Scientific Programme
The scientific programme of the Symposium is now avaiable.
You also can download the book with abstracts of the conference talks and posters.
IR : invited review. IT : invited talk.
Monday July 8th
| 9:00-9:15 | Casiana Muñoz-Tuñón (Deputy Director, IAC, Spain). Welcome. |
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| 9:15-9:30 | David Valls-Gabaud (Obs. Paris, France). Introduction and overview. |
| 9:30-10:00 | Michael Disney (Cardiff Univ., UK). Hidden galaxies: but not for long (IR). |
| 10:00-10:30 | Eva Grebel (ARI, Germany). The renaissance of LSB galaxies (IR). |
| 10:30-11:00 | COFFEE BREAK |
Session 1A State-of-the-art in current and future ground-based instrumentationChairperson: Pierre-Alain Duc |
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| 11:00-11:30 | Christopher Mihos (CWRU, USA). Deep imaging of galaxies and clusters: successes and challenges (IR). |
| 11:30-11:45 | Matthew Lehnert (IAP, France). Low surface brightness molecular and atomic line emission in distant galaxies. |
| 11:45-12:15 | David Martínez Delgado (ARI, Germany). Ultra-deep imaging with amateur telescopes (IR). |
| 12:15-12:30 | Raúl Infante Sáinz & Alex Roig (IAC; Astroprades, Spain). A 100h imaging of M101 with a small telescope: reaching the limits of amateur telescopes for low surface brightness science. |
| 12:30-14:30 | LUNCH |
Session 1B State-of-the-art in current and future ground-based instrumentationChairperson: Noah Brosch |
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| 14:30-14:55 | Sarah Brough (UNSW, Australia). LSST and the LSB universe (IT). |
| 14:55-15:20 | Johan Knapen (IAC, Spain). Going towards wide-area ultra-deep imaging surveys (IT). |
| 15:20-15:35 | Lee Spitler (Macquarie Univ., Australia). The Huntsman Telescope. |
| 15:35-15:50 | Jean-Charles Cuillandre (CEA, France). The Canada-France imaging survey as a Euclid precursor: blind all-sky low surface brightness survey of the northern sky. |
| 15:50-16:15 | Armando Gil de Paz (UCM, Spain). Darkness revealed: The MESSIER surveyor (IT). |
| 16:15-16:30 | Vincent Picouet (LAM, France). FIREBall-2: The first stratospheric balloon coupled to a multi object spectrograph to reveal the CGM at z~0.7. |
| 16:30-16:45 | Sona Hosseini (JPL, USA). AMUSS - Astrophysics Miniaturized UV Spatial Spectrometer for spectroscopic studies of diffuse astrophysical objects. |
| 16:45-17:15 | COFFEE BREAK |
Session 2 Data analysis in LSB imagingChairperson: Lee Spitler |
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| 17:15-17:40 | Sugata Kaviraj (Univ. Hertfordshire, UK). The low-surface-brightness universe: the new frontier in the study of galaxy evolution (IT). |
| 17:40-18:05 | Mohammad Akhlaghi (IAC, Spain). Digging out the low-surface-brightness universe: understanding and constraining the limits of methods used (IT). |
| 18:05-18:20 | Ignacio Trujillo (IAC, Spain). Reproducibility in ultra-deep imaging. |
| 18:20-18:35 | Cristina Martínez Lombilla (UNSW, Australia). Brightness overestimation due to PSF in very faint galaxy structures: the thick discs case. |
| 18:35-18:50 | Alejandro S. Borlaff (ESA,Spain). New limits to low surface brightness details: the Hubble ultra deep field even deeper. |
| 18:50 | POSTER SESSION (#15 Kotulla, #18 Lee, #27 Mehrabani, #34 Sharbaf, #40 Weimann) |
| 19:00 | END OF SESSION |
| 19:00 | WELCOME RECEPTION |
Tuesday July 9th
Session 3 Dust particles and grains: from the Zodiacal light to the ISM cirriChairperson: Eva Villaver |
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| 9:00-9:30 | Anny-Chantal Levasseur-Regourd (LATMOS/IPSL, France). Progress in Zodiacal light understanding (IR). |
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| 9:30-9:55 | Jeremie Lasue (IRAP, France). Interpreting the Zodiacal light observations from the properties of interplanetary and cometary dust particles (IT). |
| 9:55-10:25 | François Boulanger (ENS, France). Diffuse light from interstellar cirrus clouds across the electromagnetic spectrum (IR). |
| 10:25-10:50 | Sébastien Viaene (Ghent Univ., Belgium). Deriving diffuse dust properties from UV and optical observations (IT). |
| 10:50-11:05 | Javier Román (IAA, Spain). Galactic cirri in deep optical imaging. |
| 11:05-11:35 | COFFEE BREAK |
Session 4 The LSB circumstellar medium and orphan starsChairperson: Sarah Brough |
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| 11:35-12:05 | Raghvendra Sahai (JPL, USA). Faint but not forgotten: astrospheres around dying stars (IR). |
| 12:05-12:35 | Eva Villaver (UAM, Spain). The tale of the lost mass (IR). |
| 12:35-13:00 | Dominik Bomans (Bochum, Germany). Multi-wavelength observations of Orphan SN and other transients as signposts for very low surface brightness structures (IT). |
| 13:00-13:15 | Thomas Sedgwick (LJMU, UK). Low surface brightness galaxies & the galaxy stellar mass function from core-collapse supernovae. |
| 13:15-15:00 | LUNCH |
Session 5A Low surface brightness features around and within galaxiesChairperson: Gaspar Galaz |
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| 15:00-15:30 | Denija Crnojevic (Univ. Tampa, USA). Near-field cosmology with low surface brightness features (IR). |
| 15:30-15:55 | Allison Merritt (MPIA, Germany). A survey of observed and simulated stellar halos around Milky Way-like galaxies in the nearby universe (IT). |
| 15:55-16:20 | Chris Brook (IAC, Spain). Forming low surface brightness objects in simulations (IT). |
| 16:20-16:35 | Bärbel Koribalski (CSIRO, Australia). Hydrogen tails, plumes, and filaments. |
| 16:35-17:05 | COFFEE BREAK |
| 17:05-17:30 | Pierre-Alain Duc (Obs. Strasbourg, France). MATLAS: An investigation of the mass assembly of galaxies with their fine structures, satellite and globular cluster populations (IT). |
| 17:30-17:45 | Sarah Pearson (FICCA, USA). Detecting thin stellar streams in external galaxies: resolved stars and integrated light. |
| 17:45-18:00 | Nushkia Chamba (IAC, Spain). The size of the galaxies in the era of ultra-deep imaging. |
| 18:00-18:15 | Sakurako Okamoto (Subaru, Japan). Signatures of on-going interactions at M81 group centre in the low-surface-brightness features. |
| 18:15-18:30 | Oliver Müller (Obs. Strasbourg, France). Hunting for low-surface-brightness features in nearby galaxy groups. |
| 18:30-18:45 | Noah Brosch (Tel Aviv, Israel). Low-surface-brightness features in Hickson compact groups. |
| 18:45-19:00 | Sébastien Comerón (U. Oulu, Finland). The reports of thick discs death are greatly exaggerated: thick discs are not artefacts caused by diffuse scattered light. |
| 19:00 | END OF SESSION |
Wednesday July 10th
Session 5B Low-surface-brightness features around and within galaxiesChairperson: Stéphane Courteau |
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| 9:00-9:30 | David F. Malin (AAO, Australia). Early photographic detection of LSB features (IR). |
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| 9:30-9:45 | Raja Guhathakurta (UCSC, USA). Dark matter and chemical enrichment in the low- surface-brightness outskirts of galaxies. |
| 9:45-10:00 | In Sung Jang (Postdam, Germany). Tracing the extended stellar outskirts of low-mass disk galaxies. |
| 10:00-10:15 | Michal Bilek (Obs. Strasbourg, France). Census of tidal features in nearby early-type galaxies. |
| 10:15-10:30 | Fernando Buitrago (IASS, Portugal). Why finding an extended galaxy in a high redshift survey is not an annoyance but a potential treasure trove. |
| 10:30-10:45 | Yutaka Komiyama (NAOJ, Japan). Low-surface-brightness features in the Local Universe viewed from the Subaru Prime Focus. |
| 10:45-11:15 | COFFEE BREAK |
Session 6A The nature of ultra-diffuse galaxies and other LSB galaxiesChairperson: Fernando Buitrago |
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| 11:15-11:30 | Anna Ferré-Mateu (ICCUB, Spain). On the nature of the ghostly ultra diffuse galaxies in the Coma cluster. |
| 11:30-11:45 | Tomás Ruiz-Lara (IAC, Spain). The stellar content in ultra diffuse galaxies: contrasting the galaxy "lacking dark matter" with other Coma cluster UDGs. |
| 11:45-12:00 | Daniel J. Prole (Cardiff Univ., UK). The formation of ultra diffuse galaxies: observational evidence. |
| 12:00-12:15 | Luis E. Pérez Montaño (UNAM Morelia, Mexico). Halo Structural parameters of low surface brightness galaxies. |
| 12:15-13:00 | POSTER SESSION (#26 Martínez-Vázquez, #33 Saremi, #09 Grishin, #11 Javadi, #13 Kemp, #28 Park, #32 Ribbeck, #36 Walker, #24 Mancillas, #05 Brosch, #14 Kemp, #35 Stein, #39 Zemaitis) |
| 13:00-15:00 | LUNCH |
Session 6B The nature of ultra-diffuse galaxies and other LSB galaxiesChairperson: Mireia Montes |
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| 15:00-15:30 | Dennis Zaritsky (U. Arizona, USA). Searching for SMUDGes (IR). |
| 15:30-15:45 | Samuel Boissier (Marseille, France). Ultra-diffuse and low-surface-brightness galaxies in the Virgo cluster: constraints from the VESTIGE and GUViCS surveys, and simple models. |
| 15:45-16:00 | Gaspar Galaz (PUC, Chile). Unavoidable questions about giant low-surface-brightness galaxies. |
| 16:00-16:15 | Anna Saburova (SAI, Russia). Unveiling the origin of giant low surface brightness discs: results of the long-slit spectral observations. |
| 16:15-16:30 | Jeong Hwan Lee (U. Seoul, South Korea). Hunting distant UDGs in very massive clusters with HST. |
| 16:30-17:00 | COFFEE BREAK |
| 17:00-17:15 | Stéphane Courteau (Queen's U., Canada). Structural and dynamical properties of LSB galaxies. |
| 17:15-17:30 | Igor Chilingarian (SAO, USA). Internal dynamics and stellar content of ultra-diffuse galaxies in the Coma cluster prove their evolutionary link with dwarf early-type galaxies. |
| 17:30-17:45 | Rhys Taylor (Prague, Czech Republic). Optically dark hydrogen clouds from the Arecibo Galaxy Environment Survey: dark galaxies or debris? |
| 17:45-18:00 | Pavel Mancera-Piña (Kapteyn, The Netherlands). The startling dynamics of HI-Rich ultra-diffuse galaxies. |
| 18:00-18:15 | Salvador Cardona Barrero (IAC, Spain). Dispersion vs rotation support in ultra-diffuse and low surface brightness galaxies. |
| 18:15-18:30 | Anton Afanasiev (SAI, Russia). Internal dynamics of the extended dwarf spheroidal galaxy KDG64: bridging the gap between ultra-diffuse galaxies and dwarf spheroidals. |
| 18:30-19:00 | POSTER SESSION (#02 Bennet, #04 Bouquin, #19 Li, #06 Díaz-García, #21 Malayi, #31 Rey, #37 Watkins, #12 Junais, #16 Laine, #17 Lee, #10 Gomes) |
| 19:00 | END OF SESSION |
Thursday July 11th
Session 7 The circumgalactic medium of low- and high-redshift galaxiesChairperson: Matthew Lehnert |
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| 9:00-9:30 | Sebastiano Cantalupo (ETH, Switzerland). Illuminating the cosmic web and the circumgalactic medium with fluorescent Lyman-alpha emission (IR). |
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| 9:30-9:55 | Matthew Hayes (Stockholm Univ., Sweden). The circumgalactic medium of low- redshift galaxies, probed by emission lines at low surface brightness (IT). |
| 9:55-10:10 | Deborah Lokhorst (Univ. Toronto, Canada). Direct detection of the circumgalactic medium using Dragonfly. |
| 10:10-10:25 | Jorge Sánchez Almeida (IAC, Spain). GTC-based search for diffuse gas around local gas-accreting galaxies. |
| 10:25-11:00 | POSTER SESSION (#29 Pérez-Fournon, #30 Pérez Hernández) |
| 11:00-11:30 | COFFEE BREAK |
| 11:30-11:55 | Freeke van de Voort (MPA, Germany). Cosmological simulations of the CGM at sub- kpc resolution (IT). |
| 11:55-12:10 | Genoveva Micheva (AIP, Germany). Deep surface photometry of the Lyman Alpha Reference Sample (LARS). |
| 12:10-12:25 | Helmut Dannerbauer (IAC, Spain). Surprising existence of circumgalactic molecular medium in a galaxy protocluster at z=2.2. |
| 12:25-12:40 | Andrea Afruni (Kapteyn, The Netherlands). Understanding the cool circumgalactic medium of passive galaxies. |
| 12:40-13:00 | POSTER SESSION (#38 Wright, #23 Mancillas, #25 Mancillas, #03 Bilek, #01 Amiri, #20 De Oliveira) |
| 13:00-15:00 | LUNCH |
Session 8 The intracluster light and its role in galaxy evolution in clustersChairperson: Matthew Hayes |
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| 15:00-15:30 | Mireia Montes (UNSW, Australia). The intracluster light and its role in galaxy evolution in clusters (IR). |
| 15:30-15:55 | Emmanuele Contini (Nanjing Univ., China). Intracluster light: its formation and main properties (IT). |
| 15:55-16:10 | Marilena Spavone (Obs. Naples, Italy). Stellar haloes from deep VST surveys: comparing observations and theory. |
| 16:10-16:25 | Brandon Kelly (LJMU, UK). Intracluster light as a proxy for host cluster properties. |
| 16:25-17:00 | COFFEE BREAK |
| 17:00-17:25 | Florence Durret (IAP, France). Intracluster light and its influence on galaxy evolution in clusters (IT). |
| 17:25-17:50 | Yolanda Jiménez-Teja (Obs. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil). Unveiling the dynamical stage of massive clusters through the study of the intracluster light (IT). |
| 17:50-18:05 | Enrichetta Iodice (Obs. Capodimonte, Italy). The deep (photometric and spectroscopic) surveys of the Fornax cluster: exploring the faintest regions of the bright ETGs inside the virial radius. |
| 18:05-18:20 | Isaac Alonso Asensio (IAC, Spain). Similarity between stellar and total dark matter density distributions in the intra-cluster volume: a view from simulations. |
| 18:20-18:35 | Jongwan Ko (KASI, South Korea). Evidence for the existence of intracluster light ~5 billion years after the Big Bang. |
| 18:35-18:50 | Michael Wilkinson (U. Groningen, The Netherlands). Sourcerer*: a robust, multi-scale source extraction tool suitable for faint and diffuse objects. |
| 18:50-19:00 | POSTER SESSION (#07 Ebrova, #22 Mancillas, #08 Ellien) |
| 19:00 | END OF SESSION |
| 20:00 | CONFERENCE DINNER (HOTEL MENCEY, SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE) |
Friday July 12th
Session 9 The cosmic web of large-scale filamentsChairperson: Simon Driver |
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| 9:00-9:30 | José Fonseca (U. Padova, Italy). Line intensity mapping: a "novel" window to the cosmic web (IR). |
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| 9:30-9:55 | Ewald Puchwein (AIP, Germany). Lyman-alpha emission and absorption by the cosmic web(IT). |
| 9:55-10:20 | Nicolas Tejos (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaiso, Chile). Looking for a WHIM in the large-scale filaments of the cosmic web. |
| 10:20-10:50 | COFFEE BREAK |
Session 10 The UV / optical / IR cosmological background radiationChairperson: Florence Durret |
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| 10:50-11:20 | Jayant Murthy (IIA, India). The UV and optical sky background (IR). |
| 11:20-11:45 | Alberto Dominguez (UCM, Spain). The extragalactic background light in the Fermi- LAT era (IT). |
| 11:45-12:10 | Simon Driver (UWA, Australia). Measuring energy production in the Universe over all wavelengths and all time (IT). |
| 12:10-12:40 | Christopher Mihos (CWRU, USA). Summary of the conference. |
| 12:40 | END OF CONFERENCE |
| 13:00 | LUNCH |
| 14:15 | VISIT TO TEIDE OBSERVATORY |
| 20:30 | RETURN FROM VISIT |