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Virgo Consortium Meeting Virgo Consortium Meeting WednesdayThursday Dec ICC Physics Department Durham pm Wednesday Introduction new pro curement etc Carlos Developments at MPA Simon Developments at McMaster Hugh High resolution halosI Adrian High resolution halosI I Julio Substructure in halos Gao Coeetea Sup erGadget Volker SPH in HydraMPI Rob T Multitimesteping SPH Frazer Up date on COSMA op erations Lydia Dinner at Thai restaurant all Thursday Review of work at Munich Simon The Ly forest Tom Feedback sup erwinds metals Scott Individual galaxies Takashi The D Movie and Coee Individual galaxies Rob T Future science programme I HydraMPI allGavin Gas programme Additional physics multiphase radiative trans dust etc Lunch Future science programme I I Halos pro ject The Millennium run Other dark matter programmes The next pro curement Comparison of SPH and semianalytics John H Mo ck catalogues from Virgo DM runs Shaun Tea Scalefree and nonlinear evol Rob SJohn P Short contributions Jo erg Brendan Peter W END Participants Carlton Baugh Craig Bo oth Richard Bower Jo erg Colb erg Shaun Cole Hugh Couchman Vince Eke Carlos Frenk John Helly Brendan Hogg Adrian Jenkins Martin Jub elgas Scott Kay Gao Liang Rowena Malb on Julio Navarro Takashi Okamoto Nelson Padilla John Peacock Frazer Pearce Gavin Pringle Rob ert Smith Volker Springel Rob Thacker Tom Theuns Peter Thomas Peter Watts Simon White Vicent Quilis Virgo publications This list includes pap ers written by the Virgo consortium and asso ciates making extensive use of Virgo data Refereed journals Abadi M Mo ore B Bower RG Ram pressure stripping of spiral galaxies in clusters MNRAS Bartelmann M Huss A Colb erg J M Jenkins A Pearce F R Arc statistics with realistic cluster p otentials IV Clusters in dierent cosmologies AA Benson AJ Cole S Frenk CS Baugh C Lacey C a The Nature of Galaxy Bias and Clustering MNRAS Benson A J Baugh C Cole S Frenk C S Lacey C b The dep endence of of Velocity and Clustering Statistics on Galaxy prop erties MNRAS Benson A J Pearce F R Frenk C S Baugh C M Jenkins A c A Comparison of SemiAnalytic and Smo othed Particle Hydro dynamics Galaxy Formation MNRAS CalcaneoRoldan C Mo ore B BlandHawthorn J Malin D Sadler E Galaxy de struction and diuse light in clusters MNRAS Canavezes A Springel V Oliver J RowanRobinson M Keeble O White S D M Saunders W Efstathiou G Frenk C S McMahon R Maddox S Sutherland W Tadros H The top ology of the IRAS Point Source Catalogue redshift survey MNRAS Ciardi B Ferrara A Governato F Jenkins A Inhomogeneous Reionization Regu lated by Radiative and Stellar Feedbacks MNRAS Colb erg J M White S D M Jenkins A Pearce F R Linking cluster formation to largescale structure MNRAS Colb erg J M White S D M MacFarland T J Jenkins A Pearce F R Frenk C S Thomas P A Couchman H M P Peculiar Velocities of Galaxy Clusters MNRAS Colb erg J M White S D M Yoshida NMacFarland T J Jenkins A Frenk C S Pearce F R Evrard A E Couchman H M P Peacock J A Thomas The Clustering of Clusters in CDM Universes MNRAS Colombi S Szapudi I Jenkins A Colb erg J M Exp erimental Cosmic Statistics I Variance MNRAS da Silva A C Kay S T Liddle A R Thomas P A Pearce F R Barb osa D The impact of co oling and heating on the SunyaevZeldovich eect ApJ L Diaferio A Kaumann G Colb erg J M White S D M Clustering of Surveys MN RAS Evrard A E MacFarland T J Couchman H M P Colb erg J M Yoshida N White S D M Jenkins A Frenk C S Pearce F R Efstathiou G Peacock J A Thomas P A Galaxy Clusters in Hubble Volume Simulations Cosmological Constraints from Sky Survey Populations Astrophys J Frenk C S White S D M Bo de P Bond R J Bryan G L Cen R Couchman H M P Evrard A E Gnedin N Jenkins A Khokhlov A M Klypin A Navarro J F Norman M L Ostriker J P Owen J M Pearce F R Pen UL Steinmetz M Thomas P A Villumsen J V Wadsley J W Warren M S Xu G Yepes G The Santa Barbara cluster comparison pro ject a test of cosmological hydrodynamics co des Astrophys J Ghigna S Mo ore B Governato F Quinn T Stadel J Lake G Dark matter halos in clusters MNRAS Ghigna S Mo ore B Quinn T Stadel J On the structure and substructure of dark matter halos Converging results with increasing numerical resolution MNRAS Hamana T Yoshida N Suto Y Evrard A E Clustering of dark matter halos on the light cone scale time and mass dependence of the halo biasing in the Hubble Volume simulations ApJ lett L Jain B Seljak U White S D M Ray Tracing Simulations of Weak Lensing by Largescale Structure Astrophys J Jenkins A Frenk C S Pearce F R Thomas P A Colb erg J M White S D M Couchman H M P Peacock J A Efstathiou G Nelson A H Evolution of structure in cold dark matter universes Astrophys J Jenkins A Frenk C S White S D M Colb erg J M Cole S Evrard A E Couchman H M P Yoshida N The mass function of dark matter halo es MNRAS Kaumann G Colb erg J M Diaferio A White S D M Clustering of Galaxies in a Hierarchical Uinverse I Metho ds and Results at z MNRAS Kaumann G Colb erg J M Diaferio A White S D M Clustering of Galaxies in a Hierarchical Universe I I Evolution to High Redshift MNRAS Kaumann G Colb erg J M Diaferio A White S D M Clustering of Galaxies in a Hierarchical Universe I Metho ds and Results at z MNRAS Kay S T Pearce F R Jenkins A Frenk C S White S D M Thomas P A Couch man H M P Parameter tests within cosmological simulations of galaxy formation MNRAS Kay S T Pearce F RFrenk C S Jenkins A Including star formation and sup ernova feedback within cosmological simulations of galaxy formation MNRAS Kay S T Liddle A R Thomas P A SunyaevZeldovich predictions for the Planck Surveyor satellite using the Hubble Volume simulations MNRAS 3 MacFarland T Couchman H M P Pearce F R Pichlmeier J A New Parallel P M Co de for Very LargeScale Cosmological Simulations New Astronomy Mo ore B The dark side of the universe PhilTransRoySoc no Mo ore B Ghigna S Governato F Lake G Quinn T Stadel J Tozzi P Dark matter substructure in galactic halos ApJ Letters Mo ore B Governato F Quinn T Stadel J Lake G Resolving the structure of cold dark matter halos Astrophys J Lett L Mo ore B Lake G Quinn T Stadel J On the survival and destruction of spiral galaxies in clusters MNRAS Mo ore B Quinn T Governato F Stadel J Lake G Cold collapse and the core catastrophe MNRAS Mo ore B Gelato S Jenkins A Pearce F R Quillis V Collisional versus Colli sionless Dark Matter ApJ Lett Muanwong O Thomas P A Kay S T Pearce F R Couchman H M P The eect of radiative co oling on scaling laws of Xray groups and clusters ApJ L Pearce F R Placing stars within cosmological simulations asubmitted Pearce F R Couchman H M P Hydra an adaptive parallel grid co de New Astronomy Pearce F R Couchman H M P Thomas P A Edge A C The eect of radiative co oling on the radial density and temp erature proles of galaxy clusters MNRAS Pearce FR Jenkins A Frenk CS Colb erg JM White SDM Thomas PA Couch man HMP Peacock JA Efstathiou G The Virgo Consortium A simulation of galaxy formation and clustering Astrophys J Lett Pearce F R Jenkins A Frenk C S White S D M Thomas PA Couchman H M P Peacock J A Efstathiou G Simulations of galaxy formation in a cosmological volume MNRAS Pearce F R Jenkins A Frenk C S White S D M Thomas P A Couchman H M P Peacock J A Efstathiou G MNRAS Power C Navarro J F Jenkins A Frenk C S White S D M Springel V Stadel J and Quinn T The inner structure of LCDM halo es I A numerical convergence study MNRAS in press Sco ccimarro R Couchman HMP Frieman JA The bisp ectrum as a signature of gravitational instability Astrophys J Springel V White S D M Colb erg J M Couchman H M P Efstathiou G Frenk C S Jenkins A R Pearce F R Nelson A H Peacock J A Thomas P A Genus statistics of the Virgo Nb o dy simulations and the Jy redshift survey MNRAS Szapudi I Colombi S Jenkins A Colb erg J M Exp erimental Cosmic Statistics I I Distribution MNRAS Theuns T Leonard A Efstathiou G The low redshift evolution of the Lyman Forest MNRAS L 3 Theuns T Leonard A Efstathiou G Pearce F R Thomas P A P MSPH simulations of the Lyman Forest MNRAS Theuns T Leonard A Schaye J Efstathiou G Dep endencies of QSO Lymanalpha absorption line statistics on cosmological parameters MNRAS L Thacker R J Tittley E R Pearce F R Couchman H M P Thomas P A Smo othed Particle Hydro dynamics in cosmology a comparative study of implementations MNRAS Thomas P Couchman H Jenkins A Pearce F Frenk C S White S D M Colb erg J Peacock J Efstathiou G Nelson A The structure of clusters in dierent cosmologies MNRAS Thomas P A Muanwong O Pearce F R Couchman H M P Edge A C Jenkins A Onuora L A simulated TCDM cosmology cluster catalogue the NFW prole and the temp eraturemass scaling relations MNRAS Yoshida N Colb erg J White S D M Evrard A E MacFarland T J Couchman H M P Jenkins A Frenk C S Pearce F R Efstathiou G Peacock J A Thomas P A MNRAS NonVirgo pap ers making signicant use of Virgo data Benson A J Nusser A Sugiyama N Lacey C G Nonuniform reionization by galaxies and its eect on the cosmic microwave background mn Canavezes A Sharp e J Recovering the Topology of the Initial Density Fluctuations Using the IRAS Point Source Catalogue Redshift Survey MNRAS Hoyle F Baugh C M Shanks T Ratclie A The DurhamUKST Galaxy Redshift Survey VI Power sp ectrum analysis of clustering mn Norb erg P Baugh CM Hawkings E Maddox S Peacock J Cole S Frenk CS BlandHawthorn J Bridges T Cannon R Colless M Collins C Couch
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