Wednesday 16th
08:50-11:00- Chair: José M. Vílchez
08:50-09:00- Welcome (Cas & JMRE)
- Measuring Potassium in Exoplanet Atmospheres with the OSIRIS Tunable Filter (H.J. Deeg)*
- A GTC OSIRIS view of metal-poor stars and brown dwarfs (N. Lodieu)*
- Probing the ultra-compact binary V407 Vul with OSIRIS fast spectroscopy (P. Rodríguez Gil)*
- A black hole in the X-ray transient XTE J1859+226: the first confirmed with GTC (J. Corral Santana)*
- Searching for the optical counterpart of the gamma-ray loud radio-quiet pulsar PSR J2021+4026, the "gamma-Cygni source (A. Carramiñana)*
- OSIRIS deep Imaging of Cygnus OB2: the stellar population of the Cygnus X central engine (M.G. Guarcello)*
- The role of GTC in GRB science (A. Ugarte Postigo)*
11:00-11:30- Coffee
11:30-13:30- Chair: Silvia Torres-Peimbert
- Mid-infrared spectroscopy of primitive asteroids (J. Licandro)*
- An accurate distance to the extremely massive open cluster Stephenson 2 (C. González Fernández)*
- Kinematic Properties of Star Clusters in M33 (I. San Román)*
- Electron densities of HII regions throughout the NGC 6946 disk (J. Beckman)*
- OSIRIS Tunable filter images of the Stephan Quintet: 2D line-ratios of galactic extension (M. Rosado)*
- Absorption Line Mapping with OSIRIS TFs: A Pilot Study (J. Cenarro)*
- GTC and ING: scientific and technical synergies at ORM (M. Balcells)*
13:30-15:00- Lunch
15:00-16:30- Chair: Francisco Garzón
- The GTC Instrumentation Plan (P. Alvarez)**
- MEGARA: The future optical spectrograph for GTC (A. Gil de Paz)**
- The MIRADAS spectrograph for GTC: Science & Instrument (S. Eikenberry)**
- The Spectrographs in MEGARA (M. García Vargas)*
- The INAOE contribution to MEGARA: The next IFU and MOS for the GTC (E. Carrasco)*
16:30-17:00- Coffee
17:00-18:30- Chair: Rafael Bachiller
- OSIRIS at the GTC (J. Cepa)*
- Preparatory work for the scientific operation of CanariCam at the GTC (C. Alvarez)*
- CanariCam early commissioning results (C. Packham)*
- FRIDA: the AO second generation instrument for GTC, status report (B. Sánchez)*
- A High resolution Ultra-stable spectrograph for the GTC (R. García López)*
18:45- Guided tour of the city
21:00- Conference dinner at the Club Náutico
Thursday 17th
09:00-11:00- Chair: Elena Terlevich
- Emission line mapping of extended sources using GTC/OSIRIS tunable filters (R. Terlevich)*
- Emission line maps using the OSIRIS/GTC TF: The case of M101 (J. Mendez Abreu)*
- GTC long-slit spectroscopy of compact stellar clusters in M81 (Y.D. Mayya)*
- The extreme properties of the "Green Pea" galaxies. New hints from GTC observation (R. Amorin)*
- Obscuration in low-luminosity active galactic nuclei (J. Masegosa)*
- Exploring extremely obscured accretion (F. Carrera)*
- Testing the Unification Model for AGN in the Infrared: are the obscuring tori of Type 1 and 2 Seyferts different? (C. Ramos Almeida)*
11:00-11:30- Coffee
11:30-13:30- Chair: Carlos Martínez
- The Large Millimeter Telescope (GTM-LMT) (David H. Hugues)*
- The GTC Scientific archive (E. Solano)*
- The SALT update and possible collaborative projects (Phil Charles)*
- The Herschel HerMES survey: first results of the GTC follow-up programme (I. Pérez-Fournón)*
- The Lockman SpReSO Survey (J. González)*
- The evolutionary paths among galaxy types on the Red Sequence at 0.3< z <1.5 (C. Eliche Moral)*
- Velocity Dispersions and Stellar Populations of the Most Compact and Massive Early-Type Galaxies at Redshift ~1 (J. Martínez Manso)*
13:30-15:00- Lunch
15:00- 16:30- Chair: Jordi Torra
- SF feedback for massive Systems (C. Muñoz Tuñón)*
- First Science with SHARDS: an ESO-GTC large program (A. Cava)*
- The dependence of the Lyman alpha luminosity function on redshift (J.M. Rodríguez Espinosa)*
- The Lyman alpha escape fraction along the history of the Universe (M. Mas-Hesse)*
16:30-17:00- Coffee
17:00-18:30- Chair: Mercedes Prieto
- LAE's at z~4.5: The environment of radio loud quasar SDSS J080849.42+5215153 (E. Benitez)*
- GTC/OSIRIS spectra of very high redshift quasars in the Alhambra Survey (I. Matute)*
- Spectroscopy of lensing galaxies in the GTC era (L. J. Goicoechea)*
- Lyman Alpha Emitter and Lyman Break Galaxy Candidates with OSIRIS (J. de Diego)*
- Bracketing the reionisation history of the universe (E. Salvador-Solé)*
19:00- Public Lecture at Convento de San Francisco and Reception
Friday 18th
09:00-11:00- Chair: Alec Boksemberg
- Evidence for spiraling in of the stellar companion of the black hole binary XTEJ1118+480 (R. Rebolo et al)*
- Results of the First Exoplanet Atmospheric Transmission Spectroscopy Attempt with the GTC (M. López Morales)*
- Deriving the dynamical masses of Ultra-Luminous X-ray sources with OSIRIS (A. González Galán)*
- GTC and OSIRIS: expanding the metallicity horizon of massive stars knowledge (M. García)*
- GRB 101225A - an unusual stellar death on Christmas Day (C. Thöne)*
- Sw 1644+57: The birth and formation of a jet in real time (A.J. Castro Tirado)*
- Overview of first CanariCam Commissioning results (C. Telesco)**
11:00-11:30- Coffee
11:30-14:00- Chair: Giancarlo Setti
- Stellar archeology in the M31 halo (L. di Fabrizio)**
- A mid IR survey of local active galactic nuclei with CanariCam (A. Alonso Herrero)**
- SHARDS: a spectro-photometric survey of high-z red and dead sources (P. G. Pérez- González)**
- The Otelo Project (J. Cepa)**
- GLACE: an ESO/GTC project aimed to study the evolution of galaxies in clusters (M. Sánchez Portal)**
- The First Years of GTC science operation, by numbers (R. Rutten)*
- Present and future of the GTC (F. Sánchez)**
Closing remarks & Farewell wine
Afternoon activities (social programme)
Saturday 19th
GTC visit- Please confirm your attendance sending an e-mail to gtc2011@iac.es.
* Fifteen minutes talk
** Twenty minutes talk
Coffe breaks will take place at the future Modern Art Museum of the city (the building next to the Teatro Circo de Marte). Address: Museo de Arte Moderno, Calle Virgen de la Luz nº 13.