Science and Technical Meetings
ESO Science Meetings provides information about upcoming ESO or ESO-related Seminars, Colloquia and Scientific Conferences and Workshops in Europe and Chile.
The following pages provide more details.
Seminars, Colloquia, and Lunch Talks
Local information about Seminars, Colloquia, and Lunch Talks:
Garching
- Upcoming Talks
- Past Talks (all)
- Past Talks (only with videos)
- Talks
Most talks at ESO Garching fall into one of the following categories:- AI Forum: usually Wednesdays at 14:00.
Contacts: Amelia Bayo, Natalie Behara, Henri Boffin, Faviola Molina, Nicolás Monsalves (U La Serena) and Paula Sanchez Saez - AGN Coffee: usually Wednesdays at 15:00 [not taking place weekly].
Contacts: Vincenzo Mainieri. - Bayes Forum: usually Fridays at 15:30.
Contacts: Michael Burgess (MPE), Torsten Enßlin (MPA), Fabrizia Guglielmetti (ESO), Lukas Heinrich (ODSL), Oliver Schulz (MPP), Andy Strong (MPE), Udo von Toussanit (IPP). - Science Coffee: from 10:30 to 10:45, Mon-Wed-Fri in the cafeteria of the old building, Tue-Thu in the cafeteria of the new building.
- Career Seminar (ESO/LMU/MPA/MPE)
Contact: Organisers mailing list - Cosmic Duologues
Contact: Organisers email - ELT Meetup for Fellows and Students
Contacts: Michele Cirasuolo - Gaia Coffee (Online): alternate between Wednesdays at 15:00 and Mondays at 10:30.
[not taking place at the moment] - Galaxy Cluster Discussion Group: usually Wednesdays at 14:00.
Contact: Tony Mroczkowski - Galaxy Evolution Coffee: ussulay Thursdays at 09:30.
Contacts: Claudia Pulsoni (MPE), Ilaria Marini, and Pierrick Verwilghen. - Gas Matters Club: every second Monday at 11:00.
[not taking place at the moment] - Hypatia Colloquium
Contact: Organizers email - Informal Discussion: usually Wednesdays at 10:00 [in person only].
Contacts: Ashley Barnes, Cristine Koelln, Hannah Osborne and Julia Bodensteiner.
- Joint Astronomy Colloquia: usually Thursdays at 15:15, preceded by tea and coffee at 15:00.
Contacts: Alice Concas, Celine Peroux and Giacomo Beccari
- Journal Club: usually Fridays at 10:30.
Contacts: Alice Somigliana, Jakub Klencki, Julia Bodensteiner, Luca Cacciapuoti and Victoria Toptun (organisers ml: jc-organizers@eso.org) - KES lecture (knowledge transfer from senior to young scientists): [not taking place at the moment]
- Lunch Talks/ ESO Colloquia: usually Tuesdays at 12:00.
Contacts: Hannah Stacey and Morten Andersen - SAOSY Lunch Talks: usually Wednesdays at 12:30.
Contact: Miska Le Louarn - Star and Planet Formation Coffee: every alternate Friday at 10:00.
Contact: Carlo Felice Manara - Star and Planet Formation Seminars: every alternate Tuesday at 10:00.
Contact: Claudia Toci and Karina Mauco
- Stellar Coffee and Planetary Tea: every Monday at 14:30.
Contacts: Henri Boffin and Jiri Zak - Wine & Cheese Seminars: usually once per month on Wednesdays at 16:30.
Contacts: Aashish Gupta, Felipe Lohmann, Francisco Nogueras Lara, Luca Cacciapuoti and Marta De Simone
- AI Forum: usually Wednesdays at 14:00.
- Talks at Neighbouring Institutes
For info about talks at neighbouring institutes, see also the Web pages of the:
Santiago
During these times of enforced home-working, the science life had to be adapted. For the time being, we have the following weekly activities:
- Local Science Coffee meetings at 11:00
- Local Journal Club on Tuesdays
- Joint talks with Garching colleagues on Wednesday, 10:00
- Local TMTs on Wednesday afternnoon, 14:30 (colloquia@eso.org)
- Joint ESO/ALMA colloquium on Thursday at 11:00 (colloquia@eso.org)
- Stellar coffee: every other Monday, 14:30
- Extragalactic coffee: every other Monday, 15:30
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- Upcoming Talks
- Past Talks
- Talks
Most talks at ESO Vitacura fall into one of the following categories:- ESO Colloquia: usually Thursday at 11:00
Contact: Fuyan Bian, Michael Abdul-Masiah , Aleksandra Solarz y Peter Scicluna (colloquia@eso.org) - ESO Thirty Minute Talks: Wednesday at 15:00
Contact: Fuyan Bian, Michael Abdul-Masiah , Aleksandra Solarz y Peter Scicluna (colloquia@eso.org) - Extragalactic group meetings: twice per month
Contact: - Planetary group meeting: once or twice per month
Contact: - Star Clusters group meetings: once or twice per month
Contact: Steffen Mieske
- Stellar Coffee: once or twice per month
Contact: Linda Schmidtobreick
- ESO Colloquia: usually Thursday at 11:00
- Talks at Neighbouring Institutes
For info about talks at neighbouring institutes, see also the Web pages of the:
ESO or ESO-Related Conferences and Workshops
List of the approved workshops for 2025:
The call for proposals for ESO Workshops 2025 opened on 1st March 2024 and the deadline to submit proposals was 29 April 2024. The ad-hoc selection committee approved the following workshops:
Approved Workshops in Garching
- Towards new frontiers: the astrochemical journey from young stellar nurseries to exoplanets
- The role of accretion and ejection variability in the evolution of young stars and their disks
- Exo-ELT Conference - Planetary formation and Exoplanets at the ELT era
- Galactic ecosystems under the microscope: lessons from highly-resolved studies
Approved Workshops in Chile
- Highly accreting supermassive black holes across all cosmic times: from the local Universe to cosmic dawn
- Why Galaxies care about AGB stars V: 3D winds in the cosmic matter cycle
- LISA (Library and Information Services in Astronomy)
For more details please visit the webpage ESO - Conferences 2025.