Scientific Program (as at June 10, 2009)

The schedule below is the final program. There will be no posters. The abstracts of the various talks can be found here.

Monday, June 8

Time Title Speaker
13:00
Registration
  

The Genesis of MAD

14:00 The Crazy Owl: The Genesis of MAD R. Gilmozzi
14:25 MCAO for Beginners : Principles and Limitations M. Le Louarn
14:55 Lessons from MAD: On-Sky Performance Testing E. Marchetti
15:20

Lessons from MAD: From the Lab to the Sky

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15:50 Layers and Pyramids: Lessons learned and Future Perspectives R. Ragazzoni
16:15 Coffee Break  

Science with MAD (results from Commissioning and Science Demonstration)

16:40 Review: Star Formation M. Petr-Gotzens
17:10 A deep look into the cores of young nearby massive clusters H. Bouy
17:30 A MAD View of the M16 elephant trunks A. Seifahrt
17:50 A MAD Visit of Trumpler 14 B. Rochau
18:05 A MAD View of Tr 14 H. Sana
18:20 MAD Observations of giant proplyd candidates in NGC2244 & 2264 S. Vicente
18:40 End of Day 1  
18:45 MAD Party  

Tuesday, June 9

Time Title Speaker

Science with MAD (results from Commissioning and Science Demonstration)

09:00 MAD Observations of the local starbusts NGC 3603 J. Alves
09:20 MAD Images of the dense stellar cluster R136 M. Campbell
09:40 Review: Globular Clusters G. Piotto
10:10 Deep and accurate NIR photometry in crowded fields G. Bono
10:30 MAD and HST Observations of Terzan 5 F. Ferraro
10:50 Coffee Break  
11:10 Deep and accurate NIR photometry of 47 Tucanae F. Troisi
11:30 Deep Near-Infrared photometry of Omega Cen A. Calamida
11:50 MAD Observations of the galactic star clusters HP1 and FSR 1415 S. Ortolani
12:10 MAD Observations in crowded and reddened fields: The case of NGC6441 E. Valenti
12:30 Lunch Break  
14:30 Resolved Stellar Populations with MAD G. Fiorentino
14:50 The MAD deep field M. Nonino
15:10 Outer Solar System Science with MCAO M. Wong
15:30 MAD MAX: Correction Performance E. Marchetti
15:50 MAD MAX: Operations P. Amico
16:10 Coffee Break  
  Science Cases with MAD MAX (10 min. each)  
16:40 Clusters in the Magellanic Clouds E. Tolstoy
16:50 Performance and Sky Coverage of MAD-MAX for Globular Clusters A. Moretti
17:00 Hunting for optical companions to binary MSPs in globular clusters with MAD-MAX F. Ferraro
17:10 Star Formation H. Bouy
17:20 Massive Young Clusters in the Milky-Way C. Evans
17:30 The Central Cluster of the Milky-Way S. Gillessen
17:40 Intergalactic Stellar Populations in the Virgo Cluster M. Arnaboldi
17:50 Cepheids in the Antennae Galaxy I. Saviane
18:00 Dwarf Galaxies in the Centaurus Group M. Gullieuszik
18:10 Deep Fields with MAD-MAX I. Smail
18:20 End of Day 2  
19:00 MAD Dinner  

 

Wednesday, June 10

Time Title Speaker

Beyond MAD

09:00 Plans for MCAO at GEMINI F. Rigaut
09:30 NFIRAOS@TMT P. Hickson
10:00 MICADO and MAORY: Science with MCAO on the E-ELT R. Davies
10:30 A new high Strehl instrument for the VLT M. Casali
11:00 Coffee Break  
11:30 Discussion: Beyond MAD: From MAD-MAX to NFIRAOS and MICADO  
13:00 End of Conference  

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