Workshop
University of Sydney/AAO involvement in VLT and E-ELT
November 24, Darlington Centre, University of Sydney
Pre-Workshop Information
Program Information (pdf)
Program of Talks
| 09.30 | Martijn de Sterke (A/Head; USyd) | Welcome |
| 09.40 | Joss Bland-Hawthorn (USyd) | A new approach to wide-field surveys |
| 10.00 | Matthew Colless (AAO) | A new era for observational cosmology |
| 10.30 | Coffee | |
| 11.00 | Roland Bacon (Lyon; ESO) | MUSE on the VLT and onwards to the E-ELT |
| 11.30 | Martin Roth (Potsdam; ESO) | New astrophotonic opportunities in Potsdam and the ESO perspective |
| 12.00 | Gordon Robertson (USyd) | Hexabundles and the MUSE spectrograph |
| 12.15 | Peter Gillingham (AAO) | Hexabundles and FLAMES at the VLT – I |
| 12.30 | Andrew McGrath (AAO) | Hexabundles and FLAMES at the VLT – II |
| 12.45 | Luncheon | |
| 13.30 | Gerald Cecil (UNC; SOAR) (ppt+audio) | Preparing for deployment of hexabundles on SOAR |
| 14.00 | Baerbel Koribalski (ATNF) | Synergies with radio surveys |
| 14.20 | Stuart Ryder (AAO/Gemini Office) | The SAURON experiment and galactic abundance profiles |
| 14.40 | Andrew Hopkins (USyd/AAO) | Star formation, dust and galaxy morphologies |
| 15.00 | Rob Sharp (AAO) | The SPIRAL galactic winds survey: lessons learned |
| 15.20 | David Frew (UMacq/AAO) | Planetary nebulae |
| 15.40 | Coffee | |
| 16.00 | Julia Bryant (USyd) | Environments of radio galaxies |
| 16.20 | Scott Croom (USyd) | AGN triggering and mergers |
| 16.40 | Geraint Lewis (USyd) | Gravitational lenses in clusters |
| 17.00 | Joss Bland-Hawthorn (USyd) | Future science and final comments |
| 17.10 | End of meeting |
Previous Related workshops
- SUSI: Past, Present and Future, University of Sydney, 29 May, 2008 (pdf of Final Announcement and Program)
- Science with AO-fed instruments on extremely large telescopes, Dunk Island, 6-11 April, 2008.
- Astrophotonics Workshop with CUDOS, University of Sydney, 15-16 November, 2007
More Information
For more information contact Joss Bland-Hawthorn