Programme

The Milky Way Unravelled by Gaia

Mon 1 Dec 2014

Registration from 12.30. Meeting starts 14.00

Session 1: The GREAT ITN and Gaia: Context and Status

Session 2: The Physics and Science Promise of Gaia

Tue 2 Dec 2014

Session 3: Planetary Systems: Worlds Near and Far

• Session 3A: Extrasolar planets

• Session 3B: Solar System

The afternoon will be organised by the GREAT-ITN PhD students, and will include a range of presentations of particular interest to early stage researchers.

Wed 3 Dec 2014

Session 4: The Stellar Constituents of the Milky Way

• Session 4A: Star Cluster Evolution

• Session 4B: Stellar Astrophysics

Thu 4 Dec 2014

Session 5: The Origin and History of the Milky Way

• Session 5A: Archaeology of the Milky Way

• Session 5B: Galactic Structure and Evolution

• Session 5C: Galactic Dynamics

• Session 5D: Gaia, Galactic Surveys, Synergies

Fri 5 Dec 2014

Session 6: Grand Challenges from Gaia

• Session 6A: The Distance Scale

• Session 6B: The Transient Sky

Session 7: Beyond Gaia, Beyond GREAT

The meeting will close at 14.00.

Invited speakers

Speakers who will illuminate the key issues in the above sessions include the currently confirmed:

• Luis Aguilar (UNAM, Ensenada, Mexico)
• Joss Bland-Hawthorn (University of Sydney, Australia)
• Anthony Brown (Leiden University, The Netherlands)
• Jos de Buijne (ESTEC, ESA, The Netherlands)
• Wyn Evans (University of Cambridge, UK)
• Zeljko Ivezic (University of Washington, Seattle, USA)
• Anders Johansen (Lund University, Sweden)
• Laura Magrini (INAF-Acetri, Italy)
• Josefina Montalban (University of Leige, Belgium)
• Timo Prusti (ESTEC, ESA, The Netherlands)
• Justin Read (University of Surrey, UK)
• Hans-Walter Rix (MPIA, Heidelberg, Germany)
• Alessandro Sozzetti (INAF-Torino, Italy)
• Patricia Whitelock (SAAO, Cape Town, South Africa)