanic System |
| 14:30-14:50 |
Sui Ann Mao |
Magnetic Fields in the Magellanic Clouds |
| 14:50-15:10 |
Antonio Magalhaes |
The Magnetic Field Structure of the Small Magellanic Cloud |
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The star formation process |
| 15:10-15:40 |
Joana Oliveira |
The star formation process in the metal-poor Magellanic Clouds |
| 15:40-16:10 |
Poster area |
Coffee |
| 16:10-16:40 |
Norikazu Mizuno |
The properties of molecular clouds across the Magellanic System |
| 16:40-17:10 |
Monica Rubio |
The properties of star forming regions in the Magellanic System |
| 17:10-17:30 |
James Green |
Multibeam Maser Survey of methanol and excited OH in the Magellanic Clouds:
new detections and maser abundance estimates |
| 17:30-17:50 |
Takashi Shimonishi |
AKARI NIR Spectroscopy of Young Stellar Objects in the LMC: Detections of
H2O and CO2 ice |
| 18:00-19:30 |
Comus restaurant |
Dinner |
| 19:30 |
Westminster Theatre |
Public lecture "Astronomy before
History" |
| Wednesday 30 July |
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| 9:00-9:20 |
Remy Indebetouw |
Insights from Spitzer on massive star formation in the LMC |
| 9:20-9:40 |
Elena Sabbi |
Time resolved star formation in the SMC: the youngest star clusters |
| 9:40-10:00 |
Dimitrios Gouliermis |
The sub-solar IMF in the Large Magellanic Cloud |
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The star formation history and chemical
evolution |
| 10:00-10:30 |
Vanessa Hill |
The star formation history and chemical enrichment of the Magellanic
System |
| 10:30-11:00 |
Poster area |
Coffee |
| 11:00-11:20 |
Andrew Cole |
Breaking the Age-Metallicity Degeneracy: The Metallicity Distribution
Function and Star Formation History of the LMC |
| 11:20-11:40 |
Eva Grebel |
The Age-Metallicity Relation of the Small Magellanic Cloud |
| 11:40-12:00 |
Noelia Noel |
The Star Formation History of 12 SMC fields |
| 12:00-12:20 |
Ricardo Carrera |
The chemical enrichment history of the Magellanic Clouds field
population |
| 12:20-14:00 |
Comus restaurant |
Lunch |
| 14:00-14:20 |
Carme Gallart |
Outside-in disk evolution in the LMC |
| 14:20-14:40 |
Aaron Grocholski |
Metallicity and Kinematics of a Large Sample of LMC and SMC Clusters |
| 14:40-15:00 |
Andrea Ahumada |
Integrated spectral properties of 41 compact star clusters of the
Magellanic Clouds |
| 15:00-15:20 |
Alessio Mucciarelli |
The chemical signatures of the Large Magellanic Cloud globular clusters |
| 15:20-15:40 |
Dougal Mackey |
Multiple stellar populations in rich LMC star clusters |
| 15:40-16:10 |
Poster area |
Coffee |
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Poster session |
| 16:10-17:00 |
selected |
Brief poster presentations |
| 17:00-18:00 |
all |
Poster viewing |
| 18:00-19:30 |
Comus restaurant |
Dinner |
| 19:30 |
University Chapel |
Classical concert |
| Thursday 31 July |
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| 9:00-9:20 |
Richard de Grijs |
Star cluster evolution in the Magellanic Clouds revisited: the effects of
infant mortality |
| 9:20-9:40 |
Guillermo Bosch |
Gemini/GMOS detection of stellar velocity variations in the ionising
cluster of 30 Dor |
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The Magellanic Clouds as laboratories of stellar
astrophysics |
| 9:40-10:10 |
Chris Evans |
The properties of early-type stars in the Magellanic Clouds |
| 10:10-10:30 |
Raphael Hirschi |
Stellar evolution models at the Magellanic Clouds' metallicities |
| 10:30-11:00 |
Poster area |
Coffee |
| 11:00-11:20 |
Alceste Bonanos |
A Survey of the Most Massive Stars in the Magellanic Clouds |
| 11:20-11:40 |
Christophe Martayan |
The WFI Halpha spectroscopic survey of the Magellanic Clouds |
| 11:40-12:00 |
Vallia Antoniou |
A comprehensive study of the link between star-formation history and X-ray
source populations in the SMC |
| 12:00-12:20 |
Robin Corbet |
Properties of X-ray Binaries in the Magellanic Clouds from RXTE and Chandra
Observations |
| 12:20-12:40 |
Malcolm Coe |
The extraordinary High Mass X-ray Binary population in the SMC |
| 12:40-14:00 |
Comus restaurant |
Lunch |
| 14:00-14:30 |
Gisella Clementini |
Pulsating variable stars in the Magellanic Clouds |
| 14:30-14:50 |
Wolfgang Gieren |
Direct distances to LMC Cepheids from the infrared surface brightness
technique |
| 14:50-15:10 |
Paola Marigo |
TP-AGB stars in the Magellanic Clouds |
| 15:10-15:30 |
Leandro Kerber |
Analysis of HST CMDs of 15 intermediate-age LMC clusters: self-consistent
physical parameters and 3D distribution using different stellar evolutionary
models |
| 15:30-16:00 |
Poster area |
Coffee |
| 16:00-16:20 |
Rurik Wahlin |
(spectroscopic measurements of dredge-up in cluster carbon stars) |
| 16:20-16:40 |
Thomas Lebzelter |
A study of AGB stars in LMC clusters |
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The final stages of stellar evolution and
feedback |
| 16:40-17:00 |
Gregory Sloan |
Spitzer spectroscopy of mass loss and dust production in the Magellanic
Clouds |
| 17:00-17:20 |
Geoffrey Clayton |
Dust Around Red Supergiants in the Magellanic Clouds |
| 17:20-17:40 |
Els van Aarle |
Post-AGB stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud |
| 18:30 (bus) |
Wrenbury Hall |
Conference dinner |
| Friday 1 August |
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| 9:30-10:00 |
Letizia Stanghellini |
Planetary Nebulae in the Magellanic Clouds |
| 10:00-10:20 |
Michaela Kraus |
On the huge mass loss of B[e] supergiants in the Magellanic Clouds |
| 10:20-10:40 |
Manfred Pakull |
High-excitation nebulae around Magellanic Wolf-Rayet stars |
| 10:40-11:10 |
Poster area |
Coffee |
| 11:10-11:40 |
Rosa Williams |
Supernova remnants in the Magellanic Clouds |
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Magellanic type systems as a class |
| 11:40-12:10 |
Eric Wilcots |
Magellanic type galaxies throughout the Universe |
| 12:10-12:30 |
Elena D'Onghia |
Little Dwarf Galaxies survive with bigger Dwarfs: Understanding the Milky
Way and the faintest Galaxies |
| 12:30-14:00 |
Comus restaurant |
Lunch |
| 14:00-14:20 |
Brandon Lawton |
Evidence of Magellanic-like Moderate Redshift HI-Rich Galaxies |
| 14:20-15:20 |
Jay Gallagher &
Joss Bland-Hawthorn |
Achievements and challenges in Magellanic Clouds
research |
| 15:20-15:30 |
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Closing |
