Programme
ESO Garching, 13-15 October 2008
PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME
| MONDAY, 13 October 2008 | ||
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| 09:00-09:30 | Registration | |
| 09:30-09:45 | Welcome to Participants | T. de Zeeuw |
| 09:45-10:15 | Public Imaging Survey: WFI follow-up of XMM-Newton Serendipitious fields | J.-M. Miralles |
| 10:15-11:00 | The great observatories origins deep survey: ESOpublic observations of the SIRTF Legacy / HSTTreasury / Chandra Deep Field South | P. Rosati |
| 11:00-11:30 | Coffee Break | |
| 11:30-12:00 | The ESO remote galaxy survey: galaxies at the highest redshifts | M. Bremer |
| 12:00-12:30 | Fluorescent re-emission of the ionizing UV background from Lyman-Limit systems | M. Haehnelt |
| 12:30-14:00 | Lunch Break | |
| 14:00-14:30 | GMASS: the galaxy mass assembly ultra-deepspectroscopic survey | J. Kurk |
| 14:30-15:00 | The nature and evolution of infrared galaxies: Bridging optical and SIRTF-SWIRE data with near-infrared observations of the ELAIS-S1 field | I. Matute |
| 15:00-15:30 | Supernovae at high redshift | J. Melinder |
| 15:30-16:00 | Coffee Break | |
| 16:00-16:45 | 1) The ω project: measuring the equation of state of the universe 2) ESSENCE - The equation of state: supernovae trace cosmic expansion |
B. Leibundgut |
| 16:45-17:30 | Measuring the "Cosmic Equation of State" and the "Star Formation Rate": spectroscopic identificationof supernovae from the CFHT Legacy Survey | R. Pain |
| TUESDAY, 14 October 2008 | ||
| 09:00-09:30 | An ESO-SIRTF wide-area Imaging Survey (ESIS) | S. Berta |
| 09:30-10:00 | The dynamics and evolution of galaxy mergers: properties of the 1 Jy ULIRG sample | L. Tacconi |
| 10:00-10:30 | Dwarf galaxies: remnants of galaxy formation and corner stones for understanding galaxy evolution | M. Irwin |
| 10:30-11:00 | Coffee Break | |
| 11:00-11:30 | Towards the temperature of cold dark matter: quantitative stellar kinematics in dSph galaxies | G. Gilmore |
| 11:30-12:00 | Gravitational imaging of a quasar at micro- and nano-arcsecond scales: the Einstein Cross | F. Courbin |
| 12:00-12:30 | The Galactic Center: a unique laboratory for studyingfundamental physical processes near black holes | R. Genzel |
| 12:30-14:00 | Lunch Break | |
| 14:00-14:30 | In search for terrestrial planets in the habitable zone of M dwarfs | M. Kürster |
| 14:30-15:00 | New habitable planets around M dwarfs, and 1st radiusmeasurement of a 1-30 Mearth exoplanet | X. Bonfils |
| 15:00-15:30 | Nucleo-chronometric age dating of the oldest stars in the galaxy and the nature of the r-process | N. Christlieb |
| 15:30-16:00 | Coffee Break | |
| 16:00-16:30 | The Araucaria Project: improving the distance scale with stellar distance indicators in nearby galaxies | W. Gieren |
| 16:30-17:30 | The FLAMES survey of massive stars in the Magellanic clouds | C. Evans, C. Trundle |
| 17:30-19:00 | Reception | |
| WEDNESDAY, 15 October 2008 | ||
| 09:00-09:30 | ESO Large Programmes: the scheduling perspective | G. Mathys |
| 09:30-10:00 | Publication and Citation Statistics of Large Programmes at ESO | U. Grothkopf |
| 10:00-10:30 | Phase 3: ingesting and publishing data products via theESO science archive facility | M. Arnaboldi |
| 10:30-11:00 | Coffee Break | |
| 11:00-12:15 | Discussion | |
| 12:15-12:30 | Workshop Summary | W. Benz |
| 12:30 | End of Workshop | |