Workshop programme/presentations:
Day One, Wednesday 9th November
Session 1: Existing Surveys
Chair: Nigel Hambly
0850-0900 Welcome and Introduction from the LOC
0900-0930 ‘DENIS’ (Epchtein) (PDF/5.63 MB)
0930-1000 ‘The Two Micron All Sky Survey’ (Cutri) (PDF/31.7 MB)
1000-1020 ‘NIR galaxies in the highly obscured region around PKS1343-601’ (Schroeder) (PDF/1.51 MB)
1020-1040 ‘Delineating the cosmological growth of stellar mass with deep infrared surveys’ (Dunlop) (PDF/0.56 MB)
1040-1110: Coffee
Session 2: New technologies and survey facilities
Chair: Jim Dunlop
1110-1140 ‘The UKIRT Widefield Camera (WFCAM)’ (Casali) (PDF/1.73 MB)
1140-1210 ‘Large Area Near Infrared Detectors for Astronomy’ (Ives) (PDF/25.9 MB)
1210-1240 ‘Pipeline Processing of WFCAM and VISTA survey data’ (Irwin)
1240-1300 ‘The WFCAM Science Archive’ (Hambly)
1300-1400 Lunch in the Rooftop Gallery
Session 2, continued: New technologies and survey facilities
Chair: Mark Casali
1400-1430 ‘VISTA and its capabilities’ (Emerson) (PDF/1.58 MB)
1430-1500 ‘VISTA’ (Sutherland) (PDF/2.87 MB)
1500-1530 ‘A first look at the UKIDSS data’ (Warren) (PowerPoint/14.70 MB)
1530-1600 Coffee
Session 3: New Survey Science
Chair: Suzie Ramsay Howat
1600-1620 ‘Accessing the UK Wide Imaging Surveys from Astrogrid’ (Gonzalez) (PDF/5.87 MB)
1620-1640 ‘Constraining the Stellar Birthrate and Mass Function using UKIDSS’ (Deacon) (PDF/0.56 MB)
1640-1700 ‘Complex, small-scale structure in the IR extinction towards the GC’ (Gosling)
1715: Coaches depart
1830 ‘til late: Public lecture and conference dinner at Our Dynamic Earth
Day Two, Thurdsay 10th November
Session 3 (continued): New Survey Science
Chair : Andy Longmore
0900-0930 ‘WIRCam Commissioning, Performances and Expected Science’ (Albert) (PDF/5.14 MB)
0930-0950 ‘The WIRCam Deep Survey (WIRDS)’ (Willott)
0950-1010 ‘WFCAM commissioning and early science observing’ (Hirst)
1010-1030 ‘The UKIDSS Ultradeep Survey’ (Almaini)
1030-1050 ‘Science prospects from the UKIDSS DXS’ (Edge)
1050-1120 Coffee
Session 3 (continued): New Survey Science
Chair: Omar Almaini
1120-1140 ‘Exploring the Quasar Population in the Near-infrared’ (Maddox) (PDF/1.31 MB)
1140-1200 ‘Galaxy evolution and large-scale structure in the near- to mid-infrared’ (Waddington)
1200-1220 ‘Multi-wavelength studies of rho Ophiuchus and Rosette Complex Systems’ (Smith) (PDF/4.87 MB)
1240-1300 ‘Multi-object Near-IR spectroscopy on galaxies at redshift 1-2’ (Bunker)
1300 – 1400 Lunch in the Rooftop Gallery
Session 3 (continued): New Survey Science
Chair: Steve Warren
1400-1420 ‘CANICA: A Near-Infrared camera at the 2-m GHO telescope at Cananea, Mexico.’ (Mayya)
1420-1440 ‘Subaru/Suprime-CAM observations of the UKIDSS DXS fields: ELAIS N1 and Lockman Hole’ (Sato)
1440-1500 ‘A deep wide-field survey in the IC4665 open cluster’ (Lodieu) (PDF/0.39 MB)
Session 4: Future follow-up
Chair: Steve Warren
1500-1530 ‘KMOS: A Multi-Object Near-Infrared Integral Field Spectrograph’ (Sharples) (PDF/5.21 MB)
1530-1550 ‘The FMOS Spectrographs’ (Bonfield) (PDF/1.67 MB)
1550 - 1620 Coffee
Session 4 (continued): Future follow-up
Chair: Ross McClure
1620-1640 ‘The Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE)’ (Cutri) (PDF/5.47 MB)
1640-1700 ‘FLAMINGOS-2: A Near-IR multi-object spectrograph and imager for the Gemini-South Telescope’ (Bergmann)
1700-1720 ‘XMM-2df Wide Angle Serendipitous Survey’ (Tedds) (PDF/0.86 MB)
1720-1740 ‘The importance of NIR photometry for wide field optical spectroscopy’ (Cannon)
1740-1800 Concluding remarks and conference summary