Mt. Rosa GAIA 2002 Conference

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

(30min) LOC: opening infos/remarks/announcements
(30min) M.A.C.Perryman: The GAIA mission
(30min) O. Pace: The GAIA satellite and payload

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

(30min) D.Katz: Design and performances of the GAIA spectrograph
(30min) M.Cropper: Technical solutions for the GAIA spectrograph
(15min) S.Desidera: Absorption cells in wavelength calibration of GAIA spectra
(15min) C.Pernechele: On the wavelength calibration of GAIA spectra

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

(30min) G.Gilmore: 5D vs 6D in the Galaxy
(30min) A.Spagna: Galaxy structure and kinematics towards the NGP
(30min) O.Bienayme: Observational constraints to the mass density in the galactic plane

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

(30min) N.Nesvacil: ATLAS stellar atmospheres
(30min) P.Hauschildt: Stellar atmospheres: PHOENIX models
(30min) B.Plez: Cool star atmospheres and spectra for GAIA: MARCS models

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

(15min) L.Szabados: Cepheids: observational properties, binarity and GAIA
(30min) G.Bono: The Cepheid instability strip in the GAIA era
(30min) M.W.Feast: Miras and other cool variables with GAIA
(15min) G.Wahlgren: RV Tau and SRd variables with GAIA

Coffee-break

(30min) U.Munari: The accuracy of GAIA radial velocities
(15min) A.Gomboc: Stellar rotation from GAIA spectra
(15min) F.Thevenin: Chemical abundances from GAIA spectra
(15min) A.Niedzielski: Wolf-Rayet stars as seen by GAIA

afternoon: Tour of Fenis Castle, Aosta and social dinner

14:00 Departure by bus from the Hotel
15:00 Visit of the medieval Fenis castle (web cam)
16:30 Visit of roman and medieval parts of Aosta (web cam), main town of the region.
18:00 Free time in Aosta
19:30 Departure to Etoile du Nord restaurant
20:00 Social dinner
23:30 Arrival back to Gressoney

Thursday, September 12

DOUBLE AND BINARY STARS - chair: M.Cropper

(30min) E.F.Milone: Fundamental stellar parameters from eclipsing binaries
(30min) R.Wilson: Toward optimal processing of large EB data sets
(15min) W.van Hamme: Stellar atmospheres in eclipsing binary models
(15min) F.Arenou: Radial velocities and astrometric binaries

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

(30min) A.Henden: Current status and future prospects of ground-based and space photometry
(15min) A.Spagna: Exotic objects in GAIA: results from GSC-II
(15min) M.Steinmetz: RAVE: the RAdial Velocity Experiment
(15min) R.Corradi: The ING telescopes in the GAIA era
(30min)Open discussion: What feasible goals for GAIA radial velocities? moderated by F.Mignard

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

08:30 Departure for trekking to AlpenZu Grande and AlpenZu Piccolo
13:30 Return from trekking

	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