Programme

March 12, 2019
08:30 Coffee and Registration  
09:00 Opening Xavier Barcons, ESO DG - Welcome
09:15  

Gero Rupprecht - FORS: How it all began

Talk
09:30  

Wolfgang Hummel - FORS operations

Talk

Video
10:10 Coffee Break  
10:40  

Oliver Hainaut - Minor bodies in our solar system, as seen by FORS

Talk
11:20  

Nikolay Nikolov - From hot gas-giants to cooler rocky exo-Earths

Talk
12:00  

Stefano Bagnulo - Polarisation by scattering and biomarkers

Talk
12:40 Lunch  
14:00  

Veronika Schaffenroth - Observing short-period binaries with FORS2 - possibilities and challenges

Talk
14:40  

Magda Arnaboldi - Dynamics of galaxies and clusters with FORS

Talk
15:00  

Laura Pentericci - Probing the reionization epoch with deep spectroscopy

Talk
15:40  

Ferdinando Patat - Supernovae, gamma-ray bursts and GW counterparts with FORS

Talk
16:20   Discussion: The future of FORS
17:00 End of meeting  

The FORS 20th Anniversary day will take place in the seminar room on the 4th floor of the ESO Supernova.

Note that entrance is only possible between 08:15 and 09:30. 

For registered participants, there will be a catered lunch. 

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