FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT ING-IAC joint conference SATELLITES AND TIDAL STREAMS May 26-30, 2003 La Palma, Canary Island, Spain Dear Colleagues, We are pleased to announce the conference "Satellites and Tidal Streams", organized by the Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes (ING) and the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias (IAC), to be held on the island of La Palma on May 26-30, 2003. This conference will concentrate on the satellite galaxies and tidal streams as a probe of the dark matter halos in galaxies. Topics that will be discussed include: - Satellites of galaxies: bright and dark - The dark matter content of dSph and LSB galaxies - Tidal streams: probes of the structure and formation of the Milky Way and other Nearby Large Galaxies - Predictions of Cold Dark Matter models on small scales - Compact HVCs and galactic substructure - Mass substructure from gravitational lensing To achieve these goals, invited reviews and talks given by leading scientists in all the fields above are planned, as well as a number of contributed talks and posters presenting the recent results from the relevant fields. A preliminary list of invited speakers is: R. Braun (NFRA, The Netherlands), A. Burkert (MPIA, Germany), E. Grebel (MPIA, Germany), R. Ibata (Observatoire de Strasbourg, France), M. Irwin (IoA, UK), K. Johnston (Wesleyan University, USA), A. Klypin (NMSU, USA), S. Majewski (University of Virginia, USA), M. Mateo (University of Michigan, USA), B. Moore (University of Zurich, USA), J. Primack (University of California at Santa Cruz, USA), P. Schneider (Bonn University, Germany), S. White (MPA, Germany), R. Zinn (Yale University, USA) At this time, you will find more information about the conference and the beautiful environment where it will be held on our web page: http://www.iac.es/proyect/sattail/ Registration opens on Thursday November 14th. The deadline for registration is January 31, 2003. The list of speakers, posters, etc. will be finalized after this deadline. Note that the total number of participants will be limited to 120, so that early registrations will have the precedence over the latest ones. This email has been widely distributed, but please make sure your colleagues are aware of this conference. With best regards, Francisco Prada & David Martnez-Delgado (co-chairs, SOC) Scientific Organizing Committee: A. Burkert, M. Irwin, A. Klypin, D. Martinez-Delgado, S. Majewski, M. Mateo, F. Prada, R. Rebolo, P. Schneider and R. Zinn Local Organizing Committee: F. Prada (chair), D. Martinez-Delgado, R. Corradi, J. Mendez, A. Zurita, J. de Araoz, T. Karthaus, E. Bejarano Contact e-mail: sattail@iac.es ============================================================= * To unsubscribe from [INGNEWS] send to majordomo@ing.iac.es the command "unsubscribe ingnews" in the body of the message. Please don't type in the quotation marks and leave the subject field and the rest of the body empty. * You can subscribe to this mailing list by sending an email to majordomo@ing.iac.es with the message "subscribe ingnews address" in the body of the message, where address should contain your email address, e.g. einstein@xyz.ac.uk. You can subscribe a colleague in the same way if you have subscribed your address previously. * For further information on ING, point your browser to: http://www.ing.iac.es/ =============================================================