Hubble Pre-Symposium, 8th November, 2018
Programm Pre-Symposium on Thursday, 8th November:
10:00-10:15 Matthias Steinmetz (AIP): Welcome
Chair: Maria-Rosa Cioni
10:15-11:00 Rachael Beaton (Princeton): Metallicities+stellar parameters for standard candles in APOGEE
11:00-11:30 Richard I. Anderson (ESO): Investigating H0 systematics related to the physical association of classical Cepheids with other stars
11:30-12:00 Jesper Storm (AIP): The significant effect of metallicity on the Cepheid period-luminosity relation from a Baade-Wesselink analysis of Galactic and Magellanic Cloud Cepheids
12:00-13:00 Lunch
Chair: Else Starkenburg
13:00-13:45 Stefan Jordan (ARI): Selected Science Results from Gaia DR2
13:45-14:15 Cristina Chiappini (AIP): Distances and Extinctions for MW stars for 300 Million stars: Star Horse and Gaia-DR2
14:15-15:00 Bernard Schutz (AEI): Measuring distances with gravitational waves
15:00-15:30 Coffee
Chair: Lutz Wisotzki
15:30-16:15 Tamara Davis (U Queensland): Expanding Confusion
16:15-16:45 Mickael Rigault (CNRS/IN2P3): Impact of Type Ia supernovae astrophysical biases on derivation of the Hubble Constant
16:45 Reception
If you are interested in participating, please register via the following link: https://meetings.aip.de/hubble-presymposium/
The WE-Heraeus-Symposium “The Hubble constant controversy: status, implications and solutions” takes place on 10th November in Berlin. This symposium is part of the Berlin Science Week 2018 and supported by the Australian Embassy Berlin.