PROGRAM


SUNDAY
18h-20h Registration and welcome drink
MONDAY
8h45-9h Welcome
I- Insight in early times
Dark matter question : Milky Way meets lambda-CDM cosmology
Chair R. de Propis
9h -9h30 J. Navarro : review paper
9h30-10h00
P. Tissera : chemical evolution in hierarchical clustering scenarios
10h00-10h20
A. Font: Cosmological simulations of the formation of the stellar haloes around disc galaxies
10h20-10h40
M. Martig: Spiral galaxy formation in a cosmological context
10h40-11h10 Coffee break
Chair S. Pasetto
11h10-11h40 J. Read : dark side of the disc
11h40-12h00
A. McConnachie:  Comparison to, and lessons from, Andromeda
12h00-12h20
F. Hammer: The Milky Way and other extragalactic systems
12h20-12h40
G. Stinson: Simulating the Milky Way in LCDM
12h40-14h lunch
First epochs assembly : halo assembly, streams, which time-

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Chair C. Turon
14h-14h30 A. Helmi: Review paper on different aspects
14h30-15h00
T. Beers: The Assembly and Evolution of the Halo of the Milky Way as revealed by SDSS/SEGUE
15h00-15h20
B. Sesar: Mapping the Galactic Halo with Main-Sequence and RR Lyrae Stars
15h20-15h40
S. Jin: Dynamics of stellar and HI streams in the Milky Way halo
15h40-16h10 Coffee break
Chair K. Vivas
16h10-16h40 A. Frebel : review on first stars and extremely metal poor stars
16h40-17h00
L. Watkins: Substructure revealed by RR Lyraes in SDSS Stripe 82
17h-18h
Poster Session
18h
Welcome by the Mayor of Le Grand-Bornand and reception
TUESDAY
Chair K. Vivas
9h00-9h20
M. Valluri: Using frequency maps of the stellar halo to construct the halo distribution function
9h20-9h40
P. Jofre-Pfeil: On the age determination of halo field stars
Inside Galaxy stubs or relics of first stubs : Stellar populations in the new Milky Way satellites
Chair M. Rejkuba
9h40-10h10
G. Gilmore : Stellar populations in the Milky Way satellites
10h10-10h40 A. Koch : The puzzling assembly of the Milky Way halo : contributions from dsphs and GCs
10h40-11h10 Coffee break
11h10-11h30
J. Penarrubia: The Sagittarius stream and the Milky Way potential
11h30-11h50
S. Hidalgo: Star Formation History of the Isolated Dwarf Galaxies in the Local Group
11h50-12h10
M. Marks: The dynamical fingerprint of gas expulsion on the PDMF in GCs: Insights to the assembly of the Milky Ways' old GC system
Thick disc formation : new observational constraints and alternative scenarios
Chair A. Recio-Blanco
12h10-12h40
F. Bournaud : Thick disc formation:  new observational constraints and alternative scenarios
12h40-14h00 Lunch

14h00-14h30
T. Bensby : Chemical constraints  on the formation of the galactic thick disc
14h30-14h50
J. Bird: Radial mixing in Galactic disks: The effects of disc structures and satellite bombardment
14h50-15h10
P. Di Matteo: Minor mergers and their impact on the characteristics of thick disks
15h10-15h30
G. Ruchti: Origins of the Thick Disk of the Galaxy as Traced by Metal-Poor Stars Selected from RAVE
15h30-16h00 Coffee break
II- Installation of the disc and dense regions
Disc assembly: chemo-dynamical evolution, radial mixing
Chair C. Reylé
16h00-16h30 M. Haywood : Observational aspects of the radial mixing  in the disc
16h30-16h50
T. Antoja: Kinematic groups across the MW disc: insights from models and from the RAVE catalogue
17h-18h Poster Session
20h30 Conférence Grand Public "Gaia ou la Voie Lactée à trois dimensions", présentée par Catherine Turon, astronome à l'Observatoire de Paris
WEDNESDAY
Chair F. Figueras
9h-9h30 R. Schoenrich: theoretical aspects of the radial mixing
9h30-9h50
R. Roskar: Implications of Radial Migration for Stellar Population Studies
9h50-10h10
L. Casagrande: New constraints on the chemical evolution of the solar neighbourhood and Galactic disc(s)
10h10-10h30
M. Smith: Kinematics of the Milky Way disc using SDSS
10h30-11h Coffee break
Inner Galaxy: bulge/bar/inner disc interplay, role of mergers
Chair C. Babusiaux
11h-11h30 K. Freeman : observational aspects
11h30-12h00
R. Schoedel : An observer's view of the central parsecs of the Milky Way
12h00-12h20
V. Hill: Inner galactic disc metallicity distributions and the bulge-disc relation
12h20-12h40
S. Feltzing: The chemical evolution of the Galactic Bulge seen through microlensing events
12h40-13h00
M. Ness: The Formation of the Galactic Bulge of the Milky Way
Free afternoon
20h
Conference dinner : repas savoyard, La Croix Saint Maurice
THURSDAY
Chair M. Schultheis
9h-9h30 L. Athanassoula : bar dynamics
9h30-10h00
O. Gerhard : Bulge morphology and dark matter properties
10h00-10h20
O. Gonzales: The bigger picture of the Galactic bulge
10h20-10h40
I. Martinez-Valpuesta: Boxy bulge and planar "long bar" in the Milky Way
10h40-11h10 Coffee break
Disc non-axisymetries: spiral, warp, bar. What structure, what dynamics ?
Chair D. Kawata
11h10-11h40
B. Famaey : Detection of disk non-axisymetries in local stellar kinematics
11h40-12h10
I. Minchev: Modeling disk non-axisymetries : implications for galactic evolution
12h10-12h30
P. Patsis: Structures out of Chaos in barred-spiral systems
12h30-14h lunch
14h-14h20 E. D'onghia: Collective Origin of Spiral Structure in the Milky Way
How stars and Interstellar Medium interplay ? ISM large scale structure, stellar formation, gas infall, Galactic fountains,...
Chair F. Fraternali
14h20-14h50 J. Binney : How does the Galaxy accrete gas?
14h50-15h10
F. Combes: Molecular gas and star formation in the Milky Way
15h10-15h40
F. J. Lockman : How does the Milky Way continue to get its gas?
15h40-16h10 Coffee break

Chair J. Green
16h10-16h30
S. Sale: 3D Extinction Mapping Using Hierarchical Bayesian Models
16h30-17h00
E. Churchwell: properties of the MW at MIR Wavelengths
17h00-18h Poster Session
17h45-19h Cheese tasting and farewell drink
FRIDAY
III- In place and up-coming tools for a better understanding
Ongoing and upcoming surveys:
Chair P. Harding
9h00-9h20
N. Martin: The Pan-STARRS view of the Milky Way
9h20-9h40
R. Benjamin: Glimpse 360: Mapping the Galaxy's Edge
9h40-10h10
M. Steinmetz: Spectroscopic Surveys in the Milky Way Disk and Halo
10h10-10h40
J. Dickey: Galactic and Magellanic Cloud Surveys of Cm-Wave Spectral Lines: two Steps Forward
10h40-11h10 Coffee break
Chair X. Luri
11h10-11h40
A. Brown: Astrometric surveys
Galaxy modelling: stellar population models to dynamics
11h40-12h10 A. Robin: Galaxy modelling through stellar population synthesis
12h10-12h40
V. Debattista: Modelling the Milky Way
12h40-14h00 lunch
Chair H. Dejonghe
14h00-14h30
C. Brook: chemo-dynamical modelling
14h30-14h50
S. Sharma: Galaxia: a code to generate a synthetic survey of the Milky Way
14h50-15h10
P. McMillan: Dynamical models of the Milky Way
15h10-15h50 DISCUSSION: D. Pfenniger: Assumption strengths and weaknesses in galaxy modelling
15h50-16h20 Coffee break