JENAM SPECIAL SESSION 1: EUROPEAN LARGE FACILITIES FOR ASTRONOMY

21 August 2007

Contact: Michel Dennefeld (France)

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Michel Dennefeld (France, Chair), Alvaro Gimenez Canete (Spain), Areg Mickaelian (Armenia), Tim de Zeuw (Netherlands, TBC)

Topics:

- present ground based facilities
- present space facilities
- future large ground based projects
- future space projects
- present and future infrastructural facilities

Program:

Tuesday, August 21, 2007

11:00-11:30       Roland GREDEL: Site Testing for the ELT-s (invited)

11:30-11:50       Frederic Zamkotsian: MOEMS Devices for Future Astronomical Instrumentation on Ground and in Space   

11:50-12:30       Cesare Barbieri: First Results of AQUEYE, a Precursor Ultra Fast Photometer for the E-ELT (invited)

12:30-14:00       Lunch break

14:00-14:50       Alvaro Giménez: ESA’s Astronomy Missions, Present and Future (invited)

14:50-15:30       Göran Pilbratt: Herschel Overview and Observing Opportunities (invited)  

15:30-16:00       Coffee break

16:00-16:45       Francoise Genova: The Virtual Observatory (invited)

16:45-17:15       Tigran Arshakian: Exploring Cosmic Magnetism with LOFAR and the SKA      

17:15-17:35       Serguei Dodonov, on behave of SAO RAS and BAO NAS RA collaboration: 1-m Byurakan Schmidt Reconstruction

Wednesday, August 22, 2007

11:00-11:30       John Davies: OPTICON, the EU Co-ordination Network for Optical-Infrared Astronomy (invited)

11:30-12:00       Robert Campbell: RadioNet – Advanced Radio Astronomy in Europe (invited) 

12:00-12:30       Thomas Berghöfer: ASPERA - A European Network for Astroparticle Physics (invited)  

12:30-14:00       Lunch break