Thursday
2 July

14:00-15:15

Welcome Workshop

All welcome!

Schedule:

14:00 - 14:15: Introduction of the programme by Rosita Kokotanekova

14:15 - 14:25: Welcome by Rob Ivison (ESO Director for Science)

14:25 - 15:15: Brief introduction to the projects and students, by the advisors and the students

Friday
3 July

15:00-16:00     

Lecture: The Cosmic Distance Scale: From the Sun to the CMB

Richard Anderson

Tuesday
7 July

15:00-16:00     

Lecture: ALMA and Other ESO Facilities using Submilimeter Wavelengths

Neil Philips

Wednesday
8 July

15:00-16:00     

Lecture: A Brief Introduction to ESO and the La Silla  Paranal Observatory

Henri Boffin

Monday
13 July

15:00-16:00     

Lecture: We're All Made of Stardust: The Cosmic Origin of the Elements

Francesco Belfiore

Wednesday
15 July

15:00-16:00     

Lecture: Black Holes and Neutron Stars in X-ray Binaries

Marianne Heida

Tuesday
21 July

15:00-16:00   

Lecture: Supermassive Black Holes and their Host Galaxies

Dominika Wylezalek

Wednesday 22 July

15:00-16:00     

Lecture: The Atacama Large Aperture Submilimeter Telescope (AtLAST): A Next-Generation Widefield Submilimeter Single Dish near ALMA

Tony Mroczkowski

Friday
24 July

15:00-16:00     

Lecture: Gaia: Astrometry, Photometry and Spectroscopy of more than a Billion Stars

Tommaso Marchetti

Tuesday
28 July

15:00-16:00     

Lecture: Substellar Objects and Extrasolar Planets

Paulo Miles Páez

Monday
3 August

15:00-16:00  

Lecture: ESO's Road towards an Extremely Large Telescope

Remco van der Burg

Friday
7 August

15:00-17:00    Telescopium (tbc)

Farewell Workshop

All welcome! The students will present the research carried out at ESO with 15 minutes long talks, followed by 5 minutes to ask questions.

Programme:

15:00-15:10: Introduction to the Farewell Workshop

15:10-15:20: Greetings by Director General Xavier Barcons

15:20-15:40: Zofia Kaczmarek: Searching for intermediate mass black holes

15:40-16:00: Alina Vorontseva: Not going out quietly: variability in dying stars

16:00-16:20: Pablo Gómez Toribio: Comparing ground and satellite-based climate data for atmospheric studies of astronomical relevance

16:20-16:40: Soetkin Janssens: The fingerprints of mass-loss in the nebula around a massive star near the end of its evolution

16:40-17:00: Yared Reinarz: Probing the atmospheres of outer worlds: transmission spectroscopy of exoplanets

17:00-17:10: Concluding remarks by Rosita Kokotanekova and Carlo Felice Manara