PROGRAM


Wed July 19, 2000

Chairman: P. Quinn
08:30 Registration at the conference room of Lodge Explora ``En Atacama''
09:00 Welcome speech (H. Quintana)
09:15 Machos and Other Dark Subjects: What has been learned using gravitational microlensing (C. Alcock)
10:15 Coffee break
10:30 Microlensing towards M 31 (A. Crotts)
11:30 Pixel lensing towards M31 in theory and in practice (D. Valls-Gabaud)

Lunch

Chairman: M. Phillips
14:30 Lensing with next generation instruments (R. Blandford)
15:30 Future Observations with ALMA (E. Hardy)
16:15 Millimeter views in lensing (T. Wiklind)

19:00 Workshop banquet at Lodge Explora


Thu July 20, 2000

Chairman: G. Meylan
09:00 Review on quasar lensing and time delays (P. Schechter)
10:00 Non parametric models and very high resolution imaging (P. Saha)
11:00 Coffee break
11:15 Differential gravitational lensing effects:
a tool to probe small scale structures in high redshift quasars
(D. Alloin)
12:00 Source reconstruction (N. Gray)
12:45 Gravitational lens studies with the ILMT (International Liquid Mirror Telescope) project (J. Surdej)

Free afternoon, posters, short tours, discussion evening



Fri July 21, 2000

Chairman: L. Infante
09:00 Lensing of high redshift sources (T. Broadhurst)
10:00 Review on weak lensing (Y. Mellier)
11:00 Weak lensing by Large Scale Structures (D. Wittman)
12:00 Coffee break
12:15 Probing Dark Matter Halos with Galaxy-Galaxy Lensing (T. Brainerd)

Free afternoon, posters, short tours, optional tour to Cerro Toco (depending on weather and number of participants)


Sat July 22, 2000

Chairman: R. Fosbury
09:00 Absorption lines in lensed quasars (A. Smette)
10:00 The Early ISM and IGM at High Spatial Resolution (M. Rauch)
11:00 Coffee break
11:15 Concluding remarks (R. Blandford)

11:45 Final picnic lunch and optional visit of the Salar de Atacama

16:00 Back from the picnic
19:00 Back from the Salar de Atacama


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