Day 1 Tuesday 11th August 2009

Time Title Speaker
(Invited in BOLD)
Slides

Session 1: The new generation surveys
Session Chair: Sergio Molinari


11.00
Galactic Plane H-alpha surveys: new and old roles
Janet Drew [pdf]
11.20
The Gamma-ray Galaxy: High energy surveys
Stefan Wagner [pdf]
11.40
Billions of stars: the near infrared view of the Plane with UKIDSS and VISTA
Phil Lucas
[pdf]
12.00
ATLASGAL, the APEX Telescope Large Area Survey of the Galaxy
Frederic Schuller
[pdf]
12.15
CORNISH: A 5 GHz VLA survey of the Northern Galactic Plane.
Cormac Ronan Purcell
[pdf]
12.30 Lunch


Session 2: Dust in the Milky Way
Session Chair: Augusto Damineli


14.00
Dust and the art of Galactic map making
Douglas Marshall [pdf]
14.25
Exploring Extinction and Structure in the Milky Way Disk with 2MASS and Spitzer
Gail Zasowski
[pdf]
14.45
The Near-IR Extinction Law and the Distances to Young Clusters
Melvin Hoare
[pdf]
15.00
High spatial resolution Galactic 3D extinction mapping with IPHAS
Stuart Sale
[pdf]
15.15
Poster Pitches


15.30 Coffee


Session 3: Structure in the Galaxy
Session Chair: Dante Minniti


16.00 A Bar Guide to the Milky Way Galaxy
Robert Benjamin [pdf]
16.25
The disk of our Galaxy: spiral structure from star-forming complexes;  the nature and extent of the outer disk
Delphine Russeil [pdf]
16.45
Mapping the Milky Way with VLBI Astrometry
Andreas Brunthaler
[pdf]
17.00
The Galactic Disk: Unveiling the Unseen
Ed Churchwell
[pdf]
17.15
I-GALFA: The Inner-Galaxy ALFA Low-Latitude HI Survey
Bon-Chul Koo
[pdf]
17.30 End of Day 1





Day 2 Wednesday 12th August 2009

Time Title Speaker Slides

Session 4: Chemical Picture of the Galaxy
Session Chair: Annie Robin


11..00 Abundance structure and chemical evolution of the Galactic disc
Thomas Bensby [pdf]
11.30
Abundance gradients: tracing the chemical properties of the disk
Roberto Costa [pdf]
11.55
Physics and Structure of the Galactic Disc(s)
Ralph Alexander Schönrich
[pdf]
12.15
Evolution of abundance gradients for galactic plane PNe
Alexander Kholtygin
[pdf]
12.30 Lunch


Session 5: Disentangling the Star Forming Process
Session Chair: Janet Drew


14.00 Star formation: do theorists understand anything?
Simon Goodwin [pdf]
14.25
Deducing the Milky Way's Massive Cluster Population
Margaret Hanson [pdf]
14.45
The star formation activity of molecular clouds in the galactic plane
Joseph C Mottram
[pdf]
15.00
A New Comprehensive Catalogue of Infrared Dark Clouds
Gary Fuller
[pdf]
15.15
The JCMT Legacy Survey: Mapping the Milky Way in the Submillimetre
Antonio Chrysostomou
[pdf]
15.30 Coffee


Session 6: Mapping Star Formation in the Galactic Disk
Session Chair: Melvin Hoare


16.00 Mapping star formation in the Galactic disk a global perspective;  tracing massive star formation
Stan Kurtz [pdf]
16.25
Star formation in the Milky Way as seen by the Spitzer Space Telescope.
Thomas Robitaille
[pdf]
16.40
The Statistics and Galactic Properties of the Methanol Multibeam Survey
James Andrew Green
[pdf]
16.55
The Young Massive Star Population of the Milky Way
Stuart Lumsden
[pdf]
17.10
Luminosity and SED shape as evolutionary tracers in Massive Star Formation
Sergio Molinari
[pdf]
17.25
Poster Pitches


17.30 End of Day 2





Day 3 Thursday 13th August 2009

Time Title Speaker Slides

Session 7: Multi-Object Multi-Wavelength Galactic Plane Studies in the VO Era
Session Chair: Eugene Magnier


09.00 The multi-wavelength data view - addressing the big issues
Gerry Gilmore
09.25
Virtual Observatory Access to the The IPHAS Data Releases.
Nicholas A Walton

09.40
A Close Look at the Ecosystem of the Milky Way Galaxy: the Canadian Galactic Plane Survey
Roland Kothes

09.55
Massive Star Forming Regions in the Galactic Plane: A Comparative Study Using BGPS, Spitzer, and Optical/Near-Infrared Surveys
Guy S. Stringfellow

10.10
Poster Pitches


10.30 Coffee


Session 8: End-States of Stellar Evolution
Session Chair: Paul Groot


11.00 The populations of planetary nebulae and related stages of stellar evolution in the Milky Way
Romano Corradi
11.25
The Galactic Pulsar Population
Duncan Lorimer
11.45
The HESS Galactic Scan Survey
Emma de Ona Wilhelmi

12.00
Structure of the Galactic Plane in Hard X-rays
Alexander Lutovinov

12.15
Broad view on hard X-ray background emission of the Galaxy
Roman Krivonos

12.30 Lunch and End of Day 3





Day 4 Friday 14th August 2009

Time Title Speaker Slides

Session 9: Luminous Evolved Stars
Session Chair: Myung Gyoon Lee


09.00 Red clump giant stars as tracers of Galactic structure
Martin Lopez-Corredoira
09.25
Long Period Variables as tracers of Galactic Structure
Martin Groenewegen
09.45
Galactic AGB stars in the IPHAS survey
Nicholas James Wright

10.00
Digging in the Dust for Galactic Evolved Massive Stars (GEMS): New Wolf-Rayet Stars Found with 2MASS+Spitzer/GLIMPSE
Jon Christian Mauerhan

10.15
IPHAS A-type Stars with Mid-IR Excesses in Spitzer Surveys
Antonio S. Hales

10.30 Coffee


Session 10: Close: Perspective on the Future
Session Chair: Nicholas Walton


11.00 Gaia: a Galactic Census
Timo Prusti

11.25
Mapping the Milky Way with LSST
Zeljko Ivezic
11.45
The Pan-STARRS 3pi survey and the Brown Dwarf Factory
Eugene A. Magnier

12.00
High resolution observations of Galactic HI: GALFA and ASKAP
Snezana Stanimirovic

12.15
Poster Prize presentation and session close
Eugene Magnier

12.25
Session close
Nicholas Walton
[pdf]
12.30 Lunch and End of Special Session 8

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