Scientific Programme

Programme as at 7 January 2015

REGISTRATION: Monday, 19 January 2015, 12:00-13:00

Program Overview

Day 1: Monday, 19 January 2015 (afternoon)

12:00	Registration

13:00	T. de Zeeuw	Welcome
13:10	R. Ivison	Introduction
13:20	F. Primas	Community Poll
13:40	M. McCaughrean	ESA Programme (Invited Talk)

		Planets and planet formation
14:30	M. Bizzarro	Origin of the solar system (Invited Talk)
15:10	Y. Alibert	Exoplanets (Invited Talk)
15:50	I. Jimenez-Serra	Astrobiology (Invited Talk)

16:30	Coffee Break

16:50	T. Stallard	Giant planets in the Solar System: Ongoing and upcoming observations and their implication for exoplanet and brown dwarf
17:10	A. Fitzsimmons	Asteroids and comets in the coming decade
17:30	L. Testi, P. Caselli, S. Udry	Panel Discussion

18:30	Reception

Day 2:Tuesday, 20 January 2015

		Stars, formation and evolution
08:30	S. Longmore	High mass star formation/ clusters (Invited Talk)
09:15	G. Chabrier	Stellar evolution (Invited Talk)
10:00	E. Humphreys	Late-type stars (Invited Talk)

10:45	Coffee Break

11:00	A. Richards	Seeing into stars (and their clouds)
11:20	R. Smiljanic	Overview of Gaia-ESO Survey results based on high-resolution spectra of FGK-type stars
11:40	S. Feltzing, P. Roche	Panel Discussion

12:30	Lunch

13:30	R. Braun	SKA (Invited Talk)
14:00	M. Bremer	Do we need a wide field 8-m spectroscopic survey telescope?

		Milky Way and Local Neighbourhood
14:20	F. Eisenhauer	The centre of the Milky Way (Invited Talk)
15:05	A. Helmi	The Milky Way as a galaxy (Invited Talk)
15:50	M.R. Cioni	Magellanic Clouds (Invited Talk)

16:35	Coffee Break

16:50	R. Davies	Resolved Stellar Populations with Visible Adaptive Optics on the VLT
17:10	F. Primas, I. Saviane, C. Evans, J. Knapen	Panel Discussion
18:00		End of Day 2

Day 3:Wednesday, 21 January 2015

		Galaxies
08:30	R. Maiolino	Gas in galaxies (Invited Talk)
09:15	V. Mainieri	AGN and galaxies (Invited Talk)
10:00	N. Förster-Schreiber	Galaxy evolution (Invited Talk)

10:45	Coffee Break

11:00	S. Hoenig	AGN cosmology - a new perspective for VLTI in the E-ELT and LSST era
11:20	S. Smartt	Explosive transients in the next decade
11:40	A. Alonso-Herrero, L. Tacconi, F. Hammer	Panel Discussion

12:30	Lunch

		Cosmology
14:00	S. Bridle	Weak lensing in the next decade (Invited Talk)
14:45	P. Noterdaeme	Gas at high redshift/ fundamental constants (Invited Talk)
15:30	J. Peacock	Large Scale Structure (Invited Talk)

16:15	Coffee Break

16:30	M. Haehnelt	The future of reionization
16:50	C. Cicone	ESO in the 2020s: the "bright" millimetre/ sub-millimetre future
17:10	B. Leibundgut, C. Lagos, Y. Mellier	Panel Discussion
18:00		End of Day 3

Day 4: Thursday, 22 January 2015

		Future facilities
08:30	P. Antilogus	LSST (Invited Talk)
09:15	S. Wagner	Gamma-Ray Astronomy in the 2020s (Invited Talk)

10:00	Coffee Break

		Presentation of scientific priorities
10:15	J.-P. Berger	VLTI
10:55	B. Leibundgut	VLT
11:35	L. Testi	ALMA
12:15	I. Hook	E-ELT

13:00	Lunch

14:00	R. Ivison	Concluding Remarks and discussion

15:00		End of workshop