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ADeLA live Broadcasting:
Selected portions of ADeLA will be transmitted live through the site http://www.uchile.cl/en-vivo with the support of the IT team, and the Vice-rectory of outreach and communications at Universidad de Chile.
The times and topics of the live transmission are:
Monday September 29th: Inauguration and welcome words: 9:00 - 10:05 hrs
Wednesday October 1st: Executive session and closure of the meeting: 16:55 - 17:40 hrs
Thursday, October 2nd: Workshop inauguration: 9 - 10:45
Thursday, October 2nd: Public talk: 12:00 - 13:00 hrs, Gorbea Auditorium
Friday, October 3rd: Second Public Talk: 11:00 - 12:00 hrs, Gorbea Auditorium
Public talks:
As it has become traditional in all previous ADeLAs, we have organized three public talks, as follows:
Tuesday, September 30th, 18:45 hrs, Santiago Planetarium: "Piedras del cielo", Dr. Alejandro García. Free registration required.
Thursday, October 2nd, 12:00 hrs, Gorbea Auditorium (live broadcasting): "Piedras del cielo", Dr. Alejandro García. In collaboration with the 2nd Festival of Engineering & Sciences.
Friday, October 3rd, 11:00 hrs, Gorbea Auditorium (live broadcasting): "Mirando al Cielo, el Tiempo va pasando", Dr. Carlos Abad. In collaboration with the 2nd Festival of Engineering & Sciences.
Scientific Meeting: ADeLA2014@SCL.
Monday September 29th to Wednesday October 1st.
The program has been built from registered participants that have requested oral contributions, selected by the LOC. There is a number of invited speakers covering different topics. At the current time the confirmed invited speakers are:
- Dr. William F. van Altena, Yale University. The new generation of Astrometrists.
- Dr. Martin Altmann, Zentrum für Astronomie der Universitat Heidelberg, Germany. Gaia.
- Dr. Alexandre Andrei, Centre for Astrophysics Research, Science and Technology Research Institute, University of Hertfordshire & Observatório Nacional, Rio de Janeiro. PARSEC's astrometry - the risky approach.
- Dr. Andrea Bellini, Space Telescope Science Institute. HST high-precision proper motions of globular clusters.
- Dr. Francesca Figueras, Universidad de Barcelona. Gaia Mission.
- Dr. Edward Fomalont, National Radio Astronomy Observatories & ALMA. ALMA Astrometry.
- Dr. Radostin Kurtev, Universidad de Valparaiso. VVV IR high-proper motion stars.
- Dr. Mauricio López, Centro Nacional de Metrología, México. Standards of time.
- Dr. Antoine Mérand, ESO. Astrometry using Optical Interferometry.
- Dr. Dante Minniti, Universidad Andres Bello. The VVV Survey.
- Dr. Nobuyuki Sakai, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan. VERA, VLBA.
- Dr. Zheng-Hong Tang, Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences. New instrument to measure atmospheric refraction at any azimuth and elevation.
- Dr. Norbert Zacharias, United States Naval Observatory. The US Naval Observatory Robotic Astrometric Telescope (URAT)
Detailed program (by day):
Monday, September 29th
Tuesday, September 30th
Wednesday, October 1st
Poster papers:
Each poster author will be provided with one side of a free-standing board. The posters are limited to a standard A0 (841 x 1189 mm; 33.1 x 46.8 inch, portrait orientation) size or smaller.
All posters will be available Monday through Wednesday, and there will a poster discussion slot to highlight their contribution.
More info about poster paper sizes:
http://www.365displays.ie/Guide-to-Poster-Sizes-A0-A1-A2-A3-A4-A5.html
http://www.papersizes.org/a-paper-sizes.htm
Graduate Workshop: The VLBI-Gaia connection - The next step in reference frames for astronomy
Thursday October 2nd to Friday October 3rd.
The planned Topics and Lecturers for the workshop are as follows:
1) The building of the ICRF using VLBI, by Christopher S. Jacobs (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Caltech/NASA):
1.1) Fundamentals of Radio Interferometry,
1.2) Macro-astrometry and the establishment of the ICRF,
1.3) Micro-astrometry and source structures;
2) Current astrometric standards in the optical and infrared, by Amelia Bayo & Katherine Vieira (UValpo, Chile & CIDA, Venezuela):
2.1) Astrometric Reduction Fundamentals
2.2) Current astrometric reference catalogs: uncertainties and limitations
2.3) Proper motions in astrophysics
2.4) VO tools for astrometry;
3) Gaia as the new optical realization of the ICRS and how it can be tied to the ICRF, by Francois Mignard (Gaia collaboration & OCA, France):
3.1) Determining positions from scanning satellites: HIPPARCOS and Gaia,
3.2) Defining the Gaia reference system,
3.3) Relating the optical and radio reference systems.
The three main topics of the workshop will have two (2) sessions of 1h 25m each.