Programme

The Milky Way Unravelled by Gaia

Talks / Posters / Abstract Book

When	ID	What	Who	Institute	Slides
Monday 1 December 2014
12.30-14.00		Registration
14.00-15.30		Session 1: The GREAT ITN and Gaia: Context and Status		Chair: Francesca Figueras
14.00–14.10	I1.0	Welcome	Nicholas Walton (SOC) & Francesca Figueras (LOC)		pdf
14.10–14.30	I1.1	GREAT-ITN and Gaia: Preparing for Science	Nicholas Walton	IoA, Univ. Cambridge, UK	pdf
14.30–15.00	I1.2	Gaia Mission Status	Timo Prusti (I)	ESTEC, ESA, The Netherlands	pdf
15.00–15.30	I1.3	Gaia Science Performance	Jos de Bruijne (I)	ESTEC, ESA, The Netherlands	pdf
15.30-16.00		Coffee break and poster viewing
16.00-18.00		Session 2: The Physics and Science Promise of Gaia		Chair: Anthony Brown
16.00-16.30	I2.1	Formation and evolution of the Galactic disks	Misha Haywood (I)	Observatoire de Paris, France	pdf
16.30-17.00	I2.2	Tick, tock, tick, tock ...	Wyn Evans (I)	IoA, Univ. Cambridge, UK
17.00-17.30	I2.3	Gaia Astrometry and Fundamental Physics	Sergei Klioner (I)	Lohrmann Observatory, Dresden, Germany	pdf
17.30-17.45	C2.1	Gaia Validation Tasks	Claus Fabricius	ICC-UB / IEEC, Spain	pdf
17.45-18.00	C2.2	From telemetry to science	Jordi Portell	ICC-UB / IEEC, Spain	pdf
Tuesday 2 December 2014
09.00-10.30		Session 2 (cont): The Physics and Science Promise of Gaia		Chair: Caroline Soubiran
09.00-09.15	C2.3	Measuring the Gaia basic angle variations: the BAM on-board laser interferometer	Alcione Mora	ESAC, Spain	pdf
09.15-09.30	C2.4	Gaia Radial Velocity Spectrograph Performance	Mark Cropper	MSSL/UCL, UK	pdf
09.30-09.45	C2.5	The variability Analysis and Processing of Gaia data	Laurent Eyer	UNIGE, Switzerland	pdf
09.45-10.00	C2.6	Making action-angle disc models for Gaia	Paul McMillan	ASTRO, Lund Observatory, Sweden	pdf
10.00-10.15	C2.7	A PRIMAL view of the Milky Way, made possible by Gaia and M2M modelling	Jason Hunt	MSSL/UCL, UK	pdf
10.15-10.30	C2.8	Analysing the disc Red Clump stars of the Galactic bar in the Gaia space of observables	Mercè Romero-Gómez	ICC-UB / IEEC, Spain	pdf
10.30-11.00		Coffee break and poster viewing
11.00-13.15		Session 3: Planetary Systems: Worlds Near and Far		Chair: Tadeusz Michalowski
11.00–11.30	I3.1	The Gaia mission in the rapidly-evolving context of exoplanet science	Ignasi Ribas (I)	ICE - IEEC, Spain	pdf
11.30-12.00	I3.2	Exoplanets with Gaia: Synergies in the Making	Alessandro Sozzetti (I)	INAF-Torino, Italy	pdf
12.00-12.30	I3.3	Planet formation with Gaia	Anders Johansen (I)	Lund University, Sweden	pdf
12.30-12.45	E3.1	Exoplanets: Gaia and the importance of ground based spectroscopy follow-up	Lisa Benamati (E)	IA, University of Porto, Portugal	pdf
12.45-13.00	C3.1	Stars with and without planets: Where do they come from?	Vardan Adibekyan	CAUP, Porto, Portugal	pdf
13.00-13.15	E3.2	Physical models of asteroids from photometric surveys: preparation of Gaia data exploitation	Toni Santana i Ros (E)	AMU, Poznan, Poland	pdf
13.15-14.45		Lunch break
14.45-16.15		Session QA1: Gaia Science - Extended Q+A session		Chair: Alejandra Sans
14.45-15.30	QA1	Understanding the formation of the Milky Way in the era of Gaia	Ivan Minchev (I)	Leibniz-Institut für Astrophysik Potsdam AIP	pdf
15.30-16.15	QA2	What drives the evolution of the Milky Way’s disk?	Jo Bovy (I)	Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton, USA	pdf
16.15-16.45		Coffee break and poster viewing
		Session 4: The Stellar Constituents of the Milky Way
16.45-18.15		Session 4A: Star Cluster Evolution		Chair: Antonella Vallenari
16.45-17.15	I4.1	The open clusters in the Gaia-ESO Survey	Laura Magrini (I)	INAF-Acetri, Italy	pdf
17.15-17.30	E4.1	The history of the Birth cluster of the Sun	Carmen Martínez-Barbosa (E)	Leiden University, The Netherlands	pdf
17.30-17.45	E4.2	Quest for finding the lost siblings of the Sun	Cheng Liu (E)	ASTRO, Lund Observatory, Sweden	pdf
17.45-18.00	E4.3	Testing the chemical tagging technique with Open Clusters	Sergi Blanco-Cuaresma	LAB, Bourdeaux, CNRS, France	pdf
18.00-18.15	C4.1	Radial migration and the properties of the MW disk	Nikos Prantzos	AIP, Paris, France	pdf
Wednesday 3 December 2014
09.00-11.00		Session QA2: Gaia Science - Extended Q+A session		Chair: Sergi Blanco Cuaresma
09.00-09.45	QA3	Scientific synergies of Gaia with ground based spectroscopic surveys	Alejandra Recio-Blanco (I)	Observatoire Cote d'Azur, Nice, France	pdf
09.45-10.30	QA4	Exploring Milky Way structure and dynamics	Ralph Schöenrich (I)	Oxford University, UK
10.30-11.00		!PhD focus: discussion session	Led by Alejandra Sans & Sergi Blanco-Cuaresma	LAB, Bourdeaux, CNRS, France
11.00-11.25		Coffee break and poster viewing
11.25-11.30		CONFERENCE PHOTO
11.30-13.00		Session 4B: Stellar Astrophysics		Chair: Ulrike Heiter
11.30-12.00	I4.3	Synergy between asteroseismology and the Gaia mission	Josefina Montalban (I)	University of Leige, Belgium	pdf
12.00-12.15	E4.4	Highlights of the LINEAR survey	Lovro Palaversa (E)	UNIGE, Geneve, Switzerland	pdf
12.15-12.30	E4.5	Detecting the Milky Way Halo Structure and Sub-Structure with OPTICS	Alejandra Sans (E)	KU Leuven, Belgium	pdf
12.30-12.45	E4.6	Stellar distribution in the star-forming region Gamma Velorum	Tristan Cantat-Gaudin (E)	Osservatorio Astrofisico di Padova, Italy	pdf
12.45-13.00	C4.2	The open clusters in the Gais ESO Surveys and beyond	Antonella Vallenari (I)	Osservatorio Astrofisico di Padova, Italy
13.00-13.15	C4.3	Galactocentric variation of the abundance structure in the Milky Way stellar disk - results from the Gaia-ESO survey	Sofia Feltzing	ASTRO, Lund University, Sweden
13.15-14.45		Lunch break
14.45-18.00		Social programme
19.45		Social Dinner
Thursday 4 December 2014
		Session 5: The Origin and History of the Milky Way		Chair: Coryn Bailer-Jones
09.00–09.30	I5.1	RAVE as a Gaia precursor, what to expect from the Gaia RVS?	Matthias Steinmetz (I)	AIP, Potsdam, Germany	pdf
09.30-11.00		Session 5A: Archaeology of the Milky Way		Chair: Coryn Bailer-Jones
09.30–10.00	I5.2	New observational constraints to chemodynamical models of the Milky Way	Cristina Chiappini (I)	AIP, Postsdam, Germany
10.00-10.15	E5.1	Large-scale structure of the inner Milky Way	Iulia Simion (E)	IoA, Univ. Cambridge, UK	pdf
10.15-10.30	E5.2	Blue Horizontal Branch Stars in Pan-STARRS: The Galactic Halo.	John Vickers (E)	ARI, Heidelberg, Germany	pdf
10.30-10.45	E5.3	Substructure in galaxy discs: Identifying secularly evolved populations	Matthew Molloy (E)	KIAA/PKU, Beijing, China	pdf
10.45-11.00	E5.4	Statistical analysis of large scale surveys for constraining the Galaxy evolution	Andre Martins (E)	UTINAM, Besançon, France	pdf
11:00-11:30		Coffee break and poster viewing
11.30-13.00		Session 5B: Galactic Structure and Evolution		Chair: Martin Smith
11.30–12.00	I5.3	Hunting for debris in the disc	Justin Read (I)	University of Surrey, UK	pdf
12.00-12.15	E5.5	Assessing the impact of astronomical phenomena on the Earth	Fabo Feng (E)	MPIA, Heidelberg, Germany	pdf
12.15-12.30	C5.1	Constraints on thin and thick disc formation from new analysis of 2MASS and SDSS surveys	Annie Robin	UTINAM, Besançon, France	pdf
12.30-12.45	C5.2	Orbit of the Ophiuchus Stream	Branimir Sesar	MPIA, Heidelberg, Germany	pdf
12.45-13.00	C5.3	The Perseus arm stellar overdensity at 1.6 kpc	Maria Monguió	Universidad de Alicante, Spain	pdf
13.00-14.30		Lunch break
14.30-16.15		Session 5C: Gaia, Galactic Surveys, Modelling, Synergies		Chair: Timo Prusti
14.30-15.00	I5.4	Dynamical models of the Galactic Disk	Hans-Walter Rix (I)	MPIA, Heidelberg, Germany	pdf
15.00-15.30	I5.5	From SDSS to Gaia and LSST	Zeljko Ivezic (I)	University of Washington, Seattle, USA	pdf
15.30-16.00	I5.6	The Galactic Archaeology with HERMES (GALAH) Survey	Joss Bland-Hawthorn (I)	University of Sidney, Australia	pdf
16.00-16.15	C5.4	Radial velocities and chemical tagging with WEAVE at the WHT	Marc Balcells	ING, La Palma, Spain	pdf
16.15-16.45		Coffee break and poster viewing
16.45-18.30		Session 5D: Galactic Dynamics		Chair: Annie Robin
16.45–17.15	I5.7	A multi-scale approach to simulate the Galaxy	Luis Aguilar (I)	UNAM, Ensenada, Mexico	pdf
17.15-17.30	E5.6	On the characterization of the Galactic warp in the Gaia era	Hoda Abedi (E)	ICC-UB / IEEC, Spain	pdf
17.30-17.45	C5.5	What can Gaia proper motions tell us about Milky Way dwarf galaxies?	Shoko Jin	RUG, Groningen, The Netherlands
17.45-18.00	C5.6	Stellar motion around co-rotating spiral arm: Gaia Mock data	Daisuke Kawata	MSSL/UCL, UK	pdf
18.00-18.15	C5.7	Hypervelocity stars in the Gaia era	Elena Rossi	Leiden University, The Netherlands	pdf
18.15-18.30	C5.8	Cool runaways - Nearby Hills ejecta as a probe of the gravitational potential of the Milky Way	Martin Smith	SHAO, Shanghai, China	pdf
Friday 5 December 2014
09.00-11.00		Session 6: Grand Challenges from Gaia
09.00-10.30		Session 6A: The Distance Scale		Chair: Laurent Eyer
09.00-09.30	I6.2	Gaia, Variable Stars and the Distance Scale	Patricia Whitelock (I)	SAAO, Cape Town, South Africa	pdf
09.30-09.45	E6.1	Astrostatistics for luminosity calibration in the Gaia era	Max Palmer (E)	ICC-UB / IEEC, Spain	pdf
09.45-10.00	E6.2	Improving the cosmic distance ladder: distance and structure of the Large Magellanic Cloud	Tatiana Muraveva (E)	INAF-Bologna, Italy	pdf
10.00-10.15	C6.1	Infrared survey of variable stars toward the bulge and beyond	Noriyuki Matsunaga	University of Tokyo, Japan
10.15-10.30	C6.2	Three-dimensional extinction mapping using Gaussian random fields	Stuart Sale	OX Physics, University of Oxford, UK	pdf
10.30-11.00		Coffee break and poster vierwing
11.00-12.15		Session 6B: The Transient Sky		Chair: Gisella Clementini
11.00-11.30	I6.3	Supernovae	Rubina Kotak (I)	Queen's University Belfast, UK	pdf
11.30-11.45	E6.3	Gaia: switching on the transient discovery machine	Nadejda Blagoródnova (E)	IoA, Cambridge University, UK	pdf
11.45-12.00	C6.3	Ground based follow-up for Gaia Science Alerts: First Results	Morgan Fraser	IoA, Cambridge University, UK	pdf
12.00-12.15	C6.4	Eclipsing binaries in the Gaia era: automated detection performance	Berry Holl	UNIGE, Switzerland	pdf
12.15-13.15		Session 7: Beyond Gaia, Beyond GREAT		Chair: Wil O'Mullane
12.15–12.45	I7.1	Space astrometry in the Gaia era	Anthony Brown (I)	Leiden University, The Netherlands	pdf
12.45–13.05	I7.2	GREAT2Net - Networking in the Era of Gaia	Nicholas Walton (I)	IoA, Univ. Cambridge, UK	pdf
13.05–13.15	I7.3	Closing Words and Final Discussion	Timo Prusti (I)	ESTEC, ESA, The Netherlands
13.15-14.30		Conference Close (Poster take down)		Bon viatge/ buen viaje

Notes:

• (I) indicates an invited speaker. (E) indicates that the speaker is one of the seventeen PhD Early Stage Researchers of the GREAT-ITN (http://www.great-itn.eu).
• All invited talks are 22 minutes with 8 minutes for discussion
• The four talks in the two QA sessions are 30 minutes with 15 minutes for questions and answers. This will allow for more participation from the conference attendees in discussion of these topics. We note that the speakers for the two QA sessions were invited by the Early Stage Researchers of the GREAT-ITN
• All other talks (unless explicitly noted in the programme) are 11 minutes with 4 minutes for discussion

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