Programme Overview

Symposia

•  S1 : Understanding the growth of the first supermassive black holes (S1 Talks / Posters / Slides)
•  S2 : The Journey of Dwarf Galaxies (S2 Talks / Posters)
•  S3 : Deconstructing Massive Galaxy Formation (S3 Talks / Posters)
•  S4 : New Challenges in Astrophysics with Gravitational Waves (S4 Talks)
•  S5 : The Sun under the microscope (S5 Talks / Posters)
•  S6 : The Formation and Destruction of Molecular Clouds (S6 Talks / Posters)
•  S7 : Worlds within particles:
  Representing supernovae and stellar populations in galaxy simulations (S7 Talks / Posters)
•  S8 : What happened to the gas? Understanding the evolution of galaxies (S8 Talks / Posters)
•  S9 : First Science From Gaia - the Gaia Research for European Astronomy Training (GREAT) Network Science Symposium (S9 Talks / Posters)
•  S10 : Finding and identifying habitable planets and searching for signs of life: a comprehensive approach as to when and how (S10 Talks / Posters)
•  S11 : Neutron stars at the crossroads:
  X-ray binaries and transitional millisecond pulsars (S11 Talks / Posters / Slides)

Special Sessions

•  Sp1 : Timing compact objects in the multi-messenger era (Sp1 Talks / Posters)
•  Sp2 : Observational anomalies challenging the Lambda-CDM cosmological model (Sp2 Talks / Slides)
•  Sp3 : 3D view on interacting and post-interacting galaxies from clusters to voids (Sp3 Talks / Posters / Slides)
•  Sp4 : Galaxy studies in the mid-infrared from space and ground (Sp4 Talks / Posters / Slides)
•  Sp5 : AGB stars: a key ingredient in the understanding and interpretation of stellar populations (Sp5 Talks / Posters)
•  Sp6 : Robotic telescopes and instrumentation for time domain astronomy (Sp6 Talks / Posters)
•  Sp7 : Science with large spectroscopic surveys of Galactic OB stars: getting ready for Gaia (Sp7 Talks / Posters)
•  Sp8 : The physics of fossil stellar magnetism (Sp8 Talks)
•  Sp9 : The Physics behind The Radio-IR Correlation (Sp9 Talks / Slides)
•  Sp10 : The quest for detecting the primordial gravitational wave background (Sp10 Talks / Slides)
•  Sp11 : Horizontal branch stars and the UV radiation from old stellar systems: what we know and what we are still missing (Sp11 Talks / Posters / Slides)
•  Sp12 : Circumbinary Planets (Sp12 Talks / Posters)
•  Sp13 : Eruptions and explosions: the lives and deaths of massive stars (Sp13 Talks / Posters / Slides)
•  Sp14 : Low-accretion physics in the Universe (Sp14 Talks / Posters / Slides)
•  Sp15 : Metallicity scaling relations: insight into galaxy evolutionary processes (Sp15 Talks)
•  Sp16 : The outskirts of galaxies: present status and future challenges (Sp16 Talks / Posters / Slides)
•  Sp17 : Hunting down the elusive progenitors and explosion mechanisms of Type Ia supernovae (Sp17 Talks / Posters)
•  Sp18 : Chemical abundances and gradients in spatially resolved late-type Galaxies in the Local Universe (Sp18 Talks / Posters)
•  Sp19 : Cancelled
•  Sp20 : Getting ready for Gaia: 3D structure of the ISM (Sp20 Talks / Posters)
•  Sp21 : Science with Panchromatic Large Surveys in the SKA era (Sp21 Talks / Posters)
•  Sp22 : Theory and Observations of the First Galaxies (Sp22 Talks)
•  Sp23 : MHD-modeling of active solar structures (Sp23 Talks / Posters)

Special Meetings

•  SM1 : European Interferometry Initiative (EII) Science Council meeting (SM1 Talks / Slides)
•  SM2 : VLTI Community Day 2015 (SM2 Talks / Posters)
•  SM3 : Science with the Gran Telescopio CANARIAS (SM3 Talks / Posters)
•  SM4 : Databases for the Characterization of Astronomical Observatories (SM4 Talks / Posters)
•  SM5 : Synergies between solar and night-time Adaptive Optics (SM5 Talks)
•  SM6 : Reaching Diverse Audiences in Europe through Astronomy Outreach (SM6 Talks / Posters)
•  SM7 : ASTRONET 2015 - 2025: The Next Decade (SM7 Talks)

Please refer to the dedicated page on Plenary Lectures.

• Opening ceremony (Mon. 9:00–9:30)
• EAS General Assembly (Thu. 9:00–10:15)
• Poster prizes (Fri. 11:00–11:10)
  Awarding of a small prize to the 3 best posters, with a short presentation by the winners.
• Closing ceremony (Fri. 12:40–13:00)

• EWASS 2016 Board meeting (Tue. 9:00–10:00)
• EAS Council meeting 1 (Tue. 14:00–15:30)
• EAS Affiliated Societies: business lunch (Wed. 13:30–15:00)
• EAS Council meeting 2 (Thu. 11:15–13:00)
• EWASS 2017 Board meeting (Thu. 13:15–13:45)