This workshop will be held July 27-29, 2009 on the University of Michigan campus. The goal of this workshop is to explore and emphasize fundamental connections in the formation and evolution of dark matter-dominated dwarf galaxies. All talks will be brief (15 minutes) with plenty of time set aside for discussion. Specific questions include:
- what is the origin of their huge mass-to-light ratios?
- why was star formation so inefficient in their host dark matter halos?
- how low are the metal abundances of their stars and do they have any primordial lower limit?
- can the observed or potentially measurable velocity dispersions tell apart a cusp vs. a core in their centers?
- can the signatures of possible dark matter annihilation be detected?

Registration deadline: June 26, 2009

Travel support deadline: June 1, 2009

Workshop venue: West Hall, room 340, University of Michigan (Central campus map)

Please send the Application form

Visitor information

Please follow this link for visitor information in Ann Arbor.

Detroit Metropolitan Airport (DTW) is the closest major airport, located approximately 25 miles east of Ann Arbor. A convenient door-to-door airport shuttle is Custom Transit. You need to make an advance reservation on their website (round trip is $65).

Rooms are reserved in two hotels: Campus Inn, within walking distance of workshop venue on Central campus, and Microtel, located 4 miles from town center but with free shuttles to Central campus. Please follow this link for hotel information.

Public parking is available at the Forest Avenue Parking Structure. From the structure walk north to the corner with South University Avenue, turn left on South University Avenue, and then right on pedestrian walkway (East University) after Espresso Royale cafe. West Hall is on your left.

There will be a reception on sunday July 26 from 6 pm to 9 pm in East Conference room of Rackham Building. There will also be a conference dinner on wednesday July 29 in a downtown restaurant.

Participants and presentations

Carl Akerlof (Michigan) Ayesha Begum (Wisconsin) [PPT] Eric Bell (Michigan) [PPT] Michael Busha (Stanford) [PDF] Jeff Carlin (Virginia) [PPT] Janet Colucci (UC Santa Cruz) [PDF] Brian Demczyk (Michigan) Gus Evrard (Michigan) Katie Freese (Michigan) [PPT] Karoline Gilbert (Washington) [PDF] Oleg Gnedin (Michigan) [PPT] Gail Gutowski (Haverford) [PPT] Jessie Hart (Michigan) Gordon Kane (Michigan) Michael Kavic (Virginia Tech) Andrey Kravtsov (Chicago) [PPT] Charles Kuehn (MSU) Joel Lamb (Michigan) [PPT] Sam Leitner (Chicago) Mario Mateo (Michigan) Ana Matkovic (STScI) [PPT] Frederick Mayer (Michigan) Stacy McGaugh (Maryland) [PDF1] [PDF2] Tim McKay (Michigan)

Quinn Minor (UC Irvine) [PDF] Ricardo Munoz (Yale) [PDF] Alexander Muratov (Michigan) [PPT] Sarah Nickerson (McMaster) [PDF] Sally Oey (Michigan) Shashi Pandey (Michigan) Brian O'Shea (MSU) [PDF] Eric Pellegrini (Michigan) Carolyn Peruta (MSU) Douglas Richstone (Michigan) Evan Skillman (Minnesota) [PPT] Josh Simon (Carnegie) [PPT] Greg Stinson (McMaster) [PDF] Kostas Tassis (JPL) [PPT] Erik Tollerud (UC Irvine) [PPT] Monica Valluri (Michigan) Sandor Van Wassenhove (Michigan) Matt Walker (Cambridge) [PPT] Dan Weisz (Minnesota) Joe Wolf (UC Irvine) [PDF] Basilio Yniguez (UC Irvine) Jordan Zastrow (Michigan) Marcel Zemp (Michigan) [PDF] Dan Zucker (AAO) [PPT]

Program

Pictures from the workshop