Three decades of gravitational lenses

The abstracts (with download links) can be found here. The list of abstracts and programme are also available as combined PDF file. A list of posters is included below.

Programme

Tue 21 Apr 16:00 - 17:30     session 1: The beginning        (chair: Joachim Wambsganss)
16:00 - 16:30 Bob Carswell
review Gravitational lensing - the first discoveries
16:30 - 17:00 Prasenjit Saha
review More than three decades of lensing theory
17:00 - 17:15 Olaf Wucknitz
The magnification theorem
17:15 - 17:30 Richard Massey
Nine decades of gravitational lenses
 
Wed 22 Apr 11:00 - 12:30     session 2: Microlensing        (chair: Neal Jackson)
11:00 - 11:30 Andrew Gould
review Microlensing: Planets, Dark Stars, Stellar Magnifying Glasses
11:30 - 11:45 Jean-Philippe Beaulieu
Microlensing planet hunt with EUCLID
11:45 - 12:15 Joachim Wambsganss
review Extragalactic Microlensing: Quasars, Caustics & Dark Matter
12:15 - 12:30 Dominique Sluse
Microlensing as a tool to probe the quasar structure
 
Wed 22 Apr 14:00 - 15:30     session 3: Strong lensing by galaxies        (chair: Ian Browne)
14:00 - 14:30 Leon Koopmans
review Strong gravitational lensing by galaxies
14:30 - 14:45 Timo Anguita
COSMOS 5921+0638: a new strong gravitational lensing system
14:45 - 15:00 Oliver Czoske
Integral-Field Spectroscopy of SLACS Lenses
15:00 - 15:15 John McKean
First detection of water in the distant Universe
15:15 - 15:30 Neal Jackson
Gravitational lensing: surveys and studies with new instruments
 
Wed 22 Apr 16:00 - 17:30     session 4: Strong and weak lensing        (chair: Leon Koopmans)
16:00 - 16:15 Dandan Xu
Effects of Substructure on Gravitational Lensing: Results from Aquarius Simulations
16:15 - 16:30 Sarah Bryan
Luminous Satellite Galaxies in Gravitational Lenses
16:30 - 17:00 Andy Taylor
review Weak Gravitational Lensing: Recent & Future Progress
17:00 - 17:15 Sarah Bridle
A halo model for intrinsic alignments
17:15 - 17:30 Graham P. Smith
LoCuSS: New Cluster Weak-lensing Results from Subaru
 
Thu 23 Apr 11:00 - 12:30     session 5: Cluster lensing        (chair: Oliver Czoske)
11:00 - 11:30 Jean-Paul Kneib
review Cluster Lensing
11:30 - 11:45 Henk Hoekstra
Weak lensing studies of galaxy clusters
11:45 - 12:00 Victoria Hamilton-Morris
LoCuSS: Weak Lensing Analysis of 21 Galaxy Clusters at z=0.15-0.3
12:00 - 12:15 Jörg Dietrich
Weak lensing observation of potentially X-ray underluminous galaxy clusters
12:15 - 12:30 Shude Mao
summary Three decades of gravitational lenses
 

Posters

6-P01    Nick Bate    Constraining accretion discs in anomalous lensed quasars
6-P02    Sarah Bridle    GREAT08
6-P03    Rajan Chhetri    Searching for Gravitational Lenses in the Southern Hemisphere - an update
6-P04    Matt Darnley    The Angstrom Project: Status Update
6-P05    Emma Grocutt    Optimising Tomographic Weak Lensing Analysis for the CFHTLS
6-P06    Dominik Leier    Stellar Population Synthesis for Gravitational Lenses
6-P07    Ekaterina Koptelova, Victor Oknyanskij    Optical monitoring and time delay determination in the gravitationally lensed quasar UM673
6-P08    Danka Paraficz    Results of optical monitoring of 5 SDSS double QSOs with the Nordic Optical Telescope
6-P09    Matthew Penny    Orbital motion in gravitational microlenses
6-P10    Anooshiravan Roozrokh    Reducing Data with THELI Pipeline
6-P11    Satoru Sakai    The effect of Gravitational Distortion of Spacetime on Pulsar Timing
6-P12    Mauro Sereno    Lensing by the supermassive black hole in the Galactic centre
6-P13    Mauro Sereno    Multi-wavelength analyses of strong lensing clusters: AC 114
6-P14    Ismael Tereno    Constraints on neutrino masses from CFHTLS cosmic shear
6-P15    Aurora Ullán    The first in the third decade: jet-accretion disc connection
6-P16    Lisa Voigt    Fundamental limits to galaxy shear estimation
6-P17    Filomena Volino    VLA observations of the brightest Lyman Break Galaxy
6-P18    Olaf Wucknitz    The easy route to moving lenses


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