The principal goal of this meeting is to learn by interacting and discussing and generate new collaborations and connections. Each day will comprise review talks, invited and contributed talks, poster viewing and ample time for discussions and consultations. To leave enough room, the daily program needs to be spread out and be made of few talks. There will be a special discussion session at the end of each day (see below), especially meant for the doctoral students and young researchers, who will ask questions to the day's speakers.
All talks and planned discussion sessions will take place in the main lecture hall of the PBH, namely, the Wilhelm und Else Heraeus-Hörsaal.
Legends: R = Review talk (30 min talk + 15 min discussion); I = Invited talk (20 min + 10 min), C= Contributed talk (20 min + 10 min). See below for the list of posters. See below for more details regarding the social programme.
Sunday, 4 December
17:00 - 21:00 Registration and check-in at PBH
18:00 - Informal get-together and buffet supper
Monday, 5 December
Observations of molecular clouds and gas-embedded stellar systems (Chair: Banerjee)
09:00 - 09:15 Welcome and intro: Sambaran Banerjee
09:15 - 10:00 Tom Megeath: Fragmentation, Mass Accretion and Mass Dispersal: Observations of Star Formation in the Nearest 2 kpc (R)
10:00 - 10:30 Christian Boily: The Growth of Fragmentation Modes and the Morphology of Star Forming Regions (C)
10:30 - 11:15 Coffee Break
11:15 - 11:45 Jürgen Kerp: Cosmic molecular rain: evidence for inflow of gas sustaining the Galactic star formation rate (C)
11:45 - 12:15 Ning-Chen Sun: Hierarchical Star Formation in the Magellanic Clouds as Revealed by the VMC Survey (C)
12:15 - 12:30 Group photo shoot I (click here for the photo)
12:30 - Lunch
Observations of dense stellar and embedded clusters (Chair: Brandner)
13:45 - 14:30 Eva Grebel: Young Massive Clusters (R)
14:30 - 15:00 Theodoros Bitsakis: Star clusters in LMC: the young, the old and the IMF (C)
15:00 - 15:30 Andrés Piatti: The extended main sequence turnoff phenomenon in LMC star clusters (C)
15:30 - 16:15 Coffee Break
16:15 - 16:45 Neelam Panwar: Pre-main-sequence population and star formation in the cluster IC1805 (C)
16:45 - 17:15 Mayte Alfaro Cuello: M54: A key for the connection between globular and nuclear star clusters (C)
17:15 - 17:45 Sanjaya Paudel: Blue centre early-type dwarf galaxies and forming young nucleus (C)
17:45 - 18:00 Stefan Jorda: About the Wilhelm und Else Heraeus-Stiftung
18:00 - 19:00 Q&A session with speakers (Chair: Clarke)
19:00 - Heraeus Special Dinner (Heraeus Abend)
Tuesday, 6 December
Hydrodynamic computations of star cluster formation (Chair: Capuzzo-Dolcetta)
09:00 - 09:45 Ralf Klessen: ISM dynamics and star cluster formation (R)
09:45 - 10:15 Steve McMillan: Modeling Massive Cluster Formation with Stellar Feedback using FLASH and AMUSE (C)
10:15 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:30 Philipp Girichidis: Importance of the initial conditions for star and star cluster formation (I)
11:30 - 12:00 Florent Renaud: The Star Cluster Factory (C)
12:00 - 12:30 Diederik Kruijssen: The multi-scale physics of cluster formation and survival in galaxies across cosmic time (C)
12:30 - Lunch
Numerical modeling of star clusters and their evolution (Chair: Lu)
14:00 - 14:45 Douglas Heggie: Numerical modeling of star clusters and their evolution (R)
14:45 - 15:15 Holger Baumgardt: Direct N-body modeling of globular clusters (C)
15:15 - 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 - 16:30 Sverre Aarseth: N-body treatments of black holes (I)
16:30 - 17:00 Anna Lisa Varri: Kinematic signatures of tidally perturbed star clusters (C)
17:00 - 17:30 Susanne Pfalzner: Two populations of star clusters - a feature at all ages (C)
17:30 - 18:00 Poster flash presentations (Chair: Pfalzner)
18:00 - 19:00 Q&A session with speakers (Chair: Rasio)
19:00 - Dinner at PBH
Wednesday, 7 December
Numerical modeling of star clusters and their evolution [continued] (Chair: Heggie)
09:00 - 09:30 Marco Merafina: Gravity and thermodynamics: a new point of view in the analysis of equilibrium and dynamical evolution of globular cluster (C)
09:30 - 10:00 Rebecca Arnold: How do binary clusters form? (C)
10:00 - 10:30 Kirsten Vincke: Small planetary systems in open clusters (C)
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
Stellar initial mass function (IMF): its origin and implications (Chair: Heggie)
11:00 - 11:45 Cathie Clarke: The Origin of the IMF (R)
11:45 - 12:15 Mario Spera: Modeling the formation of compact remnants in star clusters (I)
12:15 - Lunch
Black holes in globular clusters (Chair: Mapelli)
13:45 - 14:30 Matthew Benacquista: Understanding Binary Black Holes Through Gravitational Wave Detections (R)
14:30 - 15:00 Fred Rasio: Black Hole Binaries from Dense Star Clusters (I)
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:00 Abbas Askar: Coalescing binary black holes originating from globular clusters (C)
16:00 - 16:30 Mirek Giersz: New Scenario for IMBH Formation in Globular Clusters - Recent Developments and Observational Imprints (C)
16:30 - 17:30 Q&A session with speakers (Chair: Banerjee)
Short talk by Sambaran Banerjee: Stellar-mass black holes in young massive and open clusters and their role in gravitational-wave generation
17:30 - Trip to Bonn Christmas Market (at own cost) or dinner at PBH
Thursday, 8 December
Nuclear star clusters: formation mechanisms and observations (Chair: Pfalzner)
09:00 - 09:45 Nadine Neumayer: Nuclear star clusters: formation mechanisms and observations (R)
09:45 - 10:15 Anja Feldmeier-Krause: Large-scale observations of the Milky Way Nuclear Star Cluster (C)
10:15 - 10:45 Fabio Antonini: Black hole mergers in nuclear star clusters (I)
10:45 - 11:15 Coffee Break
11:15 - 11:45 Alessandra Mastrobuono-Battisti: Simulating the mass assembly history of Nuclear Star Clusters: the imprints of cluster inspirals (C)
11:45 - 12:15 Fani Dosopoulou: Dynamical friction and the evolution of Supermassive Black hole Binaries (C)
12:15 - 12:30 Group photo shoot II (click here for the photo)
12:30 - Lunch
Nuclear clusters and galactic scaling relations (Chair: Davies)
13:45 - 14:15 Anil Seth: UCDs as stripped galaxy nuclei (I)
14:15 - 14:45 Nikolay Kacharov: The X-Shooter spectroscopic survey of nuclear star clusters in nearby galaxies (C)
14:45 - 15:15 Coffee Break
15:15 - 16:00 Alister Graham: Nuclear clusters and galactic scaling relations (R)
16:00 - 16:30 Ruben Sanchez-Janssen: The occurrence and properties of nuclear star clusters in Virgo over seven decades in stellar mass (C)
16:30 - 17:00 Rosa Gonzalez-Lopezlira: The relation between globular cluster systems and supermassive black holes in spiral galaxies. The case study of NGC 4258 (C)
17:00 - 18:00 Q&A session with speakers (Chair: Benacquista)
Short talk by Simon Portegies Zwart: Dynamical destruction of circum-stellar disks in the Trapezium cluster
18:00 - 20:00 Visit and wine tasting at the Weingut Broel winery (free of cost)
20:00 - Dinner at PBH
Friday, 9 December
Stellar population and dynamics of the Milky Way’s center (Chair: Neumayer)
09:00 - 09:45 Jessica Lu: The Milky Way’s central molecular zone and its stellar population (R)
09:45 - 10:15 Michela Mapelli: Near the monster: formation and dynamics of stars in galactic nuclei (I)
10:15 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:30 Eugene Vasiliev: Tidal disruption rates in galactic nuclei formed by mergers (C)
11:30 - 12:00 Manuel Arca Sedda: The MEGaN project: investigating the evolution of galactic nuclei and their environment (C)
12:00 - 12:30 Giacomo Fragione: Hypervelocity stars as tools for Galactic Astrophysics (C)
12:30 - Lunch
The Milky Way’s supermassive black hole and its neighbours (Chair: Gillessen)
14:00 - 14:45 Melvyn Davies: The Galactic Centre Environment (R)
14:45 - 15:15 Philipp Plewa: What's new with G2? (I)
15:15 - 15:45 Maryam Habibi: Spectral Study of S-stars in the Galactic center (C)
15:45 - 16:30 Coffee Break
16:30 - 17:00 Alice Zocchi: Kinematic signatures of intermediate-mass black holes in globular clusters (C)
17:00 - 17:30 Ladislav Subr: Dynamics of a stellar disc around an SMBH (C)
17:30 - 18:00 Alessandro A. Trani: The dynamics of planets and low-mass stars in the Galactic center: implications for G2 (C)
18:00 - 19:00 Q&A session with speakers (Chair: Banerjee/Capuzzo-Dolcetta)
19:00 - Dinner at PBH
Posters:
There will be a "poster flash" session on Tuesday where each poster presenter would introduce his/her poster to the audience in 1 minute, using 1 slide. There will be a poster prize competition with a modest prize amount, so make sure to bring along impressive posters! The poster prize will be announced on Friday, Dec 9. All the posters will be displayed in the main lecture hall or in the adjacent recess foyer, during the entire week.
List of posters:
Diogo Belloni: On the influence of enhanced angular momentum loss on cataclysmic variables in globular clusters
Phil Breen: Core collapse times in anisotropic Plummer models
Filippo Contenta: Eridanus II, a core dwarf galaxy
Jörg Dabringhausen: X-ray sources in extra-galactic globular clusters as indicators for a varying stellar initial mass function
Andrea Dieball: Hunting for Brown Dwarfs in Globular Clusters: M4
Martina Donnari: Collisions in galaxy clusters core: formation of sub-structures and massive black holes merging
Daniel Griffiths: Massive Wide Binaries as Tracers for the Dynamical Evolution of Star Clusters
Alexander Gusev: A spectral and photometric study of young massive star clusters and their complexes in spiral galaxies
Jaroslav Haas: Footprints of celestial mechanics in N-body dynamics of galactic nuclei
Katherine Hollyhead: Multiple populations in intermediate massive clusters in the SMC
Dongming Jin: Binary Black Holes from GCs in the Local Universe (presented by Matt Benacquista)
Patrick Lieberz: On the origin of the Schechter-like mass function of young star clusters in disk galaxies
Vaclav Pavlik: Fitting self-similar core collapse to N-body models
Joel Pfeffer: E-MOSAICS: globular cluster formation and evolution in a cosmological context
Luis Diego Pinto: A Tree-based SPH Algorithm to investigate the interaction between gas matter and young Binary Stars
Sara Rastello: Stellar Black Hole Binary Merging in Open Clusters
Anton Seleznev: Star clusters in the giant star forming complex G173
Iara Tosta e Melo: Compact Massive Objects and the Scaling Correlations of their Host Galaxies
Social programme:
Monday Dec. 5: Heraeus Dinner (Heraeus Abend) with complementary drinks at the PBH cellar. Free for everyone.
Wednesday Dec. 7: We will visit together either the Bonn Christmas Market or the medieval-style Siegburg Christmas Market. Siegburg can be reached from Bad Honnef by cheap local transport. Their Glühwein (hot, sweetened wine) is famous and various delicious foods and goodies are available in the market. It's definitely worth paying a visit there. The city of Bonn also hosts an excellent Christmas market, which is a time-evolved version of the Siegburg's market. The Christmas markets in Bonn and Siegburg are open everyday until 9:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m., respectively. At your own cost but we will help to organize the trip on Wednesday.
Thursday, Dec. 8: We will visit the historical winery Weingut Broel for wine tasting and have dinner at the PBH thereafter. The guided tour and the descriptions will be in English. The winery is booked for us from 18:30, but for convenience we should depart from the PBH by 18:00. Free for everyone.
It will be convenient, if we start from the PBH punctually on Wednesday and Thursday.
The main lecture hall Wilhelm und Else Heraeus-Hörsaal.