Scientific Rationale
The summer school "Science and Technology with E-ELT" will provide a comprehensive training in both science and the technologies used to deliver astronomical results.
The scientific lectures will cover the full range of E-ELT science cases from diffraction limited monitoring of solar system objects to the expansion of the Universe via exoplanets and stellar population studies. "Hands on" sessions will be offerede in techniques including crowded-region photometry to the analysis of integral field spectroscopic data and simulations of observations with adaptive optics systems.
Main Science Topics include
Our Solar System
Extrasolar Planets
Resolved Stellar Populations
Unresolved Stellar Populations
Stellar archaeology
Stellar Tomography
Protoplanetary Disks
Compact Objects and Black Holes/Active Galactic Nuclei
The Transitient Universe
Galaxy Formation and Evolution
The High-redshift Universe
Cosmology
Tutorial sessions are planned in
Crowded field photometry
Integral field spectroscopy
Optical/NIR/MIR spectroscopy
High time resolution
Variability
Astrometry
Polarimetry