Programme

The programme for the EWASS 2013 has now been finalized, but small additions are still possible (page updated 14.8.2013). Plenary talks will be all included here by the LOC, but for parallel sessions all organizers are responsible for their talks by themselves.

The pdf-version of the programme with all the timetables and details can be downloaded here. We are going to print this for the meeting and you will have this during the registration.

Here are two links to some photos taken during the conference: Link 1, Link 2

Posters: All posters can be shown during the whole meeting from Monday morning until the Friday. The posters are located close to the main hall at the very central place and those will be tagged with the names. The poster sizes are (88 cm (width) x 118 cm (height)).
Set up: Monday morning, take out: Friday afternoon (before 18.00).

Symposia (6 x 1,5h)

S1: Solar activity and its manifestations in the heliosphere (PI Rami Vainio)
S2: The physics of accretion on compact objects (PI Juri Poutanen)
S3: Science with Planck data (PI Pekka Heinämäki)
S4: The mystery of ellipticals (PI Peter Johansson)
S5: Local group, local cosmology (PI Matteo Monelli/Stefania Salvadori)
S7: Stellar magnetic activity across the HR diagram (PI Maarit Mantere)
S8: Deaths of massive stars as supernovae and gamma-ray bursts (PI Seppo Mattila)
S9: Extreme physics of neutron stars (PI Dmitry Yakovlev)
S10:The co-evolution of black holes and galaxies (PI Jari Kotilainen)
S11: Gaia research for European astronomy training (PI Nicholas Walton)
S12: The gamma-ray sky in the era of Fermi and Cherenkov telescopes (PI Tuomas Savolainen/Elina Lindfors)

Special sessions (3 x 1,5h)

Sp1: Astronomy education and public outreach (PI Mikko Hanski)
Sp2: RADIONET: “The role of modern radio observatories in black hole and jet studies” (F.Mantovani/T. Savolainen/M. Tornikoski)
Sp3: Fundamental stellar parameters (PI Luca Casagrande)
Sp4: The origin of interstellar dust (PI Patrice Bouchet)
Sp5: Thick discs: clues for galaxy formation and evolution (PI Sebastien Comeron)
Sp6: AGN, galaxy mergers, supermassive black holes and gravitational waves (PI Stefanie Komossa/Mauri Valtonen)
Sp7: Science with present and future interferometric instruments (PI Jean Surdej)
Sp8: Galactic molecular clouds and their chemistry (PI Mika Juvela)
Sp9: Stellar dynamics and celestial mechanics in modern astrophysics (PI Rainer Spurzem/Seppo Mikkola)
Sp10: Chemo-dynamical galaxy evolution (PI Gerhard Hensler)
Sp11: Rocks in our Solar System (PI Tomas Kohout)
Sp12: A fresh look at the stellar initial mass function (PI Ignacio Ferreras)
Sp13: Starburst galaxies now and then with ALMA (PI Jari Kotilainen)
Sp14: LOFT, the large observatory for X-ray timing (PI Enrico Bozzo)

Special meetings

SM1: EAS Council Meeting (private)
SM2: A lunch meeting with the affiliated societies (private)
SM3: EAS Council Meeting (private)
SM4: Plenary discussion on the ASTRONET Mid-Term Review
SM5: GREAT Meeting
SM6: Editor meeting (private)
SM7: European Interferometry Initiative Special Meeting (private), Wednesday 9.30-12 and Thursday, 9-10.30
SM8: Finnish Astronomical Society Meeting (private)
SM9: GREAT-ESF network steering committee meeting (private), 10.15-13.15

Special plenary talks

SpPt1: Plenary Talk: Tycho Brahe Prize Lecture
SpPt2: Plenary Talk: Merac prize Lecture
SpPt3: Plenary Talk: Lodewijk Woltjer Prize Lecture
SpPt4: Plenary Talk on ESA
SpPt5: Plenary Talk on ESO
SpPt6: Plenary session: EAS General Assembly (duration about 1.30h)
SpPt7: Plenary Talk: Grote Reber Prize Lecture

Sunday, 7th of July 2013

Time	Activity
16:30 – 19:00	Registration at the hotel Radisson Blue Marina Palace (address: Linnankatu 32)

Monday, 8th of July 2013

Time	Activity
7:45 – 9:00	Registration continues at the meeting venue Logomo
9:00 – 9:45	Opening Ceremony
9:45 – 10:30	Plenary Talk 1: Kari Enqvist, :"The origin of the primordial perturbation"
10:30 – 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 – 11:45	Plenary Talk 2: SpPt7 Grote Reber Prize Lecture: James Moran
11:45 – 13:15	Parallel Sessions: S1,S2,S3,S4,S5, Sp1, Sp2, Sp3
13:15 – 14:30	Lunch
14:30 – 16:00	Parallel Sessions: S1,S2,S3,S4,S5, Sp1, Sp2, Sp3
16:00 – 16:30	Coffee Break
16:30 – 18:00	Parallel Sessions: S1,S2,S3,S4,S5, Sp1, Sp2, Sp3
19:00 – 20:30	Get-together party at VPK

Tuesday, 9th of July 2013

Time	Activity
9:00 – 9:45	Plenary Talk 3: SpPt1 Tycho Brahe Prize Lecture: Massimo Tarenghi, SM6
9:45 – 10:30	Plenary Talk 4: Mika Juvela,"Herschel Space Observatory - Highlights of star formation studies", SM6
10:30 – 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 – 11:45	Plenary Talk 5: Susanne Aalto, "Into the cold - extragalactic astronomy with ALMA"
11:45 – 13:15	Parallel Sessions: S1,S2,S3,S4,S5, Sp4, Sp5, SM1
13:15 – 14:30	Lunch, SM2
14:30 – 16:00	Parallel Sessions: S1,S2,S3,S4,S5, Sp4, Sp5, Sp6
16:00 – 16:30	Coffee Break
16:30 – 18:00	Parallel Sessions: S1,S2,S3,S4,S5, Sp4, Sp5, Sp6, SM8
18:00 – 18:30	"European Research Council funding opportunities": Andreas Keil, Scientific Department/ERC Executive Agency

Wednesday, 10th of July 2013

Time	Activity
9:00 – 10:30	Plenary Talk 6: SpPt2 Merac prize Lectures (3x30 min): Gabriella De Lucia, Elisabetta Caffau, Justin Read , SM6, SM9, SM7
10:30 – 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 – 11:45	Plenary Talk 7: Stefanie Komossa, "Luminous flares from tidally disrupted stars, and the search for supermassive black holes in quiescent galaxies", SM6, SM9, SM7
11:45 – 13:15	Plenary session: SpPt6 EAS General Assembly, SM9, SM7
13:15 – 14:15	Lunch
14:15 – 15:45	Parallel Sessions: S7,S8,S9,S10, Sp6, Sp7, Sp8, Sp9
15:45 – 16:15	Coffee Break
16:15 – 17:45	Parallel Sessions: S7,S8,S9,S10, Sp6,Sp7, Sp8, Sp9, SM5
19:00 – 23:00	Conference Dinner at Restaurant Koulu

Thursday, 11th of July 2013

Time	Activity
9:00 – 9:45	Plenary Talk 8: SpPt3 Lodewijk Woltjer Prize Lecture: Suzy Collin-Zahn, SM7
9:45 – 10:30	Plenary Talk 9: Johan Fynbo, "Gamma-Ray Bursts as probes of galaxy evolution", SM7
10:30 – 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:30	Parallel Sessions: S7,S8,S9,S10,S11,S12, Sp7, Sp8, Sp9
12:30 – 13:30	Lunch
13:30 – 15:30	Parallel Sessions: S7,S8,S9,S10,S11,S12, SM3
15:30 – 16:00	Coffee Break
16:00 – 18:30	Parallel Sessions: S7,S8,S9,S10,S11,S12, Sp12

Friday, 12th of July 2013

Time	Activity
9:00 – 9:45	Plenary Talk 10: SpPt4 Arvind Parmar, "Latest news from ESA's science programme"
9:45 – 10:30	Plenary Talk 11: SpPt5 Bruno Leibundgut, "ESO 2013"
10:30 – 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 – 11:45	Plenary Talk 12: Stefan Wagner, "High-energy Gamma-ray astrophysics: The new frontier"
11:45 – 13:15	Parallel Sessions: S9, S11,S12, Sp10, Sp11, Sp12, Sp13, Sp14
13:15 – 14:30	Lunch
14:30 – 16:00	Parallel Sessions: S11,S12, Sp10, Sp11, Sp12, Sp13, Sp14
16:00 – 16:30	Coffee Break
16:30 – 18:00	Parallel Sessions: S12, Sp10, Sp13, Sp14

Saturday, 13th of July 2013

Time	Activity
9:00 – 19:00	SM4: Plenary discussion on the ASTRONET Mid-Term Review