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PROGRAMME OF THE CONFERENCE "GALAXIES, NEAR AND FAR"


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SUNDAY 22 May
18:00 - 20:00 Registration
19:00 - 21:00 Reception at Villa Aureli
MONDAY 23 May
08:30 - 09:00 Registration
09:00 - 09:25 Sperello di Serego Alighieri Welcome
Session 1 Chair: Sperello di Serego Alighieri IMAGING
09:25 - 10:00 Robert Fosbury Colours from Earth
10:00 - 10:30 Hans-Martin Adorf & Richard Hook Imaging with the Hubble Space Telescope
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 11:30 Tarja Trygg Solargraphy - Sunpath Pinhole Recording
11:30 - 12:00 Cesare Barbieri From Quanteye to Iqueye and beyond, the road to Quantum Astronomy
12:00 - 12:30 Tim Otto Roth How many photons do we need to create a picture?
12:30 - 13:00 Zlatan Tsvetanov Surveying the Brightest Stars for Exoplanets with a (very) Small Telescope in Space
13:00 - 14:45 Lunch at Villa Aureli
Session 2 Chair: Clive Tadhunter DISTANT RADIO GALAXIES
14:45 - 15:15 Joel Vernet Radio galaxies and their neighborhood at 1<z<2
15:15 - 15:45 Peter Barthel (read by Sperello di Serego) First Herschel results on HzRG
15:45 - 16:15 Carlos De Breuck The SEDs of high redshift radio galaxies
16:15 - 17:00Coffee break
17:00 - 17:30 Nick Seymour Mid to far-IR Observations of High Redshift Radio Galaxies
17:30 - 18:00 Dan Dicken The incidence of starburst in powerful radio galaxies as traced by Spitzer
18:15 - 19:15 Concert: Piano and violoncello duo
TUESDAY 24 May
Session 3 Chair: Richard Hook NEARBY RADIO & OTHER ACTIVE GALAXIES
09:00 - 09:30 Raffaella Morganti The never ending story of Centaurus A
09:30 - 10:00 Clive Tadhunter Nearby Radio Galaxies
10:00 - 10:30 Patrick Ogle Accretion Power in Radio Galaxies from Optical Polarimetry and Spitzer mid-IR Spectroscopy
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 11:30 Alan Moorwood Infrared Spectroscopy of Active Galaxies
11:30 - 12:00 Andrew Robinson (read by David Axon) Exploring inner regions of active galactic nuclei with spectropolarimetry
12:00 - 12:30 Hien Tran Spectropolarimetry of Seyfert 2 Galaxies
12:30 - 13:00 David Silva AGN, Galaxies, and LSST
13:00 - 14:30 Lunch at Villa Aureli
Session 4 Chair: Raffaella Morganti AGN
14:30 - 15:00 Joss Bland-Hawthorn 3D observations of AGN/starbursts outflows: Extended phase of mass-energy injection before the wind blows
15:00 - 15:30 Hagai Netzer Parallel cosmological evolution of AGN and their host galaxies
15:30 - 16:00 Luigi Spinoglio FIR Spectroscopic Cosmological surveys
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee break
16:30 - 17:00 David Axon Recoiling and binary supermassive black holes in galactic nuclei
17:00 - 17:30 Ilse van Bemmel Neutral hydrogen and dust in AGN
17:30 - 18:00 Diana Worrall Energy and momentum transfer by AGN jets as revealed in X-rays
20:00 Conference dinner at the restaurant "Le Tre Vaselle" in Torgiano
WEDNESDAY 25 May
Session 5 Chair: Bob Fosbury SUPERNOVAE
9:00 - 09:25 John Danziger SN1987A - Unfinished Business
09:25 - 09:45 Leon Lucy (read by John Danziger) Seizing the moment: reflections on SN1987A
Session 6 Chair: Montserrat Villar Martin DISTANT GALAXIES
09:45 - 10:15 Sandro D'Odorico Results on high-z star-forming galaxies with X-shooter
10:15 - 10:45 Anna Raiter Emission nebulae at high redshift
10:45 - 11:15 Coffee break
11:15 - 11:45 Norbert Pirzkal PEARS-2D: Slitless spectroscopic selection of star forming galaxies
11:45 - 12:15 Eros Vanzella Lyman break galaxies at z>3 and contribution to the ionizing UV background
12:15 - 12:45 Piero Rosati Gravitational telescopes as tools to probe the first generation of stars
12:45 - 14:15 Lunch at Villa Aureli
14:15 - 14:45 Patrick McCarthy Slitless Grism Spectroscopy with WFC3
Session 7 Chair: Joel Vernet MISCELLANEA
14:45 - 15:15 Marshall Cohen Mistakes Can be Useful
15:15 - 15:45 Coffee break
15:45 - 16:15 Didier Pelat The "salami" theorem and the search for extraterrestrial life
16:15 - 16:45 Dirk Lorenzen We need more Bobs! On the communication of astronomy