| Day 1 | Tuesday 11th August 2009 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Time | Title | Speaker (Invited in BOLD) |
Slides |
| Session 1: The new generation surveys Session Chair: Sergio Molinari |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 15.30 | Coffee | ||
| Session 3: Structure in the Galaxy Session Chair: Dante Minniti |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 10.30 | Coffee | ||
| Session 8: End-States of Stellar Evolution Session Chair: Paul Groot |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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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