Challenges in UV Astronomy, ESO Garching, 7-11 October 2013
Scientific Programme
as at 07 October-2013
Programme Overview
- Day 1, Monday, 7 October 2013
- Day 2, Tuesday, 8 October 2013
- Day 3, Wednesday, 9 October 2013
- Day 4, Thursday, 10 October 2013
- Day 5, Friday, 11 October 2013
| Day 1: Monday, 7 October 2013 |
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| 08:30-09:00 | Registration | |
| Welcome to the UV! | ||
| 09:00 | A. I. Gómez de Castro |
NUVA & space |
| 09:15 | B. Barbuy | CUBES & ground |
Solar System, Exoplanets & Star Formation (Session chair: L. Testi) |
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| 09:30 | G. Herczeg |
Challenges in Star Formation research for the UV light (Invited Review) |
| 10:00 | C. Schneider | The high-energy view of the classical T-Tauri DG Tau |
| 10:15 | C.F. Manara | The imprint of accretion on the UV spectrum of young stellar objects: the X-Shooter view |
| 10:30 | Coffee Break |
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| 11:00 | D. Sing |
Challenges in Exoplanet research for the UV (Invited Review) |
| 11:30 | K. France | The UV radiation environment of the Habitable Zones around low-mass exoplanet host stars |
| 11:45 | L. Fossati | Near-UV HST observations of the transiting exoplanet WASP-12b |
| 12:00 | Lunch |
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| Stellar Astronomy |
(Session chair: L. Pasquini) | |
| 13:30 | M. Salaris |
Unsolved problems in stellar evolution (Invited Review) |
| 14:00 | C. Siqueira-Mello | The origin of r-process elements (Invited Talk) |
| 14:30 | P. Bonifacio |
CNO elements (Invited Talk) |
| 15:00 | J. Melendez | Disentagling the signature of planets and neutron-capture enrichment using UV/optical spectroscopy |
| 15:15 | M. Barstow | Far-UV spectroscopy of white dwarfs |
| 15:30 | P. Brown | Ultraviolet observations of supernovae |
| 15:45 | Coffee Break | |
| UV projects from the ground and space (Session chair: F. Kerber) |
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| 16:15 | L. Bianchi | Review of GALEX results (Review Talk) |
| 16:45 | End of Day 1 | |
| 16:45-18:15 | Welcome Reception at ESO |
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| Day 2: Tuesday, 8 October 2013 |
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| Stellar Astronomy (continued) (Session chair: L. Pasquini) |
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| 09:00 | B. Gaensicke |
The chemistry of exo-terrestrial material in evolved planetary systems |
| 09:15 | R. Smiljanic | Beryllium (Invited Talk) |
| Coffee and Poster Pops |
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| 09:45 | Put up posters in the Council Room | |
| 10:30 | Poster Pops (4 minutes presentation/ 2 slides) | |
| 12:00 | Look at posters in the Council Room | |
| 12:30 | Lunch | |
| Resolved stellar populations (Session chair: B. Barbuy) |
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| 14:00 | E. Sabbi |
Young stellar clusters in the UV (Invited Review) |
| 14:30 | A. Renzini |
Globular clusters (Invited Review) |
| 15:00 | E. Dalessandro | Old stellar systems in UV: resolved and integrated properties |
| 15:15 | Coffee Break |
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| UV projects from the ground and space (continued) (Session chair: F. Kerber) |
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| 15:45 | L. Pasquini |
Ground based UV opportunities at ESO (Invited Talk) |
| 16:15 | End of Day 2 |
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| Day 3: Wednesday, 9 October 2013 |
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| Resolved stellar populations (continued) (Session chair: B. Barbuy) |
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| 09:30 |
K. McQuinn |
Stellar populations in nearby galaxies (Invited Review) |
| 10:00 | D. Bettoni |
The UV view of early type galaxies |
| 10:15 | P. Bonifacio | UV Observations of stars in dwarf galaxies |
| 10:30 |
Coffee Break | |
| Interstellar medium and nebulae (Session chair: J. Melnick) |
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| 11:00 | M. de Avillez |
Impact of UV observations in understanding the ISM (Invited Review) |
| Contributed Talks ISM & Nebulae (HII regions; planetary; etc.) |
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| 11:30 | J. Linsky | The Local ISM in Three Dimensions: Morphology, Kinematics and Physical Processes |
| 11:45 | A. I. Gómez de Castro | The GALEX survey of the Taurus Star Forming Region: studying the extinction law by means of star counts |
| 12:00 | Lunch |
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| Future Space Missions (Session chair: F. Kerber) |
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| 13:30 | A. I. Gómez de Castro |
The next ESA large UV Mission (Invited Talk) |
| 13:50 | P. Coté |
CASTOR (Invited Talk) |
| 14:10 | J. Hutchings |
UVIT on AstroSat (Invited Talk) |
| 14:30 | B. Shustov |
WSO/UV (Invited Talk) |
| 14:50 | T. Hull | The Galaxy Evolution Spectroscopic Explorer |
| 15:05 | C. Neiner | The UVMag space project |
| 15:20 | Coffee Break | |
| 15:50 | N. Brosch | Post-GALEX small UV mission (sUVo) |
| 16:05 | D. Valls-Gabaud | MESSIER: unveiling the UV-optical low surface brightness universe |
| Solar system missions with UV instruments (Session chair: F. Kerber) |
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| 16:20 | L. Koechlin | The Fresnel Interferometer Project (Invited Talk) |
| 16:50 | End of Day 3 | |
| 19:00 |
Conference Dinner |
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| Day 4: Thursday, 10 October 2013 |
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| Extragalactic astronomy (Session chair: J. Vernet) |
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| 09:00 | S. White |
Galaxy Formation (Invited Review) |
| 09:30 | D. Kunth |
Lyman Alpha galaxies (Invited Talk) |
| 10:00 | D. de Mello | The ultraviolet morphology of distant galaxies |
| 10:15 | C. Le Cras | The UV side of BOSS galaxies |
| 10:30 | T. Woods | UV emission lines in passively evolving galaxies can reveal the progenitors of type Ia supernovae |
| 10:45 | Coffee Break |
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| 11:15 | A. Marconi |
AGN (Invited Review) |
| 11:45 | P. Molaro |
QSO lines of sight (Invited Talk) |
| 12:15 | P. Marziani | Diagnostics from UV spectra of low redshift quasars |
| 12:30 | Lunch |
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| 14:00 | Technologies and Archives (Session organizers assist the SOC in the talk selection and write a comprehensive review of what was presented for NUVA) |
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| Detectors: Session organized by M. Barstow | ||
| Contributors: | ||
| J. Hennessy: Detectors and Coatings for Efficient Systems for Future UV Astronomy | ||
| S. Leach: High-resolution high-rate photon-counting UV detectors using adaptive electronics | ||
| 14:45 | Optics and optical elements: Session organized by K. France |
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| Contributors: | ||
| P. Bristow: CUBES Parameters | ||
| A. Shugarov: UV and VUV detectors for spectrographs of WSO-UV project | ||
| 15:30 | Coffee Break | |
| Assembly, Integration, Verification (AIV) for vacuum UV: Session organized by J. Chirivella |
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| Contributors: | ||
| 16:00 | J. Chirivella: AIV Session Overview | |
| 16:05 | J. Chirivella: UV Flight Instruments Technology: "The Impact of Contamination on AIV of UV Flight Instruments" |
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| 16:20 | K. France: Hubbly/COS: "Cosmic Origins Spectrograph AIV" |
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| 16:35 | J. Hutchings: ASTROSAT/UVIT AIV | |
| 16:50 | M. Sachkov: WSO/UV AIV Procedures | |
| 17:05 | J. Linsky: IUE AIV and Mission Concept | |
| 17:20 | End of Day 4 | |
| Day 5: Friday, 11 October 2013 |
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| 09:00 | Calibrations and Archival Research: Session organized by N. Brosch |
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| Contributors: | ||
| D. Baines | Arichval Science with the ESAC Archives | |
| J. Holberg | Absolute Photometric Calibration in Space and Ground | |
| V. Yershov | Serendipitous catalogues for 10 years of XMM and 5 years of SWIFT | |
| F. Kerber | Flat fielding for ground-based UV spectrographs | |
| I. Savanov | WSO/UV ground-based support of space observations in Russia | |
| I. Savanov | The Astron UV space mission | |
| M. Romaniello | The ESO Science Archive Facility | |
| 11:00 | R. O'Connell |
Highlights of the conference |
| 12:30 | End of Conference |
Bier & Brezn |