JENAM 2010 - Sept. 6-10, 2010

Lisbon, Portugal

Environment and the Formation of Galaxies: 30 years later

Scientific Rationale

It has been thirty years since the seminal work of Alan Dressler on the density-morphology relation, which established environment as a driving mechanism for galaxy formation and evolution. In the following three decades, we have learned that both the intrinsic processes (nature) and environment (nurture) contribute towards shaping the galaxy populations, and the connection between these two still remains an open question. Large, homogeneous redshift surveys have enabled us to quantify environment in a more consistent way. In addition, large galaxy surveys at diffferent wavelengths allow us to study the physics behind the environmental dependence of galaxy properties. A combination of photo-spectroscopic data along with cosmological simulations of galaxy formation are essential to probe the dichotomy between the mass assembly and the star formation histories, in connection with the environment where galaxies live. This JENAM Symposium brings together observations and theory, with the purpose of establishing the role of environment in the star formation and assembly histories of galaxies, including the dependence that look-back time imposes on these processes. The meeting will include a round table session, where the latest results and ideas will be discussed by a number of experts, also encouraging active participation from the audience.

The meeting will take place during the first two days of JENAM 2010 (Mon. 6th and Tues. 7th September).

Conference proceedings of the talks and posters will be published (Astrophysics & Space Science Proceedings, Springer).

Registration and abstract submission CLOSED

Contact us: jenam2010gf AT mssl.ucl.ac.uk (replace AT by '@')

Conveners

Anna Pasquali (MPIA Heidelberg)

Ignacio Ferreras (MSSL/UCL)

Scientific Organizing Committee

Gabriela De Lucia (INAF Trieste)

Alan Dressler (Carnegie Observatories)

Ignacio Ferreras (MSSL/UCL)

Sadegh Khochfar (MPE Garching)

Anna Pasquali (MPIA Heidelberg)

Bianca Poggianti (INAF Padova)

Frank van den Bosch (Utah)