Part I: The challenge
 

    August 6




 9:00 -  9:30 Star counts, radial velocities, proper motions, metallicities and ages Annie Robin (France)
 9:30 - 10:00 The dynamics of the disc, halo and satellites
Amina Helmi (Netherlands)
10:00 - 10:30 Non-equilibrium dynamics and radial migration in the disc Alice Quillen (USA)

Coffee
11:00 - 11:30 Star-formation histories, metallicity distributions and luminosity functions of disk, bulge & halo Rosie Wyse (USA)
11:30 - 12:00 Measures of ISM density
 Francois Boulanger (France)
12:00 - 12:15 The Milky Way Halo and the First Stars:
New Frontiers in Galactic Archaeology		 Tim Beers (USA)
12:15 - 12:30 Kinematic and Chemical Structure of the Galactic Disc(s) Ralph Schoenrich (Germany)

Lunch
14:00 - 14:30 Gas flows within the Galaxy Francoise Combes (France)
14:30 - 15:00 Large-scale non-equilibrium structures Zeljko Ivezic (USA)

Part II: Methods
15:00 - 15:30 Fitting an orbit-superposition model to a catalogue   Julio Chaname
(USA)

Tea
16:00 - 16:15 Bar and Spiral Arm Resonances: Stellar Kinematic Constraints on
Galactic Structure Models Revisited		 Teresa Antoja (Spain)
16:15 - 16:30 The formation of the Milky Way; what can we learn from cosmological hydrodynamical simulations
 Lucio Mayer (Switzerland)
16:30 - 17:00 Torus modelling James Binney (UK)
17:00 - 17:30 In what detail can we represent the MW in a conventional N-body model? Victor Debattista (UK)

End of day 1

August 7
 9:00 -  9:30 M2M modelling Ortwin Gerhard (Germany)
 9:30 - 10:00 Projecting models into the observational domain; standard tools and interfaces Gustavo Bruzual (Venezuela)
10:00 - 10:30 Building a dust model from several catalogues Jacques Lepine (Brazil)

Coffee
11:00 - 11:15 A New Approach to the Construction of Dynamical Structure of our Galaxy
 Haruhiko Ueda (Japan)
11:15 - 11:30 An iterative method for constructing stellar systems models: how far does it work? Natalia Sotnikova (Russia)
11:30 - 12:00 Methods and challenges in fitting models to catalogues TBD
12:00 - 12:30 Summary TBD

Contacts:
E-mail: binney at thphys.ox.ac.uk
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