Program

1st ROMAN SYMPOSIUM

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SUNDAY 23.08.2015
18:00-21:00 reception banquet (3rd floor of Staszic Palace – take elevator)

MONDAY (1st day) 24.08.2015
“Galaxies: formation and evolution”
morning session (chair: Radosław Wojtak):
09:00 – onwards – the registration desk is open
09:15 – 09:30 – welcome and starting remarks
09:30 – 09:55 – Staszek Bajtlik – a memoir talk about Roman Juszkiewicz (25+5)
10:00 – 10:30 – Richard Bower – The EAGLE simulation (30+5)
10:35 – 11:00 – Ewa L. Łokas – Tidally induced bars in galaxies (25+5)
11:05 – 11:30 – coffee break
11:30 – 11:55 – Till Sawala – Testing Structure Formation in our Neighbourhood (25+5)
12:00 – 12:25 – Susana Pedrosa – Angular momentum evolution for galaxies in a Λ-CDM scenario (25+5)
12:30 – 14:00 – lunch break

“Galaxies in cosmology”
afternoon session (chair: Krzysztof Bolejko):
14:00 – 14:30 – Bożena Czerny – Quasars for Cosmology (30+5)
14:35 – 15:00 – Agnieszka Janiuk – Activity of supermassive black holes (25+5)
15:05 – 15:30 – Marek Biesiada – Cosmology with strong lensing systems (25+5)
15:35 – 15:50 – Justyna Modzelewska – Dark energy and bright quasars (15+5)
15:55 – 16:30 – coffee break
16:30 – 16:45 – Takashi Okamoto – Chemical enrichment of passive galaxies in cosmological simulations of galaxy formation (15+5)
16:50 – 17:05 – Masahiro Nagashima – The physical origin of the Tully-Fisher relation in the nu2GC model of semi-analytic galaxy formation (15+5)
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TUESDAY (2nd day) 25.08.2015
CMB and Large Scale Structure”
morning session (chair: Maciej Bilicki):
09:30 – 10:10 – François R. Bouchet – Planck 2015 Cmb cosmology (40+5)
10:15 – 10:40 – Francis Bernardeau – Large-deviation functions in the large-scale structure cosmology (25+5)
10:45 – 11:10 – Guilhem Lavaux – Modern reconstruction techniques of the non-linear dynamics of Large Scale Structures (25+5)
11:15 – 11:50 – coffee break
11:50 – 12:15 – Krzysztof Bolejko – Local cosmological environment and its impact on observations (25+5)
12:20 – 12:35 – Ryu Makiya – The nu2GC model: the galaxy formation model with the largest cosmological N-body simulation (15+5)
12:40 – 14:00 – lunch break

“Large Scale Structure”
afternoon session (chair: Noam Libeskind):
14:00 – 14:30 – Adi Nusser – Cosmology with Equivalence Breaking and Lorenz Violation (30+5)
14:35 – 15:00 – Sergei F. Shandarin – Multi-stream portrait of the cosmic web (25+5)
15:05 – 15:30 – Enzo Branchini – The Large Scale Structure Path to Dark Matter Detection (25+5)
15:35 – 16:00 – coffee break
16:00 – 16:45 – Raul Angulo – Cosmological Structure Formation in the Continuous Limit (25+5)
16:50 – 17:15 – Martin Feix – The cosmic growth rate from an alternative observational test (25+5)
17:20 – 17:35 – the poster presentation session
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WEDNESDAY (3rd day) 26.08.2015
“Small scale structure”
morning session (chair: Marius Cautun):
09:30 – 09:55 – Noam I. Libeskind – Planes of satellite galaxies and the cosmic web (25+5)
10:00 – 10:25 – Wojciech Hellwing – Copernicus Complexio: testing the CDM paradigm (25+5)
10:30 – 11:10 – Carlos S. Frenk – The CDM riddles (TBA) (40+5)
11:15 – 11:35 – coffee break
11:35 – 12:00 – Matthieu Schaller – Effects of baryons on the mass and density profiles of halos in LCDM (25+5)
12:05 – 12:20 – Bogna Kubik – Universal Nature of subhalo accretion in Warm and Cold DM Cosmologies (15+5)
12:25 – 12:40 – Marcin Semczuk – Resonant stirring of disky dwarf galaxies orbiting the Milky Way (15+5)
12:40 – 14:00 – lunch break
“Small scale Universe and the big data computing”
afternoon session (chair: Matthieu Schaller & Wojciech Hellwing):
14:00 – 14:25 – Aaron Ludlow – The Structure of Warm and Cold Dark Matter Halos (25+5)
14:30 – 14:45 – Sownak Bose – Cosmology with Sterile Neutrinos (15+5)
14:50 – 15:05 – Andrew Robertson – Cosmological Simulations with Self-Interacting Dark Matter (15+5)
15:10 – 15:40 – coffee break
15:40 – 16:05 – Maciej Remiszewski, Maciej Cytowski – Addressing Challenges of Data-Intensive Research (25+5)
16:10 – 16:25 – Wojciech Hurry , Aleksander Nowiński – COCOS – a database for COCO simulation results (15+5)
16:30 – 16:45 – Matthieu Schaller – Performance cosmology – the SWIFT code (15+5)
16:50 – 17:20 – panel session: Big data, Big Science, Big problems? (30)

19:30 – symposium dinner (the “Halka” Restaurant, ul. Pulawska 43 – TripAdvisor overview)
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THURSDAY (4th day) 27.08.2015
“The Cosmic Web”
morning session (chair: Till Sawala):
09:30 – 10:00 – Rien van de Weyagert – The Infrastructure of Voids – on Void Hierarchy, Void Galaxies and the Local Void (30+5)
10:05 – 10:30 – Christophe Pichon – Spin alignments within the cosmic web: a theory of constrained tidal torques near filaments (25+5)
10:35 – 10:50 – Saleem Zaroubi – Intensity mapping of large scale filaments with Radio telescopes (15+5)
10:55 – 11:20 – coffee break
11:20 – 11:45 – Marius Cautun – Optimized void stacking using shape information (25+5)
11:50 – 12:15 – Radosław Wojtak – Tracing the evolution of cosmic voids (25+5)
12:20 – 12:35 – Elmo Tempel – Galactic filaments in the cosmic web: alignment of satellite galaxies and galaxy pairs (15+5)
12:40 – 14:00 – lunch break

“Modified gravity and non-linear GR”
afternoon session (chair: Aaron Ludlow):
14:00 – 14:35 – Baojiu Li – Modified gravity theories and their cosmological tests (30+5)
14:40 – 15:05 – Leszek Sokołowski – The acceleration of the Universe and alternative theories of gravity (25+5)
15:10 – 15:25 – Szymon Sikora – The global disk model of the spiral galaxies. Testing the newtonian gravity (15+5)
15:30 – 16:00 – coffee break
16:00 – 16:25 – Boudewijn Roukema – The baryon acoustic oscillation peak: testing the comoving rigidity hypothesis (25+5)
16:30 – 16:45 – Jan Ostrowski – Relativistic Zel’dovich approximation and its applications (15+5)
16:50 – 17:05 – Tomasz Kazimierczak – Kinematical backreaction in cosmological N-body simulations (15+5)

18:00 – social event – City sightseeing tour – “Jewish Warsaw”  “Old Town tour”
(meeting near Copernicus monument – 2 groups)
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FRIDAY (5th day) 28.05.2015
“Large scale structures II”
morning session (chair: Katarzyna Małek):
09:30 – 10:00 – Marek Demiański – Large scale structure and composition of dark matter (30+5)
10:05 – 10:30 – Ben Granett – The Integrated Sachs-Wolfe Signal from BOSS Super-Structures (25+5)
10:35 – 11:00 – Michał Chodorowski – A novel model of redshift distortions (25+5)
11:05 – 11:30 – coffee break
11:30 – 11:45 – Cora Uhlemann – Edgeworth streaming model for redshift space distortions (15+5)
11:50 – 12:05 – Olga Sergijenko – Dark-age 21 cm power spectrum in cosmological models with warm dark matter and dynamical dark energy (15+5)
12:10 – 13:30 – lunch break

“Galaxy surveys”
afternoon session (chair: Elmo Tempel)
13:30 – 14:00 – Agnieszka Pollo – The VIPERS survey (30+5)
14:05 – 14:30 – Maciej Bilicki – Cosmology with the largest all-sky galaxy surveys (25+5)
14:35 – 14:50 – Katarzyna Małek – A support vector machine classification at the service of VIPERS survey (15+5)
14:55 – 15:10 – Aleksandra Solarz – Clustering of mid-infrared selected galaxies (15+5)
15:15 – 15:40 – coffee break
15:40 – 15:55 – Anna Durkalec – Properties and evolution of galaxy clustering at 2 < z < 5 based on the VIMOS Ultra Deep Survey (15+5)
16:00 – 16:15 – Małgorzata Siudek – VIPERS view of the star formation history of early-type galaxies (15+5)
16:20 – 16:45 – Maciej Bilicki – symposium summary (25+5)