Challenges in UV Astronomy, ESO Garching, 7-11 October 2013

Scientific Programme

Day 1: Monday, 7 October 2013
08:30-09:00 Registration  
  Welcome to the UV!  
09:00 A. I. Gómez de Castro
NUVA & space
09:15 B. Barbuy CUBES & ground
 
Solar System, Exoplanets & Star Formation (Session chair: L. Testi)
09:30 G. Herczeg
Challenges in Star Formation research for the UV light (Invited Review)
10:00 C. Schneider The high-energy view of the classical T-Tauri DG Tau
10:15 C.F. Manara The imprint of accretion on the UV spectrum of young stellar objects: the X-Shooter view
10:30 Coffee Break
11:00 D. Sing
Challenges in Exoplanet research for the UV (Invited Review)
11:30 K. France The UV radiation environment of the Habitable Zones around low-mass exoplanet host stars
11:45 L. Fossati Near-UV HST observations of the transiting exoplanet WASP-12b
12:00 Lunch
 
  Stellar Astronomy
(Session chair: L. Pasquini)
13:30 M. Salaris
Unsolved problems in stellar evolution (Invited Review)
14:00 C. Siqueira-Mello The origin of r-process elements (Invited Talk)
14:30 P. Bonifacio
CNO elements (Invited Talk)
15:00 J. Melendez Disentagling the signature of planets and neutron-capture enrichment using UV/optical spectroscopy
15:15 M. Barstow Far-UV spectroscopy of white dwarfs
15:30 P. Brown Ultraviolet observations of supernovae
15:45 Coffee Break  
  UV projects from the ground and space (Session chair: F. Kerber)
16:15 L. Bianchi Review of GALEX results (Review Talk)
16:45 End of Day 1  
16:45-18:15

Welcome Reception at ESO

Day 2: Tuesday, 8 October 2013
  Stellar Astronomy (continued) (Session chair: L. Pasquini)
09:00 B. Gaensicke
The chemistry of exo-terrestrial material in evolved planetary systems
09:15 R. Smiljanic Beryllium (Invited Talk)
  Coffee and Poster Pops
 
09:45   Put up posters in the Council Room
10:30   Poster Pops (4 minutes presentation/ 2 slides)
12:00   Look at posters in the Council Room
12:30 Lunch
  Resolved stellar populations (Session chair: B. Barbuy)
14:00 E. Sabbi
Young stellar clusters in the UV (Invited Review)
14:30 A. Renzini
Globular clusters (Invited Review)
15:00 E. Dalessandro Old stellar systems in UV: resolved and integrated properties
15:15 Coffee Break
  UV projects from the ground and space (continued) (Session chair: F. Kerber)
15:45 L. Pasquini
Ground based UV opportunities at ESO (Invited Talk)
16:15 End of Day 2
 
Day 3: Wednesday, 9 October 2013
  Resolved stellar populations (continued) (Session chair: B. Barbuy)
09:30
K. McQuinn
Stellar populations in nearby galaxies (Invited Review)
10:00 D. Bettoni
The UV view of early type galaxies
10:15 P. Bonifacio UV Observations of stars in dwarf galaxies
10:30
Coffee Break  
  Interstellar medium and nebulae (Session chair: J. Melnick)
11:00 M. de Avillez
Impact of UV observations in understanding the ISM (Invited Review)
    Contributed Talks ISM & Nebulae (HII regions; planetary; etc.)
11:30 J. Linsky The Local ISM in Three Dimensions: Morphology, Kinematics and Physical Processes
11:45 A. I. Gómez de Castro The GALEX survey of the Taurus Star Forming Region: studying the extinction law by means of star counts
12:00 Lunch
 
  Future Space Missions (Session chair: F. Kerber)
13:30 A. I. Gómez de Castro
The next ESA large UV Mission (Invited Talk)
13:50 P. Coté
CASTOR (Invited Talk)
14:10 J. Hutchings
UVIT on AstroSat (Invited Talk)
14:30 B. Shustov
WSO/UV (Invited Talk)
14:50 T. Hull The Galaxy Evolution Spectroscopic Explorer
15:05 C. Neiner The UVMag space project
15:20 Coffee Break  
15:50 N. Brosch Post-GALEX small UV mission (sUVo)
16:05 D. Valls-Gabaud MESSIER: unveiling the UV-optical low surface brightness universe
  Solar system missions with UV instruments (Session chair: F. Kerber)
16:20 L. Koechlin The Fresnel Interferometer Project (Invited Talk)
16:50 End of Day 3  
19:00
  Conference Dinner
Day 4: Thursday, 10 October 2013
  Extragalactic astronomy (Session chair: J. Vernet)
09:00 S. White
Galaxy Formation (Invited Review)
09:30 D. Kunth
Lyman Alpha galaxies (Invited Talk)
10:00 D. de Mello The ultraviolet morphology of distant galaxies
10:15 C. Le Cras The UV side of BOSS galaxies
10:30 T. Woods UV emission lines in passively evolving galaxies can reveal the progenitors of type Ia supernovae
10:45 Coffee Break
11:15 A. Marconi
AGN (Invited Review)
11:45 P. Molaro
QSO lines of sight (Invited Talk)
12:15 P. Marziani Diagnostics from UV spectra of low redshift quasars
12:30 Lunch
14:00 Technologies and Archives (Session organizers assist the SOC in the talk selection and write a comprehensive review of what was presented for NUVA)
  Detectors: Session organized by M. Barstow
  Contributors:
  J. Hennessy: Detectors and Coatings for Efficient Systems for Future UV Astronomy
  S. Leach: High-resolution high-rate photon-counting UV detectors using adaptive electronics
14:45 Optics and optical elements: Session organized by K. France
  Contributors:
  P. Bristow: CUBES Parameters
  A. Shugarov: UV and VUV detectors for spectrographs of WSO-UV project
15:30 Coffee Break
  Assembly, Integration, Verification (AIV) for vacuum UV: Session organized by J. Chirivella
  Contributors:
16:00 J. Chirivella: AIV Session Overview
16:05 J. Chirivella: UV Flight Instruments Technology: "The Impact of Contamination on AIV of UV Flight Instruments"
16:20 K. France: Hubbly/COS: "Cosmic Origins Spectrograph AIV"
16:35 J. Hutchings: ASTROSAT/UVIT AIV
16:50 M. Sachkov: WSO/UV AIV Procedures
17:05 J. Linsky: IUE AIV and Mission Concept
17:20 End of Day 4  
Day 5: Friday, 11 October 2013
09:00  

Calibrations and Archival Research:

Session organized by N. Brosch

  Contributors:  
  D. Baines Arichval Science with the ESAC Archives
  J. Holberg Absolute Photometric Calibration in Space and Ground
  V. Yershov Serendipitous catalogues for 10 years of XMM and 5 years of SWIFT
  F. Kerber Flat fielding for ground-based UV spectrographs
  I. Savanov WSO/UV ground-based support of space observations in Russia
  I. Savanov The Astron UV space mission
  M. Romaniello The ESO Science Archive Facility
11:00 R. O'Connell
Highlights of the conference
12:30 End of Conference
Bier & Brezn