17th IAP ASTROPHYSICAL COLLOQUIUM
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GASEOUS MATTER IN GALAXIES AND INTERGALACTIC SPACE
Observational and theoretical results
with special emphasis on new data from FUSE, HST and VLT
Paris, 19-23 June, 2001
Program
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Monday June 18
16:00 - 19:00
Registration, installation of posters and informal get-together at IAP
Tuesday June19
08:30 - 09:45 Late registration and installation of posters
09:45 - 09:55 B. FORT (IAP Director) : Welcome Address
09:55 -
10:00 R. FERLET and M. LEMOINE : Introduction to the Colloquium
SESSION
I : Diffuse interstellar clouds in the Galactic disk
10:00 - 10:25 J.W. TRURAN : The early abundance evolution of galaxies
10:30 - 10:55 L.M. HOBBS : The depletion pattern in diffuse interstellar clouds
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 - 11:55 P.C. FRISCH : The local interstellar medium
12:00 - 12:15 J.D. SLAVIN : Moderately ionized gas in the Local Bubble: implications for hot gas/warm cloud interfaces
12:20 - 12:35 C. HEILES : New temperatures of diffuse interstellar gas: thermally unstable gas
12:40 -
12:55 E.B. JENKINS : The distribution of thermal pressures
in the interstellar medium
Lunch
14:00 - 14:25 E. ROUEFF : H2 and the molecular content of diffuse and translucent interstellar clouds
14:30 - 14:45 F. LE PETIT : Observations of HD and highly excited H2 towards HD34078
14:50 - 15:05 P. BOISSÉ : A study of the 1-100 AU scale structure in diffuse H2 from repeated FUSE spectra of HD34078
15:10 - 15:25 J.T. LAUROESCH : The physical character of interstellar small-scale structure
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 - 16:25 T.P. SNOW : Diffuse bands in the Milky Way and other galaxies
16:30 - 16:55 D.G. YORK : Galactic D/H
17:00 - 17:15 G. HÉBRARD : First detection of the deuterium Balmer series
17:20 -
17:35 F.J. LOCKMAN : 21cm H I measurements of the diffuse interstellar
medium
18:30 -
21:00 Reception at the Paris Observatory (Cassini Room)
Wednesday June 20
SESSION
II : Warm, hot and halo gas in the Milky Way
09:00 - 09:25 C. GRY : Warm ionised gas in the Milky Way
09:30 - 09:45 M. HAVERKORN : Parsec-scale structure in the warm ISM from radio polarization observations
09:50 - 10:15 E.B. JENKINS : The hot phase in the Galactic disk
10:20 - 10:35 R.L. SHELTON : FUSE observations of interstellar O VI emission and what they can tell us about the hot phase of the galactic ISM
10:40 - 11:10 Coffee Break
11:10 - 11:35 B. SAVAGE : O VI in the Halo
11:40 - 11:55 K.D. KUNTZ : The soft X-ray halo
12:00 - 12:25 B. WAKKER : A review of the high- and intermediate-velocity clouds
12:30 -
12:55 P. RICHTER : Molecular gas in the halo and beyond
Lunch
14:00 -
15:00 POSTER SESSION
SESSION
III : Dynamics and transport phenomena in the interstellar medium
of the Milky Way
15:00 - 15:25 D.M. MEYER : CNO abundances in the diffuse interstellar medium
15:30 - 15:55 M. DE AVILLEZ : Mixing of primordial elements in a supernova-driven ISM
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee Break
16:30 - 16:45 S. REDFIELD : The kinematic structure of the local interstellar medium
16:50 - 17:05 P. HENNEBELLE : Formation of diffuse clouds in the interstellar medium
17:10 - 17:35 W.P. BLAIR : Supernova remnants and shock dynamics
17:40 -
17:55 M. KORPI : Numerical investigations on the role of superbubbles
in the disk-halo connection
Thursday June21
09:00 - 09:25 G. SONNEBORN : FUSE observations of planetary nebulae
09:30 -
09:55 C. LOUP : Mass-loss from AGB stars: enrichment of the
interstellar medium
SESSION
IV : Interstellar media in the Magellanic Clouds and other galaxies
10:00 - 10:25 E. GREBEL : The Magellanic Clouds and other local group dwarf galaxies
10:30 - 10:45 J.C. HOWK : FUSE observations of hot gas in the Large Magellanic Cloud
10:50 - 11:20 Coffee Break
11:20 - 11:45 D.E. WELTY : Interstellar abundances in Magellanic Clouds
11:50 - 12:05 M. HEYDARI-MALAYERI : The youngest massive star clusters in the Magellanic Clouds
12:10 - 12:35 R. TERLEVICH : The ages and metal production of blue compact galaxies
12:40 -
12:55 A. DANKS : ISM within NGC4151 and our Galactic halo
Lunch
14:00 - 14:15 R.E. GRIFFITHS : Hot gas in the core of M82
14:20 - 14:35 A. LECAVELIER : The gaseous content of the blue compact galaxy Mrk59
14:40 - 14:55 J. ROSSA : Extraplanar diffuse ionized gas in halos of nearby edge-on galaxies
15:00 - 15:15 E.D. MILLER : The detection of cooling flow elliptical galaxies from O VI emission
15:20 - 15:35 T. GEBALLE : Detection of H3+ in the interstellar medium of IRAS 08572+3915
15:40 -
16:10 Coffee Break
SESSION
V : Intergalactic medium at low redshifts
16:10 - 16:35 D. NEUMANN : Intracluster gas and X-rays
16:40 -
16:55 A. KRAVTSOV : Gas dynamics simulations of the Local Supercluster
region
18:30 -
21:00 Conference dinner at the restaurant of the 1st floor of Eiffel
Tower
Friday June 22
09:00 - 09:25 T.M. TRIPP : Highly-ionized intergalactic gas at low redshifts: constraints from QSO absorption lines
09:30 - 09:45 G. BRYAN : Probing filaments and groups with the O VI forest
09:50 - 10:05 J. SCOTT : The extragalactic ionizing background at low redshift: results from an HST/FOS archival study
10:10 - 10:35 J. STOCKE : The local Lyman alpha forest: H I in nearby intergalactic space
10:40 - 11:10 Coffee Break
11:10 - 11:25 J.-M. DEHARVENG : The Lyman continuum radiation from galaxies
11:30 - 11:45 C. CHURCHILL : Millions of tiny weak Mg II absorbers: what are they?
11:50 - 12:05 R. DAVÉ : New insights on the low redshift IGM from HST/STIS
12:10 -
12:25 H.-W. CHEN : The origin of a chemically enriched Lyman
alpha absorption system at z=0.167
SESSION
VI : Intergalactic medium at large redshifts
12:30 -
12:55 A. FERRARA : Metal enrichment of the intergalactic medium
Lunch
14:00 - 14:25 P. MOLARO : Chemical abundances in damped Lyman alpha systems
14:30 - 14:55 M. PETTINI : Redshift evolution of Lyman break and damped Lyman alpha galaxies
15:00 - 15:15 S. BOISSIER : Evolution of gas and metals in DLAs and distant galaxies
15:20 - 15:35 A. MALLER : Damped Lyman alpha systems and galaxy formation models
15:40 - 16:10 Coffee Break
16:10 - 16:25 R. SRIANAND : H2 molecules in the damped systems
16:30 - 16:55 P. PETITJEAN : Structure of the intergalactic medium
17:00 - 17:15 S. CRISTIANI : Exploring the Lyman forest with VLT/UVES
17:20 - 17:35 J. SCHAYE : The nature of the Lyman alpha forest
17:40 -
17:55 M. RAUCH : QSO metal absorption systems and the galaxy-IGM
interface
Saturday June 23
09:00 - 09:25 J.K. WEBB : Space-time variation of the fine-structure constant
09:30 - 09:55 S. BURLES : D/H measurements in high-z intergalactic medium
10:00 - 10:25 A. SMETTE : He II in the intergalactic medium: HST/STIS observations
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:25 M. SHULL : He II absorption at z=2.1-2.8: FUSE observations and theory
11:30 - 11:55 M.G. HAEHNELT : Reionization of the inhomogeneous Univers
12:00 - 12:15 T. THEUNS : IGM temperature fluctuations as a relic of reionization
12:20 -
12:50 W. MOOS : Concluding remarks