Panel B Programme (18 June)
General Panel A Panel B Panel C Panel D Panel E
| 18 June - Wednesday | What | Who | Where | |
| 09:00 | 10:30 | Panel B - Session 1: Ground-based optical/NIR | ||
| 09:00 | 09:10 | Future instrumentation for the ESO VLT and VLTI (pdf) | A. Moorwood | Hall 1A |
| 09:10 | 09:20 | Science with the European Extremely Large Telescope (ppt) | I. Hook | Hall 1A |
| 09:20 | 09:30 | The European Extremely Large Telescope: Phase B Status (ppt) | R. Gilmozzi | Hall 1A |
| 09:30 | 09:40 | Coordinating medium-sized telescopes (ppt) | R. Rutten | Hall 1A |
| 09:40 | 09:50 | Robotic telescopes and telescope networks (ppt) | I. Steele | Hall 1A |
| 09:50 | 10:00 | The Kilometric Optical Interferometer (pdf) | G. Perrin | Hall 1A |
| 10:00 | 10:30 | Discussion | All | Hall 1A |
| 10:30 | 11:00 | Refreshments | All | Hall 2C |
| 11:00 | 13:00 | Panel B - Session 2: Radio, Sub-mm, Antarctica | ||
| 11:00 | 11:08 | Transformation of the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (ppt) | G. Davis | Hall 1A |
| 11:08 | 11:18 | The role of ESO and ALMA in European (Sub)mm Facilities (ppt) | L. Testi | Hall 1A |
| 11:18 | 11:26 | The CCAT Telescope Project (ppt) | F. Bertoldi | Hall 1A |
| 11:26 | 11:36 | Discussion | All | Hall 1A |
| 11:36 | 11:44 | Status of the Sardinia Radio Telescope (ppt) | L. Feretti | Hall 1A |
| 11:44 | 11:54 | e-MERLIN (ppt) | S. Garrington | Hall 1A |
| 11:54 | 12:04 | E-LOFAR: Reaping the full harvest (ppt) | R. Vermeulen | Hall 1A |
| 12:04 | 12:14 | The Scientific Pathway to the SKA (ppt) | S. Rawlings | Hall 1A |
| 12:14 | 12:22 | Gravitational physics and gravitational wave detection with the SKA (ppt) | M. Kramer | Hall 1A |
| 12:22 | 12:45 | Discussion | All | Hall 1A |
| 12:45 | 12:55 | Prospects for a future European Astronomical facility in Antarctica (Dome C, CONCORDIA) (ppt) | N. Epchtein | Hall 1A |
| 12:55 | 13:00 | Discussion | All | Hall 1A |
| 13:00 (13:10) |
14:00 (13:40) |
Lunch (IYA09 UK conference pre-planning meeting) |
all |
Hall 2C (Hall 11B) |
| 14:00 | 15:30 | Panel B - Session 3: Space missions | ||
| 14:00 | 14:10 | ESA-ESO Galaxy Working Group (ppt) | C. Turon | Hall 1A |
| 14:10 | 14:15 | Europe and LSST (pdf) | A. Lawrence | Hall 1A |
| 14:15 | 14:25 | Euclid: Mission and Payload Overview (pdf) | A. Refregier | Hall 1A |
| 14:25 | 14:35 | The SPace Infrared telescope for Cosmology and Astrophysics: Europe's part in the next generation FIR observatory (ppt) | B. Swinyard | Hall 1A |
| 14:35 | 14:45 | Big astrophysical questions requiring large ultraviolet facilities (ppt) | A. I. Gomez de Castro | Hall 1A |
| 14:45 | 14:55 | FIRI - the Far InfraRed Interferometer (ppt) | F. Helmich | Hall 1A |
| 14:55 | 15:00 | B-Pol: Detecting primordial gravity waves from inflation with the B mode of the CMB Polarization anisotropy (ppt) | R. Rebolo | Hall 1A |
| 15:00 | 15:30 | General discussion | All | Hall 1A |
| 15:30 | 16:00 | Refreshments | All | Hall 2C |
| 16:00 | 17:30 | Plenary Session (ppt) | All | Hall 1A |
| 18:30 | 21:30 | Reception and Private View | All | Tate Liverpool |