STScI Mini-Workshop: Massive Galaxies over Cosmic Time

The goal of this mini-workshop was to consider the census, origin, and evolution of the most massive galaxies in stellar mass from early times to the present. There are three broad questions we wished to address:

I. Is there a "massive galaxies" problem at all? We would like to consider this at high or low redshift, and based on straight observations or comparisons with reasonable theoretical predictions.

II. What is the nature of "red sequence" galaxies at high and low redshift?

III. What is the relation, if any, between very dusty (star-forming) and very massive galaxies?

The dates of the workshop were September 27, 28, and the first half of the 29th. By the nature of the mini-workshop, the participation was limited to approximately 40-50 people, drawing on both observational and theoretical expertise.

--The SOC/LOC

Invited Speaker:
Romeel Dave'
Carlos de Brueck
Daniel Eisenstein
Adriano Fontana
Pat McCarthy
Ken Nagamine
Alvio Renzini
Rachel Somerville
Pieter van Dokkum
Lin Yan

Organizing Committee:
Mark Dickinson
Harry Ferguson
Mauro Giavalisco
Karl Glazebrook
Norman Grogin
Lexi Moustakas (Chair)
Daniel Stern