Astrophysics Symposium and Celebratory Dinner
Astrophysics Symposium and Celebratory Dinner
at The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
10:00- (UTC)
12.00 Lunch served in the Academy Dining Hall
13.00 Welcome
by Vice President Anders Malthe-Sørenssen
Opening talk
by Prof. Willy Benz, President of IAU
13.10 The Origin of Legacy Science from Large Area Sky Surveys
by Mike Irwin, Emeritus Professor of Astrophysics at the Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge
13.45From Gaia DR1 to DR4, Ten Years of Revolutionizing Astronomy
by Anthony Brown, Associate Professor at Leiden Observatory
14.20 Coffee break
14.50 Chemical Clues to the Milky Way’s Assembly History
by Ása Skúladóttir, Associate Professor at the University of Florence
15.25 Pushing Galactic Archaeology to its Limits
by Else Starkenburg, Associate Professor at the University of Groningen
16.00 Coffee break
16.30 Stellar Streams: Seismometers for Clumps of Dark Matter
by Denis Erkal, Associate Professor at the University of Surrey
17.05 Galactic Archaeology in our Cosmic Neighbor, the Andromeda Galaxy
by Nicolas Martin, tenured researcher for the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) at the Strasbourg astronomical Observatory.
17.40 Simulating the Tumultuous Formation of the Milky Way
by Oscar Agert, Associate Professor at the Division of Astrophysics, Department of Physics at Lund University, Sweden, and leader of the Lund Galaxy Formation group
18.15 Refreshments served in the Tapestry Hall
18.45 Celebratory Dinner in the Academy Dining Hall
Transport back to Grand at 22.15