Monday, May 28th

9:00

Introductory talk to the Workshop by the UCM Director of Research

Science Session 1

UV surveys, the UV background and the Intergalactic Medium. Chair: Angeles Diaz

9:30

“The Ultraviolet Sky Surveys: Filling the Crucial Gap in our View of the Universe”.  Luciana Bianchi

10:10

“The UV background”. Jayant Murthy

10:50

COFFEE BREAK AND POSTERS SESSION

11:30

“High Ions in Damped Lyman Alpha Systems”. Andrew Fox

11:45

“High Velocity Clouds: Galactic Fuel or Galactic Waste?”. Brad Gibson

12:05

“Metal-Line System Survey: characterizing the Low-Redshift Intergalactic Medium”. Kathy Cooksey

12:25

“Local Lyman Alpha Emitters Studies and their Relevance to High Redshift Ones”. Miguel Mas-Hesse

12:45

“Reionization of the Universe: Character and Observability”. Ilian Iliev

13:00

LUNCH

 Instrumentation Session 1

Measuring dark energy in the Universe, Supernovae. Chair: Antonio Dobado 

15:15

Introductory talk by the conductor

15:30

“Observing Dark Energy with the next generation of galactic surveys”. Ofer Lahav

16:10

“Supernovae in the ultraviolet”. Pilar Ruiz Lapuente

16:45

“UltraViolet SN observations with SWIFT”. Milena Bufano

17:00

COFFEE BREAK AND POSTERS SESSION

17:30

“An update and the limitations to COS”. Cynthia Froening

18:10

“The WSO/UV project-main characteristics”. Boris Shustov

18:25

“The expected performance of WSO/HIRDES”. Norbert Kappelmann

18:45

“Current and future capabilities of MCP based ultraviolet detector“. John Vallerga

19:00

Summary of the session by the conductor and discussion

Tuesday May 29th

Science Session 2

Star Formation and Chemical Evolution. Chair: Michel Dennefeld (TBC)

9:00

“The mid-UV morphology of stars and old stellar populations”. Miguel Chávez

9:30

“The star formation history of early type galaxies”. Alessandro Bressan

10:00

“Two dimensional properties of nearby galaxies”. Fuzhen Cheng

10:15

“An attempt to reconstruct the galactic chemical evolution”. Yulia Milanova

10:30

“Young circumnuclear disks in elliptical galaxies”. Olga Silchenko

10:45

COFFEE BREAK AND POSTERS SESSION

 Science Session 3

AGNs and galactic magnetic fields. Chair: Luis Colina

11:30

“Active Galactic Nucleii in the Ultraviolet”. Bradley Peterson

12:10

“The starburst-AGN connection: the role of stellar clusters in AGNs”. Rosa Gonzalez Delgado

12:30

“Galactic Dynamo and Galactic Winds”. Rainer Beck

13:10

LUNCH

 Instrumentation Session 2

The magnetic stability of astronomical objects: disks and atmospheres. Chair: Ana I. Gómez de Castro

15:00

Introductory talk by the conductor

15:15

“Limitations of the numerical simulations of magnetized accretion disks”. John Hawley

16:00

“Study of general relativistic effects in accretion disks through spectroscopy of the Fe K alpha line”. Matteo Guainazzi

16:30

“The unstable magnetic quiet Sun: physical mechanisms and UV signature”. Jorge Sánchez-Almeida

17:00

COFFEE BREAK AND POSTERS SESSION

17:30

“Magnetic activity optimal tracers: from radio to X-ray; the relevance of UV astronomy”. Isabella Pagano

18:00

“The Stellar Imager project”. Ken Carpenter

18:30

“The Fresnel interferometric imager: applications in the UV domain”. Denis Serre, Laurent Koechlin, Paul Deba

19:00

Summary of the session by the conductor and discussion

Wednesday May 30th

 Science Session 4

Disk-Halo Interaction. Chair: Benjamin Montesinos

9:00

“Galactic Fountain and Disk Halo Interaction”. Miguel de Avillez

9:40

“On the prospects of UV Observatories for Studies of Galaxies-IGM mass exchange”. Boris Shustov

10:00

“OVI in the Local Interstellar Medium”. Martin Barstow

10:20

“Solving the Misteries of the Interstellar Medium with High Resolution UV Spectroscopy”. Jeff Linsky

10:40

COFFEE BREAK AND POSTERS SESSION

 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

12:10

“Astrochemistry in strong UV fields”. Jose Cernicharo

12:50

“Characteristics of extrasolar planets and their detectability”. Roger Ferlet

13:30

LUNCH

Free afternoon.  Visit to El Escorial and Conference Dinner

Thursday, May 31st

 Science Session 6

Outflows and disks accross the HR diagram – I. Interacting Binaries. Chair: Klaus Werner 

9:00

“Interacting Binaries”. Domitilla de Martino

9:40

“Colliding winds in symbiotics”. Elena Kilpio

10:00

“Line  identification techniques in the FUV – Heavy element absorption patterns in 100 white dwarfs”. David Boyce

10:20

“Very peculiar wind from BD+53 2790, the optical counterpart to 4U 2206+54”. Pere Blay

10:40

COFFEE BREAK AND POSTERS SESSION

Science Session 7

Outflows and disks accross the HR diagram – II. Massive stars. Chair: Xiaowei Liu

11:30

“Outflows from massive stars”. Artemio Herrero

12:10

“AGB star intershell abundances inferred from UV spectra of extremely hot post-AGB stars”. Klaus Werner

12:40

LUNCH

 Instrumentation Session 3

Instrumentation for Ultraviolet Astronomy. Chair: Noah Brosch

15:00

Introductory Talk by the Conductor

15:15

“Exotic Telescopes”. Noah Brosch

16:00

“WSO: The Field Camera Unit for WSO/UV”. Emanuele Pace

16:15

“High accuracy photometry and astrometry: from HST to WSO”Gianpaolo Piotto

16:30

“WSO: LSS – design, performance and scientific objectives”. Liu Xiao Wei

16:45

COFFEE BREAK AND POSTERS SESSION

17:30

“The Optical and UV Monitor on board XMM-Newton”. Antonio Talavera

17:50

“The Swift UV/Optical Telescope”. Pete Roming

18:10

Summary of the Session by the Conductor and Discussion

Friday, June 1st

 Special Instrumentation Session 4

Getting into the extreme UV. Chair: John Davies

9:00

“CCD cameras and Spacewire interfaces for HERSCHEL/SCORE suborbital mission”. Alessandro Gherardi

9:30

“Novel narrow filters for imaging in the 50-150nm VUV range”. Monica Fernandez Perea

10:00

“The Stellar And Galactic Environment Survey (SAGE) project”. Martin Barstow

10:30

CONFERENCE SUMMARY by Jeff Linsky

11:15

CONFERENCE CLOSES