Rationale

The Italian community is heavily involved in a number of high-profile instrumental projects aimed at building multi-object spectrographs for optical and near-IR telescopes from 4 to 40m. These projects are the natural follow-up of a long standing tradition of observational programs that have used similar instruments over the last decades. These new projects are supported by large investments for the design and construction, and will yield significant amount of telescope time and/or massive amount of data available to the Italian community as a whole. Needless to say, these projects are not built in isolation but are part of a global landscape that will also be discussed at the meeting.

 

Goals of the workshop

The ultimate goals of the workshop is to maximise the scientific return and the involvement of Italian scientists in these projects. In particular, the workshop is a chance to:

- inform the community about the status and the scientific plans of the various projects;

- give the whole community an opportunity to present science cases and develop collaborations, within but also beyond the framework of the available Granted Time;

- discuss the possible synergies and overlaps in the development of tools for data analysis and scientific exploitation.

 

Format

The workshop will be organized across two full days, and will be organized in four sessions.  A preliminary scheme of the program is attached. In addition to invited talks concerning the main ongoing programs and instrumental projects, time is available for contributed talks to present main results from ongoing “large” programs with existing MOS or science cases for future instruments, with a particular emphasis to projects exploiting the GTO that will be available to the Italian community. The deadline for the submission of contributed talks is November 9.

Space is also foreseen for open discussions.

 

Registration

The deadline for registration is November 16. The deadline is strict due to organisational constraints, so we invite all interested participants to register in due time.

 

Invited Speakers

Angela Bragaglia

Marcella Brusa 

Andrea Cimatti

Giovanni Cresci

Emanuele D’Alessandro

Ben Granett

Angela Iovino

Roberto Maiolino

Filippo Mannucci

Tino Oliva

Elena Pancino

Luca Pasquini

Laura Pentericci

Sofia Randich

Giuseppe Sacco

Margherita Talia

 

 

Preliminary Program

The program is still very tentative. Space will be given to short contributed talks, and each session will be concluded by an open discussion. The exact timing of the various sessions may change.

 

DAY #1 (12 December)

11:00 – 13:00

Session 1: Stellar surveys

GAIA;

GAIA-ESO

MOONS

WEAVE

Contributed talks

Plenary Discussion

14:00 – 18:00

Session 2: Extragalactic surveys

VANDELS

MOONS

WEAVE

Cosmology with clustering surveys (Euclid)

Euclid Legacy Science

Contributed talks

Plenary Discussion

DAY #2 (13 December)

9:00 – 13:00

Session 3: Global Landscape

HIRES-MOS

MOSAIC

MAVIS

10m Spectroscopic Telescope

SDSS-V

NIRSPEC

Synergies: SKA/Lofar

Synergies: X-ray surveys

14:00-15:00

Discussion and Final Wrap—up

 

15:00 – 17:00

Session 4: Tools

Contributed talks

Discussion

 

SOC

Adriano Fontana (Chair)

Gigi Guzzo

Bianca Garilli

Tino Oliva

Livia Origlia

Laura Pentericci

Bianca Maria Poggianti

Sofia Randich

Antonella Vallenari

 

LOC

Marco Fumana (Chair)

Adriana Gargiulo 

Paolo Franzetti

Letizia Caito

Starts
Ends
Europe/Rome
IASF Milano
TBD
Via Alfonso Corti, 12 20133 Milano