Third ESO-VLT Workshop

Galaxy Scaling Relations: Origins, Evolution and Applications

Garching bei München, November 18-20, 1996

Preliminary Workshop Program





November 17

18:00 - 20:00 Registration and Informal Reception at the Garching Bürgerstuben in Garching




November 18


8:25 Bus from Garching

8:35 Late Registration

9:05 Opening Remarks; L. da Costa (ESO)

Session I: Chairman A. Renzini

9:10 Can we use Ellipticals as Cosmological Tools?; R. Bender (U. München)

9:40 Photometric Scaling Relation of Dwarf Galaxies; B. Binggeli (Basel)

10:10 Scaling Laws for Dwarf Elliptical Galaxies; E. Held (Padova)

10:30 Origin of the Color-Magnitude Relation of Ellipticals; N. Arimoto (Univ. of Tokyo)

10:50 COFFEE

11:20 Bimodality of Freeman's Law; B. Tully (U. Hawaii)

12:05 On the Phenomenology of Disk Galaxies; G. Gavazzi (Univ. Milano)

12:25 The Luminosity-Metallicity Relation of Spiral Bulges: Analogies with Elliptical Galaxies; P. Jablonka (Meudon)

12:45 LUNCH

Sssion II: Chairman A. Dekel

14:00 The Tully-Fisher Relation, the Motion of Nearby Clusters and Ho; R. Giovanelli (Cornell)

14:45 A Comparison of Tully-Fisher and Fundamental Plane Distances for Nearby Clusters; M. Scodeggio (Cornell/ESO)

15:05 The Infrared Tully-Fisher Relation in the Cancer Cluster and in Abell 1367; R. Peletier (Kapteyn)

15:30 COFFEE

16:00 The Ursa Major Cluster of Galaxies: Tully-Fisher relations and Dark Matter in Spirals; M. Verheijen (Groningen)

16:20 The Fundamental Plane for Cluster E and S0 Galaxies at Redshifts from zero to 0.2; I. Joergensen (U. Texas Austin/Macdonald)

16:50 Calibration of the Tully-Fisher Relation with HST Key Project Distances; J. Mould (MSSSO)

17:35 Welcome Reception

19:00 Bus to Garching




November 19


8:45 Bus from Garching

Session III: Chairman R. Giovanelli

9:00 Evolution of the Fundamental Plane from z=0 to z=0.6; M. Franx (Groningen)

9:45 The Near-Infrared Fundamental Plane at Low and High-Redshift; M. Pahre (Caltech)

10:05 The Scaling Relations of Ellipticals and Disk Galaxies as a Function of Environment and Redshift; D. Schade (U. Toronto/CITA)

10:25 The Global Scaling Laws of Blue Compact Galaxies at z = 0.2-0.7; R. Guzman (UCSC/Lick)

10:45 COFFEE

11:15 Properties of High Redshift Cluster Ellipticals; M. Dickinson (STScI)

12:00 The Mg-sigma Relation of Elliptical Galaxies at Various Redshifts; B. Ziegler (U. München)

12:20 LUNCH

Session IV: Chairman L. da Costa

14:00 Theoretical Basis for Scaling Relations in the Galaxy Population; S. White (MPA)

14:45 Can the Tully-Fisher Relation be the result of Initial Conditions?; D. Eisenstein (IAS)

15:15 COFFEE

15:45 Tully-Fisher-like Relations in Cosmological Simulations; A. Evrard (U. Michigan/IAP)

16:15 Tilt of the Fundamental Plane: The Effect of a new IMF; C. Chiosi (Padova)

16:35 The Physical Origin of the Fundamental Plane; L. Ciotti (Bologna)

16:55 Dark Matter in Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies; A. Burkert (MPI, Heidelberg)

17:15 The Role of Photoionization During Galaxy Formation; A. Blanchard (Strasbourg)

17:45 Semi-Analytic Models of Galaxy Evolution; C. Baugh (Durham)

18:30 End of Session

18:45 Bus to Garching




November 20


8:45 Bus from Garching

Session V: Chairman B. Tully

9:00 Lensing and the Fundamental Plane; T. Broadhurst (Berkeley)

9:30 Constraining the Mass Distribution of Cluster Galaxies by Weak Lensing; B. Geiger (MPA)

10:00 Dark Halo Scaling from Galaxy-Galaxy Lensing; P. Schneider (MPA)

10:30 Galaxy-galaxy gravitational lensing in the Hubble Deep Field: The Halo Tully-Fisher Relation at z ~ 2; M. Hudson (U. Victoria/CITA)

11:00 COFFEE

11:30 Analysis of Cosmic Flows; A. Dekel (Hebrew U./Berkeley)

12:15 LUNCH

Session VI: Chairman J. Mould

13:30 Comparison between Mark III Peculiar Velocity Field and the IRAS Gravity; A. Nusser (MPA)

14:00 Peculiar Motions of Spiral Galaxies; W. Freudling (ESO)

14:30 Peculiar Motions of Clusters in the Perseus-Pisces Region; R. Smith (Durham)

15:00 The EFAR Project: New Results; R. Saglia (U. München)

15:30 COFFEE

16:00 Poster Paper Review

16:30 Panel Discussion: Chairman A. Renzini

17:30 Bus to Garching



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