Programme |
| Monday, May 28th |
| 09:00 |
Introductory talk to the Workshop by the UCM Director of Research |
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Science Session 1
UV surveys, the UV background and the Intergalactic Medium
Chair: Angeles Diaz |
| 09:30 |
"The Ultraviolet Sky Surveys: Filling the Crucial Gap in our View of the Universe"
Luciana Bianchi |
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| 10:10 |
"The UV background"
Jayant Murthy |
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| 10:50 |
COFFEE BREAK AND POSTERS SESSION |
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| 11:30 |
"High Ions in Damped Lyman Alpha Systems"
Andrew Fox |
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| 11:45 |
"High Velocity Clouds: Galactic Fuel or Galactic Waste?"
Brad Gibson |
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| 12:05 |
"Metal-Line System Survey: characterizing the Low-Redshift Intergalactic Medium"
Kathy Cooksey |
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| 12:25 |
"Local Lyman Alpha Emitters Studies and their Relevance to High Redshift Ones"
Miguel Mas-Hesse |
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| 12:45 |
"Reionization of the Universe: Character and Observability"
Ilian Iliev |
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| 13:00 |
LUNCH |
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Instrumentation Session 1
Measuring dark energy in the Universe, Supernovae
Conductor: Antonio Dobado |
| 15:15 |
Introductory talk by the conductor |
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| 15:30 |
"Observing Dark Energy with the next generation of galactic surveys"
Ofer Lahav |
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| 16:10 |
"Supernovae in the ultraviolet"
Pilar Ruiz Lapuente |
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| 16:45 |
"UltraViolet SN observations with SWIFT"
Milena Bufano |
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| 17:00 |
COFFEE BREAK AND POSTERS SESSION |
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| 17:30 |
"An update and the limitations to COS"
Cynthia Froening |
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| 18:10 |
"The WSO/UV project-main characteristics"
Boris Shustov |
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| 18:25 |
"The expected performance of WSO/HIRDES"
Norbert Kappelmann |
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| 18:45 |
"Current and future capabilities of MCP based ultraviolet detector"
John Vallerga |
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| 19:00 |
Summary of the session by the conductor and discussion |
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| Tuesday May 29th |
Science Session 2
Star Formation and Chemical Evolution
Chair: Michel Dennefeld (TBC) |
| 09:00 |
"The mid-UV morphology of stars and old stellar populations"
Miguel Chávez |
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| 09:30 |
"The star formation history of early type galaxies"
Alessandro Bressan |
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| 10:00 |
"Two dimensional properties of nearby galaxies"
Fuzhen Cheng |
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| 10:15 |
"An attempt to reconstruct the galactic chemical evolution"
Yulia Milanova |
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| 10:30 |
"Young circumnuclear disks in elliptical galaxies"
Olga Silchenko |
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| 10:45 |
COFFEE BREAK AND POSTERS SESSION |
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Science Session 3
AGNs and galactic magnetic fields
Chair: Luis Colina
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| 11:30 |
"Active Galactic Nucleii in the Ultraviolet"
Bradley Peterson |
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| 12:10 |
"The starburst-AGN connection: the role of stellar clusters in AGNs"
Rosa Gonzalez Delgado |
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| 12:30 |
"Galactic Dynamo and Galactic Winds"
Rainer Beck |
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| 13:10 |
LUNCH |
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Instrumentation Session 2
The magnetic stability of astronomical objects: disks and atmospheres
Conductor: Ana I. Gómez de Castro |
| 15:00 |
Introductory talk by the conductor |
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| 15:15 |
"Limitations of the numerical simulations of magnetized accretion disks"
John Hawley |
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| 16:00 |
"Study of general relativistic effects in accretion disks through spectroscopy of the Fe K alpha line"
Matteo Guainazzi |
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| 16:30 |
"The unstable magnetic quiet Sun: physical mechanisms and UV signature"
Jorge Sánchez-Almeida |
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| 17:00 |
COFFEE BREAK AND POSTERS SESSION |
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| 17:30 |
"Magnetic activity optimal tracers: from radio to X-ray; the relevance of UV astronomy"
Isabella Pagano |
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| 18:00 |
"The Stellar Imager project"
Ken Carpenter |
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| 18:30 |
"The Fresnel interferometric imager: applications in the UV domain"
Denis Serre, Laurent Koechlin, Paul Deba |
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| 19:00 |
Summary of the session by the conductor and discussion |
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| Wednesday May 30th |
Science Session 4
Disk-Halo Interaction
Chair: Benjamin Montesinos
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| 09:00 |
"Galactic Fountain and Disk Halo Interaction"
Miguel de Avillez |
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| 09:40 |
"On the prospects of UV Observatories for Studies of Galaxies-IGM mass exchange"
Boris Shustov |
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| 10:00 |
"OVI in the Local Interstellar Medium"
Martin Barstow |
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| 10:20 |
"Solving the Misteries of the Interstellar Medium with High Resolution UV Spectroscopy"
Jeff Linsky |
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| 10:40 |
COFFEE BREAK AND POSTERS SESSION |
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Science Session 5
From the ISM to stars and from Stars to planets
Chair: Alfred Vidal-Madjar |
| 11:30 |
"The formation of planetary systems: a UV view"
Ana I. Gomez de Castro |
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| 12:10 |
"Astrochemistry in strong UV fields"
Jose Cernicharo |
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| 12:50 |
"Characteristics of extrasolar planets and their detectability"
Roger Ferlet |
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| 13:30 |
LUNCH |
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Free afternoon. Visit to El Escorial and Conference Dinner |
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| Thursday, May 31st |
Science Session 6
Outflows and disks accross the HR diagram - I. Interacting Binaries
Chair: Klaus Werner |
| 09:00 |
"Interacting Binaries"
Domitilla de Martino |
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| 09:40 |
"Colliding winds in symbiotics"
Elena Kilpio |
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| 10:00 |
"Line identification techniques in the FUV - Heavy element absorption patterns in 100 white dwarfs"
David Boyce |
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| 10:20 |
"Very peculiar wind from BD+53 2790, the optical counterpart to 4U 2206+54"
Pere Blay |
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| 10:40 |
COFFEE BREAK AND POSTERS SESSION |
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Science Session 7
Outflows and disks accross the HR diagram - II. Massive stars
Chair: Xiaowei Liu |
| 11:30 |
"Outflows from massive stars"
Artemio Herrero |
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| 12:10 |
"AGB star intershell abundances inferred from UV spectra of extremely hot post-AGB stars"
Klaus Werner |
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| 12:40 |
LUNCH |
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Instrumentation Session 3
Instrumentation for Ultraviolet Astronomy
Conductor: Noah Brosch |
| 15:00 |
Introductory Talk by the Conductor |
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| 15:15 |
"Exotic Telescopes"
Noah Brosch |
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| 16:00 |
"WSO: The Field Camera Unit for WSO/UV"
Emanuele Pace |
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| 16:15 |
"High accuracy photometry and astrometry: from HST to WSO"
Giampaolo Piotto |
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| 16:30 |
"WSO: LSS - design, performance and scientific objectives"
Liu Xiao Wei |
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| 16:45 |
COFFEE BREAK AND POSTERS SESSION |
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| 17:30 |
"The Optical and UV Monitor on board XMM-Newton"
Antonio Talavera |
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| 17:50 |
"The Swift UV/Optical Telescope"
Pete Roming |
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| 18:10 |
Summary of the Session by the Conductor and Discussion |
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| Friday, June 1st |
Special Instrumentation Session 4
Getting into the extreme UV
Chair: John Davies |
| 09:00 |
"CCD cameras and Spacewire interfaces for HERSCHEL/SCORE suborbital mission"
Alessandro Gherardi |
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| 09:30 |
"Novel narrow filters for imaging in the 50-150nm VUV range"
Monica Fernandez Perea |
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| 10:00 |
"The Stellar And Galactic Environment Survey (SAGE) project"
Martin Barstow |
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| 10:30 |
CONFERENCE SUMMARY by Jeff Linsky |
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| 11:15 |
CONFERENCE CLOSES |
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