Plenary Lectures

1. Licia Verde (Institute of Cosmological Sciences, Barcelona, Spain)
   The CMB turns 50 (Mon 9:30)
2. María-Rosa Zapatero Osorio (Centre for Astrobiology, Madrid, Spain)
   Impacting discoveries of brown dwarfs (Tue 15:00)
3. Amina Helmi (University of Groningen, the Netherlands)
   Cosmology with Local Group galaxies (Tue 15:30)
4. Frédéric Bournaud (CEA-Saclay, France)
   Internal structure and star formation in nearby galaxies: observational and theoretical progress (Thu 10:15)
5. Alvaro Giménez (ESA)
   ESA Report (Fri 11:10)
6. Tim de Zeeuw (ESO)
   ESO Report (Fri 11:40)
7. Mark Bentley (Space Research Institute, Graz, Austria)
   Scientific results from the Rosetta mission (Fri 12:10)

Prize Award Talks and Ceremonies

• Michel Mayor (Observatory of the Univ. of Geneva, Switzerland)
  Tycho Brahe Prize (Tue 16:00)
• Ewine van Dishoeck (University of Leiden, Netherlands)
  Lodewijk Woltjer Lecture (Mon 10:00)
• Michela Mapelli (INAF - Padova Astronomical Observatory, Italy)
  MERAC Prize in Theoretical Astrophysics (Wed 15:00)
• Saskia Hekker (Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Göttingen, Germany)
  MERAC Prize in Observational Astrophysics (Wed 15:30)
• Sylvestre Lacour (Observatoire de Paris, France)
  MERAC Prize in New Technologies (Wed 16:00)