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OATS-UNI/TS SEMINAR
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Speaker: Bianca Garilli (IASF/INAF, MI, I)
Title: The VVDS project: closing up and lessons learned
Date: Wednesday, January 20th, 2010
Time: 12:00
Venue: Villa Bazzoni
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Abstract:
The VVDS project was born 15 years ago, with the purpose of sudying galaxy
formation and evolution as well as Large Scale Structures up to z~2 and
beyond. With this purpose in mind, we have built the VIMOS spectrograph at
the VLT, and used the Guaranteed Time to carry out the VVDS survey. After six
years from the first observations, an assessment can be made on the
scientific return, but also on the "educational" return.
In this talk, I'll trace the story of the project, and illustrate a couple of
the main results on galaxy formation and LSS evolution. I'll also present
some considerations on what big collaborations, as VVDS has been, can give to
young astronomers,
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contact: Andrea Biviano (OATS)