Invited Speakers

  • Giancarlo Setti: "Italy's entry in the ESO organisation: a historical review"
  • Monica Tosi: “ESO from an Italian perspective” 
  • Massimo Tarenghi: "Italian Industry contribution to ESO projects: NTT and VLT"
  • Stefano Stanghellini: "Italian Industry contribution to ESO: ALMA" 
  • Alvio Renzini: "Science highlights"
  • Leonardo Testi: "ALMA science"
  • Giuseppe Bono: "Impact of ESO facilities on Italian astronomical research" 
  • Sandro D’Odorico: "ESO Instrumentation and the Italian contribution"
  • Paolo Santin: "VLT Instrumentation Control: the collaboration of OATs with ESO"
  • Paolo Vettolani: "VST and the future involvement of INAF in ESO"
  • Livia Origlia: "High-resolution spectroscopy with E-ELT: SIMPLE" (TBC)
  • Stefano Cristiani: "30 years of high-resolution spectroscopy: from CASPEC to CODEX"
  • Paolo Ciliegi: "Multi-Coniugate AO Module for the E-ELT: MAORY" 
  • Elisabetta Caffau: "A primordial star in the heart of the Lion"
  • Andrea Cimatti: "Massive galaxy formation and evolution with ESO VLTs"
  • Giovanni Cresci: "Gas accretion in distant galaxies as the origin of chemical abundance gradients"
  • Adriano Fontana: "The ESO view on the farthest galaxies"
  • Elena Pian: "Supernovae and Gamma-Ray Bursts at ESO: the Italian role"
  • Laura Pentericci: "Probing  the end of the reionization epoch with the most distant galaxies"