Gaia Calendar
    Information about Gaia events, conferences and DPAC meetings                                                   Gaia events calendar archive

     

    Conferences, Workshops & Symposia

    For more conferences and symposia, see: International Astronomy Meetings

    For MW-Gaia workshops, see MW-Gaia.org.

     

    Date Conference/Symposium Place Link
    15 March - 7 May 2021 White Dwarfs as Probes of the Evolution of Planets, Stars, the Milky Way and the Expanding Universe Santa Barbara, USA More info
    1 - 4 June 2021 Gaia EDR3 workshop Virtual More info
    7 - 11 June 2021 The predictive power of computational astrophysics as a discovery tool Chamonix, France More info
    28 June - 2 July 2021 EAS Annual Meeting 2021 Leiden, The Netherlands More info
    5 - 9 July 2021 Cool Stars 21 Toulouse, France More info
    1 August 2022 (original 2021, but postponed) XXXI IAU General Assembly Busan, Korea More info
    August 2024 XXXII IAU General Assembly Cape Town, South Africa More info

     

     

    Internal Gaia Calendar (DPAC)

    Please note: Attendance to these meetings is restricted to DPAC members and invited guests.

    Only members who have signed in to the Gaia Cosmos site will be able to access the links below.
    Previous Meetings Archive
    Date Title Place Local Organiser Link
    30 March 2021 CU8 validation day Online Fouesneau More info
    21 - 23 April 2021 CU3 plenary meeting - virtual Online Biermann  
    Autumn 2021 6th DPAC Consortium Meeting (if possible, in person)      
    March 2023 7th DPAC Consortium Meeting (intended to be in person) Heidelberg Biermann  

     

     

    Important dates of Gaia

     
    Date Event Place Link
    12 October 1993 Proposal for the Gaia mission - More info
    11-12 October 2000 Adoption of the Gaia mission by ESA - More info
    15 June 2006 Gaia DPAC starts activities - More info / More info
    7 June 2007 ESA SPC approves DPAC proposal for Gaia data processing - More info
    19 December 2013 09:12 UTC Gaia launch Kourou More info
    25 July 2014 Start of routine operations - More info
    14 September 2016 Gaia Data Release 1 ESAC, Madrid More info
    25 April 2018 Gaia Data Release 2 ILA, Berlin More info
    16 July 2019 Whitehead Eclipse Avoidance Manoeuvre marks the end of nominal mission ESOC, Darmstadt More info
    17 July 2019 First day of mission extension - More info
    3 December 2020 Early Gaia Data Release 3   More info
    TBD Future Data Releases   More info