SMC 2011

UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI SALERNO

Salerno

Microlensing

Conference

20-22 January 2011

The 15^th International Conference on Gravitational Microlensing

and School on Modelling Planetary Microlensing Events

Programme

	Thursday 20
09:00 – 09:30	Registration
09:30 – 09:50	Welcome
	Chair: G. Scarpetta
	Surveys I
09:50 – 10:20	Andrzej Udalski Status of the OGLE-IV Survey
10:20 – 10:50	Takahiro Sumi MOA-II observation in 2010 season
10:50 – 11:20	Coffee break
11:20 – 12:10	Topical Speech I Alessandro Morbidelli Giant planet accretion and dynamical evolution: considerations on systems around small-mass stars
	Theory I
12:10 – 12:40	Martin Dominik Microlensing and planet populations - What do we know, and how could we learn more?
12:40 – 13:00	Rieul Gendron The Frequency of extrasolar planet detections with microlensing simulations
13:00 – 14:40	Lunch
	Chair: Ph. Jetzer
	Dark Matter Search
14:40 – 15:10	Arno Riffeser PAndromeda - the Pan-STARRS M31 survey for Dark Matter
15:10 – 15:30	Łukasz Wyrzykowski Final OGLE-II and OGLE-III results on microlensing towards the LMC and SMC
15:30 – 15:50	Luigi Mancini Analysis of microlensing events towards the LMC
15:50 – 16:10	Sedighe Sajadian Simulation of short time scale pixel lensing towards the Virgo cluster
16:10 – 16:30	Sebastiano Calchi Novati M31 pixel lensing and the PLAN project
16:30 – 17:00	Coffee break
	Towards the future I
17:00 – 17:20	Uffe G. Jørgensen Microlensing with the SONG global network
17:20 – 17:40	Dan Maoz Next-Generation Microlensing Pilot Planet Search and the Frequency of Planetary Systems
17:40 – 18:00	Atsunori Yonehara Kohyama Astronomical Observatory: Current Status
18:00 – 18:20	Kennet Harpsøe The Lucky Imaging technique for microlensing observations

	Friday 21
	Chair: P. Yock
	Surveys II
09:00 – 09:30	Andrew Gould The 2010 MicroFUN season
09:30 – 10:00	Yiannis Tsapras The RoboNet 2010 season
	Theory II
10:00 – 10:20	Denis Sullivan A Semi-Analytical Model for Gravitational Microlensing Events
10:20 – 10:40	Markus Hundertmark GPU-assisted contouring for modeling binary microlensing events
10:40 – 11:00	Matthew Penny Rapidly Rotating Lenses - Repeating Orbital Motion Features in Close Binary Microlensing
11:00 – 11:30	Coffee break
11:30 – 12:20	Topical Speech II Antonio Masiero The Dark Matter – LHC Endeavour to Unveil TeV New Physics
	Cosmological Microlensing
12:20 – 12:40	David Pooley Dark Matter Determinations from Chandra Observations of Quadruply Lensed Quasars
12:40 – 13:00	Beata Malec Cosmic Equation of state from Strong Gravitational Lensing Systems
13:00 – 14:40	Lunch
	Chair: P. Fouqué
	Planetary Events
14:40 – 15:00	David Bennett MOA-2009-BLG-266LB: The First Cold Neptune with a Measured Mass
15:00 – 15:20	Julie Baudry Increasing the detection rate of low-mass planets in high-magnification events and MOA-2006-BLG-130
15:20 – 15:40	Jennifer Yee The Complete Orbital Solution for OGLE-2008-BLG-513
15:40 – 16:00	Kei Furusawa Planetary microlensing event MOA-2010-BLG-328
16:00 – 16:20	Jan Skowron Binary microlensing event OGLE-2009-BLG-020 gives orbit predictions verifiable by follow-up observations
16:20 – 16:50	Coffee break
17:30 – 19:30	Tour of the old city of Salerno

20:00 – 22:30	Social dinner at the Castle of Arechi

	Saturday 22
	Chair: F. De Paolis
	Towards the Future II
09:00 – 09:30	Kaspar von Braun IPAC’s Role as the Science Center for NASA’s WFIRST Mission
09:30 – 09:50	Jean-Philippe Beaulieu EUCLID microlensing planet hunt
09:50 – 10:10	Matthew Penny Simulating the planet hunting capability of Euclid
10:10 – 10:40	David Bennett Space-Based Microlensing Exoplanet Survey: WFIRST and/or Euclid
10:40 – 11:10	Coffee break
11:10 – 12:00	Topical Speech III Alessandro Sozzetti Characterization of Planetary Systems with High-Precision Astrometry: The Gaia Potential
12:00 – 12:20	Łukasz Wyrzykowski Microlensing with Gaia satellite
	Theory III
12:20 – 12:30	Achille Nucita Red noise effect in space-based microlensing observations
12:40 – 13:00	David Heyrovsky Light curve errors introduced by limb-darkening models
13:00 – 14:40	Lunch
	Chair: S. Gaudi
	Theory IV
14:40 – 15:00	Kailash Sahu Isolated, stellar-mass black holes through microlensing
15:00 – 15:20	Nicola Sartore The observability of isolated compact remnants with microlensing
15:20 – 15:40	Fumio Abe Gravitational microlensing by the Ellis wormhole
15:40 – 16:00	Asoke Kumar Sen The deflection of light ray in strong field: a material medium approach
16:00 – 16:20	Keith Horne How to Stop a Runaway (Monte Carlo Markov) Chain
16:20 – 16:50	Coffee break
16:50 – 17:20	Open session