Programme for the Workshop


Wednesday (10-February)

9h00-9h30: Registration and Welcome

9h30-10h15: Simulating Galaxy Formation (Simon White)

10h15-11h00: L-Galaxies - Overview of physical modules and results (Bruno Henriques)

11h00-11h30: Coffee

11h30-12h30: Downloading and Compiling L-Galaxies


12h30-13h30: Lunch


13h30-15h30: Tutorial on Running L-Galaxies

Running the model and reading the output to produce standard scalling relations.

15h30-16h00: Coffee

16h00-17h00: The Millennium database (Gerard Lemson)

Using the online database as a repository of the default model and performing advanced queries.

17h00-18h00: MRObs (Roderik Overzier)

Tutorial on predicting images, spectra and comparison with real data.


19h30: Dinner in the centre of Munich in a traditional Bavarian brewery (Augustiner am Dom)


Thursday (11-February)

9h30-11h00: Tutorial on modifying L-Galaxies

Changing the input parameters, compilation options and physical modules.

11h00-11h30: Coffee

11h30-12h30: Tutorial on L-Galaxies (wrap up)


12h30-13h30: Lunch


13h30-15h30: Tutorial on the MCMC (part 1)

Fully sampling the parameters space in semi-analytic models (basics).

15h30-16h00: Coffee

16h00-17h00: Tutorial on the MCMC (part 2)

Fully sampling the parameters space in semi-analytic models (advanced).

17h00-18h30: MCMC with clustering as a constraint (Marcel Van Daalen)

Friday (12-February)

9h00-11h20: Advanced Coding Modules (Rob Yates, Peter Thomas, Bruno Henriques)

Detailed chemical enrichement (Rob Yates)

Star formation histories & emission properties (Peter Thomas)

Resolved galaxy properties (Bruno Henriques)

11h20-11h40: Coffee

11h40-13h00: Contributed Talks

11h40-12h00: "HDF5" (Rhys Poulton, Sussex)

12h00-12h20: "Machine Learning in L-Galaxies" (Ben Hoyle, Munich)

12h20-13h00: "SAMs in the Caterpillar project" (Brendan Griffen & Greg Dooley, MIT)


13h10-14h10: Lunch


14h10-15h30: Contributed Talks

14h10-14h30: "Comparing L-Galaxies, GALFORM and EAGLE" (Violeta Gonzalez-Perez, Portsmouth)

14h30-14h50: "The diversity of star formation histories in L-Galaxies" (Bryan Terrazas, University of Michigan)

14h50-15h10: "Merger Fractions: comparing L-Galaxies and observations" (Carl Mundy, Nottingham)

15h10-15h30: "Scaling the cosmology of L-Galaxies" (Malin Renneby, LMU Munich)

15h30-16h00: Coffee

16h00-17h00: Discussion on new projects


19h00: Dinner in the Greek restaurant in Garching


Henriques2015a Paper

Full description of the model (physics in the supplementary material).

L-Galaxies Code

A package containing all the source files for the Henriques2015a version.

Dark Matter MergerTrees

An example of a set of merger trees to use as a backbone for the model.