PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME (2000/02/02)


Please note: Communications are 15 min. long including discussion.

Thursday, 30 MARCH 2000

9:00-9:30 am Registration and opening
9:30-11:00 am Session 1: "The Solar System"
'Planets and small bodies'
review by G. Schwehm (ESA-ESTEC), 45 min.
'The Solar System'
Invited review by Y. Langevin (IAS), 45 min.
11:00-11:30 am Coffee Break
11:30-1:00 pm Four communications on the Solar System
Conference picture

1:00-2:30 pm Lunch Break

2:30-4:00 pm Session 2: "The Sun"
'The Sun and the heliosphere'
review by P. Brekke (ESA, SOHO/GSFC), 45 min.
'The Sun'
Invited review by R. Rutten (Utrecht/DOT), 45 min.
4:00-5:00 pm Four communications on the Sun

8:00 pm CONFERENCE DINNER

Friday, 31 MARCH 2000

9:00-10:30 am Session 3: "The Cold Universe - from the ISM to the CMB"
'The Cold Universe'
review by M. Kessler (ESA-Villafranca), 45 min.
'Star formation'
Invited review to be announced, 45 min.
10:30-11:15 am Three communications on Star Formation and ISM
11:15-11:45 am Coffee Break
11:45-12:30 am 'Cosmological parameter estimation with the CMB'
Invited review by A.N. Lasenby (Cambridge), 45 min.
12:30-1:15 pm Three communications on the CMB

1:15-2:30 pm Lunch Break

2:30-4:00 pm Session 4: "The Hot Universe - from stars to galaxy clusters"
'The Hot Universe'
review by A. Parmar (ESA-ESTEC), 45 min.
'X-rays in Stellar Astrophysics'
Invited review by J. Schmitt (Hamburg Sternwarte), 45 min.
4:00-4:45 pm Three communications on Stellar Activity
4:45-5:15 pm Coffee Break
5:15-6:00 am 'X-rays in Extragalactic Astronomy'
Invited review by S. Allen (Cambridge), 45 min.
6:00-7:00 pm Four communications on AGNs and Galaxy Clusters

Saturday, 1 APRIL 2000

9:00-11:00 am Session 5: "The Frontiers"
'ESA Science Programme - Astronomy missions and potencial missions in Fundamental Physics'
review by M. Huber (ESA-ESTEC), 50 min.
'New views from the ground: VLT/VLTI'
review by M. Tarenghi (ESO), 50 min.
'The PRODEX programme'
H. Olthof (ESA), 20 min.
11:00-11:30 am Coffee Break
11:30-1:00 pm 'Opportunities for Portugal in ESA'
Open discussion with invited government officials and industry representatives


2000/02/11

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