Contact:

tom.shanks@durham.ac.uk

Exploiting VST ATLAS
... and its sister surveys

A workshop at Durham University
14-16 April 2014

Programme

Downloadable version: Programme (7th April 2014)

All talks will take place in room OC218 in the Ogden Centre for Fundamental Physics, Durham University.
Monday 14th April

10.30 Coffee
11.00 Welcome

VST and VST ATLAS
11.05-11.30 M Capaccioli: The VLT Survey Telescope (pdf)
11.30-11.55 M Petr-Gotzens: ESO science operations at the VST - a status update (pdf)
11.55-12.20 T Shanks: VST ATLAS: Overview and Status (pdf)
12.20-12.45 MJ Irwin: CASU Data Reduction (pdf)
12.45-13.00 Discussion

13.00-14.00 Buffet Lunch

VST and VST ATLAS (contd)
14.00-14.25 RG Mann: Publishing ATLAS data through the OSA (pdf)
14.25-14.50 N Metcalfe: VST ATLAS Data Quality (pdf)

ATLAS projects (Extragalactic + Cosmology)
14.50-15.15 PL Schechter: Search for multiply imaged quasars (pdf)
15.15-15.40 B Chehade: Z survey of 10000 quasars via ATLAS+WISE+2dF (pdf)
15.40-16.05 G Worseck: New UV-bright Quasars for Helium Reionisation Studies(pdf)
16.05-16.35 Tea
16.35-17.00 M Fumagalli: ATLAS search for Lyman Limit Systems in quasar pairs (pdf)
17.00-17.25 JR Findlay: A Global Calibration of ATLAS (pdf)
17.25-17.30 Discussion

Tuesday 15th April

ATLAS projects (Extragalactic + Cosmology contd)
09.30-09.55 M Gunawardhana: The SAMI Galaxy Survey (pdf)
09.55-10.20 L Wang: A cross-correlation analysis between QSOs and the CIB.
10.20-10.45 J Loveday: GAMA: galaxy luminosity, size and surface brightness distributions (pdf)
10.45-11.10 D Klaes: ATLAS work underway in Bonn (pdf)
11.10-11.40 Coffee
11.40-12.05 M Dall'Ora: VST Science in Naples (pdf)
12.05-12.30 K Kuijken: VST Kilo-Degree Survey (pdf)
12.30-12.55 PL Schechter: Aberrations produced by telescopes and by galaxies (pdf)
12.55-13.00 Discussion

13.00-14.00 Lunch

14.00-14.25 Y Cai: Cosmic Voids as Probes for Cosmology (pdf)
14.25-14.50 O Turner: Photo-z for VST ATLAS using random forest regression (pdf)

ATLAS projects (Galactic + Cosmology!)
14.50-15.15 S Koposov: ATLAS searches for MW satellite galaxies and stellar streams
15.15-15.40 JJ Hermes: Digging in the stellar graveyard with VST ATLAS

ATLAS Sister Surveys
15.40-16.05 RG McMahon: VISTA Hemisphere Survey
16.05-16.35 Tea
16.35-17.00 AC Edge: VIKING Survey
17.00-17.25 DJ Farrow: Pan-STARRS1: Current Status and Early Large-Scale Structure results (pdf)
17.25-17.30 Discussion

19.30 Workshop Dinner, Lakeside Room, Van Mildert College

Wednesday 16th April

ATLAS Sister Surveys (contd)
09.30-09.55 O Lahav: Dark Energy Survey - BAO, Lensing + Cosmology
09.55-10.20 RC Nichol: Dark Energy Survey - Supernovae
10.20-10.45 A Merloni: e-Rosita (pdf)
10.45-11.10 R de Jong: 4MOST (pdf)
11.10-11.40 Coffee
11.40-12.05 P Norberg: 4MOST+WAVES (pdf)
12.05-12.15 M Capaccioli: VEGAS survey (pdf)
12.15-13.00 Discussion: Future VST+VISTA and other imaging surveys

13.00-14.00 Lunch

14.00-14:45 Discussion contd.: Future VST+VISTA and other imaging surveys
14.45-15.30 Breakout groups
15.30 End of Workshop/Coffee



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