UK ARC Community Days Agendas

DECEMBER 14th:

 

TIME	Speaker	Topic
	CHAIR:	GARY FULLER
10:00		Registration and Coffee
10.30	Gary Fuller	Welcome
10.35	Robert Laing	ALMA status and early science
11.05	Tom Muxlow	Aims of the Days and the ARC
11.20	Martin Zwaan	ALMA Operations and the European ALMA Regional Centre
11.30	Paola Caselli	Initial conditions in the star formation process
12.00	Derek Ward-Thompson	Structure of prestellar cores and protostars
12.30	Jeremy Yates	Testing Chemical Models of the ISM
12.45	Jaime Pineda	Star Formation
13.00		Lunch
	CHAIR:	TOM MUXLOW
14.00	Andreas Eckart	The Galactic Center with ALMA
14.15	Anita Richards	Masers (from evolved stars to active galaxies)
14.30	Elias Brinks	Exploring the Nearby Universe with ALMA
15.00	Mark Swinbank	The Cosmic Eyelash
15.15	Alastair Edge	Potential of ALMA for the study of cold gas in the cores of  clusters of galaxies
15.30	Alejo Martinez-Sansigre	FIR/CO properties of high-redshift obscured QSO
15.45	Neal Jackson	Gravitational lensing studies with ALMA
16.00		Organisation of breakouts and hands-on
16.05		Tea and break-outs
18.00		Close

 

 

DECEMBER 15th:

 

Time	Speaker	Topic
	CHAIR:	ROB BESWICK
09.00	Alan Bridger	Overview of ALMA  Observing Tool (OT)
09.30	Anita Richards	Demo and participative worked example of OT Please consult OT instructions in advance
10.00	Avison/Richards	Hands-on exercise (your own project or an example provided)
10.30		Coffee
11.00	Anita Richards	CASA introduction/getting started Please download and test CASA in advance
11.30	Heywood	Introduction to simulations and OST demo
12.00	Pineda/Heywood	Hands-on simulations
13.00		Lunch and break-outs

AFTERNOON SEMINARS:

• 15.00 Jane Greaves New debris disc insights from Herschel and prospects for ALMA
  
• 16.00 Joao Alves An empirical view on the formation of clusters (It's not that massive stars are found in clusters, it's clusters that are found around massive stars)

DECEMBER 16th:

Time	Speaker	Topic
	CHAIR:	ALBERT ZIJLSTRA
10.00	Albert Zijlstra	Welcome and report on recent meetings
10.20	Robert Laing	ALMA Early Science
10:40	Anita Richards	Stellar mass loss with ALMA and complementary long-wavelength observations
11.00		Coffee
11.30	Leen Decin	Lessons learnt from APEX and Herschel
12.00	Eric Lagadec	PNe and related objects with ALMA
12.15	Jay Farihi	Asteroidal debris around white dwarfs
12.30	Tom Millar	Astrochemistry with ALMA
13.00		Lunch
	Leader	DISCUSSION SESSIONS AIMS
13.45	Jacco van Loon	Identify areas where ALMA can make breakthroughs
14.45		Coffee
15.00	Anita Richards	Identify strong projects for Early Science
16.00	Albert Zijlstra	Forming teams who will write proposals
16.45		End

BREAK-OUTS:

Several rooms are available for break-out sessions at any time. ARC staff will be available to respond to questions.  We will take a show of hands at the time to help people join in the groups they are most interested in; the lists below are not definative but give an idea of the topics already being considered - feel free to change your mind/suggest others. These groups can be subdivided.

 

EXTRAGALACTIC: Facilitators: Muxlow, Beswick

 

People with topics: 

• Heywood High-redshift galaxies
• Witold CO in centres of galaxies
• Martinez-Sansigre high-z surveys and molecules
• Lumsden molecular gas z>1 AGN
• Mills CO in sub-mm galaxies, high-z dust
• Seymour high-z AGN/starbursts
• Edge CO and CI in z<1 galaxies
• Bendo nearby galaxies
  
• Lakicevic supernovae remnants (nearby extragalactic)

 

STAR FORMATION: Facilitators: Fuller, Pineda, Avison

 

People with topics:

• Torelles SF
• Buckle observations of star forming clusters
• Lumsden High mass SF
• Hoare Massive star formation
• Longmore Massive star formation
• Purcell High-res massive protostar accretion
• Fuller Star formation, astrochemisty
• Gomez massive SF
• Caselli Star formation, initial conditions
• Tan Star formation, initial conditions
• Farihi Debris Disk and ALMA Sensitivity
  
• Etoka  Formation process & evolution of high-mass young stellar objects
  
  

GALACTIC CENTRE: Facilitators: Richards

• Zuther Galactic Centre
• Eckhart The Galactic Center with ALMA
• Moser Galactic center observations

 

MASERS: Facilitators: Richards

 On16th?

• Richards
• Gray

EVOLVED STARS:  Facilitators: Richards +

All on 16th?

• Richards Solitary AGB/RSG star, dust, masers, thermal lines
• Torelles PNe
• Hebden Molecules in PN etc.
• Guzman-Ramirez CO in AGB-PNe
• Decin Evolved Stars Sibthorpe PPNe and circumstellar discs
• McDonald CO wind vels from evolved stars
• Lykou CO/cold dust in AGB-PPNe
• Gomez post-AGBs and PNe
• Eyres CSE, novae, symbiotics, VLTPs
• Etoka structural and dynamical evolution & mass-loss processes