Science Programme

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Monday, 2^nd March 2015 – Galactic Archaeology
Session Chair: Norbert Christlieb
08:55	Welcome address by the Mayor of Santa Cruz de La Palma
09:00	Marc Balcells	Multi-Object Spectroscopy in the Next Decade
09:15	Rafael Barrena	MOS capabilities on the 4-m and 10-m La Palma telescopes

09:30	Gerry Gilmore	Galactic Archaeology: increasing the dimensionality
10:10	Daisuke Kawata	Chemodynamical Evolution of The Milky Way Like Galaxies In N-body Simulations
10:30	Georges Kordopatis	Galactic archaeology with the RAdial Velocity Experiment
10:50	Coffee break and posters
Session Chair: Giuseppina Battaglia
11:20	Rosemary Wyse	Galactic Archaeology: Current Surveys and Instrumentation
12:00	Carme Jordi	Gaia mission: current status and spectroscopic capabilities
12:20	Sarah Martell	The GALAH Survey: an overview
12:40	Yongheng Zhao	Spectroscopic survey of LAMOST
13:00	Carlos Allende Prieto	APOGEE and what comes next
13:20	Oscar A. Gonzalez	The missing pieces of the Milky Way bulge puzzle
13:35	Lunch break
Session Chair: Amparo Marco
15:00	Sofia Feltzing	Galactic Archeology: Prospects and Issues
15:40	Gavin Dalton	WEAVE: The next generation spectroscopy facility for the WHT
16:00	Vanessa Hill	Galactic Archaeology Surveys at the WHT
16:15	Roelof de Jong	4MOST: 4 metre Multi-Object Spectroscopic Telescope
16:35	Michele Cirasuolo	MOONS: Multi-Object Optical and Near-infrared Spectrograph for the VLT
16:55	Coffee break and posters
Session Chair: Marc Balcells
17:25	Keith Hawkins	The Ages and Fractions of the α-rich and α-poor Populations in the Galactic Halo
17:40	Adam Bolton	Advanced Algorithms for MOS Surveys
18:30	End of day one

Tuesday, 3^rd March 2015 – Star Formation and Evolution & Galaxy Evolution
Session Chair: Ignacio Negueruela
09:00	Artemio Herrero Davó	Massive stars: some open questions and MOS
09:40	Ricardo Dorda	Surveying the massive star formation in the inner Galaxy
09:55	Alex de Koter	Formation and Evolution of Massive Stars: Current Surveys
10:35	Janet Drew	Deep searches for early-type stars in the Galactic Plane
10:50	Coffee break and posters
Session Chair: Michele Cirasuolo
11:20	Tomaz Zwitter	Auxiliary science in Galactic archaeology surveys
11:35	Armando Gil de Paz	MEGARA, the new generation optical MOS and IFU for GTC
11:50	Koraljka Mužić	The SONYC survey: Understanding brown dwarf formation through multi-object spectroscopy
12:05	Chris Evans	Stellar Evolution and Star Formation: A few things you haven't heard about
12:45	Boris Gänsicke	Stellar archaeology with Gaia: the galactic white dwarf population
13:00	Benoit Famaey	Unravelling the 3D effects of the bar and spirals in the Milky Way
13:15	Antonio Cabrera-Lavers	MOS with OSIRIS at the GTC
13:30	Conference photo and lunch break
Session Chair: Adam Bolton
15:00	Carlos Frenk	Galaxy Evolution: Big Questions
15:40	Jon Loveday	Evolution in the stellar mass function and clustering of galaxies
15:55	Shoko Jin	Stellar kinematics and metallicities in the Draco and Ursa Minor dwarf galaxies
16:10	ChangHoon Hahn	PRIMUS: Galaxy Environment on the Quiescent Fraction Evolution at z < 0.8
16:25	Rubén Sánchez-Janssen	Globular Cluster Systems as Tracers of Galaxy Formation and Evolution: Clues from MOS Surveys
16:45	Coffee break and posters
Session Chair: Armando Gil de Paz
17:15	Matthew A. Bershady	Galaxy Evolution: Current Surveys and Instrumentation
17:55	Jesús Falcon-Barroso	The Calar Alto Legacy Integral Field Area survey: Overview, status and latest results
18:15	Rosa González Delgado	CALIFA across the Hubble sequence: How galaxies grow their bulges and disks
18:30	End of day two

Wednesday, 4^th March 2015 – Galaxy Evolution
Session Chair: Johan Knapen
09:00	Scott Croom	The last two decades and the next one
09:40	Anne-Marie Weijmans	MaNGA: Mapping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory
10:00	Julia Bryant	HECTOR - Next generation multi-object IFU for the Anglo-Australian Telescope
10:20	Marc Verheijen	Science with Weave's IFUs
10:40*	Francisco Castander	Cosmology with accurate photometric redshifts wide-field surveys: the PAU survey
10:55	Coffee break and posters
Session Chair: Angela Iovino
11:30	Simon Driver	Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) and its successor WAVES
11:50	J. Alfonso L. Aguerri	The WEAVE spectroscopic nearby galaxy cluster survey: the origin of low-mass halos
12:05	Giovanna Giardino	NIRSpec: Uncovering the early stages of galaxy evolution
12:20	Ryan Houghton	The GTO KMOS Cluster Survey
12:35	Arjen van der Wel	The LEGA-C Survey: ESO Public Spectroscopic Survey with VLT/VIMOS
12:50	Michele Cirasuolo	VANDELS: Unveiling the astrophysics of high-redshift galaxy evolution
13:05	End of day three. Afternoon excursion to North East of La Palma

Thursday, 5^th March 2015 – Cosmology
Session Chair: Simon Driver
09:00	Risa Wechsler	Cosmology: Addressing the Big Questions with Big Spectroscopic Surveys
09:40	Kiyoto Yabe	The Subaru FMOS Galaxy Redshift Survey (FastSound)
09:55	Andrew Hopkins	TAIPAN
10:10	Yue Shen	SDSS-RM: A Multi-Object Quasar Reverberation Mapping Project
10:25	Dan Smith	MOS: A critical tool for current and future radio-frequency surveys
10:45	Rita Tojeiro	The final galaxy clustering results from BOSS
11:05	Coffee break and posters
Session Chair: Amata Mercurio
11:35	Matthew Colless	Cosmology: Current Surveys and Instrumentation
12:15	Angela Iovino	VIPERS: unveiling the combined evolution of galaxies and large-scale structure at 0.5 < z < 1.2
12:30	Marie-Luise Menzel	A spectroscopic survey with BOSS of X-ray selected AGN in the northern XMM-XXL field
12:45	Jordi Cepa	J-PAS: The Javalambre-Physics of the Accelerated Universe Astrophysical Survey
13:00*	Francisco Garzón	EMIR, the NIR MOS and imager for GTC
13:20	Matthew Pieri	Cosmology with Massive Intergalactic Medium Surveys Past, Present and Future
13:35	Lunch break
Session Chair: Emilio Molinari
15:00	Bob Nichol	Cosmology: Future Surveys and Instrumentation
15:40	Brenna Flaugher	The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI)
16:00	Andrea Merloni	Massive Spectroscopic surveys of X-ray selected AGN and Clusters: from SPIDERS to 4MOST
16:20	Benjamin Joachimi	Euclid: an ESA Medium Class Mission
16:40	Coffee break and posters
Session Chair: Reynier Peletier
17:10	Jason Rhodes	NASA’s Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST)
17:30	Masahiro Takada	Subaru Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS)
17:50	Gary J. Hill	HETDEX and VIRUS: Panoramic Integral Field Spectroscopy with 35,000 fibres
18:05	End of day four
19:30	Conference dinner

Friday, 6^th March 2015 – Future Perspectives
Session Chair: Sally Heap
09:00	Rebecca Bernstein	Plans for Multi-Object Spectroscopy with the ELTs
09:40	Jeffrey Newman	Multi-object Spectroscopy for LSST
10:00	Andrew Hopkins	The science and status of the Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer
10:15	Nicholas Walton	Gaia and WEAVE/WxES: supporting the PLATO Exoplanet Hunter
10:30	Marc Balcells	Multi-Object Spectroscopy in the Next Decade: Open Discussion on Technical Challenges
11:00	Coffee break and posters
Session Chair: Andreas Kelz
11:30	Marc Balcells	Multi-Object Spectroscopy in the Next Decade: Open Discussion on Technical Challenges
12:50	Scott Trager	Conference summary
13:30	End of day five, end of conference
15:00	Visit to the William Herschel Telescope and GranTeCan

* Rescheduled

Poster Presentations

1	Irene Agulli	The origin of dwarf galaxies in clusters: the faint end slope of the galaxy luminosity function
2	Sinan Alis	DAG Telescope: A New Potential for MOS Observations
3	Shohei Aoyama	Evolution of perturbations and cosmological constraints in decaying dark matter models with arbitrary decay mass products
4	Ricardo Carrera	The Open Cluster Chemical Abundances from Spanish Observatories (OCCASO) Survey
5	Gavin Dalton	The Fibre Positioning Concept for WEAVE at the WHT
6	Gavin Dalton	Towards an integrated model of the WEAVE performance.
7	Boris Deshev	Building up a cluster. A520
8	Arnas Drazdauskas	The Gaia-ESO Survey: CNO abundances in open clusters of our Galaxy
9	David Garcia-Alvarez	OSIRIS Multiobject spectroscopy observations’ cycle of life
10	Karoline Gilbert	Observing Resolved Stellar Populations with the JWST Near Infrared Spectrograph
11	Gabriel Gómez Velarde	OSIRIS Multiobject spectroscopy mask design process
12	Carlos González-Fernández	A New Survey of Red Supergiants in the Magellanic Clouds
13	Eduardo Gonzalez Solares	Integrating Mass Scale Spectroscopic Processing
14	Sally Heap	Galaxy Evolution Spectroscopic Explorer (GESE)
15	Diane Karakla	JWST/NIRSpec MOS Observing Mode
16	Andreas Kelz	Multi-Object Spectroscopy with MUSE
17	Andreas Kelz	MOSAIC: a Multi-Object Spectrograph for the E-ELT
18	Minjin Kim	The Science Cases for Near-infrared Imaging Spectrometer for Star formation history (NISS)
19	Janez Kos	Wrapping together galactic archaeology and interstellar medium studies in large spectroscopic surveys
20	Khee-Gan Lee	Mapping the High-z Universe in 3D: Lyα Forest Surveys on Future MOS Instruments
21	Bertrand Lemasle	Cepheids and large scale spectroscopic surveys.
22	Xiaowei Liu	The LAMOST Galactic surveys
23	Rosario Lopez	MOS MAPPING OF THE NIR OUTFLOW HH 223
24	Benjamin A. MacFarlane	TraCD: Tracking Cluster Debris
25	Inma Martinez-Valpuesta	Metallicity gradients in the Milky Way Bulge
26	Alireza Molaeinezhad	The AF2+WYFFOS pipeline: An algorithm for an improved sky estimation based on Principal Component Analysis
27	Emilio Molinari	WAS: Textures of the WEAVE Science Archive
28	Emilio Molinari	BATMAN: MOS spectroscopy on demand.
29	Maria Monguió	A WEAVE radial velocity survey to unravel the Milky Way spiral arms nature
30	David Montes	Searching for new members of stellar kinematic groups: kine-chemical tagging FGK stars with GES data
31	James Muzerolle	JWST/NIRSpec Multi-Object Spectroscopy: Calibration and Data Products
32	Donatas Narbutis	Suprime-Cam photometric survey of M33 galaxy
33	Silvana Navarro	Automatic spectral classification of galaxies in the IR
34	Ignacio Negueruela	Exploring the obscured Milky Way with multi-object spectroscopy
35	Mercedes Prieto Muñoz	The trace of the hierarchical assembly of massive E–S0s galaxies at 0.8 < z < 1.5 in galaxy number counts
36	Merce Romero-Gomez	The analysis of the moments of the velocity distribution in the Gaia sphere.
37	Fernando F. Rosales-Ortega	Beyond MOS and fibers: large FoV Imaging Fourier Transform Spectroscopy, an instrumentation proposal for the present and future Mexican telescopes.
38	Rubén Sánchez-Janssen	Revisiting the impact of atmospheric dispersion and differential refraction on MOS observations. From VLT/VIMOS to next generation instruments
39	Marja Kristin Seidel	BaLROG - The influence of bars on the dynamical structure and stellar populations in 3D
40	Sergio Simón-Díaz	Revisiting old questions on massive stars using new large spectroscopic surveys of Galactic OB stars
41	Rodolfo Smiljanic	The Gaia-ESO Survey experience with multiple analysis pipelines
42	Jonathan Smoker	Large and small-scale structure of intermediate and high velocity gas towards the Magellanic Clouds using FLAMES
43	Martin Stringer	A cosmological context for compact massive galaxies
44	Naoyuki Tamura	Subaru Prime Focus Spectrograph
45	Haibo Yuan	A MOS-based method for color calibration to a few mmag precision and implications on Galactic archeology
46	Stefano Zarattini	The dependence of the luminosity function on the magnitude gap