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Program
Sunday 7 November
| Time | |
| 19:30 - 21:30 | Registration |
| 20:00 | Welcome cocktail |
Monday 8 November
| Time | Title | Speaker |
| Observations of spiral structure in the MW - CHAIR (morning session): Giovanni Carraro | ||
| 09:00 - 09:15 | Welcome and introduction | Preben Grosbøl |
| 09:15 - 10:05 | Tracing Galactic Spiral Arms in CO and HI | Thomas Dame (R) |
| 10:05 - 10:55 | Spiral structure determined from Parallaxes and Proper Motions measured with VLBI | Mark Reid (R) |
| 10:55 - 11:25 | Coffee break |
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| 11:25 - 11:45 | Distance and location of the Sagittarius arm traced by trigonometric parallaxes of massive star-forming regions | Mayumi Sato (C) |
| 11:45 - 12:05 | All-sky Galactic radiation at 45 MHz and spectral index between 45 and 408 MHz | Andrés Guzmán (C) |
| 12:05 - 12:25 | The structure of the Milky Way Galaxy traced with VERA | Mareki Honma (C) |
| 12:25 - 12:45 | Giant Molecular Clouds and Massive Star Formation in the Southern Milky Way | Pablo García Fuentes (C) |
| 12:45 - 14:30 | Lunch |
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CHAIR (afternoon session): Steve Majewski |
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| 14:30 - 15:00 | Spectrophotometric Distances to Galactic HII regions | Augusto Daminelli (C) |
| 15:00 - 15:50 | Stellar clusters and the spiral structure in the Milky Way | André Moitinho (R) |
| 15:50 - 16:20 | Spiral structure and the history of open clusters formation in solar vicinity | Alexhander Loktin (C) |
| 16:20 - 16:50 | Coffee break |
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| 16:50 - 17:15 | Young massive stellar clusters in the Milky Way | Maria Messineo (C) |
| 17:15 - 17:40 | Preliminary detection to a stellar overdensity associated to the Perseus arm | María Monguió (C) |
| 17:40 - 18:05 | Parameters of Galactic spiral structure from Open Cluster Data | Maria Popova (C) |
Tuesday 9 November
| Time | Title | Speaker |
| Theory and models of the MW spiral pattern- CHAIR (morning session): Edgardo Costa | ||
| 09:00 - 09:50 | Numerical Milky-Way Like Galaxies | Marco Martos (R) |
| 09:50 - 10:40 | Radial Mixing in the Milky Way Disk: Constraints on Spiral Structure | Ivan Minchev (C) |
| 10:40 - 11:10 | Coffee break |
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| 11:10 - 12:00 | Realistic Analytical Milky Way Potential for Orbital Analysis | Bárbara Pichardo (C) |
| 12:00 - 12:40 | The Hyades stream as a dynamical signature of spiral structure | Benoit Famaey (C) |
| 12:40 - 15:00 | Lunch |
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CHAIR (afternoon session): Bruno Jungwiert |
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| 15:00 - 15:50 | Gas dynamics and spiral arms in the Milky Way | Ortwin Gerhard (R) |
| 15:50 - 16:30 | Gaseous orbits in a spiral potential | Gilberto Gómez (C) |
| 16:30 - 17:10 | Exploring the Inner Milky Way with APOGEE | Steve Majewski (C) |
| 17:10 - 18:00 | ||
Wednesday 10 November
Thursday 11 November
| Time | Title | Speaker |
| Forward look - where to go from here? - CHAIR (morning session): Jacques Lépine | ||
| 09:00 - 09:50 | Galactic Plane Surveys | Valentin Ivanov (R) |
| 09:50 - 10:20 | Exploring the spiral structure of the Galaxy using the VVV survey | Javier Alonso-García (C) |
| 10:20 - 11:00 | Observing the Galaxy with Gaia | Jos de Bruijne (C) |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Coffee break |
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| 11:30 - 13:00 | Invited summary and discussion | Preben Grosbøl |
END OF MEETING