Three decades of gravitational lenses
Principal contact: O. Wucknitz (wucknitz@astro.uni-bonn.de )
Organisers:J.-P. Beaulieu (Paris), Wyn Evans (Cambridge), E. Kerins, S. Mao (Manchester), J.-P. Kneib (Marseille), L. Koopmans (Groningen), P. Saha (Zurich), P. Schneider (Bonn), A. Taylor (Edinburgh), J. Wambsganss (Heidelberg)
http://www.astro.uni-bonn.de/~wucknitz/jenam2009/
Since the discovery of the first gravitational lens in 1979, gravitational lensing has rapidly exploded into three fields: strong, micro, and weak lensing with applications in virtually every area in astrophysics. This symposium will celebrate the 30th anniversary of the first discovery and the tremendous advance of the field in the three decades since then. It will bring together all three branches of the European lensing community to review the initial theoretical ideas and observational discoveries, the progress made in theory and observations, and to discuss recent developments and directions for the future.
The symposium will comprise a balance of contributions from strong, micro and weak lensing. It offers the opportunity to bring the diversified sub-fields into even closer contact again to foster coordinated efforts, which are essential to utilise the opportunities of emerging instruments and tools.
Scientific Programme
| Tuesday 21st April | The Beginning | |
| 16:00 | Gravitational Lensing - the First Discoveries (Review Talk) | Bob Carswell |
| 16:30 | More than Three Decades of Lensing Theory (Review Talk) | Prasenjit Saha |
| 17:00 | The magnification Theorem | Olaf Wucknitz |
| 17:15 | Nine Decades of Gravitational Lenses | Richard Massey |
| Wednesday 22nd April | Microlensing | |
| 11:00 | Microlensing: Planets, Dark Stars, Stellar Magnifying Glasses (Review Talk) | Andrew Gould |
| 11:30 | Microlensing Planet Hunt with EUCLID | Jean-Philippe Beaulieu |
| 11:45 | Extragalactic Microlensing: Quasars, Caustics & Dark Matter (Review Talk) | Joachim Wambsganss |
| 12:15 | Microlensing as a Tool to Probe the Quasar Structure | Dominique Sluse |
| Wednesday 22nd April | Strong Lensing by Galaxies | |
| 14:00 | Strong Gravitational Lensing by Galaxies (Review Talk) | Leon Koopmans |
| 14:30 | COSMOS 5921+0638: a New Strong Gravitational Lensing System | Timo Anguita |
| 14:45 | Integral- Field Spectroscopy of SLACS Lenses | Oliver Czoske |
| 15:00 | First Detection of Water in the Distant Universe | John McKean |
| 15:15 | Gravitational Lensing: Surveys and Studies with New Instruments | Neal Jackson |
| Wednesday 22nd April | Strong and Weak Lensing | |
| 16:00 | Effects of Substructure on Gravitational Lensing: Results from Aquarius Simulations | Dandan Xu |
| 16:15 | Luminous Satellite Galaxies in Gravitational Lenses | Sarah Bryan |
| 16:30 | Weak Gravitational Lensing: Recent & Future Progress (Review Talk) | Andy Taylor |
| 17:00 | A Halo Model for Intrinsic Alignments | Sarah Bridle |
| 17:15 | LoCuSS: New Cluster Weak-Lensing Results from Subaru | Graham P. Smith |
| Thursday 23rd April | Cluster Lensing | |
| 11:00 | Cluster Lensing (Review Talk) | Jean-Paul Kneib |
| 11:30 | Weak Lensing Studies of Galaxy Clusters | Henk Hoekstra |
| 11:45 | LoCuSS: Weak Lensing Analysis of 21 Galaxy Clusters at z=0.15-0.3 | Victoria Hamilton-Morris |
| 12:00 | Weak Lensing Observation of Potentially X-ray Underluminous Galaxy Clusters | Jörg Dietrich |
| 12:15 | Concluding Remarks | |
