"ESO@50 - the first 50 years of ESO", ESO Garching, 3-7 September 2012

Invited Speakers

Last update: 20 July 2012

  • François Bouchy : transit detection of exoplanets
  • Françoise Combes : molecular gas and star formation in galaxies
  • Carlos De Breuck : AGN ­galaxy connection
  • Tim de Zeeuw : ESO's next fifty years and closing remarks
  • Sandro D'Odorico : VLT and E-ELT instrumentation
  • Richard Ellis : ESO's impact on ground-based astronomy
  • Natascha Förster Schreiber : structure and kinematics of distant galaxies
  • Marijn Franx : high-z clusters and proto-clusters
  • Johan Fynbo : GRBs
  • Carme Gallart : the Magellanic Clouds
  • Guido Garay : high mass star formation in star clusters
  • Reinhard Genzel : the Galactic centre
  • Rodrigo Ibata : galaxy assembly
  • Pavel Kroupa : star formation, mass functions
  • Simon Lilly : galaxy surveys, galaxy formation and evolution
  • Yannick Mellier : gravitational lensing
  • Guy Monnet : ESO instrumentation in a broad (world-) context
  • Michael Murphy : variations of fundamental constants
  • Patrick Petitjean : high-z absorbers
  • Giampaolo Piotto : globular clusters
  • Marina Rejkuba : the Milky Way galaxy
  • Alvio Renzini : how ESO changed astronomy in Europe
  • Bruno Sicardy : planets and moons of the solar system
  • Stephen Smartt : Supernovae and the deaths of massive stars
  • Mark Sullivan : SN cosmology
  • Linda Tacconi : galaxy survey, cosmic star formation history
  • Massimo Tarenghi : history of ESO observatories in Chile
  • Leonardo Testi : star formation, ALMA
  • Eline Tolstoy : dwarf galaxies and resolved stellar populations
  • Stéphane Udry : radial velocity detection of exoplanets
  • Ewine van Dishoeck : interstellar chemistry, ALMA
  • Pierre Vernazza : solar system minor bodies













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