| | Session Chair: Leo Takalo |
| 10:15 - 10:20 | Mauri Valtonen: Opening of the meeting |
| 10:20 - 10:30 | Mirja Arajärvi: As Finland joined ESO |
| 10:30 - 10:40 | Kalevi Mattila: Four years of ESO membership |
| 10:40 - 11:00 | Heikki Salo: NIRS0S survey of early-type disk galaxies |
| 11:00 - 11:20 | Petri Väisänen: VLT adaptive optics views into lives of luminous IR galaxies |
| 11:20 - 11:40 | Juha Reunanen: VLT/VISIR observations of nearby Seyfert galaxies |
| 11:40 - 12:00 | Jouni Kainulainen: Modeling the dusty structure of Centaurus A galaxy |
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| 12:00 - 13:15 | Lunch at Tuorla guesthouse |
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| | Session Chair: Leo Takalo |
| 13:15 - 13:35 | Jari Kotilainen: VLT view on the evolution of quasar host galaxies |
| 13:35 - 13:55 | Kari Nilsson: Emission line monitoring of OJ 287 |
| 13:55 - 14:15 | Elina Lindfors: MAGIC Telescope - Recent Highlights from VHE gamma-ray observations |
| 14:15 - 14:35 | Veli-Matti Pelkonen: Observing a Corona Australis filament in NIR scattered light |
| 14:35 - 14:55 | Mika Juvela: High Resolution Mapping of Interstellar Clouds with NIR Scattered Light |
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| 14:55 - 15:25 | Coffee break |
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| | Session Chair: Mika Juvela |
| 15:25 - 15:45 | Lauri Haikala: Atacama Path Finder Experiment APEX, the ESO submm telescope |
| 15:45 - 16:05 | Jorma Harju: Studies of prestellar and protostellar cores - from APEX to ALMA |
| 16:05 - 16:25 | Oskari Miettinen: N2H+, N2D+, and dust emission in Ori B9 |
| 16:25 - 16:45 | Lauri Haikala: Cometary Globule 12, a high latitude low mass star formation region |
| 16:45 - 17:45 | Andreas Kaufer: Overview of the La Silla and Paranal observing facilities I |
| 17:45 - 18:05 | Seppo Mattila: Supernova studies with the VLT |
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| 18:05 - 18:10 | Short break |
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| | Session Chair: Mika Juvela |
| 18:10 - 19:00 | Seppo Katajainen: E-ELT or La Silla, which do we need more? |
| | Jorma Harju: ALMA is coming: are we prepared? |
| | Followed by a general discussion on: ESO and the future of Finnish astronomy |
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| 19:15 - | Dinner at Tuorla Guesthouse |
| | Session Chair: Merja Tornikoski |
| 09:00 - 10:00 | Andreas Kaufer: Overview of the La Silla and Paranal observing facilities II |
| 10:00 - 10:20 | Kalevi Mattila: Extragalactic Background Light |
| 10:20 - 10:40 | Mauri Valtonen: Dark matter, dark energy and black hole studies with ESO telescopes |
| 10:40 - 11:00 | Pekka Teerikorpi: Hubble Constant |
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| 11:00 - 11:30 | Coffee break |
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| | Session Chair: Merja Tornikoski |
| 11:30 - 11:50 | Jari Kotilainen: Preparing an ESO telescope time application |
| 11:50 - 12:10 | Tero Oittinen: Software Development for ESO - The Sampo Project |
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| 12:10 - 13:25 | Lunch at Tuorla guesthouse |
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| | Session Chair: Vilppu Piirola |
| 13:25 - 14:25 | Martin Zwaan: ALMA - project overview and science prospects |
| 14:25 - 14:45 | Kimmo Lehtinen: Optical and near-IR observations of surface brightness of dark clouds |
| 14:45 - 15:05 | Petri Väisänen and Jouni Kainulainen: Experiences working as an ESO fellow/student |
| 15:05 - 15:25 | Erkki Kankare: ESO NEON Archive School |
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| 15:25 - 15:55 | Coffee break |
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| | Session Chair: Vilppu Piirola |
| 15:55 - 16:15 | Karri Muinonen: Polarimetry of transneptunian objects and cometary nuclei with VLT |
| 16:15 - 16:35 | Seppo Katajainen: Polarization observations using FORS1 in the VLT |
| 16:35 - 16:55 | Pasi Hakala: High time resolution VLT spectroscopy of X1822-371 |
| 16:55 - 17:00 | Jari Kotilainen: Concluding remarks |
| 17:00 | The end of the meeting |