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Monday, 26 January
Start End Min. Description  Speaker
12:30 13:30 60 Registration  
13:30  13:45 15 Introduction  Chairs              
13:45  14:15 30 ESO facilities and science landscape  Jarle Brinchmann
14:15  14:45 30 Space facilities and science landscape  Gaitee Hussain
14:45 15:15 30 Multi-frequency facilities and science landscape  Silvia Piranomonte 
15:15  15:45 30 Technology and Astronomy: Rethinking ESO's Model for the 2030s  Paulo Garcia 
15:45 16:00 15 Coffee break
16:00  16:15 15 Sustainability challenges: ESA Ecodesign Policy  Aurelie Gallice-Tanguy          
16:15  17:15 60 Discussion
Tuesday, 27 January
Start End Min.  Description  Speaker
09:00  09:15 15 Towards Unified Vibration Control for the VLTI: Multi-Sensor Data Fusion as a Path Beyond GRAVITY+  Nuno Morujao        
09:15  09:30 15 Light at the Horizon: Black Holes in High Definition with the VLT and VLTI  Taro Shimizu        
09:30  10:00 30 Detectors future  Kyriaki Minoglou 
10:00  10:30 30 Gravitational waves and transient events  Antonio de Ugarte Postigo
10:30  11:00 30 Coffee break 
11:00  11:15 15 Follow-up of transients in the 2030s  Michael Andersen    
11:15  11:30 15 Evaluating detector technologies for astronomy beyond 2030  Naidu Bezawada      
11:30  12:30 60 Discussion            
12:30  14:00 90 Lunch Break
14:00  14:30 30 Low surf brightness and short wavelength facilities  Deborah Lokhorst    
14:30  15:00 30 Extragalactic science and cosmology  Ryan Cooke          
15:00  15:15 15 Atomic Data for the Next Generation of Astrophysical Spectroscopy  Christian Clear     
15:15  15:30 15 Advancing Hollow Cathode Lamp Calibrations for Next-Generation Spectrographs  Lawrence Bissell    
15:30  16:00 30 Coffee break           
16:00  16:15 15 Is there any need for Laser-Frequency Comb at the VLT beyond 2030?  Francesco Pepe      
16:15  16:30 15 Reaching cm/s radial velocity accuracy with the next generation of Astrocombs  Oliver Pfuhl        
16:30  17:30 60 Discussion  
Wednesday, 28 January
Start End Min. Description  Speaker
09:00 09:15 15 Low-Surface Brightness research in the Next Era of Astronomy  Enrichetta Iodice   
09:15 09:30 15 Cosmology with VLT spectrographs in 2030s  Dinko Milakovic     
09:30 10:00 30 Wide-field/multiplex/integral-field spectroscopy  Rebecca Bernstein   
10:00 10:00 30 Galaxy formation and evolution  Jorryt Matthee      
10:30  11:00 30 Coffee break   
11:00  11:15 15 Nano to pico degree optical astronomy: in quantum physics we trust!  Roland Walter       
11:15  11:30 15 Massive Spectroscopy in Dense Environment - from emerging technologies to new science  Jean-Paul Kneib     
11:30  12:30 60 Discussion          
12:30  14:00 90 Lunch break           
14:00  14:15 15 The need for a wide-field IFU at 1 micron  Nicolas Bouché
14:15  14:30 15 Completing the VLT/I in the LGS Era: The case for at least 4 lasers on each UT  Michael Ireland          
14:30  14:45 15 Towards Full-Sky Adaptive Optics with Laser Guide Stars: Overview of the ANU Program on LGS Tip-Tilt  Noelia Martinez     
14:45  15:00 15 Advanced laser guide stars for future AO facilities      Felipe Pedreros     
15:00  15:15 15 XAO performance with an Orbiting Configurable Artificial Star  Jalo Nousiainen
15:15 15:30 15 Perspectives for the VLT Interferometer in stellar astrophysics  Pierre Kervella    
15:30  16:00 30 Coffee break                 
16:00  16:30 30 Planetary systems/exoplanets  Julia Seidel        
16:30 17:00 30 High-angular resolution facilities  Sebastiaan Haffert  
17:00  17:15 15 K-band for NIRPS  François Bouchy     
17:15  17:30 15 Vipa-based Instrument for Oxygen Loaded Atmospheres (VIOLA) for VLT2030 and beyond  Suri Rukdee         
Thursday, 29 January
Start End Min. Description  Speaker
09:00  09:15 15 MICHELANGELO: a mid-infrared high dispersion spectrograph dedicated to exoplanet atmospheres studies  Leonardo Testi      
09:15  09:30 15 A high-resolution; ultra-stable NIR spectrograph for the VLT  Xavier Dumusque     
09:30  10:30 60 Discussion          
10:30  11:00 30 Coffee break            
11:00  11:15 15 Pioneering exoplanet reflected-light spectroscopy with RISTRETTO: a pathfinder for ANDES and PCS  Christophe Lovis    
11:15  11:30 15 Data Analysis Software in the 2030s for panoramic Integral Field Spectrographs  Angela Adamo            
11:30  12:30 60 Discussion            
12:30  14:00 90 Lunch break                
14:00  14:30 30 Stars and Stellar Evolution  Ylva Gotberg        
14:30  15:00 30 Multiplexing/spectral resolution; polarimetry  Stefan Kraus        
15:00  15:15 15 HRMOS: a very high-resolution; multi-object spectrograph for the VLT  Sofia Randlich      
15:15  15:30 15 HRMOS: Instrument architecture and main features  Marco Riva          
15:30  16:00 30 Coffee break                 
16:00  16:15 15 Probing Neutron-Capture Nucleosynthesis in the Early Galaxy with HRMOS  Emma Fernandez-Alvar
16:15  16:30 15 Filling the Gap: High-Resolution; Multi-Object Spectroscopy for the Local and Distant Universe  Laura Magrini       
16:30 17:30 60 Discussion 
Friday, 30 January
Start End Min. Description  Speaker
09:00  09:15 15 The role of HRMOS to the comprehension of planetary systems across time and space  Camilla Danielsky   
09:15  09:30 15 VIPER: a Visible and Infrared spectroPolarimetER for the VLT  Pascal Petit
09:30  09:45 15 From Large Telescopes to Tiny Chips: Astrophotonic Perspectives for the VLT/I  Elsa Huby           
09:45  10:00 15 Astrophotonics: recent and future developments  Simon Ellis         
10:00  10:15 15 Science drivers for a shorter wavelength; high-sensitivity 3rd-generation VLTI instrument  Mathias Nowak       
10:15 10:30 15 The VLTI: a unique facility for exoplanet detection  Sylvestre Lacour    
10:30  11:00 30 Coffee break                
11:00  11:05 5 Demonstrating the combination of AT-UT baselines: VLTI as a true coherent array  Guillaume Bourdarot 
11:05  11:10 5 STELLIM: Fast Interferometric Imaging of Stellar Surfaces  Xavier Haubois      
11:10  11:15 5 VLTI extensions and limiting sensitivity: how to win on both counts  Romain Petrov       
11:15  11:20 5 Perspectives for the Asgard Visitor Instrument Suite for VLTI in the 2030s  Stefan Kraus        
11:20  11:25 5 MATISSE and mid-infrared interferometry at the VLTI post-2030  Bruno Lopez         
11:25  11:30 5 Astrophysics at high spectral and spatial resolution with the VLTI  Andreas Quirrenbach 
11:30  12:30 60 Discussion            
12:30  13:00 30 Closing remarks and next steps (white papers call)  Chairs              
13:00 14:30 90 Lunch 

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