Three decades of gravitational lenses

Symposium at the JENAM, 21-23 April 2009

Dedicated to the memory of Sjur Refsdal, 1935 - 2009 [Sjur Refsdal]
[POSS plate of the first lens 0957+561] Since the discovery of the first gravitational lens in 1979, gravitational lensing has rapidly exploded into three fields: strong, micro, and weak lensing with applications in virtually every area in astrophysics. This symposium celebrated the 30th anniversary of the first discovery and the tremendous advance of the field in the three decades since then. It brought together all three branches of the European lensing community to review the initial theoretical ideas and observational discoveries, the progress made in theory and observations, and to discuss recent developments and directions for the future.

The symposium comprised a balance of contributions from strong, micro and weak lensing. It offered the opportunity to bring the diversified sub-fields into even closer contact again to foster coordinated efforts, which are essential to utilise the opportunities of emerging instruments and tools.

Scientific programme

The programme of the symposium is provided as HTML and as PDF.

The list of abstracts includes links to online versions of the presentations (not complete yet).

Proceedings / Online presentations

We do not publish printed proceedings but try to make all talk slides and posters available on the web. Links can be found in the list of abstracts. Alternatively you may also go directly to the directory with downloadable files or use wget to fetch many at once from there.

Invited speakers

R. Carswell Gravitational lensing - the first discoveries
A. Gould Microlensing: Planets, Dark Stars, Stellar Magnifying Glasses
J.-P. Kneib Cluster Lensing
L. Koopmans Strong gravitational lensing by galaxies
P. Saha More than three decades of lensing theory
A. Taylor Weak Gravitational Lensing: Recent & Future Progress
J. Wambsganss        Extragalactic Microlensing: Quasars, Caustics & Dark Matter

Scientific organising committee

Promotion material

Lensing symposium JENAM Lensing symposium (JENAM style)
[Lensing symposium poster]    [JENAM poster]    [alternative lensing symposium poster]   
poster: JPEG PDF poster: PDF poster: PDF

Contact

Three decades of gravitational lenses

Shude Mao Shude.Mao(at)manchester.ac.uk
Olaf Wucknitz     wucknitz(at)astro.uni-bonn.de

JENAM 2009

http://www.jenam2009.eu/

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