ROE Workshop 2012

Synergies between large-area infrared surveys, VLT-MOONS and Euclid

5-6th November 2012, Royal Observatory Edinburgh

Preliminary Programme

Monday 5th November - Royal College of Physicians
09:30 - 10:30 Registration & Coffee
10:30 - 10:40 J. Peacock Welcome
10:40 - 11:10 H. Hoeksta (invited) Euclid
11:10 - 11:30 M. Cirasuolo VLT-MOONS
Session 1 - Synergies for studies of the Milky Way and local galaxies
11.30 - 12.00

G. Gilmore (Invited)

What do we anticipate from Gaia
12.00 - 12.30 L. Origlia (Invited) IR spectroscopy: the tool to unveil the inner Galaxy
12.30 - 13.50 Lunch
13.50 - 14.00 M. Hempel Milky Way Globular Clusters in the VVV Survey
14.00 - 14.10 Z. Zhang Purple dwarfs: New L subdwarfs from UKIDSS and SDSS
14.10 - 14.20    
14.20 - 14.30 C. Evans Near-IR spectroscopy of stars in nearby galaxies
14.30 - 15.00 Discussion
Session 2 - Synergies for Cosmological studies
15.00 - 15.30

L. Guzzo (Invited)

Cosmology with the Euclid Spectroscopic Survey
15.30 - 16.00 Coffee Break
16.00 - 16.30 T. Kitching (Invited) Why Euclid weak lensing science requires spectroscopic surveys
16.30 - 17.00 P. Norberg (Invited) A Galaxy And Mass Assembly survey @ z~1 with MOONS
17.00 - 17.20 B. Garilli The euclidean side of the moon(s): synergies between ground and space based spectroscopy
17.20 - 17.30 N. Cross The WFAU Archives
17.30 - 18.00 Discussion
19:30 Workshop Dinner
Tuesday 6th November - Royal Observatory Edinburgh
Session 3 - Synergies for galaxy formation studies
09.00 - 09.30

A. Fontana (Invited)

Galaxies at the cosmic noon: from MOONS to Euclid
09.30 - 10.00 J. Brinkmann (Invited) Galaxy evolution with Euclid - what more do you want?
10.00 - 10.10 I. Trujillo/ F. Buitrago The entertaining life of massive galaxies
10.10 - 10.20 I. Ferreras Exploring galaxy formation at low spectral resolution
10.20 - 10.50 Coffee Break
10.50 - 11.20 S. Oliver (Invited) Obscured galaxy formation: results from Herschel and synergies with VLT-MOONS and Euclid
11.20 - 11.30 I. Roseboom FMOS spectroscopy of Herschel selected galaxies at z~1 and the prospects for future near-IR surveys of submm sources
11.30 - 11.40 J. Santos Far-infrared star-formation in XMMU J2235.3-2557, a massive galaxy cluster at z=1.4
11.40 - 12.10 J. Dunlop (Invited) Galaxies in the first billion years and cosmic reionization
12.10 - 12.20 Y. Peng A Continuity Approach to Galaxy Evolution
12.20 - 12.30 P. Dayal The physics of the fundamental metallicity relation
12.30 - 14.00 Lunch
14.00 - 16.00 Break-out sessions

 

The ROE conference is supported by the UK Astronomy Technology Centre and the Institute for Astronomy of the University of Edinburgh.