Planning
Wednesday, March 25, 2026
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13:00 - 13:30
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Reception - Reception, badge |
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13:30 - 13:50
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Introduction & Logistique - Vanessa Hill & Roland Bacon |
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13:50 - 15:40
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WST Science |
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13:50 - 14:15 |
› ESO's Expanding Horizons process - Jarle Brinchmann, European Southern Observatory |
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14:15 - 14:50 |
› Overview of the Wide-Field Spectroscopic Telescope Concept Study - Roland Bacon, Centre de Recherche Astrophysique de Lyon |
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14:50 - 15:15 |
› WST science drivers: new frontiers of spectroscopic surveys in the 2040s - Vincenzo Mainieri, ESO |
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15:15 - 15:40 |
› The Galactic science case for WST - Vanessa Hill, OCA, Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, Université Côte d'Azur, CNRS, Laboratoire Lagrange |
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15:40 - 16:20
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Coffee break |
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16:20 - 17:35
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WST Science |
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16:20 - 16:45 |
› Defining WST's High-resolution spectrograph setup - Kordopatis Georges, Observatoire de la Côte dÁzur |
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16:45 - 17:10 |
› Galactic ecology from the Gaia era to WST - Alejandra Recio-Blanco, Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur |
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17:10 - 17:35 |
› Hierarchical formation of the Milky Way: Accreted populations - Nicolas Martin, Observatoire astronomique de Strasbourg |
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18:00 - 22:30
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Bus departure for the Observatory - Heritage tour of the site (the Great Dome, the Grand Meridian, and the Universarium). Buffet under the Great Dome. |
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Event |
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09:00 - 10:40
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WST Science |
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09:00 - 09:25 |
› Exploring new frontiers in cosmology with WST - Jean-Paul Kneib, EPFL |
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09:25 - 09:50 |
› Cosmology with cosmic voids in the era of WST - Giulia Degni, Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille |
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09:50 - 10:15 |
› Cosmology with Lyman-Break Galaxies in light of Stage 5 Spectroscopic Surveys - Constantin Payerne, Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers |
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10:15 - 10:40 |
› New insights into the first structures in the early Universe with WST - Nicolas Laporte, Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille |
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10:40 - 11:10
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Coffee break |
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11:10 - 12:50
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WST Science |
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11:10 - 11:35 |
› Probing our cosmological model with joint lensing and DESI galaxy clustering - Eric Jullo, Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille |
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11:35 - 12:00 |
› Kinematic Lensing with the WST Integral Field Spectrograph - Alexandre Jeanneau, Centre de Recherche Astrophysique de Lyon |
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12:00 - 12:25 |
› Synergies between Euclid and WST - Clotilde Laigle, Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris |
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12:25 - 12:50 |
› WST: A Time Domain Machine for the 2040s - Paula Sanchez Saez, European Southern Observatory |
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12:50 - 14:00
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Lunch |
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14:00 - 15:40
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WST Science |
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14:00 - 14:25 |
› Multi-messenger observations in the ET era - Susanna VERGANI, Laboratoire d'étude de l'Univers et des phénomènes eXtrêmes, Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris |
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14:25 - 14:50 |
› Preparing WST operations for gravitational wave multi-messenger observations - Sofia Bisero, IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France, LUX, Observatoire de Paris, Université PSL, Sorbonne Université, CNRS, 92190 Meudon, France |
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14:50 - 15:15 |
› LSST : news & projection en 2040 - Pierre Antilogus, Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Énergies |
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15:15 - 15:40 |
› Looking for gamma-ray bursts afterglows in the Vera C. Rubin observatory data - Johan Bregeon, Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et Cosmologie de Grenoble |
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15:40 - 16:10
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Coffee break |
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16:10 - 17:00
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WST Science |
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16:10 - 16:35 |
› Multimessenger science with WST and LISA - Astrid Lamberts, Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur |
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16:35 - 17:00 |
› Panoramic IFS (MUSE/BlueMUSE) as pathfinders for WST - Johan Richard, Centre de Recherche Astrophysique de Lyon |
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17:00 - 18:00
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Big Data Round Table |
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09:00 - 10:40
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WST Science |
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09:00 - 09:25 |
› The Extragalactic Science case for WST - Francesco Belfiore, INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri, European Southern Observatory |
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09:25 - 09:50 |
› A redshift z~1 WST reference survey - Nicolas Bouché, Centre de Recherche Astrophysique de Lyon |
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09:50 - 10:15 |
› WST as a CGM mapping machine across cosmic time - Floriane Leclercq, Centre de Recherche Astrophysique de Lyon |
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10:15 - 10:40 |
› Unsupervised classification of spaxels from MUSE to WST - Hugo Chambon, Institut de Planétologie et d'Astrophysique de Grenoble |
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10:40 - 11:10
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Coffee break |
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11:10 - 12:50
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WST Science |
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11:10 - 11:35 |
› Unveiling the hot and energetic UNiverse in X-ray with NewAthena and X-IFU - Etienne Pointecouteau, Institut de recherche en astrophysique et planétologie |
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11:35 - 12:00 |
› Synergie WST - SKAO - Chiara Ferrari, Laboratoire Lagrange |
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12:00 - 12:25 |
› MOSAIC at the ELT: a unique multi-object spectrograph for the largest ground-based telescope - Thierry Contini, Institut de recherche en astrophysique et planétologie |
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12:25 - 12:50 |
› Managing the environmental sustainability of WST - Shan Mignot, Laboratoire Lagrange |
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12:50 - 13:00
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Concluding Remarks - R. Bacon |
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13:00 - 14:30
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Lunch |
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