The French Programme National de Cosmologie et Galaxies (PNCG) organizes a national conference on Oct 7-9 2024 in Lyon on galaxy formation and evolution, nearby galaxies, and Galactic archeology. 

We particularly encourage researchers funded by the PNCG, students, postdocs, and young researchers in France or with ties to the French community to present their work. Registration is free of charge. We have limited funds to support travel to Lyon for those giving presentations -- please ask when registering if needed.

Presentations will be in English and in-person only, i.e. not remotely.  We welcome both talk and poster submissions, and we include flash-talks for all poster presenters. 

Key themes: 

• The first galaxies
• Chemical enrichment and primordial gas
• Statistical properties of galaxies
• Interaction between galaxies and their environment
• Galaxy groups and cluster
• Nearby galaxies
• Galactic archeology
• Star formation and the interstellar medium
• Stellar populations
• Galactic dynamics and dark matter
• Simulations
• AI, neural networks and data science

 Invited speakers:

• Jean-Charles Cuillandre (CEA Saclay)
• Jeremy Fensch (CRAL)
• Anaëlle Hallé (LERMA)
  
• Nicolas Laporte (LAM)
• Alejandra Recio-Blanco (OCA)
• Maxime Trebitsch (LERMA)

 If you have any questions, contact us at jpncg24@sciencesconf.org
 

For those that cannot make it to Lyon, we will live-stream the talks in passive mode (i.e. you cannot ask questions from the speaker). The links are as follows for each conference day, and will only become active on the given day:

• Day 1, October 7th, starting at 1 pm CEST
• Day 2, October 8th, starting at 8:30 pm CEST
• Day 3, October 9th, starting at 8:30 pm CEST

We will host the conference at the Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS) de Lyon, in the "Institut Français de l'Éducation", 19 All. de Fontenay, 69007 Lyon, room D8.001 on the ground floor.

On the evening of Tuesday October 8th, we will host a wine and cheese buffet at Lyon Observatory, which is situated in Saint Genis-Laval a few kilometers south of Lyon. We will organize transportation from the conference site to the Observatory and back.

We ask poster presenters to bring their physical posters to the conference, which will be attached to panels inside the conference hall. We recommend the standard A0 size of 84*119 cm, in potrait orientation.

July 12th 2024: deadline for abstract submission and travel aid requests

August 1st 2024: programme announced

Sept 6th 2024: deadline for registration

Oct 7th 2024: beginning of the conference at 2 pm

Oct 9th 2024: end of the conference at 4 pm

Nicolas Bouché
Laure Ciesla
Jonathan Freundlich
Benjamin Magnelli
Nicolas Martin
Anne-Laure Melchior
Joki Rosdahl (chair)
Jenny Sorce

Quentin Basto
Sarah Berard
Jérémy Blaizot
Nicolas Bouché
Christine Chanal
Bianca-Iulia Ciocan
Pierre Dumond
Jérémy Fensch
Catherine Gallet
Floriane Leclercq
Romain Lenoble
Louis Quilley
Joki Rosdahl
Johan Richard