Tuorla-Tartu annual meeting 2010: observational cosmology
Tuorla Observatory, 2-3 September 2010
Programme:
Thursday (2 September)
09.00 Welcome
09.15 Jari Kotilainen: ESO: a crash course for cosmologists
10.00 Seppo Katajainen: Polarimetry with ESO telescopes & instruments
10.30 Antti Tamm: Prospects of galaxy physics with ESO facilities
11.00 Renato Falomo: Science with MICADO@ELT
11.30 Laura Portinari: The cosmological evolution of the M_BH - Mbulge relation
in quasar host galaxies
12.00 Lunch
14.00 Kalevi Mattila: The other backgrounds: measuring the optical and infrared Extragalactic Background Light
14.30 Pekka Heinämäki: WHIM and LSS
15.00 Coffee
15.30 Heidi Lietzen: The Role of Quasars and Radio Galaxies in Galaxy
Evolution
16.00 Sarah Bird: The Inner Halo of M87: A First Direct View of the Red-Giant Population
16.30 Jukka Nevalainen: Megaparsec-scale magnetic field in Ophiuchus cluster of galaxies
17.00-17.40 Planetarium
19.00-00.00 Evening snack + Sauna
Friday (3 September)
09.30 Mauri Valtonen: Jet-disk connection in OJ287
10.00 J. Leon-Tavares: The connection between black hole mass and Doppler boosted emission in radio-loud AGN
10.30 Pauli Pihajoki: Haskell and automatic differentation for astronomical problems
11.00 Juha Reunanen: VLT/VISIR Mid-IR imaging of LINER and Seyfert galaxies
11.30 Kari Nilsson: Polarization survey of SDSS BL Lac candidates
12.00 Rami Rekola: Popularization in science
12.30 Lunch
13.45 Enn Saar: Traces of Baryon Oscillations
14.15 Riho Reinthal: TBA
14.45 Coffee
15.00 Samuli Kotiranta: Exoplanets (related) research in Finland
15.30 Juhan Liivamägi: TBA
16.00 End of the meeting