Plenary Lectures

1. Emma Bunce (University of Leicester, UK)
   The Cassini mission to Saturn: 13 years of discovery (Tue 11:30)
2. Elena Khomenko (Instituto de Astrofisica de Canaries, Spain)
   Multi-fluid solar chromosphere (Tue 12:00)
3. Joop Schaye (Leiden University, Netherlands)
   Cosmological hydrodynamical simulations (Wed 12:30)
4. Phil Diamond (SKA Director General)
   The Square Kilometre Array (SKA): a physics machine for the 21st Century (Fri 12:00)
5. Marica Branchesi (Università Degli Studi Di Urbino "Carlo Bo", Italy)
   Birth and perspectives of gravitational-wave and multi- messenger astronomy (Fri 12:30)

Plenary Sessions

1. Community Session (Thu 12:00-14:00, Room 12)
2. Chi Onwurah MP [Shadow Minister (Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy) (Industrial Strategy)]
   Diversity and Policy Making in Science (Thu 13:15, part of LS1, Hall 1)
3. Xavier Barcons (ESO Director General)
   The ESO Programme and its role in European astronomy (Fri 11:00)
4. Günther Hasinger (ESA Director of Science)
   Exploration of the Universe (Fri 11:30)

Prize Award Talks and Ceremonies

• AAS 2017 Russell Lecture
  Eric Becklin (USRA)
  Fifty-four Years of Adventures in Infrared Astronomy(Tue 12:30)

• EAS Tycho Brahe Prize
  Andrzej Udalski (University of Warsaw, Poland)
  Three Decades of the OGLE Sky Survey (Thu 11:00)
• EAS Lodewijk Woltjer Lecture
  Conny Aerts (KU Leuven, Belgium and Radboud University Nijmegen, NL)
  Wonders in Asteroseismology and their Revolution for Astrophysics (Thu 11:30)
• MERAC Prize in Theoretical Astrophysics
  Sandrine Codis (IAP, France)
  Galaxy clustering in the large deviation regime (Wed 11:00)
• MERAC Prize in Observational Astrophysics
  Renske Smit (University of Cambridge, UK)
  Star-forming galaxies at the cosmic dawn (Wed 11:30)
• MERAC Prize in New Technologies
  Martin Pertenais (DLR, Germany)
  Instrumental Concepts for Broadband (FUV to visible) Spectropolarimetry from Space (Wed 12:00)