DATE: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:28:54 +1000
SUBJECT: 6th Oct at AAO: MANIFEST Science Day


The AAO invites you to attend the

                  MANIFEST Science Day

                   Tuesday 6 Oct 2009

                  AAO Conference Room

Lunch will be catered. There will be wine and cheese to
accompany the discussion session at the end of the program.
There is no registration fee.

The Anglo-Australian Observatory is holding a one-day workshop
to present the MANIFEST "MANy Instrument FibrE SysTem" concept
for the GMT. MANIFEST is a versatile fibre feed for other GMT
instruments, and enhances many of the scientific drivers for
these by providing an improved survey speed and offering new
modes of operation. MANIFEST also allows new areas of scientific
investigation that would not otherwise be possible.

The goals of the day include a summary of the developments to date
in the MANIFEST concept, and a thorough exploration of the variety
of science that MANIFEST will support, enhance, and open up.

The AAO invites you to join us for the MANIFEST Science Day,
and participate in the discussions to ensure that your favourite
scientific questions are not overlooked.

Please RSVP to Andrew Hopkins (ahopkins@aao.gov.au) by tuesday 29/09/09
so we can have accurate numbers for catering purposes.

Program
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9:30 Welcome and motivation: Matthew Colless
9:45 Science Case Overview: Matthew Colless
10:15 MANIFEST Instrument Overview: Will Saunders

11:00 Morning tea

11:30 Starbugs vs Pick-and-place: Ian Saunders

12:00 "Galactic Archaeology in the Gaia Era with MANIFEST": Stefan  
Keller (ANU)

12:20 Lunch

1:30 "The stellar populations of high-z galaxies": Max Spolaor  
(Swinburne)
1:50 "OH suppressed hexabundles on the GMT:
      the dynamics of high-redshift galaxies": Joss Bland-Hawthorn  
(Sydney)
2:10 "MANIFESTly better galaxy surveys": Michael Brown (Monash)

2:30 "Build-up of intracluster light since z~1": Sarah Brough (AAO)

3:00 Afternoon Tea

3:30 Open Discussion: Moderated by Matthew Colless

4:30 Close


-- 
A.Prof. Andrew Hopkins, Head of AAT Science
Anglo-Australian Observatory
P.O. Box 296, Epping
NSW 1710, Australia
ph: +61 2 9372 4849  fax: +61 2 9372 4880