First announcement for the ESA/ESO workshop:

	JWST and the ELTs: An Ideal Combination

ESO Garching, April 13-16, 2010

The workshop aims at exploring the scientific synergies between the JWST
and the up-coming giant optical/infrared telescopes (GMT,TMT,E-ELT)

More information at: www.eso.org/jwstelt2010
Organisers: M.McCaughrean and M.Kissler-Patig on behalf of ESA and ESO

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REGISTRATION: 

Deadline - 15 January 2010 
URL: http://www.eso.org/sci/meetings/jwstelt2010/registration.html


RATIONAL:

The main goal of the workshop is to bring the JWST and ELT communities
together, to identify the common science cases, and to outline
instrumentation/upgrade priorities for the ELTs which would maximise the
scientific return in key areas of scientific research requiring both
facilities.

The workshop will explore the common science cases in the areas of:

- The End of the Dark Ages: First Light and Reionization,
- Assembly of Galaxies,
- The Birth of Stars and Protoplanetary Systems,
- Planetary Systems and the Origins of Life.

The participants will identify cases where synergy and complementarity
between JWST and the ELTs are of particular interest, and might lead to
instrument priorities and programme strategies for the facilities.

Representatives from the JWST and different ELT projects are forming the
SOC. The workshop is particularly timely, as it will feedback into the
instrument suite selection of the ELTs. At the same time, JWST
instruments are essentially complete and the joint telescope/instrument
parameters well understood.

SOC:

M. Kissler-Patig (ESO/E-ELT)
M. McCaughrean (ESA/JWST)
R. Doyon (Montreal/JWST)
M. Franx (Leiden/ JWST)
J. Gardner (NASA GSFC/JWST)
R. Gilmozzi (ESO/E-ELT)
I. Hook (Rome/E-ELT)
S. Lilly (Zurich/JWST)
J. Lunine (Arizona/JWST)
M. Mountain (STScI/JWST)
P. McCarthy (Carnegie Obs./GMT)
C. Steidel (Caltech/TMT)
G.Wright (UK ATC/JWST)

LOC:

C. Stoffer (ESO)
D. Villegas (ESO)
M. Kissler-Patig (ESO)