Monday
15 June

14:00 - 15:45

Welcome Workshop

All welcome!

Schedule:

14:00 - 14:15 – Introduction to the event 

14:15 - 14:30 – Welcome to ESO by Michael Hilker (Head of the Office for Science at ESO) 

14:30 - 14:40 – ESO Summer Research Programme - 2026 Edition, The ESRP Organisers 

**10 min break** 

14:50 - 15:45 – Introduction to the projects and students: ESRP 2026 advisors and students

15:45 – End of the Welcome Workshop 

Tuesday
16 June

11:00 - 12:00

Lecture: An introduction to clean Python projects

Markus Bonse

Thursday
18 June

11:00 - 12:00

Lecture: Science Communication: A key skill for future scientists

Bárbara Ferreira

Friday
19 June

09:00 - 17:00

ESO Science Day

Organised by the Office for Science

21 - 24 June

NTT Observing Days

Monday
29 June

11:00 - 12:00

Lecture: The era of large sky spectroscopic surveys

Victoria Fawcett

Thursday
2 July

10:00 - 11:00

Lecture: Interstellar medium and molecular line emission

Lukas Neumann

Tuesday
7 July

11:00 - 12:00

Lecture: Stellar cannibalism: accretion onto compact objects

Stefanie Fijma

Thursday
9 July

11:00 - 12:00

Lecture: Astrometry

Maximilian Häberle

Tuesday
14 July

11:00 - 12:00

Lecture: Beyond Our Solar System: Exoplanets and the Search for Life

Bibiana Prinoth

Thursday
16 July

10:00 - 11:00

Lecture: An introduction to radiotelescopes and antenna arrays

Teresa Valdivia-Mena

Tuesday
21 July

10:00 - 11:00

Lecture: Supermassive Black HOles: Small Objects, Big Impact

Payel Nandi

Tuesday
23 July

11:00 - 12:00

Lecture: Nearby galaxies in extreme detail

Amelia Fraser-McKelvie

Friday
24 July

13:45 - 17:00

Farewell workshop

All welcome! The students will present the research carried out at ESO with 15 minutes long talks, followed by 5 minutes to ask questions.

Schedule:

14:00 - Opening

14:05 -  Farewell words by Xavier Barcons (ESO Director General)

14:15 -- 14:35 - Javiera Toro Grey: Excavating the fossil record of KILOGAS galaxies

14:35 -- 14:55 - K M Shariat Ullah: Aligned, askew, or wildly tilted? Measuring an exoplanet’s orbit

14:55 -- 15:15 - Szymon Petyniak: From Molecular Lines to Physical Conditions: Teaching Neural Networks to Read the Interstellar Medium

15:15 -- 15:35 - Alice Coors: Tracing shock-driven shaping of molecular clouds as a trigger for star formation

15:35 -- 15:50 - Coffee break

15:50 -- 16:10 - Ágnes Bogdán: What drives the gas fraction evolution in different simulations?

16:10 -- 16:30 - Lewis Thompson: A turbulent youth: Investigating the conditions of planetary birthplaces

16:30 -- 16:50 - Carolina Brandão Machado: Centers of Dwarfs or the Outskirts of Giants: Where Do More Pristine Stars Form?

17:00 - Wrap-up of the 8th Edition of the ESO Summer Research Programme by the Organisers

17:15 - Adjourn