Monday, 13^th September 1999

12:15 – 15:15

Bus leaves Garching Maibaum for BMW Factory Tour in Munich. . (2 hour tour starts at 13:15) Make own way back to Garching

18:00 – 21:00

Opening reception at Schloß Beletic, Türkenstraße 11, Garching

Pre-registration

Day 1 - Tuesday 14^th September 1999

08:15

08:30

Registration - Entrance to the Auditorium

09:00

Welcoming comments from the Workshop chair (James Beletic) and Guy Monnet, Head of ESO’s Instrumentation Division

(Chair Richard Stover)

09:30 – 09:50

National Astronomical Observatory of Japan

Satoshi Miyazaki

CCD Plans of the Subaru Telescope

09:50 – 10:10

ESO

James Beletic

The Optical Detector Systems of ESO – Present and Future

10:10 - 10:25

Max-Planck Institut für Aeronomie

Uwe Keller

CCDs for the Rosetta Science Imaging System OSIRIS

10:25 – 10:55

Coffee Break – Council Room

10:55 – 11:15

Paris Observatory

Didier Tiphene

COROT Mission

11:15 – 12:00

Plans from other Observatories

12:00 – 13:00

Lunch – Council Room

(Chair Gerry Luppino)

13:00 – 13:20

University of Hawaii

Gerard Luppino

TBD

13:20 – 13:40

ESO

Olaf Iwert

WFI The 8Kx8K CCD Mosaic at ESO, and the plans for the 16Kx16K

13:40 – 14:00

CFHT

Jean-Charles Cuillandre

Performances of the CFH12K MIT/LL-CCID20a CCDs

14:00 – 14:20

CFHT

Barry Starr

CFH12k: 12k x 8k CCD Mosaic Camera for the CFHT Prime Focus

14:20 – 14:50

Poster Paper Previews

14:50 – 15:30

Coffee Break and Poster Session – Council Room

15:30 – 15:50

Matra Marconi Space

Olivier Saint-Pe

Focal plane array design for the GAIA space mission

15:50 - 16:10

University of Tokyo – Department of Astronomy

Fumiaki Nakata

Mosaicing of CCDs for the Subaru wide field camera (Suprime-Cam)

16:10 – 17:25

Roundtable on Mosaicing

Chairman: G. Luppino

17:30

Day 2 – Wednesday 15^th September 1999

08:15

(Chair Cyril Cavadore)

08:30 – 08:55

MIT/LL

Barry Burke

CCD Imager Developments at Lincoln Laboratory

08:55 – 09:20

EEV

Ralph Holtom

Paul Jorden

Peter Pool

Latest EEV CCD developments, and technologies for scientific CCDs

09:20 – 09:45

MPE

Lothar Strüder

Fully depleted Backside Illuminated active pixel sensors – From the infrared to X-rays

09:45 – 10:00

MPE

Christoph Von Zanthier & Lothar Strüder

High Speed pn-CCDs as Wave Front Sensors in Adaptive Optics Systems

10:10 – 10:30

Coffee Break and Poster Session – Council Room

10:30 – 10:50

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Donald Groom

Characterisation results for back-illuminated totally-depleted thick CCDs

10:50 – 11:10

UCO/Lick Observatory

Richard Stover

Large-scale High-Sensitivity CCDs

11:10 – 11:20

Lockheed Martin Fairchild Systems

Paul Vu

Development of backside-thinned 4096x4096 CCD with Low-Noise Outputs

11:20 – 12:00

Short presentations by other manufacturers and general discussion

12:00 – 13:00

Lunch – Council Room

13:00 – 13:20

UC Santa Cruz

David Gilmore

Characterisation of CCDs for the DEIMOS Project

13:20 – 14:45

Roundtable on CCD Characterisation

Chairman: Gilmore

14:45 – 15:05

Coffee Break – Council Room

(Chair Satoshi Miyazaki)

15:05– 15:25

Astronomical Observatory of Torino

Mario Gai

Image Centering accuracy with CCDs

15:25 – 15:45

ESO &

Universitäts-Sternwarte München

Claudio Cumani & Karl-Heinz Mantel

Phase resolved high speed photometry and spectrophotometry of Pulsars with the ESO FIERA CCD Controller

15:45 – 16:05

Steward Observatory

Paul Harding

Can we do Astronomy that requires flat fielding CCDs to 1 part in 10,000?

16:05 – 16:25

Chinese National Astronomy Observatories

Binxun Ye

Design Concepts for Solar fine-structure Imager by use of Split-Transfer CCDs

16:25 – 16:45

ESO

James Beletic & Reinhold Dorn

A new CCD for Curvature Wavefront Sensing

17:15

Buses to Garching hotels

17:45

Buses from Garching to Schloß Haimhausen for Conference Dinner ¯

21:30

Buses from Haimhausen to Garching

Day 3 – Thursday 16^th September 1999

08:45

Bus transportation from the Maibaum to ESO

(Chair Roger Smith)

09:00 – 09:20

Emory University

Ray DuVarney

SciMeasure Wavefront Sensor Cameras and their Application in the Mt Palomar Adaptive Optics System.

09:20 – 09:40

Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory

John Geary

A Highly Scalable Simple Camera Controller for the SAO Megacam.

09:40 – 10:00

Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes

Guy Woodhouse

The implementation of the San Diego State University Gen II CCD controller (SDSU II ) at the Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes (ING).

10:00 – 10:30

Coffee Break and Poster Session – Council Room

10:30 – 12:00

Roundtable on CCD Electronics

Chairman: J. Geary

12:00 – 13:00

Lunch – Council Room

SESSION VI –Extra time for discussions; late submitted papers and other Roundtables

Roundtable on CCD Contamination?

16:00

Buses leave for Garching hotels

16:15

Buses leave Maibaum for Paulaner Brewery Tour (2 hours, with taste testing)

19:00

Buses leave Paulaner for Seehaus for dinner

22:00

Buses leave Seehaus for Garching hotels