UK E-ELT Science Workshop II

Stellar Populations with the European ELT

Venue: IoA, Cambridge; Dates: 17 & 18th September 2009

Meeting Programme

Thursday 17th September

10:30-11:00: Coffee

Part I: Background on the European ELT project, status and plans
11:00: Welcome - Gerry Gilmore (IoA)
11:05: ELT status & overview - Joe Liske (ESO)
11:45: Phase A instrument studies & UK involvement - Chris Evans (UKATC)
12:10: Simulations for spectroscopy of resolved stellar populations - Giuseppina Battaglia (ESO)
12:40: Discussion: Ways to get involved etc.

13:00-14:00: Lunch

Part II: Resolved Stellar Populations in the Local Volume
14:00: Review: Star formation in the Local Volume - Rob Kennicutt (IoA)
14:35: Probing the Stellar Outskirts of Nearby Spirals - Mike Barker (Edinburgh)
14:55: Stellar Content of the Outskirts of the Milky Way Twin NGC891 - Mustapha Mouhcine (LJM)
15:15: Dwarf galaxies in the Local Group- Andreas Koch (Leicester)

15:35-16:00: Coffee

16:00: Can Stellar Sources Form Enough Dust in Galaxies? - Mikako Matsuura (UCL)
16:20: Soft Gamma Repeaters in the Nearby Universe - Antonia Rowlinson (Leicester)
16:40: Chemical Properties and Evolution of A- and B-type stars - Luca Fossati (OU)
17:00: Spatially Resolved Star Formation in M100 - Mark Cropper (MSSL)
17:20: Discussion & requirements

Friday 18th September

Part III: Stellar Clusters: Near & Far

09:00: Testing the universality of the stellar IMF with the E-ELT - Nate Bastian (IoA)
09:20: Globulars near & far - Dougal Mackey (Edinburgh)
09:40: Clues to the evolution of massive stars from young stellar clusters - Ben Davies (Leeds)
10:00: Star formation in massive clusters - Simon Clark (OU)
10:20: The Globular Cluster - Galaxy connection - Ray Sharples (Durham)
10:40: Discussion & requirements

11:00-11:25: Coffee

Part IV: Stellar Populations in the low-z Universe
11:25: Review: Future challenges in Stellar Population Studies - Jarle Brinchmann (Leiden)
12:00: Stellar population studies in early-type galaxies using PNe - Patricia Sanchez-Blazquez (IAC/UCLAN)
12:20: Massive star yields as a function of Z - Jorick Vink (Armagh)
12:40: Unresolved and nearly-resolved spectroscopy - Russell Smith (Durham)

13:00-14:00: Lunch
14:00: Explosions of the most massive stars: from z~0 to 5 - Stephen Smartt (QUB)
14:20: Probing stellar populations in the nuclei of early-type galaxies with LGS AO - Davor Krajnovic (Oxford)
14:40: Final discussion & outcomes / wrap-up
15:00: END

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