Program
Program Book (updated on 2015/06/26)
Program Only (updated on 2015/06/27)
Program of Summer School
The password for lecture slides will be give during the school.
Day 1 (29 June)
| 11:00 - 12:00 | Evaluation Quiz | |
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| 12:00 - 13:15 | Registration | |
| 13:15 - 13:30 | Opening | |
| 13:30 - 14:30 | de Grijs R. | Introduction to the Cosmic Distance Scale |
| 14:30 - 15:30 | Mignard F. | Gaia: Principles and Techniques |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Coffee Break | |
| 16:00 - 17:00 | Gilmore G. | Gaia: Applications to the distance scale |
| 19:00 - 20:30 | Public Lectures (this event is for public/not for the participants) | |
Day 2 (30 June)
| 08:30 - 10:00 | Reid M. | VLBI parallaxes |
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| 10:00 - 10:30 | Coffee Break/Poster Viewing | |
| 10:30 - 12:00 | Pietrzynski G. | Eclipsing Binaries |
| 12:00 - 13:30 | Lunch Break | |
| 13:30 - 15:00 | Bono G. | Theoretical breakthroughs for radial variables |
| 15:00 - 15:45 | Student talks | |
| Elgueta S. S. | Using eclipsing binaries as distance indicators to the LMC | |
| Bhardwaj A. | Absolute Calibration of the NIR Cepheid Period-Luminosity relations in the Milky Way and the LMC | |
| Chen X. | Open cluster variable stars as distance tracers | |
| 15:45 - 16:15 | Coffee Break/Poster Viewing | |
| 16:15 - 17:45 | Madore B. | Population II distance indicators |
| 17:45 - 18:30 | Student talks | |
| Orosz G. | Testing methods for accurate maser astrometry at low frequencies | |
| Sakai D. | Astrometric observations of 22 GHz water maser sources in the Galactic center region with VERA | |
| Krishnan V. | Mapping the Milky Way with the Australian Long Baseline Array | |
Day 3 (1 July)
| 08:30 - 10:00 | Whitelock P. A. | Asymptotic Giant Branch Variables |
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| 10:00 - 10:30 | Coffee Break/Poster Viewing | |
| 10:30 - 12:00 | Minezaki T. | Active Galactic Nuclei |
| 12:00 - 13:15 | Lunch Break | |
| 13:15 - 14:45 | Kulkarni S. | Supernovae (as yardsticks) |
| 14:45 - 15:30 | Student talks | |
| Gorski M. | The Araucaria Project. Population effects of the TRGB brightness in LMC and SMC | |
| Jang I. S. | Determination of the Hubble Constant based on the TRGB calibrated SNe Ia | |
| Triani D. P. | Timing Analysis and Energy Spectra of AGN NGC 4051 | |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Coffee Break/Poster Viewing | |
| 16:00 - 17:30 | Yonetoku D. | Gamma-Ray Bursts |
| 17:30 - 19:00 | Break | |
| 19:00 - 21:00 | Banquet | |
Day 4 (2 July)
| 08:30 - 10:00 | Suyu S. | Gravitational Lensing |
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| 10:00 - 10:30 | Coffee Break/Poster Viewing | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Student talks | |
| Koehlinger F. | The CFHTLenSing power spectrum and neutrinos | |
| Pham T. | Resolving the molecular gas around the lensed quasar RXJ0911.4+0551 | |
| 11:00 - 13:00 | Break | |
| 13:00 - 17:00 | Excursion | |
Day 5 (3 July)
| 08:30 - 10:00 | Takada M. | Baryon Acoustic Oscillations |
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| 10:00 - 10:30 | Coffee Break/Poster Viewing | |
| 10:30 - 12:00 | Mangilli A. | The Cosmic Microwave Background: climbing (down) the distance ladder |
| 12:00 - 13:30 | Lunch Break | |
| 13:30 - 14:00 | Student talks | |
| Chanchaiworawit K. | GTC Observation of LAEs at redshift of 6.5 | |
| Sangka A. | CMB cold spot anomaly from cosmic voids | |
| 14:00 - 15:00 | de Grijs R. | Summary and outlook to the future |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Closing | |
| 15:30 - 15:45 | Break | |
| 15:45 - 16:45 | Evaluation Quiz | |
Oral presentations
| Bhardwaj A. | Absolute Calibration of the NIR Cepheid Period-Luminosity relations in the Milky Way and the LMC |
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| Chanchaiworawit K. | GTC Observation of LAEs at redshift of 6.5 |
| Chen X. | Open cluster variable stars as distance tracers |
| Elgueta S. S. | Using eclipsing binaries as distance indicators to the LMC |
| Gorski M. | The Araucaria Project. Population effects of the TRGB brightness in LMC and SMC |
| Jang I. S. | Determination of the Hubble Constant based on the TRGB calibrated SNe Ia |
| Koehlinger F. | The CFHTLenSing power spectrum and neutrinos |
| Krishnan V. | Mapping the Milky Way with the Australian Long Baseline Array |
| Orosz G. | Testing methods for accurate maser astrometry at low frequencies |
| Pham T. | Resolving the molecular gas around the lensed quasar RXJ0911.4+0551 |
| Sakai D. | Astrometric observations of 22 GHz water maser sources in the Galactic center region with VERA |
| Sangka A. | CMB cold spot anomaly from cosmic voids |
| Triani D. P. | Timing Analysis and Energy Spectra of AGN NGC 4051 |
Poster presentations
| Aghaee F. | A Study of the Distributions of Surface Brightness Profiles of Galaxies in their Central Regions |
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| Beaton R. L. | A Minimal Distance Ladder with Population II Stars |
| Bell A. C. | AKARI and Anomalous Microwave Emission |
| Burns R. A. | Defining Galactic Structure and Rotation Using Maser Parallax and Proper Motions |
| Coudry S. | Development of a N-body MHD based code by combining tree N-body code with mesh MHD code |
| Hilmi M. | Cosmic Dynamics with Quintessence as Dark Energy Model |
| Ita Y. | Near infrared variable star survey in the Magellanic Clouds |
| Kim D. | Black Hole Activities of Red Active Galactic Nuclei |
| Kim M. | Environmental dependence of AGN activity in the SDSS main galaxy sample |
| Konorski P. S. | Toward a very accurate distance determination with eclipsing binaries |
| Larasati P. L. | Study of Dark Energy Properties Using X-ray Data from Observations of Galaxy Clusters |
| Ngeow C. | Finding Ultra-Long Period Cepheids in M31: Implication in Distance Scale |
| Comparison of Multi-Band Period-Luminosity Relations for Classical Cepheids in the Magellanic Clouds | |
| Osumi K. | Robust New Statistic for Fitting the Baryon Acoustic Oscillations |
| Pongsupa G. | TNT Photometric Reverberation Mapping campaign of High-z Quasars |
| Priyatikanto R. | Constraining distance between two interacting clusters |
| Sano K. | Measurement of the cosmic near-infrared background |
| Sawangwit U. | The 2dF Quasar Dark Energy Survey (2QDES) |
| Taak Y. C. | High-z Universe probed via Lensing by QSOs (HULQ) |
| Takayama M. | The broadband photometry of long secondary periods in red giants |
| Tapsoba B. W. | Analysis of SALT Fabry-Perot Medium resolution data |
| Urago R. | Three dimensional distributions of Mira variables derived with the near-infrared period-luminosity relation. |
| Zhang B. | Supernova Cosmology with SkyMapper and OzDES |