13th – 14th of January 2014 : Exploiting Nature’s Telescopes – Lensing School
This session of the event will provide a general introduction to cluster gravitational lensing, with lectures in the morning, and “hands on” sessions in the afternoon, in order to introduce lensing software and mass modelling.
Monday 13/01
12 :30 – 13 :30 : Lunch
13:30 – 14:00 : Registration
14:00 – 14:30 : K. Moodley & M. Jauzac – Welcome Talk
14:30 – 15:15 : J.-P. Kneib – ‘Lensing back to basics (historical introduction lens theory and strong lensing modelling)’
15 :15 – 15 :45 : coffee break
15 :45 – 16 :30 : J.-P. Kneib – ‘Cluster lensing as a probe of the high redshift universe’
16 :30 – 17 :15 : E. Jullo – ‘Lensing mass mapping Part 1’
17 :15 – 17 :30 : Discussion
17 :30 – 18 :15 : E. Jullo – ‘Lensing mass mapping Part 2’
Tuesday 14/01
09 : 00 – 09 :45 : J. Richard – ‘Galaxies under the 2D cosmic microscope’
09 :45 – 10 :00 : Discussion
10 :00 – 10 :45 : J. Richard – ‘Galaxies under the 3D cosmic microscope’
10 :45 – 11 :15 : Coffee Break
11 :15 – 12 :00 : E. Jullo – ‘Cosmology with lensing’
12 :00 – 12 :30 : Discussion
12 :30 : 13 :30 : Lunch
13 :30 – 15 :30 : Hands-on session Part 1 (E. Jullo, J. Richard, H. Atek, J.-P. Kneib, M. Jauzac)
15 :30 – 16 :00 : Coffee break
16 :00 – 17 :30 : Hands-on session Part 2 (E. Jullo, J. Richard, H. Atek, J.-P. Kneib, M. Jauzac)
15th-17th of January 2014 : Exploiting Nature’s Telescopes – Workshop
The last 3 days will be more technical, and contributed talks are welcome. Over these 3 days, we will begin to work with the first HST Frontier Fields data set. Group projects will be defined so that researchers and students will be able to apply the tools they learned to use during the school to these real HST data.
The first day of the workshop will be devoted to contributed talks. We will start by presenting in more detail the HST Frontier Fields program, followed by a session where South African researchers and students give related talks on their own work, and in particular how it may link to, and make use of, the HST Frontier Fields program.
Wednesday 15/01
09 :00 – 09 :30 : J.-P. Kneib – ‘The HST Frontier Fields : an Overview’
09 :30 – 09 :55 : J. Richard – ‘Strong Lensing Modelling of the Frontier Field Clusters’
09 :55 – 10 :20 : E. Jullo – ‘Weak lensing galaxy cluster Field Reconstruction’
10 :20 – 10 :45 : M. Jauzac – ‘Strong & Weak Lensing mass reconstruction of Abell 2744’
10 :45 – 11 :15 : coffee break
11 :15 – 11 :40 : H. Atek – ‘Probing the z > 6 Universe with the Hubble Frontier Fields’
11 :40 – 12 :05 : B. Clément – ‘Spectroscopic Survey of Gravitationally Lensed z ~ 7 Galaxies in Massive Galaxy Cluster Field’
12 :05 – 12 :30 : R. Massey – ‘Galaxy clusters as dynamical laboratories to find interacting Dark Matter’
12 :30 – 12 :55 : E. Egami – ‘The Herschel Lensing Survey’
12 :55 – 14 :00 : Lunch
14 :00 – 14 :30 : M. Hilton – ‘Mass calibration of Clusters’
14 :30 – 14 :55 : K. Moodley – ‘CMB lensing and galaxy clusters’
14 :55 – 15 :15 : L. Leeuw – ‘SALT Observational Results of Strongly Lensed Submm Galaxies’
15 :15 – 15 :40 : S. Crawford – ‘Spectroscopic Surveys of Massive Clusters’
15 :40 – 16:05 : V. Bouillot – ‘Detecting dark energy through extreme pairwise velocities of clusters’
16 :05 – 16 :30 : Coffee Break
16 :30 – 17 :30 : Presentation / Discussion of the Group Projects (M. Jauzac, E. Jullo, J. Richard, H. Atek, J.-P. Kneib, B. Clément)
Thursday 16/01
09 :00 – 13 :00 : Group Projects & Discussions
13 :00 – 14 :00 : Lunch
14 :00 – 17:30 : Group Projects & Discussions
CONFERENCE DINNER at Little Havana (Umhlanga) at 6 :30pm
Friday 17/01
09 :00 – 11 :00 : Group Projects
11 :00 – 11 :30 : Coffee Break
11 :30 – 13 :00 : Presentation of the results
13 :00 – 14 :00 : Lunch
14 :00 – 15 :00 : Discussion around the outcomes of the Workshop / New collaborations (J.-P. Kneib, K. Moodley, M. Hilton, M. Jauzac)