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Programme at close of registration March 5th 1999.

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Date/Time(§)
Title of Talk
Speaker/Institute
Code




Tues 6th April
14.00 - 19.00

Registration





Weds 7th April
08.50 - 09.00

Welcome

Gehring/Tadhunter (Sheffield)

*

Session 1:

The 8-m Impact

09.00 - 09.20

Introduction

Rutten (ING)

09.20 - 10.00

Gemini and the role of small telescopes

Roche (Gemini/Oxford)

I

10.00 - 10.40

The 10-m GTC project

Espinosa (Grantecan)

I

10.40 - 11.00

Coffee

Session 2:

Science on sub 8-m Telescopes

11.00 - 11.30

Supporting 8-m's - imaging surveys

Irwin (IoA)

I

11.30 - 12.00

Supporting space science projects

Mason (MSSL/UCL)

I

12.00 - 12.30

Inherent small telescope projects

Charles (Oxford)

I

12.30 - 13.30

Lunch and Posters

Session 3:

The USA and European Approach

13.30 - 14.00

NOAO

Bohannan (NOAO)

I

14.00 - 14.30

Calar Alto

Gredel (MPI-CAHA)

I

14.30 - 15.00

CFHT instrumentation plan - long term perspective

Bacon (Lyon)

I

15.00 - 15.20

Coffee

15.20 - 15.50

TNG - La Palma

Bortoletto (TNG)

I

15.50 - 16.10

Instrumentation plans for the AAO

Bailey (AAO)

C

16.10 - 16.30

The Liverpool Robotic Telescope

Steele (Liverpool John Moores)

C

16.30 - 17.30

Poster Session

P





Thurs 8th April

Session 4:

The ING strategy

09.00 - 09.10

Introduction

Rutten (ING)

09.10 - 09.40

The ING 'focussed strand' approach

Rutten (ING)

09.40 - 10.10

IR/Optical Wide Field Spectroscopy

Pollacco (ING)

10.10 - 10.40

Optical/Near IR AO imaging and spectroscopy

Benn (ING)

10.40 - 11.00

Coffee

11.00 - 11.30

LAST - La Palma Spectroscopic Telescope

Walton (ING)

11.30 - 12.00

Alternatives: Modes or Operations

Lennon (ING)

Session 5:

Instrumentation for sub 8-m Telescopes

12.00 - 12.30

Adaptive Optics and Laser Guide Stars

Longmore (UKATC)

I

12.30 - 13.00

Spectroscopy developments (fibres, IFU)

Sharples (Durham)

I

13.00 - 14.00

Lunch and Posters

Session 6:

The Science / Instrumentation Synthesis

14.00 - 17.00

Panel discussion: `Small telescopes, the way ahead.'

Chair: Frenk (Durham/JSC)

D*

19.30 - 22.30

Conference Dinner





Fri 9th April

Session 5 (cont.):

Instrumentation for sub 8-m Telescopes

09.00 - 09.30

Imaging and Large Array Cameras

Kuijken (Groningen)

I

09.30 - 10.00

Detector technologies and STJ's

Peacock (ESA/ESTEC)

I

10.00 - 10.30

SALT and novel operational modes

Buckley (SAAO)

I

10.30 - 10.50

Coffee

10.50 - 11.10

Progress report on Sodium layer monitoring for laser guide star adaptive optics

Dainty (Imperial)

C

11.10 - 11.30

Ultracam - studying astrophysics on the fastest timescales

Dhillon (Sheffield)

C

11.30 - 11.50

First light for SAURON

Miller (Leiden)

C

11.50 - 12.10

The LDSS future

Bower (Durham)

C*

12.10 - 12.30

High-resolution imaging and 3-D spectroscopy of galaxy cores

Knapen (Herts)

C

12:30 - 13.30

Lunch

Session 7:

The ING Science / Instrumentation Synthesis

13.30 - 14.10

The ING's Wide Field Survey

McMahon (IoA)

I

14.10 - 14.30

The ING's Pipeline processed data products

tbd

Session 8:

Workshop Summary

14.30 - 15.10

Recommendations for instrumentation at the ING

Frenk (Durham/JSC)

*

15.10 - 15.30

Coffee and Workshop Close





§ - the 40 and 30 minute talks include 10 and 5 mins for discussion respectively
* - Indicates that the speaker is as yet unconfirmed
I - Invited contribution
C - Contributed short talk
D - Discussion session
P - Poster session

During the Thursday afternoon Panel discussion the following questions would be discussed:

  • What are the 'big' astronomical science issues?
  • What instrumentation is needed to address these issues?
  • What is best carried out on 4-m or 2-m telscopes?
  • What facilities are now redundant?
  • Do sub 8-m telescopes have a future?
  • The La Palma GTC/LAST 8-m future?
  • What role for `robotic' telescopes?
  • Which operational models should be developed?
  • The position of survey programmes?
  • Opportunities for greater European sub 8-m telescope networks?
The discussion will be chaired by Carlos Frenk.

The audience would be invited to participate in this discussion.


This page last updated: 8 March 1999
Nic Walton (naw@ing.iac.es)