2nd MAS Workshop Program
November 26th
08.00 Bus departure from Plaza Italia (at Metro “Baquedano”)
11.00 – 12.00 Workshop Registration + Welcoming Coffee Break + Posters Registration
12.00 – 12.30 Welcome – Introduction by the MAS Director (M. Hamuy)
12.30 – 12.45 The Future of the VVV Survey (D. Minniti)
12.45 – 13.00 Improving the star cluster census using the VVV Survey (S. Ramirez)
13.00 – 13.15 Inner Galactic globular clusters in the VVV region (J. Alonso)
13:15 – 13:30 Galactic Cepheid Program (I. Dekany)
13:30 – 15:00 Lunch
15:00 – 15:45 Topical Discussion: Outreach (A. Clocchiatti)
15:45– 16:15 Official Photo Session
16:15 – 16:30 RR Lyrae binary systems in the galactic bulge microlensing surveys (G. Hajdu)
16:30 – 16:45 A fully empirical estimate of the stellar mass of the galactic bulge (M. Zoccali)
16.45 – 17.00 Proper motions and parallaxes with the VVV (R. Kurtev)
17.00 – 17.15 Searching for Y dwarfs at the faint limits of WISE (M. Gromadzki)
17.15 – 17.30 The SUSHIES Project- Revealing the Nature of Super-Luminous Supernovae through their Host Galaxies (S. Schulze)
17.30 – 19.30 Poster session
20.00 Dinner
November 27th
08.30 – 10.00 Board of Directors
10.00 – 10.15 Introduction to Big Data (P. Estevez)
10.15 – 10.30 A Multi-harmonic Periodogram for Light Curves based on the Maximum Correntropy Criterion (P. Huijse)
10.30 – 10.45 New types of transiting planets from the HAT Sooth survey (R. Brahm)
10.45 – 11.00 Exploring the diversity of exoplanet atmospheres from the ground with the ACCESS Survey (N. Espinoza)
- 00 – 11.30 Coffee Break
11.30 – 11.45 The All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae (J.L. Prieto)
11.45 – 12.00 A new type of X-ray transient (F. Bauer)
12.00 – 13.30 Topical Discussion: MAS and LSST (A. Jordán)
13.30 – 15.00 Lunch
15.00 – 16.30 Brainstorm: MAS´s Future (P. Estévez)
16:30 – 17:00 Discussion Session (Questions & Answers) – Workshop closure
17:30 Bus departure to Santiago
