Gaia Science Meetings
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This page lists GREAT supported workshops and also relevant science meetings of interest to the Gaia community. See also the Calendar of Meetings on the ESA Gaia pages.
The The International Astronomy Meetings List has a comprehensive list of many Astronomy meetings.
GREAT Supported meetings
2014
GREAT-ESF Workshop Gaia Viz Workshop, TBD early 2014, Vienna, Austria
2013
GREAT-ESF School EES2013 23rd Evry Schatzman School on Stellar Astrophysics Stellar ages, 29 Sep - 4 Oct 2013, Roscoff, France (school website)
GREAT-ESF Workshop The World of Clusters, 23-26 Sep 2013, Padua, Italy (Workshop website)
GREAT-ITN/ GREAT-ESF School The Galaxy, stellar compositions and dynamics, 2-6 Sep 2013, Tenerife, Spain (School website)
GREAT-ESF Workshop Gaia Challenge, 19-23 Aug 2013, University of Surrey, UK (workshop website)
GREAT PLENARY 6th Great Plenary Meeting, 10 - 12 Jul 2013, Turku, Finland (Plenary website) ((wiki site))
The GREAT Plenary will be taking place at the European Week of Astronomy, as Special Meeting 5 (10 Jul) and Symposium 11 (11-12 Jul 2013).
GREAT-ESF Workshop Fundamental Stellar Parameters - Special Session 3 @EWASS 2013, 8 Jul 2013, Turku, Finland (workshop website)
GREAT-ITN/ GREAT-ESF School GREAT Astro-statistics School, 17-21 Jun 2013, Alicante, Spain (school website)
GREAT-ESF Workshop Asteroid Spectroscopy in Support of Gaia, 6-7 Jun 2013, Nice, France (workshop website)
GREAT-ESF CONFERENCE First Results from the Gaia-ESO Survey, 8-11 Apr 2013, OCA, Nice, France (conference website)
2012
GREAT-ESF Workshop Gaia and Exoplanets: GREAT Synergies on the Horizon, 5-7 Nov 2012, Torino, Italy (workshop website) (Meeting Final Report)
GREAT-ITN School Galaxy modelling, 15-20 Oct 2012, Besancon, France (school website)
GREAT-ESF Workshop Asteroseismology with large time-resolved astronomical surveys, 19-21 Sep 2012, Institute of Astronomy, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium (workshop website) (Meeting Final Report)
GREAT-ESF Workshop Stellar analyses in the Gaia-ESO Survey: towards the first Data Release, 19-21 Sep 2012, AIP, Potsdam, Germany (workshop website) (Meeting Final Report)
GREAT-ESF Workshop Gaia-Follow up Network-Solar System Objects 2012, 19-21 Sep 2012, Observatoire de Paris, France (workshop website) (Meeting Final Report)
GREAT-ESF Workshop 3rd Gaia Science Alerts Workshop, 6-7 Sep 2012, Bologna, Italy (workshop website) (Meeting Final Report)
GREAT-ITN/ GREAT-ESF School GREAT-ITN/LSST/Microsoft Astro-Visualisation School, 13-18 Sep 2012, University of Washington, Seattle, USA (school website) (Meeting Final Report)
GREAT-ITN/ GREAT-ESF School The Art of Observational Campaigns, 3-7 Sep 2012, La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain (school website) (Meeting Final Report)
GREAT @ The IAU General Assembly, 27 - 31 Aug 2012, Beijing, China (Assembly website) (wiki site)
GREAT PLENARY 5th Great Plenary Meeting, 4 - 6 Jul 2012, Rome, Italy (Plenary website) ((wiki site))
The GREAT Plenary will be taking place at the European Week of Astronomy, as Special Meeting 2 (4 Jul) and Symposium 5 (5-6 Jul 2012).
GREAT-ESF Workshop The Milky Way: Stars, Gas, Dust and Magnetic Fields in 3D, 18-20 Jun 2012, Haus der Astronomie, Heidelberg, Germany (workshop website) (Meeting Final Report)
GREAT-ITN School International School of Astrophysics: Distances and Supernovae, 11 - 15 Jun 2012, Teramo, Italy (school website)
GREAT-ESF Workshop The metallicity distribution in the Milky Way discs, 29-31 May 2012, Bologna, Italy (workshop website) (Meeting Final Report)
GREAT-ESF Workshop Stars without borders, radial migration in spiral galaxies, 21 - 24 May 2012, Medana, Slovenia (workshop website) (Meeting Final Report)
GREAT-ESF Workshop Gaia-ESO Survey Workshop : Spectrum Analysis of FGK stars, 18-19 Apr 2012, Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, Nice, France (workshop website) (Meeting Final Report)
GREAT-ESF Workshop Galaxy Modelling with a Gaia mock catalogue, 29 February - 2 March 2012, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain (workshop website) (Meeting Final Report)
GREAT-ITN School Managing Complex Systems, 30 Jan - 3 Feb 2012, ESTEC, ESA, Noordwijk, The Netherlands (school website)
GREAT-ITN School Introduction to the Science of Gaia, 23 - 27 January 2012, Lorentz Centre, University of Leiden, Leiden, The Netherlands (school website and school wiki - all talk slides)
2011
GREAT-ESF Workshop Orbiting couples: "pas de deux" in the Solar System and the Milky Way, 10 - 12 October 2011, Paris Observatory, Paris, France (workshop website) (Meeting Final Report)
GREAT-ESF Workshop The UVES Analysis of the Gaia-ESO Survey: tests, tools, and survey implementation, 26 - 27 Sep 2011, ESO, Garching, Germany (workshop website) (Meeting Final Report)
GREAT-ESF Workshop The Interstellar Medium in Three Dimensions with Gaia, 11 - 14 July 2011, Leiden Observatory, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands (workshop website) (Meeting Final Report)
GREAT-ESF Workshop Stellar Atmospheres in the Gaia Era: Quantitative Spectroscopy and Comparative Spectrum Modelling, 23 - 24 June 2011, Free University Brussels (Vrije Universiteit Brussel - VUB), Campus Etterbeek, Brussels, Belgium (workshop website) (Meeting Final Report)
GREAT PLENARY 4th Great Plenary Meeting, 21 - 23 Jun 2011, Brussels, Belgium (Plenary website)
GREAT-ESF Workshop QSO Astrophysics, Fundamental physics, and Astrometric Cosmology in the
Gaia era, 6 - 9 June 2011, Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal (workshop website) (Meeting Final Report)GREAT-ESF Summer School and Workshop Astrostatistics and Data Mining in Astronomical Databases, 30 May - 3 June 2011, La Palma, (school website) (school wiki) (Meeting Final Report)
GREAT-ESF Workshop Solar System Science before and after Gaia, 4 - 6 May 2011, Pisa, Italy (workshop website) (Meeting Final Report)
GREAT-ESF CONFERENCE The Fundamental Cosmic Distance Scale: State of the Art and the Gaia Perspective, 3 – 6 May 2011, Osservatorio Astronomico di Capodimonte, Naples, Italy (conference website) (Meeting Final Report)
GREAT-ESF CONFERENCE Assembling the puzzle of the Milky Way, 17 – 22 April 2011, Le Grand-Bornand, France (conference website) (On-line proceedings) (Meeting Final Report)
GREAT-ESF Workshop Gaia and the End States of Stellar Evolution, 11 - 14 April 2011, The University of Leicester, UK (workshop website) (Meeting Final Report)
2010
GREAT-ESF Workshop Gaia Chemo-Dynamical Survey: Survey Science, 2 – 4 November 2010, Nice, France (workshop website) (Meeting Final Report)
GREAT-ESF Workshop Comparative Stellar Spectrum Modelling, 23 – 24 Aug 2010, Vienna, Austria. (workshop website) (Meeting Final Report)
GREAT PLENARY 3rd Great Plenary Meeting, 29 - 30 Jun 2010, ESTEC, ESA, Noordwijk, Netherlands (Plenary website)
GREAT-ESF Workshop Gaia Science Alerts Workshop: 23 – 25 June 2010, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge, UK (workshop website) (Meeting Final Report: Gaia Science Alerts White Book)
WGB3 Workshop Post-Gaia scientific investigations on double and multiple stars: 17 – 18 May 2010, ULB, Bruxelles, Belgium (meeting website)
GREAT-ESF Workshop Ground-based observations and theoretical analysis for the Gaia Science on Open Clusters and Young Associations, 13 – 14 May 2010, Catania, Italy (workshop website) (Meeting Final Report)
WGA1 Workshop Gaia model for Gaia/GREAT Chemo-Dynamics Survey Programme (GCDS): 29 - 30 March 2010, MSSL, Holmbury St Mary, UK (meeting website)
WGA3 Workshop Galactic Astronomy, Gaia and High Resolution Spectroscopy: Meeting 2, 10-11 Feb 2010, Lund, S (workshop wiki)
2009
GREAT PLENARY 2nd Great Plenary Meeting, 19-20 Nov 2009, OCA, Nice, F (Plenary website)
WGA3 Workshop Galactic Astronomy, GAIA and High Resolution Spectroscopy, 8-9 Jul 2009, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge, UK (workshop wiki
GREAT PLENARY 1st Great Plenary Meeting, 26-27 Mar 2009, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge, UK (Plenary website)
Other GREAT and Gaia 'relevant' Meetings
2013
Setting the Scene for Gaia and LAMOST - the Current and Next Generations of Surveys and Models: 20 - 24 May 2013, Lijiang, Yunnan province, China (conference website)
2012
Science from the Next Generation Imaging and Spectroscopic Surveys: 15-18 Oct 2012, ESO, Garching, Germany (workshop website)
IAU XXVIII General Assembly : 20 - 31 August 2012, Beijing, China (conference website)
Early registration closes 29 Feb 2012: IAU Gen Assembly Registration page
IAUS 289: Advancing the physics of cosmic distances: 27 - 31 August 2012, Beijing, China (conference website)
2011
ADASS XXI: 6 - 10 Nov 2011, Paris, France (conference website)
[WGA5 related meeting] The Second Gaia Science Alerts Workshop: 29 Jun - 1 Jul 2011, !IoA, Cambridge, UK (workshop website)
[WGB1 related meeting] Stellar Cluster & Associations: a RIA Workshop on Gaia: 23 - 27 May 2011, Granada, Spain (workshop website)
2010
ADASS XX: 7 - 11 November 2010, Boston, USA (conference website)
Chemistry, Dynamics and Structure of the Milky Way : Summer School and Workshop on Galactic Studies with the LAMOST Surveys: 5 - 23 July 2010 Beijing, China (conference website)
Gaia: at the frontiers of astrometry: 7 - 11 June 2010, Paris, France (conference website)
2009
ADASS XIX: 4 - 8 October 2009, Sapporo, Japan (conference website)
The Milky Way and the Local Group - now and in the Gaia era: 31 August - 4 September 2009 Heidelberg, Germany (conference website)
IAU XXVII General Assembly: 3 - 14 August 2009 Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) (conference website)
12th Marcell Grossmann Meeting on recent developments in theoretical and experimental general relativity, astrophysics and relativistic field theories: 12 - 18 July 2009 Paris (conference website)
Satellite dynamics: Simulation challenges and requirements: 18 - 19 June 2009 Bremen (Germany) (conference website)
1st EIROforum School on Instrumentation: 11 - 15 May 2009 Geneva (conference website)
IAU Symposium 261: Relativistic Dynamics, Reference Frames and Data Analysis in Fundamental Astronomy: 27 April - 1 May 2009 Virginia Beach (USA) (conference web site)
JENAM09: Joint European National Astronomy Meeting: 19 - 24 April 2009 University of Hertfordshire, UK (conference website)
Euro-VO: Virtual Observatory School: 30 March - 2 April 2009 Munich (Germany) (conference website)
GREAT ESF Supported Exchange Visits
The GREAT programme also supports long (over two weeks duration) and short (two weeks or less) exchange visits. Details of these can be found at GREAT-ESF exchange visits