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June 27
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5:00 - 7:00pm Registration opens
7:00 -9:00pm Welcome Reception
June 28
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Morning Session Chair: Reba Bandyopadhyay
8:30 - 8:40am Welcome (Rafael Guzman)
8:40 - 9:00am The GTC: Getting ready for First Light (Jose Miguel Rodriguez Espinosa)
9:00 - 9:30am Invited Talk: CanariCam: Mid-IR Astronomy at the Frontier (Charles Telesco)
9:30 - 9:50am Elmer performance: results of laboratory tests (Marisa Garcia)
9:50 -10:10am OSIRIS assembly and integration (Jordi Cepa)
10:10-10:30am CanariCam: Status and Science Prospects (Chris Packham)
10:30-11:00am COFFEE BREAK/POSTERS
11:00-11:30am Invited Talk: Massive Stars with GTC (Artemio Herrero)
11:30-11:50am EMIR, the GTC NIR imager spectrograph (Francisco Garzon)
11:50-12:10pm FRIDA: The science instrument for the GTC adaptive optics system (Alberto Lopez)
12:10-12:30pm CIRCE: The Canarias Infrared Camera Experiment (Michelle Edwards)
12:30- 2:30pm LUNCH BREAK/POSTERS
Afternoon Session Chair: Ata Sarajedini
2:30 - 3:00pm Invited Talk: TBD (Jesus Gonzalez)
3:00 - 3:20pm How to observe with GTC (Charo Villamariz)
3:20 - 3:40pm The GCS Data Processing Kit (Antonio Cabrera)
3:40 - 4:00pm New Opportunities for polarization with CanariCam (James Hough)
4:00 - 4:30pm COFFEE BREAK/POSTERS
4:30 - 5:00pm Invited Talk: An All Sky Extrasolar Planet Survey with New Generation Multiple Object Doppler Instruments (Jian Ge)
5:00 - 5:20pm The Lambda Orionis Star Forming Region: The Spitzer Perspective (David Barrado)
5:20 - 5:40pm Brown dwarf candidates ready for GTC follow-up (Eduardo Martin)
5:40 - 6:00pm A Sensitive Search for Variability in Late L Dwarfs (Maria Morales)
June 29
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Morning Session Chair: Luis Colina
8:30 - 9:00am Invited Talk: Embedded Clsuters: Laboratories for Understanding Star Formation (Elizabeth Lada)
9:00 - 9:20am Chemical composition of black hole and neutron star companions (Rafael Rebolo)
9:20 - 9:40am Local Group Stellar Populations with the GTC (Ata Sarajedini)
9:40 -10:00am Surface-brightness fluctuations in stellar populations (Antonio Marin-Franch)
10:00-10:20am Determining the nature of faint X-ray sources near GC (Reba Bandyopadhyay)
10:20-11:00am COFFEE BREAK/POSTERS
11:00-11:30am Invited Talk: TBD (Emilio Alfaro)
11:30-11:50am EMIR Spectroscopic Survey of the inner Galaxy (Peter Hammersley)
11:50-12:10pm Star Formation Near Supermassive Black Holes (Jonathan C. Tan)
12:10-12:30pm Building a Virtual Milky Way (Elizabeth Tasker)
12:30- 2:30pm LUNCH BREAK/POSTERS
Afternoon Session Chair: Silvia Torres-Peimbert
2:30 - 3:00pm Invited Talk: TBD (Manuel Peimbert)
3:00 - 3:20pm The warm interstellar gas in Starbursts and AGNs (Rosa Gonzalez)
3:20 - 3:40pm Deep Spectroscopy of Planetary Nebulae and Compact HII Regions (Miriam Pena)
3:40 - 4:00pm T-ReCS Mid-Infrared observations of local LIRGs (Tanio Diaz-Santos)
4:00 - 4:30pm Invited Talk: Almudena Alonso
5:00 - 5:45pm SPECIAL EVENT: "Hispanics in Astronomy: A Cross-Cultural Look at Past, Present, and Future Contributions of Hispanics to the Discovery of the Universe" Talk for the UF Hispanic Alumni Association only.
6:00 - 8:00pm SPECIAL EVENT: "Gran Telescopio Canarias: A Partnership for Discovery" Reception with high dignitaries from Spain, Mexico, and the US. All are invited.
June 30
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Morning Session Chair: Marc Balcells
8:30 - 9:00am Invited Talk: TBD (Meg Urry)
9:00 - 9:20am 3D Spectroscopy of Luminous Blue Compact Galaxies (Jorge P. Gallego)
9:20 - 9:40am VLT/SINFONI spectroscopy of nearby galaxies (Juha Reunanen)
9:40 -10:00am Faber-Jackson relation for dE/dS0 galaxies (Ana Matkovic)
10:00-10:20am X-Ray Source Environments in the Dwarf Starbust Galaxy NGC1569 (David Clark)
10:20-11:00am COFFEE BREAK/POSTERS
11:00-11:30am Invited Talk: The FLAMINGOS-2 Early Science Surveys & the GTC (Stephen Eikenberry)
11:30-11:50am Obscured and unobscured growth of supermassive black holes (Xavier Barcons)
11:50-12:10pm Spatially-resolved mid-IR spectroscopy of nearby galaxy nuclei (Patrick Roche)
12:10-12:30pm Simulations of GTC/FRIDA observations of high-redshift galaxies (Nicolas Gruel)
12:30- 2:30pm LUNCH BREAK/POSTERS
Afternoon Session Chair: Itziar Aretxaga
2:30 - 3:00pm Invited Talk: TBD (David Koo)
3:00 - 3:20pm Galaxy Evolution During the Epoch of Cluster Assembly (Anthony Gonzalez)
3:20 - 3:40pm The formation epoch of ellipticals and red-sequence galaxies (Marc Balcells)
3:40 - 4:00pm Large scale absorbers in the environment of high-z RGs (Luc Binette)
4:00 - 4:30pm COFFEE BREAK/POSTERS
4:30 - 5:00pm Invited Talk: Downsizing in the lowest mass galaxies (Roberto Terlevich)
5:00 - 5:20pm Galaxies at z>7: Probing galaxy formation with new NIRMOS (Roser Pello)
5:20 - 5:40pm Chemical Enrichment of the IGM and ISM in the Distant Universe (Hsiao-Wen Chen)
5:40 - 6:00pm Galaxy Clusters, Cosmology, and Magellan Instrumentation (Mike Gladders)
6:00 - 6:10pm Closing Remarks (Stanley Dermott)
8:30 -12:00am Conference's Dinner and Party.
June 27
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5:00 - 7:00pm Registration opens
7:00 -9:00pm Welcome Reception
June 28
=======
Morning Session Chair: Reba Bandyopadhyay
8:30 - 8:40am Welcome (Rafael Guzman)
8:40 - 9:00am The GTC: Getting ready for First Light (Jose Miguel Rodriguez Espinosa)
9:00 - 9:30am Invited Talk: CanariCam: Mid-IR Astronomy at the Frontier (Charles Telesco)
9:30 - 9:50am Elmer performance: results of laboratory tests (Marisa Garcia)
9:50 -10:10am OSIRIS assembly and integration (Jordi Cepa)
10:10-10:30am CanariCam: Status and Science Prospects (Chris Packham)
10:30-11:00am COFFEE BREAK/POSTERS
11:00-11:30am Invited Talk: Massive Stars with GTC (Artemio Herrero)
11:30-11:50am EMIR, the GTC NIR imager spectrograph (Francisco Garzon)
11:50-12:10pm FRIDA: The science instrument for the GTC adaptive optics system (Alberto Lopez)
12:10-12:30pm CIRCE: The Canarias Infrared Camera Experiment (Michelle Edwards)
12:30- 2:30pm LUNCH BREAK/POSTERS
Afternoon Session Chair: Ata Sarajedini
2:30 - 3:00pm Invited Talk: TBD (Jesus Gonzalez)
3:00 - 3:20pm How to observe with GTC (Charo Villamariz)
3:20 - 3:40pm The GCS Data Processing Kit (Antonio Cabrera)
3:40 - 4:00pm New Opportunities for polarization with CanariCam (James Hough)
4:00 - 4:30pm COFFEE BREAK/POSTERS
4:30 - 5:00pm Invited Talk: An All Sky Extrasolar Planet Survey with New Generation Multiple Object Doppler Instruments (Jian Ge)
5:00 - 5:20pm The Lambda Orionis Star Forming Region: The Spitzer Perspective (David Barrado)
5:20 - 5:40pm Brown dwarf candidates ready for GTC follow-up (Eduardo Martin)
5:40 - 6:00pm A Sensitive Search for Variability in Late L Dwarfs (Maria Morales)
June 29
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Morning Session Chair: Luis Colina
8:30 - 9:00am Invited Talk: Embedded Clsuters: Laboratories for Understanding Star Formation (Elizabeth Lada)
9:00 - 9:20am Chemical composition of black hole and neutron star companions (Rafael Rebolo)
9:20 - 9:40am Local Group Stellar Populations with the GTC (Ata Sarajedini)
9:40 -10:00am Surface-brightness fluctuations in stellar populations (Antonio Marin-Franch)
10:00-10:20am Determining the nature of faint X-ray sources near GC (Reba Bandyopadhyay)
10:20-11:00am COFFEE BREAK/POSTERS
11:00-11:30am Invited Talk: TBD (Emilio Alfaro)
11:30-11:50am EMIR Spectroscopic Survey of the inner Galaxy (Peter Hammersley)
11:50-12:10pm Star Formation Near Supermassive Black Holes (Jonathan C. Tan)
12:10-12:30pm Building a Virtual Milky Way (Elizabeth Tasker)
12:30- 2:30pm LUNCH BREAK/POSTERS
Afternoon Session Chair: Silvia Torres-Peimbert
2:30 - 3:00pm Invited Talk: TBD (Manuel Peimbert)
3:00 - 3:20pm The warm interstellar gas in Starbursts and AGNs (Rosa Gonzalez)
3:20 - 3:40pm Deep Spectroscopy of Planetary Nebulae and Compact HII Regions (Miriam Pena)
3:40 - 4:00pm T-ReCS Mid-Infrared observations of local LIRGs (Tanio Diaz-Santos)
4:00 - 4:30pm Invited Talk: Almudena Alonso
5:00 - 5:45pm SPECIAL EVENT: "Hispanics in Astronomy: A Cross-Cultural Look at Past, Present, and Future Contributions of Hispanics to the Discovery of the Universe" Talk for the UF Hispanic Alumni Association only.
6:00 - 8:00pm SPECIAL EVENT: "Gran Telescopio Canarias: A Partnership for Discovery" Reception with high dignitaries from Spain, Mexico, and the US. All are invited.
June 30
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Morning Session Chair: Marc Balcells
8:30 - 9:00am Invited Talk: TBD (Meg Urry)
9:00 - 9:20am 3D Spectroscopy of Luminous Blue Compact Galaxies (Jorge P. Gallego)
9:20 - 9:40am VLT/SINFONI spectroscopy of nearby galaxies (Juha Reunanen)
9:40 -10:00am Faber-Jackson relation for dE/dS0 galaxies (Ana Matkovic)
10:00-10:20am X-Ray Source Environments in the Dwarf Starbust Galaxy NGC1569 (David Clark)
10:20-11:00am COFFEE BREAK/POSTERS
11:00-11:30am Invited Talk: The FLAMINGOS-2 Early Science Surveys & the GTC (Stephen Eikenberry)
11:30-11:50am Obscured and unobscured growth of supermassive black holes (Xavier Barcons)
11:50-12:10pm Spatially-resolved mid-IR spectroscopy of nearby galaxy nuclei (Patrick Roche)
12:10-12:30pm Simulations of GTC/FRIDA observations of high-redshift galaxies (Nicolas Gruel)
12:30- 2:30pm LUNCH BREAK/POSTERS
Afternoon Session Chair: Itziar Aretxaga
2:30 - 3:00pm Invited Talk: TBD (David Koo)
3:00 - 3:20pm Galaxy Evolution During the Epoch of Cluster Assembly (Anthony Gonzalez)
3:20 - 3:40pm The formation epoch of ellipticals and red-sequence galaxies (Marc Balcells)
3:40 - 4:00pm Large scale absorbers in the environment of high-z RGs (Luc Binette)
4:00 - 4:30pm COFFEE BREAK/POSTERS
4:30 - 5:00pm Invited Talk: Downsizing in the lowest mass galaxies (Roberto Terlevich)
5:00 - 5:20pm Galaxies at z>7: Probing galaxy formation with new NIRMOS (Roser Pello)
5:20 - 5:40pm Chemical Enrichment of the IGM and ISM in the Distant Universe (Hsiao-Wen Chen)
5:40 - 6:00pm Galaxy Clusters, Cosmology, and Magellan Instrumentation (Mike Gladders)
6:00 - 6:10pm Closing Remarks (Stanley Dermott)
8:30 -12:00am Conference's Dinner and Party.
