| Start | Duration | Realising the Astronomy of the Future | |
| 00:20 | DAY 1: Wednesday 6th June 2012 | ||
| 00:25 | |||
| 10:30 | 00:30 | Coffee | |
| OPTICAL/NIR | |||
| E-ELT | Chair: Fraser Clarke | ||
| 11:00 | 00:40 | The European Extremely Large Telescope | Adrian Russell (ESO) |
| 11:40 | 00:20 | HARMONI: the first-light spectrograph for the E-ELT | Niranjan Thatte (Oxford) |
| 12:00 | 00:20 | Enabling technologies for MICADO, the E-ELT adaptive optics imaging camera | Ric Davies (MPE) |
| VLT Instrumentation | Chair: Matthias Tecza | ||
| 12:20 | 00:20 | KMOS and MOONS: The next generation of near-IR, multi-object spectrographs | Michele Cirosuolo (ATC/ROE) |
| 12:40 | 00:20 | SPHERE: challenges of high contrast imaging | David Mouillet (Grenoble) |
| 13:00 | 00:20 | MUSE, a 2nd generation VLT instrument and a pathfinder to future ELT instrumentation | Roland Bacon (Lyon) |
| 13:20 | 00:45 | Lunch | |
| ING | Chair: Ian Lewis | ||
| 14:05 | 00:20 | Developments at ING: The Isaac Newton Group in the next decade | Marc Balcells (ING) given by Gavin Dalton (Oxford) |
| 14:25 | 00:20 | WEAVE: A new wide-field multi-object spectrograph for the William Herschel Telescope | Scott Trager (Groningen) |
| 14:45 | 00:20 | CANARY at the WHT & future AO perspectives | Tim Morris (Durham) |
| 15:05 | 00:20 | Coffee | |
| MM - Radio Projects I | |||
| Chair: Angela Taylor | |||
| 15:25 | 00:25 | UKIRT and JCMT: Inspiration & Instrumentation | Gary Davis (JAC) |
| 15:50 | 00:25 | ALMA + CCAT | John Richer (Cambridge) |
| 16:15 | 00:40 | Square Kilometer Array (SKA) & Pathfinders | Paul Alexander (Cambridge) |
| 16:55 | 00:25 | e-MERLIN | Simon Garrington (Jodrell Bank) |
| 17:20 | End of Talks Day 1 | ||
| 18:00 | 01:00 | Wetton Lecture: Giant Telescopes of the Future (Martin Wood Lecture Theatre) | |
| 19:00 | 01:00 | Reception - Martin Wood Building | |
| 20:00 | Dinner - St Anne's College | ||
| 00:20 | DAY 2: Thursday 7th June 2012 | ||
| MM - Radio Projects II | |||
| Chair: Aris Karastergiou | |||
| 09:00 | 00:25 | LOFAR: The Low Frequency Array | Michael Wise (ASTRON) |
| 09:25 | 00:20 | C-BASS: The C-Band All Sky Survey | Angela Taylor (Oxford) |
| Gamma-Ray | |||
| Chair: Garret Cotter | |||
| 09:45 | 00:25 | The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) | Richard White (Leicester) |
| 10:10 | 00:25 | Coffee | |
| JWST | |||
| Chair: Roger Davies | |||
| 10:35 | 00:40 | The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) | Matt Mountain (STScI) |
| 11:15 | 00:20 | MIRI | Gillian Wright (ATC) |
| 11:35 | 00:20 | NIRSpec | Pierre Ferruit (ESA) |
| Future Challenges in Technology Development | |||
| Chair: Pat Roche | |||
| OPT/IR | |||
| 11:55 | 00:20 | Astro-Photonics | Robert Thomson (Heriot-Watt) |
| 12:15 | 00:20 | Detectors | Gavin Dalton (Oxford) |
| MM/Radio | |||
| 12:35 | 00:20 | Future Ultra-sensitive focal plane arrays for submillimetre astronomy | Ghassan Yassin (Oxford) |
| 12:55 | 00:45 | Lunch | |
| Chair: Gillian Wright | |||
| 13:40 | 00:20 | How the key technology developments came about for Planck LFI | Richard Davis (Jodrell Bank) |
| 14:00 | 00:20 | Challenges in the development of large radio arrays | Justin Jonas (Rhodes University) |
| 14:20 | 00:20 | Large-scale Data Processing Challenges | David Wallom (Oxford) |
| 14:40 | 00:20 | Future challenges in technology development in the radio | Mike Jones (Oxford) |
| 15:00 | 01:00 | Discussion: How do we sustain a viable programme of instrumentation and technology development? | |
| 16:00 | 00:45 | Closing drinks reception | |
| 16:45 | END | ||