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(NEARLY) FINAL PROGRAM

• Sunday, October 5

  • 5:30-8:00 shuttles from hotel to Lowell and back to hotel

  • 6:00 Rotunda open for mounting posters

    6:00-7:30 RECEPTION (Steele Visitor Center, Giclas Lecture Hall)

• Monday, October 6

  • 7:45-8:45 am Shuttles from hotel to Lowell

  • Session 0: Welcome and Introductory Remarks

    • 8:50-8:55 Welcome to Lowell (Jeff Hall)
    • 8:55-9:00 Announcements (Deidre Hunter)

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  • Session 1A: The Cosmological Context, Chair:

    • 9:00-9:30 Invited talk: Observations of stars in disks at high redshift, Stijn Wuyts
    • 9:30-10:00 Invited talk: Observations of gas and dust in disks at high redshift, Linda Tacconi
    • 10:00-10:15 Contributed talk: The formation and evolution of clumpy galaxies from z=3 to z=0.5, Yicheng Guo
    • 10:15-10:30 Contributed talk: Near-Far connection: The Origin of realistic stellar structure and AVRs from z=0-2 in simulated disk galaxies, Jonathan Bird

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  • 10:30-11:15 Break and Poster Viewing in Rotunda

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  • Session 1B: The Cosmological Context (continued), Chair:

    • 11:15-11:45 Invited talk: Massive red disks at high redshift, Elizabeth McGrath
    • 11:45-12:00 Contributed talk: Evolution of the disk scale-length for mono-age populations, Ivan Minchev
    • 12:00-12:15 Contributed talk: Forming exponential disks in cosmological simulations, Aura Obreja
    • 12:15-12:30 Contributed talk: The Impact of the large-scale structure on disk galaxy via galactic angular momentum distribution, Ji Hoon Kim

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  • 12:30-1:30 Lunch (Tent on Mars Hill Campus)

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  • Session 2A: Disk Formation and Evolution, Chair:

    • 1:45-2:15 Invited talk: Theory of disk galaxy formation in a cosmological context, Chris Brook
    • 2:15-2:45 Invited talk: Origin of disk angular momentum, Adrianne Slyz
    • 2:45-3:00 Contributed talk: Exponential profile formation in simple models of scattering processes, Curtis Struck

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  • 3:15-4:15 Break and Poster Viewing in Rotunda

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  • Session 2B: Disk Formation and Evolution (continued), Chair:

    • 4:15-4:45 Invited talk: Secular evolution of disk mass profiles, Jerry Sellwood
    • 4:45-5:15 Invited talk: Galaxy formation by cold accretion and minor mergers, Dusan Keres
    • 5:15-5:45 Invited talk: Fountain driven accretion, Filippo Fraternali
    • 5:45-6:00 Contributed talk: Does the Milky Way have an accreted disk component?, Gregory Ruchti

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  • 6:15-6:30 Pre-dinner wine/beer
  • 6:30-8:00 Dinner (Tent on Mars Hill Campus)
  • 7:30-8:00 Poster advertisements (1 minute per person, no visuals)
  • 7:30-8:30 pm Shuttles to hotel

• Tuesday, October 7

  • 7:45-8:45 am Shuttles from hotel to Lowell

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  • Session 2C: Disk Formation and Evolution (continued), Chair:

    • 9:00-9:30 Invited talk: High-redshift disk galaxies: exponential disk formation, feedback processes, and similarity with nearby dwarf galaxies, Frederic Bournaud
    • 9:30-10:00 Invited talk: Formation and properties of exponential discs and the breaks in their profiles: The N-body view, Lia Athanassoula
    • 10:00-10:15 Contributed talk: MHD Simulations of the Galactic Coupling Spiral-Bar, Marco Martos
    • 10:15-10:30 Contributed talk: Little blue spheroids and disk evolution in GAMA, Amanda Moffett

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  • 10:30-11:15 Break and Poster Viewing in Rotunda

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  • Session 3A: Disks in the Local Universe, Chair:

    • 11:15-11:45 Invited talk: Exponential profiles over the Hubble Sequence, Simon Driver
    • 11:45-12:15 Invited talk: Disk and bulge decompositions in S4G galaxies, Heikki Salo
    • 12:15-12:30 Contributed talk: Age resolved structure of nearby disk galaxies, David Streich

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  • 12:30-1:30 Lunch (Tent on Mars Hill Campus)

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  • Session 3B: Disks in the Local Universe (continued), Chair:

    • 1:45-2:15 Invited talk: Disk truncations in spiral galaxies, Piet van der Kruit
    • 2:15-2:45 Invited talk: Disk breaks and their properties, Peter Erwin
    • 2:45-3:00 Contributed talk: Near infrared view to disk breaks, Jarkko Laine
    • 3:00-3:15 Contributed talk: Stellar surface brightness profile breaks of dwarf galaxies, Kim Herrmann

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  • 3:15-4:15 Break and Poster Viewing in Rotunda

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  • Session 3C: Disks in the Local Universe (continued), Chair:

    • 4:15-4:30 Contributed talk: The origin of stellar breaks at large radii as probed by the Spitzer Survey of Stellar Structure in Galaxies, Juan-Carlos Munoz-Mateos
    • 4:30-4:45 Contributed talk: The Chemistry and age structure of broken (and not-so-broken) exponential disks, Brad Gibson
    • 4:45-5:15 Invited talk: Observations of thick disks, Rosemary Wyse
    • 5:15-5:30 Contributed talk: The distribution of metals in the thick disk, Maider Sancho Miranda
    • 5:30-5:45 Contributed talk: Evidence for concurrent growth of thick discs and central mass concentrations from S4G imaging, Sebastien Comeron
    • 5:45-6:00 Contributed talk: Modeling spatially resolved star formation history, metallicity gradients and radial flows in CALIFA disk galaxies, Bruno Jungwiert

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  • 6:15-6:30 Pre-dinner wine/beer
  • 6:30-8:00 Dinner (Tent on Mars Hill Campus)
  • 8:00-9:00 Clark Telescope Viewing, if available
  • 8:00-9:30 pm Shuttles to hotel

• Wednesday, October 8

  • 7:45-8:45 am Shuttles from hotel to Lowell

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  • Session 3D: Disks in the Local Universe (continued), Chair:

    • 9:00-9:30 Invited talk: The structure of the Milky Way disk, Giovanni Carraro
    • 9:30-10:00 Invited talk: Milky Way disk structure from chemical tagging, Sofia Feltzing
    • 10:00-10:15 Contributed talk: Galactocentric variation of the abundance structure in the Milky Way stellar disk - results from the Gaia-ESO survey, Thomas Bensby
    • 10:15-10:30 Contributed talk: Three Dimensional Mapping of the Stellar and Star-Formation Break of the Milky Way Galaxy, Robert Benjamin

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  • 10:30-11:15 Break and Poster Viewing in Rotunda

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  • Session 3E: Disks in the Local Universe (continued), Chair:

    • 11:15-11:45 Invited talk: Spectroscopic Star Formation Histories in a Variety of Exponential Disks, Peter Yoachim
    • 11:45-12:15 Invited talk: Radial profiles of star formation histories from CALIFA, Sebastian Sanchez
    • 12:15-12:30 Contributed talk: Star formation histories in the outer discs of M31 and M33, Edouard Bernard

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  • 12:30-1:30 Lunch (Tent on Mars Hill Campus)

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  • Session 3F: Disks in the Local Universe (continued), Chair:

    • 1:45-2:15 Invited talk: Radial profiles of star formation histories in local dwarfs and MCs, Carme Gallart
    • 2:15-2:45 Invited talk: Radial profiles and color gradients from photometry, Judit Bakos
    • 2:45-3:00 Contributed talk: The RAVE survey: structure and kinematics of the disk components, Joss Bland-Hawthorn
    • 3:00-3:15 Contributed talk: Timescales for radial and vertical stellar migration from resolved stellar populations in edge-on spiral galaxies, Roelof de Jong

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  • 3:15-4:15 Break and Poster Viewing in Rotunda

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  • Session 3G: Disks in the Local Universe (continued), Chair:

    • 4:15-4:45 Invited talk: Dark matter environment of exponential disks, Ortwin Gerhard
    • 4:45-5:15 Invited talk: Structure of the faintest dwarf galaxies, Ken Freeman
    • 5:15-5:30 Contributed talk: Stellar Populations in disc galaxies from the CALIFA survey. The influence of bars, Patricia Sanchez-Blazquez
    • 5:30-5:45 Contributed talk: Metallicity gradients in galaxy discs, Patricia Tissera
    • 5:45-6:00 Contributed talk: Properties of disks in isolated galaxies, Mirian Fernandez Lorenzo,

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  • 6:15-6:30 Pre-dinner wine/beer
  • 6:30-8:00 Dinner (Tent on Mars Hill Campus)
  • 7:30-8:30 pm Shuttles to hotel

• Thursday, October 9

  • 7:45-8:45 am Shuttles from hotel to Lowell

  • Session 4A: Outer regions of local disks, Chair:

    • 9:00-9:30 Invited talk: Outer disks in the UV, David Thilker
    • 9:30-9:45 Contributed talk: Stellar populations in the disk and outerparts of different surface brightness profile galaxies, Isabel Perez
    • 9:45-10:00 Contributed talk: The Extended Optical Disk of M101, Chris Mihos

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  • 10:00-11:00 Break and Last Poster Viewing Opportunity

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  • Session 4B: Outer regions of local disks, Chair:

    • 11:00-11:30 Invited talk: Optical surveys of outer disks, Roberto Abraham
    • 11:30-12:00 Invited talk: Observations of gas in the far outer regions of nearby galaxies, Baerbel Koribalski
    • 12:00-12:15 Contributed talk: The size, morphology and radial distribution of HI in extremely HI-rich galaxies, Jing Wang
    • 12:15-12:30 Contributed talk: How dwarf galaxy interactions affect spiral disks, Sukanya Chakrabarti

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  • Group Discussion: Outstanding Questions

    • 12:30-1:00

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  • 1:15-2:15 Lunch (Tent on Mars Hill Campus)
  • 2:00-3:00 pm Shuttles back to hotel

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  Posters (On display throughout the meeting in the Rotunda)

  • Three Dimensional Mapping of the Stellar and Star-Formation Break of the Milky Way Galaxy, Part 2, Robert Benjamin
  • Properties of Superthin Stellar Disks, Dmitry Bizyaev
  • A portrait of Malin 2: a case study of a giant low surface brightness disk galaxy, Dmitry Bizyaev and Anna Saburova
  • The initial mass function and star formation law in the outer-disk of NGC 2915, Sarah Bruzzese
  • Tracing evolutionary processes in stellar disks in nearby dwarf galaxies from X-ray light, Sarthak Dasadia
  • Evidence that Spiral Arms in Disk Galaxies are Produced by Density Waves, Benjamin Davis
  • Initial Angular Momentum and the Radial Structure of Disks, Jakob Herpich
  • The Outer disks of dwarf irregular galaxies, Deidre Hunter
  • The pitch angle distribution function and its role in understanding galactic disks, Daniel Kennefick
  • Structure of the inner 300 parsecs of the Milky Way galaxy, Devaky Kunneriath
  • Surface brightness profiles of bars, Eija Laurikainen
  • Disk thickness driven by the spiral arms in normal spiral galaxies, Luis Martinez Medina
  • The evolution of star formation in interacting galaxies, Jorge Moreno
  • HST grism spectroscopy of star forming galaxies at z~1: the growth of exponential disks, Erica Nelson
  • Restrictions to Spiral Arms Parameters in Normal Galaxies: Ordered and Chaotic Stellar Orbital Studies, Angeles Perez Villegas
  • A direct estimate of the radial growth of stellar discs, Gabriele Pezzulli
  • The chemical evolution of simulated galaxies, Owain Snaith
  • Angular momentum evolution of discs and spheroids, Patricia Tissera
  • Studying outer disk formation using extremely deep surface photometry of nearby galaxies, Aaron Watkins
  • Burst and quench? The life story of low surface brightness galaxies, Jason Young

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  Abstracts

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