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First Light Science with the GTC
Program and Abstracts
Organizing Committees

LOC – Local Organizing Committee

Chris Packham (co-Chair), University of Florida Rafael Guzman (co-Chair), University of Florida Anthony Gonzalez, University of Florida Vicki Sarajedini, University of Florida Stanley Dermott, University of Florida

SOC – Scientific Organizing Committee

Rafael Guzman (Chair), UF, USA Jose Alberto Lopez, IAUNAM, Mexico Charles Telesco, UF, USA Elizabeth Lada, UF, USA Francisco Garzon, IAC, Spain Francisco Sanchez, IAC, Spain Itziar Aretxaga, INAOE, Mexico Jesus Gallego, UCM, Spain Jesus Gonzalez, IA-UNAM, Mexico Jian Ge, UF, USA Jordi Cepa, IAC, Spain Jose Franco, IA-UNAM, Mexico Jose Guichard, INAOE, Mexico Jose M. R. Espinosa, GTC project office, Spain Luis Colina. IEM-CSIC, Spain Marc Balcells, IAC, Spain Mariano Moles, IAA, Spain Marisa Garcia, GTC project office, Spain Stanley Dermott, UF, USA Steve Eikenberry, UF, USA Xavier Barcons, CSIC, Spain

Sponsors

First Light Science with the GTC would like to thank these organizations for their support of this meeting.

Research & Graduate Programs

General Information

Date:

Main Conference: Wednesday, June 28 - Friday, June 30, 2006 Post Conference Workshops: Saturday, July 1 - Tuesday, July 4, 2006

Site of the Meeting:

The Biltmore Hotel 1200 Anastasia Avenue Coral Gables, FL 33134 Tel: (305) 445-1926 FAX: (305) 913-3159 Web Site: http://ww w .biltmorehotel.com

Oral Presentations: Merrick & Stoneman Douglas (simulcast) Poster Presentations: Tuttle, Flagler & Deering Lunch: Alhambra

Notice to Speakers:

The speakers are requested to bring their Power Point presentation to the session room 30 minutes before their sessions. A speaker-ready computer will be available for speakers to check their media prior to their presentations. Please check with the registration desk for details.

Notice to Poster Presenters:

Pins will be provided and placed in the poster area. Each poster board is marked with a number referring to the poster number in the program. Posters should be mounted by 8:00am on Wednesday, June 28 and removed by 6:00pm on Friday, June 30. Presenters are requested to be present at their posters during the coffee breaks.

Social Program:

All registered participants and paid companions are invited. Tuesday, June 27, 2006 at 7:00pm Welcome Reception — Alhambra Terrace

Thursday, June 29, 2006 at 6:00pm Alumni Night Reception — Alhambra

Friday, June 30, 2006 at 7:30pm Conference Banquet & Fiesta — Country Club Ballroom

General Information

Registration:

Registration includes admission to scientific sessions (oral and posters). It also includes morning and afternoon coffee breaks, the Welcome Reception (Tuesday evening), three complimentary lunches (Wednesday to Friday), the Alumni Night Reception (Thursday evening), and the Conference Banquet & Fiesta (Friday evening).

Registrants will receive a folder containing conference materials, the abstract book and a list of registered participants. .

Late registrations fees:
Regular — $450.00 (US) Accompanying person — $80.00 (US)

Mode of Payment:

Credit Card (Visa, Master Card and American Express): Please specify card number, expiration date, and the name of the card holder.

Personal Check: Must be drawn on a U.S. bank. Cash

Local Information:

For more information about the Coral Gables, Florida area please visit the official travel site for the area at: http://ww w .citybeautiful.net/CGWeb/visitors.aspx

Internet Access

Internet access will be available for all conference participants at the conference information table.

Hotel Restaurants & Hours:

Palme d’Or: Tuesday - Thursday 6:0 0-10:30pm; Friday & Saturday 6:00-11:30pm 1200 Courtyard Grill: Breakfast 6:30-11:30am; Lunch 11:30am-5:00pm; Dinner 5:00-10:30pm Cascade (poolside): Lunch 11:30am-3:00pm; Light Snack Menu 3:00-5:30pm 19th Hole Sports Bar & Grill: Daily 6:30am-6:00pm

The Biltmore Hotel Conference Area Map

Main Hotel

~ Lunch ~ Welcome Reception ~ Alumni Night Reception

~ Simulcast Room ~ Hispanic Alumni
~ General Session
Association Talk

Conference Center

~ Posters
~ Breaks

Coral Gables Area Map

Scientific Program — Agenda

SCIENTIFIC SESSIONS

Tuesday, June 27, 2006

Wednesday, June 28, 2006

Session I – Merrick & Stoneman Douglas (simulcast) Coffee Break and Poster Viewing – Tuttle/Flagler/Deering/Bowman
9:00-10:30am 10:30-11:00am 11:00am-12:30pm Session II – Merrick & Stoneman Douglas (simulcast) 12:30-2:30pm 2:30-4:00pm 4:00-4:30pm 4:30-6:00pm
Lunch – Alhambra Session III – Merrick & Stoneman Douglas (simulcast) Coffee Break and Poster Viewing – Tuttle/Flagler/Deering/Bowman Session IV – Merrick & Stoneman Douglas (simulcast)

Thursday, June 29, 2006

8:00am-6:30pm 8:30-10:20am 10:20-11:00am
Check-in/Registration/Information Booth Open Session V – Merrick & Stoneman Douglas (simulcast) Coffee Break and Poster Viewing – Tuttle/Flagler/Deering/Bowman
11:00am-12:30pm Session VI – Merrick & Stoneman Douglas (simulcast) 12:30-2:30pm 2:30-4:30pm 4:30-6:00pm 6:00-8:00pm
Lunch – Alhambra Session VII – Merrick Hispanic Alumni Association Talk – Members Only – Stoneman Douglas “Gran Telescopio Canarias: A Partnership for Discovery” Reception with high dignitaries from Spain, Mexico and the United States – Alhambra

Scientific Program — Agenda

Friday, June 30, 2006

8:00am-6:30pm 8:30-10:20am 10:20-11:00am
Check-in/Registration/Information Booth Open Session VIII – Merrick & Stoneman Douglas (simulcast) Coffee Break and Poster Viewing – Tuttle/Flagler/Deering/Bowman
11:00am-12:30pm Session IX – Merrick & Stoneman Douglas (simulcast) 12:30-2:30pm 2:30-4:00pm 4:00-4:30pm 4:30-6:00pm 6:00-6:10pm 8:30pm-Late
Lunch – Alhambra Session X – Merrick & Stoneman Douglas (simulcast) Coffee Break and Poster Viewing – Tuttle/Flagler/Deering/Bowman Session XI – Merrick & Stoneman Douglas (simulcast) Closing Remarks – Merrick & Stoneman Douglas (simulcast) Conference Dinner/Fiesta – Country Club Ballroom

Saturday, July 1, 2006 – Post Conference Workshops

FRIDA Workshop – Alberto Lopez CANARICAM Workshop 1 – Chris Packham CANARICAM Workshop 2 – Charlie Telesco OSIRIS Workshop – Jordi Cepa

Sunday, July 2, 2006 – Post Conference Workshops

EMIR Workshop – Francisco Garzon ELMER Workshop – Marisa Garcia NAHUAL Workshop – Eduardo Martin

Monday & Tuesday, July 3 & 4, 2006 – Post Conference Workshops

Scientific Program — Oral Sessions

SCIENTIFIC SESSIONS

Wednesday, June 29

Welcome

The GTC: getting ready for First Light

SESSION I

Invited Talk

Elmer performance: results of laboratory tests

9:50 - 10:10am 10:10 - 10:30am 10:30 - 11:00am
Jordi Cepa

OSIRIS assembly and integration

Chris Packham

CanariCam: status and science prospects

Coffee Break and Poster Viewing
SESSION II

Invited Talk

EMIR, the GTC NIR imager spectrograph

11:50am - 12:10pm Alberto Lopez

FRIDA: the science instrument for the GTC adaptive optics system

CIRCE: the Canarias infrared camera experiment

SESSION III

Invited Talk

3:00 - 3:20pm 3:20 - 3:40pm 3:40 - 4:00pm 4:00 - 4:30pm
Charo Villamariz

How to observe with GTC

Antonio Cabrera

The GCS data processing kit

James Hough

New opportunities for polarization with CanariCam

SESSION IV

Invited Talk

5:00 - 5:20pm 5:20 - 5:40pm 5:40 - 6:00pm
David Barrado

The Lambda Orions star forming region: the Spitzer perspective

Eduardo Martin

Brown dwarf candidates ready for GTC follow-up

Maria Morales

A sensitive search for variability in late L dwarfs

Thursday, June 29

SESSION V

Invited Talk

9:00 - 9:20am 9:20 - 9:40am 9:40 - 10:00am 10:00 - 10:20am 10:20 - 11:00am
Rafael Rebolo

Chemical composition of black hole and neutron star companions

Ata Sarajedini

Local group stellar populations with the GTC

Antonio Marin-Franch

Surface-brightness fluctuations in stellar populations

Reba Bandyopadhyay

Determining the nature of the faint X-ray source population near GC

SESSION VI

Invited Talk

EMIR spectroscopic survey of the inner galaxy

11:50am - 12:10pm Jonathan C. Tan

Star formation near supermassive black holes

Building a virtual Milky Way

SESSION VII

Invited Talk

The warm interstellar gas in starbursts and AGNs

3:20 - 3:40pm 3:40 - 4:10pm 4:10 - 4:30pm
Miriam Pena

Deep spectroscopy of planetary nebulae and compact HII regions

Almudena Alonso

Invited Talk

Tanio Diaz-Santos

T-ReCS mid-infrared observations of local LIRGs

Friday, June 30

SESSION VIII

Invited Talk

9:00 - 9:20am 9:20 - 9:40am 9:40 - 10:00am 10:00 - 10:20am 10:20 - 11:00am
Jorge P. Gallego

3D spectroscopy of luminous blue compact galaxies

Juha Reunanen

VLT/SINFONI spectroscopy of nearby galaxies

Ana Matkovic

Faber-Jackson relation for dE/ds0 galaxies

David Clark

X-ray source environments in the dwarf starburst galaxy NGC1569

SESSION IX

Invited Talk

Obscured and unobscured growth of supermassive black holes

11:50am - 12:10pm Patrick Roche

Spatially-resolved mid-IR spectroscopy of nearby galaxy nuclei

Simulations of GTC/FRIDA observations of high-redshift galaxies

SESSION X

Invited Talk

3:00 - 3:20pm 3:20 - 3:40pm 3:40 - 4:00pm 4:00 - 4:30pm
Anthony Gonzalez

Galaxy evolution during the epoch of cluster assembly

Marc Balcells

The formation epoch of ellipticals and red-sequence galaxies

Luc Binette

Large scale absorbers in the environment of high-z RGs

SESSION XI

Invited Talk

5:00 - 5:20pm 5:20 - 5:40pm 5:40 - 6:00pm 6:00 - 6:10pm
Roser Pello

Galaxies at z>7: probing galaxy formation with new NIRMOS

Hsiao-Wen Chen

Chemical enrichment of the IGM and ISM in the distant universe

Mike Gladders

Galaxy clusters, cosmology, and magellan instrumentation

Stan Dermott

Closing Remarks

Scientific Program — Posters

SCIENTIFIC SESSIONS Poster Board #

(2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9)
Abel Bernal

A high resolution scanning Fabry-Perot for OSIRIS

Beatriz Sanchez

FRIDA management plan

Esperanza Carrasco

Manufacturing of FRODOSPEC red arm optics and mounts

Francisco Cobos D.

Expected OSIRIS efficiency

Francisco Reyes

Faculty support

Javier Fuentes

FRIDA system architecture

Jesus Gonzalez

OSIRIS camera barrel

Luis J. Corral

Elmer’s web pages

Mamadou N’Diaye

Exploring high contrast resolution imaging for FRIDA

(10) Marc Vallbe Mumbru

The commissioning of EMIR

(11) Maria Alejandra Di Cesare

Alteration in hypothalamic NPY in CCK2 receptor knockout mice

(12) S. Nicholas Raines

FISICA: the Florida image slicer for infrared astrophysics and cosmology

(13) Salvador Carlos Cuevas Cardona

FRIDA optical design

(14) Sergio Pascual

Data reduction pipeline for EMIR, the Near-IR multi-object spectrograph for GTC

(15) Amelia Bayo

Dust settling: the luminosity function gap at M7-M8

(16) Ashley Expy

Origin of the particles of the Zodiacal cloud

(17) Audra K. Hernandez

H-band spectral classification of intermediate-type stars

(18) Benjamin Montesinos

Metal abundances of stars with protoplanetary disks

Scientific Program — Poster Presentations

(19) Bruno Ferreira

Probing the structure of nearby embedded clusters

(20) Curtis DeWitt

Simulating the Doppler velocity precision of high resolution near infrared spectrographs

(21) Cynthia Gomez Martin

Low-mass stars and Brown dwarfs in NGC1333

(22) Herve Bouy

VLT/VISIR mid-IR observations of Brown dwarfs, future prospects with GTC/Canaricam

(23) James De Buizer

New results from observations of massive star formation in th emid-infrared with the large aperture telescopes

(24) Julian van Eyken

New results from the multi-object Keck Exoplanet Tracker

(25) Justin Crepp

High-contrast imaging with the Hale 200” telescope at Palomar

(26) Margaret Moerchen

Self-regulation of agonist activity at the Y receptors

(27) Mari Cruz Galvez

High resolution spectroscopy of planet bearing stars

(28) Naibi Marinas

High-resolution mid-IR imaging of herbig Ae/Be stars: morphology of the circumstellar dust

(29) Noah Rashking

FLAMINGOS spectroscopy of low mass stars and Brown dwarfs in Orion

(30) Nuria Huelamo

Differential imaging adaptive optics observations of the protostar Elias 2-29

(31) Thomas J. J. Kehoe

Stochastic collisional events in debris disks: what can be learned from the Zodiacal cloud?

(32) David Martinez-Delgado

Tracing tidal streams with GTC: testing the hierarchical formation of the Milky Way

(33) Jordi Cepa

The OTELO project: stellar component in the Groth field

(34) Miriam Garcia Garcia

VLT spectroscopy of massive stars in NGC5

(35) Norberto Castro Rodriguez

VLT spectroscopy of massive stars in NGC5

(36) R. Scott Fisher

Studying the wake of the galactic center source IRS8

Scientific Program — Poster Presentations

(37) Susana Iglesias-Groth

Searching with GTC for the carrier of the Anomalous Microwave Emission

(38) Valerie Mikles

First infrared spectroscopic identification of a chandra low-luminosity X-ray source in the galactic center

(39) Aaron Grocholski

Calcium II triplet abundances for a sample of LMC clusters

(40) Eric Perlman

The mid-infrared emission of M87

(41) Igor Drozdovsky

The stellar structures around disk galaxies

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