The aim of the conference is to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Hubble's launch and the great scientific breakthroughs
that the observatory has made. The first day will provide a retrospective of these results. Following this, there will
be presentations of the post-SM4 performance and and introductions of the first three Multi-Cycle Treasury Programs (MCTP).
Late in day 2 there will be a panel discussion to focus on future legacy of Hubble where the core question will
be: "What have we missed?". The following two days will then allow the presentation of a selection of early scientific
results from the new and repaired instruments. The final talks will address the future of Hubble and the relationship
with other missions and facilities.
| SUNDAY 10 October | | Presentation |
| 17:00 - 20:00 | Southwood opening address at 18:30 | Conference opening, including registration and refreshments | |
| RECEPTION | | |
| MONDAY 11 October | | |
| Session 1 | Benvenuti | Session chair | |
| 08:45 - 08:50 | Prof. G A Danieli (IVSLA president) | Welcome | |
| 08:50 - 09:00 | SOC co-chairs | Introduction | |
| 09:00 - 09:20 | Leckrone | The Origin of HST: from conception to launch | pptx, pdf |
| 09:20 - 09:40 | Macchetto | Europe's role | ppt |
| 09:40 - 10:10 | Macri | Expansion history of the Universe | pdf |
| 10:10 - 10:40 | Ferguson | HST as a survey telescope | ppt |
| COFFEE | | |
| Session 2 | Ford | Session chair | |
| 11:10 - 11:40 | Stiavelli | Reionization | pdf |
| 11:40 - 12:10 | Tosi | Resolved stellar populations | ppt |
| 12:10 - 12:40 | Piotto | Observational evidence of multiple stellar populations in star clusters | pptx, pdf |
| LUNCH | | |
| Session 3 | Barbuy | Session chair | |
| 14:40 - 15:10 | Weaver | Hubble's exploration of the Solar System | pptx, pdf, mov |
| 15:10 - 15:40 | Tinetti | A decade of exoplanet-revolution with HST | ppt |
| 15:40 - 16:10 | O'Dell | Star formation: HST studies of stellar nurseries | ppt, mpg |
| 16:10 - 16:40 | Kalas | Imaging extrasolar planets and debris disks | pdf |
| COFFEE | With savoury refreshments | |
| Session 4 | Urry | Session chair | |
| 17:10 - 17:40 | Tumlinson | Hubble's spectroscopic tour of the IGM | key, pdf |
| 17:40 - 18:10 | Ferrarese | Supermassive black holes | key, pdf |
| SHORT BREAK | | |
| 18:40 | Mather | SPECIAL LECTURE: HST, JWST and the future | pptx, pdf, mpeg, avi, wmv |
| TUESDAY 12 October | | |
| Session 5 | Lubin | Session chair | |
| 08:55 - 09:00 | Announcements | | |
| 09:00 - 09:20 | Green | The Cosmic Origins Spectrograph | ppt |
| 09:20 - 09:40 | Froning | Early science results from COS | ppt |
| 09:40 - 10:00 | Kimble | In-flight performance of Wide Field Camera 3 | pptx, pdf |
| 10:00 - 10:20 | O'Connell | Early release science from WFC3 | ppt |
| COFFEE | | |
| Session 6 | Parmar | Session chair | |
| 10:50 - 11:10 | Dunlop | Did galaxies reionize the Universe? | ppt |
| 11:10 - 11:40 | Illingworth | Revealing galaxies in the first billion years: HST's central role | pdf |
| 11:40 - 12:00 | Postman | Cluster lensing and supernova survey with Hubble: new constraints on the fundamental components of the cosmos | pptx, pdf |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | Faber | CANDELS: The Cosmic Assembly Near-IR Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey | ppt |
| 12:30 | Postman | ATLAST lunch discussion | |
| LUNCH | | |
| Session 7 | Barstow | Session chair | |
| 14:40 - 15:10 | Dalcanton | The panchromatic Hubble Andromeda Treasury | pdf |
| 15:10 - 15:30 | Natarajan | Cosmography with cluster strong lensing | ppt |
| COFFEE | | |
| Session 8 | Renzini | Panel moderator; Members: Wiseman, Kirshner, Ferguson, Urry, McCaughrean | |
| 16:00 - 17:00 | PANEL | What has been missed? | Wiseman: pptx, pdf |
| 17:00 | BREAK | | |
| 18:15 & 18:30 | WALK | from Conf. venue to the Scuola San Rocco for concert | |
| 19:00 | Interpreti Veneziani | CONCERT | |
| 20:15 | Scuola San Rocco | CONFERENCE DINNER | |
| WEDNESDAY 13 October | | |
| Session 9 | Tolstoy | Session chair | |
| 08:55 - 09:00 | Announcements | | |
| 09:00 - 09:30 | Brown | The WFC3 Galactic bulge treasury program | pdf |
| 09:30 - 09:50 | Whitmore | Hubble observations of super star clusters | ppt |
| 09:50 - 10:10 | Wang | Multi-band infrared mapping of the Galactic nuclear region | pptx, pdf |
| 10:10 - 10:30 | De Marchi | Star formation in the local Universe | ppt |
| 10:30 - 10:50 | Lehner | Are highly ionized high-velocity clouds Galactic or intergalactic? | pdf |
| COFFEE | | |
| Session 10 | Sembach | Session chair | |
| 11:20 - 11:40 | Thom | Probing galaxy halos with COS | pdf |
| 11:40 - 12:00 | Stocke | New local IGM results from HST/COS | ppt |
| 12:00 - 12:20 | Heap | Properties of the metal-poor galaxy, I Zw 18, derived from COS spectra | pdf |
| 12:20 - 12:40 | Barbuy | HST-STIS abundances in the uranium-rich metal-poor star CS 31082-001 | ppt |
| 12:40 - 13:00 | Aloisi | The difference between neutral- and ionized-gas metal abundances in local star-forming galaxies with COS | pptx, pdf |
| FREE AFTERNOON | |
| Special session | Dalla Bontà | Introduction | |
| 17:00 - 19:30 | Grunsfeld | PUBLIC LECTURE: A Hubble Story, S Vidal Church | |
| THURSDAY 14 October | | |
| Session 11 | Leibundgut | Session chair | |
| 08:55 - 09:00 | Announcements | | |
| 09:00 - 09:30 | McCarthy | Hubble's slitless spectroscopy | ppt |
| 09:30 - 09:50 | O'Meara | First results from the ACS/WFC3 survey for Lyman limit systems | key, pdf |
| 09:50 - 10:10 | Straughn | WFC3 early release science, emission-line galaxies from WFC3 grism data | pptx, pdf |
| 10:10 - 10:30 | Kirshner | New Results from HST on SN 1987A | ppt |
| COFFEE | | |
| Session 12 | Wiseman | Session chair | |
| 11:10 - 11:30 | Brandner | Dynamics of the starburst cluster in NGC 3603 from microarcsecond astrometry with HST/WFPC2 | pdf |
| 11:30 - 11:50 | Blakeslee | Surface brightness fluctuations with WFC3/IR and ACS: the renaissance period | pdf |
| 11:50 - 12:10 | Schlichting | The detection of a sub-km sized Kuiper Belt object by stellar occultation using the Hubble Space Telescope | pdf |
| 12:10 - 12:30 | Livio | Cultural impact of HST | ppt |
| 12:30 - 12:50 | Smith | Future usage of HST | key, pdf |
| LUNCH | | |
| Session 13 | Bertola | Session chair | |
| 14:30 - 14:50 | McCaughrean | The HST/JWST/ELT connection | pdf |
| 14:50 - 15:10 | Favata | The ESA Cosmic Vision program: the European prospective for space astronomy in the next decade | |
| 15:10 - 15:40 | Morse | NASA program | |
| 15:40 - 16:00 | Mountain | Future prospects | key, pdf |
| 16:00 - 16:20 | Davies | Closing remarks | ppt |
| END OF CONFERENCE | | |
There will be a welcome reception on Sunday 10 October at the conference venue. Registration will be possible from 17:00 until 20:00. An opening address will be given by David Southwood, ESA's Director of Science, at 18:30. Substantial refreshments will be available.
A public lecture by John Grunsfeld, "A Hubble Story", will be given on Wednesday 13 October from 17:00 - 19:30 in the S. Vidal Church
(close to Palazzo Franchetti). A limited number of seats will be available for conference attendees and family members/guests.
NEW: To be sure of getting a seat, we ask you to send a request email to
<HST3@stecf.org> before Monday 4 October.
The talk will be given in English and translated into Italian.
