FINAL CONFERENCE PROGRAM



This is the program actually followed at the conference

Only the first author of each contribution is listed.

The full list (with affiliations and e-mails) is included
in the abstract book distributed to participants.





Sunday, September 8



  • 08:30 Departure for trekking to Regina Margherita peak
  • 13:30 Return to Hotel

  • 14:00 Tour of Gressoney with a tourist guide
  • 17:30 - 20:00 Registration
  • 17:30 - 20:00 Welcome cocktail





Monday, September 9

morning: session 1 - OVERVIEW - chair: M.G.Lattanzi


Coffee-break

  • (30min) F.Mignard: Astrometric performances/fundamental physics
  • (30min) V.Vansevicius: Photometric performances
  • (30min) U.Munari: Science goals for GAIA spectroscopy and radial velocities


afternoon: session 2 - TECHNOLOGY - chair: O.Pace


Coffee-break

  • (30min) S.Ansari: The GAIA data access and analysis system
  • (15min) Y.Viala: Telemetry flow estimated from the GSC-II catalog
  • (15min) C.Babusiaux: Status of the GAIA simulation effort: integration of spectroscopy simulations
  • (15min) D.Katz: RVS simulator: objectives and specifications





Tuesday, September 10

morning: session 3 - GALAXY AND STARS - chair: F.Mignard


Coffee-break

  • (30min) F.de Felice: Methods of relativistic astrometry with GAIA
  • (15min) G.Bertelli: Disk structure from GAIA observations
  • (15min) L.Magrini: GAIA and the planetary nebulae
  • (30min) M.Cropper: Poster review


afternoon: session 4 - STELLAR ATMOSPHERES, CLASSIFICATION AND DATABASES - chair: D.Katz


Coffee-break

  • (30min) C.Bailer-Jones: Physical parameterization of GAIA spectra using global and local methods
  • (15min) C.Jordi: GAIA broad and medium bands photometric performances
  • (15min) T.Zwitter: Grids of GAIA synthetic spectra
  • (15min) R.Sordo: The Asiago database of spectroscopic databases (ADSD)
  • (15min) U.Munari: Databases of real spectra of peculiar stars





Wednesday, September 11

morning: session 5 - RADIAL AND ROTATIONAL VELOCITIES, STELLAR PULSATIONS - chair: A.Henden


Coffee-break



afternoon: Tour of Fenis Castle, Aosta and social dinner






Thursday, September 12

DOUBLE AND BINARY STARS - chair: M.Cropper


Coffee-break

  • (30min) T.Zwitter: Observational tests of the GAIA expected harvest on eclipsing binaries
  • (15min) J.L.Halbwachs: Open questions in binary star statistics, and the contribution of GAIA to solve them
  • (15min) D.Pourbaix: GAIA and spectroscopic binaries: what to expect in terms of orbit determination?
  • (15min) S.Soderhjelm: Distance effects in the census of binaries with GAIA
  • (15min) D.Kovaleva: GAIA photometry of binaries and the mass-luminosity relation


afternoon: session 7 - GROUND-BASED AND SPACE SURVEYS - chair: T.Zwitter


Coffee-break

  • (30min) M.A.C.Perryman: Conference summary


evening: gala dinner

Friday, September 13



RVS Meeting N. 4 (Conference Hall)

DMS Meeting N. 2 (Parrott room)






Saturday, September 14








POSTERS
S.Ansari : The significance of wavelength coincidence statistics in abundance determination within the context of GAIA
I.Busa` : NLTE line-blanketed CaII IRT calculation for evaluation of GAIA spectroscopic performances
M.Cropper : GAIA spectroscopy and the mass ratios in cataclysmic variables
E.Grebel : An extragalactic reference frame for GAIA and SIM using SDSS QSOs
A.Kucinskas : AGB stars as tracers of star formation histories: implication for GAIA photometry and spectroscopy
T.Lejeune : Compared photometric properties of stellar atmosphere models for cool stars
P.Marrese : GAIA spectroscopy of symbiotic binaries
P.Marrese : Expanding the sample of real spectra of cool stars for GAIA
E.F.Milone : GAIA and the boon to extrasolar planet studies
P.Niarchos : Evaluating the GAIA performance on the photometry of eclipsing binaries: the case of near-contact and contact binaries
A.Niedzielski : H/He ratio in WR stars
M.Odenkirchen : The extended tidal tails of Palomar 5: tracers of the Galactic potential
M.Paparo : Missing spectroscopy of Theta Tucanae
Y.Pavlenko : GAIA spectroscopy of Carbon stars
A.Prsa : Automated coarse computation of parameters of eclipsing binaries
S.Ragaini : GAIA spectroscopy of active solar-type stars
A.Rosenbush : Some results of the monitoring of the IR triplet Ca II lines profiles in stars with the R Coronae Borealis type variability
F.Royer : Spectroscopy with FLAMES: applications to GAIA RVS
J.Skuljan : A detailed analysis of the precision of stellar radial velocities obtained using the HERCULES spectrograph
R.Tantalo : Line indices as age, metallicity and abundance indicators
G.Wahlgren : Atomic data for the GAIA spectral wavelength region
P.Willemsen : Derivation of stellar parameters from DIVA spectral data
T.Zwitter : Crowding in the GAIA spectrograph focal plane
T.Zwitter : Information recovery from overlapping GAIA spectra