Conference Programme
The abstracts of all presentations can be found in the abstract booklet.
| Monday, 29 August | ||
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| 8:30 | Registration | |
| 9:00 | Opening/Welcome | |
| 9:10 | Patrick Roche | The Astronomical Landscape in 2020 (invited review) |
| 9:50 | Roberto Gilmozzi | The European Extremely Large Telescope (invited review) |
| 10:30 | Patrick McCarthy | The Giant Magellan Telescope - Project Status (invited review) |
| 11:10 | Coffee Break | |
| 11:40 | Timothy Davidge | The TMT: A GIant with an Appetite (invited review) |
Surveys and facilities |
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| 12:20 | Thijs de Graauw | The Atacama Large Millimeter/submilliemiter Array: Construction and Operations Update (invited review) |
| 12:50 | Mark Clampin (Andrew Bunker) |
Overview of the James Webb Space Telescope (invited review) |
| 13:20 | Lunch | |
| 15:30 | Timo Prusti | GAIA (invited review) |
| 16:00 | Philip Marshall | The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (invited review) |
| 16:30 | L. Staveley-Smith | The Square Kilometre Array (invited review) |
| 17:00 | Coffee Break | |
| 17:30 | Will Sutherland | Public surveys with VISTA |
| 17:50 | Pietro Schipani | Commissioning the VST: a new survey machine at ESO |
| 18:10 | Roberto Scaramella |
Euclid: mapping the geometry of the dark Universe |
| 18:30 | William Lee | The Synoptic All Sky Infrared Survey (SASIR) |
| Wednesday, 31 August | ||
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| 09:00 | Roger Blandford | Feeding the Giants (with data and funding) (invited review) |
Nearby Galaxies |
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| 09:40 | Carme Gallart | Nearby galaxies: new prospects with ELTs (invited review) |
| 10:20 | Laura Greggio | Resolved Stellar Population in the ELT era |
| 10:40 | Giuliana Fiorentino | Colour-Magnitude diagrams in the E-ELT era |
| 11:00 | Coffee Break | |
| 11:30 | Cirino Pappalardo | The star formation history of Virgo spiral galaxies - Combined spectral and photometric inversion |
| 11:50 | Chris Evans | ELT spectroscopy of resolved stellar populations |
Future instrumentation |
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| 12:10 | Gavin Dalton | WEAVE - Fibre-MOSpectroscopy for the next decade |
| 12:30 | Rebecca Bernstein | The Design and Capabilities of the Wide Field Optical Spectrograph for TMT |
| 12:50 | Guy Monnet | Feeding a Giant: MANIFEST at GMT (movie) |
| 13:10 | Conference Photo | |
| 13:30 | Lunch | |
| 15:30 | Social Trip or Free Afternoon | |
| Friday, 2 September | ||
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Galaxy Evolution and Cosmology |
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| 9:30 | Carlotta Gruppioni | The PACS Evolutionary Probe (PEP): a Deep Extragalactic GTO Survey with Herschel |
| 9:50 | Luigi Spinoglio | FIR Spectroscopic Cosmological surveys with SPICA |
| 10:10 | Paolo Padovani | The SKA and its pathfinders and their synergy with the ELTs |
| 10:30 | Andrew Bunker | Star forming galaxies at z > 5 & Reionization |
| 10:50 | Coffee Break | |
| 11:20 | Silvio Lorenzoni | Star-forming Galaxies at z~8-9 from HST/WFC3: Implications for Reionization |
| 11:40 | Ikuru Iwata |
Our WISH: Feeding z > 10 Targets to ELTs |
Conference Summary & Conclusions |
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| 12:00 | Richard Ellis | Feeding the Giants: Concluding Remarks |
| 12:30 | End of Workshop |
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