ESF Research Conferences
ESF-FWF Conference in Partnership with LFUI
THE ORIGIN OF GALAXIES: EXPLORING GALAXY EVOLUTION WITH THE NEW GENERATION OF INFRARED-MILLIMETRE FACILITIES
Chaired by
CHAIR:
- Dr.Eelcovan KampenE-Mail
- University of Innsbruck (LFUI)Institute for Astro and Particle PhysicsInnsbruckAustria
VICE-CHAIR:
- ProfessorJames S.DunlopE-Mail
- University of EdinburghInstitute for AstronomyROEEdinburghUnited Kingdom
Dates
24-29 March 2007
Location
Universitätszentrum Obergurgl, Ötz Valley, near Innsbruck, Austria
The Obergurgl University Centre is located at an altitude of 1940 metres, in the highest glacial village in the Tyrol, at the end of the Ötz Valley and surrounded by numerous three-thousand metre peaks.
Final Programme & List of Accepted Participants
The Origin of Galaxies remains one of the big questions in astrophysics, primarily because births of the first galaxies is largely hidden by (astrophysical) dust, tiny fragments of solid material in interstellar space. This dust hides the fundamental processes responsible for galaxy formation from traditional optical telescopes, as much of the optical light generated by the stars forming in the first galaxies is absorbed by the dust. However, this light is then re-radiated at longer wavelengths, mostly in the sub-millimetre (sub-mm) and far-infrared (far-IR) part of the electromagnetic spectrum.
Three new (or renewed) telescopes will largely provide European astronomers with data in the sub-mm and far-IR wavebands: ESA will soon launch the Herschel Space Observatory (HSO), and SCUBA-2 will be fully operational on the renewed James Clark Maxwell Telescope (JCMT). Also, within the next few years the Atacama Large Millimetre Array (ALMA) will start to come into operation. Located at 5500 metres in the Atacama desert in Chile, ALMA will be an array of 64 telescopes designed for high-resolution observations in the submm waveband. It is the most expensive ground-based project ever. The HSO is also a major European investment (about 1 billion Euros), but is a special case in that the HSO will have a time-limit to its operations, requiring careful planning of the observations.
It is therefore timely to bring together many of the European (near-future) users of these new facilities, along with some of their non-European counterparts, to discuss how to best exploit these new datasets in new windows to the distant Universe. Much of the planning is already underway, but it will only be just before the telescopes and instruments are actually ready to take data that final plans can be drawn up, including changes due to new theoretical insights into galaxy formation models as well as changes in specification of the instruments and/or telescopes.
The meeting is not just planned as a place to show results, but as a working environment for preparing for the exciting results that should be delivered by HSO, ALMA and SCUBA-2. There will be invited and contributed talks, as well as poster sessions and open discussions. Young people are especially encouraged to participate, as the meeting is very much looking forward to the future.
Final Programme PDF (86.4 KB) Last Updated 26-March-2007 |
Abstracts, Posters & Short Oral Contributions
There will be no short talks other than those listed on the final programme.
All other abstracts are accepted as posters.
Posters can be fixed with magnets and pins onto poster panels. Recommended poster size is 140 cm high x 100 cm wide. Use letters and drawings that can be read from approximately 100 cm distance.
Group Transportation & Practical Information Guide
Detailed information on all practical aspects of the conference (access to site, registration & fee payments, accommodation, travel reimbursements...) is available from the Practical Information Guide. Please read it fully and carefully...
Practical Information Guide PDF (142 KB) |
GROUP TRANSPORTATION
Two buses will be arranged on arrival day from Innsbruck railway station, via Innsbruck airport, to Obergurgl. The journey from the airport takes approximately 75 minutes (an hour and a half from the station).
Bus departure times - Saturday 24 March:
- from Innsbruck railway station: 15.45 - 18.15
- from Innsbruck airport: 16.00 - 18.30
Airport departure point: the meeting point is located just outside the small airport building. The coaches will have a sign in the window indicating “ESF Research Conferences” for easy recognition.
Group transportation back to Innsbruck will be arranged in a similar way for the departure day, Thursday 29 March. Participants will be requested to sign up on the spot. Buses will be leaving after lunch.
ACCOMMODATION
Please note that SINGLE accommodation can only be guaranteed to invited speakers. All other participants will have to share a TWIN room. In case single rooms would become available at the time of the conference, rooms will be attributed on a “first come, first served” basis. Only the TWIN conference fee (EUR 780) should be paid to the ESF when registering. The supplement for single (EUR 60) should be paid to Obergurgl University Centre. Should you wish to be put on waiting list for single accommodation, please contact Ms. Chiara Orefice.
Conference Fees
Fees (1) | What the fees cover |
EUR 840 | conference, meals and single room |
EUR 780 | conference, meals and twin OR double room (2) |
EUR 590 | non-resident: conference, meals (no room) |
(1) A 100 EUR supplement is charged on any payment received after the deadline (4 weeks prior to the conference) | |
Registration Form
All participants - including speakers & session chairs - are kindly expected to confirm their attendance (and, when applicable, to pay the conference fee) by filling in a Registration Form.
Closing date for registration & fee payment: 23 February 2007 
ESF Contact
- Ms.ChiaraOreficeE-Mail
- Conference Officer
Phone: +32 (0)2 533 2023
Fax: +32 (0)2 538 8486
Please quote 07-224 in any correspondence.
Partnership
This conference is organised by the European Science Foundation (ESF) in partnership with the Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung in Österreich (FWF)
Links of Interest
- From IRAS to Herschel/Planck: Cosmology with Infrared and Submillimetre Surveys, London, 9-11 July 2007
Quicklinks
- Chaired by
- Dates
- Location
- Final Programme & List of Accepted Participants
- Abstracts, Posters & Short Oral Contributions
- Group Transportation & Practical Information Guide
- Conference Fees
- Registration Form
- ESF Contact
- Partnership
- Links of Interest
Further Pages
- ESF helps Europe play Lead Role in New Age of Astronomical Discovery
Astronomy is entering a new golden age of discovery led by breakthroughs in telescopes and instruments making them capable of observing distant events early in the life of the universe. There is now great optimism that one of the fundamental questions of cosmology, the origin of galaxies, will be resolved within the next decade or sooner. But the technology involved is expensive, for instruments have to be highly sensitive and some of the observation needs to take place from space beyond the interference of the earth’s atmosphere, so an international effort is involved. - European Space Sciences Committee (ESSC)
The European Space Sciences Committee, established in 1975, grew out of the need for a collaborative effort that would ensure European space scientists made their voices heard on the other side of the Atlantic, in an era when successive Apollo and space science missions had thrust the idea of space exploration into the collective conscious for the first time.