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Program (still tentative!)

We aim at short talks and lots of discussion during the talks and after them. The talks are adviced to contain a minimum number of slides and be planned for less than 2/3 of the time slot allocated. Note that we have two sessions only on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday June 16, 17, 19.
Tuesday, June 10
11:00
coffee

13:00
lunch

Wednesday, June 11: Environment Dependence of Galaxy Properties (Ravi Sheth)
11:00
coffee

13:00
lunch

14:30-15:00
Ravi Sheth
Environment dependence of galaxy properties
15:00-15:30
Joanna Woo
Environment dependence of SFR
15:30-16:00
Noah Brosch
Galaxy formation along DM filaments
16:00-16:15
Gary Mamon
Comment: compact groups
16:15-16:45
All
Discussion
20:00
dinner (self-paid) at Darna

Thursday, June 12: Halo Assembly & Structure (Joel Primack)
11:00
coffee

13:00
lunch

14:30-15:00
Eyal Neistein
Merger trees and merger rates
15:00-15:30
Tobias Goerdt
Cusps, cores and dynamical friction
15:30-16:00
Yehuda Hoffman
Halo response to baryons
16:10-16:15
Avishai Dekel
Comment: tidal env. dependence of assembly
16:15-16:45
All
Discussion
21:00
Grupo Corpo (Social)

Friday, June 13, morning: Disks and scaling relations (Ari Maller)
11:00-11:30
Aaron Dutton
Origin of disk scaling relations
11:30-11:45
Julio Navarro
Comment: disk angular momentum
11:45-12:00
Joel Primack
Comment: Tully-Fisher & Fundamental-Plane
12:00-12:30
Arieh Maller
Intrinsic vs observed properties of galaxies
12:30-13:00
All
Discussion
13:00
lunch

Friday, June 13, afternoon
14:30-18:00
liturgic tour - Old City (Social)

Saturday, June 14
08:20-17:30
tour - Judea Hills (see Social)

Sunday, June 15, afternoon: Substructure and Dwarf Galaxies (James Bullock)
11:00
coffee

13:00
lunch

14:00-14:30
James Bullock
Substructure and Dwarf Galaxies
14:30-15:00
Julio Navarro
Halo Structure & substructure (Aquarius)
15:00-15:30
Anatoly Klypin
WDM and substructure
15:30-16:00
Gary Mamon
Dwarfs in clusters
16:00-16:30
All
Discussion
19:30
dinner (self-paid) at Terasa

Monday, June 16, morning: SAMS and Halo Models (Risa Wechsler)
10:30-11:00
Somerville, Cattaneo
New recipes in SAMs
11:00-11:30
Risa Wechsler
Galaxies, halos & SFR
11:30-12:00
Jeremy Tinker
Halo Occupation and environment
12:00-12:30
All
Discussion
13:00
lunch

Monday, June 16, afternoon: Clusters, ICM, cooling flows (Andrey Kravtsov)
14:30-15:00
Andrey Kravtsov
Clusters
15:00-15:30
Elad Zinger
Gas flows into Clusters
15:30-16:00
Adi Nusser
Cooling Flows in Clusters
16:00-16:15
Neal Katz
Comment: toy model for cooling flows
16:15-16:35
Orly Gnat
Cooling out of equilibrium
16:35-17:00
All
Discussion
Tuesday, June 17, morning: Star-Forming Galaxies at High Redshift (Julio Navarro)
11:00-11:30
Nicolas Bouche
High-SFR galaxies at z=2-3
11:30-11:45
Sandy Faber
Comment: star formation, bursts vs quiescent
11:45-12:00
Andrey Kravtsov
Comment: role of molecular hydrogen in SF
12:00-12:30
Neal Katz
Gas into galaxies
12:30-13:00
All
Discussion
13:00
lunch

Tuesday, June 17, afternoon: Gas into Galaxies: Cold Flows (Neal Katz)
14:30-15:00
Romain Teyssier
Bimodal gas accretion in simulation
15:00-15:30
Avishai Dekel
Galaxy formation by cold streams at high z
15:30-15:45
Bullock/Maller
Comment: clump infall in a hot medium
15:45-16:15
Darren Croton
SAM-like modeling techniques
16:15-16:45
All
Discussion
20:00
workshop dinner at Eucalyptus

Wednesday, June 18, Afternoon: Red Sequence, Quenching, Spheroids (Sandy Faber)
11:00
coffee
Movies by Primack, Teyssier, ...
13:00
lunch

14:00-14:30
Sandy Faber
Origin of the RS
14:30-15:00
Jerry Ostriker
Origin of the RS
15:00-15:30
Yuval Birnboim
Gravitational heating, clumps, overheating
15:30-16:00
Joel Primack
Spheroid formation by multiple mergers
16:00-16:30
All
Discussion
Thursday, June 19, morning: BH/AGN and Galaxies (Rachel Somerville)
11:00-11:30
Rachel Somerville
Galaxies and AGN in CDM and Real Life
11:30-12:00
Hagai Netzer
BH accretion vs star formation
12:00-12:15
Darren Croton
Comment: AGN impact on galaxy formation
12:15-12:30
Jerry Ostriker
Comment: BH and galaxies
12:30-13:00
All
Discussion
Thursday, June 19, afternoon: BH/AGN and Galaxies (Andrea Cattaneo)
14:30-15:00
Andrea Cattaneo
AGN feedback in simulations
15:00-15:20
Hagai Perets
Merger of binary MBHs in galactic mergers
15:20-15:40
Amri Wandel
BH-galaxy relations in AGN
15:40-16:10
Re'em Sari
Planetary systems and their galaxy
16:10-16:40
All
Discussion
Friday, June 20, morning: SN Feedback (Anatoly Klypin)
11:00-11:30
Daniel Ceverino
SN feedback in simulations
11:30-11:45
Romain Teyssier
Comment: turbulence in galactic disks
11:45-12:15
Kravtsov, Navarro, etc.
Comments: SF & SN feedback in simulations
12:15-12:45
Tsvi Piran
GRB and cosmology
12:45-13:15
All
Discussion
13:15
pizza lunch

Friday, June 20, afternoon
15:00-21:00
beach party & dinner at Mushon

Saturday, June 21

tour (?)

Sunday, June 22 (Romain Teyssier)
11:00
coffee

13:00
lunch

14:30-16:00
Kravtsov, Navarro, Teyssier
Discussion: advances & limitations of simulations
20:30
Israel Festival: Arts Florissants

Monday, June 23 (Yehuda Hoffman)
11:00
coffee

13:00
lunch

14:30-15:00
Noam Libeskind
Satellite allignment in dark halos
15:00-15:30
Smadar Naoz
The first galaxies
15:30-16:00
Ofer Metuki
Populating simulations with CLF galaxies
19:00
dinner (self-paid) at Adom

Tuesday, June 24
11:00
coffee

13:00
lunch

14:30-15:00
Yoel Rephaeli & Tom Broadhurst
Cluster profiles form lensing
15:00-16:00
All
Wrap-up Discussion