Programme Schedule

We have planned a series of lectures and activites throughout the programme.

Thursday
5 July

14:00-15:40

Welcome Workshop

All welcome!

Schedule:

14:00 - 14:15: Introduction of the event

14:15 - 14:30: Welcome to ESO, by Xavier Barcons (ESO Director General)

14:30 - 14:45: Introduction to the Office for Science (OfS), by Paola Andreani (Faculty Chair and Head of OfS Garching)

**10 min break**

14:55 - 15:05: 2021 ESO Summer Research Programme, by Nicola Gentile Fusillo and Rosita Kokotanekova (ESO Garching Fellows)

15:05 - 15:40: Introduction to the projects and students, by EsRP 2021 advisors and students

 

Friday
9 July

15:00-16:00     

Lecture: How do optical/ near-infrared telescopes work?

Jason Spyromilio

Tuesday
13 July

15:00-16:00     

Lecture: ALMA: the Observatory and the Science

Gergo Popping

Friday
16 July

15:00-16:00     

Lecture: Resolving Stellar Populations in Nearby Stellar Systems

Marina Rejkuba

Tuesday
20 July

15:00-16:00     

Lecture: ESO from Paranal to the Extremely Large Telescope

Remco van der Burg & Dimitri Gadotti

Friday
23 July

15:00-16:00     

Lecture: A GAIA Primer: What's in the Catalogue and how to use the Data

Tommaso Marchetti

Monday
26 July

 

15:00-16:00   

Virtual Guided Tour

Virtual guided tour of the ESO premises, ESO Supernova and the Paranal and ALMA sites

 

26 July at 15:30

 


Tuesday
27 July

15:00-16:00     

Lecture: Building planets

Maria Koutoulaki

Friday
30 July

15:00-16:00     

Lecture: Succeeding as an Astronomer: The Four Laws of a Boffin

Henri Boffin

Tuesday
3 August

15:00-16:00     

Lecture: The Cosmic Distance Scale - And why you should care

Bruno Leibundgut

Friday
6 August

15:00-16:00  

Lecture: The Baryon ycle and Galaxy Evolution

Celine Peroux

Tuesday
10 August

15:00 - 16:00

Lecture: Supermassive Black Holes and their Environments of Growth

George Lansbury

 

14:00-16:30

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.

Schedule:

14:00, Introduction to the event by the Organisers

14:10, Greetings by ESO Director of Science Rob Ivison

14:20, From birth to death: the multiple faces of accretion, Anirudh Ravishankar

14:40, Spiral arms as drivers of chemical enrichment in galaxies, Anna Lena Schaible

15:00, The mysterious [CII] emission in the interstellar medium of galaxies, Louise Kluge

15:20, **10 min break**

15:30, Measuring IMF in high density stellar systems, i.e. relic galaxies and globular clusters, Natalie Grasser

15:50, Probing the building blocks of planets with ALMA, Paulina Palma

16:10, Go with the flow: probing the flows and fate of gas in barred spiral galaxies, Rodrigo Ferrer Chávez

16:30, Concluding remarks by the Organisers