Programme

This is a small, but focused workshop, whose aim is to provoke a very active and fruitful discussion among a small group of participants which includes both galaxy modelling community and DPAC teams. As such, this is not a forum to present current work, but rather to establish the needs and the adequate interface to maximize the scientific returns from the Gaia mission, in the shortest time. Participants are encouraged to use their presentations to put forward proposals, needs and methods to establish a dialogue that could put those proposals and needs within a realistic framework.

	Session	Title
29 February
14:00-15:45	Session 1	What we will see (Chairman: G. Gilmore)
	Daisuke Kawata	Welcome (5min)
	Anthony Brown	Status and data releases (15m+5m)
	Jos de Bruijne	Detailed astometric performances predictions (15m+5m)
	Celine Reyle	The Gaia Simulator: scientific contents (15m+5m)
	Xavier Luri	The Gaia Object Generator (GOG): future scientific exploitation (15m+5m)
	William O'Mulane	Serving a simulated Gaia Catalogue from ESAC/GAP (15m+5m)
15:45-16:15	Coffee break
16:15-18:00	Session 1(cont.)	What we will see (Chairman: G. Gilmore)
	Coryn Bailer-Jones	Astrophysical Parameter accuracy from low resolution spectra (15m+5m)
	Carine Babusiaux	Related surveys to the Gaia mission (15m+5m)
	Gerry Gilmore	Wish list for modellers (15m+5m)
	Summary talk and discussion	G. Gilmore
1 March
9:00-12:25	Session 2	What we need/want to do with Gaia mock catalogue (Chairman: J. Binney)
9:00-9:25	James Binney	Galaxy Modelling (review talk)
9:25-10:10
	Paul McMillan	Analysing observations using orbital torus models (12m+3m)
	Ralf Schoenrich	Simple measurements of Galactic rotation (12m+3m)
	Jorge Peñarrubia	Measuring the Milky Way potential without dynamical models (12m+3m)
10:10-10:40	Coffee break
10:40-12:05
	Victor Debattista	Particle Dynamical Modelling the Milky Way (12m+3m)
	Annie Robin	Update on the development of the Besançon Galaxy Model and implications for Gaia simulations (12m+3m)
	Douglas Marshall	From Planck to Gaia - exciting perspectives for the interstellar medium (12m+3m)
	5 minutes short talks:
	Esko Gardner	The Milky Way, made-to-measure
	Teresa Antoja	Disk kinematic groups with Gaia
	Octavio Valenzuela	Milky Way Spiral Arms History
	Oleksiy Golubov	Asymmetric drift of the thin disc main sequence stars
	S. Pasetto	Millions stars synthetic CMD generator: a novel technique to exploit Gaia photometric catalogue
	R. Hanson	Building a 3D extinction model
	B. Rocca-Volmerange	Synthetic galaxy libraries at low and high spectral resolution for Gaia
	Antonella Vallenari	Open clusters as disk tracers
12:05-12:25	Summary talk and discussion	J. Binney
12:30-13:30	Lunch
13:30-15:30	Session 3	What we need/want to do with Gaia mock catalogue (Chairman: L. Athanassoula)
13:30-13:55	Lia Athanassoula	The bar/bulge model for the Milky Way (review talk)
13:55-14:10	I. Martínez-Valpuesta	A bar/bulge model for the Milky Way to be compared with the Gaia Mock Catalogue (12m+3m)
14:10-14:20	5 minutes short talks:
	M. Romero-Gómez	Kinematics of the Galactic Bar: Gaia capabilities
	Andres Moitinho	What will the visualization of the Gaia Catalogue be?
14:20-14:40	Summary talk and discussion	L. Athanassoula
14:40-15:00	Coffee break
15:00-17:45	Session4	Mock Catalogue
		Practical work with GUMS ("ideal" error-free catalogue, up to G=20) and GOG (actual catalogue simulation including Gaia-like observations, up to G=17)
		Set up of the local Virtual Machine (VM) in your computer: Daniel Tapiador (30 minutes)
		Step by step: running first examples in your local VM
		Deploying and executing in Amazon: demonstration
19:30	Workshop dinner and optional visit to the MNAC
2 March
9:30-10:40	Session 5	What we need/want to do with Gaia mock catalogue (Chairman: L. Aguilar)
9:30-9:55	Luis Aguilar	Digging out substructure in the galactic halo with Gaia. What has been done and what needs to be done (review talk)
9:55-10:40
	Rok Roskar	Interpreting Observations with the aid of N-body Simulations (12m+3m)
	Andreea Font	Reconstructing merger histories from local disc observables. Insights from cosmological simulations (12m+3m)
	Justin Read	Measuring the local dark matter density: the utility of N-body mock data (12m+3m)
10:40-11:00	Coffee break
11:00-12:00
	Paola Di Matteo	Signatures of secular processes and accretion events in the Milky Way disk (12m+3m)
	Chiaki Kobayashi	Chemodynamical simulations and stellar yields (12m+3m)
	Ivan Minchev	Milky Way chemodynamics in the Gaia era (12m+3m)
	Cristina Chiappini	Future ground-based spectroscopy surveys: adding value to the Gaia data and constraining theoretical models (12m+3m)
12:00-12:20	Summary talk and discussion	L. Aguilar
12:30-13:30	Lunch
13:30-14:30	Session6	Discussion
	Gaia Archive	William O'Mullane
	GREAT ITN School	Annie Robin
	Grand Challenges	Francesca Figueras, Daisuke Kawata