The Milky Way Unravelled by GREAT

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GREAT ITN Final Conference

Barcelona (Spain) 1 - 5 December 2014

This is the last full conference of the GREAT-ITN network.

Rationale

The Gaia Research for European Astronomy Training (GREAT) network is a pan European science driven research infrastructure, which is facilitating, through focused interaction on a European scale, the fullest exploitation of the ESA Gaia 'cornerstone' astronomy mission. GREAT enables the European astronomy community to address key challenges in our understanding of the Galaxy and Universe.

GREAT currently has two main strands: GREAT-ESF (European Science Foundation) and the FP7-GREAT-ITN. GREAT provides support through the European Science Foundation (GREAT ESF) Research Networking Programme for a wide range of community proposed events covering the key objective areas of the programme, largely focussed on gaining a deeper understanding of our Milky Way. In addition, the GREAT ITN (Initial Training Network) programme is supported by the EC through its FP7 Marie Curie programme under grant agreement 264895. GREAT-ITN (2011 – 2015), and is devoted to the training of the next generation of ’Gaia’ scientists, through their participation in a range of key Gaia research programmes at research centres across Europe.

After the successful launch of the Gaia satellite (19 December 2013) and the successful completion of the complex commissioning phase, Gaia commenced its five year nominal mission in the summer 2014.

The GREAT-ITN final conference will be held 1-5 December 2014. The conference will provide the opportunity for the highlights of the research activities carried out during the network to be presented. These topics range from the structure and formation of the Milky Way as a whole, to the study of asteroids in our own Solar System. The conference will also include a range of topical presentations concerning the status of Gaia, and new results from the earliest mission data (the ‘Gaia photometric alerts’). In addition the conference will cover science resulting from a range of ground-based surveys aiming to leverage Gaia, e.g. new insights from the large Gaia-ESO survey.

Researchers active in any topic, with an interest in Gaia, are welcome to join the conference in December, and are encouraged to contribute to the proceedings via either contributed talks or posters.

We look forward to welcoming you to Barcelona, for what promises to be the first of many conferences benefiting from the wealth of Gaia data.

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The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Community's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under grant agreement n° 264895

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