Programme

Registration Deadline: 17 May 2019

Programme as at 14 June 2019

Programme Overview

  • Day 1, 17 June 2019
  • Day 2, 18 June 2019
  • Day 3, 19 June 2019
  • Day 4, 20 June 2019

Monday, 17 June
12:00   Registration
13:00
  Opening/Welcome
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13:15
X. Barcons
ESO and its future
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    Science Futures
13:45 M. Colless
Cosmology
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14:30 A.-M. Lagrange
Star and planet formation
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15:15   Coffee Break
     
15:45 L. Tacconi
Galaxies and Black Holes
16:30 A. Mérand
VLTI past and future
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16:50 B. Leibundgut
VLT instrumentation planning
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17:10 F. Favata ESA facilities
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17:40   Discussion
     
18:00   Beer & Brezn
Tuesday, 18 June
09:00 E. Tolstoy Milky Way and resolved stellar populations
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09:45 H. Rauer Solar System
     
10:30   Coffee Break
     
11:00 G. Wright JWST
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11:30 P. Astier
LSST
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12:00   Discussion
     
12:30   Lunch Break
     
    VLT Operations
14:00 S. Randich
Gaia and spectroscopic surveys
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14:30 B. Leibundgut
Surveys
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15:00 M. Sterzik
VLT operations
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    Contributed talks
15:30 S. Mieske
Paranal Science Operations towards the ELT era
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15:50 A. Smette
VLT Calibrations
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16:10   Coffee Break
     
16:30   Discussion
     
17:30   End of session
Wednesday, 19 June
    Facility Context
09:00 M. Cirasuolo ELTs
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09:30 C. Kemper
ALMA
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10:00
A. Bonaldi
SKA
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10:30 W. Hofmann
CTA
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11:00   Conference photo + Coffee Break
     
11:30 L. Pasquini VLT/I instrumentation Programme
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    Contributed talks
12:00 M. Cirasuolo The Potential and Legacy Value of MOONS for the VLT in the 2030s
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12:20 R. McDermid MAVIS: sharper than JWST, deeper than HST
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12:40   Lunch Break
     
    Future VLT/I developments (contributed talks)
14:00 M. Casali Wide field spectroscopy on a UT
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14:30 J. Richard BlueMUSE - a blue-optimised large field integral-field spectrograph for the VLT
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15:00 M. Roth Resolved stellar populations observed with BlueMUSE - synergy with the ELT
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15:20   Coffee Break
     
15:50 C. Evans The science case for near-UV spectroscopy with the VLT
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16:20 M. Schoeller PIU - Polarization Injection for UVES
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16:40 A. Rubin SOXS as a model for a new broadband spectrograph for VLT
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17:00 P. Petit
A Visible+nIR spectropolarimetric monitoring instrument for the VLT
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17:20
  End of session
Thursday, 20 June
    Future VLT/I developments (contributed talks) - continued
09:00 F. Eisenhauer GRAVITY+: Towards faint science, all sky milliarcsecond optical interferometric imaging
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09:30 S. Lacour The future of exoplanet detection with the VLTI
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09:50 F. Millour A visible addition to the VLTI
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10:20
  Coffee Break
     
10:50 D. Defrère Exoplanet characterization with the VLTI
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11:10 M. Ireland Unravelling Planet Formation with VLTI/Asgard
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11:30 F. Martinache Optimized use of the power of VLTI with the ASGARD instrument suite
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12:00 S. Kraus Star Formation and Fundamental Stellar Astrophysics with VLTI @ 1 micron
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12:20 R. Petrov A new generation fringe tracker for the VLTI
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12:40   Catered Lunch
     
13:30 A. Boccaletti SPHERE+, Reaching New Heights
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14:00 A. Vigan HiRISE: Bringing high-spectral resolution to VLT/SPHERE with a fiber coupling to VLT/CRIRES+
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14:30 G. Otten Performance simulations of the high-res characterization of directly imaged planets with HiRISE
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14:50 C. Lovis Reflected-light spectroscopy of nearby exoplanets with RISTRETTO at the VLT
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15:20   Coffee Break
     
15:40   Discussion
     
17:00   Summary (D. Mourard)
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17:30   End of meeting