Gaia Research for European Training in Astronomy (GREAT)

Science meetings

To submit an application for a science meeting please use this application form.

The same application form is valid for workshops, training schools and conferences.

You will find here the guidelines for science meetings organisers

Workshops

There will be two calls per year.

The next call will be issued in October 2011 with a closing date on 5 December 2011.

Conferences

There will be one call per year.

The next call will be issued in  March 2011 with a closing date in June and an evaluation response by 15 July  - for a conference taking place between January and December 2012.

Training schools

It is envisaged to have one school running in 2011.

GREAT will support (totally or partially) the following events

2011

Workshop "Gaia and the End States of Stellar Evolution"
11-13 April 2011, Leicester, United Kingdom
Org. Matthew Burleigh, Leicester, UK

Workshop "Asteroid dynamic and physical studies during and after the Gaia mission"
13-15 April 2011, Pisa, Italy
Org. Paolo Tanga, Nice, France

International Conference "Assembling the puzzle of the Miky Way"
18-22 April 2011, Le Grand Bornand, France
Org. Céline Reylé, Besançon, France

Conference "The Fundamental Cosmic Distance Scale: State of the Art and the Gaia Perspective"
3-6 May 2011, Naples, Italy
Org. Gisella Clementini, Bologna

Workshop and Summer  School "Data mining and Astrostatistics"
30 May - 3 June 2011, La Palma, Spain
Org. Luis Manuel Sarro, Madrid

Workshop "QSO Astrophysics, Fundamental Physics and Astrometric Cosmology in the Gaia era"
6-9 June 2011, University of Porto, Portugal
Org. Sonia Anton, Porto, Portugal

Workshop "Stellar Atmospheres in the Gaia Era: Quantitative Spectroscopy and Comparative Spectrum Modelling"
23-24 June 2011, VUB, Brussels, Belgium
Org. Alex Jan Lobel, Brussels

Workshop "The interstellar medium in three dimensions with Gaia"
11-14 July 2011, University of Leiden, Netherlands
Org.  James Binney, Oxford

Workshop " The UVES analysis of the Gaia-ESO Survey: tests, tools and survey implementation"
26-27 September 2011, Garching, Germany
Org. Andreas Korn, Uppsala

Workshop Orbiting couples: "pas de deux" in the Solar System and the Milky Way
10-12 October 2011, Paris Observatory, France
Org. Frédéric Arenou, Meudon

 

2010

Workshop "Ground-based observations and theoretical analysis for the Gaia Science on Open Clusters and Young Associations"
13-14 May 2010, Museo Diocesano di Catania, Italy
Org. Alessandro Lanzafame, Catania

Gaia Science Alerts workshop
25-26 June 2010, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge, UK
Org. Simon Hodgkin, Cambridge

Workshop on Comparative Stellar Spectrum Modelling
23-24 August 2010, University of Vienna, Austria
Org. U. Heiter, Uppsala

Workshop "Gaia Chemo-Dynamical Survey: Survey science
2-4 November 2010, Nice, France
Org. Vanessa Hill, Nice