Program

(as at March 6, 2009)

Monday, March 9

Time Title Speaker
08:30 Registration  
09:00 Welcome J. Melnick

Extragalactic Surveys

09:05 Review: Large Cosmological Surveys J. Miralda-Escude
09:40 Extragalactic Surveys with VST and VISTA K. Kuijken
10:00 DES R. Nichol
10:20 PAU E. Gaztanaga
10:40 BOSS W. Percival
11:00 Coffee Break  
11:20 Spectroscopic surveys from space A. Cimatti
11:40 zCOSMOS S. Lilly
12:00 VIPERS L. Guzzo
12:20 Limitations and needs of current spectroscopic redshift surveys A. Renzini
12:40 Future ESO Galaxy surveys T. Shanks
13:00 Lunch Break  
14:15 Next generation deep and ultra-deep galaxy redshift surveys O. Le Fevre
14:30 Future high-multiplex spectroscopy needs for resolved stellar populations in dwarf galaxies as revealed by the large program DART G. Battaglia
14:45 Galaxy and Mass assembly J. Liske
15:00 Spectral requirements for a wide area XMM cosmology survey M. Pierre
15:15 Spectroscopic follow-up of high-z dusty galaxies discovered by ALMA E. van Kampen
15:30 Colour and luminosity-dependence of galaxy clustering to faint luminosities J. Loveday
15.45 The power of the multiplex and tilted slit of VIMOS to derive kinematics L. Tresse
16:00 Coffee Break  

Future projects for extragalactic science

16:20 LSST and Europe R. McMahon
16:40 WFMOS R. Nichol
17:00 A 5 sqdeg spectrograph at an 8m telescope: how and why (LBT/VLT)
Also available: Animation of the spectrograph layout (QT,  6.2 Mb)
 		A. Fontana
17:15 Discussion  
18:15 Welcome reception at ESO  

 

Tuesday, March 10

Time Title Speaker
09:00 Welcome 2 J. Melnick

Galactic Surveys
09:05 ESO/ESA Working Group recommendations for Galactic Surveys A. Helmi
09:40 Galactic Surveys with VST and VISTA J. Drew
10:00 Unraveling the Structure and Kinematics of the Milky Way with RAVE M. Steinmetz
10:20 LAMOST Y. Zhao
10:40 The GAIA spectrograph: synergies with future large multiplex instruments D. Katz
11:00 Coffee Break  
11:30 Multi-object spectroscopy as a compelement for GAIA A. Recio-Blanco
11:50 The Galactic-Bulge Survey: categorizing the plethora of faint X-ray sources P. Jonker
12:10 VMC - The VISTA survey of the Magellanic System M.R. Cioni
12:30 Determining AGB mass loss histories form Planetary Nebulae: hexabundle MOS of Magellanic Cloud PNe M. Roth
12:45 RAVE: important insights to be used for planning of the next generation multiple object spectrographs T. Zwitter
13:00 Lunch Break  

Plans for the future

14:15

Proposed VMOS upgrades:

F. Selman

 

14:40

15:05
15:30

Proposed FLAMES upgrades:

 

J. Bland-Hawthorn

F. Roques
M. Lehnert

15:50 A very versatile, large A-Omega, fiber-fed spectrograph design I. Parry
16:10 Coffee Break  
16:30 Conference Summary: Scientific requirements for European high-multiplex spectroscopic facilities Y. Mellier
17:00 Discussion  
18:00 End of Conference  

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