Gaia Calendar
    Information about Gaia events, conferences and DPAC meetings                                                   Gaia events calendar archive

     

    Conferences, Workshops & Symposia

    For more conferences and symposia, see: International Astronomy Meetings

    For MW-Gaia workshops, see MW-Gaia.org.

     

    Date Conference/Symposium Place Link
    17 October - 16 December 2022 White Dwarfs as Probes of the Evolution of Planets, Stars, the Milky Way and the Expanding Universe Santa Barbara CA, USA More info
    February 2023 Building a Physical Understanding of Galaxy Evolution with Data-driven Astronomy Santa Barbara CA, USA More info
    6 - 10 February 2023 Lorentz Center Workshop "Mapping the Milky Way: Galactic Cartography in the Age of High Precision Parallaxes Leiden, The Netherlands More info
    15-19 May 2023 Gaia XPloration: Discovery, stellar parameters, and exploration Cambridge, UK  
    10 - 14 July 2023 European Astronomical Union - annual meeting Kraków, Poland More info
    August 2024 XXXII IAU General Assembly Cape Town, South Africa More info

     

     

    Internal Gaia Calendar (DPAC)

    Please note: Attendance to these meetings is restricted to DPAC members and invited guests.

    Only members who have signed in to the Gaia Cosmos site will be able to access the links below.
    Previous Meetings Archive
    Date Title Place Local Organiser Link
    18-20 October 2022 CU3 plenary meeting Torino Busonero More info
    29 November - 1 December 2022 CU5 plenary meeting Tenerife   More info
    Expected in Jan/Feb 2023 CU9 plenary meeting Virtually    
    13-17 March 2023 7th DPAC Consortium Meeting (intended to be in person) Heidelberg Biermann  

     

     

    Important dates of Gaia

     
    Date Event Place Link
    12 October 1993 Proposal for the Gaia mission - More info
    11-12 October 2000 Adoption of the Gaia mission by ESA - More info
    15 June 2006 Gaia DPAC starts activities - More info / More info
    7 June 2007 ESA SPC approves DPAC proposal for Gaia data processing - More info
    19 December 2013 09:12 UTC Gaia launch Kourou More info
    25 July 2014 Start of routine operations - More info
    14 September 2016 Gaia Data Release 1 - More info
    25 April 2018 Gaia Data Release 2 - More info
    16 July 2019 Whitehead Eclipse Avoidance Manoeuvre marks the end of nominal mission - More info
    17 July 2019 First day of mission extension - More info
    3 December 2020 Early Gaia Data Release 3   More info
    13 June 2022 Gaia Data Release 3   More info
    2023 (coming up) Focused Product Release   More info