Schedule

 

Day 1

09:00 - 09:25: Registration

09:25 - 09:30: Welcome and Logistics

09:30 - 10:00: AME Overview Talk - Bruce Draine

 

AME Theory - Chair: Ricardo Genova-Santos

10:00 - 10:20: Microwave emission from spinning ultrasmall silicate grains - Thiem Hoang

10:20 - 10:40: AME; DIBs; and the UIR Bands: Common Carriers? - Larry Bernstein

10:40 - 11:00: Alignment of Spinning Nanoparticles and Polarization of the AME - Bruce Draine

11:00 - 11:45: Tea/Coffee

11:45 - 12:45: Discussion on the current state of the AME theory - led by Brandon Hensley

12:45 - 14:15: Lunch

 

AME Observations - Chair: Angela Taylor

14:15 - 14:35: AME work at Manchester - Clive Dickinson

14:35 - 14:55: Planck observations of diffuse low-frequency Galactic foregrounds - Mike Peel

14:55 - 15:15: CARMA observations of LDN1780 - Matias Vidal

15:15 - 15:35: Using Spinning Dust Emission To Constrain The Abundance Of Small Dust Grains In Dense Cores - Chris Tibbs

15:35 - 16:20: Tea/Coffee

16:20 - 16:40: A Case Against PAHs as the Carrier of the AME - Brandon Hensley

16:40 - 17:00: AME with the new AMI digital correlator - Yvette Perrott

17:00 - 17:20: High angular resolution observations of AME - Elia Battistelli (presented by Ricardo Genova-Santos

17:30: Close

 

Day 2

AME Observations - Chair: Clive Dickinson

09:00 - 09:20: AKARI mid-Infrared all-sky survey: New PAH emission map - Takashi Onaka

09:20 - 09:40: AME and the AKARI All-sky Maps - Aaron Bell

09:40 - 10:00: AME in HII regions - Roberta Paladini

10:00 - 10:45: Tea/Coffee

10:45 - 11:05: Microwave observations of AME Galactic regions in intensity and polarisation with QUIJOTE - Ricardo Genova-Santos

11:05 - 11:25: Characterisation of AME in the Taurus Molecular Clouds with the QUIJOTE experiment - Frederick Poidevin

11:25 - 11:45: QUIJOTE Observations of Spinning Dust in the Inner Galactis Disk - Stuart Harper

11:45 - 12:45: Discussion on current observations and how they provide evidence for or against the spinning dust model - led by Clive Dickinson

12:45 - 14:15: Lunch

 

Current/Future Instruments - Chair: Yvette Perrott

14:15 - 14:35: QUIJOTE - Ricardo Genova-Santos

14:35 - 14:55: The C-Band All-Sky Survey - Luke Jew

14:55 - 15:15: Next-BASS: prospects for a new all-sky, microwave foregrounds survey - Angela Taylor

15:15 - 15:35: COMAP - Kieran Cleary

15:35 - 16:20: Tea/Coffee

16:20 - 17:20: Discussion on the future, and what future observations are required? - led by Bruce Draine

17:30: Close