Science and Technical Meetings
ESO Science Meetings provides information about upcoming ESO or ESO-related Seminars, Colloquia and Scientific Conferences and Workshops in Europe and Chile.
The following pages provide more details.
Seminars, Colloquia, and Lunch Talks
Local information about Seminars, Colloquia, and Lunch Talks:
Garching
- Upcoming Talks
- Past Talks (all)
- Past Talks (only with videos)
- Talks
Most talks at ESO Garching fall into one of the following categories:- AI Forum: usually Wednesdays at 14:00.
- AGN Coffee: usually Wednesdays at 14:15 [not taking place weekly].
- Science Coffee: from 10:30 to 10:45, Mon-Wed-Fri in the cafeteria of the old building, Tue-Thu in the cafeteria of the new building.
- Galaxy Evolution Coffee: usually Thursdays at 10:00.
- Informal Discussion: usually Wednesdays at 10:00 [in person only].
- Joint Astronomy Colloquia: usually Thursdays at 15:15, preceded by tea and coffee at 15:00.
- Journal Club: usually Fridays at 10:00.
- Lunch Talks/ ESO Colloquia: usually Tuesdays at 12:00.
- SAOSY Lunch Talks: usually Wednesdays at 12:30.
- Star and Planet Formation Coffee: every alternate Friday at 10:00.
- Star and Planet Formation Seminars: every alternate Tuesday at 10:00.
- Stellar Coffee and Planetary Tea: every Monday at 14:00.
- Wine & Cheese Seminars: usually once per month on Wednesdays at 16:30.
- AI Forum: usually Wednesdays at 14:00.
If you would like to contact any of the above talk organisers, please send an email to the Office for Science.
- Talks at Neighbouring Institutes
For info about talks at neighbouring institutes, see also the Web pages of the:
Santiago
During these times of enforced home-working, the science life had to be adapted. For the time being, we have the following weekly activities:
- Local Science Coffee meetings at 11:00
- Local Journal Club on Tuesdays
- Joint talks with Garching colleagues on Wednesday, 10:00
- Local TMTs on Wednesday afternnoon, 14:30 (colloquia@eso.org)
- Joint ESO/ALMA colloquium on Thursday at 11:00 (colloquia@eso.org)
- Stellar coffee: every other Monday, 14:30
- Extragalactic coffee: every other Monday, 15:30
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- Upcoming Talks
- Past Talks
- Talks
Most talks at ESO Vitacura fall into one of the following categories:- ESO Colloquia: usually Thursday at 11:00
Contact: Fuyan Bian, Michael Abdul-Masiah , Aleksandra Solarz y Peter Scicluna (colloquia@eso.org) - ESO Thirty Minute Talks: Wednesday at 15:00
Contact: Fuyan Bian, Michael Abdul-Masiah , Aleksandra Solarz y Peter Scicluna (colloquia@eso.org) - Extragalactic group meetings: twice per month
Contact: - Planetary group meeting: once or twice per month
Contact: - Star Clusters group meetings: once or twice per month
Contact: Steffen Mieske
- Stellar Coffee: once or twice per month
Contact: Linda Schmidtobreick
- ESO Colloquia: usually Thursday at 11:00
- Talks at Neighbouring Institutes
For info about talks at neighbouring institutes, see also the Web pages of the:
ESO or ESO-Related Conferences and Workshops
List of the approved workshops for 2026:
The call for proposals for ESO Workshops 2026 opened on 10 March 2025 and the deadline to submit proposals was 9 May 2025. The ad-hoc selection committee approved the following workshops:
Approved Workshops in Chile
- Type II Supernovae: The Chaotic Deaths of Supergiants and their Cosmic Implications
- Stellar Substructure in the Milky Way across Time
- IR2026: Showcasing Science and Synergies in Thermal Infrared Astronomy
- Galaxy nuclei – Diversity, Dynamics, and Hidden Mass in Galactic Centers
Approved Workshops in Garching
- Bridging horizons: Harnessing ESO’s current facilities for the dawn of population studies
- CMF2IMF? The origin of the stellar initial mass function
- AGN Feedback Across All Scales and Time
For more details please visit the webpage ESO - Conferences 2026.