Sun May 30

Arrival

11:00 – 18:00             Registration in the Sternberg Astronomical Institute (Moscow)

18:00                          Transportation to the Hotel “Tsargrad” (Pushchino)

Mon May 31

08:30 – 09:45             Registration
09:45 – 10:00             Welcome and organisation

Plenary talks

10:00 – 10:40                Vladimir Korchagin
Properties of the galactic thick disks inferred from their kinematical studies. (pdf-file)

10:40 – 11:20              Patricia Sanchez-Blazquez      
Barred Galaxies: Secular Evolution and the Origin of their Double Exponential Light Profiles. (pdf-file)

11:20 – 11:50             Tea, Coffee

Plenary talks

11:50 – 12:30              Samir Salim     
Star Formation in Intermediate Redshift Galaxies

12:30 – 13:10              Yu. Shchekinov
Dispersal and transport of metals in low-surface brightness galaxies (pdf-file)

13:10 – 15:00             Lunch

Section 1. Star formation and evolution

15:00 – 15:30             G. Jozsa, G. Heald (PI), P. Serra, F. Fraternali, L. Zschaechner, R. Rand, T. Oosterloo, R. Sancisi
The WSRT HALOGAS Survey

15:30 – 16:00              Rosa A. Gonzalez-Lopezlira, Eric Martinez-Garcia, Gustavo Bruzual-A., Gilberto C. Gomez, James R. Graham
Dynamics and large-scale star formation in disk galaxies (pdf-file)

16:00 – 16:30              Zasov, A.V., Abramova, O.A.
Midplane gas and star volume densities vs star formation rate for LSB and HSB galaxies.

16:30 – 17:00             Tea, Coffee

17:00 – 17:30              R. Sánchez-Janssen, J. Méndez-Abreu, J.A.L. Aguerri
The minimum mass of (thin) disc galaxies (pdf-file)

17:30 – 18:00              Nath Biman. Not availible

18:00           Free discussion

Tue June 1

Plenary talks

09:30 – 10:10                Xiaolei Zhang and Ronald J. Buta 
Density-Wave Induced Morphological Transformation of Galaxies Along the Hubble Sequence (pdf-file)

10:10 – 10:50              Qi Guo 
Galaxy formation in the concordance LCDM

10:50 – 11:50             Tea, Coffee, Poster session

Plenary talks

11:50 – 12:30              Hyun-chul Lee 
On the Age and Metallicity Estimation of Spiral Galaxies Using Optical and Near-Infrared Photometry and Spectroscopy (pdf-file)

12:30 – 13:10              Moiseev, A 
Polar structures in different scales (pdf-file)

13:10 – 15:00             Lunch

Section 1. Star formation and evolution

15:00 – 15:25              Arshakian, T. G.; Beck, R.; Krause, Marita; Sokoloff, D.
Evolution of magnetic fields in galaxies and future observational test (pdf-file)

15:25 – 15:50              Jozsa, G., Oosterloo, T., Morganti, R., Klein, U., Erben, T.
The warped “Spindle” NGC 2685.

15:50 – 16:15              Silchenko Olga K., Proshina I.S., Strizhova D.A.
The age of the S0 disks and the origin of lenticular galaxies (pdf-file)

16:15 – 18:45             Pushchino Radio Astronomy Observatory (presentation and excursion)

Wed June 2

Plenary talks

09:20 – 10:00              Romero-Gomez, M., Athanassoula, E., Bosma, A., Masdemont, J.J
Modeling rings and spirals in barred galaxies using manifolds: morphology and kinematics. (pdf-file)

10:00 – 10:40              Gadotti, D.A.
The Rotation of Bulges (pdf-file)

10:40 – 11:10             Tea, Coffee

11:10 – 11:50              Blinnikov, S., Baklanov, P., Potashov, M.
New applications of type II Supernovae for extragalactic distance determinations. (pdf-file)

11:50 – 12:30              Chilingarian, I.
Discs in early-type dwarf galaxies. (pdf-file)

12:30 – 13:30             Lunch

13:30 – 19:00             The State Memorial and Natural Preserve Museum-Estate of Leo Tolstoy “Yasnaya Polyana” (excursion)

19:30                          Conference Dinner

Thu June 3

 9:00                           Transportation to the Moscow State University

12:00 – 14:00             Lunch

14:00 – 14:10             Welcome to SAI. A.M.Cherepashchuk, director of Sternberg Astronomical Institute. 

Plenary talks

14:10 – 14:50              Alexey Rastorguev.
Distance scale and the kinematics of the Milky Way galaxy

14:50 – 15:30              Debattista, V. 
Disks in triaxial dark matter halos. (pdf-file)

15:30 – 15:50             Tea, Coffee, Poster session

Section 1. Star formation and evolution

15:50 – 16:15              Villalobos, A.
Simulations of the formation of thick discs in galaxies. (pdf-file)

16:15 – 16:40              Marija Vlajic
Outer Disks of Sculptor Spirals

16:40 – 17:05              Daniel Pfenniger
Energy extremum in disk galaxies

Section 2. Structure and dynamics of galaxies

17:05 – 17:30              Bizyaev, D.
Vertical structure of galactic disks and dark halos from SDSS data.

17:30 – 17:55              Mosenkov, A., Sotnikova, N., Reshetnikov. V.
2MASS photometry of edge-on spiral galaxies. (pdf-file)

17:55 – 18:15             Tea, Coffee

18:15 – 18:40              Chernin A., Zasov A., Arkhipova V., Kravtsova A
Polygonal arms in grand-design spirals.

18:40 – 19:05              Patsis, P.A., Kalapotharakos, C., Grosbol, P.
Dynamical mechanisms supporting barred-spiral structures.

19:05 – 19:30              Patrick Treuthardt, Marc Seigar, Heikki Salo
Pattern Speed Estimates of Barred Galaxies from CINGS: A Connection Between Central Dark Halo Concentration and SMBH Mass? (pdf-file)

Fri June 4

Section 2. Structure and dynamics of galaxies

09:00 – 09:25              O. Merkulova, G. Karataeva, L. Shalyapina, V. Yakovleva
Studying of candidates to polar-ring galaxies by the methods of 2D-spectroscopy. (pdf-file)

09:25 – 09:50              J. Mendez-Abreu, E. Simonneau, J. A. L. Aguerri, E. M. Corsini
The intrinsic shape of bulges.

09:50 – 10:15              Walcher, C.J., Boeker, T., Meidt, S.
The nuclei and structure of pure disk galaxies.

10:15 – 10:40              Brunetti, M., Chiappini, C., Pfenniger, D.
Diffusion in barred spiral galaxies.. (pdf-file)

Section 3. The Milky Way

09:00 – 09:25              Esko Gardner, Chris Flynn
Bar driven dynamic structures in local velocity space. (pdf-file)

09:25 – 09:50              Kholtygin, A.F., Milanova, Y.N.
Origin and evolution of the bulge of the our Galaxy.

09:50 – 10:15              Vadim Bobylev, Anisa Bajkova, Aleksandr Stepanishchev
Galactic Parameters on Masers with Trigonometric Parallaxes (pdf-file)

10:15 – 10:40              Korkov, A.A, Baryshev, Y.V., Orlov, V.V., Rubinov, A.V.
Binary pulsars as tool for testing galaxy models. (pdf-file)

10:40 – 11:40             Tea, Coffee, Poster session

Section 2. Structure and dynamics of galaxies

11:40 – 12:05              Melnik, A.M., Rautiainen, P.
Modeling of the Galactic kinematics. (pdf-file)

12:00 – 12:30              Khoperskov, A., Eremin, M., Khoperskov, S., Butenko, M.
Dynamics of galactic disks in the nonaxisymmetric dark halo.

12:30 – 12:55              Gusev, A.S.
Parameters of galactic disks at optical and NIR wavelengths. (pdf-file)

12:55 – 13:20              Efremov, Y.N.
On the inner structures of spiral arms. (pdf-file)

Section 3. The Milky Way

11:40 – 12:05              Loktin, A., Popova, M.
Rotation curve of the Galaxy from the radial velocities and proper motions of open star clusters.

12:05 – 12:30              Gontcharov, G., Bajkova, A., Fedorov, P., Akhmetov, V.
Subdwarfs and white dwarfs from the 2MASS, Tycho-2, XPM and UCAC3 catalogues: halo and thick disk stars within 2 kpc. (pdf-file)

12:30 – 12:55              Cvetkovic, Z., Ninkovic, S.
On the component masses of visual binaries.

12:50                          Concluding remarks

13:30 - 15:00              Lunch

15:00                          Moscow and Moscow Kremlin
(excursion)

Sat June 5
Departure

Poster session