The Monday to Wednesday sessions will have more emphasis on the IR surveys, while
Thursday and Friday it will shift more towards the optical surveys.
All sessions will be in the lecture theatre LC108, apart from the last which will be held in D102 (a classroom not far away).
SOCIAL EVENTS: We are arranging the opportunity for a pub evening
meal on Tuesday 19th. The cost of eating/drinking is up to you,
according to your need - typical mains are in the region of 8-10
pounds, and drinks will be at normal pub prices. Transport to/from
the pub is being set up. Also a dinner for Thursday evening, 21st,
has been booked at one of the better restaurants in St Albans (an
easily-reached market town with abbey and roman ruins, a few miles
from Hatfield), for which the price to be paid on the night will be
20.00 pounds + 2.50 service. This will cover choice of food from
their menu B. Soft drinks, tea/coffee to finish, and some initially
laid-on wine (and a per head food subsidy) will be taken care of by
us. We ask you to sign up for these and, in the case of the pub,
ask you to indicate a menu preference by the morning of the 19th, so
that we might confirm numbers. The Darcy's list will close on
Wednesday.
Monday 18 July, 2.00-5.30 pm
Tuesday 19 July, 9.30-5.30pm
Session: Variability | |
09.30: DIA photometry updates |
Eamonn Kerins, Manchester |
09.55: A first glance on stellar variability in VVV |
Istvan Dekany, PUC |
10.20: The VVV Templates Project: Automatic Classification of Light Curves |
Rodolfo Angeloni, PUC |
10.45: VVV Colour mag diagrams in the Bulge |
Roberto Saito, PUC |
11.15-11.45 Coffee | |
Session: Globular clusters/RR Lyraes | |
11.45: Aperture photometry of globular clusters |
Maren Hempel, PUC |
12.10: The inner Galactic globular clusters as seen in VVV |
Javier Alonso, PUC |
12.35: Analysis of bulge RR Lyrae population from the OGLE-III data |
Pawel Pietrukowicz, Warsaw |
13.00-14.15 Lunch | |
Session: young clusters and associations | |
14.15: Young massive stellar clusters in the Milky Way |
Maria Messineo, MPIfR |
14.40: The Chandra-Cygnus X Young Star survey |
Nick Wright, CfA |
15.05: Optical/IR cluster cross-matching |
Geert Barentsen, Armagh |
15.30-16.00 Coffee | |
16.00: The GPS cluster sample |
Phil Lucas for David Bush, UH |
16.25: Bayesian analysis of star clusters |
Stuart Sale, Valparaiso |
16.50-17.00: Poster adverts |
Poster advert: A VVV view of new Galactic star cluster candidates |
James Clarke, Valparaiso |
Poster advert: A VVV view of known massive cluster candidates |
James Clarke for Jura Borissova, Valparaiso |
Poster advert: Reddening-free indices for the VISTA/VVV filter system |
Marcio Catelan, PUC |
Poster advert: Automated selection of reference images for DIA |
Leo Huckvale, Manchester |
First general discussion | |
19.15 Depart for The Sun Inn, Lemsford for pub dinner - coach
pick-up in front of College Lane Main Reception (by seated
statue). Return will be at 11.00pm |
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Wednesday 20 July, 9.30-5.30pm
Session: young clusters and their stellar content | |
09.30: The GPS/GLIMPSE360 search for red objects |
Basmah Riaz, UH |
09.55: Spectroscopy of extreme variables from the GPS |
Carlos Contreras, UH |
10.20: UWISH2 - an H2 imaging survey of the GLIMPSE-North region |
Dirk Froebrich, Kent |
10.50: H2 outflows at 18 < l < 30; -1 < b < +1 - first results from UWISH2 Survey |
Georgios Ioannidis, Kent |
11.15-11.45 Coffee | |
Session: Proper motions and rare objects | |
11.45: Search for Companions to High Proper Motion Stars with VVV |
Dante/Valentin Ivanov, ESO-Santiago |
12.15: An automated 2 epoch Proper Motion search of UKIDSS and VISTA |
Leigh Smith/Phil, UH |
12.45-14.00 Lunch | |
Session: Galactic structure and reddening | |
14.00: 3D extinction mapping using hierarchical Bayesian models |
Stuart Sale, Valparaiso |
14.30: 3D Extinction mapping, incorporating UVEX |
Simone Scaringi, Nijmegen |
15.00: Reddening, structure & metallicities of the Bulge from VVV and 2MASS |
Oscar Gonzales, ESO |
15.30-16.00 Tea/Coffee | |
Session: wider initiatives | |
16.00: The Gaia-ESO spectroscopic survey, and the GREAT network |
Nic Walton, IoA Cambridge |
16.30: Longer general discussion | |
Thursday 21 July, 10.00-5.30pm
Session: IPHAS/UVEX update | |
10.00: IPHAS update |
Robert Greimel, Graz |
10.25: IPHAS classical Be stars within and beyond the Perseus Arm |
Roberto Raddi, UH |
10.55: Automated classification of IPHAS Be stars in the Barbier-Chalonge system | Jean Fabregat, Valencia |
11.25-11.55 Tea/Coffee | |
Session: Short-wavelength observations of the plane | |
11.55: Swift UV Survey of the Bulge + KAT/MeerKAT radio campaign in the Bulge |
Tom Maccarone, Southampton |
12.25: Counterparts to X-ray sources from the Chandra Galactic Plane Survey |
Sandra Greiss, Warwick |
12.55-14.15 Lunch | |
14.15: UVEX source selection |
Kars Verbeek, Nijmegen |
Session: Planetary Nebulae and White Dwarfs | |
14.45: Binary stars in planetary nebulae |
Brent Miszalski, SAAO |
15.15: IPHAS global calibration |
Brent Miszalski, SAAO |
15.30-16.00 Tea/Coffee | |
16.00: V458 Vul: X-shooter results | Roger Wesson, UCL |
16.25: White dwarfs: searches for companions and debris disks |
Jonathan Girven, Warwick |
16.55 Local white dwarf birth rate from IPHAS |
Ralf Napiwotzki, UH |
20.00 3-course Dinner at Darcy's in St Albans - get there by
bus from in front of the Forum (602 at 1819, 1847, 1925 or 655 at
1819), or by shared taxi (ask hotel reception, or call e.g. 01707
266666), or via lift from a local! To return, shared taxis are
easily picked up from St Albans railway station, about 5-10 mins
walk from the restaurant.
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Friday 22 July, 9.30-13.00
Session: VPHAS+ update and round-table discussion (room D102) | |
09.30: VPHAS+ status | Janet Drew, UH |
10.00: First impressions of VST data/performance | Mike
Irwin, CASU/IoA |
10.20: Discussion | |
11.15-11.45 Tea/Coffee | |
11.45: Discussion (continued) | |
13.00 MEETING ENDS | |