SCIENCE WITH THE NEW HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE AFTER SERVICING MISSION 4
JANUARY 29-31, 2008 - CNR CONFERENCE CENTRE, BOLOGNA, ITALY

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Final Programme (last update: Jan 22, 2008)

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Monday, January 28, 2008
17:30Pre-registration at Grand Hotel Baglioni
18:00Welcome Party at Grand Hotel Baglioni
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Chair: F. Paresce
08:00 - 08:45Registration
08:45 - 09:00Welcome/Introduction/Announcements
09:00 - 09:45P. BurchOverview of HST SM4
09:45 - 10:15J. GreenObserving capabilities of the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph
10:15 - 10:45R. KimbleWFC3: A powerful new imager for HST
10:45 - 11:15Coffee break
Chair: A. Nota
11:15 - 11:45C. FroningScientific Observations with COS
11:45 - 12:15R. O'ConnellThe WFC3 Early Release Science Program
12:15 - 12:45F. FavataHST as a part of the ESA vision
12:45 - 13:00B. WhitmoreEnhancing science with the Hubble Legacy Archive (HLA)
13:00 - 14:00Lunch
Chair: C. Cacciari
14:00 - 14:30F. FerraroHunting exotic objects in the globular cluster furnace
14:30 - 14:45W. FreudlingSlitless spectroscopy data in the HLA
14:45 - 15:00H. KuntschnerWFC3 slitless spectroscopy
15:00 - 15:15A. I. Gomez de CastroRelevance of UV signatures of star/disk interaction in the analysis of PMS evolution
15:15 - 15:30D. Martinez-DelgadoA panoramic view of a stellar tidal stream: studying the fossils of hierarchical galaxy formation with HST
15:30 - 15:45F. PrimasStars with STIS: from chemical evolution to cosmic ray spallation and stellar mixing
15:45 - 16:00C. CrowleyCool Chromospheres and Winds: past (and future?) insights from HST
16:00 - 16:30Coffee break
Chair: M. Tosi
16:30 - 17:00S. LarsenResolved Extragalactic Stellar Clusters
17:00 - 17:30E. TolstoyResolved Stellar Populations in Local Group Dwarf Galaxies
17:30 - 17:45S. GezariFollow-up HST observations of tidal disruption events discovered by Pan-STARRS
17:45 - 18:00E. V. HeldThe star formation history of the Fornax dwarf spheroidal galaxy
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Chair: I.N. Reid
08:30 - 09:00A. AloisiResolved Stellar Populations outside the Local Group
09:00 - 09:30G. De MarchiThe making of stars: mapping the mass accretion rate across the Magellanic Clouds
09:30 - 10:00G. PiottoObservational evidence of multiple stellar populations in galactic globular clusters
10:00 - 10:15F. D'AntonaThe progenitors of the very hot HB and blue hook stars in globular clusters
10:15 - 10:30R. MignaniNeutron Star Astronomy
10:30 - 11:00R. GilmozziScience and Technology of the European Extremely Large Telescope
11:00 - 11:30Coffee break
Chair: A. Vidal-Madjar
11:30 - 12:00K. NollThe Kuiper Belt: Physical Characterization of the nearest debris disk
12:00 - 12:30A. RobergeStudies of Debris Disks with the new HST
12:30 - 12:45D. De MartinoCataclysmic Variables in the UV
12:45 - 13:00R. SilvottiLate stage evolution of planetary systems: the case of V391 Peg b
13:00 - 14:00Lunch
Chair: G. Di Cocco
14:00 - 14:30M. WyattDebris disk imaging
14:30 - 15:00C. HaswellTransiting exoplanets with the refurbished HST
15:00 - 15:30A. Lecavelier des EtangsEvaporation of Hot Jupiters
15:30 - 15:45A. ShearerDebris Disks around isolated neutron stars
15:45 - 16:15A. FruchterViewing gamma-ray bursts through a renewed HST
16:15 - 16:45Coffee break
Chair: J. Kriss
16:45 - 17:15M. ShullHST observations of the cosmic web at low redshift
17:15 - 17:30C. FechnerConstraining the IGM UV background with metal line systems
17:30 - 18:00M. RobbertoUnderstanding star formation with the WFC3
20:30 Conference dinner at Palazzo Isolani
Thursday, January 31, 2008
Chair: R. Fosbury
08:30 - 09:00A. BunkerLocating the sources responsible for cosmic reionization
09:00 - 09:30L. KoopmansStrong gravitational lensing with HST: looking at the future
09:30 - 10:00P. RosatiThe formation of massive galaxies from HST observations of the most distant galaxy clusters
10:00 - 10:15F. CourbinStrong gravitational lensing as a tool for studying galaxy formation and cosmology
10:15 - 10:30I. PaganoWorld space observatory - UV project
10:30 - 11:00Coffee break
Chair: B. Marano
11:00 - 11:30A. CimattiHigh z galaxies with WFC3
11:30 - 12:00M. GiavaliscoGalaxy evolution in the post SM4 era
12:00 - 12:15D. CarterThe ACS Coma cluster survey
12:15 - 12:45M. StiavelliHST Observations in Preparation of JWST
12:45 - 13:00N. CrightonThe association between gas and galaxies
13:00 - 14:00Lunch
Chair: L. Feretti
14:00 - 14:30A. RenziniElliptical Galaxies at high redshift
14:30 - 14:45F. NicastroHunting BLAs against bright soft X-ray targets: a WHIM program for COS
14:45 - 15:00P. MagainStudying the host galaxies of nearby QSOs from HST images and ground-based spectra
15:00 - 15:15M. CantielloSurface brightness fluctuations with HST
15:15 - 15:30H. AtekLocal galaxies as seen in Lyman alpha: results and prospects
15:30 - 15:45J. RhoadsUltradeep Spectroscopy with HST slitless grisms
15:45 - 16:00G. WorseckThe transverse proximity effect in spectral hardness
16:00 - 16:30Coffee break
Chair: P. Grandi
16:30 - 16:45D. MaozSN rates with the new HST
16:45 - 17:00M. ChiabergeFRI radio galaxies at z>1: studying the building blocks of today's most massive galaxies and clusters
17:00 - 17:15M. UlmerMagnified weak lensing cross correlation tomography with HST: observations of massive rich clusters of galaxies
17:15 - 17:30N. BoucheA SIMPLE way to study starbursts at z=1 and beyond
17:30 - 17:45E. LeitetA search for properties of the cosmic reionization sources
17:45 - 18:00A. ComastriHeavily obscured SMBH at high redshift
18:00End of Workshop