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

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