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DESpec: Key Science Goals Ofer Lahav University College London DES and needs for spectroscopy per probe The landscape of spectroscopic surveys Improving DE FoM with DESpec+DES…

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GRB Physics: an Overview Bing Zhang University of Nevada Las Vegas Kavli Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics & Astronomy Department, Peking University Nov. 8, 2012,…

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The extinction law at high redshift (z>4) and its implications Simona Gallerani in collaboration with: R. Maiolino; Y. Juarez; T. Nagao; A. Marconi, S. Bianchi, R. Schneider;…

The Environments of E+A galaxies in the local universe (further clues from the 2dFGRS) Environments of Galaxies Meeting: Chania, Crete, Aug 2004 Warrick Couch, Chris Blake,…