Programme

 

2-Nov-2016 DAY 1 - Building D - Room 001/002
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REGISTRATION [09:00 - 09:25]
WELCOME MESSAGES
09:25 - 09:30 Introduction and Logistics Bruno Merín ESA
SESSION 1 - MISSION OVERVIEW AND DATA RELEASE #1
CHAIR: Uwe Lammers (Gaia Science Operations Centre, ESAC, ESA)
09:30 - 10:00 Gaia mission overview Timo Prusti ESA
10:00 - 10:30 Gaia Data Release #1 and future Anthony Brown Leiden University
10:30 - 11:00 Visualisation of Gaia data André Moitinho Lisbon University

11:00 - 11:30 

 Coffee/Tea break in hall of D-building
11:30 - 12:00 Gaia archive: interfaces and protocols Jesús Salgado ESA
12:00 - 12:30 Science-driven introduction to the archive Alcione Mora ESA
12:30 - 13:00 TopCat and how to use it for Gaia Mark Taylor Bristol Univesity

13:00 - 13:30

 Astronomy Data Query Language (ADQL) Introduction

Hendrik Heinl / Stefan Jordan

ARI Heidelberg
13:30 - 15:00 Lunch at ESAC canteen
SESSION 2 - Parallel splinters
  Room D1+D2. Chair: Timo Prusti Room B3+B5 Room D52
15:00 - 16:00 Discussion session (science applications of the Gaia data - Chair: Anthony Brown) Gaia archive hands-on session of Group A (ESDC + SOC) doc ADQL tutorial (Hendrik Heinl / Stefan Jordan)

16:00 - 16:30

 Coffee/Tea break in halls of B and D-building
16:30 - 17:30 Discussion session (Visualisation of Gaia data - Chair: André Moitinho) Gaia archive hands-on session of Group A (ESDC + SOC) doc ADQL tutorial (Hendrik Heinl / Stefan Jordan)
17:30 Transportation to the hotels
       
3-Nov-2016 DAY 2 - Building D - Room 001/002
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SESSION 3 - ASTROMETRY AND PHOTOMETRY
CHAIR: Anthony Brown (Leiden University, The Netherlands)
09:30 - 10:30 Astrometry Lennart Lindegren Lund University
10:30 - 11:00 Working with astrometric data Xavier Luri Barcelona University

11:00 - 11:30 

 Coffee/Tea break in hall of D-building
11:30 - 12:30 Photometry Floor van Leeuwen Cambridge University
12:30 - 13:30 External catalogues in the Gaia archive Paola Marrese ASI Science Data Centre
13:30 - 15:00 Lunch at ESAC canteen
SESSION 4 - Parallel splinters
  Room D1+D2. Chair: Xavier Luri Room B3+B5 Room D52
15:00 - 15:30 Discussion session (Astrometry - Chair: Lennart Lindegren) Gaia archive hands-on session for Group B (ESDC + SOC) doc VOSA demo (Enrique Solano)
15:30 - 16:00 Discussion session (Astrometry - Chair: Lennart Lindegren) Gaia archive hands-on session of Group B (ESDC + SOC) doc vaex demo (Maarten Breddels)

16:00 - 16:30

 Coffee/Tea break in halls of B and D-building
16:30 - 17:30 Discussion session (Photometry- Chair: Floor van Leeuwen) Gaia archive hands-on session of Group B (ESDC + SOC) Using Gaia DR1 to improve HST astrometry (Stefano Casertano)
19:00 - 21:00 Workshop dinner at hall of D-building
21:00 Transportation to the hotels
       
4-Nov-2016 DAY 3 - Building D - Room 001/002
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SESSION 5 - VARIABILITY AND VALIDATION
CHAIR: Lennart Lindegren (Lund University, Sweeden)
09:30 - 10:30 Variability  Laurent Eyer Geneva University
10:30 - 11:00 Discussion session on Variability Chair: Laurent Eyer Geneva University

11:00 - 11:30 

 Coffee/Tea break in hall of D-building
11:30 - 12:30 Validation Frédéric Arenou Paris Observatory
12:30 - 13:30 Discussion session on Validation Frédéric Arenou Paris Observatory
13:30 - 15:00 Lunch at ESAC canteen
SESSION 6 - Parallel splinters
  Room D1+D2. Chair: José Hernández Room B3+B5  

15:00 - 16:00

 

 Seminar by Adam Riess (Nobel Laureate): An improved Measurement of the Expansion Rate of the Universe and a Path to 1 % with Gaia

Gaia archive hands-on session of Group C (ESDC + SOC)

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16:00 - 16:30

 Coffee/Tea break in halls of B and D-building
16:30 - 17:00 Workshop close-up and Feedback session (Bruno Merín)    
17:30 Transportation to the airport or hotels