The VISTA Telescope
Workshop Programme
Thursday 17th January 2013 - VISTA Technical
  Time Title Speaker/Chair Mins
  13:30 Welcome & housekeeping Gillian Wright 05
  13:35 Introduction [PDF/24.3 KB] Ian Robson 05
The VISTA Project 13:40 VISTA project as seen by the PI [PDF/10.9 MB] Jim Emerson 30
  14:10 VISTA as seen by the Prime Contractor [PowerPoint/1.72 MB] [PDF/1.55 MB] Adrian Russell 20
  14:30 VISTA project as seen by the Project Manager [PowerPoint/83.3 MB] [PDF/27.2 MB] Alistair McPherson 60
  15:30 Tea & Coffee 30
The VISTA Components 16:00 The Telescope challenge [PowerPoint/7.56 MB] [PDF/6.56 MB] Simon Craig 30
  16:30 The Camera Challenge [PowerPoint/68.5 MB] [PDF/30.9 MB] Gavin Dalton 30
  17:00 The science specification impacts [PDF/4.71 MB] Will Sutherland 30
  17:30 Close  
 
  19:30 Workshop Dinner  
         
Friday 18th January 2013 - VISTA Science
  Time Title Speaker Mins
The VISTA Data Challenge 08:45 VDFS: The CASU data reduction pipeline [PDF/8.27 MB] Mike Irwin 30
  09:15 VDFS: The VISTA science archive [PowerPoint/8.37 MB] [PDF/11.3 MB] Nick Cross 30
Current VISTA Public surveys 09:45 Overview of Surveys & Impact Jim Emerson 15
  10:00 Tea & Coffee 15
  10:15 An Ultradeep survey with VISTA (UltraVISTA) Jim Dunlop 30
  10:45 The VISTA Deep Extragalactic Observations survey (VIDEO) Matt Jarvis 30
  11:15 The VISTA Kllo degree INfrared Galaxy Survey (VIKING) Alistair Edge 30
  11:45 VISTA Hemisphere Survey (VHS) Richard McMahon 30
  12:15 VISTA Magellanic Cloud Survey (VMC) Maria-Rosa Cioni 30
  12:45 VISTA Variables in the Via Lactea (VVV) Jim Emerson 30
  1315 Lunch 45
VISTA for the public 1400 The power of outreach Richard Hook 15
Future use of VISTA 1415 VISTA in the context of Euclid John Peacock 15
  1430 4MOST Will Sutherland 15
  1445 Spectroscopic follow up Chris Evans 15
Workshop Discussion 1500 Possible future VISTA spectroscopic surveys Discussion led by VISTA Pis 30
  1530 tea & Coffee 30
  1600 Possible future VISTA photometric surveys Discussion led by VISTA Pis 30
  1630 Wrap up and conclusions led by Jim Emerson 15
  1645 Close