OBSERVATIONAL COSMOLOGY
WITH
THE NEW RADIO SURVEYS
Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife, Canary Islands
Spain
13-15 January 1997
Programme
Sunday, January 12th
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17:00 Opening of the registration desk at the Conference Centre
19:30 Informal gathering at the Miramar hotel (bar-hall on the
ground floor)
Monday, January 13th
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08:00 Opening of the registration desk at the Conference Centre
09:00 Welcome Addresses Bremer
Perez-Fournon
Introduction and overview of previous surveys
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09:15 What have we learnt from previous surveys (3C,4C)? Longair
09:40 The nature of the high redshift 3CR radio galaxies Best
10:00 HST snapshot survey of 3CR Radio Sources Counterparts de Koff
10:20 The NRAO VLA Sky Survey Condon
10:45 Coffee Break
11:15 The view from the South Hunstead
Distant Galaxies and Clusters in the Radio
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11:40 Imaging the Cosmic Microwave Background Saunders
12:05 S-Z and Ho Grainge
12:25 The CAT: Primordial CMB anisotropies and sources Baker
at 15GHz
12:45 Lunch
14:30 A high-redshift cluster detected via its S-Z effect Jones
14:50 Detection of a small-scale CMB anisotropy at 3.6cm Richards
15:10 The VLA FIRST Survey Becker
15:35 Clusters of Galaxies at intermediate redshifts Zanichelli
from NVSS
15:55 Coffee Break
16:25 X-ray observations of distant radio galaxies Crawford
16:50 Search for gravitational lensing around ACO Andernach
clusters from the shape of FIRST radio sources
17:10 Radio halos as probes of (distant) clusters Rottgering
of galaxies
17:30 WSRT Frontends: HI absorption at high redshifts de Bruyn
17:50 Poster Session
20:30 Welcome Reception at the Restaurant "Costa Martianez"
(far end of Lago Martianez - close to Plaza de los
Reyes Catolicos, opposite hotel Vallemar).
No transport provided. Please refer to map in
conference folder for directions.
Tuesday, January 14th
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08:30 Opening of the registration desk at the Conference Centre
Large Scale Structure and Radio Surveys
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09:00 Radio sources and large-scale structure Wall
09:25 Probing density perturbations with the FIRST Cress
survey
09:45 The WENSS survey, and evidence for large-scale Rengelink
structure in WENSS
10:10 Large-scale structure from radio surveys Benn
10:30 Coffee Break
Distant Radio loud AGNs
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11:00 High redshift radio loud QSOs McMahon
11:25 Observations of quasar host galaxies Lehnert
11:45 Molonglo quasars: reddening and torus geometry Baker
12:05 The Cambridge low-frequency radio surveys Waldram
12:15 The 6C and 7C redshift surveys and the evolution Rawlings
of elliptical galaxies
12:40 Lunch
14:30 Distant radio galaxies from the WENSS surveys Bremer
14:50 Searching for high redshift radio galaxies de Breuck
15:10 Dissecting high-z powerful radiogalaxies with Cimatti
Keck observations
15:30 Probing the Warm Gas in Intermediate Redshift Neeser
Radio Galaxies: New Results on the Alignment Effect
15:50 Coffee Break
16:20 IR imaging of distant WENSS sources Villani
16:40 Declining Quasar Fractions as evidence for Jackson
Unified Schemes
17:00 A complete radio-selected sample of weak Willott
steep-spectrum quasars
17:20 Radio and optical properties of a faint radio Gruppioni
galaxy and quasar sample
17:40 Poster session
Wednesday, January 15th
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08:30 Opening of the registration desk at the Conference Centre
Luminosity and Size Evolution as cosmological probes
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09:00 The high-redshift evolution of radio galaxies Dunlop
09:25 6C, 7C and MRC surveys: evolution of radio sources Blundell
to z=4.4
09:45 NVSS observations of UGC galaxies Cotton
10:05 Gigahertz Peaked Spectrum Sources as Cosmological Snellen
Probes
10:25 Cosmological evolution of Giant radio sources Cotter
10:45 Coffee Break
11:15 The luminosity-size evolution of FRII radio sources Kaiser
11:35 The angular size distribution of 6000 sources from Fletcher
the MIT-VLA snapshot archive
11:55 Superluminal Motion Surveys and Cosmology Vermeulen
12:15 VLBI surveys as cosmological tests Gurvits
12:35 The angular-size vs. redshift test for compact Wilkinson
radio sources
12:55 Lunch
Gravitational Lensing
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14:30 The JVAS/CLASS Survey Browne
14:55 HST imaging of CLASS Gravitational lenses Jackson
15:15 Cosmological implications of Gravitational lensing Wambsganss
surveys
Combining Radio surveys with surveys at other wavelengths
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15:35 Thermal emission from dust in high redshift radio Hughes
galaxies
15:55 Coffee Break
16:25 Radio to X-ray properties of AGN Brinkmann
16:45 The cross-correlation of the ROSAT All-sky Survey Siebert
and the 87GB radio catalogue: X-ray properties of
radio loud quasars
17:05 Radio observations of the Hubble Deep Field Richards
17:25 Evolution of gas and dust in ordinary galaxies Briggs
17:45 Poster session
19:45 Bus leaves from the Miramar hotel for conference dinner
20:00 Bus leaves from the Puerto Palace hotel for conference dinner
20:30 Conference dinner at the Restaurant "El Monasterio"
22:30 Bus returns to the hotels
Thursday, January 16th
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Optional Excursion to the Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos on
the Island of La Palma.