Workshop Programme

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Monday, 22. January 2007
19:30 - 23:00 Informal Dinner in Garching (Buergerstuben, TBC)
Tuesday, 23. January 2007
8:30 - 9:15 Registration - Poster Session
9:15 - 9:25 Welcome by A. Kaufer
9:25 - 9:50 Instrument Calibration at the La Silla Paranal Observatory
G. Marconi
9:50 - 10:15 The Detector Monitoring Project (PPT format)
P. Amico
10:15 - 10:40 Coffee Break - Poster Session
Session 1: Optical Spectro-Imagers
Chair: M. Capaccioli
10:40 - 11:05 IOT overview talk
F. Patat
11:05 - 11:25 The FORS Absolute Photometry (FAP) Project
W. Freudling
11:25 - 11:45 Systematic effects in radial velocity and chemical abundance determination: the case of FORS2 and FLAMES
M. Monelli
11:45 - 12:00 Discussion
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch
Session 2: Optical Multi-Object Spectrographs
Chair: M. Rosa
13:30 - 13:35 IOT overview talk
L. Schmidtobreick
13:55 - 14:20 Quantitative Spectroscopy with FLAMES
P. Bonifacio (Invited talk)
14:20 - 14:40 Good News for MOS, MXU & Co.: A new spectroscopic pipeline for the FORSes
S. Moehler
14:40 - 15:05 Calibrating the VIMOS Redshift Survey Data
M. Scodeggio (Invited talk)
15:05 - 15:20 Discussion
Session 3: NIR and MIR Spectro-Imagers
Chair: J. Emerson
15:20 - 15:45 IOT overview talk
E. Mason
15:45 - 16:10 Imaging and Spectroscopy in the MIR
E. Pantin (Invited talk)
16:10 - 16:30 Coffee Break - Poster Session
16:30 - 16:50 Calibration of IR Spectrographs
H.U. Kaeufl
16:50 - 17:10 Calibrating IR Standard Stars
D. Dobrzycka
17:10 - 17:40 Discussion
18:00 - 19:00 Reception
19:15 Buses leave for Garching
Wednesday, 24. January 2007
Session 4: Data Flow and Data Reduction Software
Chair: P.E. Nissen
09:00 - 09:25 VLT End-to-End Data Flow
M. Peron (Overview talk)
09:25 - 09:50 ESO Reflex - A Graphical Workflow System for running Recipes
M. Romaniello (Invited talk)(for R. Hook)
09:50 - 10:15 Scientific Data Reduction Pipelines at NASA: 30 years and counting
D. Lindler (Invited talk)
10:15 - 10:35 The End-to-End Pipeline for HST Slitless Spectra: PHLAG
M. Kuemmel
10:35 - 11:00 Coffee Break - Poster Session
11:00 - 11:20 A bottom-up approach to spectroscopic data reduction
C. Izzo
11:20 - 11:40 Model based Calibration
P. Bristow
11:40 - 12:00 Discussion
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 13:55 Advanced Data Products
P. Rosati
13:55 - 14:15 From Advanced Calibration in the VLT era to Forward Analysis on ELT
M. Rosa
14:15 - 14:45 Discussion
14:45 - 15:15 Coffee Break - Poster Session
Session 5: Adaptive Optics Instruments
Chair: R. Espinoza
15:15 - 15:40 IOT overview talk
N. Ageorges
15:40 - 16:05 AO assisted Spectroscopy with SINFONI
R. Davies (Invited talk)
16:05 - 16:30 Imaging and treatment of the PSF in AO instruments: NACO
Y. Clenet (Invited talk)
16:30 - 16:50 Probing mu-arcsecond astrometry with NACO
A. Seifahrt
16:50 - 17:20 Discussion
17:45 Buses leave for Garching
Thursday, 25. January 2007
Session 6: Integral Field Spectroscopy
Chair: D. Osip
09:00 - 09:25 IOT overview Talk
P. Amico
09:25 - 09:50 Integral Field Spectroscopy
E. Emsellem (Invited talk)
09:50 - 10:10 SpecSim: An IFU Spectrometer Simulator
N. Lorente
10:10 - 10:35 Integral Field Spectroscopy with VIMOS
M.M. Roth (Invited talk)
10:35 - 10:50 Coffee Break - Poster Session
10:50 - 11:10 KMOS
R. Sharples
11:10 - 11:30 Calibration of the KMOS multi-object integral field spectrometer
S.K. Ramsay Howat
11:30 - 12:00 The MUSE IFU Calibration
R. McDermid
12:00 - 12:20 Discussion
12:20 - 13:30 Lunch
Session 7: High-Resolution Spectroscopy
Chair: P. Raffanelli
13:30 - 13:55 IOT overview talk
G. Lo Curto
13:55 - 14:20 Quantitative Spectroscopy with UVES
P.E. Nissen (Invited talk)
14:20 - 14:45 High Resolution and High Precision - Spectroscopy with HARPS
F. Pepe (Invited talk)
14:45 - 15:05 Laser Comb: A Novel Calibration System for High Resolution Spectrographs
C. Araujo-Hauck
15:05 - 15:25 Discussion
15:25 - 15:45 Coffee Break - Poster Session
Session 8: Atmospheric Effects
Chair: R. Davies
15:45 - 16:10 Calibration of Photometric Data
D. Burke (Invited talk)
16:10 - 16:30 The GTC Photometric System
J. M. Rodriguez Espinosa
16:30 - 16:50 Precipitable Water Vapour Measurements with VISIR
A. Smette
16:50 - 17:15 Discussion
17:30 Buses leave for Garching (1)/Oberschleissheim (2)
18:00 - 20:00 Guided Tour of Flugwerft (Deutsches Museum)
20:00 - c.a 23:00 Conference Dinner @ Pegasus
Friday, 26. January 2007
Session 9: Interferometric Instrumentation
Chair: S. Ramsay Howat
09:00 - 09:25 IOT overview talk
S. Morel
09:25 - 09:50 A guided tour to VLTI
F. Millour (Invited talk)
09:50 - 10:15 VLTI with MIDI
W. Jaffe (Invited talk)
10:15 - 10:30 QC and Analysis of MIDI Data Using mymidigui and OYSTER
C. Hummel
10:30 - 10:45 Discussion
10:45 - 11:00 Coffee Break - Poster Session
Session 10: Polarimetry
Chair: U. Hopp
11:00 - 11:25 IOT overview talk
N. Ageorges
11:25 - 11:50 Polarimetry with ESO Instruments
H.M. Schmid (Invited talk)
11:50 - 12:05 Discussion
12:05 - 13:00 Lunch Break
Session 11: Wide-Field Imagers
Chair: R. Hanuschik
13:00 - 13:25 IOT overview talk
F. Selman
13:25 - 13:50 The Ins and Outs of Wide Field Imaging
M. Irwin (Invited talk)
13:50 - 14:10 The Garching-Bonn Deep Survey (GaBoDS) Wide-Field- Imaging Reduction Piepline
H. Hildebrandt
14:10 - 14:30 Calibration for VISTA
J. Emerson
14:30 - 14:50 The VISTA Data Flow System
J. Lewis
14:50 - 15:10 SkyMapper and the Southern Sky Survey: a photometric and astrometric complement to VST
S. Keller
15:10 - 15:30 Quality control monitoring for WFCAM
M. Riello
15:30 - 16:00 Discussion
16:00 - 16:10 Coffee Break
16:10 - 16:30 Conference Summary
D. Baade