Scientific Programme - La Silla Observing School 2025

Program Overview

Monday, February 10 Monday, February 17
Tuesday, February 11 Tuesday, February 18
Wednesday, February 12 Wednesday, February 19
Thursday, February 13 Thursday, February 20
Friday-Sunday, February 14-16 Friday, February 21
Monday, February 10th  
09:30 - 10:15

Registration, Welcome + a brief history of ESO and La Silla (Florian Rodler)

  
10:15 - 11:00 Basic concepts of ground-based observing + Introduction to telescopes (Ana Maria Jimenez Gallardo)
  
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break  
11:30 - 12:45
 Types of astronomical instruments (Eleonora Sani)
  
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch  
14:00 - 14:30 Introduction of the tutors and observing projects (5 min each)  
14:30 - 15:15 Students presentations: who you are, what you are doing (science, hobby, etc. - 2 min each)  
15:15 - 15:45 Coffee break  
15:45 - 16:30 How to record and store astronomical data - detectors, FITS format (Jonathan Smoker)
  
16:30 - 17:30 Introduction to Spectroscopy (Luca Sbordone)  
Tuesday, February 11th  
09:30 - 10:30 Introduction to Imaging and Photometry (Jonathan Smoker)  
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break  
11:00 - 12:00 Instruments on La Silla: EFOSC @ NTT, with an introduction to ETC, P2 and OBs (Linda Schmidtobreick)
  
12:00 - 12:45 Instruments on La Silla: HARPS+NIRPS @ 3.6m (Gaspare Lo Curto / Emanuela Pompei)
  
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch  
14:00 - 15:45 Data reduction: basic concepts, with an introduction to ESO's archive & pipelines (Michaël Marsset, Thallis Pessi)
  
15:45 - 16:00
 Coffee break  
16:00 - 18:30
 Project work  
     
18:30 BBQ in the garden of ESO Vitacura
  
Wednesday, February 12th
  
09:00

Departure from the hotel to the La Silla Observatory

  
21:00 Safety talk  
Thursday, February 13th  
15:00 - Preparation of the Observations
  
Friday-Sunday, February 14th-16th
Observations
Monday, February 17th  
11:30 - 13:30 Data reduction, taking pending calibrations
  
13:30 - 14:30 Lunch  
14:30 - 15:45 Project work  
15:45 - 16:00
 Coffee break  
16:00 - 18:30
 Project work  
Tuesday, February 18th
10:00 Departure from the La Silla Observatory
Wednesday, February 19th  
11:00 - 11:45 How to give a good presentation (Abigail Frost)
  
11:45 - 13:00 Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Astronomy: Talk & Discussion (Maria Jose Rain / Pascale Hibon)
  
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch  
14:00 - 15:45 Project work  
15:45 - 16:00
 Coffee break  
16:00 - 18:30
 Project work  
Thursday, February 20th  
10:00 - 11:00 The Job Application (Florian Rodler)
  
11:00 - 11:15 Coffee break  
11:15 - 12:00 The Job Interview (Claudia Paladini)
  
12:00 - 13:00 The art of scientific writing: How to write a good proposal (Monika Petr-Gotzens)
  
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch  
14:00 - 15:45 Project work
  
15:45 - 16:00
 Coffee break  
16:00 - 18:30
 Project work  
Friday, February 21th  
10:00 - 11:00 The future: The ELT (Michele Cirasuolo)  
11:00 - 11:15 Coffee break  
11:15 - 12:00 Introduction to Interferometry (Claudia Paladini)  
12:00 - 13:00 Astronomy in Chile (Evelyn Johnston)  
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch  
14:00 - 15:30 Presentations: Groups 1-3  
15:30 - 15:45
 Coffee break  
15:45 - 16:45
 Presentations: Groups 4+5
  
16:45 - 17:00
 Concluding remarks    
     
17:00 Wine & Cheese in the garden of ESO Vitacura
  

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