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Scientific Program

Day 1

Monday, 9 July, Morning

08:30-09:00 * poster set-up and viewing *

09:00-09:10 Bärbel Koribalski - Conference welcome

09:10-09:50 Brent Tully (I) - The Local Velocity Anomaly

09:50-10:10 Renée C. Kraan-Korteweg - Outlining the Local Void with the Parkes HI ZOA and Galactic Bulge survey

10:10-10:30 Matthew Colless - The context of the Local Volume: structures and motions in the nearby universe

**Coffee Break**

11:00-11:40 Igor Karachentsev (I) - Mining the Local Volume

11:40-12:00 Anton Tikhonov - Minivoids in the Local Volume

12:00-12:20 Guilhem Lavaux - Using Local Volume data to constrain dark matter dynamics

12:20-12:30 * Short Poster Presentations (1 min., 1 slide) *

Monday, 9 July, Afternoon

13:30-14:00 * poster viewing *

14:00-14:20 Bärbel Koribalski - The Local Volume HI Survey (LVHIS)

14:20-14:35 Nic Bonne - Investigating Dark Matter and MOND in Local Volume Galaxies

14:35-14:50 Emma Kirby - Deepest Near-IR Surface Photometry of Galaxies in the Local Sphere of Influence

14:50-15:10 Angel R. Lopez-Sanchez - Ionized and neutral gas in the starburst galaxy NGC 5253

15:10-15:30 Tom Oosterloo - The low-mass end of the HI mass function

**Coffee Break**

16:00-16:20 Ayesha Begum - FIGGS: Faint Irregular Galaxies GMRT Survey

16:20-16:40 Jayaram Chengalur - Gas Rich Galaxies from the FIGGS Survey

16:40-17:00 Eric Wilcots - Evolution of the ISM in Star-Forming Galaxies

17:00-17:20 Amanda Kepley - Magnetic Fields in Irregular Galaxies

17:20-17:40 Lister Staveley-Smith - Future MIRANdA Studies of the Local Volume

Day 2

Tuesday, 10 July, Morning

08:30-09:00 * poster viewing *

09:00-09:20 Daniel Dale - An Ultraviolet-to-Radio Broadband Spectral Atlas of Nearby Galaxies

09:20-19:40 Caroline Bot - Diagnostic values of fine structure line emission in galaxies

09:40-10:00 Helene Roussel - Warm molecular hydrogen in nearby galaxies: excitation mechanisms and link with dust heating

10:00-10:20 Alberto Bolatto - Molecular Gas, Cloud Properties, and Star Formation in Dwarf Galaxies

10:20-10:30 * Short Poster Presentations (1 min., 1 slide) *

**Coffee Break**

11:00-11:40 Fabian Walter (I) - The HI Nearby Galaxy Survey (THINGS)

11:40-12:00 Frank Bigiel - A THINGS View on Star Formation in Nearby Galaxies

12:00-12:30 David Thilker - The GALEX view of ongoing disk formation in the Local Volume

Tuesday, 10 July, Afternoon

13:30-14:00 * poster viewing *

14:00-14:40 Julienne Dalcanton (I) - 10 Months of ANGST: The ACS Nearby Galaxy Survey

14:40-15:00 Gary S. Da Costa - HST/ACS Observations of Early-Type Dwarfs in Nearby Groups

15:00-15:20 Anil Seth - Resolving the Outer Disks and Halos of Nearby Galaxies

15:20-15:30 * Short Poster Presentations (1 min., 1 slide) *

**Coffee Break**

16:00-16:40 Evan Skillman (I) - The Recent Star Formation Histories of Nearby Galaxies

16:40-17:00 Alessandra Aloisi - New HST/ACS Insights into the Evolution of Extremely Metal-Poor Blue Compact Dwarf Galaxies

17:00-17:20 Igor Drozdovsky - Matching the Local and Cosmic Star Formation Histories

17:20-17:40 Henry Lee - On local mass-metallicity relations spanning over 6 decades in galaxy mass

Day 3

Wednesday, 11 July, Morning

08:30-09:00 * poster viewing *

09:00-09:20 Jürgen Ott - Dense Molecular Gas in Southern Nearby Starburst and Active Galaxies

09:20-09:40 Toshikazu Onishi - NANTEN2 project: CO and CI Survey of the Local Group

09:40-10:00 Robin Ciardullo - The Mass-to-Light Ratio of Spiral Disks

10:00-10:20 Eizabeth Wehner - The Surprisingly Abnormal Halo of the Normal Elliptical Galaxy, NGC 3379

10:20-10:30 * Short Poster Presentations (1 min., 1 slide) *

**Coffee Break in the Terrace Room **

11:00-11:20 Tom Jarrett - Infrared Study of SNR Evolution in NGC6946

11:20-11:40 Kristine Spekkens - Modeling Non-Circular Motions in Disk Galaxies: a Bar in NGC2976

11:40-12:00 Marc Hitchfeld - Local star formation laws in M51

12:00-12:20 Kristin Woodley - The Kinematics and Ages of the Nearby Elliptical, NGC 5128

12:20-12:40 Davor Krajnovic - Integral-field spectroscopy of the Centaurus A nucleus

12:40-12:45 David Barnes - Visualising the Local Volume - Part I.

** 13:00-15:00 Stand-up Buffet Lunch in the Terrace Room **

** 16:00-18:00 Visit to the Sydney Observatory, incl. a talk by David Barnes in the 3D theatre **

16:30-16:45 David Barnes - Visualising the Local Volume - Part II.

16:45-17:00 repeat

Day 4

Thursday, 12 July, Morning

08:30-09:00 * poster viewing *

09:00-09:20 Helmut Jerjen - Testing Cold Dark Matter Theory - The Stromlo Missing Satellites Survey

09:20-09:30 Shane Walsh - Bootes II - A Retrospective

09:30-09:50 Sergey Koposov - Observational constraints on the "Missing Satellite" problem from SDSS

09:50-10:10 Julio Chaname - Modeling Discrete Velocity Data: Characterizing the Dark Halos of Local Group dE Galaxies

10:10-10:30 Slawomir Piatek - Space Motions of Draco, Fornax, and Sagittarius Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies

**Coffee Break **

11:00-11:20 Steven Majewski - Stellar Halos of the Local Group

11:20-11:40 Miguel A. Urbaneja - Extragalactic Stellar Astronomy

11:40-12:00 Matthew Coleman - Photometry of New Milky Way dSphs: First Results From The Large Binocular Telescope

12:00-12:20 Andreas Brunthaler - Towards a kinematics model of the Local Group

12:20-12:30 * Short Poster Presentations (1 min., 1 slide) *

Thursday, 12 July, Afternoon

13:30-14:00 * poster viewing *

14:00-14:40 Mike Irwin (I) - Surveying the M31 system

14:40-15:00 Alan McConnachie - Contrasting the Milky Way and M31 dwarf galaxy populations"

15:00-15:20 Geraint Lewis - Strangers in the Night: AndXII and its first passage through the Local Group

15:20-15:30 * Short Poster Presentations (1 min., 1 slide) *

**Coffee Break**

16:00-16:20 Karoline Gilbert - Substructure along M31's Southeast Minor Axis and Its Relationship to the Giant Southern Stream

16:20-16:40 Heather Morrison - Star Clusters in M31

16:40-17:00 Jason Kalirai - A Spectroscopic Survey of M31 Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies

17:00-17:20 Raja Guhathakurta - The Surface Brightness Profile and Metallicity of M31's Extended Stellar Halo

17:20-17:40 Robert Braun - HI in the M31 sub-group

**18:30 Conference Dinner (Harbour Cruise)**

Day 5

Friday, 13 July, Morning

08:30-09:00 * poster viewing *

09:00-09:20 Joss Bland-Hawthorn - How do galaxies get their gas?

09:20-09:40 Tobias Westmeier - The relics of structure formation: Extra-planar gas and high-velocity clouds around the Andromeda Galaxy

09:40-10:00 Felix J. Lockman - HVCs as Satellites of the Milky Way: the Case of Complex H and Smith's Cloud

10:00-10:20 Vasily Belokurov - The Hercules-Aquila Cloud

10:20-10:30 * Short Poster Presentations (1 min., 1 slide) *

**Coffee Break**

11:00-11:20 Chiara Mastropietro - Streams and disrupting satellite galaxies in the Milky Way halo

11:20-11:40 David Nidever - The Source of the Magellanic Stream and Its Leading Arm

11:40-12:00 Kenji Bekki - Formation and evolution of the Small Magellanic Cloud

12:00-12:20 Yasuo Fukui - HI vs. CO in the LMC

12:20-12:30 * Short Poster Presentations (1 min., 1 slide) *

Friday, 13 July, Afternoon

13:30-14:00 * poster viewing *

14:00-14:20 Margaret Meixner - Spitzer Survey of the Large Magellanic Cloud: Surveying the Agents of a Galaxy's Evolution (SAGE); Project Overview

14:20-14:40 Maria-Rosa Cioni - Metallicity and mean age across M33

**Coffee Break**

15:20-15:40 Thijs van der Hulst - From Gas to Galaxies

15:40-17:00 Summary & Open Discussion