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

 

Date Conference/Symposium Place Link
14 - 17 January 2020 COST Milky Way Gaia School: Milky Way size galaxy formation and high performance computing Barcelona More info
21 - 23 January 2020 Workshop: Frontiers of Stellar Physics: the Theory-Observation Interface Zagreb More info
20 - 23 April 2020 The Local Group: Assembly and Evolution Baltimore, USA More info
15 - 19 June 2020

Active Galaxies and Quasar Reference Systems in the Gaia Era

 Paris, France More info
21 - 26 June 2020 Cool Stars 21 Toulouse, France More info
29 June - 03 July 2020 EAS Annual Meeting (EWASS) 2020 Leiden, The Netherlands More info
16 - 27 August 2021

XXXI IAU General Assembly

 Busan, Korea More info
8 - 12 November 2020 ADASS Granada, Spain 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
28 - 30 January 2020 CU9 meeting Edinburgh Hambly More info
2 - 6 March 2020 4th DPAC Consortium Meeting Heidelberg, Germany Biermann More info
29 - 30 April 2020 GST meeting #62 ESTEC Prusti More info
13 - 15 May 2020 CU7 meeting Budapest    
27 - 29 May 2020 CU3 meeting Torino Lattanzi  
2 - 4 June 2020 CU1/DPC meeting Cambridge    
9 - 11 June 2020 CU5 meeting Barcelona or Cambridge Jordi or Evans  
16 - 17 June 2020 CU6 meeting Strasbourg Marchal  
7 - 8 July 2020 DPACE meeting Barcelona Luri  
15 - 16 October 2020 GST meeting #63 ESTEC Prusti  

 

 

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 ESAC, Madrid More info
25 April 2018 Gaia Data Release 2 ILA, Berlin More info
16 July 2019 Whitehead Eclipse Avoidance Manoeuvre marks the end of nominal mission ESOC, Darmstadt More info
17 July 2019 First day of mission extension - More info
Expected Q3 2020 Early Gaia Data Release 3   More info
TBD Future Data Releases   More info