Programme

 

The conference starts Monday 8 April 2019 at 09:50 and ends Friday 12 April 2019 at 13:00.

Venue information

ESTEC is a secured site and access is only granted to registered participants and only with a valid passport or valid identity card. Security registration on Monday morning will provide you with an ESTEC visitor pass. This visitor pass, which should be worn visibly at all times, will be valid for the duration of the conference but access to ESTEC during the rest of the week requires you to bring this pass plus valid photo identification on every single day. Security checks of bags may take place at any time / at any location. The conference room (Einstein/Newton) and the restaurant are both in security zone 1 and are accessible to participants. Security zone 2 and 3 areas are off limits for registered particpants.

Coffee breaks

There will be coffee/tea breaks of about half an hour in the mornings at 11:00 and in the afternoons at 15:30. Coffee/tea and cookies are included in the conference fee and will be served just outside the conference room in two locations: in the foyer area and near the registration desk.

Lunch break

Lunch breaks will be daily between 13:00 and 14:00 and lunches take place at the ESTEC restaurant. The restaurant serves a variety of choices, including a vegetarian one. Lunch is not included in the conference fee. Lunches can be paid in cash or by card.

Welcome reception

On Monday evening, a welcome reception is offered to you by the ESA Science Support Office. The bus departure time to the Noordwijk hotels takes this event into account.

Conference dinner

There will be no conference dinner.

Poster sessions

There will be two poster sessions organised, one on Tuesday (referred to as poster session I) and one on Thursday (referred to as poster session II). More information on the poster sessions can be found here. Also included on this page is a list of the accepted posters.

The bus departure time to the Noordwijk hotels takes these events into account.

Drinks and snacks will be offered during both poster sessions, which are included in the conference fee.

Poster Pitch sessions

During the poster pitch sessions, short (one or two minute) pitches will be given on research with access to digital material available for further reading. These pitch sessions are held right before coffee breaks to allow further discussion during the break. More information on the pitch sessions can be found here along with a list of the accepted poster pitches.

Presentations

Below you can find the programme with presentations and time slots for the pitch sessions. A list of accepted talks along with some practical information for you presentation can be found here. Slots with 20 minutes are expected to prepare a talk of 15 minutes and allow 5 minutes for questions. Slots with 30 minutes are expected to prepare a talk of 25 minutes and allow 5 minutes for questions.

 

MONDAY, 8 April 2019

 

Venue: Newton (with streaming to Einstein)
Time (local) Conference desk Speaker Topics
08:30 - Bus leaves from Noordwijk hotels and brings you to the venue at ESTEC (*)
08:45 Open Security check and registration (**)
Session chair: Antonella Vallenari
09:50 - 10:00 Open Arvind Parmar Opening of ESLAB53
10:00 - 10:10 Open Timo Prusti Welcome from LOC/SOC - Status of the Gaia mission
10:10 - 10:40 Open Cristina Chiappini Invited talk: Bringing the Milky Way into sharp focus: Gaia parallaxes, photometry and spectroscopy
10:40 - 11:00 Open Harshil Kamdar Structure in the Galactic disk from clustered star formation
11:00 - 11:30 Open - Coffee break
11:30 - 11:50 Open Jorrit Hagen The tilt of the velocity ellipsoid in the Milky Way with Gaia DR2 - from spherical to cylindrical alignment
11:50 - 12:10 Open Eloisa Poggio The kinematic signature of the Galactic warp in the Gaia era
12:10 - 12:30 Open Merce Romero-Gomez On the cutting edge of vertical motion: Bending waves and the Galactic warp
12:30 - 12:50 Open Pau Ramos Kinematic substructure and its variations throughout the Milky Way disk: an insight into the dynamics of our Galaxy
12:50 (10min) Open Monday pitch session participants Test moment for Monday pitch session
13:00 - 14:00 Open - Lunch break at ESTEC restaurant (not included in conference fee)
Session chair: Xavier Luri
14:00 - 14:20 Open Teresa Antoja New phase space structures in the Gaia data: a dynamically young disk
14:20 - 14:40 Open Morgan Bennett Modelling vertical waves of the Galactic disc in the Solar neighbourhood
14:40 - 15:00 Open Sergey Khoperskov The echo of the bar buckling: phase-space spirals in Gaia DR2
15:00 - 15:30 Open Various speakers Monday pitch session
15:30 - 16:00 Open - Coffee break
16:00 - 16:20 Open Carme Gallart The evolutionary history of the Milky Way disk(s) and halo from Gaia DR2 color-magnitude diagram fitting
16:20 - 16:40 Open Roger Mor Gaia DR2 reveals a star formation burst in the disc 2-3 Gyr ago
16:40 - 17:00 - Federico Sestito Tracing the formation of the Milky Way through ultra and extremely metal-poor stars
17:00 - 17:20 - Luis Henry Quiroga Nunez Synergies between Gaia and VLBI astrometry
17:20 (10min) - Tuesday pitch session participants Test moment for Tuesday pitch session
17:20 - 19:20  

 

Welcome reception

 

19:30   Bus leaves from the venue at ESTEC to bring you back to Noordwijk hotels (*)

 

Tuesday, 9 April 2019

 

Venue: Newton (with streaming to Einstein)
Time (local) Conference desk Speaker/Chair Topics
08:45 - Bus leaves from Noordwijk hotels and brings you to the venue at ESTEC (*)
09:00 Open Security check (**)
Session chair: Sergei Klioner
09:30 - 10:00 Open Ludovic Delchambre Invited talk: Discovering multiply-imaged quasars with Gaia
10:00 - 10:20 Open Yuming Fu Uncovering hidden quasars behind the Galactic plane with ALLWISE and Gaia
10:20 - 10:40 Open Robin Geyer Gaia astrometry and gravitational waves
10:40 - 11:00 Open Ciprian Berghea Properties of the Gaia-ICRF3 radio-optical reference frame
11:00 - 11:30 Open - Coffee break
11:30 - 12:00 Open Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay Invited talk: Gaia and the white dwarf cooling track
12:00 - 12:20 Open Fran Jiménez-Esteban A white dwarf catalogue from Gaia-DR2 and the Virtual Observatory
12:20 - 12:40 Open Carlo Manara The timescales of protoplanetary disk evolution constrained by Gaia membership analysis
12:40 - 13:00 Open Berry Holl Variability results in DR2: what, where and how to use them
13:00 - 14:00 Open - Lunch break at ESTEC restaurant(not included in conference fee)
Session chair: Nicholas Walton
14:00 - 14:20 - Anjali Rao Space distribution, dynamics, and the origin of Galactic black hole X-ray binaries revealed by Gaia DR2
14:20 - 14:40 - Nicholas Chornay Towards a complete census of GAIA CSPNe
14:40 - 15:00 - Gemma Rate Unlocking galactic Wolf-Rayet stars with Gaia DR2
15:00 - 15:30 - Various speakers Tuesday pitch session
15:30 - 16:00 Open - Coffee break
16:00 - 16:20 - Saniya Khan New light on the Gaia DR2 parallax zero-point: influence of the asteroseismic approach; in and beyond the Kepler field
16:20 - 16:40 - Giulia De Somma Gaia parallaxes versus updated pulsation model predictions
16:40 - 17:00 - Tatiana Muraveva RR Lyrae stars as standard candles in the Gaia Data Release 2 era
17:00 - 17:20 - Nami Mowlavi Study of stellar populations using long-period variables in the Gaia era
17:20 - 19:20  

 

Poster session I Reception

 

19:30   Bus leaves from the venue at ESTEC to bring you back to Noordwijk hotels (*)

 

Wednesday, 10 April 2019

 

Venue: Newton (with streaming to Einstein)
Time (local) Conference desk Speaker/Chair Topics
08:45 - Bus leaves from Noordwijk hotels and brings you to the venue at ESTEC (*)
09:00 Open Security check (**)
Session chair: Carme Jordi
09:30 - 10:00 Open Tristan Cantat-Gaudin Invited talk: Using stellar clusters to trace the properties of the Milky Way in the Gaia era
10:00 - 10:20 - Jing Zhong The substructure and halo population of the Double Cluster h and chi Persei
10:20 - 10:40 - Stefan Meingast Extended stellar systems in the solar neighborhood - the Hyades tidal tails and beyond
10:40 - 11:00 - Alfred Castro-Ginard How complete is the open cluster census?
11:00 - 11:30 Open - Coffee break
11:30 - 11:50 - Antonella Vallenari Open clusters from Gaia DR2
11:50 - 12:10 - Philip Galli Unravelling the structure and kinematics of the Taurus star-forming region with Gaia-DR2 and VLBI astrometry
12:10 - 12:30 - Josefa Grossschedl Orion A with Gaia DR2: how 3D changes everything
12:30 - 12:50 - Eleonora Zari 3D mapping of young stars in the solar neighbourhood with Gaia DR2
12:50   - Group photo moment
13:00 - 14:00 Open - Lunch break at ESTEC restaurant (not included in conference fee)
Session chair: Dimitri Pourbaix
14:00 - 14:20 - Rosine Lallement Gaia-2MASS 3D maps of Galactic interstellar dust within 3 kpc
14:20 - 14:40 - Clément Hottier Dust distribution in the Milky Way disk
14:40 - 15:00 - Shu Wang The Optical to Mid-Infrared extinction law based on the APOGEE, Gaia DR2, Pan-STARRS1, SDSS, APASS, 2MASS and WISE Surveys
15:00 - 15:20 - Sara Rezaei Khoshbakht 3D map of the dust distribution towards the Orion-Eridanus superbubble with Gaia DR2
15:20 - 16:00 Open - Coffee break
16:00 - 16:20 - Tommaso Marchetti Searching for the fastest stars in the Galaxy with Gaia DR2
16:20 - 16:40 - Douglas Boubert Hypervelocity discoveries with Gaia DR2
16:40 - 17:00 - Alcione Mora The Gaia Archive. Present and evolution for future data releases
17:15   Bus leaves from the venue at ESTEC to bring you back to Noordwijk hotels (*)

 

Thursday, 11 April 2019

 

Venue: Newton (with streaming to Einstein)
Time (local) Conference desk Speaker/Chair Topics
08:45 - Bus leaves from Noordwijk hotels and brings you to the venue at ESTEC (*)
09:00 Open Security check (**)
Session chair: François Mignard
09:30 - 10:00 Open Josef Ďurech Invited talk: Progress made in asteroid research with Gaia DR2
10:00 - 10:20 - Karri Muinonen Asteroid proper phase curves from Gaia DR2 photometry
10:20 - 10:40 - Joao Ferreira Occultation astrometry with DR2: Assessing the capabilities of robotic telescopes
10:40 - 11:00 - Federica Spoto New detections of the Yarkovsky effect with Gaia DR2
11:00 - 11:30 Open - Coffee break
11:30 - 11:50 - Paolo Tanga New life for old asteroid astrometry: correcting systematic errors by Gaia DR2
11:50 - 12:20 - Marc Buie Occultation investigations of small bodies in our solar system enabled by Gaia
12:20 - 12:40 - Santiago Torres Dynamics of the Oort Cloud in the Gaia Era
12:40 - 13:00 - Coryn Bailer-Jones Possible origins of the first interstellar object 'Oumuamua
13:00 (10min)   Thursday pitch session participants Test moment for Thursday pitch session
13:00 - 14:00 Open - Lunch break at ESTEC restaurant (not included in conference fee)
Session chair: Sofia Randich
14:00 - 14:30 - Amina Helmi Invited talk: New insights into the formation of the Milky Way from Gaia
14:30 - 14:50 - Paola Di Matteo The stellar halo of our Galaxy; as revealed by Gaia
14:50 - 15:10 - Paolo Bianchini Globular clusters in the Gaia era: precision astrometry for precision dynamics
15:10 - 15:30 - Various speakers Thursday pitch session
15:30 - 16:00 Open - Coffee break
16:00 - 16:20 - Ralph Schoenrich Galactic science with Gaia
16:20 - 16:40 - Valeriya Korol Multi-messenger study of the Milky Way with LISA, Gaia and LSST
16:40 - 17:00 - Paul Zivick Exploring Magellanic interactions through Bridge and Small Magellanic Cloud dynamics
17:00 - 17:20 - Davide Massari Stellar 3D kinematics in dwarf spheroidal galaxies with Gaia + HST
17:20 - 19:20  

 

Poster session II Reception

 

19:30   Bus leaves from the venue at ESTEC to bring you back to Noordwijk hotels (*)

 

Friday, 12 April 2019

 

Venue: Newton (with streaming to Einstein)
Time (local) Conference desk Speaker/Chair Topics
08:45 - Bus leaves from Noordwijk hotels and brings you to the venue at ESTEC (*)
09:00 Open Security check (**)
Session chair: Lennart Lindegren
09:30 - 10:00 Open Jacqueline Faherty Invited talk: How Gaia reveals the diversity of brown dwarfs
10:00 - 10:20 - Céline Reylé New ultracool dwarfs in Gaia DR2
10:20 - 10:40 - Alessandro Lanzafame The discovery of new magnetic transitions in late-type dwarfs from Gaia DR2
10:40 - 11:00 - Morgan Fouesneau Catalog of revised astrophysical parameters from Gaia DR2
11:00 - 11:30 Open - Coffee break
11:30 - 11:50 - François Mignard Gaia DR2 and Bessel legacy
11:50 - 12:10 - Daniel Michalik Finding long-period companions in Tycho-2/Hipparcos/Gaia astrometry
12:10 - 12:30 - Jonas Klüter Single-star masses from astrometric microlensing using Gaia
12:30 - 13:00 Open Anthony Brown Closing of ESLAB #53 / A look forward to Gaia Data Release 3
13:00 - 14:00 Open - Lunch break at ESTEC restaurant (not included in conference fee)
14:00   Transport from ESTEC to airport/train station to be arranged individually and not included in the conference fee

 

(*) Specifics of the shuttle bus service from Noordwijk hotels to the venue at ESTEC in the mornings and from the venue at ESTEC to Noordwijk hotels in the evenings will be provided soon.

(**) On the first day of the conference, you will be provided with a visitor badge so that you can enter the premises. You will need your passport or identification for this. Please remember to bring your passport / identification and the provided visitor badge with you every day.

 

 

 

Programme for the pitch sessions

Below you can find the participants of the poster pitch sessions, with their assigned pitch session slot. The abstracts can be found when clicking the subject of the pitch.

 

Participants of Monday 8 April 2019 pitch session

Participant Subject of the pitch Location Approximate Timing
Alex Bombrun About proper motion of lensed QSOs in Gaia DR2 Newton 15:00
Eduardo Balbinot Searching for multiple stellar populations in the GD1 stellar stream with Gaia Newton 15:03
Mariateresa Crosta Shedding light on the Milky Way rotation curve with Gaia DR2 Newton 15:06
Verena Fürnkranz Discovery of a new nearby moving group Newton 15:09
Anna Jacyszyn-Dobrzeniecka Classical pulsators in the Magellanic Bridge as seen by OGLE and Gaia Newton 15:12
Khyati Malhan Stellar Stream map of the Milky Way Halo : Application of  STREAMFINDER onto ESA/Gaia DR2 Newton 15:15
Anna Queiroz The bulge and bar region seen by APOGEE and Gaia DR2 Newton 15:18
Alice Zocchi Rotating globular clusters in the Gaia era Newton 15:21

 

Participants of Tuesday 9 April 2019 pitch session

Participant Subject of the pitch Location Approximate Timing
Xiaodian Chen Periodic variables as distance indicators in Gaia era. Newton 15:00
Klemen Čotar The ubiquity of unresolved triple stars discovered by the GALAH and Gaia Newton 15:03
Ana Escorza Formation of Barium stars constrained by Gaia parallaxes. Newton 15:06
Iker Gonzalez Properties of Planetary Nebulae in Gaia DR2 Newton 15:09
Vincenzo Ripepi Cepheid variables in the Gaia Data Release 2 and the extragalactic distance scale Newton 15:12
Shreeya Shetye Determining the Luminosity of the Third Dredge-up via S-type stars: the promise of Gaia Newton 15:18
Maria Tsantaki On the iron ionization balance of cool stars: the role of accurate surface gravities from Gaia  Newton 15:21
Tomaž Zwitter Stellar chemistry for Gaia from photometric narrow-band imaging Newton 15:24

 

Participants of Thursday 11 April 2019 pitch session

Participant Subject of the pitch Location Approximate Timing
Erika Varga-Verebelyi How many young stars does Gaia see? Newton 15:10
Lola Balaguer-Nuñez Open Clusters Membership by Clusterix 2.0 for Gaia DR2 Newton 15:13
Angela Bragaglia Open cluster chemistry in the era of Gaia Newton 15:16
Sara Rodríguez Berlanas A new view of Cygnus OB2 from Gaia DR2 Newton 15:19
Fay Wilde Membership of open clusters by combining Gaia-DR2 astrometry with Gaia-ESO survey data Newton 15:22
Christina Schoettler Runaway star candidates from the ONC with Gaia DR2 Newton 15:25