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Monday 29 September 2008

09:00	Welcome, registration and coffee
09:40	Opening address by ESTEC	Martin Kessler
09:50	Opening address by the IAU	Karel van der Hucht
Session 1	History of Optical Telescopes Chair: Peter Abrahams (Antique Telescope Society)
10:00	The Beginnings in the Netherlands, from Lipperhey to Huygens	Albert van Helden
10:50	Galileo's Telescope: History, Scientific Analysis, and Replicated Observations	Giorgio Strano
11:40	Coffee break
12:00	The Era of Newton, Herschel & Lord Rosse	Jim Bennet
12:35	The Great 19th Century Refractors	James Lequeux
13:10	Lunch break
Session 1	History of Optical Telescopes (cont.) Chair: Harry van der Laan (Leiden Observatory)
14:10	In the Grip of the Big Telescope Age	David DeVorkin
14:45	Beautiful and Cantankerous Instruments: Telescopes, Technology, and the Changing Practice of Astronomy	Patrick McCray
15:20	Coffee break
15:50	The History of Optical Instruments	Guy Monnet
Session 2	History of Non-Optical Telescopes
16:25	The History of Radio Telescopes	Woody Sullivan
17:00	History of Infrared Telescopes and Astronomy	George Rieke
17:35 18:00	To Space Expo Welcoming Reception @ Space Expo & Announcement of Selected Poster Presentations

Tuesday 30 September 2008

Session 3	History of Non-Optical Telescopes (cont.) Chair: Joachim Truemper (Max Planck Institut fuer extraterrestrische Physik)
09:00	History of X-ray Telescopes and Astronomy	Riccardo Giacconi
09:50	History of Gamma - Ray Telescopes and Astronomy	Klaus Pinkau
10:25	History of Solar Telescopes and Astronomy	Oskar von der Luehe
11:00	Coffee
11:20	Imaging VHE Gamma-Ray Telescopes	Heinz Voelk
11:55	History of Neutrino Telescopes/Astronomy	Atsuto Suzuki
Session 4	Miscellaneous Aspects and Projects Chair: Donald Morton (National Research Council of Canada)
12:45	400 Years of Astrometry: From Tycho Brahe to Hipparcos	Erik Hog
13:20	Lunch break
14:20	History of Astronomical Discoveries	Malcolm Longair
15:10	Capabilities of Amateur Telescopes	Detlef Koschny
15:45	Coffee break
16:05	Building the Hubble Space Telescope	Bob O'Dell
16:40	Zooming in on the Galactic Center	Reinhard Genzel
17:50 18:15 18:30 18:35 19:00 19:20 21:00	Buses to Museum Boerhaave Boerhaave: Arrival Boerhaave: Welcome - Dirk van Delft Boerhaave: "Leiden Observatory" - Harry van der Laan Boerhaave: Introduction to Exhibit - Hans Hooijmaijers Boerhaave: Exhibition and walking dinner Busses back to the hotels

Wednesday 1 October 2008

Session 5	Fundamental Telescope Technologies Chair: Dietrich Lemke (Max Planck Institut fuer Astronomie)
09:00	Technology: Mirror Casting, Polishing, Segmentation, and Active Optics	Lothar Noethe
09:35	Telescope Designs: Technology Keeping Up with Design or Vice Versa	Jason Spyromilio
10:10	A breakthrough in astronomy: the advent of adaptive optics	Pierre Léna
10:45	Coffee break
11:15	Technology: Interferometry (All Wavelengths)	Andreas Quirrenbach
11:50	The Rise of the Submillimetre	Ian Robson
12:25	Back to the Future: Technology Directions for Radio Astronomy	Jim Cordes
13:00	Lunch break
14:00	Poster Presentations Chair: Remko Stuik (Leiden Observatory)
15:00	Coffee break
15:30	Realisation of X-ray telescopes - from design to performance	Bernd Aschenbach
16:05	Technology: Gamma-ray telescopes	Neil Gehrels
Session 6	Political and Sociological Aspects
16:40	ESO's Past and Future	Lo Woltjer
17:15	Telescope Technology to Harvest Solar Energy	Roger Angel
18:00 18:30	Buses to Dinner Cruise Dinner Cruise

Thursday 2 October 2008

Session 7	Political and Sociological Aspects (cont.)
09:00	Telescopes and Sacred Mountains	Günther Hasinger
09:35	Environmental Threats to Astronomy - What to Do?	David Crawford
10:10	The Role of Observatories in Underdeveloped Countries	Kevin Govender
10:45	Coffee
11:15	Telescopes Seen Through the Lens of Scientometrics	Virginia Trimble
11:50	Space Astronomy as Very Big Science	Robert Smith
12:25	Conceiving and Marketing NASA’s Great Observatories	Martin Harwit
13:00	Lunch
Session 8	Perspectives for Future Telescopes
14:00	Future Technologies for Telescopes and Instruments	Colin Cunningham
14:35	Challenges and Perspectives for Future Telescopes	Tim de Zeeuw
15:25	Conference Close
	Poster Session
	The Rise and Fall of Australian Colonial Observatories Tasker, Ian University of Western Sydney (Australia) 650 Years of Optics: From Alhazen to Fermat and Rømer Hoeg, Erik Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen University (Denmark) History of Development of Astronomical X-ray Telescopes in the Eastern Europe Hudec, Rene Astronomical Institute (Czech Republic) Astronomical X-ray Telescopes of Lobster Eye Type Hudec, Rene1; Pina, L.2; Sveda, L.2; Inneman, A.3; Semencova, V.3; Skulinova, M.1 1Astronomical Institute AS CR (Czech Republic); 2CTU (Czech Republic); 3RITE (Czech Republic) Precursors of the Hubble Space Telescope Morton, Donald National Research Council of Canada (Canada) The Astronomical Telescope between Kepler and Newton Mahoney, Terence Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias (Spain) Galileo 1610: an Original Play for the International Year of Astronomy Larrouy, C.1; Lacoste, G.1; Blanc, M.1; Blanc, E.1; Habibi, E.1; Baratte, Y.1; Gibert, B.1; Fuerte, L.1; Gaboriaud, R.2; Gaboriaud, A.3; Von Ballmoos, P.4 1Théatre Extensible (France); 2Prodigima (France); 3CNES (France); 4CESR (France) Solar Telescopes of the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory: History of Establishment and Discoveries Vavilova, Iryna1; Stepanyan, N.N.2 1Main Astronomical Observatory, NAS of Ukraine (Ukraine); 2Crimean Astrophysical Observatory (Ukraine) Ukrainian T-Shape Radio Telescope UTR-2 and Ukrainian VLBI System URAN: 50 Years at the Service of Decameter Astronomy Vavilova, Iryna1; Konovalenko, A.A.2; Miroshnichenko, A.P.2 1Main Astronomical Observatory, NAS of Ukraine (Ukraine); 2Institute of Radio Astronomy, NAS of Ukraine (Ukraine) The Infrared Space Observatory (ISO) Salama, Alberto1; Cesarsky, C.2; Clegg, P.3; de Graauw, T.4; Kessler, M.F.5; Lemke, D.6; Steinz, H.5 1ESA (Spain); 2ESO (Germany); 3Queen Mary, University of London (United Kingdom); 4SRON (Netherlands); 5ESA – ESTEC (Netherlands); 6Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie (Germany) Observations with Small Telescopes at the Terskol Observatory: Results and Benefits Godunova, Vira; Tarady, V.K.; Sergeev, O.V.; Karpov, M.V.; Zhilyaev, B.E. ICAMER Observatory (Ukraine) Fraunhofer Refractor at Tartu Observatory Annuk, Kalju Tartu Observatory (Estonia) From Observation to Gaia Catalogue Blasco, Carmen ESA (Netherlands) The Gaia Spacecraft and Instruments Blasco, Carmen ESA (Netherlands) Gaia Mission Overview Blasco, Carmen ESA (Netherlands) Amateur Robotic Telescope Nieuwenhout, Frans AWSV Metius (Netherlands) Small Robotic Telescopes for HEA in Ondrejov Nekola, Martin1; Strobl, Jan1; Kocka, Matus1; Hudec, Rene1; Simon, Vojtech1; Jelinek, Martin2; Polasek, Cyril1; Munz, Filp3 1Astronomical Institute of the Academy of Sciences (Czech Republic); 2IAA CSIC, Granada (Spain); 3IASF/INAF, Bologna (Italy) Gaia's Scientific Rewards Blasco, Carmen ESA (Netherlands) The Great Melbourne Telescope: A Contextual History Gillespie, Richard Museum Victoria (Australia) XMM-Newton: Across the X-ray Universe Gonzalez-Riestra, Rosario ; Rodriguez-Pascual, P.M. XMM-Newton Science Operation Centre (Spain) v AKARI: Space Infrared Cooled Telescope Onaka, Takashi1; Salama, Alberto2 1University of Tokyo (Japan); 2European Space Astronomy Centre, ESA (Spain) Airborne Infrared Telescopes Erickson, Edwin NASA Ames Research Center (United States) The Early Spread of the Telescope in Asia Zoomers, Henk Asian Historical Consultancy (Netherlands) Galileo and the Birth of Science Saucedo Morales, Julio Universidad de Sonora (Mexico) A Focusing Telescope for Gamma-ray Astronomy von Ballmoos, Peter CESR (France) European Astronomy in Antarctica Zinnecker, Hans Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam (AIP) (Germany) On the Telescopes in the Painting of Bruegel "The Vision" Selvelli, Pierluigi INAF (Italy)