A workshop to celebrate Professor Michael Feast’s 90th birthday.
REGISTRATION: 08:00 – 08:50
| Time | Speaker | Title |
| 8:50 – 9:00 | Ted Williams (SAAO) | Welcome |
| Session Chair: | Roy Maartens (UWC) | |
| 9:00 – 9:30 | Renee Kraan-Korteweg (UCT) | Mapping the largest structures of the universe .pdf |
| 9:30 – 10:00 | George Ellis (UCT) | Views of the universe: past and present .pdf |
| 10:00 – 10:30 | Romeel Dave (SAAO, UWC) | The future of computational cosmology in South Africa .pdf |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Donald Lynden-Bell (Cambridge, UK) | Lambda, the CMB and inflation .pdf |
| Tea/Coffee | ||
| Session Chair: | Patricia Whitelock (SAAO/UCT) | |
| 11:20 – 11:50 | Noriyuki Matsunaga (University of Tokyo) | Pulsating stars in the Milky Way: From the IRSF and more .pdf |
| 11:50 – 12:20 | Thebe Medupe (NWU) | Kepler mission and the physics of stars |
| 12:20 – 12:50 | Abi Saha (NOAO) | Identifying variable phenomena from the LSST alert stream for time critical follow-up .pdf |
| Lunch break | ||
| Session Chair: | Patrick Woudt (UCT) | |
| 14:00 – 14:30 | Bruce Bassett (AIMS, UCT, SAAO) | Astronomy in the era of machine intelligence |
| 14:30 – 15:00 | Russ Taylor (UWC, UCT, IDIA) | The SKA: Big telescope, Big Science, Big Data |
| 15:00 – 15:30 | Shazrene Mohamed (SAAO/UCT) | Detailed models of evolved stars: Present and future |
| Tea/Coffee | ||
| Session Chair: | Ted Williams (SAAO) | |
| 15:50 – 16:20 | Moses Mogotsi (SAAO) | Star formation: The molecular and ionized gas perspectives .pdf |
| 16:20 -16:50 | John Hutchings (DAO/HIA/NRC-Herzberg) | New developments in ultraviolet astronomy .pdf |
| 16:50 -17:20 | Petri Vaisanen (SAAO) | SALT and beyond – possibilities for optical/NIR astronomy in Africa .pdf |
| 17:20 – 17:50 | Fernando Camilo (SKA SA) | MeerKAT and SKA: multi-wavelength connections in South Africa |
| 18:30 | Dinner |