The Milky Way Assembly Tale - Plot and characters as of today, and what to expect in future editions

Europe/Rome
Bologna

Bologna

Via Piero Gobetti, 101, 40129 Bologna BO
Description
 
Our knowledge of the Milky Way's assembly history has been revolutionised by the advent of the Gaia mission. Since the availability of kinematic information for more than 1 billion stars with Gaia DR2, the story of how our Galaxy was formed from the merger of smaller galaxies has begun to unravel. Gaia's handwriting has been supported by the combination of its dynamical information with chemical abundance and age measurements from spectroscopic (e.g. APOGEE, GALAH, GES, LAMOST, RAVE) and asteroseismic (e.g. CoRoT, Kepler, K2, TESS) surveys, which are now adding more detail to the plot. However, as the plot unravels, it becomes more and more complex. Observations and models need to move forward in tandem to support its evolution and uncover possible twists. Future large-scale spectroscopic surveys will greatly improve our chemical knowledge of the Milky Way's stellar populations and, together with future asteroseismic missions, will open the window to systematic determination of accurate stellar ages as a new ink to fuel the writing.
 
With the rapid pace at which the Milky Way assembly story is constantly being updated, the aim of this conference is to bring the community onto the same page, where the main characters, their characteristics and the timeline of their contribution are well established, and where the main observational and theoretical open questions for the continuation of the story are set out and discussed.

 
The topics to be covered at the conference are as follows
 
  • Substructures of the Milky Way halo, in the chemical-dynamical-chronological space;
     
  • Evolution of the Milky Way disk through the interplay with the assembling mergers;
     
  • Stellar age as a critical component - development of new methods to infer age with increased precision and accuracy and cosmological implications;
     
  • Predictions from simulations as a tool for interpreting the complex observational evidence;
     
  • The assembly history of the Local Group.

 

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Participants
  • Aakash Pandey
  • Adam Dillamore
  • Akshara Viswanathan
  • Alejandra Recio-Blanco
  • Alessandro Mazzi
  • Alessandro Spagna
  • Alessio Mucciarelli
  • Alex Billi
  • Alex Riley
  • Alice Mori
  • Alistair Walker
  • Amina Helmi
  • Andrea Miglio
  • Andrea Sante
  • Andreia Carrillo
  • Andrew Wetzel
  • Aneesh Naik
  • Angus Beane
  • Anke Ardern-Arentsen
  • Anna Barbara De Andrade Queiroz
  • Annette Ferguson
  • Annie Robin
  • Antonella Vallenari
  • Azadeh Fattahi-Savadjani
  • Boquan Chen
  • Bragaglia Angela
  • Bridget Ratcliffe
  • Callie Clontz
  • Camilla Giusti (Online)
  • Carlos Viscasillas Vazquez
  • Carme Gallart
  • Cecilia Mateu
  • Charis Tsakonas
  • Chervin Laporte
  • Chiara Crociati
  • Claudia Mendes De Oliveira
  • Cristiano Fanelli
  • Cristina Chiappini
  • Daisuke Kawata (Online)
  • Damla Gumus (Online)
  • Daniel Horta
  • David Aguado
  • David Martínez-Delgado
  • David Nataf
  • David Soderblom
  • Davide Massari
  • Deimer Antonio Alvarez Garay
  • Diane Feuillet
  • Edoardo Ceccarelli
  • Elisa Rita Garro
  • Elliot Davies
  • Eloisa Poggio (Online)
  • Else Starkenburg
  • Emanuela Luongo
  • Emily Cunningham
  • Emma Dodd
  • Emma Fernandez-Alvar
  • Eugene Vasiliev
  • Eugenio Carretta (Online)
  • Ewoud Wempe
  • Felipe Gran
  • Finn Pal
  • Francesca Annibali
  • Francesca Lucertini
  • Francisca Espinoza Rojas
  • Francois Hammer
  • Furkan Akbaba
  • Gail Zasowski
  • Gaël Buldgen
  • Georges Kordopatis
  • Georges Meynet
  • Giada Casali
  • Gisella Clementini
  • Giulia Pagnini
  • Giuseppina Battaglia
  • Govind Nandakumar
  • Guillaume Guiglion
  • Guillaume Thomas
  • Haifeng Wang (Online)
  • Hanneke Woudenberg
  • Hans-Walter Rix
  • Hanyuan Zhang
  • Ioannis Nektarios Kallimanis
  • Isaure Gonzales Rivera
  • Istiak Akib (Online)
  • Itsuki Ogami
  • Ivanna Escala
  • Jacob Nibauer
  • Jairo Andres Alzate Trujillo
  • Jason Hunt
  • Jeppe Sinkbaek Thomsen
  • Jessica Schonhut-Stasik
  • Joao Antonio Silveira Do Amarante
  • Josefina Montalban
  • Juan Nicolas Garavito Camargo
  • Julio A Carballo-Bello
  • Karsten Brogaard
  • Kathy Vivas
  • Keith Hawkins
  • Laia Casamiquela
  • Lanfranco Chiappino
  • Lapo Querci
  • Laura Magrini
  • Leda Berni
  • Leitinger Ellen
  • Lekshmi Thulasidharan
  • Lorenzo Briganti
  • Luca Sbordone
  • Léa Marques
  • Madeline Lucey
  • Manuel Bayer
  • Marc Del Alcazar I Julia
  • Marcel Pawlowski
  • Maria Benito
  • Maria Massineo
  • Maria Teresa Antoja Castelltort
  • Marie Barbillon
  • Marina Dal Ponte
  • Mario G Lattanzi
  • Mariya Nizovkina
  • Martina Loriga
  • Martina Rossi
  • Martynas Lauzikas (Online)
  • Marwan Gebran (Online)
  • Massimiliano Gatto
  • Massimiliano Matteuzzi
  • Matteo Monelli
  • Matthew Orkney
  • Mauro Cabrera (Online)
  • Micah Oeur
  • Michele Bellazzini
  • Michele Cignoni
  • Michele De Leo
  • Nadège Lagarde
  • Nagaraj Vernekar
  • Natsuki Funakoshi (Online)
  • Nicolas Cristi Cambiasso
  • Nikos Prantzos
  • Olcay Plevne
  • Olivier Bienaymé
  • Ortwin Gerhard (Online)
  • Paola Re Fiorentin
  • Paul Mcmillan
  • Payel Das
  • Pier Giorgio Prada Moroni
  • Raffaele Pascale
  • Robert Grand
  • Salvatore Taibi
  • Samir Nepal
  • Sara Vitali
  • Sarah Pearson
  • Saskia Hekker
  • Sena Matsui
  • Sergey Khoperskov
  • Silvia Leanza
  • Simon Alinder
  • Sofia Randich
  • Stephanie Monty
  • Sven Buder
  • Tadafumi Matsuno
  • Tailo Marco
  • Tatiana Muraveva
  • Thomas Callingham
  • Thomas Tomlinson
  • Tobias Buck
  • Valeria Cerqui
  • Vasily Belokurov
  • Vedant Chandra
  • Vincenzo Ripepi
  • Walter Van Rossem
  • Willett Emma
  • Yongjun Jiao (Online)
  • Yoshihisa Suzuki
  • Zhao-Yu Li
  • Zoe Hackshaw