Scientific Programme
Rainbows on the Southern Sky: the legacy value of ESO Public Surveys and Large Programmes
Structure of the workshop
Workshop will start on Monday 05.10.2015 at 13:00. Workshop will end on Friday 09.10.2015 at 14:30
The Program is structured around these seven main topics:
- Planets
- Stellar astrophysics
- MW and Local Group
- Extragalactic astronomy and local universe
- Galaxy evolution
- Cosmology & high reshift universe
- Legacy value of surveys & large programmes
These topics will be introduced by keynote speakers illustrating the latest results from surveys and the open questions to be addressed. All Keynote reviews will be 30+5min long, the invited talks will be 25 mins + 5 min question time.
There will be poster sessions with short talks on poster presentations.
REGISTRATION: 05.10.2015 , 13:00-14:00
Program Overview
- Day 1, 5 October 2015
- Day 2, 6 October 2015
- Day 3, 7 October 2015
- Day 4, 8 October 2015
- Day 5, 9 October 2015
| Day 1, Monday 5 October 2015 (afternoon) | ||
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| 13:00 | Registration | |
| 14:00 | Opening/Welcome | |
| Session 1 - Large Programmes and Public Surveys Legacy | ||
| Chair: Daniel Lennon |
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| 14:10 | B. Leibundgut |
Large Programmes and Public Surveys at ESO |
| 14:25 | A. Szalay | Keynote: Legacy value of public surveys and large coherent programmes |
| 15:00 |
S. Ellison | Big data: making the most of surveys with artificial neural networks |
| 15:20 | M. Moniez | LSST: the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope |
| 15:40 | Break |
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| Session 2 - Cosmology and high redshift universe | ||
| Chair: Alberto Franceschini | ||
| 16:10 | R. Ellis | Keynote: Cosmology and high redshift universe |
| 16:45 | J. Dunlop | UltraVISTA |
| 17:15 | T. Shanks | VST ATLAS Public Survey |
| 17:45 | Discussion | |
| 18:00 | Reception | |
| Day 3, Wednesday 7 October 2015 | ||
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| Session 4 - Extragalactic Astronomy and Local Universe | ||
| Chair: Marina Rejkuba |
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| 09:00 | G. Kauffmann | Keynote: Extragalactic Astronomy and Local Universe |
| 09:35 | A. Edge | VIKING |
| 10:05 |
H. Hildebrandt | The Kilo-Degree Survey (KiDS) |
| 10:35 | Break | |
| Chair: Fancesca Matteucci |
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| 11:00 | K. Meisenheimer | Diet for the monsters: The diversity of dusty molecular tori in AGNs |
| 11:30 | C. Pulsoni | The extended Planetary Nebulae Spectrograph (PN.S) early-type galaxy survey - velocity fields at large radii from planetary nebulae |
| Session 5 - Milky Way and the Local Group | ||
| 11:50 | H.-W. Rix | Keynote: Milky Way and the Local Group |
| 12:25 | C. Wegg | The structure of the Milky Way bar and bulge from photometric surveys |
| 12:45 | Lunch | |
| Chair: Giacomo Beccari |
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| 14:00 | D. Minniti | The VVV Survey |
| 14:30 | M. Zoccali | The GIRAFFE Inner Bulge Survey (GIBS) |
| 15:00 | S. Randich | Gaia ESO Survey |
| 15:30 | Break | |
| Chair: Michael Hilker |
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| 16:00 | R. Genzel | The Galactic Center: a unique laboratory for studying fundamental physical processes near black holes |
| 16:30 | M. Portail | Dynamical models of the Galactic bulge based on survey data |
| 16:50 | M.-R. Cioni | VMC |
| 19:00 | Conference Dinner | |
| Day 4, Thursday 8 October 2015 | ||
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| Session 5 - Milky Way and the Local Group | ||
| Chair: Marc Moniez |
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| 09:00 | V. Ripepi | The VMC Survey: Classical Cepheids in the SMC |
| 09:20 | G. Kordopatis | The Nature and Properties of the Ultra-Faint dSph Galaxies |
| Session 6 - Stellar Astrophysics | ||
| 09:50 | M. Salaris |
Keynote: Stellar Astrophysics |
| 10:25 | P. Lucas | Insights into star birth from VVV |
| 10:45 | Break | |
| Chair: Monika Petr-Gotzens |
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| 11:20 | B. Gaensicke | VPHAS+ |
| 11:50 |
M. Lyubenova |
XSL: The X-Shooter Spectral Library |
| 12:20 | Lunch | |
| Chair: Gaitee Hussain |
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| 14:00 | W. Gieren | Measuring the effect of metallicity on Cepheid absolute magnitudes: Towards a high-precision determination of the Hubble constant based on classical Cepheids |
| 14:30 | H. Sana |
A VLTI/PIONIER multiplicity survey of O-type stars |
| 15:00 | S. Smartt |
PESSTO |
| 15:30 | Break | |
| Chair: Ferdinando Patat |
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| 16:00 | S. Benetti |
Supernova Variety and Nucleosynthesis Yields |
| 16:30 | C. Inserra | Super Luminous Supernovae with PESSTO |
| 16:50 | R. Smiljanic | Sodium and aluminum: stellar evolution and Galactic chemical evolution with Gaia-ESO data |
| 17:10 | G. Beccari | OmegaCAM mini-survey of circumstellar discs in nearby galactic star-forming regions |
| 17:30 |
End of the day | |
| Day 5, Friday 9 October 2015 |
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| Session 6 - Stellar Astrophysics | ||
| Chair: Bruno Leibundgut |
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| 09:00 | P. Bonifacio |
Search for the ``critical metallicity'' for low mass star formation |
| Session 7 - Planets | ||
| 09:30 | D. Queloz | Keynote: Planets |
| 10:05 | F. Pepe | A census of the super-Earth and Neptune-mass planet population around solar-type stars |
| 10:35 | Break | |
| Chair: Magda Arnaboldi |
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| 11:00 |
J.P. Berger | Imaging the dusty horizon. The first VLTI protoplanetary disk survey with astronomical unit resolution |
| Session 8 - Closing the loop: Legacy of Large Programmes and Public Surveys | ||
| 11:30 | R. Kurtev |
Proper motions and parallaxes with the VVV |
| 11:50 | J. Retzlaff |
Ensuring the legacy value of ESO Public Surveys: community data access through the Science Archive Facility |
| 12:10 | N. Cross |
WFAU Science Archives: Facilitating Survey Astronomy |
| 12:30 | E. Gonzalez-Solares |
Advanced Next Generation Spectroscopic Analysis Systems |
| 12:50 | Final Discussion and Concluding Remarks | |
| 13:10 | Beer & Bretz'n |
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| Workshop END |
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