Scientific Programme
Program Overview
| Monday, February 12th | ||
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| 09:30 - 10:00 |
Registration, Welcome + a brief history of ESO and La Silla (Florian Rodler) |
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| 10:00 - 11:00 | Basic concepts of ground-based observing, telescopes and types of instruments (Eleonora Sani) |
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| 11:00 - 11:30 | Coffee break | |
| 11:30 - 12:00 |
Astronomical instruments at ESO (Eleonora Sani) | |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Imaging / Photometry: basic concepts of observing techniques, calibrations (Jonathan Smoker) |
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| 13:00 - 14:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00 - 15:00 | Introduction to astronomical detectors (Nicolas Haddad) |
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| 15:00 - 15:30 | Coffee break | |
| 15:30 - 17:00 | Students presentations: who you are, what you are doing (science, hobby, etc. - 3 min each) | |
| Tuesday, February 13th | ||
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| 09:30 - 10:30 | Spectroscopy: introduction, observations, calibrations (Luca Sbordone) | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Introduction to interferometry at ESO (Claudia Paladini) | |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Coffee break | |
| 11:30 - 12:15 | Science at ESO: The Alchemists - how the stars made the periodic table (Luca Sbordone) | |
| 12:15 - 13:00 | Observing and data reduction with HARPS+NIRPS at the 3.6m (Gaspare LoCurto / Emanuela Pompei) | |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00 - 15:00 | Introduction to Python for Astronomy (Michaël Marsset) | |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Coordination meeting for group work (set-up of the groups) | |
| 15:30 - 16:00 |
Coffee break | |
| 16:00 - | Project work | |
| Wednesday, February 14th |
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| 09:30 - 10:15 |
Astronomical archives and related tools: a world to discover (Magda Arnaboldi, from Garching) |
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| 10:15 - 11:00 | The art of scientific writing: proposals - from the idea to submission (Claudia Paladini) | |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Coffee break | |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | ESO specific observations preparation tools and concepts: ETC, P2 (Francesca Lucertini) | |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Instrument pipelines: what are they and how to correctly use them (Faviola Molina) | |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00 - 14:45 | Observing and data reduction with NTT / EFOSC (Linda Schmidtobreick) |
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| 14:45 - 15:30 | Science at ESO: Exoplanets and their atmospheres (Elyar Sedaghati) Online material: https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1tgUVwGfUZZ0OFBcgx1y3BaZv-Zs35SDI?usp=sharing |
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| 15:30 - 16:00 | Coffee break | |
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Project work | |
| Thursday, February 15th | ||
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| 09:30 - 10:00 | How to make a good presentation (Itziar de Gregorio Monsalvo) |
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| 10:00 - 11:00 | Diversity, inclusion and bias in astronomy (Belén Alcalde) | |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Coffee break | |
| 11:30 - 12:15 | Science at ESO: Extragalactic surveys (Boris Häußler) | |
| 12:15 - 13:00 | Science at ESO: Blue Straggler Stars in Open Clusters (Maria Jose Rain) | |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00 - 14:45 | Science at ESO: AGNs (Marco Berton) | |
| 14:45 - 15:30 | Astronomy in Chile (Evelyn Johnston) |
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| 15:30 - 16:00 | Coffee break | |
| 16:00 - 18:30 |
Project work | |
| 18:30 | Banquet in the garden at ESO Vitacura |
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| Sunday-Tuesday, February 18th-20th |
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| Observations, data analysis |
| Sunday 16:00: Visit of the telescopes 3.6 and NTT |
| Friday, February 23rd | |
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| 11:30 - 13:00 | Career advice: Job application and interview (Evelyn Johnston and Florian Rodler) - pdf |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00 - 15:30 | Presentations of groups 1-3 (30 min each) |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Coffee break |
| 16:00 - 17:00 |
Presentations of groups 4-5 (30 min each) |
| 17:00 | Concluding remarks, then Wine & Cheese |
Quick links
ESO acknowledges the support from the MPIA for giving three nights of the ESO/MPG 2.2m telescope time to the summer school.