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We are pleased to
announce the conference “Satellites and Tidal Streams”, organised by the
Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes (ING) and the Instituto de Astrofísica
de Canarias (IAC), to be held on the island of La Palma on May 26–30, 2003.
Current cosmological models predict that galaxies form through the merging
of smaller substructures. Satellites and tidal streams might then represent
the visible remains of the building blocks of giant galaxies. They therefore
provide important information on the merging history and galaxy formation
in the Universe. In this conference the observational evidence for substructures,
their internal structure and their dynamical evolution and disruption within
the tidal field of the host galaxy will be discussed and confronted with
theoretical cosmological predictions of hierarchical merging and galaxy formation.
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 and 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), D. Lynden-Bell (IoA, UK), 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).
Registration opens on Thursday November 14th. The deadline for registration
is April 1, 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.
Email contacts: Francisco
Prada and David Martínez-Delgado, Co-chairs SOC (sattail@iac.es)