UK E-ELT Science Workshop

Exo-planets and Proto-stars with the European ELT

Edinburgh, 2nd & 3rd April 2009

Meeting Programme [last updated 11/03/09]
2nd April

10:00-11:00: Coffee

Part I: Background on the European ELT project, status and plans
11:00: Welcome - Andy Longmore (UKATC)
11:05: ELT status & science case development - Isobel Hook (Oxford)
11:30: Instrumentation overview & summary of UK involvement - Colin Cunningham (UKATC)
12:05: Discussion: Ways to get involved

Part II: Exoplanets: Direct & Indirect Detection
12:35: Status of exoplanets in the ELT era - Andrew Cameron (St. Andrews)
13:00-14:00: Lunch

14:00: Imaging planets with the MMT AO system - Morag Hastie (MMT)
14:25: Planets around white dwarfs - Matt Burleigh (Leicester)
14:50: High-contrast spectral imaging with VLT-SINFONI - Graeme Salter (Oxford)
15:15: The Gemini-NICI planet-finding campaign - Matthias Tecza (Oxford)
15:40-16:15: Coffee

16:15: Exoplanets with the E-ELT & EPICS - Fraser Clarke (Oxford)
16:40: Imaging exoplanets with the E-ELT - Szymon Gladysz (ESO)
17:05: Synergies with PLATO - Don Pollacco (QUB)
17:30: Discussion & requirements

Evening: WORKSHOP DINNER

3rd April

09:00: Exoplanets in the mid-IR with E-ELT & METIS - Wolfgang Brandner (Heidelberg)
09:25: Exoplanet atmospheres from high-resolution spectroscopy on the E-ELT
       Andy Longmore (on behalf of the SIMPLE instrument team)
09:50: Radial velocity studies of exoplanets with E-ELT & CODEX - Filippo Zerbi (INAF)
10:15: Observing the nearest analogue to our Solar system - Jane Greaves (St. Andrews)
10:40: Discussion & requirements
11:00-11:30: Coffee

Part III: Stellar Disks

11:30: Stellar disks in the mid-IR with E-ELT & METIS - Wolfgang Brandner (Heidelberg)
11:55: Debris disks with the E-ELT - Rachel Smith (Cambridge)
12:20: Discussion & requirements
12:45-13:45: Lunch

Part IV: Star Formation and the IMF
13:45: From VLT to ELT: Exploring the bottom of the IMF - Aleks Scholz (St. Andrews)
14:10: Observing giant-planet-mass objects in the LMC with the E-ELT - Annalisa Calamida (ESO)

14:35: Final discussion & outcomes / wrap-up
15:00 : END

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