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Strong lensing and stellar population models
Matthew Auger (University of California, Santa Barbara)
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Strong lensing and stellar dynamics
Matteo Barnabè (Kavli Institute for Particle Physics and Cosmology, Stanford)
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Lenses as cosmological telescopes
Lise Christensen (Excellence Cluster Universe, Garching)
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Strong lensing theory
Claudio Grillo (Excellence Cluster Universe, Garching)
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Strong lensing modelling
Aleksi Halkola (Excellence Cluster Universe, Garching)
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Cosmological applications of strong lensing
Sherry Suyu (University of California, Santa Barbara)
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Substructure studies with strong lensing
Simona Vegetti (MIT, Department of Physics, Cambridge)
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These references provide a very good introduction to the topics of the school and more:
http://jp.arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/1003/1003.5567v1.pdf
http://jp.arxiv.org/PS_cache/astro-ph/pdf/0407/0407232v1.pdf
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Typical day schedule:
09:00 – 10:30 Lecture
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 – 12:30 Lecture
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch break
14:00 – 17:00 Practical tutorial (including a 15 min. coffee break)
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Further information:
The school will take place in the Excellence Cluster Building. You can easily reach the building from the stop Garching-Forschungszentrum of the U-Bahn (subway) 6.
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Slides
Slides of the talks can be obtained here.
A preliminary list of topics and lecturers is the following.
