Programme Overview

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Symposia

1. Star formation in galaxies: from small to large scales (S1 Talks / Posters)
2. The outer regions of extrasolar planetary systems (S2 Talks / Posters)
3. Gaia Research for European Astronomy Training: GREAT network science symposium (S3 Talks / Posters)
4. Origin of Cosmic Dust (S4 Talks / Posters)
5. Digging deep into the extragalactic infrared sky: current status and the European road to the JWST (S5 Talks / Posters)
6. From local galaxies to the reionisation epoch: the Universe as seen in Lyman α (S6 Talks / Posters)
7. Fast outflows in massive stars: from single objects to wind-fed and colliding-wind binaries (S7 Talks / Posters)
8. Testable solutions to the dark matter problem: theory & observations (S8 Talks / Posters)
9. Exploring the low-frequency radio sky in the SKA era (S9 Talks / Posters)
10. mm/submm astronomy in the ALMA era (S10 Talks / Posters)

Special Sessions

1. What powers anomalous X-ray pulsars and soft gamma-ray repeaters ? (Sp1 Talks / Posters)
2. Helios and Helium: what is wrong with them ? (Sp2 Talks)
3. Tidal disruption events around Sgr A* and beyond (Sp3 Talks / Posters)
4. Cluster lensing and distant sources (Sp4 Talks / Posters)

Special Meetings

1. ASTRONET meeting (SM1 Talks)
2. Myths and facts about women in astronomy (SM2 Talks / Posters)
3. Inter-, multi-and transdisciplinarity in astronomical education (SM3 Talks)

Plenary Talks

1. Brendan Crill (JPL, Pasadena, USA)
   "Planck results" (Mon 9:30)
2. Linda Tacconi (MPE, Garching, Germany)
   "Star Formation in young, high-redshift galaxies" (Mon 10:00)
3. William Chaplin (University of Birmingham, UK)
   "Asteroseismology" (Tue 9:30)
4. Stefano Profumo (University of California, Santa Cruz, USA)
   "Dark Matter" (Tue 10:00)
5. Leonardo Testi (ESO, Garching, Germany)
   "First science with ALMA" (Thu 9:30)
6. Willy Benz (University of Bern, Switzerland)
   "Extrasolar planets" (Thu 10:00)
7. Sandra Kortner (MPI for Physics, Munich, Germany)
   "New Physics with the LHC" (Fri 10:00)
8. Mark McCaughrean (ESA)
   "ESA Report" (Fri 9:00)
9. Rob Ivison (ESO)
   "ESO Report" (Fri 9:30)

Prize Award Talks and Ceremonies

• Antoine Labeyrie (Collège de France, Paris)
  Tycho Brahe Prize (Tue 9:00)
• Rashid Sunyaev (MPA, Garching, Germany & IKI, Moscow, Russia)
  Lodewijk Woltjer Lecture (Thu 9:00)
• Claudia Del P. Lagos (ESO Fellow, Garching, Germany)
  MERAC Prize in Theoretical Astrophysics (Wed 9:00)
• Amaury Triaud (Swiss NSF Fellow, MIT, Cambridge, USA)
  MERAC Prize in Observational Astrophysics (Wed 9:25)
• Boon Kok Tan (University of Oxford, UK & Wawasan Open Univ., Malaysia)
  MERAC Prize in New Technologies (Wed 9:50)
• Prix A.F. Schläfli (SCNAT) (Wed 10:15)

Special Plenary Sessions

• Martin Rees (University of Cambridge)
  "From Mars to the Multiverse" (Thu 18:30-20:30)
  A unique conference for the Diplomatic Club of Geneva open to EWASS participants.
• EAS General Assembly (Wed 11:00-12:30)
• Andreas Keil (ERC Executive Agency)
  "European Research Council (ERC) funding opportunities 2014-2020" (Tue 17:45-18:30)

• EAS Council meeting 1 (Tuesday, 1st July 14:00 – 15:30, room 14)
• OPTICON WG13 Board meeting (Tuesday, 1st July 16:00 – 18:30, room 13)
• ASTRONET ExeC meeting (Wednesday, 2nd July 9:00 – 13:00, room 13)
• GREAT steering committee meeting (Wednesday, 2nd July 9:15 – 12:15, room 11)
• EAS Affiliated Societies: business lunch (Wednesday, 2nd July 12:30 – 14:00, room 14)
• EAS Council meeting 2 (Thursday, 3rd July 11:00 – 12:30, room 14)