Thursday 3 March

08:30 Registration

SESSION 1: GALAXY FORMATION IN MODELS AND OBSERVATIONS (Chair Nelson Padilla)

09:00 Discussion Talk: Carlton Baugh (Durham) "Challenges for hierarchical galaxy formation"

09:50 Discussion Talk: Sofia Cora (La Plata) "Semi-analytic models of galaxy formation"

10:40 Coffee Break and Poster Viewing

11.00 Discussion Talk: Diego Garcia Lambas (Cordoba) "The statistical approach to galaxy formation"

11.50 Contributed Talk: Ignacio Araya (PUC)  "Could dark matter annihilation have re-ionized the Universe by itself?"

12.10 Contributed Talk: Tomas Tecce (IAFE) "Stripping of hot halo gas in satellite galaxies"

12.30 Contributed Talk: Rory Smith (Concepcion) "Ursa Major II - a dark matter free system?"

12.50 Lunch break

SESSION 2: USING THE MW AND ITS SURROUNDINGS TO CONSTRAIN GALAXY FORMATION (Chair Ivo Saviane)

14.20 Discussion Talk: Thomas Puzia (PUC) "Formation Efficiencies of Globular Cluster Systems as a Function of the Host Halo Mass"

15.10 Discussion Talk: Doug Geisler (Concepcion) "Chemical Abundances of Dwarf Galaxies and Formation of the Milky Way Halo"

16.00 Coffee Break and Poster Viewing

16.30 Discussion Talk: Marcio Catelan (PUC) "Constraints on the Formation History of the Milky Way: The RR Lyrae Perspective"

17.20 Contributed Talk: Ignacio Gargiulo (La Plata) "Stellar Haloes and Bulges in a Semianalitical Model"

17.40 Contributed Talk: Mariano Dominguez (Cordoba) "Properties of satellites galaxies in the SDSS photometric survey"

20.00 Workshop Dinner

Friday 4 March

SESSION 3: GALAXY AND INTRACLUSTER PHYSICS (Chair Carlton Baugh)

09.00 Discussion Talk: Patricia Tissera (Buenos Aires) "Chemical evolution of Milky Way mass galaxies in Lambda-CDM"

09.50 Discussion Talk: Kostas Gourgouliatos (Purdue) "Magnetic models for AGN bubbles"

10.40 Coffee Break and Poster Viewing

11.00 Discussion Talk: Ivo Saviane (ESO Chile) "Metal Production in a hierarchical Universe"

11.50 Contributed Talk: Jorge Cuadra (PUC) "Feedback from kicked black hole and the M-sigma relation"

12.10 Contributed Talk: Richard Lane (Concepcion) "The highest redshift ring galaxy? Formation of a Cartwheel"

12.30 Contributed Talk: Alvaro Orsi (PUC) "Can supernova-driven outflows explain the observed Ly-alpha luminosities of galaxies across cosmic time?"

12.50 Lunch break

SESSION 4: AGN PHENOMENOLOGY AND FEEDBACK (Chair Sofia Cora)

14:20 Discussion Talk: Franz Bauer (PUC) "The observational nature of AGN feedback"

15:10 Discussion Talk: Patricia Arevalo (Andres Bello) "Using multiwavelength variability to map the central engine of AGN"

16:00 Coffee Break and Poster Viewing

16.30 Discussion Talk: Phil Armitage (Colorado) "Supermassive black hole formation via direct collapse"

17.20 Final Discussion by Diego G. Lambas and Doug Geisler