Final Program Sunday - 28th September
Conference Reception and Registration
4pm-7pm
Council Room, School of Physics. University of Sydney
Monday - 29 September
CHAIR: G. Meylan
9.00-10.00 (R) Webster:
Introduction (45+15)
**********Microlensing***************************
10.00-11.00 (R) J. Wambsganss:
Microlensing and the search for planets (45+15)
11.00-11.30 Coffee
11.30-11.45 E. Kerins:
Microlensing as a high-precision probe of
Galactic structure (10+5)
11.45-12.00 H. Garsden:
A Billion points of light (10+5)
CHAIR: P. Marshall
**********Galaxies and Strong Lensing**************
14.00-15.00 (R) T. Treu (45+15)
15.00-15.15 R. Gavazzi:
Einstein Rings in the Strong Lensing Legacy
Survey (10+5)
15.15-15.30 M. Barnabe':
Joint Gravitational Lensing and Stellar Dynamics
Analysis of Early-Type Galaxies (10+5)
15.30-16.00 Coffee
16.00-16.15 C.Grillo:
Mass decomposition in early-type galaxies
luminous and dark matter from lensing and
photometric measurements (10+5)
16.15-16.50 A. Bolton:
SLACS and the mass independence of early-type
galaxy structure (25+10)
Tuesday - 30 September
CHAIR: J. Wambsganss
**********Galaxies and Strong Lensing**************
9.00- 9.35 L. Koopmans:
The mass structure of massive early-type
galaxies to z=1 and beyond (25+10)
9.35- 9.50 C. Faure:
Correlation of the strong lenses and the
large scale
environment in the COSMOS field (10+5)
9.50-10.05 C. Fassnacht:
Multiwavelength Investigations of the
Environments of Strong Lenses (10+5)
10.05-10.30 M. Limousin:
Opening a New Window of Exploration in the
Mass Spectrum: Strong Lensing by Galaxy Groups in
the SL2S (20+5)
10.30-11.00 Coffee
***********Clusters of Galaxies**************************************
11.00-12.00 (R) J.-P. Kneib:
Clusters of Galaxies (45+15)
12.00-12.15 S. Ettori:
The outer cluster regions: constraints from
X-ray, SZ and hydrodynamical simulations (10+5)
CHAIR: T. Treu
14.00-14.25 A. von der Linden:
A new massive cluster merger: the light,
the dark (matter), and the hot gas (20+5)
14.25-14.40 D. Applegate:
Analyzing a cluster merger using
strong-plus-weak
lensing and X-Ray observations (10+5)
14.40-15.05 M. Meneghetti:
Comparison of lensing and X-ray mass estimates
in simulated galaxy clusters (20+5)
15.05-15.30 M. Bradac:
The "Baby Bullet" cluster MACSJ0025-1222 (20+5)
15.30-16.00 Coffee
16.00-16.15 V. H.Hamilton-Morris:
LoCuSS: Structural Analysis of 31
Cluster Cores at z~0.2. (10+5)
Wednesday - 1 October
CHAIR: R. Webster
***************Gravitational Telescopes*******************************
9.00- 9.35 D. Stark:
Lenses as Gravitational Telescopes (25+10)
9.35- 9.50 J. Richard:
Detailed studies of highly-magnified
Lyman-Break galaxies (10+5)
9.50-10.05 A. Berciano Alba:
Detecting faint submm galaxies using lensing:
The case of the cluster MS0451 (10+5)
10.05-10.20 S. Allam:
SDSS strong lensing (10+5)
10.20-10.35 J. McKean:
First detection of water in the
early Universe (10+5)
10.35-11.05 Coffee
***********Cosmological Parameters and Lensing****************************
11.05-11.30 G. Meylan:
New time delays from COSMOGRAIL (20+5)
11.30-11.45 E. Rozo:
Cosmological Constraints from the SDSS maxBCG
Cluster Abundance Including Weak Lensing Cluster
Mass Determinations (10+5)
11.45-12.00 M. Auger:
Constraining Cosmological Parameters with Strong
Gravitational Lenses (10+5)
12.00-12.15 C. Fedeli:
On the arc statistics problem after
WMAP-5 (10+5)
12.15-12.45 G. Squires:
POSTER SUMMARY SESSION (30)
Thursday - 2 October
CHAIR: L. Koopmans
***********Weak Lensing and Large Scale Structure****************************
9.00-10.00 (R) A. Taylor:
Lensing by Large Scale Structure (45+15)
10.00-10.15 B. Joachimi:
The removal of shear-ellipticity correlations
from the cosmic shear signal (10+5)
10.15-10.30 W. Saunders:
Weak Lensing with PILOT (10+5)
10.30-11.00 Coffee
11.00-11.25 D. Clowe:
The DESTINY of Lensing (20+5)
11.25-11.40 J. Dietrich:
Cosmology with the shear-peak statistic (10+5)
11.40-11.55 J. Bergé:
Constraining cosmology from the combination of
weak gravitational lensing statistics (10+5)
11.55-12.10 M. Smit:
Light Weighed:
Weak Lensing by Galaxy Groups (10+5)
12.10-12.35 T. Schrabback:
The shape of galaxy-scale dark matter haloes from
galaxy-galaxy lensing in archival HST/ACS data
(20+5)
CHAIR: A. Taylor
***********CDM substructure and Microlensing************
14.00-15.00 (R) C. Kochanek:
In a State of Flux: CDM Substructure and
Microlensing (45+15)
15.00-15.15 D. Pooley:
Results from Chandra Observations of Quadruply
Lensed Quasars (10+5)
15.15-15.40 J. Chen:
The Effect of Astrometric Perturbations on
Anomalous Flux Ratios in Strong Lenses (20+5)
15.40-16.10 Coffee
16.10-16.25 N. Bate:
Probing accretion disks in anomalous lensed
quasars (10+5)
16.25-16.40 F. Courbin:
The energy profile of the accretion disk in
Q2237+030 from 2.5 years of VLT
spectrophotometry (10+5)
16.40-16.55 J. Blackburne:
Zooming In on Quasar Accretion Disks through
Chromatic Microlensing (10+5)
16.55-17.10 A. More:
Role of (luminous) substructure in the
gravitational lens MG 2016+112 (10+5)
Conference Dinner:
To be held at "The Tea Room", in the Queen Victoria Building, Sydney CBD.
Friday - 3 October
CHAIR: M. Gladders
***********Search for Lenses and Lensing Methods****************************
9.00- 9.35 P. Marshall:
Robotic Searches for Strong Gravitational
Lenses (25+10)
9.35- 9.50 E. Mörtsell:
Lensing of supernovae by galaxies and galaxy clusters (10+5)
9.50-10.05 R. Chhetri:
Search For Gravitational Lenses in the Southern
Hemisphere Using AT20G (10+5)
10.05-10.20 S. Vegetti:
Bayesian Strong Gravitational-Lens Modelling on
Adaptive Grids: Detecting Mass Substructure in
Galaxies (10+5)
10.20-10.50 Coffee
10.50-11.05 B. Brewer:
The Radio Ring PSS2322+1944: A Multi-Wavelength
Reconstruction (10+5)
11.05-11.20 J. Coles:
Lens Reconstruction: Issues for the Next Decade
(10+5)
11.20-11.35 S. Deb:
Reconstruction of Cluster Masses using
Particle Based Lensing(PBL) (10+5)
11.35-11.50 D. Coe "Perfect" mass maps of galaxy cluster
substructure (and what good are they
anyway?) (10+5)
11.50-12.50 (R) TBD:
Summary Talk (45+15)
D. Lagattuta:
A weak lensing analysis of a sample of strong lenses at moderate redshift (z = 0.6)
R. Carrasco:
Gemini/GMOS observations of Strong Gravitational-Lensing Features in Abell 3827 (z~0.1)
P. Kelly:
Photometric Redshift Measurements of Galaxies in Subaru Massive
Cluster Fields
Other Participants:
L. Moustakas
T. Bridges
L. Bruns
G. Juergens
M. Walker