Conference Format

The conference is scheduled to take place online (as a  Zoom meeting), for 4 hours each day of the program. The live program will start at 11:30 UTC each day.

Besides invited review talks, the conference will include contributed talks and posters and time allocated for discussions and social interactions.

Talks will be recorded and uploaded to the conference YouTube channel within 24h.

Virtual coffee breaks will take place on Gather.Town.

The conference will have a dedicated Slack workspace to foster discussions and post files (posters and relevant papers).

We anticipate discussion on Slack to start at least 1 week before the conference.

After the conference, slides and posters will be uploaded to Zenodo​​ to create a permanent record of the workshop that is also indexed by ADS.

Conference Programme


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This workshop is supported by ESO and the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory.

Keywords: merging clusters | high-z clusters | proto-clusters | detection, classification & comparison | ICM physics | AGN feedback | star formation | galaxy evolution | future facilities

Workshop email: GCF2021@eso.org