Programme
PDFs of the programme and abstract book are available, including all accepted talks and posters.
| DAY 1: | Monday 29th June 2015 | OUMNH |
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| 11:30 | Registrathon | |
| 12:30 | TOURS: 1 CHRIS Museum building and architecture & 2 AMO - Behind the scenes tour of Entomology Dept. | |
| Session 1: Introduction | Chair: Aprajita Verma | |
| 13:30 | Welcome & Logistics | Niranjan Thatte & Aprajita Verma |
| 13:35 | E-ELT Project Update | Paolo Padovani |
| 14:15 | HARMONI | Niranjan Thatte |
| 14:55 | MICADO: science opportunities with the first light imager | Ric Davies |
| 15:35 | Tea | |
| 16:05 | An overview of the HARMONI simulation pipeline: HSIM | Simon Zieleniewski |
| Session 2: Transients | Chair: Kieran O'Brien | |
| 16:25 | Overview of transient science with the E-ELT/HARMONI | Nial Tanvir |
| 17:05 | Superluminous Supernovae: progenitor scenario and distance probes from current days to the E-ELT era | Cosimo Inserra |
| 17:25 | Distant Type Ia Supernovae with HARMONI | Matthias Tecza |
| 18:15 | Welcome Reception | St Anne's College |
| DAY 2: | Tuesday 30th June 2015 | OUMNH |
| Session 3: Stellar Evolution I | Chair: Chris Evans | |
| 9:15 | Stellar evolution in the light of spectroscopy | Cyril Georgy |
| 9:55 | Surveying star forming regions in the E-ELT era | Suzanne Ramsay |
| 10:15 | Resolved Stellar Populations with HARMONI | Livia Origlia |
| 10:55 | Coffee | |
| Session 4: Stellar Evolution II | Chair: Eline Tolstoy | |
| 11:25 | Ultrafaint dwarfs - relics from before reionization | Joss Bland-Hawthorn |
| 11:45 | Resolving stellar populations with crowded field 3D spectroscopy | Sebastian Kamann |
| 12:05 | RSGs | William Taylor |
| 12:25 | Chemo-dynamics of galaxies from resolved stellar populations with HARMONI | Giuseppina Battaglia |
| 12:45 | Lunch | |
| TMT | Chair: Simon Morris | |
| 13:40 | TMT-IRIS | Shelley Wright |
| Session 5: Galaxy Formation & Evolution I | ||
| 14:20 | Galaxy evolution at the peak epoch of cosmic star formation | Natascha M. Förster Schreiber |
| 15:00 | Observations of U/LIRGs-like systems with HARMONI | Santiago Arribas |
| 15:20 | Tracing kinematic (mis)alignments in CALIFA interacting galaxies: A local-Universe yardstick for high-z mergers | J.K. Barrera-Ballesteros |
| 15:40 | Tea & TOUR: 3 MONICA - Behind the scenes in the Mineralogy Department | |
| Session 6: Galaxy Formation & Evolution II | Chair: Roland Bacon | |
| 16:25 | Stars’ turbulent birth in galactic collisions. | Philippe Amram |
| 16:45 | Galactic Winds of low mass galaxies | D.J. Bomans |
| 17:05 | Disentangling the chemical and physical properties of metal-poor star-forming galaxies with high-resolution emission line imaging | Bethan James |
| 17:25 | Direct detection of non-circular gas flows with IFUs like HARMONI | N. Bouché |
| DAY 3: | Wednesday 1st July | OUMNH |
| GMT | Chair: Ryan Houghton | |
| 9:15 | The Giant Magellan Telescope Integral Field Spectrograph | Rob Sharp |
| Session 7: Solar System | ||
| 9:55 | The Contribution of HARMONI for Solar System Studies | Franck Marchis |
| 10:35 | The Main Belt of the Kuiper Belt: Simulating HARMONI observations in the Solar System | Fraser Clarke |
| 10:55 | Coffee | |
| Session 9: Black Holes & AGN | Chair: Begoña Garcia Lorenzo | |
| 11:25 | Supermassive Black Holes in Galactic Nuclei | Alessandro Marconi |
| 12:05 | Black holes with HARMONI | Eric Emsellem |
| 12:25 | Intermediate-mass black holes with HARMONI | John Magorrian |
| 12:45 | Conference Photo | |
| 13:05 | Lunch | |
| 13:30 | TOUR: 4 AMO - Behind the scenes tour of Entomology Dept | |
| JWST | Chair: Santiago Arribas | |
| 14:00 | NIRSpec: the first slit-based MOS spectrograph in space | Giovanna Giardino |
| Session 10: Galaxy Formation & Evolution III | ||
| 14:40 | Galaxy formation and evolution from the perspective of nearby galaxies | Richard McDermid |
| 15:20 | Spatially resolved studies of extragalactic Diffuse Interstellar Bands | Ana Monreal-Ibero |
| 15:40 | Tea | |
| Session 11: Galaxy Formation & Evolution IV | Chair: Fraser Clarke | |
| 16:10 | Cosmological Simulations of Galaxy Formation | J. Devriendt |
| 16:50 | Cosmological simulations and HSIM: Simulation-based integral field studies of high-redshift galaxies with HARMONI | S. Kendrew |
| Poster Pops | ||
| 17:10 | 2min Poster Presentations | |
| 19:00 | Conference Dinner | Somerville College |
| DAY 4: | Thursday 2nd July 2015 | OUMNH |
| Session 12: Exoplanets & Disks | Chair: Matthias Tecza | |
| 9:15 | Formation and Evolution of Planetary Systems: Probing Initial Conditions and Outcomes with the E-ELT | Michael Meyer |
| 9:55 | Direct detection of extra-solar planets and debris disks | Anthony Boccaletti |
| 10:35 | Spectral characterization of exoplanets with HARMONI: estimation of the achievable contrast levels. | Alexis Carlotti |
| 10:55 | Preparing for HARMONI: Lessons learned from early SPHERE observations | Elisabeth Matthews |
| 11:15 | Coffee | |
| Session 13: Galaxy Formation & Evolution V | Chair: Suzanne Ramsay | |
| 11:40 | Resolved observations of high z galaxies using strong lensing | Johan Richard |
| 12:20 | IFU studies of high-z star-forming galaxies through cosmic telescope: ELT science in 2015! | Mark Swinbank |
| 12:40 | Metallicity gradients and resolved chemical abundances in high-z lensed galaxies | Rebecca Williams |
| 13:00 | Lunch | |
| Session 14: Galaxy Formation & Evolution VI | Chair: Niranjan Thatte | |
| 13:45 | Absorption line spectroscopy of the first passive galaxies | Ryan Houghton |
| 14:05 | Integral Field Unit Observations of High Redshift Dusty Quasars | Manda Banerji |
| Session 15: Summaries & Discussion | ||
| 14:25 | Summary: Observer's Perspective | Antonella Nota |
| 14:50 | Summary: Theorist's Perspective | Joe Silk |
| 15:15 | Discussion | Roger Davies & All |
| 15:45 | RAS Student Prizes | |
| 15:55 | Tea & TOUR 5: CHRIS - Museum building and architecture | |
| Sim Session 1: Introduction & Set-up | Sarah Kendrew & Simon Zieleniewski | |
| 16:25 | General overview | Simon Zieleniewski |
| 16:45 | Simulator methods and workflow | |
| 17:05 | Setting up the simulator | |
| DAY 5: | Friday 3rd July 2015 | Denys Wilkinson Building |
| Sim Session 2: Hands-on Workshop | Sarah Kendrew & Simon Zieleniewski | |
| 9:15 | The Simulator output data products | |
| 9:45 | Hands-on session | |
| 10:45 | Coffee | |
| Sim Session 3: Hands-on Workshop | ||
| 11:15 | Hands-on session | |
| 13:00 | Lunch | |
| END | ||
| ACCEPTED POSTER CONTRIBUTIONS | ||
| Central star formation and chemical enrichment in CALIFA interacting galaxies | J.K. Barrera-Ballesteros | |
| From CALIFA to HARMONI: triggering Active Galactic Nuclei over Cosmic Time | Cristina Ramos Almeida | |
| The black hole and host galaxy relationship over the cosmic time | Renato Falomo | |
| Search for neutral outflows in local [U]LIRGs via the IFS of the NaD feature | S. Cazzoli | |
| The AO modes for HARMONI: from classical to Laser-assisted tomographic AO systems | B. Neichel | |
| The diffuse ISM and diffuse interstellar bands observed with HARMONI | Jonathan Smoker | |
| Simulated EELT-HARMONI observations of ULIRGs | Javier Piqueras López |
