The meeting is part of the project “Revealing the Milky Way with Gaia” (MW-Gaia) funded by a COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) Union action.

MW-Gaia’s main purpose is to provide a better understanding of the Galaxy, its stars and planets, to enhance the potential of the community in its scientific exploitation of the observations of more than a billion stars with the European Space Agency's Gaia satellite, and to enhance the development of the next steps in astrometry and space astrometry missions.

The meeting is especially aimed at WG5 members of the project, who will discuss the current state of their work and discuss the future decisions to be taken. Participants are mainly expected from countries that are part of the COST MW-Gaia Action, but the workshop is open to scientists from all over the world, an international participation that we want to encourage. Researchers who are in the early stages of their careers and those from underrepresented countries will play a key role. The presence of some of the leads of the MW Gaia project, scientists of recognized international prestige, is also expected; as well as high-level astronomers as guest speakers.

In order to enable participation by people who might be unable to attend physically due to travel or time zone constraints or through a wish to reduce the carbon footprint of the event, the school will happen in hybrid format.

 

The financial support can be awarded for Early Carrier researchers and researchers from ITC countries. You can apply for it in registration form.

 

Registration deadline for participants 1 of July

 

 

Carlos Viscasillas Vázquez, Vilnius University, Lithuania
Lola Balaguer University of Barcelona, Spain
Josefina F. Ling, University of de Santiago de Compostela, Spain
(CHAIR) Elsa Moreira, Institute of Astrophysics and Space Sciences, Portugal
Gražina Tautvaišienė, Vilnius University, Lithuania
Guillaume Guiglion, Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie, Königstuhl 17, 69117 Heidelberg

(CHAIR) Šarūnas Mikolaitis, Vilnius University, Lithuania
Carlos Viscasillas Vázquez, Vilnius University, Lithuania
Edita Stonkutė, Vilnius University, Lithuania
Arnas Drazdauskas, Vilnius University, Lithuania
Gražina Tautvaišienė, Vilnius University, Lithuania

Justinas Lebedevas, Vilnius University, Lithuania

Markus Ambrosch, Vilnius University, Lithuania

Renata Minkevičiūtė, Vilnius University, Lithuania

Yiuriy Chorniy, Vilnius University, Lithuania

Barkha Bale, Vilnius University, Lithuania

Sara García Alonso, Researcher, Astronaut, ESA, Spain

 

 

Amelia Bayo, Professor, ESO, Germany

 

Josefina F. Ling Ling, Proffesor, Universidade Santiago de Compostela Observatorio Astronomico RM Aller Avda de las Ciencias, Spain

 

 

Enrique Pérez Montero, Researcher, Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía, Spain

 

Erika Pakštienė, Researcher, Vilnius University, Lithuania

 

Gražina Tautvaišienė, Professor, Vilnius University, Lithuania

 

Tanya Urruti, researcher, Leibniz-Institute for Astrophysics, Germany

 

Guillaume Guiglion, researcher, Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Germany