Workshop Program

version of 18-Jan-2006

CHECK HERE FOR AN UPDATED LIST OF PARTICIPANTS AND PRESENTATIONS.

Morning and early afternoon talks will focus on instrumentation issues, and there will be one longer science talk or group discussion each evening. Approximately 3 unscheduled hours each afternoon will allow informal discussion, splinter sessions, etc. Participants at Ringberg workshops routinely point to these unstructured periods as the most productive.

Quick Jump

Monday 25 July

Themes: Max Planck Society Internal Strategy Discussion - Tower Conference Room

Non MPG participants are welcome to arrive on Monday, the 25th. Please let us know your plans, particularly if you wish to attend the reception and have dinner in the castle on Monday evening.

Tuesday 26 July

Themes: Enabling Technologies 1: Techniques and Components, Observations with ELTs

Time	Speaker	Title or Activity	PDF	PPT
8:00 - 9:00		Breakfast
9:00 - 9:05	Tom Herbst	Opening Remarks and Announcements
Session Chair: Steve Shectman
9:05 - 9:50	Sandro d'Odorico	The ESO ELT Instrumentation Design Study Program
9:50 - 10:10	Peter Linde	Implications of Aperture Choice on ELT Performance
10:10 - 10:30	Eli Atad-Ettedgui	Atmospheric Dispersion Correction for ELT Instruments
10:30 - 10:50		Coffee and Posters
10:50 - 11:10	Mark Casali	ELT Precision Photometry and Exoplanet Transits
11:10 - 11:30	Christian Straubmeier	Co-phasing Segmented Optics from LBT to ELT
11:30 - 11:50	Thorsten Doehring	Large Lenses and Filters for ELTs: Challenges and Opportunities for Schott
11:50 - 12:45	All	Castle Tour
12:45 - 14:10		Lunch
Session Chair: Colin Cunningham
14:10- 14:30	Wolfgang Brandner	Science Drivers for ELTs - The Case for Mid-Infrared Instrumentation
14:30 - 14:50	Suzie Ramsay-Howat (for Tim Hawarden)	Five Categories of Observations with ELT's, and Consequent Instrument Classes
14:50 - 15:10	Guenter Wiedemann	High Spatial and Spectral Resolution Imaging with Large Telescopes
15:10 - 15:30	Ulli Käufl	The Case for a Planetary Spectrograph for OWL
15:30 - 15:50	Arne Ardeberg	Spatial Resolution and Photon Collecting: Tracing the Evolution of Distant Galaxies, Stellar Clusters, and Field Populations
15:50 - 18:30		Coffee, Posters, Informal Discussions
18:30 - 20:00		Dinner
Session Chair: Wolfgang Brandner
20:00 - 20:45	Shri Kulkarni	Science with ELTs I: From Planets to Stars
20:45 -		Informal Discussions

Wednesday 27 July

Themes: Instrument Concept Studies

Time	Speaker	Title or Activity	PDF	PPT
8:00 - 9:00		Breakfast
9:00 - 9:05	TBD	Opening Remarks and Announcements
Session Chair: Guy Monnet
9:05 - 9:50	David Crampton	The TMT Instrumentation Program
9:50 - 10:10	Dainis Dravins	QUANTEYE: The Quantum Optics Instrument for OWL
10:10 - 10:30	Bill Dent	SCOWL, the Submillimeter Imager for OWL
10:30 - 10:50		Coffee and Posters
10:50 - 11:10	Roberto Ragazzoni	A Smart, Wide-Field Camera for ELTs
11:10 - 11:30	Steve Shectman	Imaging Spectrographs for GMT
11:30 - 11:50	Markus Kasper / C. Verinaud	EPICS - a Planetary Camera-Spectrograph for OWL
11:50 - 12:10	Naoto Kobayashi	Near-Infrared, High Resolution Spectrograph
12:10 - 12:30	Rainer Lenzen	T-OWL, the Mid-Infrared Instrument for OWL
12:30 - 13:50		Conference Photo & Lunch
Session Chair: David Crampton
13:50 - 14:10	Jean-Gabriel Cuby	MOMFIS, the Multi-Object IR Spectrograph for OWL
14:10 - 14:30	Suzie Ramsay-Howat	MOMSI Science Drivers and Design Options
14:30 - 14:50	Paul Martini	MMT Magellan IR Spectrograph
14:50 - 15:10	Luca Pasquini	CODEX - The OWL Cosmic Expansion Experiment
15:10- 15:30	Mette Owner-Petersen	Properties of the Focal Stations of the Euro50
15:30 - 18:30		Coffee, Posters, Informal Discussions
18:30 - 20:00		Dinner
Session Chair: Arne Ardeberg
20:00 - 20:45	Isobel Hook	Science with ELTs II: From Galaxies to the Origin of the Universe Volker Springel Millenium Simulation (AVI - 50 MB)
20:45 -		Informal Discussions

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Thursday 28 July

Themes: Adaptive Optics for ELTs

Time	Speaker	Title or Activity	PDF	PPT
8:00 - 9:00		Breakfast
9:00 - 9:05	TBD	Opening Remarks and Announcements
Session Chair: Tom Herbst
9:05 - 9:50	Sam Barden	ELT Technology Development at the AAO
9:50 - 10:10	Wolfgang Gaessler	FP6 Novel AO Concepts for ELTs
10:10 - 10:30	Roger Angel	Laser Tomography AO: Results from the 6.5 m MMT and plans for the Giant Magellan Telescope
10:30 - 10:50		Coffee and Posters
10:50 - 11:10	Sebastian Rabien	A New Concept for Laser-Guided AO at ELTs
11:10 - 11:30	Matthew Britton	SLGLAO: An All-Sky, Wide Field Adaptive Optics Concept for TMT
11:30 - 11:50	Carmelo Arcidiacono	Ground Layer Adaptive Optics: PSF Effects on ELT Scales
11:50 - 12:10	Arne Ardeberg	Low, Intermediate, and High Strehl Ratios: Implications for Fields with Different Crowding
12:10 - 12:30	Roger Angel	Anti-Halo Apodization (AHA) for Exoplanet Imaging
12:30 - 18:30		EXCURSION (will include lunch and dinner) further info here
18:30 - 20:00		Dinner
20:00 - 20:45	General Discussion: All	Antarctica: Progress and Prospects Anna Marie Moore's Antarctica Presentation
20:45 -		Informal Discussions

Friday 29 July

Themes: Enabling Technologies 2: Spectroscopy, Detectors and Focal Planes

Time	Speaker	Title or Activity	PDF	PPT
8:00 - 9:00		Breakfast
9:00 - 9:05	TBD	Opening Remarks and Announcements
Session Chair: Wolfgang Gaessler
9:05 - 9:50	Masanori Iye	Japan's Research and Development for ELTs and their Instruments
9:50 - 10:10	Chris Clemens	Production and Use of Volume Phase Holographic Gratings
10:10 - 10:30	Anna Marie Moore	Dual Plane Imaging
10:30 - 10:50		Coffee and Posters
10:50 - 11:10	Ian Parry	Spectroscopy on ELTs
11:10 - 11:30	Ray Sharples	Large Area / Multiple Integral Field Spectroscopy
11:30 - 11:50	Charles Jenkins	Figures of Merit for ELTs
11:50 - 12:10	Keith Taylor	Wide Field Optical Spectroscopy for TMT
12:10 - 12:30	Wolfgang Ansorge	ELT Instrument Engineering, Optimization, and Safety
12:30 - 13:50		Lunch
Session Chair: Keith Taylor
13:50 - 14:10	Gavin Dalton	Opportunities for IR Detector Development
14:10 - 14:30	Craig Mackay	Near Diffraction-Limited Visible Imaging on 10-30 m Class Telescopes with EMCCDs
14:30 - 14:50	Kentaro Motohara	Development of a Microshutter Array for Ground-Based Instruments
14:50 - 15:10	Roger Haynes	Smart Focal Plane and Photonic Technologies for ELTs
15:10 - 15:30	Colin Cunningham	Smart Focal Plane Technology for ELT Instruments
15:35 - 18:30		Coffee, Posters, Informal Discussions
18:30 - 20:00		Dinner
20:00 - 20:45	Panel Discussion	Is Thirty Meters Enough? Panelists: Roger Angel, Arne Ardeberg, Shri Kulkarni, Guy Monnet, Piero Salinari, Hans Zinnecker (chair)
20:45 - 21:00	TBD	Concluding Remarks and Announcements
21:00 -		Informal Discussions

Saturday 30 July

Time	Speaker	Title or Activity
8:00 - 9:00		Breakfast
9:00		Departure

Links to Contributed Posters

Peter Hartmann - “Mirror Blanks for Extremely Large Telescopes” - Poster - Paper

Sohei Kondo - "Studies of QSO Absorption Line Systems with Near-Infrared High Resolution Spectroscopy" - Poster - Paper

Nicholas M. Law - "10 New Very Low Mass Close Binaries Resolved in the Visible - Lucky Imaging" - Poster - Paper

Chikako Yasui - "Instrument Design of a Warm INfrared Echelle Spectrograph (WINERED) - Poster - Paper

Notes:

1. Those planning to arrive at Ringberg on Sunday evening must check in between 4 and 10 PM. Please inform the conference organizers well in advance of your arrival. Note that there will be no evening meal served in the castle on Sunday. Non-MPG participants who wish to have Monday evening dinner should inform the organizers on the Registration Form. Although Ringberg is only 60 km from Munich, it is somewhat difficult to get there by public transportation (see here for details). Note that it is a very sensible option for small groups to rent a car. American attendees will save money by booking their rental car from the USA.