13th Microlensing workshop, Paris 2009 

 

Scientific program

Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris, January 19-20-21, 2009

Most talks will be 15 min + 5 min questions. A few talks will be longer (25 min + 5 min questions)

 


Monday January 19th

Registration opens at 8:15.
 

 

09:00-09:10 : VIGROUX, Welcome to IAP

0910-0920 : MARQUETTE, general announcements

Session I : Chair

0920-0940 : HAN, Korean Microlensing Telescope NETwork

0940-1010 :BOND, MOA Microlensing Alert Strategies

1010-1030 : ABE, Upgrade plan of the MOA 1.8 m telescope

1030-1050 : GREENHILL, A new observatory for microlensing in Tasmania

 

-----coffee break--- 10:50-11:20-------

 

Session II : Chair

1120-1140 : KERINS, Microlensing prospects with the VVV survey

1140-1200 : BEAULIEU, Microlensing planet search with EUCLID

1200-1220 : RATTENBURY,  Microlensing of close binary stars

1220-1240 : GAUDI

1240-1300 : SERENO, Microlensing by rotating lenses

 

 -------lunch break------- 

 

SESSION III : Chair

 

1430-1450 :CASTRO-TIRADO, BOOTES+: A world wide network of robotic telescopes 

1450-1510 : COURBIN, The energy profile of the quasar accretion disk in the Einstein Cross, from chromatic microlensing : 3 years of VLT spectrophotometry

1510-1530 : GARSDEN, A billion points of light

1530-1550 : SUMI, Planetary Microlensing event OGLE-2007-BLG-368

 

-----tea break---- 15:50-16:20-----
 

 

Session IV : Chair

1620-1640 : MOLAVERDIKHANI, New Approach for Mapping the Probability of Microlensing Detection of Exoplanets

1640-1700 : YEE, OGLE-2008-BLG-279: An Extreme Magnification Event with a Strong Sensitivity to Planets

1700-1725 : DOMINIK, Communication, communication, communication, communication, communication, communication of gravitational microlensing & Realisation of a fully-deterministic microlensing observing strategy for inferring planet populations

1725-1745 : DONG, coordination in chaos.

1805-        : Pisco with liquid Nitrogen following the famous EROS-Coutures approach.

 

Tuesday January 20th

SESSION V : Chair

0900-0930 : GOULD, The 2008 uFUN Season

0930-0950 : TSAPRAS, LCOGT and the RoboNet-II microlensing campaign

0950-1010 : DIETERS, PLANET

1010-1030 : YOCK, Microlensing for non-experts, and MB02033 revisited

 

 -----coffee break--- 10:30-11:10-------

 

Session VI : chair Yock

1110-1130 : MANCINI, Gravitational lensing and microlensing for stars around Sgr A*

1130-1150 : ALARD, Perturbative reconstruction of a gravitational lens: when mass does not follow light

1150-1210 : SULLIVAN, A Physical Description of Complex Microlensing Events

1210-1230 : LIEBIG, Extrasolar Moons: an inspection of microlensing light curves and detection limits

1230-1250 : PERROTT, Triple lens analysis of OB07349/MB07379

 

 -------lunch break------- 

 

SESSION VII : Chair

1430-1450 : SEITZ, PAndromeda - The Pan-STARRS-1 pixellensing survey towards M31

1450-1510 : CALCHI NOVATI, Candidate microlensing events from M31 observations with the Loiano telescope

1510-1530 :

1530-1550 : KAINS, A systematic search for minima in caustic-crossing Galactic microlensing events

1550-1610 : RAHVAR, Interpretation of EROS microlensing data toward the spiral arms of Galaxy

-----tea break---- 16:10-16:40-----
 

Poster session.

 

CONFERENCE DINNER : cruise on the Seine river on board "le Capitaine Fracasse"

 

 
Wednesday January 21th

 

SESSION IX : Chair

0900-0920 : HEYROVSKY, Estimating the extended-source effect for an arbitrary lens and source

0920-0940 : ZUB, Limb-darkening measurements for a cool red giant in microlensing event OGLE 2004-BLG-482

0940-1000 :DOMINIS PRESTER, Binary source, binary lens degeneracies

1000-1020 : HUNDERTMARK, Detecting debris disks via microlensing

1020-1045 : MELLIER, Cosmic shear

 

-----coffee break--- 10:45-11:20-------

 

SESSION X : Chair

1120-1140 : BENNETT, Constraints on the Orbital Motion of OGLE-2006-BLG-109Lc

1140-1200 : KAMIYA, Search for low mass objects in short time scale events

1200-1220 : WYRZYKOWSKI, Distant Eclipsing Binary System Revealed with the Microlensing Telescope

1220-1300 : GENERAL DISCUSSION

 -------lunch break------- 

Round tables, discussions about improving data sharing between the groups for
more rapid alerts and a white paper or white papers for the US decadal survey.

Format to be decided.


1700 End of meeting.

 

Posters : Cassan