The 2007 ESO Instrument Calibration Workshop

Workshop Programme

Workshop Programme

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Monday, 22. January 2007
19:30 - 23:00	Informal Dinner in Garching (Buergerstuben, TBC)
Tuesday, 23. January 2007
8:30 - 9:15	Registration - Poster Session
9:15 - 9:25	Welcome by A. Kaufer
9:25 - 9:50	Instrument Calibration at the La Silla Paranal Observatory G. Marconi
9:50 - 10:15	The Detector Monitoring Project (PPT format) P. Amico
10:15 - 10:40	Coffee Break - Poster Session
Session 1: Optical Spectro-Imagers Chair: M. Capaccioli
10:40 - 11:05	IOT overview talk F. Patat
11:05 - 11:25	The FORS Absolute Photometry (FAP) Project W. Freudling
11:25 - 11:45	Systematic effects in radial velocity and chemical abundance determination: the case of FORS2 and FLAMES M. Monelli
11:45 - 12:00	Discussion
12:00 - 13:30	Lunch
Session 2: Optical Multi-Object Spectrographs Chair: M. Rosa
13:30 - 13:35	IOT overview talk L. Schmidtobreick
13:55 - 14:20	Quantitative Spectroscopy with FLAMES P. Bonifacio (Invited talk)
14:20 - 14:40	Good News for MOS, MXU & Co.: A new spectroscopic pipeline for the FORSes S. Moehler
14:40 - 15:05	Calibrating the VIMOS Redshift Survey Data M. Scodeggio (Invited talk)
15:05 - 15:20	Discussion
Session 3: NIR and MIR Spectro-Imagers Chair: J. Emerson
15:20 - 15:45	IOT overview talk E. Mason
15:45 - 16:10	Imaging and Spectroscopy in the MIR E. Pantin (Invited talk)
16:10 - 16:30	Coffee Break - Poster Session
16:30 - 16:50	Calibration of IR Spectrographs H.U. Kaeufl
16:50 - 17:10	Calibrating IR Standard Stars D. Dobrzycka
17:10 - 17:40	Discussion
18:00 - 19:00	Reception
19:15	Buses leave for Garching
Wednesday, 24. January 2007
Session 4: Data Flow and Data Reduction Software Chair: P.E. Nissen
09:00 - 09:25	VLT End-to-End Data Flow M. Peron (Overview talk)
09:25 - 09:50	ESO Reflex - A Graphical Workflow System for running Recipes M. Romaniello (Invited talk)(for R. Hook)
09:50 - 10:15	Scientific Data Reduction Pipelines at NASA: 30 years and counting D. Lindler (Invited talk)
10:15 - 10:35	The End-to-End Pipeline for HST Slitless Spectra: PHLAG M. Kuemmel
10:35 - 11:00	Coffee Break - Poster Session
11:00 - 11:20	A bottom-up approach to spectroscopic data reduction C. Izzo
11:20 - 11:40	Model based Calibration P. Bristow
11:40 - 12:00	Discussion
12:00 - 13:30	Lunch
13:30 - 13:55	Advanced Data Products P. Rosati
13:55 - 14:15	From Advanced Calibration in the VLT era to Forward Analysis on ELT M. Rosa
14:15 - 14:45	Discussion
14:45 - 15:15	Coffee Break - Poster Session
Session 5: Adaptive Optics Instruments Chair: R. Espinoza
15:15 - 15:40	IOT overview talk N. Ageorges
15:40 - 16:05	AO assisted Spectroscopy with SINFONI R. Davies (Invited talk)
16:05 - 16:30	Imaging and treatment of the PSF in AO instruments: NACO Y. Clenet (Invited talk)
16:30 - 16:50	Probing mu-arcsecond astrometry with NACO A. Seifahrt
16:50 - 17:20	Discussion
17:45	Buses leave for Garching
Thursday, 25. January 2007
Session 6: Integral Field Spectroscopy Chair: D. Osip
09:00 - 09:25	IOT overview Talk P. Amico
09:25 - 09:50	Integral Field Spectroscopy E. Emsellem (Invited talk)
09:50 - 10:10	SpecSim: An IFU Spectrometer Simulator N. Lorente
10:10 - 10:35	Integral Field Spectroscopy with VIMOS M.M. Roth (Invited talk)
10:35 - 10:50	Coffee Break - Poster Session
10:50 - 11:10	KMOS R. Sharples
11:10 - 11:30	Calibration of the KMOS multi-object integral field spectrometer S.K. Ramsay Howat
11:30 - 12:00	The MUSE IFU Calibration R. McDermid
12:00 - 12:20	Discussion
12:20 - 13:30	Lunch
Session 7: High-Resolution Spectroscopy Chair: P. Raffanelli
13:30 - 13:55	IOT overview talk G. Lo Curto
13:55 - 14:20	Quantitative Spectroscopy with UVES P.E. Nissen (Invited talk)
14:20 - 14:45	High Resolution and High Precision - Spectroscopy with HARPS F. Pepe (Invited talk)
14:45 - 15:05	Laser Comb: A Novel Calibration System for High Resolution Spectrographs C. Araujo-Hauck
15:05 - 15:25	Discussion
15:25 - 15:45	Coffee Break - Poster Session
Session 8: Atmospheric Effects Chair: R. Davies
15:45 - 16:10	Calibration of Photometric Data D. Burke (Invited talk)
16:10 - 16:30	The GTC Photometric System J. M. Rodriguez Espinosa
16:30 - 16:50	Precipitable Water Vapour Measurements with VISIR A. Smette
16:50 - 17:15	Discussion
17:30	Buses leave for Garching (1)/Oberschleissheim (2)
18:00 - 20:00	Guided Tour of Flugwerft (Deutsches Museum)
20:00 - c.a 23:00	Conference Dinner @ Pegasus
Friday, 26. January 2007
Session 9: Interferometric Instrumentation Chair: S. Ramsay Howat
09:00 - 09:25	IOT overview talk S. Morel
09:25 - 09:50	A guided tour to VLTI F. Millour (Invited talk)
09:50 - 10:15	VLTI with MIDI W. Jaffe (Invited talk)
10:15 - 10:30	QC and Analysis of MIDI Data Using mymidigui and OYSTER C. Hummel
10:30 - 10:45	Discussion
10:45 - 11:00	Coffee Break - Poster Session
Session 10: Polarimetry Chair: U. Hopp
11:00 - 11:25	IOT overview talk N. Ageorges
11:25 - 11:50	Polarimetry with ESO Instruments H.M. Schmid (Invited talk)
11:50 - 12:05	Discussion
12:05 - 13:00	Lunch Break
Session 11: Wide-Field Imagers Chair: R. Hanuschik
13:00 - 13:25	IOT overview talk F. Selman
13:25 - 13:50	The Ins and Outs of Wide Field Imaging M. Irwin (Invited talk)
13:50 - 14:10	The Garching-Bonn Deep Survey (GaBoDS) Wide-Field- Imaging Reduction Piepline H. Hildebrandt
14:10 - 14:30	Calibration for VISTA J. Emerson
14:30 - 14:50	The VISTA Data Flow System J. Lewis
14:50 - 15:10	SkyMapper and the Southern Sky Survey: a photometric and astrometric complement to VST S. Keller
15:10 - 15:30	Quality control monitoring for WFCAM M. Riello
15:30 - 16:00	Discussion
16:00 - 16:10	Coffee Break
16:10 - 16:30	Conference Summary D. Baade