Programme

Final Programme

19.00-21.00

Meeting Reception
Main entrance/reception area, Level 1, AGSE Building

8.50-9.10	Welcome and opening Prof Ian Young, Vice-Chancellor, Swinburne University
	Hon Richard Marles, MP, Parliamentary Secretary for Innovation & Industry

9.10-9.45	GMT overview and update Pat McCarthy (GMTO)
9.45-10.15	Mirror figuring and testing Buddy Martin (SOML)
10.15-10.30	Image quality at Las Campanas Observatory David Floyd (UMelb)

10.30-11.00	Morning tea

11.00-11.40	Mirror phasing and AO Marcos van Dam (Flat Wavefronts)
11.40-12.20	Protoplanetary systems and planet formation Alycia Weinberger (Carnegie DTM) – by videocon

12.20-13.20	Lunch

13.20-14.00	Extreme AO Olivier Guyon (UAriz)
14.00-14.40	Planet detection Chris Tinney (UNSW)
14.40-15.20	GMTNIRS In-Soo Yuk (KASI, Korea)

15.20-15.50	Afternoon tea

15.50-16.30	GMTNIRS Science David Yong (ANU)
16.30-17.10	Stars and stellar populations Anna Frebel (Harvard CfA)
17.10-17.30	Color-magnitude diagrams of resolved stellar populations Jeremy Mould (UMelb)

19.00-23.00	Meeting dinner - Melbourne Cricket Ground

9.00-9.40	Faint object AO Michael Hart (UAriz)
9.40-10.20	Epoch of Reionization Jamie Bolton (UMelb)

10.20-10.50	Morning tea

10.50-11.30	GMTIFS Peter McGregor (ANU)
11.30-12.10	Wide field astronomy with GMT/MANIFEST Matthew Colless (AAO)
12.10-12.50	Galaxies at high redshift Steven Finkelstein (Texas A&M)

12.50-13.50	Lunch

13.50-14.30	Galaxy assembly and evolution Andrew Hopkins (AAO)
14.30-15.30	"So you think you have a great idea for GMT?" Sparkler Session (list of talks here)

15.30-16.00	Afternoon tea

16.00-16.30	Meeting Summary Brian Schmidt (ANU)

16.30	Meeting close

Last Updated: Apr 02 2012