"ESO@50 - the first 50 years of ESO", ESO Garching, 3-7 September 2012
Scientific Programme
as at 5-Sep-2012
REGISTRATION: Monday, 3rd September, 12:30-13:45
Program Overview
- Day 1, Monday, September 3
- Day 2, Tuesday, September 4
- Day 3, Wednesday, September 5
- Day 4, Thursday, September 6
- Day 5, Friday, September 7
Plenary talks are 45 minutes (unless otherwise mentioned)
Invited talks are 30 minutes
Contributed talks are 15 minutes
| DAY 1: Monday, September 3 (afternoon) | ||
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| 12:30-13:45 | Registration | |
| 14:00-14:15 | Welcoming address by the ESO Director General, Tim de Zeeuw: ESO’s first 50 years Presentation PDF Watch video | Download video (.flv, 20 MB) |
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CHAIR: Maria Teresa Ruiz |
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| ISM and Stellar Birth | ||
| 14:15-14:45 | Leonardo Testi |
Star Formation (Invited) Presentation PDF Watch video | Download video (.flv, 75 MB) |
| 14:45-15:15 | Ewine van Dishoeck |
Astrochemistry: from diffuse clouds to protoplanetary disks (Invited) Presentation PDF Watch video | Download video (.flv, 51 MB) |
| 15:15-15:30 | Carlos Román Zúñiga | The Pipe Nebula in high resolution with SOFI and ISAAC Presentation PDF Watch video | Download video (.flv, 42 MB) |
| 15:30-16:00 | Coffee Break |
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| 16:00-16:30 | Guido Garay |
High-mass star formation in star clusters (Invited) Presentation PDF Watch video | Download video (.flv, 50 MB) |
| 16:30-16:45 | Thomas Preibisch | A panchromatic view of massive star feedback and triggered star formation in the Carina Nebula Presentation PDF Watch video | Download video (.flv, 44 MB) |
| 16:45-17:00 | Claudio Melo |
"My God, it’s full of (young) stars" Presentation PDF Watch video | Download video (.flv, 43 MB) |
| 17:00-17:30 | Pavel Kroupa | Evidence for systematic IMF variability (Invited) Presentation PDF Watch video | Download video (.flv, 103 MB) |
17:30-19:30 |
Welcome Reception |
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| DAY 2: Tuesday, September 4 |
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CHAIR: Leonardo Testi |
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| 09:00-09:45 | Alvio Renzini | The impact of ESO on European Astronomy (Plenary) Presentation PDF Watch video | Download video (.flv, 202 MB) |
| Solar System |
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| 09:45-10:15 | Bruno Sicardy | Exploring the planets, moons and rings of the solar system (Invited) Presentation PDF Watch video | Download video (.flv, 114 MB) |
| 10:15-10:45 | Pierre Vernazza | Solar System Small Bodies (Invited) Presentation PDF Watch video | Download video (.flv, 143 MB) |
| 10:45-11:15 | Coffee Break | |
| Exoplanets | ||
| 11:15-11:45 | Stéphane Udry | RV detection of exoplanets (Invited) Presentation PDF Watch video | Download video (.flv, 200 MB) |
| 11:45-12:15 | François Bouchy | On transit detection of exoplanets, Corot, Kepler (Invited) Presentation PDF Watch video | Download video (.flv, 129 MB) |
| 12:15-12:30 | Johannes Sahlmann | Extrasolar planet science with high-precision astrometry Presentation PDF Watch video | Download video (.flv, 52 MB) |
| 12:30-12:45 | Olja Panić | A unique talent of MIDI Discovering asymmetries in the first AU of gapped protoplanetary discs Presentation PDF Watch video | Download video (.flv, 66 MB) |
| 12:45-14:30 | Lunch | |
CHAIR: Tim de Zeeuw |
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| Stellar Death |
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| 14:30-15:00 | Stephen Smartt | Supernova science and what’s next for ESO (Invited) Presentation PDF Watch video | Download video (.flv, 52 MB) |
| 15:00-15:30 | Johan Fynbo | Gamma-ray Bursts (Invited) Presentation PDF Watch video | Download video (.flv, 55 MB) |
| 15:30-15:45 | Roberto Mignani | Neutron star astronomy at ESO, from the NTT to the E-ELT Presentation PDF Watch video | Download video (.flv, 55 MB) |
| 15:45-16:00 | Markus Wittkowski | Late stages of stellar evolution - infrared and millimetre interferometry of evolved stars Presentation PDF Watch video | Download video (.flv, 38 MB) |
| 16:00-16:30 | Coffee Break | |
| 16:30-17:30 | Massimo Tarenghi | The history of ESO observatories (Plenary - 60 min.) Watch video | Download video (.flv, 119 MB) |
18:30 |
Bus from Garching to "Zum Franziskaner" in Munich |
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| DAY 3: Wednesday, September 5 / rev. |
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CHAIR: Beatriz Barbuy |
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| 09:00-09:45 | Richard Ellis | ESO’s impact on ground-based astronomy around the world (Plenary) Presentation PDF Watch video | Download video (.flv, 165 MB) |
| The Milky Way |
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| 09:45-10:15 | Reinhard Genzel |
The Galactic centre (Invited) Presentation PDF Watch video | Download video (.flv, 127 MB) |
| 10:15-10:45 | Marina Rejkuba |
The Milky Way galaxy (Invited) Presentation PDF Watch video | Download video (.flv, 152 MB) |
| 10:45-11:15 | Coffee Break / Workshop Photo LARGE / SMALL |
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| 11:15-11:30 | Christopher J. Howk | UVES observations of interstellar lithium in the SMC - new insight on primordial lithium Presentation PDF Watch video | Download video (.flv, 83 MB) |
| 11:30-11:45 | Sofia Feltzing |
Microlenses dwarf stars in the Galactic bulge Presentation PDF Watch video | Download video (.flv, 43 MB) |
| 11:45-12:15 | Giampaolo Piotto |
Globular clusters (Invited) Presentation PDF Watch video | Download video (.flv, 132 MB) |
| 12:15-12:30 | Nora Lützgendorf |
Intermediate mass black holes - the magic of IFUs Presentation PDF Watch video | Download video (.flv, 46 MB) |
| 12:30-14:00 | Lunch | |
CHAIR: Pavel Kroupa |
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| Nearby Galaxies |
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| 14:00-14:30 | Eline Tolstoy | Dwarf galaxies and resolved stellar populations (Invited) Presentation PDF Watch video | Download video (.flv, 82 MB) |
| 14:30-15:00 |
Carme Gallart |
The Magellanic Clouds (Invited) Presentation PDF Watch video | Download video (.flv, 84 MB) |
| 15:00-15:15 | Maria-Rosa Cioni |
From DENIS to VMC: a near-IR perspective of the Magellanic Clouds Presentation PDF Watch video | Download video (.flv, 30 MB) |
| 15:15-15:30 | Rolf Kudritzki |
Spectroscopy of blue supergiant stars in the disks of spiral galaxies - metallicities, metallicity gradients and distances Presentation PDF Watch video | Download video (.flv, 50 MB) |
| 15:30-16:00 | Coffee Break | |
| 16:00-16:30 | Françoise Combes |
How star formation is triggered and regulated in galaxies - future progresses with ALMA (Invited) Presentation PDF Watch video | Download video (.flv, 80 MB) |
| 16:30-16:45 | Almudena Prieto | The central parsec of the galaxies in the IR Presentation PDF Watch video | Download video (.flv, 39 MB) |
| 16:45-17:00 | Nadine Neumayer |
The nucleus of Centaurus A Presentation PDF Watch video | Download video (.flv, 36 MB) |
| 17:00-17:15 | Mireia Montes | Undressing M87 by exposing its most private globulars Presentation PDF Watch video | Download video (.flv, 23 MB) |
| 17:15-17:30 | Lodovico Coccato | Dating the acquisition events in galaxies with counterrotating components Presentation PDF Watch video | Download video (.flv, 51 MB) |
19:30 |
Workshop Dinner |
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| DAY 4: Thursday, September 6 |
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CHAIR: Françoise Combes |
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| 09:00-09:45 | Bruno Leibundgut |
Synergies between ground- and space-based observatories (Plenary) Presentation PDF Watch video | Download video (.flv, 98 MB) |
| Galaxy Surveys |
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| 09:45-10:15 | Simon Lilly |
Galaxy surveys, galaxy formation and evolution (Invited) Watch video | Download video (.flv, 61 MB) |
| 10:15-10:45 | Linda Tacconi |
Tracking Cosmic Star Formation in the Peak Epoch of Galaxy Evolution (Invited) Watch video | Download video (.flv, 59 MB) |
| 10:45-11:00 | Mirko Krumpe |
High precision AGN clustering measurements Presentation PDF Watch video | Download video (.flv, 53 MB) |
| 11:00-11:30 | Coffee Break |
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| Internal Properties of Galaxies | ||
| 11:30-12:00 | Carlos De Breuck |
AGN galaxy connection (Invited) Presentation PDF Watch video | Download video (.flv, 105 MB) |
| 12:00-12:30 | Natascha Förster Schreiber |
Structure and kinematics of distant galaxies (Invited) Watch video | Download video (.flv, 69 MB) |
| 12:30-12:45 | Asmus Böhm |
The field disk galaxy population between z=1 and today Presentation PDF Watch video | Download video (.flv, 33 MB) |
| 12:45-13:00 |
Adriana Gargiulo |
Kinematics of high redshift compact early-type galaxies - are they really denser? Presentation PDF Watch video | Download video (.flv, 23 MB) |
| 13:00-14:30 | Lunch |
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CHAIR: Patrick Petitjean |
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| Distant Galaxies and Clusters |
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| 14:30-15:00 | Yannick Mellier |
Gravitational lensing (Invited) Presentation PDF Watch video | Download video (.flv, 88 MB) |
| 15:00-15:30 | Marijn Franx |
Galaxy evolution to z=4 and beyond (Invited) Presentation PDF Watch video | Download video (.flv, 116 MB) |
| 15:30-15:45 | François Hammer |
Evolutionary properties of galaxies during the last 8 Gyrs with the VLT and HST - lessons for the E-ELT Presentation PDF Watch video | Download video (.flv, 35 MB) |
| 15:45-16:15 |
Coffee Break |
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| 16:15-17:15 |
Roberto Gilmozzi |
The future of Paranal in the E-ELT era (Plenary 60 min.) / Discussion Presentation PDF Watch video | Download video (.flv, 95 MB) |
17:15-18:15 |
ESO Movie (61 min.) |
Europe to the Stars – ESO's first 50 years of exploring the southern sky |
18:15-19:15 |
"Beer and Brezen" |
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| DAY 5: Friday, September 7 |
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CHAIR: Alvio Renzini |
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| 09:30-10:00 | Guy Monnet | ESO’s contributions and innovations in astronomical instrumentation (Invited) Presentation PDF Watch video | Download video (.flv, 212 MB) |
| 10:00-10:30 | Sandro D'Odorico | On VLT and E-ELT Instrumentation (Invited) Presentation PDF Watch video | Download video (.flv, 221 MB) |
| Cosmology | ||
| 10:30-11:00 | Patrick Petitjean | High-z absorbers (Invited) Presentation PDF Watch video | Download video (.flv, 196 MB) |
| 11:00-11:30 | Coffee Break | |
| 11:30-12:00 | Mark Sullivan | SN cosmology (Invited) Presentation PDF Watch video | Download video (.flv, 308 MB) |
| 12:00-12:30 | Michael Murphy | Do the fundamental constants vary throughout the Universe? (Invited) Presentation PDF Watch video | Download video (.flv, 278 MB) |
| 12:30-12:45 | Stefano Cristiani | The present and the future of the intergalactic medium cosmology from UVES to ESPRESSO and beyond Presentation PDF Watch video | Download video (.flv, 173 MB) |
| 12:45-13:15 | Closing remarks by the ESO Director General, Tim de Zeeuw: a forward look Presentation PDF Watch video | Download video (.flv, 277 MB) |
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Farewell Lunch organised at ESO |
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