Invited Speakers

  • Giuseppe Altavilla (INAF-OAR) – GAIA spectro-photometric standards
  • Stefano Bagnulo (Armagh Observatory) – polarimetric calibration and accuracy: lessons learnt from the existing instrumentation
  • Paul Bristow (ESO) – metrology
  • Stefano Casertano (STScI) – data reduction and archive at STScI
  • Susana Deustua (STScI) – photometric calibration
  • Wolfram Freudling (ESO) – data reduction
  • Carlos Gonzalez-Fernandez (CASU) – infra-red imaging data, incl. photometry of wide field surveys
  • Miwa Goto (MPE) – IR spectroscopy
  • Pascale Hibon (ESO) – astrometry in MCAO imaging
  • Christof Janssen (Observatoire de Paris-Meudon) – Molecular line  parameters
  • Carme Jordi (Universitat de Barcelona) – GAIA and ground-based astrometry
  • Robert Lupton (University of Princeton) – calibration aspects of the LSST
  • Elena Masciadri (Arcetri) – atmospheric modeling and forecasting
  • Trevor Mendel (MPE) – infra-red integral field units, such as KMOS
  • David Mouillet (Grenoble) – high-contrast imaging
  • Gillian Nave (NIST) – wavelength reference
  • James Osborn (U. of Durham) – characterising atmospheric turbulence with the Stereo-SCIDAR
  • Myriam Rodrigues (Observatoire de Paris-Meudon) – sky background correction in multi-fiber spectrographs
  • Martin Roth (AIP) – visible integral field units, such as MUSE
  • Andrew Szentgyorgyi (CFA) – high precision wavelength calibration
  • Yuanjie Wu (Menlo Systems) – high accuracy wavelength calibration