Final Programme (as of Octobre 5th)

Monday, October 8th
10:00-13:30	Registration
13:30-13:40	Welcome by ESO Director General	Tim de Zeeuw
13:40-13:45	Introduction to the Workshop	Alan Moorwood
VLT science highlights
Chair: Linda Tacconi
13:45-14:25	VLT science highlights	Alvio Renzini (I)
14:25-14:45	Pushing VLT spectroscopy of distant galaxies to the limits and future prospects	Andrea Cimatti (I)
14:45-15:00	Pushing FORS/VLT to the limit - Searching for fluorescent Ly-alpha emission from Lyman limit systems	Martin Haehnelt
15:00-15:15	The ESO Large Programme "First Stars"	Piercarlo Bonifacio
15:15-15:30	The contribution of UVES@VLT to the new era of QSO absorption line studies	Valentina D'Odorico
15:30-16:00	COFFEE
Chair: Francois Hammer
16:00-16:15	IMAGES: a unique view of the galaxy mass assembly since z=1	Mathieu Puech
16:15-16:30	The metallicity evolution in the early Universe	Roberto Maiolino
16:30-16:45	SINS: Probing the early stages of galaxy evolution with SINFONI and NACO	Natascha Forster-Schreiber
16:45-17:00	The big blue bump of quasars: its intrinsic Balmer edge and near-IR spectral shape as revealed by polarimetry	Makato Kishimoto
17:00-17:15	Near-IR spectroscopy of Blue Supergiants	Norbert Przybilla
17:15-17:30	Integral field spectroscopy of protoplanetary disks in Orion with VLT FLAMES	Yiannis Tsamis
17:30-17:45	The impact of Deep and High Spatial Resolution NIR images on Globular Clusters	Guiseppe Bono
17:45-18:00	Chemical evolution of the Galaxy and Supernova yields after UVES	Piercarlo Bonifacio
Tuesday, October 9th
VLTI science highlights
Chair: Ray Sharples
09:00-09:30	VLTI science highlights	Guy Perrin (I)
09:30-09:45	AGN science with MIDI	Walter Jaffe
09:45-10:00	The use of the VLTI for studying the asymmetric mass loss of evolved stars	Olivier Chesnau
10:00-10:15	Mid-Infrared Interferometric Observations of Young Circumstellar Disks	Thorsten Ratzka
10:15-10:30	VLTI-AMBER observations of Eta Carinae: first NIR interferometry with spectral resolution of 12000	Gerd Weigelt
10:30-11:00	COFFEE
11:00-11:15	Resolving the inner active accretion disk around the Herbig Be star MWC 147 with VLTI/MIDI and AMBER spectro-interferometry	Stefan Kraus
11:15-11:30	Multi-epoch VLTI/MIDI observations of the carbon-rich Mira star V Oph: Detection of temporal variations of the outer atmosphere and the dust shell	Thomas Driebe
11:30-12:00	Discussion on VLT/I unique science capabilities
12:00-13:15	LUNCH
Future VLT science priorities
Chair: Reinhard Genzel
13:15-13:55	The ASTRONET Science Vision	Guy Monnet (I)
13:55-14:15	Hunting dark energy: The need for massive galaxy redshift surveys	Bob Nichol
14:15-14:35	Galaxy formation and evolution	Jacqueline Bergeron (I)
14:35-14:55	Radial-velocity search for extrasolar planets: From the "past" giant gaseous planets to the "future" Earth twins	Stephane Udry
14:55-15:15	Next generation deep spectroscopic redshift surveys	Olivier Le Fevre
15:15-15:30	VISTA surveys and future VLT follow-up	Will Sutherland
15:30-16:00	COFFEE
16:00-16:15	Precise constraints on dark energy from measurements of the growth rate of fluctuations from future large redshift surveys with the VLT	Luigi Guzzo
16:15-16:30	The first galaxies and galaxy clusters	Eelco van Kampen
16:30-16:45	Narrow band surveys and the epoch of reionization	Bram Venemans
16:45-17:00	Stellar Archaeology and Galaxy Genesis: the need for wide area spectroscopic surveys	Mike Irwin
17:00-17:15	Near-field cosmology with the VLT	Steffen Mieske
17:15-17:30	Chemical evolution of the Local Group galaxies	Grazina Tautvaisiene
17:30-17:45	Spectro-polarimetric diagnostics of strong magnetic fields in compact stars	Klaus Reinsch
17:45-18:15	Discussion on VLT/I science priorities
19:30-22:30	RECEPTION and WORKSHOP DINNER (Hosted by ESO at the Gasthof Neuwirt - Garching)
Wednesday, October 10th
VLT and VLTI synergy with ELTs
Chair: Arne Ardeberg
09:00-09:30	The European ELT	Roberto Gilmozzi (I)
09:30-10:00	The ELT Science Case	Isobel Hook (I)
10:00-10:30	On the way to an ELT instrumentation plan	Sandro D'Odorico (I)
10:30-11:00	COFFEE
11:00-11:20	VLT/ELT synergy	Marijn Franx (I)
11:20-11:35	From ESPRESSO to CODEX	Jochen Liske
11:35-11:50	Status of Aqueye, the prototype for a quantum photometer for Extremely Large Telesccopes	Cesare Barbieri
11:50-12:05	E-ELT: a chance to measure cosmic magnetic fields	Klaus Strassmeier
12:05-12:20	The experience of VLT/VISIR for designing an ELT mid-infrared instrument	Eric Pantin
12:20-12:35	A concept for a narrow field near-infrared integral field spectrogrpah for the E-ELT	Matthias Tecza
12:35-13:00	LUNCH
13:00-14:30	POSTER SESSION
VLT and VLTI synergy with ELTs (continued)
Chair: Gerry Gilmore
14:30-14:45	Synergy between the LBT/Linc Nirvana interferometer and future ELTs?	Lucas Labadie
14:45-15:10	TMT science and instruments	David Crampton
15:10-15:30	Discussion on VLT/VLTI/ELT scientific synergies
15:30-16:00	COFFEE
Synergies with ALMA and JWST
Chair: Tom Wilson
16:00-16:30	The VLT in the era of ALMA	Leonardo Testi (I)
16:30-17:00	The VLT in the era of the JWST	Mark McCaughrean (I)
17:00-17:15	Observational cosmology with the ELT and JWST	Massimo Stiavelli
17:15-17:30	Integral Field Spectroscopy of (U)LIRGs. From VLT to JWST	Luis Colina
17:30-18:00	Discussion on ALMA and JWST synergy with the VLT
Thursday, October 11th
Second generation VLT/I instrument programme
Chair: Pat Roche
09:00-09:20	VLT/I 2nd generation instrument programme and resources	Alan Moorwood
Approved second generation instruments
09:20-09:30	HAWK-I	Mark Casali
09:30-09:50	X-shooter	Lex Kaper
09:50-10:10	KMOS and KMOS++	Ray Sharples
10:10-10:30	Science with MUSE in the ELT area	Roland Bacon
10:30-10:55	COFFEE
10:55-11:15	SPHERE	David Mouillet
VLTI instruments in Phase A
11:15-11:35	Very high resolution spectro-imaging in the near infrared (with VSI) in the ELT era	Fabien Malbet
11:35-11:55	Concept of the MATISSE instrument	Bruno Lopez
11:55-12:15	GRAVITY: Microarcsecond astrometry and deep interfereometric imaging with the VLT	Frank Eisenhauer
12:15-13:30	LUNCH
New instrument concepts and VLT/I operating modes
Chair: Paolo Vettolani
13:30-14:00	Smart Focal Plane technologies for VLT Instruments	Colin Cunningham
14:00-14:20	Wide field options on the VLT	Stephen Todd
14:20-14:35	A few degrees very wide field of view camera for VLT as a finder for ELT	Roberto Ragazzoni
14:35-14:50	Science with a 16m equivalent VLT: the case of fundamental constants	Paolo Molaro
14:50-15:10	ESPRESSO: a high resolution spectrograph for the combined coude' focus of the VLT	Luca Pasquini
15:10-15:30	Instrumentation for large spectroscopic surveys	Ian Parry
15:30-16:00	COFFEE
Chair: Jean-Gabriel Cuby
16:00-16:20	New developments in integral field spectrographs	Anthony Horton
16:20-16:40	Super-GIRAFFE: The Next Generation Optical Spectrograph with Deployable Integral-Field Units	Matt Lehnert
16:40-17:00	First Light Explorer (FLEX): the science case for a fully OH-suppressed IFU spectrograph	Simon Ellis
17:00-17:20	A mid-infrared integral field spectro-polarimeter	Alistair Glasse
17:20-17:35	High Resolution Imaging in the visible on the VLT	Craig Mackay
17:35-17:50	Life on the fast lane: the burst mode at the VLT at present and in the future	Andrea Richichi
17:50-18:10	High resolution near IR spectroscopy: from 4m to 10 and 40m class telescopes	Tino Oliva
Friday, 12th Oct
New instrument concepts and VLT/I operating modes (continued)
Chair: Tom Herbst
09:00-09:20	Prospects and needs of micro-arcsecond astrometry	Andreas Seifahrt
09:20-09:35	CASIS: A Near-Infrared Cassegrain Imager for the Adaptive Optics Facilty of the VLT	Markus Kissler-Patig
09:35-09:50	Monitoring at the diffraction limit of the VLT	Thomas Ott
09:50-10:05	Exploring the time axis - high resolution timing observations with present and future instrumentation	Valentin Ivanov
10:05-10:20	Advanced calibration for quantitative astrophysics	Florian Kerber
10:20-10:50	COFFEE
Chair: Alan Moorwood
10:50-11:10	The VLT Interferometer in the ELT Era	Markus Schoeller
11:10-11:30	Extrasolar planet science with the VLT/VLTI	Didier Queloz
11:30-11:45	VLTI and beyond: the next steps in AGN research with interferometers	Klaus Meisenheimer
11:45-12:30	Closing discussion