Day 1 – Wednesday, 26 March

                          

0815 - 0850        Registration              Huxley Building Forecourt

                          

Session I: Welcome, Introduction and GMT Overview                        Chair: Penny Sackett

                          

0900 - 0910        Prof Aidan Byrne, Dean, College of Science, ANU      Opening of meeting

0910 - 0920        Harvey Butcher, RSAA Director, ANU                          Welcoming remarks

0920 - 0930        Wendy Freedman, Chair, GMT Board                         Welcoming remarks

0930 - 0940        Warrick Couch, Swinburne University                          Goals and scope of meeting

0940 - 1005        Matt Johns, GMTO                                                     Overview of GMT Project

1005 - 1030        Peter McGregor, RSAA, ANU                                      Overview of GMT instruments/AO

 

1030 - 1100        Morning tea & further registration

                          

Session II: Brown Dwarfs, Protostellar Disks and Exoplanets           Chair: Wendy Freedman

                          

1100 - 1145        Penny Sackett, RSAA, ANU   Giant Steps: Planetary Science in the GMT Era (Overview)

1145 - 1210        Chris Tinney, UNSW               What Exoplanet and Brown Dwarf Science is the GMT good

                                                                         for?

1210 - 1235        Roger Angel, Univ of Az         AO methods and exoplanet searches

1235 - 1300        Andy Szentgyorgyi, CfA          The GMT-CfA Large Earth Finder (G-CLEF): A high stability

                                                                         optical echelle spectrograph for exoplanet and cosmology

                                                                         research

1300 - 1410        Lunch

 

Session III: Stellar Astrophysics and Galactic Structure                   Chair: Gary Da Costa

 

1410 - 1455        Ken Freeman, RSAA, ANU     Galactic Science with the GMT (Overview)

1455 - 1520        Chris Sneden, Univ of Tx        The First Stars and the GMT

 

1520 - 1550        Afternoon Tea

                          

1550 - 1615        Y.-W. Lee, Yonsei Univ           Globular Clusters with multiple populations as remaining

                                                                         cores of primordial Galaxy building blocks

1615 - 1645        David Lambert, Univ of Tx       Stellar astrophysics and galactic structure with GMTNIRS

1645 - 1710        Peter Cottrell, Univ of Cant     Element abundance variations in globular clusters

1710 - 1730        Lucas Macri, NOAO, Tx A&M  Cepheids and the distance scale with GMT  

 

1900 - 2200        Conference Dinner   Teatro Vivaldi (ANU Arts Centre Building, University Avenue)

 

Day 2 – Thursday, 27 March             

                          

Session III: Continued                                                                          Chair: Steve Shectman

                          

0845 - 0910        Joss Bland-Hawthorn, USyd   Near field cosmology

0910 - 0935        M.-G. Lee, Seoul Nat Univ      Stellar Populations and Galaxy Formation in the GMT era

0935 - 1020        Mike Meyer, Univ of Az           From GouldŐs Belt to the Local Group: Star and Planet

                                                                         formation with the GMT (Overview)

 

1020 - 1050        Morning tea

 

 

Day 2 – Thursday, 27 March Continued

 

Session IV: Galaxies, Cosmology and the Distant Universe              Chair: Darren DePoy

                          

1050 - 1135        Matthew Colless, AAO            Cosmology and the Distant Universe (Overview),

1135 - 1200        Michael Dopita, RSAA, ANU   Starbursts and AGN: Probing Feedback in Galaxy Formation

                                                                         with GMT                                                                                                                                                      

 

1210 - 1230        Travel to Mt Stromlo Observatory

1230 - 1330        Barbeque lunch at Mt Stromlo Observatory

 

1400 - 1700        Visit to Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve

 

1930 - 2030        Bob Kirshner, CfA     Public lecture, Finkel Lecture Theatre

 

 

Day 3 – Friday, 28 March

                          

Session IV: Continued                                                                         Chair: Warrick Couch

                          

0845 - 0925        T. Padmanabhan, IUCAA       Progress in Cosmology: Rumours and Reality (Overview)

0925 - 0950        Dawn Erb, CfA                        Observing Distant Galaxies with the GMT

0950 - 1015        J. Lee, Seoul Nat Univ            Cosmic voids as a new cosmological probe

1015 - 1040        Nick Suntzeff, Tx A&M            Exploding stars in the early universe [not given]

 

1040 - 1110        Morning tea

 

Session IV: Continued                                                                         Chair: Bob Kirshner

 

1110 - 1135        Karl Glazebrook, Swinburne   Studies of massive high-redshift galaxies with GMT

1135 - 1200        Ram Sagar, ARIES, India       Relevance of GMT for GRB studies

1200 - 1225        Michael Murphy, Swinburne    Varying fundamental constants? Next generation, high-

                                                                         precision echelle spectroscopy

 

1225 - 1335        Lunch

 

Session IV: Continued                                                                         Chair: Bob Kirshner

 

1335 - 1400        Stuart Wyithe, UMelb              The photon budget for reionization

1400 - 1425        Andy Bunker, AAO                 Galaxies within the reionization epoch: exploring the high

                                                                         redshift universe with GMT

 

1425 - 1455        Afternoon tea

 

Session V: Synergy with Other Facilities                                           Chair: Harvey Butcher

 

1455 - 1520        Jochen Liske, ESO                 Status of E-ELT project and its science case

1520 - 1545        Paul Ho, CfA                          Submillimeter studies of star and planet formation

1545 - 1610        Xiaohui Fan, Univ of Az          Joint Scientific Opportunities with the GMT and ALMA

1610 - 1635        Elaine Sadler, USyd               SKA and GMT

1635 - 1655        Pat McCarthy, OCIW               Meeting summary and a look to the future