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One year of JWST: photodissociation regions, protostars, disks, and planets − an EAS 2023 symposium

Almost 40 years since the Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS) completed the first, full-sky survey, a succession of infrared space-born facilities (ISO, Spitzer and Herschel) have each pushed the frontiers, helping us to uncover the complex processes which govern the formation of stars and planets. The unique capabilities of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) now allow us to study the, otherwise inaccessible, processes governing the formation of stars and planets, to an unprecedented detail. As a space-based cryogenic 6.5m telescope, JWST represents a staggering improvement in sensitivity along with unprecedented spatial resolution across the near and mid-infrared. The first full … Read more »

STAR FORMATION WITH SPACEBORNE INFRARED FACILITIES: THE ERA OF JWST – COSPAR 44

We are organizing a scientific event during COSPAR 44, the 2022 assembly of the Committee for Space Research, to be held in Athens, Greece. Almost 40 years since the Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS) completed the first, full-sky survey, a succession of infrared space-born facilities (ISO, Spitzer and Herschel) have each pushed the frontiers, helping us to uncover the complex processes which govern the formation of stars and planets. The unique capabilities of the upcoming James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will soon allow us to study the, otherwise inaccessible, energetic processes governing the formation of stars and planets, to an unprecedented … Read more »

20 years of VLTI – going faint − An EAS 2022 Special Session

With this special session we aim to celebrate the 20 years of the VLTI and look towards the future. The proposed topics will range from the more generalist VLTI history and future to instrumentation and capabilities. Specific topics on interferometry, data reduction and modelling will also be presented. Contributed talks and posters are welcome, focusing on VLTI visitor instruments and science results. For more information, visit the session’s web page at https://eas.unige.ch/EAS2022/session.jsp?id=SS29 Scientific organisers

The James Webb Space Telescope: a new window on the Universe − An EAS 2022 symposium

The delivery of the first scientific data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) in mid 2022, after commissioning, will be the astronomical event of the year. JWST will provide unprecedented imaging and spectroscopic capabilities in the 0.6-28μm band, with a sensitivity that will be even orders of magnitude higher than current and past facilities in some spectral ranges. Undoubtedly, in the years to come, JWST will open a huge, new discovery space in most areas of astronomy and astrophysics. By the time of the EAS 2022 meeting, the commissioning of the telescope and of the instruments should be either … Read more »

Cool Stars 20.5

Cool Stars 20.5 – virtually cool on March 2-4 2021 − in Memory of John Stauffer The “Cambridge Workshops of Cool Stars, Stellar Systems and the Sun” are held biennially and have evolved to be the premier conference series for cool star research. With the ongoing pandemic, the organizers of Cool Stars 21 consider it unlikely we will be able to meet in person in the summer of 2021. This would put a four year gap between our meetings for the first time. Therefore we have decided to hold a virtual conference to keep everyone in our field up to date. But … Read more »

COOL STARS 21

UPDATE: Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Cool Stars 21 was postponed to July 4 – 9, 2022! The “Cambridge Workshops of Cool Stars, Stellar Systems and the Sun” are held biennially and have evolved to be the premier conference series for cool star research. The next edition of the conference series “Cool Stars, Stellar Systems and the Sun” (CS 21) will be held in Toulouse from June 22 to 26, 2020 July 4 – 9, 2022, 40 years after its first edition in Cambridge (USA). This first edition was shortly followed that same year by a workshop on “Solar Phenomena … Read more »

Planet formation enters the observational era – an EAS 2020 SYMPOSIUM

Aims and scope Traditionally, planet formation was mostly a theoretical field, with rather loose observational constraints coming from proto-planetary disc observations and the Solar System. The field is now rapidly transforming thanks to ALMA and extreme adaptive optic systems, which recently made it possible to detect for the first time forming planets in proto-planetary discs and study in detail the structure and chemical composition of the planet building-blocks. Some of these ingredients, such as planetesimals, persist across the main sequence as debris discs, allowing us to study the architectures of (proto)planetary systems across both space and time as they evolve. … Read more »

This project has reveived funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agrement No 716155).