The E-ELT Instrument Roadmap


RAS Specialist Discussion Meeting

Venue: Royal Astronomical Society, London

Dates: 8th - 9th November 2012

The programme of talks has now been finalised and can be downloaded from this page. Please click the link below to download a PDF version.

Programme [PDF]


Confirmed Invited Speakers

Jason Spyromilio

Colin Cunningham

Ric Davies

Niranjan Thatte

Bernhard Brandl

Workshop Timings and Program

The workshop will run from Thursday 8th November at 13:30pm (registration opens at 13:00pm), until 3:30pm on Friday 9th November. The RAS Ordinary Meeting will start directly after the conclusion of the discussion meeting and we encourage participants to attend.

Note: Registration for the meeting is free to members of the RAS. Non-members will have to pay a registration fee of 15 pounds (or 5 pounds for students) at the door.

An outline of the program follows:

Day 1 Thursday 8th November 13:30-17:30 (Registration from 13:00)

   Session 1: Introduction ot the E-ELT and the Instrument Roadmap (Invited talks)

   Session 2: Science Cases (Contributed talks) Talks should include a list of required instrument parameters: spectral & spatial resolution, wavelength range, multiplex, FOV etc.

Day 2 Friday 9th November 10:00-15:30 (Late Registration from 10:00)

   Session 2 (cont.): Science Cases (Contributed talks)

   Session 3: ELT-HIRES & ELT-MOS Instrument Concepts (Contributed talks)

   Session 4: Discussion

   RAS Ordinary Meeting

Talks and Posters

We would like to emphasise to science case contributors that the presentations should be geared towards expectations with the E-ELT and the relevant instrument parameters, rather than current results.

In particular, the SOC woud like to bring the ESO science web pages to your attention, from which you can retrieve information regarding the science case from the science working group, the simulations carried out under the Design Reference Mission, the E-ELT Exposure time estimators (Imaging ETC and the Spectroscopic ETC), and projects suggested by the ESO community via the Design Reference Science Plan.

More Information on the E-ELT:
   ESO E-ELT pages - exposure time calculators and technical data
   UK E-ELT Project Pages - overview of the UK's role in the project
   Subscribe to the UK E-ELT mailing list at UK-EELT subscribe