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Introduction
The 'From Planets to Galaxies, 2010' workshop is going to be held at Eötvös University (ELTE) in Budapest, Hungary, between the 26th of June and 3rd of July, 2010. The meeting is going to focus on many rapidly evolving fields of Astrophysics. It is going to consist of five days of lecture series by invited speakers and a two-day excursion to a signature wine region of Hungary. It will coincide with the second round of matches at the Soccer World Cup and we intend to watch these games together on our large screen at the Visualization Center at Eötvös. We had a similar workshop here 4 years ago.
For information Eötvös University please visit: www.elte.hu. For information on cultural background and tourist attractions, visit: www.hungary.com. We plan to visit Villány during Wednesday and Thursday, a southern wine region, near Pécs. Pécs is a (one of three) European Capital of Culture in 2010, and we will have a chance to participate in cultural events there as well.
The best ways to get from Ferihegy airport to downtown Budapest and to the ELTE campus is either to take the "Airport Minibus" service or a taxicab. The airport offers money exchange service. The Airport Minibus operation is a door-to-door minivan shuttle service. Shuttles can be booked at the airport after landing, at the Airport Minibus desk. Travel times may depend on the number of passangers. The current Minibus charge is about 10 Euros, one way, within Budapest. There are many curb-side taxis waiting at the airport, but it is more economical and possibly more reliable to hire one on the payphones at the terminals. Most of these companies arrive within 5 minutes and have a fixed rate of less than HUF 5000 (about 20 Euros) one way, to the city. Fötaxi has a toll-free number (dial 06-80-222-2222 from any public phone). There are several other companies to consider (such as City Taxi, Budataxi, Rádiotaxi, 6x6 Taxi) with similar rates, and their numbers are posted at the airport. The venue is set at the "Lágymányos Campus" of Eötvös University (ELTE) is in the South West of the city, on the Buda side, on the banks of the Danube river. The workshop will be held in Room -2.09 of the North Building of the Faculty of Natural Sciences (ELTE-TTK, Északi tömb). The street address is: Pázmány Péter sétány 1/A, gate III. For the reception on Saturday evening (or for the first soccer match before the reception!), please proceed to the main entrance of the building, facing the Danube (gate no. III.), and follow the posted signs. The campus is easy to approach from various points of downtown Budapest as the stop on two major tram lines (tram no. 4 and no. 6) is located just north of the building hosting the workshop.
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Accommodation
We made a block reservation at Hotel Ramada (nice hotel just across the Danube, two tram stops if you do not want to walk). They serve breakfast (included), have unlimited wireless internet, air cinditioning, etc. Our "promotional code" is LKFP. Rooms go for 80/90 Euros (single/double). Directions from Hotel Gellért: The ELTE Campus is a 15 minute (about 1 km) walk from the hotel, southwards, along the Danube. Also recommended. We will reserve a few rooms for those on the budget at Bolyai Dorm. Directions from ELTE Bolyai Dorm: Please refer to their website. A map under 'How to reach the college' link shows possible public transportation and walking routes between the dorm and the ELTE TTK North Building. For additional directions please refer to the map or contact Zsolt Frei. | ||||
| Participants | No. of Villány Participants | Willing to share a room? | ||
| Tasos Avgoustidis | a.avgoustidis at damtp.cam.ac.uk | 1 | no | |
| Imre Bartos | ib2179 at columbia.edu | 0 | - | |
| Mariangela Bernardi | bernardm physics.upenn.edu | 1 | no | |
| Akos Bogdan | bogdan at MPA-Garching.MPG.DE | 1 | yes | |
| Daniela Crociani | daniela.crociani5 at unibo.it | 0 | - | |
| Vincent Desjacques | dvince at physik.uzh.ch | 0 | - | |
| Mark Dijkstra | mdijkstr at cfa.harvard.edu | 2+1 | no | |
| Zsolt Frei | frei at zsolt-frei.net | 2+1 | no | |
| Gabor Gelencser | gaborg at elte.hu | 1 | yes | |
| Hector Gil | hectorgil85 at gmail.com | 1 | yes | |
| Zoltan Haiman | zoltan at astro.columbia.edu | 1 | yes | |
| Ray Jayawardhana | rayjay at astro.utoronto.ca | 1 | ? | |
| Raul Jimenez | raul.jimenez at icc.ub.edu | 1 | no | |
| Dusan Keres | dkeres at cfa.harvard.edu | 2+1 | no | |
| Tom Kitching | tdk at roe.ac.uk | 0 | - | |
| Bence Kocsis | bkocsis at cfa.harvard.edu | 0 | - | |
| Roban Kramer | robanhk at gmail.com | 2 | no | |
| Elisabetta Majerotto | elisabetta.majerotto at brera.inaf.it | 1 | yes | |
| Anna Mangilli | anna.mangilli at gmail.com | 0 | - | |
| Szabolcs Marka | smarka at phys.columbia.edu | 1 | no | |
| Zsuzsa Marka | zsuzsa at astro.columbia.edu | 1 | no | |
| Andrei Mesinger | mesinger at astro.princeton.edu | 2+1 | no | |
| Sandor Molnar | sandor at asiaa.sinica.edu.tw | 1 | no | |
| Daniel Mortlock | d.mortlock at imperial.ac.uk | 1 | yes | |
| Koraljka Muzic | muzic at lepus.astro.utornto.ca | 1 | yes | |
| Mark Neyrinck | mark.neyrinck at gmail.com | 2 | no | |
| Hiranya Peiris | hiranya at ast.cam.ac.uk | 1 | yes | |
| Carlos Pena-Garay | penagaray at gmail.com | 1 | no | |
| Rosalba Perna | rosalba at jilau1.colorado.edu | 1 | yes | |
| Peter Raffai | praffai at bolyai.elte.hu | 1 | yes | |
| Beth Reid | beth.ann.reid at gmail.com | 1 | yes | |
| Ravi Seth | shethrk at physics.upenn.edu | 3+5 | no | |
| Istvan Szapudi | szapudi at ifa.hawaii.edu | 0 | - | |
| Gabor Szeifert | elastone at elte.hu | 1 | yes | |
| Licia Verde | liciaverde at icc.ub.edu | 1 | no | |
| Christian Wagner | cwagner at icc.ub.edu | 1 | no | |
SA WC round 2 games and results (we watched these together)
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| Saturday | Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Friday | Saturday | |||
| 10:00 | Coffee | Coffee | Coffee | Coffee | Coffee | |||
| 10:30 | Talks | Talks | Talks | Talks | Talks | |||
| 12:00 | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | |||
| 1:30 | Talks | Talks | Talks | Talks | Talks | |||
| 4:00 | Match 49 | Match 51 | Match 53 | Match 55 | Match 57 | Match 59 | ||
| 6:00 | Welcome | 3D demo | GW movie | Our game | ||||
| 8:30 | Match 50 | Match 52 | Match 54 | Match 56 | Match 58 | Match 60 | ||
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Sunday, June 27 GALAXY FORMATION AND EVOLUTION:
11:00 - 11:30 Dusan Keres: "How do galaxies get their gas?" LARGE SCALE STRUCTURE:
2:30 - 3:00 Vincent Desjacques: "Large scale bias of dark matter haloes" 6:00 - 7:00 3D science visualization demo on Eotvos University's 10 m^2 back-projected screen Monday, June 28
10:30 - 11:00 Sandor Molnar: "Determining Large Scale Distribution of the Intracluster Gas with AMiBA"
2:00 - 2:30 Mariangela Bernardi: "Massive galaxies in massive datasets" 6:00 - 7:00 Showing of the movie "Wavehunters" (in Hungrian) - about gravity wave science in Hungary Tuesday, June 29 PLANETS AND STARS:
10:30 - 11:00 Akos Bogdan: "Progenitors of Type Ia Supernovae in early-type galaxies" COSMOLOGY:
2:00 - 2:30 Daniel Mortlock: "Searching for redshift z~7 quasars with UKIDSS" 6:00- 8:00 Playing soccer at "Pasareti Sportcentrum" (see map below). Wednesday, June 30 Excursion: departure at 9:30am (approx) Thursday, July 1 Excursion: arrival at 9pm (approx) Friday, July 2
10:00 - 10:30 Alex Szalay (TBC): "Redshift-Space Distortion of BAO Features"
1:30 - 2:00 Tasos Avgoustidis: "Constraints on cosmic opacity and beyond the standard model physics from cosmological distance measurements" Saturday, July 3 HIGH REDSHIFT UNIVERSE:
10:30 - 11:00 Mark Dijkstra: "Seeing Through the Trough: Outflows and The Detectability of Lyman Alpha from Early Generations of Galaxies" GRAVITATIONAL WAVE ASTRONOMY:
2:00 - 2:30 Peter Raffai: "Searching for narrowband gravitational wave signals with the IM pipeline"
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| Excursion to Villány | ||||
| Wednesday, the 30th of June | ||||
| 10:30 am: | departure from Hotel Ramada (Tompa St. and Ferenc Sq. corner) | |||
| Afternoon: | lunch in Pécs | |||
| visiting the Dom chatedral and the mosque of Jakovali Hassan Pasha in Pécs, walk around the city center | ||||
| Evening: | visiting the cellars, dinner and wine tasting at Bock Winery in Villány | |||
| Thursday, the 1st of July | ||||
| Morning: | swimming and relaxing in Harkany (thermal bath) | |||
| Evening: | arrival back to Budapest (around 6pm) | |||
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Street map of Pasareti Sportcentrum (Vasas SC)
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| Harkany thermal bath |
Recent event in the same venue
Pécs: European capital of culture 2010 - opening ceremony
Wine cellars in Villány