LENSES 2002
Ringberg Castle, July 15-19, 2002

Program

Monday, July 15

Morning Microlensing 
CHAIR: Matthias Bartelmann
from 09:00 Registration
09:30-10:00 Introductory talk: Gravitational lensing: no longer cute Paul Schechter
10:00-10:30 Galactic Structure from Microlensing Hong-Sheng Zhao
10:30-10:50 Astrometric Microlensing Andrew Gould
10:50-11:20 Coffee Break 
11:20-11:50 Microlensing Searches for Extrasolar Planets Scott Gaudi
11:50-12:20 Microlensing: Quasars, Planets and Dark Matter Joachim Wambsganss
12:20-14:30 Lunch 
Afternoon Microlensing/Theory 
CHAIR: Hans-Walter Rix
14:30-15:00 Microimaging QSOs Rachel Webster
15:00-15:30 Deconvolution of Quasar Profiles from Microlensed Lightcurves Andreas Helms
15:30-16:00 Future Microlensing Searches Chris Stubbs
16:00-16:30  Coffee Break 
16:30-17:00 Weak Lensing of Point Sources Liliya Williams
17:00-17:20 Cluster Cross Sections for Strong Lensing: Analytic and Numerical Lens Models Massimo Meneghetti
Tuesday, July 16

Morning Galaxy Scale Lenses / Radial Mass Profiles
CHAIR: Joachim Wambsganss
09:00-09:30 Hubble Trouble Chris Kochanek
09:30-10:00 Results from the CLASS Survey Ian Browne
10:00-10:20 LensCLEAN model for JVAS B0218+357 Olaf Wucknitz
10:20-10:50 Lens Galaxy Environment Chuck Keeton
10:50-11:20 Coffee Break
11:20-11:50 The Structure of Early-Type Galaxies Leon Koopmans
11:50-12:10 Lensing Properties of Scale-Free and Cored Galaxies Wyn Evans
12:10-12:30 Virial Masses from Galaxy-Galaxy Lensing Uros Seljak
12:30-14:30 Lunch 
Afternoon Lensed Objects / Searches 
CHAIR: Chris Kochanek
14:30-14:50 Structure and Evolution of Quasar Hosts Chris Impey
14:50-15:20 Luminosities and Radio Properties of Lensed Quasar Hosts Chien Peng
15:20-15:50 Bright Quasars, Magnification Bias, and Lens Statistics Lutz Wisotzki
15:50-16:20 Coffee Break 
16:20-16:40  The SDSS Gravitational Lens Survey Naohisa Inada
16:40-17:00  A Search for Gravitational Lenses in the Southern Sky Josh Winn
17:00-17:20 Results from the Second HST Snapshot Survey Nick Morgan
17:20-17:40 Lenslets and lenses at Magellan Paul Schechter
Wednesday, July 17

Morning Lensing and Dark Matter 
CHAIR: Chris Impey
09:00-09:30 Cosmological Implications of Cluster Lenses Matthias Bartelmann
09:30-09:50 MS2137-23 cluster of galaxies combined strong-weak lensing analysis Raphaël Gavazzi
09:50-10:10 Surveys for Large Separation Lensing Eran Ofek
10:10-10:40 Lensing by CDM Halos Hong-Sheng Zhao
10:40-11:10 Coffee Break 
11:10-11:30 Mass Substructure at z ~ 0.3 Marusa Bradac
11:30-11:50 Substructure in Strong Lenses Ben Metcalf
11:50-12:20 Lensing Substructure Chris Kochanek
12:20-12:50 NOAO Deep Wide Field Survey Buell Jannuzi
12:50-14:00 Lunch 
Afternoon  
14:00-19:00 Excursion
Thursday, July 18

Morning Weak Lensing 
CHAIR: Buell Jannuzi
09:00-09:35 Cosmological Weak Lensing Yannick Mellier
09:35-10:05 Weak Lensing Results in the Garching-Bonn Deep Survey Thomas Erben
10:05-10:40 Weak Lensing in 75 Square Degrees Mike Jarvis
10:40-11:10 Coffee Break 
11:10-11:30 Constraints on the mass distribution of Abell 1689 Lindsay King
11:30-11:50 The Cluster Cl0024+17: Mass Reconstruction from Weak Lensing Analysis Rodrigo Gil-Merino
11:50-12:10 Galaxy-galaxy lensing in the COMBO-17 Survey Martina Kleinheinrich
12:10-14:30 Lunch 
Afternoon Weak Lensing 
CHAIR: Uros Seljak
14:30-14:50 The detection of non-Gaussian effects in weak lensing surveys Francis Bernardeau
14:50-15:20 Cosmic Magnification Brice Ménard
15:20-15:40 Secure Weak Lensing Identification of Filamentary Structures Jörg Dietrich
15:40-16:10  Coffee Break 
16:10-16:40 Optimal observing strategy for a cosmic shear survey Martin Kilbinger
16:40-17:00 Wide field cluster mass reconstruction Douglas Clowe
17:00-17:30 Non-Gaussian signatures in weak lensing Bhuvnesh Jain
Friday, July 19

Morning Lensing and Cosmology 
CHAIR: Chuck Keeton
09:00-09:30 CMB as a weak lensing experiment Asantha Cooray
09:30-09:50 Time-Delay Quasars and the Hubble Time Prasenjit Saha
09:50-10:10 Measuring optical time delays of multiply imaged quasars Jens Hjorth
10:10-10:40 Coffee Break 
10:40-11:00 The Wise observatory lens monitoring program Eran Ofek
11:00-11:20 Lensed Supernovae Dan Maoz
11:20-12:40 Summary and Discussion Peter Schneider
12:40-14:30 Lunch