Scientific Programme - La Silla Observing School 2025
Program Overview
| Monday, February 10th | ||
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| 09:30 - 10:15 |
Registration, Welcome + a brief history of ESO and La Silla (Florian Rodler) |
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| 10:15 - 11:00 | Basic concepts of ground-based observing + Introduction to telescopes (Ana Maria Jimenez Gallardo) |
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| 11:00 - 11:30 | Coffee break | |
| 11:30 - 12:45 |
Types of astronomical instruments (Eleonora Sani) |
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| 13:00 - 14:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Introduction of the tutors and observing projects (5 min each) | |
| 14:30 - 15:15 | Students presentations: who you are, what you are doing (science, hobby, etc. - 2 min each) | |
| 15:15 - 15:45 | Coffee break | |
| 15:45 - 16:30 | How to record and store astronomical data - detectors, FITS format (Jonathan Smoker) |
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| 16:30 - 17:30 | Introduction to Spectroscopy (Luca Sbordone) | |
| Tuesday, February 11th | ||
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| 09:30 - 10:30 | Introduction to Imaging and Photometry (Jonathan Smoker) | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee break | |
| 11:00 - 12:00 | Instruments on La Silla: EFOSC @ NTT, with an introduction to ETC, P2 and OBs (Linda Schmidtobreick) |
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| 12:00 - 12:45 | Instruments on La Silla: HARPS+NIRPS @ 3.6m (Gaspare Lo Curto / Emanuela Pompei) |
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| 13:00 - 14:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00 - 15:45 | Data reduction: basic concepts, with an introduction to ESO's archive & pipelines (Michaël Marsset, Thallis Pessi) |
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| 15:45 - 16:00 |
Coffee break | |
| 16:00 - 18:30 |
Project work | |
| Wednesday, February 12th |
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| 09:00 |
Departure from the hotel to the La Silla Observatory |
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| 21:00 | Safety talk | |
| Thursday, February 13th | ||
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| 15:30 | Visit to the telescopes | |
| Evening | Preparation of the observations; Project work | |
| Wednesday, February 19th | ||
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| 12:00 - 13:00 | How to give a good presentation (Abigail Frost) | |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00 - 15:00 | The Job Application (Florian Rodler) | |
| 15:00 - 16:00 | Project work | |
| 16:00 - 16:15 | Coffee break | |
| 16:15 - 18:30 |
Project work | |
| Thursday, February 20th | ||
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| 10:00 - 11:00 | Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Astronomy: Talk & Discussion (Maria Jose Rain) | |
| 11:00 - 11:15 | Coffee break | |
| 11:15 - 12:15 | The Job Interview (Claudia Paladini) |
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| 12:15 - 13:00 | The art of scientific writing: How to write a good proposal (Monika Petr-Gotzens) |
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| 13:00 - 14:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00 - 16:00 | Project work |
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| 16:00 - 16:15 | Coffee break | |
| 16:15 - 18:30 |
Project work | |
| 18:30 | BBQ in the garden of ESO Vitacura |
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