Scientific Programme

Program Overview

Monday, February 19 Thursday/Friday/Saturday, February 22/23/24 Tuesday, February 27
Tuesday, February 20 Sunday, February 25 Wednesday, February 28
Wednesday, February 21 Monday, February 26 Thursday, March 1
  Friday March 2  
Monday, February 19
08:30 - 09:00
 Registration
09:00 - 09:30

Introduction to the school (organizers)
09:30 - 10:30

Telescope and instrument optics (Alain Gilliotte)
10:30 - 10:45 Coffee break
10:45 - 11:45

Introduction to detectors (Alain Smette)
11:45 - 12:45

Basics of observations and data reduction: Imaging/photometry (Giacomo Beccari)
12:45 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 15:00

Basics of observations and data reduction: Spectroscopy (Michel Dennefeld)
15:00 - 15:45

Observing and data reduction with DFOSC/Danish 1.54 (Heidi Korhonen)
15:45 - 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 - 16:45

Observing and data reduction with EFOSC (Linda Schmidtobreick)
16:45 - 18:00

Coordination meeting for group work (set-up of the groups)
Tuesday, February 20
09:00 - 10:00

Basics of observation and data reductions in the NIR (Pascale Hibon)
10:00 - 10:45

Observing and data reduction with SOFI (Valentin Ivanov)
10:45 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 11:40

Career advice: how to prepare a good proposal (Henri Boffin)
11:40 - 12:30

Career advice: Exploring different career path in astronomy: Two stories from ESO Fellows: Yara Jaffe, Frédéric Vogt
12:30 - 14:30 Lunch
14:30 - 15:00

Introduction to observation preparation (Fernando Selman)
15:00 - 16:00

Announcement of group conformations and tutor presentations
16:00 - 16:15 Coffee break
16:15 -  

Work in groups: discussing projects, preparing observations
Wednesday, February 21
06:00 - 13:30

Trip to La Silla
13:30 - 14:30 Lunch
16:30 -

Visit to telescopes. Working on projects.
Thursday/Friday/Saturday, February 22/23/24
15:30 -

Working on projects/observations/data reduction.
Sunday, February 25
15:30

Return to Santiago
Monday, February 26
10:30 - 11:30

Hans Zinnecker – Star formation and pre-main sequence evolution.
11:30 - 11:45 Coffee break
11:45 - 13:00

Data reduction, analysis, working on presentations
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 14:30 Career advice: how to prepare a good presentation (Claudio Melo)
14:30 - 16:00 Data reduction, analysis, working on presentations
16:00 - 16:15 Coffee break
16:15 -   Data reduction, analysis, working on presentations
Tuesday, February 27
09:00 - 10:00

Science with the VLT (Bruno Leibundgut)
10:00 - 10:30

Career advice: time management (Henri Boffin)
10:30 - 10:45 Coffee break
10:45 - 13:00

Data reduction, analysis, working on presentations
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 16:00 Data reduction, analysis, working on presentations
16:00 - 16:15 Coffee break
16:15 -   Data reduction, analysis, working on presentations
Wednesday, February 28
09:00 - 10:00

Latest results of ALMA science (Adele Plunkett)
10:00 - 10:15 Coffee break
10:15 - 11:15

The variable sky: a developing branch of Astrophysics (Michel Dennefeld)
11:15 - 13:00 Data reduction, analysis, working on presentations
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 16:00 Data reduction, analysis, working on presentations
16:00 - 16:15 Coffee break
16:15 -   Data reduction, analysis, working on presentations
Thursday, March 1st
09:00 - 10:00

Science with the ELT (Michele Cirasuolo)
10:00 - 10:15 Coffee break
10:15 - 13:00

Data reduction, analysis, working on presentations
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 16:00 Data reduction, analysis, working on presentations
16:00 - 16:15 Coffee break
16:15 -   Data reduction, analysis, working on presentations
Friday, March 2nd
09:00 - 12:00

Data reduction, analysis, working on presentations
12:00 - 13:00

Presentations (2 groups ½ h each)
13:00 - 14:30

Lunch
14:30 - 16:00

Presentations (3 groups, ½ h each)
16:00 - 16:15 Break
16:15 - 17:00

Career advice, how to prepare a good application, job possibilities in Astronomy [Chile or elsewhere] (Claudio Melo, Henri Boffin, Michel Dennefeld)
17:00 - 17:30

General discussion
17:30 - 18:00 Break
18:00 - 21:00 Closing dinner

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