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Friday September 6, 2013
Dr. Carlos Allende Prieto
Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias, Tenerife, Spain

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3- Other spectroscopic surveys and analysis strategies

- eBOSS, BigBOSS, HETDEX, WEAVE, 4MOST

- data mashup: astrometry,  photometry and spectroscopy together

- reconstructing the Galaxy

- 'observing' galaxy simulations

- discovery and follow-up of interesting/exotic targets: HVS, UMPS, CEMPS, RCrBs...


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Friday September 6, 2013
Dr. Leo Girardi
Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova, INAF, Italy

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5- Some current problems and opportunities

- simulating kinematics

- simulating variables

- simulating non-solar scaled populations

- simulating rare and extreme populations (e.g. X-ray sources, PNe,

  hot-WDs, AGB-manque', C stars, IR-emission by mass-losing stars)

- opportunities opened by asteroseismology


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Friday September 6, 2013
Dr. Ortwin Gerhard
Max-Planck-Institut fuer extraterrestrische Physik, Germany

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5-   The Galactic halo

- mass, extent, shape

- substructure, inner/outer halo


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Friday September 6, 2013
Dr. Ken Freeman
Australian National University, Australia

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5- The Galactic bulge

- observational status on bulge kinematics and chemical properties in the context of other bulges

- ideas about the formation of the bulge


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Friday September 6, 2013
Dr. Jerry Sellwood
Rutgers University, USA

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5- SPH basics

- numerical viscosity

- Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities

- other problems and their amelioration


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Thursday September 5, 2013
Dr. Carlos Allende Prieto
Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias, Tenerife, Spain

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2- Spectra

- APOGEE, RAVE, SDSS/SEGUE/BOSS, Gaia-ESO

- Spectral classification

- radial velocities

- automated data analysis


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Thursday September 5, 2013
Dr. Leo Girardi
Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova, INAF, Italy

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4- From external galaxies to the Milky Way

- basic equation of stellar statistics, computational methods

- overview of available MW codes

- expected populations X photometric depth and galactic coordinates


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Thursday September 5, 2013
Dr. Ortwin Gerhard
Max-Planck-Institut fuer extraterrestrische Physik, Germany

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4-  The Galactic bulge

- structure

- dynamics

- origin


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Thursday September 5, 2013
Dr. Ken Freeman
Australian National University, Australia

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4- The stellar halo of the Galaxy

- more on dark matter in the Galaxy

- chemical tagging and reconstructing the star formation history of the Galactic disk.


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Thursday September 5, 2013
Dr. Jerry Sellwood
Rutgers University, USA

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4- Analysis "on the fly"

- code testing

- made-to-measure



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