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AAOmega Workshop

Monday 28th June 2004, University College London

Program

Session 1 9:30-10:40.

9:30-9:35 Welcome – Ofer Lahav

9:35-9:45 Matthew Colless – AAOmega and the AAO of the Future

9:45-10:30 Will Saunders – Design and Performance

10:30-10:40 Sam Barden – The competiton

Session II 11:00-12:45.

11:00-11:25 Gerry Gilmore –  GalacticGalactic Structure and Evolution with AAOmega, RAVE and complementary to SEGUE

11:25-11:40 Matthew Colless – Evolution of the galaxy population

11:40-12:05 John Peacock – Deeper local LSS

12:05-12:30 Karl Glazebrook –AAOmega and the baryon wiggles

12:30-12.45 Ofer Lahav – Redshift surveys: new questions

Session III 1:45-3:30

1:45-2:00 Will Saunders – Mapping the Kuiper belt with AAOmega

2:00-2:15 Richard Jameson – Galactic star clusters with AAOmega

2:15-2:30 Chris Tinney – AAOmega and red stellar astronomy – the "great leap forward"

2:30-2:50 Seb Oliver/Richard Savage – AAOmega and ASTRO-F

2:50-3:10 Bob Nichol/Alastair Edge – The SDSS-2dF LRG survey / Massive Galaxies:Tracing their formations with UKIDSS and AAOMega

3:10-3:30 Tom Shanks – Evolution of the Cosmic Equation of State via a New 2dF QSO+Galaxy Survey

Session IV 4:00-5:00

4:00-5:00 Open discussion:

Venue: Harrie Massey Lecture Theatre, University College, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK .

Telephone 44 (0)20 7679 3943. http://www.phys.ucl.ac.uk Nearest tube stations Warren St / Euston Square / Euston.

For travel and accomodation information, email Christine Johnston <christine.johnston@ucl.ac.uk>.

For other information on the meeting, contact Ofer Lahav <Lahav@star.ucl.ac.uk>.

There is likely room for additional short talks, especially for projects of an innovative nature.

For information on AAOmega, try http://www.aao.gov.au/local/www/aaomega/ or email Will Saunders <will@aaoepp.aao.gov.au>

If you are coming, please register by Fri 18 June by emailing aaomega@star.ucl.ac.uk