Programme

The Milky Way Unravelled by Gaia

When	ID	What	Who	Institute

Monday 1 December 2014
12.30-14.00		Lunch and Registration
14.00-15.30		Session 1: The GREAT ITN and Gaia: Context and Status		Chair:
14.00–14.10	I1.0	Welcome	TBC (University Barcelona), Nicholas Walton (SOC) & Francesca Figueras (LOC)
14.10–14.30	I1.1	GREAT-ITN and Gaia: Preparing for Science	Nicholas Walton
14.30–15.00	I1.2	Gaia Mission Status	Timo Prusti (I)
15.00-15.30	I1.3	Astrometry - Gaia, Techniques and Limitations	Sergei Klioner (I)
15.30-16.00		Coffee break
16.00-18.00		Session 2: The Physics and Science Promise of Gaia		Chair:
16.00-16.30	I2.1	Gaia: Science Impact - Stellar Astrophysics	Misha Haywood (I)
16.30–17.00	I2.2	New observational constraints to chemodynamical models of the Milky Way	Cristina Chiappini (I)
17.00–17.30	I2.3	Gaia Science Performance	Jos de Bruijne (I)
17.30-17.45	C2.1	Gaia Validation Tasks	Claus Fabricius
17.45-18.00	C2.2	From telemetry to science	Jordi Portell

Tuesday 2 December 2014
09.00-10.30		Session 2 (cont): The Physics and Science Promise of Gaia		Chair:
09.00-09.15	C2.3	Measuring the Gaia basic angle variations: the BAM on-board laser interferometer	Alcione Mora
09.15-09.30	C2.4	Gaia Radial Velocity Spectrograph Performance	Mark Cropper
09.30-09.45	C2.5	The variability Analysis and Processing of Gaia data	Laurent Eyer
09.45-10.00	C2.6	Making action-angle disc models for Gaia	Paul McMillan
10.00-10.15	C2.7	A PRIMAL view of the Milky Way, made possible by Gaia and M2M modelling	Jason Hunt
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
10.30-11.00		Coffee break
11.00-13.15		Session 3: Planetary Systems: Worlds Near and Far		Chair:
11.00–11.30	I3.1	The Gaia mission in the rapidly-evolving context of exoplanet science	Ignasi Ribas (I)
11.30-12.00	I3.2	Astrometric Discovery of Extrasolar Planets	Alessandro Sozzetti (I)
12.00-12.30	I3.3	Planet formation with Gaia	Anders Johansen (I)
12.30-12.45	E3.1	Exoplanets: Gaia and the importance of ground based spectroscopy follow-up	Lisa Benamati (E)
12.45-13.00	C3.1	Stars with and without planets: Where do they come from?	Vardan Adibekyan
13.00-13.15	E3.2	Physicals models of asteroids from photometric surveys: preparation of Gaia data exploitation	Toni Santana i Ros (E)
13.15-14.45		Lunch and poster viewing
14.45-16.15		Session QA1: Gaia Science - Extended Q+A session
14.45-15.30	QA1	Galactic Archaeology	Ivan Minchev (I)
15.30-16.15	QA2	What drives the evolution of the Milky Way’s disk?	Jo Bovy (I)
16.15-16.45		Coffee break
		Session 4: The Stellar Constituents of the Milky Way
16.45-18.15		Session 4A: Star Cluster Evolution		Chair:
16.45-17.15	I4.1	The evolution of the Galactic disk with open clusters	Laura Magrini (I)
17.15-17.30	E4.1	Open cluster evolution and the search for the Sun’s siblings	Carmen Martinez (E)
17.30-17.45	E4.2	Finding the lost siblings of the Sun	Cheng Liu (E)
17.45-18.00	E4.3	Testing the chemical tagging technique with Open Clusters	Sergi Blanco-Cuaresma
18.00-18.15	C4.1	Stellar relics from the cosmic dawn in the Milky Way bulge	Martin Asplund

Wednesday 3 December 2014
09.00-11.00		Session QA2: Gaia Science - Extended Q+A session		Chair:
09.00-09.45	QA3	Scientific synergies of Gaia with ground based spectroscopic surveys	Alejandra Recio-Blanco (I)
09.45-10.30	QA4	Galactic Dynamics	Ralph Schönrich (I)
10.30-11.00		!PhD focus: discussion session	Led by Alejandra Sans & Sergi Blanco-Cuaresma
11.00-11.30		Coffee break
11.30-13.00		Session 4B: Stellar Astrophysics		Chair:
11.30-12.00	I4.3	Asteroseismology	Josefina Montalban (I)
12.00-12.15	E4.4	Population seismology with large time-resolved astronomical surveys	Alejandra Sans (E)
12.15-12.30	E4.5	Highlights of the LINEAR survey	Lovro Palaversa (E)
12.30-12.45	E4.6	Open Clusters as Tracers of the Galactic Disk	Tristan Cantat-Gaudin (E)
12.45-13.00	C4.2	The open clusters in the Gais ESO Surveys and beyond	Antonella Vallenari (I)
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
13.15-14.45		Lunch and poster viewing
14.45-18.00		Social excursion programme
20.00		Social Dinner

Thursday 4 December 2014
		Session 5: The Origin and History of the Milky Way		Chair:
09.00–09.30	I5.1	RAVE as a Gaia precursor, what to expect from the Gaia RVS?	Matthias Steinmetz (I)
09.30-11.00		Session 5A: Archaeology of the Milky Way		Chair:
09.30-10.00	I5.2	Tick, tock, tick, tock ...	Wyn Evans (I)
10.00-10.15	E5.1	Large-scale structure of the inner Milky Way	Iulia Simion (E)
10.15-10.30	E5.2	Galactic assembly history. The halo–satellite connection	John Vickers (E)
10.30-10.45	E5.3	Substructure in galaxy discs: Identifying secularly evolved populations	Matthew Molloy (E)
10.45-11.00	C5.1	What can Gaia proper motions tell us about Milky Way dwarf galaxies?	Shoko Jin
11:00-11:30		Coffee break
11.30-13.00		Session 5B: Galactic Structure and Evolution		Chair:
11.30–12.00	I5.3	Clusters, Disks and Galaxy Structure	Justin Read (I)
12.00-12.15	E5.4	Assessing the impact of astronomical phenomena on the Earth	Fabo Feng (E)
12.15-12.30	C5.2	Constraints on thin and thick disc formation from new analysis of 2MASS and SDSS surveys	Annie Robin
12.30-12.45	C5.3	Orbit of the Ophiuchus Stream	Branimir Sesar
12.45-13.00	C5.4	The Perseus arm stellar overdensity at 1.6 kpc	Maria Monguió,
13.00-14.30		Lunch and poster viewing
14.30-16.15		Session 5C: Gaia, Galactic Surveys, Modelling, Synergies		Chair:
14.30-15.00	I5.4	Dynamical models of the Galactic Disk	Hans-Walter Rix (I)
15.00-15.30	I5.5	From SDSS to Gaia and LSST	Zeljko Ivezic (I)
15.30-16.00	I5.6	Scientific synergies of Gaia with ground based spectroscopic surveys	Joss Bland-Hawthorn (I)
16.00-16.15	C5.5	Radial velocities and chemical tagging with WEAVE at the WHT	Marc Balcells
16.15-16.45		Coffee break
16.45-18.30		Session 5D: Galactic Dynamics		Chair:
16.45–17.15	I5.7	A multi-scale approach to simulate the Galaxy	Luis Aguilar (I)
17.15-17.35	E5.5	On the characterization of the Galactic warp in the Gaia era	Hoda Abedi (E)
17.30-17.45	E5.6	Towards a dynamically self-consistent evolutionary model of the Milky Way	Andre Martins (E)
17.45-18.00	C5.6	Stellar motion around co-rotating spiral arm: Gaia Mock data	Daisuke Kawata
18.00-18.15	C5.7	Hypervelocity stars in the Gaia era	Elena Rossi
18.15-18.30	C5.8	Cool runaways - Nearby Hills ejecta as a probe of the gravitational potential of the Milky Way	Martin Smith

Friday 5 December 2014
09.00-11.00		Session 6: Grand Challenges from Gaia
09.00-10.30		Session 6A: The Distance Scale		Chair:
09.00-09.30	I6.2	Gaia, Variable Stars and the Distance Scale	Patricia Whitelock (I)
09.30-09.45	E6.1	Towards an absolute stellar luminosity atlas	Max Palmer (E)
09.45-10.00	E6.2	Improving the cosmic distance ladder: distance and structure of the Large Magellanic Cloud	Tatiana Muraveva (E)
10.00-10.15	C6.1	Infrared survey of variable stars toward the bulge and beyond	Noriyuki Matsunaga
10.15-10.30	C6.2	Three-dimensional extinction mapping using Gaussian random fields	Stuart Sale
10.30-11.00		Coffee break
11.00-12.30		Session 6B: The Transient Sky		Chair:
11.00-11.30	I6.3	Supernovae	Rubina Kotak (I)
11.30-11.45	E6.3	Classification of Supernova from Gaia Alerts	Nadejda Blagoródnova (E)
11.45-12.00	C6.3	Gaia Science Alerts	Lukasz Wyrzykowski
12.00-12.15	C6.4	Eclipsing binaries in the Gaia era: automated detection performance	Berry Holl
12.15-13.15		Session 7: Beyond Gaia, Beyond GREAT		Chair:
12.15–12.45	I7.1	Astrometry Futures 2020	Anthony Brown (I)
12.45–13.05	I7.2	GREAT2Net - Networking in the Era of Gaia	Nicholas Walton (I)
13.05–13.15	I7.3	Closing Words and Final Discussion	Timo Prusti (I)
13.15-14.30		Lunch and Conference Close

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