Science and Technical Meetings

ESO Science Meetings provides information about upcoming ESO or ESO-related Seminars, Colloquia and Scientific Conferences and Workshops in Europe and Chile.

The following pages provide more details.

Seminars, Colloquia, and Lunch Talks

Local information about Seminars, Colloquia, and Lunch Talks:

Garching

  • Upcoming Talks
  • Past Talks (all)
  • Past Talks (only with videos)
  • Talks
    Most talks at ESO Garching fall into one of the following categories:
    • AI Forum: usually Wednesdays at 14:00.
    • AGN Coffee: usually Wednesdays at 14:15 [not taking place weekly].
    • Science Coffee: from 10:30 to 10:45, Mon-Wed-Fri in the cafeteria of the old building, Tue-Thu in the cafeteria of the new building.
    • Galaxy Evolution Coffee: usually Thursdays at 10:00.
    • Informal Discussion: usually Wednesdays at 10:00 [in person only].
    • Joint Astronomy Colloquia: usually Thursdays at 15:15, preceded by tea and coffee at 15:00.
    • Journal Club: usually Fridays at 10:00.
    • Lunch Talks/ ESO Colloquia: usually Tuesdays at 12:00.
    • SAOSY Lunch Talks: usually Wednesdays at 12:30.
    • Star and Planet Formation Coffee: every alternate Friday at 10:00.
    • Star and Planet Formation Seminars: every alternate Tuesday at 10:00.
    • Stellar Coffee and Planetary Tea: every Monday at 14:00.
    • Wine & Cheese Seminars: usually once per month on Wednesdays at 16:30.

If you would like to contact any of the above talk organisers, please send an email to the Office for Science.

 

Santiago

During these times of enforced home-working,  the science life had to be adapted. For the time being, we have the following weekly activities:

  • Local Science Coffee meetings at 11:00
  • Local Journal Club on Tuesdays 
  • Joint talks with Garching colleagues on Wednesday, 10:00
  • Local TMTs on Wednesday afternnoon, 14:30 (colloquia@eso.org)
  • Joint ESO/ALMA colloquium on Thursday at 11:00 (colloquia@eso.org)
  • Stellar coffee: every other Monday, 14:30
  • Extragalactic coffee: every other Monday, 15:30

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ESO or ESO-Related Conferences and Workshops


List of the approved workshops for 2025:


The call for proposals for ESO Workshops 2025 opened on 1st March 2024 and the deadline to submit proposals was 29 April 2024. The ad-hoc selection committee approved the following workshops:

Approved Workshops in Garching

  • Towards new frontiers: the astrochemical journey from young stellar nurseries to exoplanets
  • The role of accretion and ejection variability in the evolution of young stars and their disks
  • Exo-ELT Conference - Planetary formation and Exoplanets at the ELT era
  • Galactic ecosystems under the microscope: lessons from highly-resolved studies

Approved Workshops in Chile

  • Highly accreting supermassive black holes across all cosmic times: from the local Universe to cosmic dawn
  • Why Galaxies care about AGB stars V: 3D winds in the cosmic matter cycle
  • LISA (Library and Information Services in Astronomy)

 

For more details please visit the webpage ESO - Conferences 2025.