Scientific Programme
Program Overview
| Monday, February 3 | Friday, February 7 |
| Tuesday, February 4 | Saturday, February 8 |
| Wednesday, February 5 | Wednesday, February 12 |
| Thursday, February 6 | Thursday/Friday, February 13/14 |
| Monday, February 3 | ||
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| 08:30 - 09:00 |
Registration | |
| 09:00 - 09:30 |
Introduction to the school (organizer) |
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| 09:30 - 11:00 | Telescope and instrument optics (A. Gilliotte) |
PDF PPT wmv |
| 11:00 - 11:15 | Coffee break | |
| 11:15 - 12:45 | Introduction to detectors (A. Smette) |
PDF PPT |
| 12:45 - 14:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00 - 16:00 | Students presentations: who you are, what you are doing (science, hobby, etc.) |
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| 16:00 - 16:30 | Coffee break | |
| 16:30 - 18:30 | Group presentations and beginning of work |
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| Tuesday, February 4 | ||
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| 09:00 - 10:00 |
Basics of observations and data reduction: imaging/photometry (F. Selman) |
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| 10:00 - 10:30 |
Observing and data reduction with DFOSC/Danish 1.54 (Heidi Korhonen) |
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| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee break | |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Observing with EFOSC2 (L. Schmidtobreick) |
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| 11:30 - 13:00 | Group work | |
| 13:00 - 14:30 | Lunch | |
| 14:30 - 15:30 | Basics of observations and data reduction: spectroscopy (L. Sbordone) |
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| 15:30 - 16:00 | Observing and data reduction with HARPS at the 3.6m (F. Rodler) |
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| 16:00 - 16:30 | Coffee break | |
| 16:30 - 18:30 |
Group work and informal discussion |
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| Wednesday, February 5 | ||
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| 09:15 - 10:30 |
Basics and data reduction in the NIR (P. Hibon) |
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| 10:30 - 11:15 | Observing and data reduction with SOFI (F. Comeron) | |
| 11:15 - 11:45 | Coffee break | |
| 11:45 - 12:45 | The art of proposal writing: from idea to submission (C. Paladini) |
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| 12:45 - 14:15 | Lunch | |
| 14:15 - 15:15 | Introduction to observation preparation (F. Comeron) | |
| 15:15 - 16:00 | Beginning of project work | |
| 16:00 - 16:30 |
Coffee break | |
| 16:30 - 18:00 | Continuation of project work | |
| Thursday, February 6 |
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| 09:00 - 10:00 |
Instrument pipelines: what are they and how to correctly use them (V. Ivanov (VL from Garching)) |
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| 10:00 - 11:00 | Astronomical archives and related tools: a word to discover (M. Arnaboldi (VL from Garching)) | PDF PPT |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Coffee break | |
| 11:30 - 12:30 | Science at ESO: Extrasolar planets (F. Rodler) |
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| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00 - 15:00 | Science at ESO: The Alchemists: how the stars made the periodic table (L. Sbordone) |
PDF Keynote |
| 15:00 - 16:00 | Science at ESO: Solar system physics (B. Yang) | |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Coffee break | |
| 16:30 - 17:30 |
Open discussion on project work | |
| Friday, February 7 | ||
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| 09:00 - 10:00 |
Science at ESO: Our nearby Universe (I. Saviane/M. Zoccali) |
PDF (Saviane) PDF (Zoccali) |
| 10:00 - 11:00 | Science at ESO: Galaxy halos (J. Hartke) |
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| 11:00 - 11:30 | Coffee break | |
| 11:30 - 12:45 | Science at ESO: High time resolution observations in the ultraviolet and optical with HST/COS and ULTRACAM. (A. Pala) | |
| 12:45 - 14:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00 - 15:15 | Science at ESO: extragalactic surveys and main results (J. C. Muñoz/E. Pompei) | |
| 15:15 - 16:00 | How to make a good presentation (I. De Gregorio) | |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Coffee break | |
| 16:30 - 18:30 |
Project work. | |
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ESO acknowledges the support of the Astronomical Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences, Ondrejov, Czech Republic, for giving three nights of the Danish telescope time to the summer school.